Entrepreneurship
No. 125: Don’t Be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish In Your Business Marketing
January 20, 2014









"What? You want to build a website for your business? That’s going to make you spend money every year for hosting and domain name registration!” exclaimed the IT consultant (NOT a typo!) friend to my Chartered Account client. Looking at my client to see his reaction, I thought to myself: “Hmm, this is going to […]







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My DN Travel News
To Succeed, Write As If Your Life Depends On It
January 18, 2014









I know this article's title sounds extreme. But my target audience are people who've tried "everything" to start writing, and still struggle. Sometimes we need drastic measures to get ourselves out of a rut! I believe any adult with a clear sense of purpose should not struggle endlessly to write about what s/he does. If […]







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My DN Travel News
Emancipate Your Thinking: Many Roads Lead to Authentic Success!
January 17, 2014









Our persistent thoughts ultimately determine the outcome of our lives. This is a well known truth. It is for this reason that learning to control our thoughts is considered by successful people, to be a very important competence. In many societies today, it appears fewer people are arriving adulthood with this ability. As a result, […]







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Career Development
How to Achieve Self-Development, and Career Advancement Simultaneously (True Story)
January 16, 2014









This article narrates how(and why), after midnight of 14th November 1997, I slept overnight in a taxi at Lagos, Nigeria’s popular Ojota Park. I came in by night bus after closing 9p.m afternoon shift in Guinness Benin City, Edo State in order to arrive on time to participate in the National Finals of Nigerian Institute […]







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My DN Travel News
Making Money Your Primary Motive is Risky
January 15, 2014









Do you know why you do what you do? If money is the most important reason you’re doing it, I argue that your achievement of long term success and fulfilment could suffer. Real Life Historical Evidence Confirms the Importance of Knowing Why You Do What You Do It does not matter whether you’re in paid […]







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Entrepreneurship
A Pocket-Friendly Poultry Farm Manager Software for Profit Conscious Farm Business Owners
January 14, 2014









A growing number of smallholder poultry farmers are impressing me with their drive to achieve best practice improvement in their farm businesses. The increasing rate at which they contact me about purchasing my Excel-VB driven Poultry Farm Management app, is how I know. That’s Why I Deliberately Bear The Cost of Calling Them on Phone […]







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My DN Travel News
No. 124: What Today's Teachers Miss (and How It Can Hurt Your Child!)
January 13, 2014









This is not an attack on teachers. It's instead an informed view of what a growing number of this group of "public speakers" are failing to do, inadvertently denying learners (our kids!) the most important "knowledge and skills" they need to excel in life. If you're one, or have relations with one, my advice is […]







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General
Don't Just "Tell" Kids to Do...Be an Exemplary Role Model
January 11, 2014









When the bundle of currency notes was handed to me by Professor Idowu Oladele (who’d received the payment via his Euro domiciliary account), it was the first time I was setting eyes on the "Euro" in cash . If I sound like a "bush man" by admitting the foregoing, forgive me. I'm just being myself. […]







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Parenting
A Lesson on Money Spending from John D. Rockefeller
January 10, 2014









Those who have experienced severe lack of money and gone on to become financially successful often display frugality and prudence in handling money. The authors of “The Millionaire Next Door” reported from their over 2 decade study of mostly self-made millionaires across America, that majority of them built their wealth slowly and from scratch too. […]







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Career Development
Quit Your Job? (Some Web Marketing Ideas for Your New Business)
January 9, 2014









So, you finally bit the bullet and resigned your appointment with your employer after years of meritorious service, to start your own consultancy? And you did it while the ovation is still loudest? Good for you! Most people rarely get rich working for others. No matter what service you want to offer, the web can […]







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