Parenting - SD Nuggets™

Achieving Financial Freedom - Why What You Learnt In School May NOT Be Enough...& What You Need to LEARN [Text Transcript Excerpts from Tayo Solagbade's MP3 Podcast]

September 3, 2015

[Text Transcript Excerpts from Tayo Solagbade's MP3 Podcast] Achieving Financial Freedom - Why What You Learnt In School May NOT Be Enough...& What You Need to LEARN === Starts=== "...How many teachers do you know that are millionaires? This is something I ask my kids all the time. I am not wasting any time at […]

General

Valuable Parenting Lesson from Doughnuts History (Hint: True story that proves it pays to let our kids use their creativity in helping us out)

August 28, 2015

We love eating doughnuts: they are delicious! But how many of us know that the first doughnuts (made "waaaay" back in the mid 1800s) NEVER had holes in them...and that they ended up not cooking thoroughly, and were NOT so tasty, as a result?? Do YOU know why doughnuts have holes in them? If no, […]

1 Hour Talks

No. 206: [NEW BOOK] Defeating The Devil Inside (Subtitle: Travails of a Young Believer, and His Misguided Female Convert)

August 17, 2015

On the surface, my new book's title - Defeating the Devil Inside - and its story line, suggest it's primarily about religion i.e. the devil, angels and Christians battling evil (It's actually based on the script for a play I wrote in 1987 at the age of 17 - which was dramatized during the Youth […]

1 Hour Talks

New Book: "Defeating the Devil Inside" (Goes LIVE on Sunday 16th August 2015)!

August 14, 2015

My new book's title - Defeating the Devil Inside (photo: inside page) - will raise eyebrows...and that's (partly) the idea. However, unlike past efforts, this is a work of fiction, and it's based on the script I wrote for a play in 1987 at the age of 17, which was dramatized (I played the "Devil"!) […]

Career Development

Deciding What to Study Must Be a Conscious Process

August 8, 2015

Deciding What to Study Must Be a Conscious Process. Sadly, many people get pressured by parents/society to choose. Little wonder that we continue to see Medical Doctors who become Fashion Design geniuses; Mass Communication graduates who become IT gurus, Lawyers who establish thriving farm businesses etc! Those people arrived adulthood only to discover post school, […]

Career Development

A Tried & Tested Strategy For Achieving Financial Freedom (Hint: Get My Audio DVD Information Product titled "Proven Ways to Generate Useful Passive Income")

August 7, 2015

I recently shared a quote by Robert Kiyosaki on Facebook, stating - in part - that his Rich Dad often said "If going to school made you rich, then schoolteachers would be millionaires'". A friend - Ernest - later posted this question: "What is the way forward towards earning financial freedom? I don dey tire […]

Career Development

The Secret to Making Research/Science Careers More Appealing to Black Students

August 5, 2015

Last night, Chima Ejiofor posted a cheering link on my Facebook wall with a query ( screenshot below). It was for a BBC interview granted by the renowned Prof. Geoff Palmer (OBE) - which brought back memories from my 7 year career journey in Guinness Nigeria (1994 to 2001). Chima is of course right in […]

Career Development

3 Things You Must Do to Succeed in ANY Area of Life (Advice from Thomas Edison)

July 30, 2015

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile in life are first, hard work, second stick-to-itiveness, and third, common sense" - Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931), Inventor Many people will read Edison's words above, and readily claim they understand the quote. In fact, some will even recite those words in a bid to teach […]

General

The Kind of Parent You Need to Be, to Keep Your Child From Going Astray

July 29, 2015

Photo: My 16 year old son and I stand outside a GT Bank branch in Lagos, after I showed him how to use the Fast Track service (with an ATM card issued by the bank), to by pass long queues and quickly withdraw cash in the banking hall. Like I always say, I LIVE for […]

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Help Your Child Profitably Monetize her Genius (Ideas You Can Use)

July 17, 2015

Below: Image of branded audio DVD label bearing 2 photos of Chika, my 3rd child, playing the Recorder and Harmonica respectively: gifts he got from me, when he clocked 12 years old, 4 days ago, on Monday 13th July 2015. He's the one I've written about as being gifted at fiddling with - and often […]