Golden Duck - CHARMING

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CHARMING

The next year brought a new change in my life as my entire family moved to a new house. Farther away from Rachael and all those emotional ‘BS’. It was an avenue to start afresh; I wasn't even thinking about all those kinda things as I had school on my mind with how to survive from seniors and still graduate with a good enough result.

5 years went by so fast as I finished sec. school and I found myself in year 2 of University.. Still a golden duck that hadn't even had his first kiss. I never really bothered about it.. Even with friends around me that gave tales of their many escapades with girls. Yeah, I was up for trying again, but I wasn't going to go out of my comfort zone.

Facebook CEO In Nigeria

The seventh wealthiest man in the world came into Nigeria discreetly on Tuesday afternoon after spending Monday in Rome, Italy, where he also met Pope Francis

Top tweet from @BBCAfrica:

Apple to pay 13 billion euros in tax

The European Union on Tuesday hit Apple with a $14.5 billion tax penalty, ruling its deal with Ireland was illegal.

EU antitrust regulators say the 13 billion euro payment to Ireland could be slashed if other countries, including the US, demand the company pay more within their own jurisdictions, the European Commission announced in a statement.

The 18 Things To Accomplish Before Turning 30

I saw this post on LinkedIn and decided to share because I liked most of the things in it and thought it was a good read. Soooo, happy reading:

Ref: Forbes

I read this “17 Things To Accomplish Before You’re 30” article earlier this year and thought to myself “is that really it?” Are those really the experiences I would stand behind as the accomplishments of my 20s?

So, in the name of August birthdays, I reached out to some of my favourite friends, role models, business owners, and pre-1986’ers to see what their take on the question “what would you advise others to ‘accomplish’ by the time they are 30.”

This was the list we created:

The Golden Duck

From Benny:

 As a late bloomer in life, I got to experience pleasures late in life. While I was enjoying the pleasures of toys  and action figures, my mates were already on cartoons, while I was watching cartoons, they were already inclined with sports. As such it was no surprise to me that I didn't have any idea about the whole dating experience when they were already veterans in it.

However, my first experience with affections for the opposite sex was in Js 3 when I became... "aware" about this particular girl; I was literally obsessed with Rachael. She was a family friend who attended the same church I did. After the whole junior WAEC exams, we were given 5 months break of some sort to stay at home and await results.

25th Internaut Day!

Happy 25th birthday to the World Wide Web

On this day in history: On August 23, 1991, new users for the first time were able to access the World Wide Web. The occasion is known as Internaut Day.

 

The NeXT computer Tim Berners-Lee used as the first server for the World Wide Web.

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5 Tips To Becoming A Millionaire Before 30

We might think, oh it’s easy to make a million naira before 30. How about when we aren’t talking naira? Making a million dollars before 30 is possible as well and we think the following are steps to aid it’s happening:

1. Ignoring traditional industries.

Lawyer or doctor is not on a path to becoming a millionaire in your twenties. Those professions require many extra years of schooling and training. Individuals with these jobs often have a very real earning ceiling that is difficult to break through. You may never reach millionaire status doing just that.

Kiki Series 8

Kiki is a weekly series. Click for episode 07

*Do I consider myself a feminist? When I say no, people (in this case feminists) usually think I'm one of the reasons they're still fighting for gender equality. Truth is both genders can never be equal, why do we even want to be equal to men. Our biological makeup is different already. However, I'm an advocate of women empowerment. We should stand for more than most people offer. We shouldn't fight to be equal to men, we're greater than men. A man is just a movement and needs a woman to be at his best. Women pick up the pieces, women should be strong, women should be leaders. Don't even get me started on relationships, how..*

"Kiki". Daniel interrupted the thoughts in my head. *Men never know when to interrupt but I guess that's what makes us stronger, ability to balance it all* I think.

My brother seemed worried though,

                "What's going on Dee?".

                            "We think Tomi is pregnant".

Cyber Bullies

In the event of you waking up to see a debit transaction on your phone from your bank, what do you do?

So I woke up, my bad habit picks my phone up first. Ok, maybe it's not really a bad habit, I have my alarm which I have to turn off on it. I go through my notifications, to get to my devotional and I see a debit transaction of 12,068NGN. My first thought was “TF?!!”. Ok, so you can guess I got distracted and opened the email. So the email goes:

4 Easy Ways To Make More Money This Year

Photo reference: Photo Bucket

Every entrepreneur goes into business for the purpose of making profit. You need to make a profit. Otherwise, you’re not a business -- you’re a charity.

Still, despite this obvious rule, some entrepreneurs get lost along the way; they get caught up in the "busyness" of running a business and the incessant drive to keep the cash register ringing continuously. And in that regard, they will have made the mistake of thinking that "making sales" means "making money."

Take Action For The People

To be rich, it’s not about having money more than your average Tom, Dick and Harry. I guess that’s why the poorest countries have millionaires/billionaires. I think this should help us realize that poverty cannot be eradicated personally but collectively as a whole.

If an individual has to spend so much to be comfortable, then I don’t think the environment/community where the individual resides is quite there yet. You might be doing fine but you’d be doing way better if your environment was good.

Inasmuch as they say Nigeria is the giant of Africa, I think it’s a poor country. Yes, there are poorer countries and yes we have very rich people in the country.

Methods To Increase Employee Productivity

Picture from David Dewolf

Employees are at their desks for an average of about five hours every day, and companies are paying for that time. But often the results of an employee’s work versus time spent don’t actually match up. A model employee that seems perfectly productive can turn out to be one of the worst offenders.

Some of the following methods may seem to defy logic but entrepreneurs will find that following them can lead to a happier workplace and an increased ROI (return on investment).