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Learn Practical Feed Formulation

January 22, 2013

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Requests I've gotten from persons wishing to learn Feed Formulation last year made me decide to offer an in person coaching service. I've already had someone travel all the way from Akwa Ibom state specifically for this learning event. We […]

Public Speaking

You Cannot Know Everything

January 21, 2013

If you're lucky enough to learn from a seasoned mentor of highly paid international speakers like Burt Dubin, one of the core objectives he'll guide you to strive for is absolute mastery of your subject. "You must eat, drink and breathe it...Know it forwards and backwards, inside and out.” he'll say And if you follow […]

Writing/Blogging

When You Absolutely Have To Write

January 20, 2013

In this article, I use a touching story of courage and heroism, to explain how you can (and why you may have to) get your writing done, regardless of challenges you encounter. A talented teenage girl from a struggling home got lucky when the coach of a top gymnastics club got her a scholarship to […]

Parenting

Teach Your Kids To Respect Money

January 19, 2013

I asked the students of the University of Lagos who attended my VC Approved lecture (titled “Ten Ways You Can Use Self-Development to Create the Future You Want”) the following rhetorical question: “Is your rich uncle really “stingy”, or is he being “frugal?” To older persons, I would re-phrase the question as follows: "Is your […]

Career Development

Solve Problems Wherever You Find Them

January 18, 2013

Employers Value Problem Solvers No matter what kind of work you do: If you can solve (or quickly learn to solve) problems or introduce improvements, I guarantee you'll be constantly courted by your employers and/or bosses. I make this confident assertion based not just on my personal successes in paid employment, but also from working […]

Self-Development

Don't Depend on Applause to Succeed

January 17, 2013

The Absence Of Applause May Not Mean You're Failing If everybody had seen upfront, what Thomas Edison's inventions would do for the world, there's no doubt they would have applauded and rooted round the world for him right from first day he began his research work. But no one saw his breakthrough coming. In the […]

Entrepreneurship

Essential Features Of Broiler Starter Rations

January 15, 2013

This is the first post in an enlightenment series I've decided to progressively publish on my Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas. Other posts in the series will follow, for Broiler Finisher Ration, Chicks Starter Ration, Growers’ Ration and Layers’ Ration. NB: The series will be based - in part - on excerpts from my Feed Formulation […]

Public Speaking

Should You Speak For FREE?

January 14, 2013

I answer this question with a big YES, based on my personal experiences/achievements, and also drawing from my study of the writings of experts like Burt Dubin, Les Brown, and Dale Carnegie. Certain experts find it difficult to understand why they need to get some "speaking" experience under their belts, before they can command respectable […]

Writing/Blogging

Do You Need A Writing Coach?

January 12, 2013

“Even if you’re on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there” – Anon I'm good at learning and doing new stuff by myself. Yet, I readily take advantage of any opportunity to improve myself by learning from others. You can never be so good that you cannot learn something […]

Parenting

Challenge Your Kids To Be Readers & Thinkers

January 11, 2013

"Reading can be a powerful catalyst for thinking; it has the potential for stimulating wisdom." - Michael Angier(www.successnet.org) In Robert Kiyosaki's book titled "If You Want To Be Rich and Happy, Dont Go To School?", he wrote about how the traditional educational system was teaching American children to be mindless parrots". He also quoted R. […]

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