Parenting

The Missing Element Needed to Equip More School Leavers/Graduates to Excel In Life

October 20, 2015

"A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic table, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity." --Einstein to Vivienne Anderson, May 12, 1953, AEA 60-716. If you are a parent to school age kids, mark my words: You need to get yourself firmly into […]

Career Development

[RECOMMENDED READING] An adventure to discover the best teacher in Nigeria. Drama Galore…lol!

October 15, 2015

I never re-publish other people's writings on my blog, but I do link to those I find compelling. This piece by Olusegun Adeniyi titled "An adventure to discover the best teacher in Nigeria. Drama Galore…lol!" - published in THISDAY Newspaper perfectly fits that description: it is a truly compelling, and at the same time "painful" […]

Excel-VB Solutions

Spend Less Money to Eat Well, by Growing Foods (Hint: True Story With Photos of my Kids Growing Tomatoes, Beans, Pineapples at Home)!

October 2, 2015

[Photo] My 14 year old son shows off 6 big ripe tomatoes he and his 12 year old brother harvested yesterday (1st October 2015) from our small home garden. Another result of the real-world relevant confidence/competence building Personal Achievement Coaching (PAC) program he and his siblings are SIMULTANEOUSLY undergoing, in conjunction with controlled exposure to […]

Excel-VB Solutions

Your Child Needs Strength of Character to Successfully Resist Corruption

September 24, 2015

No matter how intelligent/well schooled, creative, competent, well spoken and nice a person may be, if s/he does not have strength of character, all those aforementioned qualities s/he possesses will not matter. Why? Because it takes having upright morals/values and strength of character to navigate the good and bad, as well as right and wrong […]

Farm Biz

Sharing Your Culture and Traditions With Foreigners is REALLY Cool!

September 16, 2015

It's strange, and sad - but true: Too many modern day Nigerians readily favour foreign cultures and traditions over theirs. Quite often they regard what is theirs as inferior to what obtains in developed societies. NB: I happen to be a full blooded 45 year old Nigerian - born and raised in Nigeria. So I […]

Career Development

COMING SOON: Best Practice Farm Business Support Centre for Farm CEOs - Benin Republic

September 15, 2015

COMING SOON: Best Practice Farm Business Support Centre for Farm CEOs - Benin Republic. This centre will be based on a piece of land to be purchased in Benin Republic (tentatively in the Seme border town area). It will... 1. Provide real world relevant findings from pilot scale performance improvement trials in least cost Feed […]

Career Development

People With Skills and Entrepreneurial Savvy Achieve Financial Success Easier and Faster [ Recommended: Omowale Ola's Foundation for Skills Development - FSD]

September 12, 2015

“It should be encouraging to know that practically all the great fortunes began in the form of compensation for personal services, or from the sale of ideas. What else, except ideas and personal services, would one not possessed of property have to give in return for riches?” – Napoleon Hill People with USEFUL SKILLS, who […]

Entrepreneurship

Network Marketing is Globally Proven: Why I Won't Do It In Nigeria

September 5, 2015

2 months ago (after highlighting it in my new audio DVD as a globally proven channel for Passive Income Generation), I began investigating various Network (or Multi-Level) Marketing opportunities in Nigeria's Lagos, by attending meetings and interviewing individual members. Sadly, what I've so far seen is 80% discouraging...which by MY standards is BAD! REASON: Heavy […]

Career Development

Achieving Financial Freedom - Why What You Learnt In School May NOT Be Enough...& What You Need to LEARN [Text Transcript Excerpts from Tayo Solagbade's MP3 Podcast]

September 3, 2015

[Text Transcript Excerpts from Tayo Solagbade's MP3 Podcast] Achieving Financial Freedom - Why What You Learnt In School May NOT Be Enough...& What You Need to LEARN === Starts=== "...How many teachers do you know that are millionaires? This is something I ask my kids all the time. I am not wasting any time at […]

General

Valuable Parenting Lesson from Doughnuts History (Hint: True story that proves it pays to let our kids use their creativity in helping us out)

August 28, 2015

We love eating doughnuts: they are delicious! But how many of us know that the first doughnuts (made "waaaay" back in the mid 1800s) NEVER had holes in them...and that they ended up not cooking thoroughly, and were NOT so tasty, as a result?? Do YOU know why doughnuts have holes in them? If no, […]

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