Yesterday was a wonderful day for me. Remember the US NGO I talked about in my April 1 post, that Catchafire.org matched me with, to train their staff on Microsoft Excel. Well the first phase of the training happened on Monday, and the feedback I got yesterday was awesome. The training coordinator was extremely happy and sent me the second best mail I have gotten this month (second ...
In life, the most important metric/KPI is steady long term growth. It applies to every aspect of our lives. The richest farmers are not the ones cultivating maize and beans, plants that produce quick gain and finish their life-cycle in a year. No. The richest farmers are the ones cultivating Cocoa, Rubber tree and Palm trees. Trees that grow slowly and almost forever. Even in the ...
Yesterday, I met with someone a friend recommended I meet. He, like me, recently quit his job to start an Excel Consulting and Training Business. He's way more knowledgeable on the market trends and opportunities than me, having being in the training industry for a long time before going on his own. And the one thing he assured me was that the market is huge and we all can thrive without ...
I’ve finally fixed my fixed my confusion. I’m going to build my business slowly. Making sure that I don’t replicate my previous work-life. What’s the use of being on my own if it’s to build another 9 – 5 life for myself and to join the rat race from the sideline. Why should I be in a hurry when I know so little and am bound to make lots of mistakes. Why should I be in a hurry when I’ve ...
Today's Excel special post is on menus. Helping you make sense of the Excel menus, using Excel 2010 for illustration. I chose Excel 2010 because it's extremely similar to Excel 2007, and understanding it will make Excel 2013 not hard to understand. So here we go. We've got Home menu, Insert menu, Page Layout menu, Formula menu, Data menu, Review menu and View menu. There is one more ...
I'm now enjoying the biggest benefit of being on my own: time to attend those weekday events I couldn't while working a full-time job. Two weeks ago, I registered for a Windows Applications Development bootcamp. A week long event. And this week is the event week. A senior engineer from Microsoft USA is handling the entire training, and it has been very intensive. The result -- I'm ...
One of the benefits of being openly social online and offline is that you stop bothering about one single person. Hearing people's honest personal opinions of you almost everyday, via emails or face-to-face conversations, makes you a lot less sensitive and a lot more predictive. And you'll not only realize than sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but that sometimes it rains. That ...
I remember my first serious use of Excel, I struggled with typing anything into Excel. Making corrections were a nightmare. And the worst was when what I typed was longer than the cell width/space. Then, working on Excel was my surest way of getting frustrated. And today's post is for people who are at that frustration phase. Where you can't seem to understand how Excel handles your data. ...
On Wednesday I bumped into a beautiful friend at Genesis Deluxe Cinema, The Palms, Lekki. She was surprised. But I wasn't; I'm always bumping into people. So she had the Captain America 2 movie ticket and it was showing in about 30 mins time. The last time I had gone to the movies with a friend was in 2011. Friends. Two lovely Kenyans. And I sat in the middle. So I bought the Captain America ...
I can now say I'm full-time into web programming. Or is there a more appropriate way to describe spending over 8 hours a day reading and practicing web programming? image: lockergnome.com It has not been fun. Some of the books I'm reading give me headache. Reading the life stories of full-time web developers online has assured me that it's a long arduous journey to becoming ...
First of all, Happy Easter! I hope you are enjoying the 4 days weekend. Me, I have been reading all the programming books I bought, spending as much as 10 hours at a stretch oscillating between reading and dozing. Most programmers are terrible writers. The one who wrote the book I spent the better part of Friday reading wrote the book like a manual, a very boring manual. When I finally ...
We've all experienced that unpleasant feeling that comes upon us when we see someone doing much less than us getting more glory than we think fair. Until this month, I used to be immune to that feeling. I grew that immunity like we do to measles. I was initially overwhelmed by it. I knew lots of people getting more for less, compared to me. And a few that made me feel God was unfair. ...
In today's post I'll be showing an easy professional way of making Pie Charts and Column Charts in Excel. (The steps here will work fine for Office 2007 and 2010) Pie Chart is very easy to make in Excel. We’ll be making one from a fictitious population table. Here is the Excel file with our charts already made. In making Pie Charts, always have your values sorted, and ...
Necessity is the mother of all innovations. And since resigning my job, I've found innovative ways of cutting down on my living expenses. image: familymint.com For about 2 years and 5 months till April 4 2014, I had been eating out at only Chicken Republic, KFC, Barcelos, Georges, Kilmanjaro, TFC, Sweet Sensation, Bukha Hut, and, when they are the only ones around, Tantalizers ...
I'm not talking about running a business in Nigeria. I have little experience about that. I'm talking about all the processes (or should I say all the stresses) you will go through to take your business from an unregistered idea to one registered with CAC and having a corporate account. It is almost 6 months since I registered my company as a Limited Liability Company with CAC, and I'm still struggling to get a corporate account. Now don't take this as the usual; I'm probably the only one experiencing ...
Excel lets you lock some part of the Excel sheet so that they never scroll out of view. Normally, you’ll want to do this for the header of a long table (a table with hundreds of rows). So that as you keep scrolling down to the last row, the header row is always visible. It’s a very useful feature and is known as Freezing Panes. It’s located under View menu. It ...
Not many of you know that I'm writing a novel: Akin Smith. It's a project I began in October 2012. My goal with the novel is the share with the world the Lagos I grew up in and the hidden beauty it has. The beautiful dandelions and lotus that are often overlooked. To take the reader on a journey through Lagos with the aid of a 13 year old guide, Akin Smith. The novel was inspired by Vikas Swarup's award winning novel, Q & A. Last year I sent an excerpt from the book to Farafina, the publisher ...
