The Problem with New Year Resolutions

Getting our finances in shape is the usual suspect when it comes to New Year Resolutions alongside doing something about our weight and maybe relationships, depending on how things pan out in that department. New Year Resolutions have become the butt of jokes due to its notorious failure rate. Very few achieve the goals elegantly [...]

Turning Your Passion into Profit

Having been brought up to go to a good school, get good grades and get a good job, it may be a challenge to believe we can do what they really love, and make money doing it. We generally think in terms of getting a good job and making a good living. More often than [...]

Towards a Fantastic 2013

How was your 2012? For many, it was the worst year of their lives. For others it was so so, or somehow okay and for some, it was fantastic. For me, it was the best year of my life. It wasn’t the best due to the absence of setbacks or personal tragedy. I had my [...]

Winning the New Year Resolution War

Have you ever set goals and failed to achieve them, especially the variety that we make after Christmas? You are in good company. Making several attempts at a goal and falling short can be demoralizing. After a while, you start to feel it is mission impossible. You learn to live with the present, until you [...]

Attaining Financial Freedom: The Enemy Within

The biggest limiting factor we face when it comes to attaining financial independence and freedom is our self limiting beliefs, belief systems, dis-empowering internal dialogues, low self esteem and the conclusion that we cannot achieve it. We listen to our minds tell us the lie that because we tried and failed several times in the [...]

Be True to Yourself

Money is a tool to accomplish purpose. It is not your purpose. It is expendable. It is a consumable, like toilet paper, washing up liquid, drinking water, welding electrodes, stationery, you name it. When you are working in an office, you do not focus on the stationery or other consumables. You simply reach for it [...]

Wrap Your Business Around Your Passion

By Ola Emmanuel When people call on God for financial blessings, he may not answer by raining down naira. Naira is only the currency of Nigerian economy, not heaven’s currency. A good response from God may be a release of ideas or giving of special ability, talent, or skills to do certain things uniquely and [...]

Your Money Or Your Life

I remember a joke a while back made at the expense of a certain tribe in Nigeria based on the public perception of their love for money. A trader from this part of the country was attacked by armed robbers and he refused to let go of his briefcase full of cash. The robbers became [...]

Achieving Financial Freedom in Times of Financial Turbulence

Following the news nowadays can get quite depressing. It seems what qualifies as news worthy is news of the disaster variety. They come in different shapes and forms – job losses, corruption in high and low places, economic downturn, terrorist attacks, you name it. As the business climate seems to get more hostile, we tend [...]

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