"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe." This Turkish proverb summarises it all.

"First thing to do every morning is read or listen to something positive. Your mind is like a garden - whatever you plant grows. Plant good stuff." -- Alwyn Cosgrove

"To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach." -- Frank McKinney

"The sun always comes out after the storm. Being optimistic and surrounding yourself with positive, loving people is, for me, living life on the sunny side of the street. -- Janice Dean

Not seeing results? Feel like giving up? Consider this: The last thing to grow on a fruit tree... is the fruit. Hang on....just hang on!

If you are out there being really hard on yourself right now for something that has happened ... it's normal. That is what is going to happen to you in life. No one gets through unscathed. We are all going to have a few scratches on us. Be kind to yourselves.

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#PATIENCE Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement, and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Good news, finally.

Qui connaît mieux ce monsieur? Il me semble convainquant...où bien c'est juste les discours politiques!

Notice how she gets no applause from her colleagues? Clearly, she's alone 😔!

Funny enough: today’s African leaders who claim or are said to have been “mentored” by Julius Nyerere violate many of the values he lived by. Truth is, they were not mentored by him in the real sense of the meaning of “mentoring”.

How many of you knew that Sénégal 🇸🇳 and Mali 🇲🇱 were once one country 🤔? Be honest!

Home-grown solutions!

Now it is even better coz Ethiopia gives visas upon arrival. In 2018, I had to apply for a visa to 🇪🇹 only to go hunt for another to Mali or Benin. Do u know what hurts even more? My European colleagues didn't have to go through that. Talk of Africa unity now!

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

Neuralink rival Synchron's brain implant now lets people control Apple's Vision Pro with their minds cnb.cx/3A1z5i2

Finding ur way in life is like unlocking the combination of a safe. U hv 2go forwards and backwards. Life is not a direct march from A-B,twists and turns are progress, not regression. What feels like a setback is later revealed to have been part of the path all along. Lawrence.