Eating May Not Be Healthy

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When Eating Becomes Dangerous

Food is an essential commodity. An organism that doesn't eat will surely die. Therefore, God created us to eat - thriving on what others have 'prepared'.

Now, it is not only food that people prepare. The nurses and doctors that delivered you were prepared before you came. In other words, they were 'cooked'. So also were the drugs, vaccines, clothing, the car that moved your mother about, the house in which you were born, the school that you attended and the teachers that taught you...

In reality, you were created an 'eater'.

Now that's fine. But the challenge God has is that many people are just content being that way. They want to keep 'eating' and getting from others, without finding out what they are good at 'cooking' themselves, and going to the 'kitchen' of life to actually prepare their own food, so that others also can feed from them.

God provides seed for the farmer and bread to eat. This means that if the farmer doesn't sow and cultivate his seed, there will be no bread for him and others to eat.

Here is my charge to you: Don't remain and die an eater. Find your unique 'seeds' and cultivate them. Remember, you can stand under the shades of a tree today because someone planted it 20 years ago. You can be proud of that company today because someone started it many years ago.

Sow that talent. Sow that idea. Sow that business.

I believe in you!

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Surviving across Generations

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"How does a brand survive across the generations?"

This was the curious question that drove me last weekend to devouring a book of over 300 pages in one day. It was a publication of the Swatch Group when they marked their 150th anniversary in 2003.

I am yet to see an African-founded organization that has lasted more than 100 years. We see cycles of prosperity, the founder dies, and in a couple of years, the organization dies, or moribund.

One quality I've found that resonates in the hearts of the directors of these 'posterity' organizations is LOVE- deep-seated love for what they do and the people they serve. Nicolas G. Hayek, President/CEO, has this to say:

"The Swatch Group has a very emotional culture. We produce beauty, sensuality, emotionality in watches - and we also produce high-tech on your wrists. Both emotionality or poetry and high-tech, are part of what we feel towards our customers. We love them genuinely. We want them to be happy - we want YOU to be happy!"

You can't build a posterity organization or lifestyle if all you're concerned about are 'the Benjamins'. You must have genuine love for your work, and especially the people you serve and the people that serve you. This love will drive you to continually seek creative and innovative ways by which you can serve your people better.

If you have love, your people will be loyal to you. And when you're gone, they will preserve the culture you created. And it is this culture that becomes passed down from generation to generation.

Love is the pathway from prosperity to posterity.

Love your work. Love your workers. Love your customers.

I believe in you!

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