ADVICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES :

1. Build a home earlier. Be it rural home or urban home. Building a house at 50 is not an achievement. Don't get used to government houses. This comfort is so dangerous. Let all your family have good time in your house.

 

2. Go home. Don't stick at work all the year.  You are not the pillar of your department.  If you drop dead today, you will be replaced immediately and operations will continue.  Make your family a priority.

3. Don't chase promotions.  Master your skills and be excellent at what you do. If they want to promote you, that's fine if they don't,  stay positive to your personal.

development.

4. Avoid office or work gossip. Avoid things that tarnish your name or reputation. Don't join the bandwagon that backbites  your bosses and colleagues. Stay away from negative gatherings that have only people as their agenda.

5. Don't ever compete with your bosses.  You will burn your fingers.  Don't compete with your colleagues, you will fry your brain.

6. Ensure you have a side business.  Your salary will not sustain your needs in the long run.

7. Save some money. Let it be deducted automatically from your payslip. 

8. Borrow a loan to invest in a business or to change a situation not to buy luxury. Buy luxury from your profit.

9. Keep your life,marriage and family private. Let them stay away from your work. This is very important.  

10. Be loyal to yourself  and believe in your work. Hanging around your boss will alienate you from your colleagues and  your boss may finally dump you when he leaves. 

11. Retire early.  The best way to plan for your exit was when you received the employment letter. The other best time is today.  By 40 to 50 be out. 

12. Join work welfare and be an active member always. It will help you a lot when  any eventuality occurs.

13.Take leave days utilize them by developing yr future home or projects..usually what you do during yr leave days is a reflection of how you'll live after retirement..If it means you spend it all holding a remote control watching series on Zee world, expect nothing different after retirement.

14. Start a project whilst still serving or working. Let your project run whilst at work and if it doesn't do well, start another one till it's running viably. When your project is viably running then retire to manage your business. Most people or pensioners fail in life because they retire to start a project instead of retiring to run a project. 

15. Pension money is not for starting a project or buy a stand or build a house but it's money for your upkeep or to maintain yourself in good health. Pension money is not for paying school fees or marrying a young wife but to look after yourself.

16. Always remember, when you retire never be a case study for living a miserable life after retirement but be a role model for colleagues to think of retiring too. 

17. Don't retire just because you are finished or you are now a burden to the company and just wait for your day to die. Retire young or whilst energetic to enjoy waking up for a cup of coffee, enjoy the sun, receive money from your business, visit nice place that you missed and spend good time with family. Those who retire late, spend about 95% of their time at work than with their family and that's why they see it difficult to spend time with their family when they retire but end looking for another job till they die. If they don't get another job, they die early.

18. Retire at your house than at government accommodation so that when you retire you can easily fit into the society that raised you. It's not easy to adjust to live in a location after spending more years at company house or at government house.

19. Never let your employment benefits make you forget about your retirement. Employment benefits are just meant to make you relax, get finished whilst time is moving. Remember when you retire no one will call you boss if you don't have a viable business.

20. Don't hate to retire because one day you will retire either voluntarily or involuntarily. 

Hope this will help you look at life positively

John Liney

JDPC ISSELE-UKU on the move

 

One of our deliverables in the area of our preferential option for the poor and vulnerable is our livelihood support for low income women in rural communities. One of the strategies is the microcredit scheme known as PROMIC which carry out in partnership with the Foundation Open Hands, SWISSHAND. In this program, the woman are provided with soft loans which they are expected to pay back within a space of 6 months.

Here, our Program Officer, Mrs. Adaobi Ibeh Mene is here interacting with the women in one of the disbursement meetings held yesterday.

