Stories of Black Women
Written by Banchi Here is an inspirational Story for YOU about LOVE. A moment of happiness you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden’s beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be …
Written by Banchi Here is a poem about Effective Listening taken from ‘Pearls of Wisdom’ Please Listen When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving me advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t …
Written by Banchi YOU woke up suddenly in the middle of the night. Something has woke you. Or rather, you feel like someone has been in your home without your knowledge. You start looking for every room in your home looking for a disturbance– any lights that are ON or doors not closed. You even …
Written by Banchiwosen Woldeyesus I am participating in a writing contest hosted by Positive Writer. What is below is my article for the Writing Contest. Imagine. Believe. Assume the center of every success is POSITIVITY. Whatever you try and pass through –write your experience. Let the world know. Write. To feel, to learn, to …
Written by Banchi “It is good health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” Mahatma Gandhi If you have all the material possessions in the world, what will that do to you if you have no health? Health is the most Priceless possession in the world.It is terribly important. Just like …
Written by Banchi Good people are nice but nice people aren’t always good. Some people are nice simply because they fear what others think of them if they’re not. When they lose that fear, the MASK COMES OFF and they can actually be very bad people. Let us take stock of who we are. We …
Written by Banchi The other day I took a taxi to take me home from work. The traffic was like crazy. Without even going too far, another car slammed into the taxi. Luckily we were not hurt. The taxi was barely scratched. But, I dreaded the confrontation that was coming. The driver of the taxi …
Written by Banchi Ever end up frustrated after a conversation with someone because you didn’t feel like you communicated as well as you would have liked? Ever walk away from a conversation asking yourself what just happened? Assertive communication is a style of communication that greatly enhances our effectiveness with others and produces the most …
Written by Banchi TREES What do we do when we are faced with change? We try resisting it with all our energy forgetting that it is part of life. Let us learn from trees. They don’t resist CHANGE of any kind. They embrace it in fact. Trees don’t resist leaves falling when Winter arrives. The …
Wriitten by Banchi Hi there, So Sorry about yesterday’s post, where I have missed to include a link in one of my paragraphs where I talked about Communication. Here is the link. If communication skills is a subject you’re interested in, I’ve written an article about it. You can read it here. And I …