*-----How to Make it Early in Life.------*

Do you wish to make it early in life? Are you in your teens? Early twenties, then this is for you.
How so many people fail to start out early in life, just because they miss this steps I'm gona be listing out here. And for many of us who have already passed the prime ages of our lives we can yet so do much enough never to allow our own kids miss it out also.

1. Do well in school: No matter how boring it is now, education will help you be a productive member in society. Strive for excellence in school; try your best, listen to the teachers, do your homework, study, and get good grades. Doing so will help you get into a better college/university, which will enable you to get a great job in the future. School sets you up on the right track!

2. Do good in your community: Volunteering can not only improve your community's status, it could make you happier. Studies show that people who volunteer are less likely to developdepression and other emotional issues than people who don't. Find volunteer opportunities that interest you, for example, if you love animals,volunteer at an animal shelter. If you like helping people,volunteer at a soup kitchen. If you love helping theenvironment, plant trees or pick up litter. When you help others, it will make youfeel better about yourself. You're making a big difference in the world, and to top it all off, having lots of volunteer hours will look good on your resumé!

3. Figure out your goals in life and work toward them: Start thinking about careers you would like to be in, but make a good choice based on your interests and strengths. This could be your job for the rest of your life! You could also work towards non-career-related goals, such as creating your own fundraiser, getting good grades in school, joining a team sport, etc. Challenge yourself and you'll be surprised what you can accomplish!

4. Don't get into any trouble, legal or otherwise: It could ruin your future plans. Avoid the peer pressure and ditch the cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs. Abide the law and avoid ending up in the back of a police car. If you're being pressured into anything, walk away. If you can avoid these things during your teen years, they're a lot easier to avoid once you're out of high school and away from peer pressure.

5. Be nice to your parents and teachers: Remember, they're there to help you be the best that you can be. Respect them and value their opinions, even if they annoy you sometimes. Keep in mind that they do the things they do because they care about you and want you to succeed in life. You don't get to choose your teachers or your family, but you still have to put up with them. Learn how to deal with people now, because when you're an adult, you don't get to choose your boss or your co-workers, so learn how to respect them now.

6. Have good friends to help you out! Friends are there to support you and lift your spirits. Be with people who make you happy, and ditch the ones who don't. Create a group of supportive, loving friends that can help you succeed in life and live your dreams. Find a few really good friends that will stick with you once you leave high school.

7. Get active! Join a sports team at school or out of school. Go for a run around your neighborhood. Take your dog on a nice, long walk. Join a yoga group, go swimming at the local recreation center, do sit-ups during commercial breaks on TV - anything! Just exercise! It helps you feel better, mentally and physically. Studies show that people who get active in their child/teen years will be more active when they're adults, so start getting active now.

8. Do what you love. Adopt a hobby; reading, writing, sewing, singing, dancing, playing a sport, making pottery, etc. It will pass time and help you develop your personality. Experiment and discover new things; you might be surprised to find that you really like them!

9. Believe in something. Start believing in a cause, whether it is a social or environmental issue, or even a religion. You will start forming your own ideas this way. Form your own opinions and stand by them. Stand up for what you believe is right.

10. Live life to the fullest! You're only young for a short time, and before you know it you'll be an adult that will be lying around saying, "I wish I had done this when I was younger." Be daring, go out into the world and live life! Life is short, so enjoy it while you can.

*------The Importance of Your 20Something Years (2)!-------*

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On the job, they need to calm down and get to work. Because the 20-something brain hasn’t fully matured and is still developing its frontal lobe, which is in charge of overriding emotion with reason, 20-somethings are more sensitive to surprise and criticism, says Jay. Day-to-day events loom larger in their minds. A terse email is taken personally. A boss’s disapproval elicits fear and contempt. Step back and get some perspective, she advises. “You’re not going to be fired because your boss is angry.”

Don’t be fooled: A still-developing brain is not an endorsement for waiting it out, Jay warns. On the contrary, she believes it’s one of a 20-something’s best assets. In the brain’s final growth spurt, learning will never again come so easily. The way you navigate professional landscapes and manage relationships in yours 20s becomes wired into your brain. If you want to change something about yourself, now’s the time to do it.

In the same way Jay cautions against undermining your career trajectory in your 20s, she worries that romantic relationships have also been downgraded to a new level of casualness. Today’s young people marry about five years later than their parents (on average, women at 26 and men at 28), but most will marry. About 75% of Americans are married by 35.

“The upside of marrying later is that we have the potential in our 20s to learn how to have better relationships,” Jay says, “which we can blow by dating around with people we don’t take seriously or living with someone we should never have moved in with.”

Cohabitation has rocketed 1,500% since 1960, with more than 7.5 million unmarried couples living together today. Jay says too often young couples don’t communicate clearly about what living together means for their relationship. It is often convenience, a test or an unspoken step toward marriage without any literal commitment. “It’s easier to get in than get out,” she warns, noting that cohabitation can slide into marriages that aren’t compatible but became too difficult to untangle.

