Category: True Wealth

I remember how the girls almost burst into laughter when Antoinette introduced her new boyfriend to us. She had always had a certain spec—a particular kind of man we had come to expect from her —and this new person didn’t seem to fit the picture.

Sometimes, what threatens our peace isn’t what happened; it is what our minds decide happened before we know the truth. We can receive one sentence, add a few assumptions, stir in old fears, and suddenly react to a story that exists mostly in our imagination. That is how a single piece of information can become…

Sometimes, the person who looks most responsible is the one quietly falling apart. From the outside, nothing appears terribly wrong with them. Yet, functioning is not the same as flourishing. A person can get through every day while gradually losing the health, peace, and strength required to actually live it.

Just a few weeks ago, a young man who had won recognition as Ghana’s Strongest Man in 2023 was laid to rest. The contradiction here is unsettling: someone celebrated for physical strength could still be vulnerable to an illness that required timely medical attention.

He was fine. That is often how the story begins—until suddenly, he isn’t. We have become strangely comfortable with the phrase “I’m fine,” sometimes using it to describe a body we have not listened to, a mind we have exhausted, or a life we have been pushing far beyond its limits.

Sometimes the person who looks perfectly fine is carrying the heaviest debt. The kind accumulated quietly through disappointments, betrayals, grief, guilt, anger and things we never found the courage or safety to process. Some things that happened years ago may be over, but something inside us is still paying for it.

Recently, there’s been a trend of funny videos about the negative impact of minimal sleep on the human body. In one video, a man carrying a baby walked toward a bin to dispose of rubbish. In the confusion of the moment, he appeared to throw the baby into the bin instead of the rubbish.

“Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live,” Jim Rohn. This statement is not merely an encouragement to exercise and eat better. The deeper lesson here is that your body is not an accessory to your life; it is the vessel through which you experience the life you are trying…

It is strange how quickly our definition of important changes when our health fails. Then, everything that kept us awake and going for more suddenly becomes negotiable or pushed to the waitlist.

Quite a couple of times, I have heard people say, “Life begins at 40.” I understand they are talking about financial stability, maturity, independence, confidence, or finally being able to enjoy the rewards of years of hard work by 40.