Swisshand

Church and Society Department

Caritas Nigeria

Caritas international

Patience visited

 Patience visited me
And it reminded me 
That good things take time to come to fruition
And grow slowly with stability 
Peace visited me 
And it reminded me 
That I may remain calm through the storms of life 
Regardless of the chaos surrounding me 
Hope visited me 
And it reminded me 
That better times lay ahead 
And it would always be there to guide and uplift me
Humility visited me 
And it reminded me 
That I may achieve it 
Not by trying to shrink myself and make myself less
But by focusing on serving the world and uplifting those around me
Kindness visited me
And it reminded me 
To be more gentle, forgiving and compassionate toward myself 
And those surrounding me
Confidence visited me
And it reminded me
To not conceal or suppress my gifts and talents 
In order to make others feel more comfortable 
But to embrace what makes me me 
Focus visited me
And it reminded me
That other people’s insecurities and judgements about me
Are not my problem 
And I should redirect my attention 
From others back to me 
Freedom visited me 
And it reminded me 
That no one has control over my mindset, thoughts and wellbeing 
But me
And love visited me 
And it reminded me 
That I need not search for it in others
As it lies within me.
Words by Tahlia Hunter

Harvest of the Heart: Embracing Life's Bittersweet Symphony"

1. **Life's Inevitable Challenges:** The opening statement acknowledges the inevitability of facing challenges in life. It suggests that no one can escape the hardships and difficulties that life may bring.

2. **The Role of Love and Connection:** The quote emphasizes the importance of love and connection in facing life's challenges. It suggests that living in solitude won't shield you from difficulties, and instead, it might bring its own form of hardship through the yearning for connection.

3. **The Purpose of Existence:** According to the quote, the reason for being on Earth is to love, to feel, and to take risks with one's heart. This suggests a deeper purpose for human existence beyond merely existing.

4. **Facing Vulnerability:** The quote encourages embracing vulnerability, even in the face of potential heartbreak, betrayal, or loss. It suggests that being open to love and connection is part of the human experience, despite the risks involved.

5. **Appreciating Life's Sweetness:** The concluding imagery of sitting by an apple tree and listening to the apples falling around you conveys a sense of appreciating life's sweetness even in the midst of challenges. It encourages a mindful and appreciative attitude, savoring the experiences and moments, regardless of their transient nature.

Step by step to conquer

 know there’s days when you wake up and the whole world seems to be crashing down on your shoulders.

Close your eyes and take a deep breath.

You don’t have to have it all figured out or even know where the day will take you.

There’s always going to be those days that you can’t seem to get anything right and everything just piles up.

You don’t have to conquer it all at once.

Stop focusing on the whole weight of your world and take it one step at a time..

Baby steps, if you have to.

Every one of us is a mess sometimes, we all have moments where we just want to cry..

And if you need to, just let it out.

Tackle each thing, job and task one at a time and keep moving forward.

Some days, you’ll feel as though you can do anything and other days, you’ll put your keys in the refrigerator.

That’s just life- some good days, some bad days and the days that make you want to quit.

You’ll never be perfect, but the great thing is..you don’t have to be.

Don’t put unrealistic expectations on yourself and then let the worry of how you’ll get it all done stress you out.

Most importantly, stop being in a hurry all the time to do all the things and get everywhere super fast..

You’ll miss some of life’s greatest little moments if you’re zooming through trying to conquer life without stopping.

Never get too busy doing and forget to live along the way.

Do the things, get the jobs done, be efficient..

But more than that, notice the small things- the smell of a fresh morning dew, the beauty of the world around us, the laughter of small children playing.

That’s the stuff of memories that you’ll miss if you’re in a tizzy worrying about all the tasks and things to do.

Don’t neglect them- they’re important- but don’t neglect yourself, either.

Take the time to fill your heart and soul with the joy that replenish you with the good stuff.

So, yes, you’re going to be a mess some days, and sometimes, you’ll be figuring it out as you go..

Just keep moving forward and do what you can, how you can, when you can.

Most of all, don’t stop living and enjoying your life.

After all, what good is it to conquer the world if you don’t take the time to enjoy it along the way?

Each day is a new opportunity to start a new chapter.

Keep going..you’ll get where you need to be when you need to be there.

It just takes a little time, effort and patience sometimes.

You got this.

|ravenwolf

Love is the main purpose of life

Underneath all that you do, the main purpose of your life is to love: to both give love and receive it, by carrying and transmitting an energy of love and healing into every single interaction you have. For example, a cleaner is not just a cleaner; they are transforming the energy of a space. A builder is not just a builder; they are creating a foundation for dreams. And a teacher is not just a teacher; they are shaping the minds of the future.

Words by Tahlia Hunter