Toxic Emotions: How to Get Rid of Them

by Joyce Meyer
 

We all have emotions, and they’re here to stay. I believe one of the main goals of every believer should be emotional stability. We should seek God to learn how to manage our emotions and not allow them to manage us. An excerpt from the definition I found in the dictionary states that emotions are "to excite and to move out." Think about this: You're out shopping for a specific item you're in need of. You've made a commitment to the Lord to get out of debt. You've promised Him to tithe and give offerings as He directs. You've agreed to really watch your spending and not purchase things you don't need. But while shopping, you discover that the stores are having a big sale of 50 percent off the already marked down merchandise. What do you do? You get excited. The more you look around, the more excited you get. Emotions are rising higher and higher. They begin to move out, and part of the devil's plan is for you to follow your emotions.


God wants you to use wisdom. Wisdom says wait a little while until the emotions settle down, then check to see if you really believe it's the right thing to do. The Bible says in Colossians 3:15 to be led by peace in making decisions. Don't let your emotions make your decisions. A good statement to remember is this: "Wisdom says wait; emotions say hurry."

An emotional person is defined as: "One easily affected with or stirred by emotion; one who displays emotion; one with a tendency to rely on or place too much value on emotion; one whose conduct is ruled by emotion rather than reason." Be honest with yourself in this area. If you believe that you’re not managing your emotions, begin to pray and seek God for emotional maturity.

In the past I experienced a lot of ups and downs, or what we call mood swings. This kind of behavior was hard on me, as well as everyone around me. I felt bad about myself. People who are out of control always feel unhappy with themselves. God created us to operate with a free will. We choose what we will do and what we won't do. There is a God-given desire inside the believer to do the right thing. When we allow our flesh to rule, we know we’re out of control; however, we’re created to operate with the fruit of self-control.
Self-control is a freedom, not a bondage. You’re free to use wisdom, free to obey God, and free to follow the leading of the Spirit. You’re free not to be pushed around by your feelings. You don't have to do what you feel like doing. You’re free to do what you know is wise.

13 College Dropouts Who Became Billionaires

These college dropouts are great examples of flankers who can achieve success against the odds. They prove that if you work hard then you can be successful no matter what. Even if you are from a not so rich family, even if you decide to leave college, if you have enough drive and focus you can make your dreams come true. 

Bill Gates - $56 Billion
Education: Dropped out of Harvard.
Success: Co-Founder of Microsoft, Major Philanthropist. 

Larry Ellison - $39.5 Billion
Education: Dropped out of University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana.
Success: Founder of Oracle, A Major Software Enterprise Company. 

Sheldon Adelson - $23.3 Billion
Education: Dropped out of City College Of New York.
Success: Sheldon Adelson is the Chairman & CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp, the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited which operates the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Sands Expo & Convention Center

Lesson from a Kenyan Rabbit Farmer

For those who are employed either in the public or private sector, being fired is a constant fear you have to live with. For whatever reasons, whether of your own making or otherwise, you might be rendered jobless at any given time. 

What would be your next move if you were to lose your job? Lucy Wanjiku Ndun’gu , 36, was sacked from a low paying job because she went on a maternity leave. But that turned out to be her path to millions. 

Mwangi Muiruri(Nation) spared a moment with her and below is an excerpt of that interview. 

How did she lose her job?

She thought getting pregnant was a normal biological thing and that her employer would share her joy. Instead , she was fired with her sacking letter indicating that the Kiambu based NGO she worked for as a research assistant could not afford to pay for a ‘vacancy slot’ in its work budget.

How did she feel about losing her job?

I could not believe that a pregnancy would be a source of employment misery. I was a graduate in business management and was earning Sh16,000 with an NGO that empowered grass roots groups in Kiambu district.

What happened after she delivered?

After I delivered I had to stay at home with my baby. I asked my husband Amos Ndung’u to buy me two rabbits as pets. I wanted them to keep me busy. It’s these two pets that introduced me to the cottage industry that I have built to unimaginable levels.

How did she start the rabbit business?

My husband bought me two graded rabbits. Today I operate a daily stock of 1,500, worth Sh1.2 million. I only had 12,000 which all went to nil when I delivered. I borrowed SH 10,000 from relatives. I then joined a merry go round group with nine other members. We would contribute 1,000 per week.