Those that push back career and push back marriage, are also pushing against something with little give: their fertility. Young people have been told that they have years and years ahead to start a family. In reality, fertility drops significantly by age 35 and dramatically by 40. It’s not just a woman’s issue either. Not only is older sperm associated with problems, but when a woman can’t get pregnant, neither can her spouse. You don’t need to start your family in your 20s, but you’d be wise to plan ahead.

“This is a really critical period,” says Jay. “Relationships matter. Work matters. Your personality is changing. It sounds like a lot of pressure, but in my experience they know this is true and feel relieved when someone says, ‘I’m taking your life seriously.’”

*------The Importance of Your 20Something Years!-------*

How often so many of us have missed it in life.
Many of us at yet this early stage of life, wish we were a bit younger again so we could do the crazy things we should have done when we were much younger. In Nigeria and even Africa at large this is so much pathetic as we see young adults at their early twenties already beaten up in bad shapes, perhaps due to an imposing background, religion or parents, who believe so awkwardly and backwardly that the dynamics of the child should be independent of his own personal growth and experiences and behavioral pattern, but should follow a straight-laced ancient time of theirs, or else he or she is skewed.

What a heck.

And that is why Africa today records the highest rate of sad, myopic and unintelligent children, because their parents, religion, churches, pastors and mentors have beaten them into a pre-formed shape of their own selves and wouldn't let them live their own lives and bring out the very bests in them but have imposed their own believes, career, courses, and even religious views into them now making them rather auto-robots than humans.

What the twenties years can be described as:

They’ve been called the Twixters, Choisters, pre-adults, adultescents, the stuck generation and the lost generation, playing out an extended adolescence or an emerging adulthood or their odyssey years. They are the 20-somethings that graduated into one of the worst economies in decades, saddled with some of the highest debt burdens. According to a new report, half of recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed, scraping by with low-wage service jobs. Those who are working earn less than their 1970s counterparts, when adjusted for inflation.

They are moving back home, going back to school or embracing unpaid internships as the new starter jobs. They are marrying later and starting families later still. They are told to wait it out. They have time. The 20s are for having fun anyway. Real life starts later.

“I’ve had hundreds–maybe thousands–of clients and students who’ve been misled about how important this decade is,” says Meg Jay, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist specializing in adult development and the author of The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter–and How to Make the Most of Them Now. “In a lot of ways, 20-somethings are not taken seriously. Your 20s really, really matter. You are deciding your life right now, and it will have enormous impact across years and generations to come.”

According to Jay, 80% of life’s most significant events take place by age 35, making the 20s a “developmental sweet spot.” Two-thirds of lifetime wage growth happens in the first 10 years of a career. So those who wait until their 30s to get going in a “real” job will never catch up.

“The biggest myth is that the 20s are a time to think about what you want to do,” notes Jay. “That doesn’t work. You basically know what you want. Just start, and get the best job you can get.”

Reveling in a decade-long identity crisis will not result in better-adjusted adults, she says. Research shows that 20-something unemployment is associated with heavy drinking and depression in middle age—even after becoming regularly employed. Meanwhile, 20-somethings who are underemployed for just nine months tend to be more depressed and less motivated than their peers—even their unemployed peers.

And while the choice conundrum (what should I do if I can do anything?) may leave some paralyzed, “not making a choice is a choice,” warns Jay. “These 20-somethings think they are keeping their options open, but they are actually closing doors.” Resumes start to look thin, their peers begin surpassing them and, without real-world experience, they’re no closer to a direction.

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*-----How to Live A Beautiful Christian Life----*

Now it is Sunday and many of us would be going to church without understanding the dynamics of being a particular church member or knowing why we are even Christians in the first place. Christianity has become a den of thieves and fornicators and liars in the arms of grace. Little wonder the Muslims are laughing at us, but we got to arise and awaken to righteousness. We got to push ourselves and align properly with Grace so it is not in vain or a waste in our lives.

And when we have only successfully acquired the art of living a Christian life—when we have learned to apply the principles of true religion, and enjoy its help and comfort in our daily life, then we'd say we Christians and not just in the profession. It is easy to join in devotional exercises, to quote Bible promises, to extol the beauty of the Scriptures; but there are many who do these things—whose religion utterly fails them in the very places and at the very times—when it ought to prove their staff and stay!

All of us must go out from the sweet services of the Sunday—into a week of very real and very commonplace life. We must mingle with people who are not angels. We must pass through experiences that will naturally worry and vex us. Those about us, either wittingly or unwittingly, annoy and try us. We must mingle with those who do not love Christ. We all meet many troubles and worries in ordinary week-day life. There are continual irritations and annoyances.

The problem is to live a beautiful Christian life—in the face of all these hindrances! How can we get through the tangled briers which grow along our path—without having our hands and feet torn by them? How can we live sweetly—amid the vexing and irritating things and the multitude of little worries and frets which infest our way, and which we cannot evade?

