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Friday, May 26, 2017

4 PROVEN STEPS TO KICKSTART YOUR DREAMS TODAY-AN EBOOK BY ADAEZE CHIANUMBA OKEZIE

Adaeze Chianumba Okezie

Adaeze Chianumba Okezie, a Life Coach and Dream Strategist, who has helped individuals and youths maximize their talents and overcome self-doubt, has detailed 4 proven steps you can take to accomplish your dreams in her newly published eBook- KICKSTART YOUR DREAMS: 4 Proven Steps To Do It.




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Sunday, May 21, 2017

14 STRATEGIES EVERY ASPIRING ENTREPRENEUR NEED TO DEVELOP

Africa's Richest Man, Aliko Dangote


What are the skills required of every aspiring and young entrepreneur in the world where unemployment is gradually phasing out? In a society where education hardly rewards those who passed through it with a good, well –paying job, what are the strategies every aspiring entrepreneur need to cultivate?
Entrepreneurship is a practical concept where the entrepreneur, businessperson or starter   identifies an opportunity, acts on it and converts it into a money-yielding venture, nurturing the business till it becomes a large empire. The business history of all successful companies, business corporations and conglomerates indicates a common line of skills possessed by the founders. Emeka Agbo Blog, in their quest to promote the spirit of entrepreneurship while alleviating the rate of unemployment and youths dependency, clearly expound the skills and strategies successful entrepreneurs employ in building their businesses. If you are an aspiring or a young entrepreneur, you need to cultivate the following expertise.
  

  • ·        Be Sensitive to Opportunities
 

This is the very first skill every aspiring entrepreneur needs to develop- the ability to detect opportunities. Founders of successful companies today were and remain sensitive to opportunities that come their way. This remarkable ability gives them an edge over others. And most importantly, they do not wait for opportunities, they embark on a journey to search for it, and sometimes they create the opportunity themselves.


  • ·        Don’t Just Identify - Act on Those Opportunities
 

Results are not gotten at the identification stage. Entrepreneurs get their upshots when they act. Entrepreneurship process does not just start with pinpointing an opportunity. In fact, even non entrepreneurs can still develop skill no 1, but acting on those opportunities to produce results separates an entrepreneur from non-entrepreneurs. You must act on opportunities to produce your desired results!
    






  •     Know How Long to Persist and When to Quit 

Is quitting actually in the negative connotation? The answer is an emphatic NO for an entrepreneur.  Quitting can be considered to be positive at one point and negative at another point. Entrepreneurs tend to be more reluctant to quit a project because they have envisioned the outcome right before they embark on it. If they are getting the wrong results, it could only be they have not done it the right way. The most important thing is that entrepreneurs know when best to quit. They are ever persistent and when it’s the right time to press the Quit button, they would certainly do. If you desire to be an entrepreneur, persistency should be your watchword while you know the right time to quit.
 

  • ·        Be Passionate about your Ideas
 

Passion is the burning desire of every entrepreneur that makes their ideas come to reality. Passion is the fuel that propels every entrepreneur to success. Entrepreneurs are very fanatical about their ideas and therefore are driven to the point of its realization despite whatever challenges that might come their way. If you are not zealous about your idea, there is every possibility you will fall off the track on your journey to success.


  • ·        Be Conscious of Goal Accomplishments

Entrepreneurs are excellent goal getters. They set goals; and never fail to accomplish their goals.  They must always have targets on the short, medium and long term basis. Entrepreneurs understand the need for the different goal strategies. The long term goals are a compounded sum of both the short and medium term goals. The essence of setting up your short term goals is to enable you meet up with your overall targets for the year or any designed period you set, and then examine your success from time to time through the short term goals.  If you really want to become an entrepreneur, you must set goals and check your progress from time to time through the accomplishments of the short term targets.


  • ·        You must Have Inner Motivations
 

Just like passion, entrepreneurs have motivations that flow from within. This motivation constantly energizes and empowers them to work. Even when their friends, family members, colleagues or non-human factors tend to discourage them, they feel motivated from inside and therefore never lose sight of where they are going. Have and maintain inner motivations; they keep you moving especially at the point of startups when you have limited resources at your disposal to work with.


