Tag: goals
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Caught Between Your Dream and Your Job
This title is inspired by a book I read last year – ‘Caught Between A Job And A Dream by Delatoro McNeal’, a writer and motivational speaker I admire. According to a survey done in the US on job satisfaction prior to the release of the book, more than 87% of Americans hate their jobs.…
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The Role of Financial Goals in Financial Housekeeping
It is a natural tendency to default to a comfort zone or follow the path of least resistance. This is the main reason narrows is the road to the fulfillment of dreams, and the few that follow it, the minority that controls the majority of the abundance of the earth. Remaining disciplined is not a…
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Mid Year Review – Getting Back on Track on Your Goals
We are now halfway through the year, and it is very tempting to look at the lost time, throw your hands up in the air, and throw in the towel. It is not over until you decide to call it a day. The key ingredient is your commitment to that goal. Is it a burning…
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The Secret to Achieving Your Goals and Dreams
We often set our annual goals under the flush of an inspirational new year sermon we just heard on defining how we want our year to turn out, our year of … We unearth our long-abandoned desires, brush them up, and bingo, we have our goals for the year. It takes more than a desire…
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Mid Year Review: How Are Your Goals Looking?
The year is breasting the halfway mark and it is about time to pause and take stock of the journey so far. New Year’s resolutions have earned a bad reputation due to high failure rates. To make one feel better, some folks have changed the terminology to Annual Goals. Whatever appellation it goes with, if…
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Become a Selling Shareholder – The Ultimate Investor
Lesson 7 from Lessons From Our Last Nigerian Stock Market Fiasco The dream of every professional investor is to become the ultimate investor – a selling shareholder. Instead of buying and selling shares, you create the shares and sell them to interested investors or to the investing public through an Initial Public Offer (IPO). To…
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Expand Your Planning Horizon
When it comes to finance and investment, most folks plan for the short term, what they can see and benefit from here and now. The effect is that many factors are not considered in the decision-making process, thereby degrading the quality of the decision, resulting in poor decision-making and avoidable losses. One key aspect that…
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Faith, Focus and Follow-through (FFF)
As we bid goodbye to 2009 and fine-tune our goals for 2010, I want to share a few nuggets that will stand us in good stead in the coming year, as we seek to improve on our planned outcomes compared to the passing year. We may have realized by now that wishes and prayers alone…
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As We Prepare to Bid 2009 Farewell
There can be no happy new year, without a happy new you. You simply have to change, end of story. If you remain the same, same mindset, same outlook, same modus operandi, you get same results. Nothing will change, no matter how many colourful stickers you accumulate. Garbage in, garbage out. It is the law.…
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Finding Motivation and Inspiration 2
A Tale of Five Cities Consider five folks, a random sample from a motivational and inspirational seminar by an established master in the field. Let’s call them participants A, B, C, D, and E. They all walk away with goose pimples and a determination to create the world so vividly painted for them at the…