It is not enough merely to 'get along' in any sort of way, to drag to the close of each long, wearisome day, happy when night comes to end the strife. Life should be a joy—and not a burden. We should live victoriously, ever master of our experiences, and not tossed by them like a leaf on the dashing waves. Every earnest Christian wants to live a truly beautiful life, whatever the circumstances may be.

A little child, when asked 'what it was to be a Christian,' replied, "For me, to be a Christian is to live as Jesus would live—and behave as Jesus would behave—if he were a little girl and lived at our house." No better definition of practical religion could be given. Each one of us is to live just as Jesus would—if he were living out our little life in the midst of its actual environment, standing all day just where we stand, mingling with the same people with whom we must mingle, and exposed to the very annoyances, trials and provocations to which we are exposed. We want to live a life that will please God, and that will bear witness on its face to the genuineness of our piety.

How can we do this? We must first recognize the fact that our life must be lived just in its own circumstances. We cannot at present change our surroundings. Whatever we are to make of our lives—must be made in the midst of our actual experiences. Here we must either win our victories—or suffer our defeats. We may think our lot is especially hard—and may wish it were otherwise. We may wish that we had a life of ease and luxury, amid softer scenes, with no briers or thorns, no worries or provocations. Then we would be always gentle, patient, serene, trustful, happy. How delightful it would be—never to have a care, an irritation, a cross, a single vexing thing!

But meanwhile this fact remains—that our aspiration cannot be realized, and that whatever our life is to be made, beautiful or marred, we must make it just where we are. No restless discontent can change our lot. We cannot get into any 'paradise' merely by longing for it. Other people may have other circumstances, possibly more pleasant than ours—but here are ours. We may as well settle this point at once, and accept the battle of life on this field—or else, while we are vainly wishing for a better chance, the opportunity for victory shall have passed.

The next thought is that the place in which we find ourselves is the place in which the Master desires us to live our life.

There is no haphazard in this world. God leads every one of his children by the right way. He knows where and under what influences each particular life will ripen best. One tree grows best in the sheltered valley, another by the water's edge, another on the bleak mountain-top swept by storms. There is always adaptation in nature. Every tree or plant is found in the locality where the conditions of its growth exist, and does God give more thought to trees and plants than to his own children? He places us amid the circumstances and experiences in which our life will grow and ripen the best. The peculiar discipline to which we are each subjected—is the discipline we each need to bring out in us the beauties and graces of true spiritual character. We are in the right school. We may think that we would ripen more quickly—in a more easy and luxurious life—but God knows what is best; he makes no mistakes.

There is a little fable which says that a primrose growing by itself in a shady corner of the garden, became discontented as it saw the other flowers in their mirthful beds in the sunshine, and begged to be moved to a more conspicuous place. Its prayer was granted. The gardener transplanted it to a more showy and sunny spot. It was greatly pleased—but there came a change over it immediately. Its blossoms lost much of their beauty and became pale and sickly. The hot sun caused them to faint and wither. So it prayed again to be taken back to its old place in the shade. The wise gardener knows best where to plant each flower, and so God, the divine Gardener, knows where His people will best grow into what he would have them to be. Some require the fierce storms, some will only thrive spiritually in the shadow of worldly adversity, and some come to ripeness more sweetly under the soft and gentle influences of prosperity, whose beauty, rough experiences would mar. He knows what is best for each one.

The next thought, is that it is possible to live a beautiful life anywhere. There is no position in this world in the allotment of Providence, in which it is not possible to be a true Christian, exemplifying all the virtues of Christianity. The grace of Christ has in it, potency enough to enable us to live godly, wherever we are called to dwell. When God chooses a home for us—he fits us for its peculiar trials. There is a beautiful law of adaptation that runs through all God's providence. Animals made to dwell amid Arctic snows are covered with warm furs. The camel's home is the desert, and a wondrous provision is made by which it can endure long journeys across the hot sands without drink. Birds are fitted for their flights in the air. Animals made to live among the mountain-crags, have feet prepared for climbing over the steep rocks. In all nature this law of special equipment and preparation for allotted places prevails.

And the same is true in spiritual life. God adapts his grace to the peculiarities of each one's necessity. For rough, flinty paths—he provides shoes of iron. He never sends any one to climb sharp, rugged mountain-sides, wearing silken slippers. He always gives sufficient grace. As the burdens grow heavier—the strength increases. As the difficulties thicken—the angel draws closer. As the trials become sorer—the trusting heart grows calmer. Jesus always sees his disciples, when they are toiling in the waves—and at the right moment comes to deliver them. Thus it becomes possible to live a true and victorious life—in any circumstances. Christ can as easily enable Joseph to remain pure and true, in heathen Egypt—as Benjamin in the shelter of his father's love. The sharper the temptations, the more of divine grace is granted. There is, therefore, no environment of trial, or difficulty or hardship—in which we cannot live beautiful lives of Christian fidelity and holy conduct.