  • ·        You Must Take Calculated Risks
 

Entrepreneurs are not gamblers. They do not stumble or surge into investments haphazardly. They study and make proper analysis of any investment they want to embark on, and understand all the risks involved and possibly minimize them before flying into the investment. Meanwhile, they are not afraid of losing should the investment yield negative results and they are never discouraged if the outcome does not favor them. If you desire to become an entrepreneur, you do not have to take risks, instead you take calculated risks! That’s the difference between entrepreneurs and gamblers.


  • ·        Be Empathic about the Needs of the People in Your Environment
 

Entrepreneurs succeed because they identify people’s needs and problems and desire to solve them. This theory is what has created the wealth of every successful person in the world all over. It doesn’t matter the class, race or religion of people whose needs or problems you are solving. So long as you constantly provide solutions to them, you have your business continually growing beyond limits.


  • ·        Be  Conscious of Time
 

“Time is money” is a very important axiom every aspiring entrepreneur must absolutely digest and understand. If you are aiming to become an entrepreneur, you must understand the value of your time. Money is a proportionate function of time. Don’t waste your time on things that would not grow your business idea, otherwise you will sit down someday only to start counting your losses.


  • ·        Think outside the Box
 

Entrepreneurs never run out of ideas. They think outside the box and bring ideas into reality. They know the right solution to every problem and must always confront problems as challenges-without complaining. In other words, they solve problems, they do not compound problems. Every aspiring entrepreneur must develop the ability to think outside the box whenever the need arises. Your ability to bring solutions to problems that do not seem to have solutions sets you apart from your competitors.


  • ·        You must be Innovative
 

Innovation keeps every entrepreneur relevant. If you aren’t innovative enough in your field, there is every tendency that your competitors will overtake and crush you. Being innovative is not just important, it is absolutely obligatory. Your ability to add a strikingly positive difference to your products and/or services keeps you outstanding amidst your counterparts in the same field.


  • ·        Build and Maintain your Self-Confidence
 

The need for confidence in the life of every aspiring entrepreneur cannot be over-emphasized.   Confidence is one of the important elements that sell you to your clients. You must be as confident as possible to inspire success towards your way. Confidence gives you the illusion of positivity- and which actually creates the progressive results you need. Confidence is what keeps you ahead of others and make you win the contracts against your rivals. Confidence does not entail arrogance; it signifies superiority, belief in yourself and in your capability, the self-assurance of your abilities.  Confidence is quite intimidating to your competitors and makes them give way for you even before you arrive. Develop that feeling of superiority and watch how successful your journey to the world of entrepreneurship would be.



  • ·        Hunt for and Act on Information
 

Information is a very valuable resource every entrepreneur should not just hunt for but act on. The difference between a successful man and a failure is the degree of information both had. And fortunately, the internet is filled with an unending library of knowledge. This is where I always emphasize the importance of reading. If you are aspiring to become an entrepreneur, constant use of the internet to acquire valuable and timely information in your area of expertise shall make you exceptional in your sector. A large amount of information at your disposal means enormous volume of knowledge that would be useful to your business. 


  • ·        Be Self-Disciplined


The bridge that connects your goal and its accomplishment remains discipline. It is very necessary every entrepreneur disciplines oneself  if one is to be successful. To be hard-working entails discipline. Results are not gotten at the planning stage. They are always gotten when you execute them. It takes discipline to turn plans into actions, to turn thoughts and ideas into realities. Only when you imbibe the attitude of discipline would you be able to execute your plans successfully as an entrepreneur.


Article Written By Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Eminent Agbo
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Sunday, May 14, 2017

12 REASONS WHY 21st CENTURY MARRIAGES CRASH SHORTLY AFTER THE UNION



Wondering why marriages of 21st century fail shortly after the union? Marriage is an institution most men and ladies love to enrol into someday. It is one of those achievements every person is looked up to fulfill or achieve at a certain stage in their life except for the monks, the Rev’d Fathers and Sisters.  As a matter of fact, when a person passes this stage without getting married, he or she is viewed by the society as being irresponsible or a nonentity without minding the success the person might have recorded in other walks of life. According to Abraham Maclow’s theory of hierarchy of needs, humans desire to love and be loved; to find a life companion at a particular period of their life and reproduce their own kinds. This is what drive people to be initiated  into the cult of marriage. Every Saturday, churches and mosques are filled with friends and family members as witnesses amidst partners who agreed to be united forever in holy matrimony.  After the celebration, the newly married couple joyfully moves into their home, hoping to cling to each other happily while taking the breath of marital bliss.  It is however unfortunate that the nuptial flights of 21st century marriages suddenly crash months and few years after the union, thereby leading to a skyrocketed cases of divorce in our society today. The society, while wondering why the trend is on a rising scale, seems to have neglected the jeopardizing situation to the detriment of little children who would inevitably suffer the pain of being brought up under a single parent or in some cases, under no parental care.  In other to minimizethese high cases of divorce, Emeka Agbo Blog hereby presents 12 reasons why 21stcentury marriages fail.


