My DN Travel News
No. 118: Speak to Impact, and Your Audience Will Be Impressed
December 2, 2013









Your speaking success depends on making yourself understood the way you intend. I can say “Please pass me the sugar” or “Please relocate that receptacle of sweetner, into my hand”. Both mean essentially the same thing. But anyone – regardless of age or educational level – will easily understand the former! SCROLL DOWN TO READ […]







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Entrepreneurship
How to Use Niches & Specialties to Boost Your Profits (Article & Infographic)
November 26, 2013









I once got - in 2003 - a LONG email response to a proposal I submitted. It was from the CEO/founder, of a company regarded as one of Nigeria’s foremost brand marketing and advertising companies. He politely declined interest in my proposal of a Strategic Partnership between my start-up Self-Development Academy, and his well established, […]







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My DN Travel News
No. 117: Smart Speakers Build Relationships With Attendees
November 25, 2013









It is my experience-based opinion, that the most important measure of speaking success is the detectable difference it makes, in the lives of individual or group audiences in the long term. For me, the business of speaking is LESS about the speaker, and more about those s/he speaks to, and what they are able to […]







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Career Development
Smart Exercising Will Keep You Fit, Healthy, and Alive
November 23, 2013









Yes, that's the key to good health, looking young, and LIVING LONG. Sweating enables your body expel many "bad things" that can weaken it! I took the photo below, this a.m (Friday 22nd Nov. 2013 at 10.00a.m): Above: Photo taken in 2013 - I was 43 at the time Below: Photo taken in March 2017 […]







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My DN Travel News
No. 116: We Are Poor - Not Because of God (Lessons from 7 True Stories)
November 18, 2013









As an expert in your field, know this: The creator made YOU. You therefore have the capacity, as well as an obligation, a duty.. indeed a calling (!), to be so creative in doing what you do, as to make the world a better place...and the most of yourself. You CAN do this regardless of […]







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My DN Travel News
No. 115: Why Persistent People Succeed (Hint: A Silent But Irresistible Force!)
November 11, 2013









You may have heard about - or read - Napoleon Hill’s book titled “Think & Grow Rich”. In this issue of my newsletter, I highlight what is perhaps the most potent message in that book for ANY reader, to take away. Especially one who desires to know how to succeed, no matter how tough things […]







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Career Development
(FREE PDF) Using MS Excel® Solver for Least Cost Feed Formulation Can Be Easy - But Also Dangerous (How to Protect Yourself)
November 8, 2013









Everybody knows a little MS Excel. It’s so easy to use. However, I make sure to warn – from over 20 years of supporting users of Excel-apps I develop – that Excel’s “friendly“ nature is also what makes it a potentially dangerous tool. Especially for users with inadequate knowledge and experience, or indeed absent-minded competent […]







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Entrepreneurship
No. 114: Speaking IDEAS for Farm Support Experts
November 4, 2013









If you provide farm support products and services, this issue of my weekly speaking IDEAS newsletter will interest you. That includes experts working with private owned agro-allied companies, government agencies or even Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Yesterday, I listened to a top Ekiti state government official (on Nigerian TV) explaining how they are attracting young people […]







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My DN Travel News
No. 113: A Best Practice Strategy That Solves ANY Problem
October 28, 2013









Success comes via learning from when things go wrong, to be able to get them right more often. This applies to the expert-speaker who gets stopped before he can finish his “talk”, because he over-shot allotted time. Just like it does to the freelance writer, who misses agreed deadlines for submission of completed pieces. Such […]







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Career Development
What Video Interviews Don't Reveal About What It Takes to Succeed
October 23, 2013









I have a deep passion for analyzing success stories, and extracting useful learning points from them. My most recent obsession has been ESPN’s video about how a guy, born without arms, rose to world class success as a vehicle engineer. The video however lasts only 7 - short - minutes. But It Actually Took That Guy 22 […]







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