Instead, then, of yielding to discouragement when trials multiply and it becomes hard to live right, or of being satisfied with a broken peace and a very faulty life—it should be the settled purpose of each one to live, through the grace of God—a patient, gentle and unspotted life—in the place and amid the circumstances He allots to us. The true victory is not found in escaping or evading trials—but in rightly meeting and enduring them. The questions should not be, "How can I get out of these worries? How can I get into a place where there shall be no irritations, nothing to try my temper or put my patience to the test? How can I avoid the distractions that continually harass me?" There is nothing noble in such living. The soldier who flies to the rear when he smells the battle is no hero; he is a coward.

The questions should rather be, "How can I pass through these trying experiences, and not fail as a Christian? How can I endure these struggles, and not suffer defeat? How can I live amid these provocations, these reproaches and testings of my temper, and yet live sweetly, not speaking unadvisedly, bearing injuries meekly, returning gentle answers to insulting words?" This is the true problem of Christian living.

We are at school here. This life is disciplinary. Processes are not important: it is results we want. If a tree grow into majesty and strength, it matters not whether it is in the deep valley or on the cold peak, whether calm or storm nurtures it. If character develops into Christlike symmetry, what does it matter whether it be in ease and luxury—or through hardship? The important matter is not the process—but the result; not the means—but the end; and the end of all Christian nurture is spiritual loveliness. To be made truly noble and godlike—we should be willing to submit to any discipline.

Every obstacle to true living should, then, only nerve us with fresh determination to succeed. We should use each difficulty and hardship, as a leverage to gain some new advantage. We should compel our temptations to minister to us—instead of hindering us. We should regard all our provocations, annoyances and trials, of whatever sort—as practice-lessons in the application of the theories of Christian life. It will be seen in the end—that the hardships and difficulties are by no means the smallest blessings of our lives. Someone compares them to the weights of a clock, without which there could be no steady, orderly life.

The tree that grows where tempests toss its boughs and bend its trunk, often almost to breaking—is more firmly rooted than the tree which grows in the sequestered valley, where no storm ever brings stress or strain. The same is true in life. The grandest character is grown inhardship. Weakness of character, springs out of luxury. The best men the world ever reared—have been brought up in the school of adversity and hardship.

Besides, it is no heroism to live patiently—where there is no provocation, bravely where there is no danger, calmly where there is nothing to perturb. Not the hermit's cave—but the heart of busy life, tests, as well as makes character. If we can live patiently, lovingly and cheerfully, amid all our frets and irritations day after day, year after year, that is grander heroism than the farthest famed military exploits, for 'he who rules his own spirit—is better than he who captures a city.'

This is our allotted task. It is no easy one. It can be accomplished only by the most resolute decision, with unwavering purpose and incessant watchfulness.

Nor can it be accomplished without the continual help of Christ. Each one's battle must be a personal one. We may decline the struggle—but it will be declining also the joy of victory. No one can reach the summit—without climbing the steep mountain-path. We cannot be borne up on any strong shoulder. God does not put features of beauty into our lives—as the jeweler sets gems in clusters in a coronet. The unlovely elements are not magically removed and replaced by lovely ones. Each must win his way through struggles and efforts—to all noble attainments. The help of God is given only in cooperation with human aspiration and energy. While God works in us—we are to work out our own salvation. He who overcomes, shall be a pillar in the temple of God. We should accept the task with quiet joy. We shall fail many times.

Many a night we shall retire to weep at Christ's feet—over the day's defeat. In our efforts to follow the copy set for us by our Lord—we shall write many a crooked line, and leave many a blotted page blistered with tears of regret. Yet we must keep through all, a brave heart, an unfaltering purpose, and a calm, joyful confidence in God. Temporary defeat should only cause us to lean on Christ more fully. God is on the side of everyone who is loyally struggling to obey his divine will, and to grow into Christlikeness. And that means assured victory, to everyone whose heart fails not.

*------You Win, 2013, FGN Nigeria 10,000,000naira Grant!------*

What Is YouWiN!? YouWiN! stands for Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria. It is an innovative business plan competition aimed at job creation by encouraging and supporting aspiring entrepreneurial youth in Nigeria to develop and execute business ideas. The accomplishments of the 1,200 YouWiN! awardees were celebrated at the Presidential Villa on April 12, 2012. YouWiN! Women was the second edition of the entrepreneurial scheme, which was designed for only female entrepreneurs aged 45 years or less. 

Price to won: 10,000,000naira (ten millionnaira!)

First we wish you to understand that the aim of the scheme is entirely different in value and goal and aim than the nominal business growth and ROI growth plan. So therefore while a nominal business is entirely considering how it can increase sales and income and bring it's break even analysis more closer, the YouWin is considering the following:
1. How does your business affect the community it is in. 2. How many of the local youths can it emply. 3. What's the new innovation your business has got to bring in the sphere, different from the regular businesses in the sector? 4. Okay the break even point of the business may not be as rapid as a nominal business, but how early would the business that point? And many more questions...

