My DN Travel News
You Cannot Teach Experience









“We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience” – Sasha Azevedo As a writer, there will be times when your knowledge alone will not be adequate. In other words, if you’re honest with yourself, you will sometimes not have enough personal experience based insight, to do a good job writing on a […]







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Do You Need Schooling to Own a Bank Account?









Sounds like a funny question does it not? Do you have a child in school (or due to start)? This article highlights what smart parents will help their kids learn outside formal school, to better prepare them to achieve financial independence in adulthood! Schooled and Unschooled Persons Can Own and Operate Bank Accounts. Hopefully, the […]







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Career Development
Excel by Getting Useful Ideas to Decision Makers









Do you have an idea you are convinced can benefit the company you serve? In this write-up, I argue (based on my achievements as a high performing employee in Guinness Nigeria), that you owe yourself, and the company, a duty to ensure you get heard. As was my experience, you may even have to bypass […]







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Proven Strategy for Succeeding by Winning People's Trust









Sometimes a person can be competent, qualified, even certified in his/her chosen field…and still have problems succeeding e.g. in getting jobs…or if s/he’s in business, clients. There will be exceptions, but my experiences and observations suggest people who suffer that way, do so because they fail to inspire trust. Something about them just does not […]







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Entrepreneurship
Is It Smart to Partner With a New Acquaintance?









Without trust, little progress will be achieved in activities requiring cooperation or collaboration with others. But how do you know who to trust - in business or life in general – especially online? This article suggests steps you can take, at least at the preliminary stage, to decide whether or not to accept a partnership […]







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No. 100: Nothing Can Stop YOU...Except Greed









This issue of my speaking IDEAS newsletter includes a true story of how, last weekend, a young man tried to “hire” me to “insert” an image of himself, into the photo of a giant aquarium he downloaded from the web! His purpose? To send the “Photo-shopped” version, with a quote, to a prospective client he’d told […]







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Entrepreneurship
Passion Will Not Save You, If You Lack Mastery!









“Reading without thinking gives a disorderly mind, and thinking without reading makes one unbalanced” - Confucius All the obsession and exercise in the world will not make you write better if you do not know enough about your chosen topic or subject. It may appear like I’m stating the obvious, but I’ve read some blog […]







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How to Achieve Parenting Success









Are you driven by a need to make your kids successful in life? Does helping them learn how to make a headway in life deeply interest you? Any parent that says yes to these questions can be said to be living for his/her kids. Diligently doing so will make you a successful parent in the […]







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Career Development
Can I Generate Payslips At One Go, for 3,500 Staff - Using MS Excel-Visual Basic? (Real-Life Conversation with a Payroll Manager)









This article is based on a real-life Facebook chat session I recently had with a prospect. It will benefit YOU: (a). If your work involves managing salaries/payroll - because it answers questions about using Excel automation to make your work easier and less time consuming. (b) If as a website owner you want an insider […]







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Don’t Apologize for Being Yourself









Read this article with an open mind, if you wish to get useful value from it. I’m not asking anyone to be rude or inconsiderate to others. Instead, it’s a call to every person of vision and ambition to stop playing small in a bid to avoid criticism or scrutiny. The Best Way to Live […]







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