Reflections:Do you know the 90/10 principle?

                                     

What is this principle? 10% of life is made up of what happens to us and 90% of life is decided by how we react. What does this mean? We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us. We cannot stop the car from breaking down. The plane will be late arriving, which throws our whole schedule off. A driver may cut us off in traffic. We have no control over this 10%.

The other 90% is different. We determine the other 90%. How? By our reactions! We cannot control a red light, but we can control our reaction. We should not let anyone tell us otherwise; we can control how we react.

Let’s use an example. A business man is eating breakfast with his family. His daughter knocks over a cup of 

How much dirt do you eat in a year

                                 

Kids under 1 year eat about 60 milligrams of dirt a day; from ages 1-20, they eat 100 milligrams.

We all know we shouldn't eat dirt, but we do it anyway. Mostly not on purpose – dirt gets into our bodies all day, every day, whether we want it to or not. It's understandably difficult to figure out exactly how much is getting in.

Reflections:You Can Be A Wise Leader

                                  

A good executive is not a boss—he is like a servant! A good executive simply is not arrogant. He listens to his employees. When the top people don’t communicate with those under them, then of course they don’t understand them or their problems. When that happens they’re headed for trouble!

Executives at any level should listen to those under them. They are responsible to make the final decisions, but being an executive does not mean that he has all the ideas and does all the thinking and all the consulting just within himself. A good executive will listen to others. A good assistant often knows more about his boss’ business than he does— and he should! The boss shouldn’t have to be involved with every little thing, but someone needs to be.

Reflections:Life Principles

                                    

A=ACCEPT: Accept others for who they are and for the choices they’ve made even if you have difficulty understanding their beliefs, motives, or actions.

B=BREAK AWAY: Break away from everything that stands in the way of what you hope to accomplish with your life.

C=CREATE: Create a family of friends whom you can share your hopes, dreams, sorrows, and happiness with.

D=DECIDE: Decide that you’ll be successful and happy come what may, and good things will find you. The roadblocks are only minor obstacles along the way.

E=EXPLORE: Explore and experiment. The world has much to offer, and you have much to give. And every time you try something new, you’ll learn more about yourself.

F=FORGIVE: Grudges only weigh you down and inspire unhappiness and grief. Soar above it, and remember that everyone makes mistakes.

Reflections:Yes! You Are Meant To Be Somebody

                                 

Do you know who the happiest people are? Those who accept themselves the way God made them, who learn to be happy with what they have and are not overly concerned about what others think. Struggling to live up to what you think others expect of you puts a heavy weight on you, but there’s freedom in humility.

Reflctions:Do You Have Broken Dreams??

                             

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”—Thich Nhat Hanh.

Those who have faith in God always get to their destination.

 We all have them: plans that didn’t turn out the way we’d hoped, prayers that seem like they didn’t make it past the ceiling, dreams that break and are shattered as we wonder what went wrong. We go on, leaving behind broken dreams and seemingly unanswered prayers, but often they remain etched in our mind along with a question mark. Why didn’t things turn out the way I had planned, or hoped, or prayed?

What is a broken dream, anyway, but an idea of a path, or somewhere we thought our life should go but that led us elsewhere. We made a turn, somewhere, where life seemed to fall apart, or we lost our way and missed it somehow. 

Reflections:Help Through Life's Storms

                                      

Some decades ago, when sea travel was much more common than air travel, a trans-Atlantic liner was caught in a storm. For two days the wind raged. Passengers were frightened. At last an anxious passenger climbed to where he could see the pilot. Returning to his fellow-passengers, he spread the good news. “We are alright!” he said. “The ship will make port. I have seen the pilot, and he is smiling.”

                God directs our life and cares for us. He is always with you and wants to give you peace, even in the midst of storm. 

Reflections:Doing things for the right reasons

                       

Have you ever put pressure on yourself to accomplish or do certain things because of your age? You probably have at some point in your life.

For instance, if you’re a young adult, you might feel pressure to figure out exactly what you’re going to do with your life. If you’re in your twenties, you might feel pressure to make your living or working arrangements more permanent and official. If you’re in your thirties, you might feel pressure to settle down and get married or have kids.

The list goes on and on.

FG To Revive 10,000 Health Centres

                      

The Federal Government was determined to revamp 10, 000 Primary Health Care (PHC) Centres across the nation.

The Minister of State for Health, Osagie Ehanire, dropped the hint in Benin City, while unveiling the maiden edition of a Journal, "Annals of Medical and Surgical Practice," published by the Edo State branch of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).

Reflections:Yes, He Forgives

                    

Some people are mad at God because they think He is angry with them. They think He will never forgive them for what they’ve done, that their sin was too great, their pardon impossible.

            But there can come a beautiful moment when we realize that He understands whatever it is we are ashamed of, and He hurts for us, for our failings. He does not gloss over the enormity of it, but in full knowledge of our failing, He forgives it all.  Then the anger melts away at joy, at the sense of falling into His arms in gratitude. There is nothing so pure, so free, so clean as the feeling of being totally forgiven. Our anger disappears; peace remains.

            --Chloe West

Reflections:Yesterdays

                
Life's yesterdays have passed forever beyond our reach: God has them in His keeping. Leave them there!

My yesterdays,

      So filled with guilt and shame,

      My yesterdays are gone,

      Oh praise His name!

Reflections:What Do You Believe?

                              

The creator of heaven and earth is the Ancient of Days and there is none like Him. There is this story about three monkeys discussing about where man came from.

These monkeys sat in a coconut tree Discussing, Said one to the other, “Now listen, you two, There's a certain rumor that can't be true:

That man descended from our noble race--The very idea! It's a dire disgrace!

 No monkey ever deserted his wife, Starved her baby and ruined her life, And you've never known a mother monkey to leave her baby with others to bunk. Here's another thing a monkey won't do:

 Go out at night and get in a stew, Or use a gun or club or knife To take some other monkey's life.

 Yes! Man descended ! But brother, he didn't descend from us!”