Who Can Apply:

1. Nigerians of not less than 18years old.
2. With a post secondary school education. 
3. Have a proposed business idea and a well written business plan that will operate in Nigeria and employ Nigerians 
4. Apply for your funds now.

What is a Business Plan: 

 A Business plan is a written document of the system and profile 

of a given business, showing a projection or

estimate of how much success the business will 

make over a given period of time. 

     This includes research in marketing, the

product dynamics and then most importantly is

the financial projections of the business. It has

to be organized and follow an ordered 

sequence.

Writing Your Business Plan:

Let us do that for you! 
We are a team experts in business development and past winners of the YouWIn 2011 which was the first of it's kind. Also last year, we mentored over 7ladies who 5 of them won the grant.
Most  of us, with over 3years in the world of business development, with our lead consultant as an American Competitive Intelligence Professional, a British Council Business Language expert, a Lead Consultant for 8RG Consulting in Nigeria an International Consulting firm, APTECH Business Ambassador in India, CETPA Business Ambassador, India, we believe we got what it takes to you give the right head for your proposed business plan to win the grant. For the following reasons:
1. We have in store the questionnaires already, so that you get them far before other competitors get it. 2. We have in our team two past winners. See pictures above. Check out: http://www.beeenterprises.com.ng/. 3. We are experts in the field of business development and consulting. ALso, we have experriences from several multinational and local firms, including: a. LoveWorld Sat, Johannesburg, South Africa. b. CETPA Infotech, NOIDA, India c. APTECH, Mumbai, India d. Erdge tricycles, Warri e. 8RG Consulting, Lagos etc. We know all it takes to put a never-ignore business plan. Do you know your business plan must contain key elements like:
- Executive Summary - Objective - Mission - Keys to success - Company Summary - Products and Services - Market analysis summary - Strategy and implementation summary - Web plan summary - Management Summary - Financial Plan
To make the best impression for this year's YouWin or even on banks and investors, your business plan should be presented in the standard business plan format. Your business plan should be what the panelists or a banker or venture capitalist expects to see, presented in the order they expect to see it in. Following a standard business plan outline will keep you on track, and save you from botching your best chance at getting your business funded.

Registering Your Business:

You would need to register your business, although it is not compulsory at the beginning and not having your proposed business idea registered doesn't dis-qualify you, but puts you in a sure pedestal though. Want to register your business in just 7days? Then get in touch just in time.

How Much:

You don't have to be scared! Why should you? The scheme of 10,000,000naira is entirely free, so why should we charge you too high? But for #7,500naira we don't think that would be too much. Now it's more or less a peasant, but considering the fact that you wouldn't be buoyant enough in the first place to run your business on your own, or raise a capital for yourself, that is why we have made it this cheap! All you have to do is write me us the business idea, which I we promise never to steal and then I shall do the rest in 7days! For entire mentorship for the duration of the scheme including access to the questions long before they come to the others: #12,500, a business name registration in 7days: #25,000 and for a LTD company: #120,000.
Pay into: 8RG Business Solutions: GTBank(0128573418)                                                First Bank(2023038989)
                                       
         And call us on: +2348136332835
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Send your business idea story to: 8rg.biz@gmail.com

Dead Line:

August 31st, 2013. Please note that if you wish a rapid development of your business plan then you have to start processing far before this date to ensure your application is completed and submitted in time. All other dates shall be announced hereafter.

Submission and Selection:

After I shall have completed the business plan just in time, then I shall go on to guide you in the submission process, by opening an account via: www.youwin,org.ng and submitting your application right on. Selection is based on the geo-political zone of your business and over 1,000 applicants are usually selected. It also takes here, understanding the dynamics of the selection and avoiding the most populated and competitive zones to get selected, all that I know very well and would put in place for you to be selected. Just get in touch with me and let's do it together. 

The President's Support:

President Jonathan Goodluck is a long-time supporter of YouWiN!. In his budget speech in 2011, President Jonathan Goodluck said:

“Unemployment among our youth is one of our biggest challenges. The time has come to create jobs (and) lay a new foundation for Nigeria’s economic growth” 

2012 Awardees Thank Government:

A group of YouWiN! 1 Awardees decided to share their success stories through a courtesy visit to the Ministry of Finance on the 1^st of July 2013. This event was graced by the Honorable Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy ,Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who received the awardees warmly with words of encouragement and admiration for the various success stories and products offered for exhibition.

The event afforded awardees the opportunity to show appreciation to the Federal Government for the impact the programme has made on their businesses, personal life and the small/medium scale industry in general.

Official website: https://www.youwin.org.ng/

*--------How To Enjoy Life Every Day---------*

But if you are not enjoying your every day life, then you got a problem, and not one you imagine now to be external but one solely caused by you and you alone. Money or people or systems or government have never been any sources of human happiness and will never be, so why are you not happy?

