2021: Happy New Year
Happy New Year! If you are reading this article, it means that you are among the so many citizens of the world that made it into the year 2021. 2020 was a marathon indeed. Not just a marathon, but a marathon run in the wilderness, filled with great hurdles, red seas, the great wall of […]
4 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Unwind And Recharge During The Holidays
The Christmas holidays present many businesspeople with a chance to rest from a year of business engagements. Like everyone else, entrepreneurs often look forward to this period, as it’s their opportunity to enjoy some time off from work. Read more about Business But it’s not always clear what the best way is to spend the […]
How To Navigate This Coming Holiday Season
The holidays are slowly creeping upon us and if you are broke, fret not. We are many in that boat. Few will leave. More will join us. It is Nigeria and Bubu is still president. Now, I know none of us has been through Christmas in a global pandemic and since all of us […]
How To Achieve Your 2020 Goals
Every year, we set targets for ourselves. We look at what’s lacking in our lives and put forth a list of things we hope to achieve before the year runs out. These targets are in varying forms; behavioural qualities or material in nature. These targets, sometimes are outlandish and look seemingly unattainable due to our […]
How to Beat the January “Slow Business” Trap
For a lot of businesses, January drags along like a snail. Sales slow to a trickle, and cash doesn’t come in as much as they would like. If you’re perceptive enough, you might just about sense the mood of the month hanging over the landscape, and finding expression in the subdued tones with which many […]
New Year Resolutions: What Difference Does it Make?
Personal experience and observation have revealed that New Year resolutions hardly work out perfectly. You would agree with me that many resolutions are broken even before the first month of the year elapses. Perhaps it is the way we have tuned resolutions to be; resolutions do not particularly look like they are practical goals we […]
Business Growth Tip: Engage Customers with New Year Marketing
The skies over our heads were lit with celebratory lights in the early hours of the New Year. Businesses also partake in the fanfare of this ‘ushering into new things’, albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Some host parties; others send out the obligatory ‘Happy New Year’ text messages and emails; and a few just […]
2019: Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! A lot of people usually wait until a new year to set New Year’s Resolutions or to turn a new leaf in their personal or professional lives. According to an Igbo proverb, however, your morning is when you (decide to) wake up. Mgbe onye ji tete bu ụtụtụ ya (Whenever a man […]
What Are You Going To Do Differently in 2019?
Like it began just yesterday, 2018 is almost over. We all have dreams and aspirations. Do you want to go back to school? Do you want to start that business or get that promotion at work? What are you going to do in 2019 to ensure that you move closer to your dreams? What can […]
5 Ways To Crossover to the New Year
In Nigeria, the culture of crossing over is such an important one that people begin celebrating the New Year on December 31, New Year’s Eve. The tradition of counting down the last-minute or final seconds of the year is the highlight of New Year’s Eve. Are you looking for ways to crossover to the new year? Here are five […]
Federal Government Declares Public Holidays
The Federal Government has declared three days as public holidays to celebrate the Christmas season and the New Year. It announced that the 25th of December, which marks Christmas Day, 26th December for Boxing Day and the 1st January, 2018 to celebrate the arrival of a New Year. This was made known through a statement issued on Wednesday by the […]
This Was Supposed to Be the Year!
I remember entering the year with great anticipation! This was supposed to be the year where a lot of my dreams that I had nurtured over the years would finally come true. Once I crossed over to January 1, I was on the clock to launch the ‘Find your niche challenge’, release my book Uplevel, […]
Three Ways to Kickstart Your Productivity in 2017!
Recently, I got to thinking about how I would like 1 January 2018 to look like. Then I worked back to what I would need to get done in 2017 to ensure I hit my target(s). This ‘beginning with the end in mind’ exercise was a great reminder that to have different outcomes in 2017, […]
10 Little Tips for a Productive 2017
Lifestyle changes have been known to produce better results than resolutions. You need to take action each day if you will make progress. Everyone usually looks forward to a better year each time January comes around, but what will you actually do, or do differently, to be productive and achieve more in 2017? Here are […]
How to Kickstart Your Business in the New Year
The previous year may have been an absolute disappointment, or it may have been a hit. Whatever shape it took, there’s always room for improvement, space for greater accomplishments and higher heights to reach. And really, this is the point of continuing in business- you never really come to a stage in which you moan […]
Welcome 2017! Happy New Year
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