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You don’t have to inherit money, win the lottery, or even be the next Bill Gates or Warren Buffett to become financially secure. With a little bit of knowledge and a lot of hard work and discipline, almost anyone can accumulate sufficient wealth -- and perhaps even great wealth -- to enjoy the creature comforts of life. But how do you get ahead if you’re living paycheck to paycheck? The fact is, no matter how much you earn you could be creating your own barriers to financial success without even knowing it. Here are ten things you might be doing that are preventing you from achieving prosperity. Change your ways and you could find yourself well on the way down the road to riches. You Spend Too Much Plenty of Americans live beyond their means but don’t even realize it. A 2012 Country Financial survey found that more than one-half of respondents (52%) said their monthly spending exceeded their income at least a few months a year. Yet only 9% of respondents said their lif...

Sometimes things don’t work out the way we thought. It was certainly true for Joseph. You see, he had this dream from God. Actually, two dreams. ( Genesis 37:7 , 9 ) Each said that Joseph would be a ruler and that even his own family would be under his charge and care. ( Genesis 37:8 , 10 ) So why was Joseph now in a pit? ( Genesis 37:23-24 ) www.oseiview.wordpress.com Well, for one thing the dreamer needed to be prepared to handle the dream. (Did somebody reading this need to hear that?) There is a humbling, humiliation that must take place in all of us so that we aren’t overcome with pride when our dream comes into being (especially if it has to do with leadership over people like Joseph’s dream). And then there are a number of other important aspects as to the reasons dreams become shattered on the way to their realization. I share those with you here… 7 Insights on Shattered Dreams (and how to deal with them): 1. Keep in mind who gave you the drea...

By Joseph Osei Oppong Brenya It is absolutely true that institutions, industries and indigenous set-ups, structures and their modus operandi, evolves through various stages of transformation. I am surely not against this trend since change has become the only constant in today’s fast growing world. My only beef is when the focus and utmost objective of the so called evolving entities which form the backbone of the entity gets compromised for questionable motives to the extent that vulnerable beneficiaries of the entity gets thrown overboard. I am referring to no other but the microfinance industry in Ghana. The name and spirit of the term and concept of microfinance seems to constantly suffer unnoticed perversion which if not checked will plunge the country into the same problem this institution seeks to solve. Microfinance, in its unadulterated sense is an economic developmental tool that seeks to provide financial and social intermediation services to the low income...

By Joseph Osei Oppong Brenya. “Sending an immature person on an important errand is Child labor” I have been speaking in this parables for quite a long time and most people misunderstood me, but is really true as it is said in an old Akan adage that “Aserewa bo tam Kasie a Otuwie” which can be translated in English as “when a small Child wears garments meant for adults it weighs him down” By this i want to connote that, Governance is not for shallow minds, in fact is not for preschoolers. I got really scared stiff when i read about the secret recording of the Deputy Information Minister Vitoria Hammah’s telephone conversation that went viral on the internet and radio. I understand she has been booted out of that office. Well, i would have done same as President of Ghana has done by firing this young lady immediately. It does not matter whether the recording was illegal or not because i understand her driver has been arrested and the offense is yet to be defined. W...

By Joseph Osei.   It becomes a nerve-racking condition when the police who are theoretical to protect citizens in Ghana, uses their uniform to extort daunt and infringe on the rights of the citizens. My heart goes out to many innocent people in prison because they couldn’t pay for justice which must be free for all. Ernest Asare is a poor farmer in a farming community in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. I have been fighting for this man who is a complete stranger to me. He is an innocent man who was implicated in an India hemp case because he did not pay 1,500 cedis bribe demanded by the police in Adiembra in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. I put this together after he was finally released by the Kumasi circuit court 3. The police led by the inspector in an attempt to cover their evil deeds, implicating the accused Ernest Asare, with the drug after i reported the case to the Deputy Police Regional Commander about how the Ernest was arrested and has been in the police cells ...