Why are you not happy?

The “Every Day Mindset” is a simple, yet extremely powerful, way in which to live your life. What is this mindset? Put simply, it is a mindset that remembers that this day you are currently living will only ever happen once, and it therefore encourages you to make the most of it.

It is not about recklessly living life as if there is no tomorrow. The future is important to plan for, but it is important not to obsess about it to the extent that you neglect the present. Remember, the only way to get to the future is through a series of todays. Since this Every Day Mindset has changed my life, I would like to share with you 3 specific ways in which I apply it:

1. Enjoy Every Day

I choose to enjoy every day. I wake up early at 2am because I am excited about the day ahead, and throughout the day I try to maintain a positive attitude. Yes, sometimes “shit happens” and I don’t have a good day. But I figure if I at least try to have fun and be happy there is a good chance I will enjoy myself.

What I am particularly interested in is ways to enjoy my time at work. Most people know how to enjoy their leisure time, but many people struggle to imagine being happy at work. If this is you, here are a few quick tips:

• Do what you love: this should be your ultimate career goal. I know it’s easier said than done, but just remember it is possible.

• Make friends with your co-workers: in so many ways, it is our relationships with people that give us the most happiness in life. So take the time and effort to become friends with the people you work with.
• Take pride in your work: even if you aren’t saving lives, chances are you are contributing in some positive way to society. Take pride in your work and you are sure to feel better about yourself.
• Stop waiting: stop waiting for something to occur before you are happy. Because guess what? Chances are that a better title, more money, a car bay, or that nice corner office with the great view will not make a significant and lasting difference to your level of happiness.

2. Take Smalls Steps

I have some big dreams and ambitious goals for my life. I’m also human, which means I suffer from fear, self-doubt, and procrastination. This means that if I’m not careful, big and ambitious become overwhelming and intimidating. And the danger with feeling overwhelmed is that I won’t take actions towards my dreams and goals.

What I have discovered is that the big things can result from taking small steps. As Lao Tzu once said: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” What this means in the context of the Every Day Mindset is that each day I try to get a little bit closer to fulfilling my dreams and achieving my goals. And so long as I am making progress, I feel happy. Here is my favorite tip for taking small steps towards big dreams and goals:

• Try to improve 1% each day: this doesn’t seem like much, but imagine how much you will have changed after just one month. So try being 1% happier, healthier, and productive than yesterday and see what happens.

3. Make Your Habits Daily

Motivation is an ongoing struggle for me because I find it comes in peaks and troughs. What I discovered was that during these troughs, many of my good habits would slip away. For example, when it came time to exercise I would tell myself “I will exercise tomorrow”, despite having previously committed myself to exercising at that particular time. When I changed my mindset to one in which I exercised every day, this excuse disappeared. And guess what? It made all the difference.

So to make a habit stick, commit to doing it daily. If you would like some suggestions for daily habits to incorporate into your life, I suggest reading my upcoming articles 24 Daily Habits and 12 More Daily Habits. Here are a few of my favorite habits from the aforementioned articles:

• Exercise Your Brain: exercising your brain is as important (if not more!) than exercising your muscles. In the past year I taken to Ludo game, Sudoku and Kakuro as ways to stimulate my brain and have fun. Other suggestions are crosswords, quizzes, and brain teasers.
• Celebrate Your Successes: I find its so important to take time each and every day to celebrate your successes. This doesn’t have to involve opening a bottle of bubbly or champagne– quite often a mental pat on the back will do.
• Ping a Friend: I try to send a quick email or text to a friend each day. It’s a great way to stay in touch with friends when I am extremely busy.

How do you like to make the most of each and every day?

*---------Will You Marry Me?----------*

I am James C. Jnr! See my career profile here.

Oh yes, I am single and searching! And I am your Mr. Right!

The beauty of life can never so celebrated by a celebrity, but by one man who has seen the ups and downs of life from his cradle to adolescence and now to adulthood and yet have decided to see life from the even side and believe so strongly that if life was worth it after all then it should be lived to it's fullest, each minute counting for purpose with all the joys and fun and pleasure that could ever be so contented with. I have seen to many pains in this world that right  now, all I can ever do else from this moment forward is to bring and keep bringing joy and happiness on the faces of men I come around each day- Me!

I have a dream, girls. I have a dream- to make this world a better place. Do you think it's possible? While that's been the little issue around- in all the years I have come through I've not found that one pretty damsel who's got encapsulated with this dream of mine. Or maybe because I have not so well spelt in out and I am gonna do it here, and when I do find that special one... sure I'll take her to mama, I promise.

Although I have so many great friends, ladies whom I hope I have touched each and everyone of their hearts (please if I've not, do get back to me just in time) *smiles* I love you all.

