Your life is formed by the perspectives and philosophies you adapt, and changing your perspective can create an immediate shift in your life and business. To succeed as an Entreprener you must constantly look for ways to sharpen your perspective. One of the greatest philosophies I’ve learned is from business philosopher, Jim Rohn. He stated in one of his early seminars, “You get paid for bringing value to the marketplace, and if you’re not very valuable you don’t make much money.”
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Imagine this: You are gently roused from sleep by your smart wristband’s vibrating alarm, perfectly timed to ensure you feel the most alert and refreshed. And just before you open your eyes to greet the day, you see your entire schedule in a calendar illuminated on your contact lenses. As you get out of bed and walk to the bathroom, your lab-at-home already knows you weigh 0.2 pounds less this morning than you did 24 hours ago, that your blood analytes indicate you should have skipped last night’s hamburgers and had something healthier instead and that given your levels of serotonin today, you will probably be slightly irritated for the greater part of the a.m. (so try to avoid that annoying colleague today).
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Until Wednesday August 20, nobody was really sure that the 2014 NBA Conference would hold as earlier planned. There had been stringent calls on the leadership of the NBA to cancel or postpone the conference on account of the imminent danger of the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Like other Nigerians, the fear of Ebola by lawyers was the beginning of wisdom and most had decided to stay away from the conference in Owerri. The prognostication was that if one single lawyer with Ebola came into contact with other lawyers at the conference, he would be a vector and veritable agent of transmission to thousands of other lawyers.
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One of the opposition political parties in the country, Allied Congress of Nigeria (ACPN), has said it may be constrained to take legal action to stop the nation-wide campaign for President Goodluck Jonathan by the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN). The party founded by the late politician, Alhaji Olusola Saraki, met yesterday in Abuja to deliberate on the developments in the Nigerian polity, especially its participation in the elections being organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the excessive deployment of security forces during elections.
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A socio-political group made up of young Nigerians across the country, Democratic Young Patriots (DYP), has called on the delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State to support the governorship aspiration of former Lagos State Military Administrator, General Mohammed Buba Marwa, in the interest of the state and the North-east zone. The group in a statement released in Abuja yesterday by its national coordinator, Ariyo-Dare Atoye, said their call was a patriotic duty after assessing the antecedents of all the aspirants already cleared by the PDP leadership to contest the by-election even as they pleaded with President Goodluck Jonathan to show interest in the coming election because of the security situation in the North-east.
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Governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday criticised the federal government’s approach to health care system. The governors, who spoke in in Owerri, the Imo State capital at their third Progressive Governors’ Forum governance lecture series, urged the federal government to put in place proper effort to tackle the many health challenges facing the country in recent times. At the meeting where the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), his Edo and Sokoto States counterparts, Adams Oshiomhole and Aliyu Wamakko, were conspicuously absent for inexplicable reasons, former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenged the federal government to wake up from its slumber and tackle the current health and security challenges.
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Ahead of the 2015 general election, the presidency yesterday claimed that 8,000 groups were now championing the aspiration of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2015 presidential election. Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Prof. Rufai Ahmed Alkali, said this yesterday when the special committee set up to restructure the Goodluck Support Group (GSG), led by Gen. Adamu Ibrahim, submitted its report.
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Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, is set to shut down GSM operations in the state any time from now as a result of new levies on telecoms services. Obianoin a bid to raise its internally generated revenue (IGR), imposed a N750,000 levy per telecoms base station in the state. According to an online news medium, s new base stations are to be levied N700,000 each before operation, while a fine of N1 million will be levied on every defaulting base station. The combined revenue from the levy on the four major service providers from the one-off levy is estimated at N1.5billion.
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Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc has announced a profit before tax of N3.54 billion for the first quarter ended June 30, 2014 showing a decline of 24.5 per cent over N4.69 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2013 The results released to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) showed that its turnover declined to N9.71 billion compared with N10.49 billion in the same period of last year
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The federal government has finally released a sum of N200 million to the Lagos State Government to fight the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The state Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), disclosed this in Ikeja yesterday when MTN Nigeria Limited also donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to the state government.
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