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We make it what we want it to be

After reading a statement said by one of my friends on a Facebook wall...... “Masvingo is hot, Home sucks...” I had this feeling in everything one irks about u have a hand in it. So I decided to pen it down because it day to day phenomena we cry about and never seek to address.   My reply was Home is what you make it. It was hush I guess but a true reflection. Think who on earth will come and make your home sweet and nice. My answer is you personally. This took my mind way back when a colleague said people at his work place are mere fools...well the exception of him...may be. To me he was simply telling me a fool he was. Every day he wakes up to spend the whole day with fools, 5 days a week. May be he liked the job but never did anything to develop the so called fools to be wise. You happen to see that we cannot stop complaining of a situation yet we are ignorant to rectify the anomalies.   Our sphere of influence determines how our surrounding is like. If we fail to influence

Attributes of a leader Through Ownership and not Personal Possession

Whenever we mention ownership we reluctantly scrutinize who actually owns, be it a car, house, organisation, political party or even the country. We tend to limit ourselves to personal possession. Ownership covers a great ideal of setups. It goes beyond an individual; it stretches to family, community, society, district, province, country and the entire globe. It is also not limited to monetary terms but goes also to values, norms among other intangibles we attach to personality identification or culture. A bad leader ties ownership to personal possession. Mind you the two are totally different, where ownership holds future responsibilities and personal possession is limited to a person’s life time. Every day of our life, we intend to establish ownership by creating wealth, space, value among many aspect we identify as good, for our children for the least and the future generation to come. Realising such a juncture need attributes of a good leader to understand how ownership agains