Hope you don't mind me? I love doing very crazy things and maybe because I believe when you are gone, you'd be most remembered for the craziest things you'd done while alive. Little wonder so many people live there lives each day so busy, hustling, frustrated without an iota of fun. You think that's the reason God spent all His time and energy to create you and bring you here on earth? Remember the bible says we're made for His pleasure? We're a royal priesthood an holy nation? A peculiar people? Well so sorry if you ain't a Christian, very sorry about that- you just missed a life line!

But you're a Christian? Then let's ride on.
Yeah, I's saying God created us to get here on earth to catch some real fun before being translated to His glory. Life's no hell, brethren, yes a journey but not a jungle, we are pilgrims but not prisoners, tenants but not Trojans, and mind you, if Adam had not sinned, we would have been here all for eternity. Now imagine the garden of Eden, how beautiful and lovely and stress-free and enjoyable and pleasurable and joyous. That is God intention for every other soul that comes into this world.

That is my principle also!
God loves pleasure, I love pleasure too!
God is faithful, I am faithful too!
God is wealthy, I am wealthy too!
God is an explorer, I am an explorer too!
God is a romantic God, I am a romantic man too!

I love beauty, I love romance, I love cleanliness, I love passion, I love play, I love crazy things, I love happiness, joy, peace, love, tenderness, meekness, temperance; and that's my dream for the world around me, my dream for every citizens of my country, Nigeria. I pray it each day, live it each day, else life will not be worth it.

I don't believe in so much kids. One is enough, so I have all the time to invest, resources to spoil her and make her even more happier right from her cradle. I love travelling around, summering in  at least two countries a year, and uchh, I've not made my trip this year, but sure I will and maybe December should be somewhere else in Africa and then maybe America or Asia, no UK this year, praying for that one woman who would make these journeys with me someday and I promise to spoil her with love and happiness and contentment.
Will you marry me?

To read my career profile, click here.
I am tall as 6.3', slim, of brown eyes, dark kinky hair, no side bears(*eye blink*), weight between 70 and 75 with a very strong personality. But I love to play and could be very playful and naughty(*smiles*). I love intelligence, I love communicating in the British English as a certified British Council English Personnel, I love discussions around business development or marketing or societal issues or religious issues. I hate dull moments, although could be sometimes serious as even most mis-interpreted by some.
My Dreams:
1. Have the best education from here, with my MBA beginning in December with the Don Bosco University, Assa, India.
2. Plot my yet to be launched online CRM brand, already registered with CAC.
3. Begin publishing my books, fictions and non-fictions.
4. Complete my digital advertising course, video advert creation in Bangkok, Thailand.
5. Pioneer some other local start-ups and learn, build more innovative and conceptual intelligence and confidence.
6. Develop my speaking, motivating career line.
7. Finally join myself with a Business consulting MNC, a brand I will finally kill for and grow in the ranks.
8. Shove into Nigeria's administrative political scene and speak in the economy of my nation.
9. Share Jesus to all the world via the Salvation Army and right from the on-go though.

I love telling people about the love of God and how He has revealed Himself through His only Son, Jesus Christ as the only Saviour of the world. I just shared that with you now, so please do well to know Him right away, He is the curator of love and life and all the beauty in it.

I go around and see a lot of people in despair of life, in pain, and sorrow, tears and I'd want to help them and that's why tomorrow I shall be sharing on "How to live a Happy life each day!"
Hope you find this dream with me and offer by God's grace to share the long future with me. "Will you marry me?" Will you help bring out this dream of mine? What is your dream? Do you believe dreams come through because I believe too, are they bigger than mine? Do you see yourself growing the years to old age, playing like kids all again and being the best of friends for ever, till death do us part. Are you happy, is Heaven a place you at last ever wannu be?

Then, yes! You are the one I have been waiting for, please do get in touch with me, we both got God's assignment to accomplish. I love you!

*--------Meet James C. Jnr.--------*

                

 

NWABUEZE CHIBUOYI JAMES JUNIOR  CIP,MNSE,IEEE         

Tel Nigeria: (+234)8153612215, (+234)8136332835

BBPin: 327956C8

Address: Lagos,

Lagos State, Nigeria

International Passport Number: A03452834

E-Mail: jchibuoyi@yahoo.com

                     

PERSONALITY

            I am a very passionate worker, result oriented and very enthusiastic for any dynamic organisation with a strong brand having stimulating and highly demanding work environment with service excellence as her mission and a clear vision toward growing her ROI.

My professional selling skills include:

—   Adaptability and flexibility, exhibited in training and internship in several countries.

—   International business development, for APTECH and CETPA, india.

—   Marketing and Objection handling techniques.

—   Personal motivation, creativity, innovation and conceptualization.

—   Tools: Adobe design kits, Dreamweaver, social media marketing mediums, Microsoft packages.

WHAT CAN DO:

1.   Digital marketing, Social media marketing, video adverts production, graphics advert banners for online advertisements. 

2.      Business plan drafting. Business Research and Development; can source new business ideas, create transformational modules that would cause them to yield far great revenues in short time.

