Ancient Wisdom - Can it Still be Applied Today?Written by C. Bailey-Lloyd/LadyCamelot
*Advice on living a humane and compassionate life. According to text in Bible, King Solomon had spoken with God and asked for divine wisdom. As time passed by, King Solomon was approached by two mothers. Both women resided in same house, both bore children three days apart from one another, and they were both alone in home together. When women came to Solomon, one implored, "...she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. And when I rose in morning to give my child suck, behold it was dead: but when I had considered it in morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear." To that, other women retorted, "no, but dead is thy son, and living is my son." And there stood King Solomon wondering what he was to do to settle dispute. Since neither mother would mourn dead child, whilst claiming living as her own, Solomon was inspired by a quick resolution. Certain that true mother of child would find reason, he said, "bring me a sword," and a sword was brought to king, and he continued, "Divide living child in two, and give half to one, and half to other." Immediately, true mother spoke up, "O my lord, give her living child, and in no wise slay it." The false mother then added, "let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it." Based upon Solomon's clever analogy, he was able to determine which woman was true mother of living child. Giving real mother her child, second woman left empty handed. Because wisdom of God was within King Solomon to do judgement, Israel feared him from that day on.
| | Are You An Entrepreneur?Written by Fred DiUlus
With all buzz about everybody being an entrepreneur these days wouldn't it be nice if you could really find out if you have what it takes?Sure it would. The following profile was adopted over a period of several years of research from successful entrepreneurs worldwide to assist would-be entrepreneurs determine if they have traits to undertake a new venture. Can we describe what an entrepreneur is? Simply, an entrepreneur is one who undertakes something new or remakes something old and eventually succeeds. Entrepreneurs may fail, and often they do, before they get it right. But there are no entrepreneurs who are failures. Entrepreneurs only look upon a failure as a stepping stone. One door closes, another opens. Do YOU have entrepreneurial mystic? This assessment is result of analyzing character traits of successful entrepreneurs. It measures entrepreneurial readiness whether one considers s/he is an entrepreneur. Much study and research by academics around world has gone into attempting to determine who is, or can be, an entrepreneur. Unfortunately, not one reliable predictive model has successfully been developed, nor is it likely one will beyond identifying traits and trying to measure up to them. This all seems pointless however even if one has traits because it does not guarantee any measured individual will become an entrepreneur. Just having traits does not guarantee SUCCESS and yet success is required to earn title of Entrepreneur. If, for example, an individual assessed has all apparent attributes of a so-called entrepreneur but fails in new venture they undertake, mantel of true entrepreneur can never be worn because word “Entrepreneur” is embodied in word “Success”. (www.CEFE.org)
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