Archives Tag: Success
4 Pitfalls to Avoid as a Start-Up Entrepreneur
April 19, 2022
We know that a significant percentage of new businesses do fail, even when failure is the last thing anyone wants to focus on when starting up as an entrepreneur. However, having these common pitfalls in mind will enable you to prepare against them and build your business faster. 1. STARTING FOR THE WRONG REASONS If … Continue reading 4 Pitfalls to Avoid as a Start-Up Entrepreneur
5 Elements of a Winning Game Plan
April 19, 2022
Life has been likened to so many things with different people describing it in different ways. In the context of this article, life is a GAME. Definitions Note: The definitions of ‘game’ and ‘game plan’ as used in this article are contextual. A Game is a structured activity usually undertaken for fulfillment. Fulfillment here means to meet … Continue reading 5 Elements of a Winning Game Plan
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Why Is Talent Never Enough?
April 19, 2022
Talent and skill are often misunderstood by many people. Some talented people erroneously believe they will get to the top on account of their talent alone and many people who have potential for success consider themselves ‘talentless’ and have admitted defeat even before they try. What is talent and what makes it different from skill? … Continue reading Why Is Talent Never Enough?
Failing Forward – So You Didn’t Make a Desmond?
April 19, 2022
Are you a Damien, Billy, Desmond or Thora? If you’re a Damien, Billy or Desmond, then congratulations to you. This article though is for all the Thora’s among us. Now before you think we may have lost our marbles, we recently found out that these names are used to describe degree classifications based on rhyming slang of the surnames of some famous people. … Continue reading Failing Forward – So You Didn’t Make a Desmond?
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Are You Chasing The Wrong Dream?
April 19, 2022
Have you been in a situation where you have got a dream that must be achieved and so you put energy and time into this dream to make it a reality? However as time passes, your energy keeps waning, your motivation is fluctuating – you are losing focus and then you wonder what made you … Continue reading Are You Chasing The Wrong Dream?
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2015: The Year of Small Things!
April 19, 2022
Welcome to 2015. It’s the start of what I’ll like to call a year of small things. Maybe not in the sense you might want to agree with, but in the facts that our National Income for the year may have been halved as a result of the country’s dwindling oil revenue. A second sense … Continue reading 2015: The Year of Small Things!
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5 Things You Need to Understand About Failure
April 19, 2022
Your perspective of failure is a great determinant of success. When you encounter some form of setback, you need to see the bigger picture instead of judging events and situations that occur in your life independently. Change your perception of failure. Have a different perspective towards it. This perspective will lead to perseverance. Perseverance brings … Continue reading 5 Things You Need to Understand About Failure
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Motivational Monday: What Determines Success
April 19, 2022
It is often said that talent, passion, and skills are the determining factors for a successful life or career. To an extent, that is very correct. To succeed at anything, we need a healthy dose of skills and passion. This will give you the required tools to work on a project, start a business or … Continue reading Motivational Monday: What Determines Success
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Increase Your Productivity By Kicking Self Sabotage
April 19, 2022
A lot of times, we have projects we want to execute, business ideas to implement, and goals to achieve. We may want to start a business, take up a new vocation, learn a language, travel somewhere or learn a new skill. Sometimes, we never start or finish a project either due to unforeseen circumstances, or in … Continue reading Increase Your Productivity By Kicking Self Sabotage
By amina-salau
Not Good At Setting Goals? Try This Instead
April 19, 2022
Studies have shown that a larger percentage of people who set goals or make New Year’s resolutions fail to achieve them. A lot of resolutions do not go past the first few weeks after they were made. How many times have you personally made a resolution and totally abandoned it half way? The inability … Continue reading Not Good At Setting Goals? Try This Instead
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3 Things To Know About Goals
April 19, 2022
What do you want? New car? New job? A raise in salary? Whatever it is, merely wishing for these wants to become a reality is not enough. We need to set GOALS. Goals are the end to which effort is directed. Without goals, our efforts at creating the life we’ve always dreamed of are nothing … Continue reading 3 Things To Know About Goals
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Monday Motivation: Turning Potential Into Real Success
April 19, 2022
Everyone has the potential to be someone great or to do something great. As an entrepreneur, an employer of labour, or a manager; you might be tempted to think people working with you or ‘under’ you are mere tools to achieve your day to day organizational results, and while this might be true to an … Continue reading Monday Motivation: Turning Potential Into Real Success
Your Deepest Fear
April 19, 2022
The concept of self-love is very difficult for most people to adopt. While some have been misguided by the fact that self-love is vain and selfish, others are searching for it helplessly. The journey to self-love though attainable, is full of many obstacles and can only be dared by the brave. So what is … Continue reading Your Deepest Fear
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The Most Important Success Secret You Will Ever Learn
April 19, 2022
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. –Stephen Covey The gospel of smart work has been preached far and wide, and has stirred up many debates, but how exactly do you master it? You may have heard the saying, ‘work smart, not hard’ and wondered what it really means. … Continue reading The Most Important Success Secret You Will Ever Learn
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Motivational Monday: 3 Things to Keep in Mind as You Succeed
April 19, 2022
It’s a great place to be; your hard work and dedication are finally paying off, and you’re on your way up the ladder. You will do well to keep these 3 things in mind: 1. Stay humble: One of the things top professionals will have you know is that you can’t let success go … Continue reading Motivational Monday: 3 Things to Keep in Mind as You Succeed
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