3.      Very good communication, convincing and sales skills as well as writing skills.

4.      Capacity Trainer in Employability Orientation(certified), BPO, HSE(certified), Entrepreneurship(SMEs) and Personality Management(certified).

            5.   Web analyst, Internet business consultant, online marketing expert, sales copy writer, affiliate                      marketing professional, Information entrepreneur.

6.      Website design(jquery, flash, CSS3), analysis, and Search Engine Optimization(certified).

 

                                                                       

WORK EXPERIENCES/JOB SUMMARY

June 2012 till Date: 8RG Marketing Consulting, Akure, Ondo State.

—   Lead Marketing Consultant.

—   Mid-level marketing personnel, servicing APTECH Ltd, India, under the India Window Program, recruiting and logistics.

—   Business partner for CETPA Pvt Ltd. India, marketing, recruitment and consultancy.

—   Clients’ management, Digital marketing, web design and analyses.  

October 2011 — May 2012: ExWhyZee Technologies, Umuahia, Abia State.

—   Business Research and Developer. Projects undertaken include:

1.      Negotiated partnership between company and APTECH ltd, Mumbai, India.

2.      Opened tie-ups between company and CETPA pvt ltd, NOIDA, India, co-operate industrial trainers for Siemens, Mitsubishi, automation and robotics.

3.      Negotiated business between company and PANTEL Tablets pvt ltd,India.

4.      Negotiated partnership between company and Ducat pvt ltd, Sector 62, NOIDA, India.

May 2011 — August 2011: AIM Consultants, Engineers, Quantity Surveyors, Estimators and Interior Designs, Lagos State, (Trainee).

—    Personal Assistant to GMD: contact management, logistics and conference protocols, Aide memoir, also handled staff information and data capturing in the capacity of Human Resource Personnel.

October 2006 — February 2008: ExWhyZee Technologies, Umuahia, Abia State.

—     Marketing and Sales, customer care and secretary.      

 

ACHIEVEMENTS:

October 2012                    Created business module for the creation of Love World Sat Online, a subsidiary of Love World Sat, Johannesburg, South Africa.

October 2012                    Acquired a franchise with APTECH ltd, Mumbai, India.

June 2012                          Implemented a business MOU between ExWhyZee Technologies ltd and APTECH Ltd and CETPA Pvt Ltd, NOIDA, India.

   

EDUCATION

2008-2012             Bachelor of Technology (Electrical/Electronics, Communications options) The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria.

2013 - Date           Diploma in Business Development, Alison Business School, Galway, Ireland.

2006-2008             Ordinary National Diploma from The Federal University of Technology, Akure in the field of Electrical Engineering, Nigeria.

                                         

TRAINING COURSES

                                 

July, 2013                    Expertise certificate training course on “Video Production and Editing” with the Innovation Institute of Training, Akure, Ondo State.

March, 2013                Specialist certificate training course on “How to Teach Audio and Video Lessons” with i-to-i, Leeds, UK.

March, 2013                Specialist certificate training course on “Teaching Large Classes” with i-to-i, Leeds, UK.

February, 2013            National Conference of Nigeria Society of Computer Science Students, Akure.

October, 2012              Certification course in Basics of Finance with the Hewlett-Packard, LIE.

October, 2012              Certified Teach English as a Foreign language, TEFL, British Council, UK.

September, 2012           Certificate course in Social Media Marketing with the Hewlett-Packard LIE.

September, 2012           Certificate course Fundamentals of Co-operate Management with Alison International, Galway, Ireland.

August, 2012                    Certificate course in Health Safety and Environmental Hazards from Mercury Consultants ltd, Victoria Island, Lagos.

August, 2012                    Training course in Small and Medium Enterprises Development, Ignite 180 ltd, Palmgrove, Lagos.

June, 2012                        Training course in Employability Orientation Program at NIIT, NOIDA, India.

May, 2012                        Training course in Android Application Development at Robosapiens pvt ltd, NOIDA, India.

May, 2012                        Internship Programme at CETPA Pvt Ltd, NOIDA, India: PHP, Web Design, .Net, J2EE development.

June, 2012                        Participated in the annual Google Hack Community App. Development programme, New Delhi, India and designed an application on Emergency Response System.

September-October 2010  Web Development (HTML, ASP, PHP, JavaScript, Macromedia                     Dream weaver MX 2004, Swish, Magic flare) Interactive Computer Academy, Nnyanya, Abuja, Nigeria.

October 2010                MySQL, PHP Rehoboth Institute, Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria.

October 2010                    Completed training course in (MS Word, Excel and Access), graphic design   (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDraw) and Database Development at ICA Abuja and Rehoboth, Umuahia.

2008                         Conference of Engineers in Society. Meeting of the Nigeria Society of Engineers, FUTA.

 

AFFILIATIONS

— Member, America Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals

— Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society - Computer Science

— Member, WebMaster World

— Member, Nigeria Society of Engineers

           

INTERESTS

Networking, training, travelling, playing Table Tennis and research.