The principles of stewardship and servant leadership challenge you to look at leadership differently. Consider these values.

Creating the right mind-set and a positive attitude today, will help you to start crafting a clear plan of how you intend to make your life a success.

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.

Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.

Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?

Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.

Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail.

A mission without action is equally ineffective and futile as action without mission. Use the “power of precision, ” and remember language shapes thought and thought shapes action.

The setting of SMART goals has been written about extensively over the decades, but will only be as useful as the extent to which its principles are used.

People and organisations should want to be associated with you as a brand. A sign of a depleted and irrelevant brand is unwillingness of your market or peers to associate with you.

Writers are archeologists of themselves.

Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in.

If people listen to music and dance every day, they find happiness and sacred solutions to any problem.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

You can't get saved if you don't play.

Being chosen doesn't come out of a state of fullness, it comes out of a state of emptiness.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.

We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.