Entrepreneurship
What Do You Do When People Are Scared To Trust You?
May 7, 2013









If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Sometimes it happens with women who’ve had bad experiences with men. The men want to take the relationship to the next level, but they keep holding out. In business, this problem of damaged trust from past relationships between people can […]







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My DN Travel News
Outsmart Competitors (& Earn More) Using Foreign Language Skills
May 6, 2013









This newsletter serves speakers, but service providers in general may periodically find some issues useful – like this one. Discover how developing ONE foreign language skill can help you (1) beat more competitors in your current market (2) win more business in new markets, and (3) make more money – despite harsh economic times. This […]







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My DN Travel News
Why Being "Dis-organized" Can Make You a Better Writer
May 4, 2013









The above title is not a play on words. This article highlights an often missed truth that determines how productive we can be each day. Creative types (writers, developers etc), often go through psychological peaks and troughs, that affect their output. There are those times when you find yourself in the zone, and relentlessly churn […]







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My DN Travel News
To Understand What You Learn, Teach It (3 Tips)
May 4, 2013









Think about it, and you’ll realize it’s true. Anytime human beings have to demonstrate a learned skill before others, they often put in more effort than they normally would, if they had only themselves to account to. This is why coaches and performance consultants often recommend announcing your goals. It makes you accountable to others […]







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Career Development
Why You Need To Know A Little Bit About Every (or Many) Things
May 2, 2013









New/Different experiences afford you a multidimensional perspective. When others admire you for your ability to do certain things well (e.g. you’re good at many sports), there is a tendency for you to get carried away if you are not careful. Many people in their workplaces have earned themselves recognition and respect for their expertise in […]







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Entrepreneurship
Getting Potential Buyers to Do What You Want (5 Powerful Insights from my Study of Online Scam Artists Who Get Total Strangers to Send Them Big Money!)
April 30, 2013









In this article, I narrate a true story of an encounter I had with an online scam artist in a Lagos cyber cafe. I then offer – for the benefit of online entrepreneurs - my insider's perspective of strategies they employ to convince total strangers to part with their money. That is, after all, what […]







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My DN Travel News
3 Reasons YOU Need To Learn Public Speaking
April 29, 2013









It may sound like I’m pushing it a bit here. But I honestly feel, based on over ten years of personal experience, that the practice of public speaking confers multiple life changing benefits on. In this issue of my Speaking IDEAS newsletter, I outline 3 specific ways in which learning public speaking can help you […]







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My DN Travel News
2 Lessons on Writing...from Tom & Jerry Cartoons!
April 28, 2013









Yeah, I know. What on earth can Tom and Jerry cartoons teach anyone about writing? But that’s the irony of life. I don’t know about you, but simple, yet powerful insights used to elude me a lot in the past. As a result I often ended up dwelling on needlessly complex alternatives. This cartoon series […]







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Parenting
Why Having a Low Self-Opinion Can Ruin Your Child (and/or You)!
April 26, 2013









Nothing can be worse than having a low opinion of yourself. It sets you up to fail perpetually. It is important to realize that you can be financially comfortable (e.g. having a good job) and still “fail perpertually” by being ineffective in your interpersonal relationships, due to a low self esteem. This article explains why […]







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Career Development
FREE DOWNLOAD: An Automated Data Transpose Workbook That Helped An Insurance Company Finish a Report In Minutes, Instead of Days (YOU Can Build Something Similar)
April 25, 2013









This is a little workbook I created to eliminate the tedious manual work that had to be done – daily - by employees of an Insurance Company in Lagos. Typically, data from an auto-generated text file (see "PRINT15.txt" file in this download package) containing life insurance data of employees of a client company had to […]







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