  •      Lack of commitment to the marriage


The significant differences between the marriages of our forefathers and those of 21st century are love and commitment. While our forefathers placed more values on commitments, 21st century generation of couples site greater importance on love. But unfortunately, love does not keep two different persons together even though we are told that two plus two is always equal to 1 during weddings. Commitment does the magic. While love only helps to bring the couple together, commitment keeps them together forever.  Our forefathers never married based on love. In fact, they never know what love is all about. Love is simply an invention of the 21st century youths which crazily drive them into marriage only to tear them apart sooner than later as love fades in the face of marital realities without commitment. Commitment was what held our parents together even during temptations. Commitment entails loyalty to each other and to the marriage. This is significantly absent in most 21st century marriages.

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  •    Much Emphasis on Tele-dating


Tele-dating is another invention of the 21st century youths especially since the advent of Social Media.  It is the situation whereby partners date each other from a distance communicating through social networks.  Such partners hardly take time to know each other one-on-one as they constantly communicate through social media thereby giving them the illusion of being with each other. In reality, they are far from each other and so never have the chance to display their true attitudes completely.  Thus, if  the man choose to propose during this phase without both learning each other very well, problem might ensue later as the only place where they have to start the learning process happens to be in the marriage already and in such cases, any negative vices could be too hard to be tolerated forcing either  or both parties to file for divorce. The remedy is “don’t restrict your courtship to tele-dating, endeavor to know each other in person before the proposal.


  • Feelings of Insecurity


Insecurity is the negative notion of not being psychologically and emotionally relaxed with your spouse.  The feeling that he or she could be snatched away from you by someone better than you. Insecurity is not just a problem limited to marriage. It is also exhibited in relationships, courtship and dating. Partners who have low self-esteem may consider ending it as soon as they notice they aren’t secured in the union.  When you notice your partner has that feeling of insecurity, firstly find out what the cause is, and strive to solve the problem. Give him or her assurance that you are with her no matter the degree of temptations that come your way. This will build the partner’s faith and trust in you the more. And if you are always insecure in your union, work more to improve your self-esteem. High self-esteem gives insecurity a good run.


  •     Constant Misunderstanding



No matter the degree of love between a couple, faultfinding issues where they might disagree sometimes must always arise. The ability of the partners to resolve their issues cordially demonstrates the level of maturity both have. Marriages crash because both parties fail to understand themselves. When there is constant misunderstanding, the tendency is for them to feel mismatched with each other and the next is divorce.



  •   Negligence of for Better for Worse Ideology




During weddings, the groom and his bride are joined on the basis of for better for worse creed. But their inability to adjust positively when the marriage moves towards the negative axis is quite a big cause of divorce.  The couple may happily live with each other, enjoying the euphoria of marital ecstasy, but forgetting the promises they made to each other at the altar as soon as the marriage strikes insurmountable challenges. Such cases arise because 21st century youths marry on the basis of material possessions or body beauty. The question intending partners should always ask themselves and answer honestly is, would their marriage be able to withstand the tides if it turns out worse?


  • Lose of Values for Each Other


21st century marriages hit the rocks because either or both parties lose values for each other months after the union.  The initial values somet intending partners place on each other during their courtship is transient and typically out of pretence. This situation arises due to the multi-dating philosophies of 21st century youths. A person, prior to marriage, may have dated a manifold number of ladies or men who are of higher class than his or her current spouse. This would limit the values they place on anybody they finally settled down with and therefore cause problems to arise in the marriage. Compare this situation to the marriages of our grandfathers and grandmothers, who never practised multi-dating and so have great regards for their husbands and wives. If marriages of 21st century are to be secured, there is every need that we observe the single-man-single-lady courtship system of our forefathers; and not the case of pick-and-drop or trial-and-error methods of pre-marital affairs youths of nowadays repeatedly engage in till they reach their final bus stop.  While courtship has the intention of learning the partner’s characters for adjustment and tolerance, dating has the sole purpose of picking and dumping a partner with the plan of marrying someone else in the future.


