Self-Devpt. Nuggets™

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In this post, I discuss – with reference to accomplishments of historic personalities – the importance of encouraging your child to think and dream big, about what s/he wants to achieve in life. Dreaming big is about living with purpose. […]

Depending on your unique circumstances, the idea of preparing pay slips in MS Excel might not make much sense. After all, many off-the-shelf payroll applications, with pay slip generation capability, already abound in the market place. I offer a few answers/reasons in this article, which is actually the first in a series, that reveal situations […]

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a social skill with a number of key dimensions that can be used to assess any person in a bid to gauge his or her proficiency or competence with respect to that ability. No one is “born” with a fixed EI. You can develop your EI by learning. NB: To truly […]

Starting from next week, I will commence publishing ONE new post on Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas, in direct response to each one of over 200 questions sent to me by visitors to my Farm Business Ideas website. The First Question to Be Treated To give you an idea of what to expect, here’s the first […]

In this week’s issue of my Public Speaking IDEAS newsletter, I focus on a key benefit of being (or becoming) a speaker that I have personally found most satisfying. And that’s the opportunity to earn multiple streams of (often passive) income. SCROLL DOWN T0 VIEW FULL ISSUE No. 65: Smart Entrepreneurs Make More Money By […]

It’s not always that one feels like writing. This is a painful fact known to many writers. Indeed, for many of us it can sometimes take major effort to get into the mood to write. In this post I offer ideas based on my personal experiences and achievements, that you can reliably employ to get […]

“Edison was a poor student. When a schoolmaster called Edison “addled,” his furious mother took him out of the school and proceeded to teach him at home. Edison said many years later, “My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me, and I felt I had some one to […]

This is part 1 of a 2 part article. Click here to read part 2. If you are the MD/CEO of your company (or a Senior Executive that never has to do chores like this at work), this article may not directly apply to you but it could benefit you if you passed it on […]

Last week I had what I believe many people would consider a potentially traumatizing series of experiences. Like I told a mentor of mine, I could write a small book about all the things that tried sooo hard to go wrong…but which I stretched myself to (successfully) “save”…honestly! What Are You Like When Things Go […]

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing” – Oscar Wilde One lesson I have learned the hard way is that not all clients value getting served with passion. Let me explain why I say so. While an employee in Guinness Benin city, Nigeria, I would work […]