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SEVEN ‘DO NOTS’ YOU MUST OBSERVE IN THE COMING YEAR

It is December again! Christmas is here and New Year is just around the corner. As we begin the countdown to the beginning of another calendar year, it is quite usual for some organizations to conduct a review of their activities for the year with a view to assessing performance against the backdrop of strategic goals. It is also very usual for individuals to engage in some kind of self review and evaluate their achievement in relation to the goals set at the beginning of...

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New Year Resolutions: Keeping Them Real

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Another time of the year when people try to think about their previous actions and words with a view to making necessary changes for better life style, or for better control of future repetition of certain evils in their life. As far as many great thinkers are concerned, the most important thing about the ritual New Year resolution is that it provides a point in time when collective thoughts and self evaluations are made real. For once, many stop the rat race and think about life, human behaviors, society and continuity. No matter how unrealistic yearly resolutions seem to look, they actually make some people think genuinely. Many do follow up on some of the changes they resolve to make. Even those who fall by the way side at least started the journey to change. The willingness to...

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The Essence of Christmas

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One of the oldest and touching Bible- related songs one hears repeatedly this time of the year is the popular “Silent Night”. Some said “it is becoming too boring to hear the same tune from childhood to adult hood with same import”. Others believe in its salvation realities and solemnity. Someone teased that the song reminds one of the busiest time of the year when every body gets crazier about business and money, especially the dollar. Sometimes I do wonder aloud what “Silent Night’ has to do with a Chinese Hindu or Arabic Islam or even African drummer when I see these and others who apparently believe in other religious concepts play “Silent Night’ and other Christmas songs on the subways with their donation containers beside their musical instruments.

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