My Dear Daughter, Difficulties, challenges, trials and tragedies strike randomly and nobody is immune to it. Yes, there will be good times too. This is life. Since good and bad times go hand in hand, you should learn to deal with the bad times with the right disposition. This is where the admonition of St. Paul in Thessalonians 5 verse18 comes in handy: “Give thanks in every circumstance.” My take on St. Paul’s advice is that we should try to put a positive spin on every circumstance we face. By looking at circumstances, trials and tribulations with a positive mindset,…
Author: Pride Team
Everyone knows that starting a business and ensuring its sustainability is one of the most tasking endeavours in Nigeria. For this reason, most people prefer the safety net that 9-5 jobs offer. Nevertheless, more millennials are branching out into entrepreneurship and a major reason for this besides their thirst for exploring their creativity, are the success stories of those that have dived into the entrepreneurship head-on and survived. One of those people is our woman crush Wednesday, Tara Durotoye. Tara is Africa’s leading beauty and makeup entrepreneur. She’s the founder and CEO of House of Tara International which has become…
Every baseball team that has ever had a short or long winning streak is faced with a time where that streak comes to an end. They hit a point where they realize what got them “here” won’t get them “there” and they must act to stay in the game. A business is much like a baseball game where every company that stands the test of time ends up faced with a time where what they have done in the past may not work anymore, therefore they must reinvent themselves. They must have the courage to think beyond their past successes,…
Leila Patel, University of Johannesburg; Lauren Graham, University of Johannesburg, and Zoheb Khan, University of Johannesburg The picture in South Africa is a bleak one for the average 15 – 24 year old. Many have finished their schooling with a qualification of little value in the eyes of employers. And they lack the basic skills that employers now need. The result is that a staggering 39,6% (narrow definition) or 55,2% (expanded definition which includes those who have stopped actively looking for work) are unemployed. South Africa has grappled with high unemployment for many years and the private sector, civil society…
Joshua Krook, University of Adelaide At the end of 2016, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that close to two-thirds of all Australians had completed a degree or apprenticeship. The growth in the number of people attending a university or TAFE has risen out of a cyclical demand-driven system called “academic inflation”. Think supply and demand. If an employer can hire someone with a degree or someone without, they’ll hire the person with a degree because they are seen as the superior candidate. This puts pressure on everyone to get degrees. But once everyone has one, the value of…
Holy Humour Fervent prayers A priest and a taxi driver both died and went to heaven. St. Peter was at the Pearly gates waiting for them. ‘Come with me,’ said St. Peter to the taxi driver. The taxi driver did as he was told and followed St Peter to a mansion. It had everything you could imagine from a bowling alley to an Olympic size pool. ‘Oh my word, thank you,’ said the taxi driver. Next, St. Peter led the priest to a rough old shack with a bunk bed and a little old television set. ‘Wait, I think you…
I speak to my mind, arise. Out of your low estate. Of the ashes, you’ve made a home. Of pandemonium. Of the pasture whose grass has been eaten dry. Of sourness, bitterness and tastelessness. And of a return that meant nothing to your consumption. I speak to my mind, run. Away from the haziness that blands our music with sand. From the peppery meal that fills your eyes with tears And streams your nose with liquid. From the imperfect serendipity, and a quest that leads back to yesterday. I speak to my mind, fly. Without wings into ether,…
Reading 1 Gn 46:1-7, 28-30 Israel set out with all that was his. When he arrived at Beer-sheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. There God, speaking to Israel in a vision by night, called, “Jacob! Jacob!” He answered, “Here I am.” Then he said: “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you a great nation. Not only will I go down to Egypt with you; I will also bring you back here, after Joseph has closed your eyes.” So Jacob departed…
Amanda Henry, UNSW Women often wonder what the “right” length of time is after giving birth before getting pregnant again. A recent Canadian study suggests 12-18 months between pregnancies is ideal for most women. But the period between pregnancies, and whether a shorter or longer period poses risks, is still contested, especially when it comes to other factors such as a mother’s age. It’s important to remember that in high-income countries most pregnancies go well regardless of the gap in between. What is short and long The time between the end of the first pregnancy and the conception of the…
Jean Twenge, San Diego State University Something is stealing teens’ sleep. In a newly released analysis of two large national surveys, my co-authors and I found that the number of U.S. teens who reported sleeping less than seven hours a night jumped 22 percent between 2012 and 2015. Sleep experts agree that teens need at least nine hours of sleep a night. But by 2015, 43 percent of teens reported sleeping less than seven hours a night on most nights – meaning almost half of U.S. teens are significantly sleep-deprived. What could have raised sleep deprivation among teens to such…