Isaac Kwame Owusu

Not reading enough books: It has been said that if you want to hide something from an African, hide it inside a book. This tells about how poor our reading culture as Africans is. One of the major problems the average Ghanaian will make in his 20s is not reading enough books. We are all born into this world without a manual, all that we know and that we will know are all products of learning. I see the 20s as a time of preparation for the future ahead and reading good books will definitely assist you in your preparation. Reading good books will expose you to the life time investigation of those who have gone aheadof you. Learning from their experience is the best way to learn. Reading good books will enable you to begin from where previous generation left off. It isimportant to notethat every form of success has its own governing principles. Books will expose you to the principles that govern the kind of success you desire. As an African most of the things you were indoctr...

Psalm 49 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world...  Last post of the "notes from the Nsawam street" series And it goes like this I recall all alone life and family and a portion of the most exceedingly awful times throughout my life and how I have survived and been honored by God. Genuine! it frequently hasn't been a luxurious situation, life has been hard and even brutal, awful and weepy but then here I am applauding God for even those horrendous times. Likely one of the hardest things to overcome is the demise of a kid or mate, most importantly a loved one – The nearest I have gone to that frightfulness is the passing of my Gradma. It had such a lamentable impact on my Mum and Dad and to the day they kicked the bucket they always remembered her and we as a whole grew up realizing that a catastrophe of gigantic extents had happened to our family. We were perusing only today in Psalm 49 of how demise finds everybody nobody i...

FOURTH article of the series “NOTES FROM THE NSAWAM STREET”, paying tribute to my childhood hood and reflecting on the past and today we looking at savings , Reflecting upon this topic,Reminds me of an an awesome vacation period  somewhere last year, I asked  my Grandpa a simple question and the question was " How do I become rich ?" he smiled and said " I got to think about the important but forgotten laws of saving money. Because these are the same laws of saving that allowed us to save up for our wedding fund. These laws are actually common sense but seem to have been forgotten by most people – so they never get to save money. Once you know these principles, these laws of saving money, it will be very easy for YOU to save money as well and become rich", he smiled at me and gave me some old pamphlet to read and this is what I learnt from the pamphlet, I’m sure you’re getting excited, so lets get started: Law #1: Remember the Reason WHY ...

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I really like Steve Jobs as an Innovator, a dreamer and doer. I have watched countless documentaries and read articles on him but have never read any book on him before so I decided to read the Authorized biography of the Apple founder by Walter Isaacson and this is my take on the book :) Steve Jobs, Isaacson’s biography makes clear, was a complicated and exhausting man. “There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that’s the truth,” Powell tells Isaacson. “You shouldn’t whitewash it.” Isaacson, to his credit, does not. He talks to everyone in Jobs’s career, meticulously recording conversations and encounters dating back twenty and thirty years. Jobs, we learn, was a bully. “He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe,” a friend of his tells Isaacson. Jobs gets his girlfriend pregnant, and then denies that the child is hi...

I sincerely don't know how to give this post a title, I don't know what to write ...lol, I miss my readers and my readers miss me and I needed to put something around here for every one of us to learn and be roused, today we are examining another great book that had and keep on having an impact on me. The book is Napoleon Hill's THINK GROW RICH. my first experience with this book was in 2014 when I was a senior in High School, I couldn't read the book well since I was in my last year and needed to focus more on scholastic work, I read the book well after I finished secondary school somewhere in august 2014, trust me this is a decent book loaded with insider facts.  Indeed, path back in the mid 1900s a man named Napoleon Hill devoted around 20 years of his life to making sense of this by concentrating on and talking with 500 of the best individuals at the time. Individuals like Edison, Ford and Andrew Carnegie. The outcome was a book called Think and Grow Rich. A ...

Today is a very special day, it happens to be Epiphany and my birthday, I thought it is a time to inspire my many cherished readers on this blog as I always do with these quotes for meditating . I've lost, I've gained, family is closer and tougher than ever before, loved ones lost, and new friends found. There has been many times where I've been found on my knees in prayer for hours (relentless) and other times leading a group of people in prayer, my faith (that I love to share) is an everyday awakening (to me) that people, lives, and circumstances can change for the better OVER TIME. I look back at 2015's huge challenges that I've overcome, shared with others, and have once again found myself... To say thank you and BRING ON 2016, much works to be done! - Mathew DeRemer “We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen ...

This is a continuation of the "THINGS THAT CHANGED ME" series, in case you did not start the series with us you can read it here . It was around  2:00pm in the afternoon, it was a friday after clubs and societal meetings during my second year in High school, we were all preparing to go to the Dining hall for launch and I saw this book with a violet cover on a friend's bed.  The title caught my attention, "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" So I read the blurb and knew I needed it. I said to myself this is not an ordinary book and indeed it was not a ordinary book. This book revealed to me the real world and What I have been missing out for the past 17 years of my life in my pursuit for success. Rich Dad, Poor Dad is not a normal book, yes "normal". it is not the normal inspirational/money book that tells you to work hard, be focused and blah blah goes on. It revealed to me more than what I expected from the book. Below is a personal review of Rich Dad Poor Dad, a...