  •   Forceful Attempt to change a Spouse in the Marriage


Humans are habitual beings. Our personality is the sum-total of the attitudes and characters we imbibed while growing up from childhood to adulthood. While we somehow unlearned some of these habits, others have preponderated out lifestye that we can hardy hide them or even pretend they aren’t part of us. However, partners are likely to hide their characters and attitudes during courtship which eventually shows up months after the union has been instituted. Any forceful attempt by one of the spouses to change the other’s attitudes would always result in chaos in the marriage. The only solution in this case is tolerance- though gently effecting the change through a round table discussion.



  • Disregard of the Romantic Lifestyles after Marriage


Humans are naturally romantic and couples need romance as much as they need food. Good romance spices up their marriage, and regularly releases the hormones that make them yearn, crave, long and hanker for each other even when they are physically apart. Worthy to note that this is probably what kept them together during courtship and so the same that bring them together into the institution of  marriage.  But in situations where both or either party feel reluctant about being romantic enough in the marriage, it kills the joy of the union and the partners may start losing interest in each other. This coud result in either or both partners embarking on a search for a more romantic person-which would inevitably tear the marriage apart.


  •                        Social Media Illusion


Most of the news, updates and posts we read on Social Media from married couples, singles, and dating partners are as misleading as the authors themselves.  They tend to create the illusion that they are in a perfect relationships or marriage and that they married the most perfect person across the globe. But behind the scene, they suffer the worst relationships or marriage. This creates the bad illusion that marriage is a paradise; thereby misleading many young people into marriage. Unfortunately, the outcome never meets their expectations!


  •                      Third Party Interference


The request of third parties such as friends, family members or work colleagues to give advice on some issues in your marriage is quite jeopardizing. Third parties like friends may eventually get jealous of the prosperity of the marriage. Who knows if they aren’t nursing any intention of destroying the marriage not known to either or both parties? And their advice could gear up towards tearing the marriage apart. Even parents do not completely resolve issues amicably between their children.  It should be the duty of both spouses to look into their marriage and know where to actually amend, and do the amendments themselves. No matter how hard it is, swallow your pride and do everything to secure your marriage from the hands of intruders.  He who is inside a building best knows where it is leaky.  You may be taking the exit door off your marriage if you constantly invite third parties to resolve issues for you.

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    Indifference to Responsibilities
            



Marriage isn’t just an achievement. It is the unreserved acceptance of full responsibilities for the needs of your spouse and the product of the marriage (children). When this is found wanting in marriages, there is every tendency for divorce to take place.  Before you put on the marital garments, endeavor to know the responsibilities in the marriage and be ready to observe them. Otherwise you may end up moving towards the circumference of the marriage arena, and eventually get divorced.


.     Forfeiture of Pre-marital Research
 

Pre-marital research is the kind of enquiries families of the intending couple embark on as soon as they get to know about their children’s intention to marry each other. Such research is always directed to the nearby people, household or neighbors who know the families very well. It is always a two sided process-as both families embark on this research independently without letting the other family know about it. No matter the degree of disparity between cultures, religion or tribal backgrounds, both families never neglect this as the outcome serves to determine whether the intending partners should go ahead and realize their dreams or not.  This research usually reveals the presence or absence of genetically transmittable ailments such as madness, and some other vices like stealing.  Once such vices or ailments are discovered earlier, the marriage is canceled and both parties go their separate ways early enough before they are united.
This culture of pre-marital research has long been forsaken by our 21st century youths- as they always get carried away by the bliss of pre-,marital love that is always too weak to keep them together when such vices or ailments start manifesting itself at some point in the marriage.
Youths should be encouraged to find out about the family backgrounds and prevailing ailments of the family they are going into before the proposal is made or consented to. Otherwise, be ready to endure the consequences; after all that’s what genuine love is all about.

Article written by Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Eminent Agbo
A Motivational Speaker, a Content Writer, a Blogger and a Digital Marketer

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