Meanwhile, my two rabbits had multiplied to a stock of 200. I used them as collateral to get another Sh20,000 from a micro-finance

JACK MA BIOGRAPHY

By Mohamed Jalloh

Jack Ma: Early Life and Education                               Jack Ma: Success Story Jack Ma: Net Worth and Current Influence Jack Ma: Most Influential Quotes

                                 EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

The man known in the West as Jack Ma was born Ma Yun in 1964 in Hangzhou during China’s Cultural Revolution, during which his family was persecuted because of his grandparents, who were members of the Nationalist party that opposed the Communist party. If few things can characterize Jack Ma's background, education and path to success, they are failure, rejection, fighting, resolve, hard work, agility and vision. All throughout Jack Ma's life, from childhood till building a multibillion-dollar global ecommerce technology giant, he has failed many times, been rejected and called crazy, even by his father who warned him about his unique “dangerous” ideas that could have resulted in his imprisonment in an earlier generation.

Jack Ma has learned more from his and others' failures than through the traditional channels of education. Ma, a man of incredible resolve, has learned to fail better and fail forward. As he declared in an interview with Charlie Rose in Davos, "I failed a key primary school test 2 times, I failed the middle school test 3 times, I failed the college entrance exam 2 times and when I graduated, I was rejected for most jobs I applied for out of college. (Ma was the only one out of 5 applicants to the police force to be rejected and the only one of 24 applicants to be a KFC manager to be rejected. "I applied for Harvard ten times, got rejected ten times and I told myself that ‘Someday I should go teach there.’" In the late 1990s after starting Alibaba, Ma tried to get venture capital funding in Silicon Valley for Alibaba and got rejected for running an unprofitable business model. He eventually went back to China without funding.

Unlike many idolized college drop-out successful entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, Jack Ma earned his MBA from Cheung Kong University while already building Alibaba in the early 2000s. Though critical of traditional teaching practices, especially at business schools, Ma is fond of academics. He was a university English teacher himself, and he talks about teaching again someday in the future.

Like many brilliant innovative minds, both past and present, Ma struggled academically, especially throughout his early years in primary and secondary schools, where he failed repeatedly. However, he excelled in the things that he was passionate about, for example, teaching himself English. During these formative years, Ma thought that, as long as he kept his resolve and worked to achieve his objectives, he had a chance to succeed. Ma said, "If you never tried, how do you know there's no chance?" Ma successfully failed forward academically into Hangzhou Teacher's college and thereafter, in his career and business. 

When one listens objectively to Ma's speeches about his early, formative years, one can observe that Ma learned most by experimenting, observing and questioning the status quo. As an adolescent, he taught himself English and polished it by becoming an unofficial tour guide to foreign tourists. Through those tourists, pen pal relationships he cultivated with some of his tourist clients and his interaction with some relatives in Australia, Ma learned much about the outside world (especially the Western world). More importantly, he learned to question (not necessarily disbelieve) everything he thought or was told before, a practice he applies to this day.

That ability to question and reexamine issues helps him to look at situations from various angles and see opportunities where most see only problems. For example, when most people feared conducting e-commerce in China due to an unreliable and untrustworthy payment system, Ma got Alibaba to build Alipay without the Chinese banking authorities approval at the risk of his personal freedom. Now Alipay facilitates more business globally than PayPal, as measured in U.S. dollars.

Ma could be said to have graduated from both formal and informal education systems. If informal education is thought of as "the School of Hard-Knocks," Ma has earned a doctoral degree with honors in addition to his MBA from Cheung Kong University. Ma is also heavily influenced by martial art teachings, especially Thai-Chi, which he claims helps him to find balance that he applies to both his personal and business life.

Meet 28-year-old teen who ventured into business by accident and built million-dollar company

- Mamarr Mass Taal’s dream was to become a diplomat, just like his dad
- But the Gambian bred teen had other skills. He knew how to print t-shirts
- His friends loved the designed and printed t-shirts, so he started selling them 
- He then set up a company called Malyka Clothing. But that was just the beginning

 

Momarr Mass Taal’s success story has been told a number of times before. But you still need to read how this Gambian teen single-handedly built a top brand in his country and beyond.

At the very tender age of 17, Momarr was already a businessman. Strangely, being an entrepreneur was not what he ever wanted to become in life. He dreamed of becoming a diplomat, just like his dad.

The idea to venture into business was born out of one of his hobbies. He used to make designed and printed t-shirts while studying in Canada, where he was pursuing a degree in International Development and Economics. He was doing it for fun. But his friends loved the printed t-shirts. So Momarr started selling them.

