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Why You Need to Give Your Children "POWER", Before You Give Them Money
October 11, 2013









“Give your children power, before you give them money.” - Robert Kiyosaki I had a completely different article in mind for today, on parenting. But when I shared Robert Kiyosaki’s above quote on Facebook earlier today, Efe Ohwofasa asked a question that made me respond with an epistle of sorts 🙂 By the time I […]







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Career Development
10 Year Old Uses Dead Laptop Battery, to Build Home-Made Rechargeable Lamp
October 4, 2013









This article is a tribute to my kids. Especially my 10 year old boy, who recently championed the use of my "dead" laptop battery to make a rechargeable lamp - which uses NO external power source for charging! This true story proves that coaching others to be super achievers at work , applies just as […]







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When Cultural Beliefs Make Truth Telling a Taboo, Society Stagnates (True Story)
September 27, 2013









Doing reliable social research in societies where people tell “unnecessary lies” in responding to questionnaires, can be a frustrating endeavour. University of Ibadan’s Professor Janice Olawoye (a white American married to a Nigerian), in a paper she published over 30 years ago, explained the real life experience of a popular researcher who visited a Nigerian […]







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Career Development
One Zero Start-up Cost Lucrative Business YOU Can Do
September 26, 2013









You should read this article if: (a). You have formal training and/or experience in Accounting/Finance and wish to acquire a new skill to double your income. (b). You (or someone you know) lack a job and need to earn income. \ (c). You (or someone you know) is retired or preparing to retire or resign […]







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Career Development
Are Businesses Faking Online Results?
September 21, 2013









Yes they are. Apart from my experience-based opinion, this article features real life evidence in form of a Channel 4 TV Dispatches investigative video report exposing how businesses manipulate social media statistics. It’s a sad reality. But I doubt that any conscious adult would really be surprised to learn this is happening. It’s however the […]







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"Professors" Cannot Afford to Resist New Ideas
September 20, 2013









What you are about to read is based on a true story – actually a personal experience that I had. A Shocking Demonstration of Non-Critical Thinking by Two Professors! Sometime ago, I had the opportunity to spend roughly 5 minutes with two professors (specialising in Agriculture) in a tertiary institution. I actually got an appointment […]







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Trying to Use Others Can Cost YOU Success (Advice you need to give your child)
September 13, 2013









Sigh. It keeps happening. Despite the many valuable opportunities it denies those who do it, they keep doing it. I refer to the tendency some have, for wanting to prove they are better than others. And the sometimes shocking contempt they display for those they (try to) "unfeelingly use" to achieve their selfish ends. Read […]







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Your Teenager Giving You Problems? Hurray!
September 5, 2013









I’m playing devil’s advocate here. But with good reason. You see I gave my father and mother parenting nightmares as a teenager. In fact, I started from when I was ten. Then I went right on till I clocked sixteen – when I committed my most sensationally bad act in school, as a school prefect! […]







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Career Development
Why Won't LinkedIn Stop Sending Me Email Invitations, Months After They Agreed To?
September 3, 2013









When - on August 16, 2013 - Alison Doyle, About.com Guide wrote her article titled “Don’t Waste Your Time On LinkedIn”, she got more than she bargained for: her readers’ summarily bashed LinkedIn in the comments section! About 21 of the 32 comments on her article described LinkedIn using expressions like “a complete and utter […]







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Creative Writing Boosts Kids' Learning
August 30, 2013









Do your kids write outside school? Come to think of it, maybe I should start by asking if YOU have been writing since leaving school (?) I mean creative writing, and not school related stuff, of course. Do you do any such writing? Does your spouse? Your kid(s)? If you said NO, read this article […]







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