Career Development
Error-Free People Rarely Achieve Authentic Success
August 17, 2013









"Success tends not to go to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk averse. Rather, it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal tasks.” – Donald Rumsfeld I […]







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My DN Travel News
Your Writing Competence Matters Greatly
August 10, 2013









Be less concerned about how many “years of service” you’ve given, and more about how much you’ve improved over that period – Tayo K. Solagbade Your competence as a writer will often determine how well you do in any field you choose to write  in. We don't often realise this, but it is quite possible […]







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Entrepreneurship
Breakthrough to Purpose - Andy Brine Interviews Efe Ohwofasa (Verbatim Text Transcript Created by Tayo K. Solagbade)
August 7, 2013









Preamble: Why I Manually Transcribe Video and Audio Presentations (Especially Interviews) – By Tayo K. Solagbade The thumbnail image below links to a verbatim PDF text transcript of a 23 minute long video interview conducted by Andy Brine (of Become Authentic on Video) with Efe Ohwofasa (Nigerian born, UK based business coach) This is not […]







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My DN Travel News
You Cannot Teach Experience
August 3, 2013









“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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Entrepreneurship
Passion Will Not Save You, If You Lack Mastery!
July 27, 2013









“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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My DN Travel News
Use Smart Time Management to Write More Successfully (3 Tips)
July 21, 2013









“Every morning in Africa, an antelope wakes up and starts running as fast as it can, so that the fastest lion does not catch up with it and eat it. At the same time a lion also wakes up and starts running as fast as it can so that it can catch and eat the […]







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Career Development
FYI: If You Experienced Difficulties Accessing This Blog's Content between Monday 15th July 2013 to Saturday 20th July 2013, This Could Be Why...
July 21, 2013









NB: Let me start by saying this post is being made for information purposes only. And it applies specifically to the period between Monday 15th July 2013 to Saturday 20th July 2013. In case anyone's experienced difficulties accessing articles/content on my blog in the last few days...hostgator has now confirmed they've completed the migration of […]







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My DN Travel News
Write More Productively - 2 Proven Ways to Prevent Burnout
July 13, 2013









I recently read 2 of my favourite writers sharing about how they overcame some form of burnout. I don’t mean writer’s block. As I’ve said before, I do not believe it (i.e. writer's block) exists. But burnout – just like it happens in other areas of endeavour, such as sports - does really occur in […]







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Career Development
You Can’t Establish Expert Authority with Money
July 11, 2013









In some parts of the world, some people get accorded authority status based on unproven wealth they display – and rarely little else. I grew up in a society where it happened (happens!)…a lot. However, authentic expert authority is not achieved by “showing money”. It comes via demonstrating verifiable, value-adding competence. This article provides insights […]







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Career Development
Fast-Food Energy: Self-Repairing “Artificial Leaf” Cheaply Generates Electricity from Dirty Water (New Discovery)
July 9, 2013









A research team has developed a "self-repairing artificial leaf" that produces electricity from dirty water. This is a milestone achievement, in the drive for sustainable energy. Forward thinking governments of developing countries may find it useful to explore adopting this new technology. This is a major advancement in efforts to develop alternative – and sustainable […]







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