Mommar Mass Taal.Photo: Enterprise54

He then decided to set up a company called Malyka Clothing while still in Canada. The business picked up well and soon he was exporting his printed t-shirts to over five countries.

In Change Maker Stories. Photo: Youngstars Foundation.

However, when Momarr jetted back to Gambia, his home country, a fresh business idea hit him. He noticed there was an opportunity in the food export business.

“I saw a gap in the market. I then set out to create a home-based company that was going to add value using our locally agricultural produce,” he says.

Armed with the new business idea, Momarr founded Tropingo Foods, a food processing company that deals with dried fruit and nut exports.

Today, Mamarr's company exports food products to Asia and Europe.
It reportedly has over 140 employees and generates an annual turnover of Ksh160 million (US$1.6 million).

Advice from Kenya's richest daughter on employment and business and employment

           

 - The Kericho breweries heiress Anerlisa Muigai has sent a word of advise to her followers- on how she has become so successful (Tabitha Karanjas daughter)

 - She is the CEO of Nero Company that bottles the high-end Executive water and is considered one of the richest women in Kenya

- Posting on Instagram, Anerlisa showed her followers how they can ascend the money ladder much like she did

An outward look at people like Keroche Breweries heiress Anerisa Mungai and people instantly think she was born lucky. As it turns out, the lovely lass makes her own luck.

Mungai recently took to Instagram to give her followers a dose of reality about the corporate world today. While she did not deny the fact that she didn’t necessarily start from the bottom, she was adamant on the fact that her mind is always in the right state – a business state.

Anerisa Mungai. PHOTO: Instagram

This, according to her experience, could be the key to making it big in Kenya.

In the rather inspiring post, Anerisa explains that having a constant cash flow is the one of the key aspects of getting further ahead in life.

Anerisa Mungai poses for a selfie. PHOTO: Instagram

The words from someone who knows all too well about the Kenyan corporate jungle garnered some massive responses from her fans who couldn’t agree more.

This is what she said:

`In this life you have to know what you are doing and also what you really want out of it. I am always asked how do you start a business without capital, well my answer is very simple, first you have to create a good relationship with your bank and how do you do that? First you have to seek Employment then show the bank there is money coming in from a monthly salary.it doesn't matter if it's 5k, 10k, or even 20k. As long as you have something coming into your bank account the bank will be willing to give you a loan. From there you will grow slowly. It's is also very important how you spend your money as they also monitor how responsible you are. 

I know finding a job has become so hard nowadays because vacancies are not there and nobody hardly ever want to leave their jobs, but i always think we don't all have to be employed. Somebody somewhere in Gikomba is buying clothes with the little money they have and making profit out of it. It's about the drive, passion and the will to do it.

Lastly I hear people say that I did not Start from scratch and you know what? Yeah they probably right, but one thing I know for sure is that if you do not have that business mind or that drive, your business will definitely fail. You could have lots of money today but at the end is how you use/plan for it. *set your priorities right

*keep your mind set

*use your funds right`.

7 Inspiring Steve Jobs Quotes That Just Might Change Your Life

Steve Jobs didn't just leave a legacy of great products. He also shared ideas that continue to inspire and motivate.

 

He came, he saw, he conquered...and he left behind some words to live by:

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

Everyone says they go the extra mile. Almost no one actually does. Most people who do go there think, "Wait...no one else is here...why am I doing this?" And they leave, never to return.

That's why the extra mile is such a lonely place.

That's also why the extra mile is a place filled with opportunities.

Be early. Stay late. Make the extra phone call. Send the extra email. Do the extra research. Help a customer unload or unpack a shipment.

Don't wait to be asked--offer. Don't just tell employees what to do--show them what to do, and work beside them.

Every time you do something, think of one extra thing you can do...especially if other people aren't doing that extra thing.

Sure, it's hard. But that's what will make you different.

And over time, that's what will make you incredibly successful.

"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."

Deadlines and time frames establish parameters, but usually not in a good way. Most people given two weeks to complete a task will instinctively adjust their effort so it actually takes two weeks--even if it shouldn't.

So forget deadlines, at least as a way to manage your activity. Tasks should only take as long as they need to take. Do everything as quickly and effectively as you can. Then, use your "free" time to get other things done just as quickly and effectively.

Average people allow time to impose its will on them; exceptional people impose their will on their time.