​Some of these false narratives that I heard lately include: 

If you're not scaling up, you're not growing.
Growth doesn't mean scaling up.
Scaling up doesn't mean profitable growth, competency growth, and growing sustainably.
Don't obsess about scaling up when your current systems are broken and needs fixing.  

This is too much for a non-profit organization to ask. 
Leadership development is not too much. Being sustainable financially is key to survival and thriving is never too much to ask. It's not too much when a little step in the right direction is always something that can be done.

We have to stand for Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion.
Yes but not its extreme ideological wokism, which created more harm in communities, pitted people against each other, and invoked guilt and shame to the white people, as if it's their fault that they're born white is not cool. Guilting others is not a good foundation for accountability and responsibility, either. 

The removal of meritocracy leads to equity.
It doesn't. It leads to nepotism and dynasty (Woodbridge).We need more meritocracy, not less meritocracy to tackle the problems we faced in our institutions. 

Information is truth.
Information is just information. The interpretation, scope, and manufacturing of information could lead to truth or untruth. Think Facebook Algorithms' fuelling the Rohingya crisis.

Those who voted for Trump are pro-Nazis.
Wait, this is getting too much. Are you really sure what you're talking about? Those who voted for Trump deserve some respect too. They have a different opinion on American society and they use the power of the vote to make things happen the way they see it. Move on. 

We live in the dark age of misinformation and untruths. These narratives are insidiously wrong, pretending to be right or pandering to a set of agenda unceasingly. Wake up! Check out the messenger, the intentions and the motives behind.

If it doesn't sound right, it could be a lie. Wake up!

I was on a store a few weeks to buy a new celfone case. The vendor was Indian and so I quickly without any thought converted to the Asian way of bargaining.

In Canada, it's uncouth to ask for a lower price or bargain from the stated product price on the label.

Back home and in many other parts of the Asia, it's the way of doing business. If you don't bargain or ask for a lower price, you are actually on the losing end.

One time, I was visiting Ho Chi Minh and went into this major shopping mall and I asked the lady vendor the price of that cute bag.

She told the price and I moved my head from side to side in disbelief.

She quickly retorted, "What do you want for a price?"

But then again, I didn't want to bargain at all. I said, "No thanks."

I was about to leave, when she turned and said, "Okay, give me your last good price." I tried a price off the top of my head but even that didn't make her agree.

I ended up leaving politely and saying thanks for trying. She had that annoyed look which indicated to me that I was just wasting her time.

But when I bought that celfone case, the vendor told me of the second tier of pricing and we agreed instantly.

A few years ago, I was having an initial conversation with an Executive Director of a local non-profit. He immediately asked for my price without establishing the appropriateness of the intervention, the objectives, measures of success, and parameters of engagement. In short, he was just price shopping! 

Both parties must be serious about the buying and selling business, otherwise goods or services wont move at all.

This boils down to the buyer's intention to buy and the willingness of the seller to meet that intention. 

Fishing for information is one thing. Committing to the sales process is a dead must. 

I don't know about you but the blab it and grab it/name it and claim it works for me.

I can cite many specific situations in my life and career when it feels like it's just a dream, until you invoke the Divine to work this out at His level.

I have experienced countless times when the odds were stacked against me and yet I got the goods.

Is this luck, accident, or coincidence?

I disagree.

I think that when we use our imagination for good, we get what we believe.

Most of our thinking life is focused on the negative, unwanted, and what-if bad scenarios.

We magnify the things that can happen negatively, to the extreme point. 

One bad report from the doctor could result to sleepless nights and unending anxiety.

A child's flu could lead some parents to the emergency room.

One deal that went wrong would drive a professional to watch her back in case she might get fired from it.

There are countless times when if we're honest enough, the negative outweighs the positive thinking.

These days, we need not just positive thinking but a deep awareness that what we confess with our lips comes from the quality of our mindset.

Good confession comes from a good mindset.

The mindset dictates how will we react to situations, those 'stuff' that happens without reason or cause.

Good confession comes from our imagination, the 'inner man' in all of us.

Good confession brings hope, energy, and resilience in our spirits.

There were too many people in my life who were able to overcome countless obstacles because he/she believed first and foremost that he/she can deal with it and come out victorious. 

Good confession precedes good results.

May not be the best results ever but deciding to use that experience as a springboard for the next is already a win. 

If you can't even muster enough conviction for yourself and life works, you can't get off the first base.