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









If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 […]







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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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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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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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How Benin Republic Youth are Driving African Innovation (PLUS Women Cassava Farmers in Nigeria Earn Extra $2,200 in Off Season By Planting Cucumbers)! - Review of 12 Page PDF 2011 Report By International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
April 25, 2013









This update starts with a few notes about the responses to my new text and audio guide for english/french learners. I've provided names, links, and locations to help ANYONE interested in following up/acting on the information I've supplied here.(No time to read online? Click here to request a copy of the IFAD 12 page PDF […]







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Career Development
3 Ways Speaking a Foreign Language Can Make You Succeed More Often
April 23, 2013









Speaking a foreign language can help you in paid employment as well as in business. I have had the unique priviledge of experiencing the amazing benefits derivable from being able to speak a foreign language, on both sides of the fence. Below I outline 3 powerful rewards you can expect to reap repeatedly, from being […]







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