Career Development
Protected: One Danger of Using Shortcut Keys for Your Excel-VB Macros, and How to Guard Against It [Coding Tip for Tayo Solagbade's Excel VB Automation Club Members]

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Entrepreneurship
RECOMMENDED: The Third Most Important Skill in Business (Part 2) - Presentation is Extremely Important [Strive Masiyawa's Latest World Class "Business School Quality" Lesson]









I still do NOT understand why this wonderful man's Facebook powered teachings, superior to what business schools offer in terms of real world relevance, are not SYNDICATED by media houses across Africa.   Strive Masiyawa dishes out weekly world class entrepreneurship wisdom to African entrepreneurs, and those aspiring, at zero cost - yet I cannot […]







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Career Development
Why Schools Need to Teach Emotional Intelligence [Hint: Your Success In Life - Academic Ability Matters LESS Than Your Emotional Intelligence]









Do you want to excel at what you do in life? If YES, it might interest you to know that your academic prowess and credentials pale in significance when compared to the Emotional Intelligence you possess.   I recently read Why You Need Emotional Intelligence to Succeed (click to read) by Travis Bradberry on Success.com, […]







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Career Development
PII 013: Sometimes When Your World Feels Like it's Falling Apart, It May Actually be Evolving to a New Level of Success [Hint: Why Burning One's Bridges Works Better In Pursuit of Success]









Recently, I read a write-up by a coach advising against taking risks in starting a business, without having a safety net in place first. He argued that it would be wiser to hold on to some safety net (like a job) until your new venture takes off fully and you’re certain it will stay up, […]







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Career Development
Succeed More by Using the Web Creatively [Features True Story]









I posted a blog yesterday, featuring 3 adverts I have published on my buyers-meet-sellers platform using a plugin I found that does exactly what I want. Like I explained in that post, the FREE advertising opportunity is for my paid clients who I have a vision to support in as many zero to low cost […]







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Entrepreneurship
How Studying a Great African Achiever is Leading Me to Self-Actualization









"Va vers les gens, vit avec eux. Apprend d’eux. Aime-les. Commence avec ce qu’ils connaissent. Planifie avec eux. Construit sur ce qu’ils ont. Enseigne en montrant. Apprend en pratiquant. Ne te conforme pas, mais transforme. Ne soulage pas mais libère. Et quand avec les meilleurs leaders, le travail est fait, la tâche accomplie, les gens […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
Marriage is Not for Everyone [You Don't Have to Get Married to Prove You're Normal]









Yes.   It is my considered opinion, based on my personal observations over the past 25 years of my adult life (16 of them as a husband and father) that marriage is not for everyone.   You don't have to get married to prove you're normal. And when you're a high performing achiever or "genius", […]







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Career Development
PII 012: Succeed by Solving Problems Using MS Excel Visual Basic [How I Started Spreadsheet Programming in Guinness Nigeria Using Lotus 1-2-3 Macros in 1995, Before Discovering Microsoft's Excel Visual Basic in 1999]









Today I enjoy patronage from buyers within and outside Africa, for my customizable Excel Visual Basic software. But the journey to this point began for me 2 decades ago when I worked as a young graduate trainee brewer in Guinness! Back then Lotus 1-2-3's was the industry spreadsheet application standard worldwide and it had a […]







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Entrepreneurship
PII 011: You Need to Coach Your Child to be Resourceful in Life [Watch video of 12 Year Old Building Battery Powered Toy Power Bike from Scratch]









Few weeks ago, I shared a video on my YouTube channel, of a battery-powered toy power bike built by my 12 year old son, using scrap materials he picked up from various places. Since then I have shown the video to many people in Nigeria and here in Benin Republic, eliciting the same comments of […]







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Career Development
[Recommended Article/Website] Librarians Love It, and Everybody (Including You!) Needs It: The Secret You Need to Know About Ebooks - and ONE website that spills it!









[I am constantly on the lookout for useful articles/websites I can recommend to my readers. This is one!] Here are excerpts with the clickable link to learn more: Earlier this year, the price on the blockbuster book, The Girl on the Train, was slashed from $11.99 to $1.99 for one day only. Previously, Gone Girl […]







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