Today is the last day of the year and to appreciate you all for your comments and mails, I'll be sharing with you a Goal tracker. It's a modified edition of my Exercise tracker and it has all the calendar dates in year 2014. It's a very cool way to keep track of your success regarding a new year resolution or a daily goal you want to achieve. It has a very beautiful design and will work ...
"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them." George Bernard Shaw. image: candb.com Most people do not see beyond the present. All they see when they look at a baby is a helpless child. They do not see the future. Once they form an opinion about you, ...
"Are you sure this is Coconut Rice? I can't see any coconut in it." image: melvinchong.com Yeah. Mistakes are the stepping stones to learning. Everyday, I see people who are trying hard to not make a blunder. I see them at The Palms, extremely self-conscious. I see them in professional training classes, never volunteering to do anything or even ask a question. I see them ...
The greatest tragedy in life is not being without a dream. I repeat: the greatest tragedy in life is not being without a dream. The greatest tragedy in life is leaving like a robot, not stretching your creative capability. And that is very different from not having a dream. While growing up my dream was to become a geek, someone with supercool computer skills. The 4:00pm cartoons ...
As this year rolls to an end, these last 4 days present us with a great opportunity to reflect on the entire year: expectations met and expectations left dangling, promises made and promises received, gifts taken and gifts given, pleasant surprises and unpleasant ones, successes and failures, and best of all -- the memories. Yeah. The memories. image: suhanijain.com See ...
Willy Loman was right, "being liked" is a key to success and the all you need is "a smile and a shoeshine." For me, always having a smile on my face has turned me to the most liked guy at my workplace, both at my current job and previous job. It has turned me into a favorite customer at most of the restaurants I frequent. It has turned me to the happy-face guy at most social events ...
I was once at Oshodi, late at night, and an Omoota (a ruffian that lives off the street) was trying to rob me. In the end, he gave me back my phone and said, "Sha take your phone. We be the same." I couldn't believe my ears. You could have taken us for two different human species -- me, in my professor-like specs and dressed like I work in a bank; and him, well he was just like the other ...
I have friends who are always getting confused by the myriad of options they have to pick from when all they want to buy is just a good smartphone. They look at the sea of smartphones available and become overwhelmed. Then they call me and ask for my opinion. So today, I will be sharing the simple trick I use when making an electronic gadget purchase. They are based on these ...
Update (6-Jan-2014): I have done for Julius Berger, Dangote Cement, Nestle, GSK, Total Nigeria, PZ, Unilever, Dangote Sugar, Dangote Salt (NASCON) and Oando. Next will be Japaul, Okomu Oil and the banks. I have also added new ratio analysis: ROIC, Operating Profit Margin, New Cash Flow as a % of Rev, ROA, ROE, Interest Income as a % of Rev and Income tax as a % of Rev. Today I'll be sharing ...
I wanted to put the title as,"How I quit my bad habits." But I couldn't because I have been unable to quit my bad habits. In fact, I believe that my bad habits and good habits chose me. I didn't choose them. And sadly, I have been unable to let go of my big bad habits. Especially keeping in touch with friends and family, which I consider as my biggest bad habit. The only luck I have is ...
Nowadays, the question I get asked most is, "What did you study at the University?" If you look through my PC, you'll see financial statements (annual reports) of Nigerian companies, stock analysis templates, and lots of Excel documents. I have all sorts of Investment and Finance books in my library. I even have Finance college books; books written mainly to teach 3rd year Finance undergraduate ...
Remember my post on Black Swan? Where I mentioned that I have had three different jobs at three different companies (2 multinationals) and none of them came through normal job applications (and I have applied for over a thousand jobs the normal way). Well, in today's post, I'll share the biggest value I have gained from applying to over 1,000 jobs unsuccessfully. Though I don't know why ...
We all know that popular statement: Your network determines your net worth. I wish the statement is not true. It will greatly reduce the chance of people like me having a high net worth. I know all the rules, I just find some of them extremely difficult to do -- image: rccblog.com When you meet a person for the first time, make sure you memorize his name. (I've been successful ...
Today's post is a special one. I'll be sharing my thoughts on the future, what I see happening in Nigeria some years from now. image: futuristspeaker.com Here they are: We are going to be Nigeria's edition of the baby boomers; I mean those of us between the ages 20 and 40. The middle class is expanding aggressively. Nigerians are now coming back home. Every major international ...
“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.” -- Warren Buffett (the world's richest investor, and once the richest man in the world). image: ...
There's a subscription box at the top right corner and another one below this post, if you subscribe to my blog you'll get a daily inspirational/educational article. I keep getting wonderful feedback from people who have subscribed already. And that feedback has been one of the reasons I still write an article per day. image: ipscene.co.uk Here are the other reasons: 1. ...
image: theguardian.com Yeah, you don't need to be smart to be rich. Not convinced? Then look around you; notice the rich people you know. And give me an honest answer -- are they all smart? Even if you use all sorts of definition for smart, they will always be those rich folks who wouldn't meet up. And you know what the say about results? You can't argue with results. If the ...
I work in the switching department of a Telecoms company. Once in a while, the companies that provide us international gateway send us a revised price list of calls to (sometimes) over 13,000 international destinations. And I have to get busy. Today, I'll be sharing a document some of you will find useful. It's the list of countries and their dialing codes. It took me some work to clean it and verify the content. You can download the Excel file here, Country Dialing Codes. Country ...
