Business Ideas Are All Around You, Just Think Hard
I did not write this article, I came across it in a Whatsapp Group and I felt that it should be stored safely somewhere and what better place than the internet One of the most beautiful book to read is "Die Empty" by Todd Henry. The author was inspired and got this idea of writing [...]
I recently read that women do not get ahead in the workplace as much as men because they fail to self promote. And that got me wandering whether society has much to do with this. This is something I rarely like to admit but truth be told, society is generally patriarchal, men have the final say in the house, in the companies and in governments.
Every whatsapp group, every Facebook group and page on my feed has the same theme, hustling. This can be a group discussing ideas of side hustling or it can be someone's page promoting their side hustle. But the one thing that is in common is what can you do to increase the dollar in your pocket.
When you are starting out in business, the number one concern is how to keep afloat when the times are still tough. Also, for established companies, there are constant worries about costs and how to keep them low.
"Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people." “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two [...]
For an economy that is in the dumps like ours, side hustling is the order of the day. We have a billion Facebook business groups, a gazillion whatsapp business groups and bazillion small companies. I would not be shocked to find out that company registration is a big earner for the government of Zimbabwe, because [...]
When it comes to my work, I hate clutter. I hate clutter on my desk (physical work space), on my desktop, and in my mailbox. I am that type who has nothing on the desktop because everything is neatly filed in my Dropbox, I can never understand how people work with a desktop that is [...]
My husband is deep! Really deep. He is the intellectual in the family. He thinks of deep stuff like who is fighting who between ZANU PF and MDC. He worries about the future of Zimbabwe. He worries about fiscal and monetary policies of the economy. He is the aspiring Doctor of Letters in the family. [...]
There is a lady in my life who taught me the phrase above and I absolutely adore her to bits. She is super successful and earns tons of money. She can afford anything that she wants and says and does the most inspiring things. The reason she maintains her champagne lifestyle is because she shops like she is on a beer budget. The biggest problem with most of us is that we want to have the champagne lifestyle at no budget at all, fastest way to poverty and debt headaches.
There is something about quotes that make me feel warm and squishy inside. There is that quote that just speaks to you and you feel like you are in the right direction. From as far back as I can remember, I have always loved quotes, I remember when I used to copy them onto paper [...]
