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... Spetacular Ujuaku HERE YOU GO AGAIN It is a hard thing to love a good man. A good man is not a nice man – he does not do things to be nice, he does things because he has a moral code, a set of values he prioritizes and will always do his best to make sure that his actions are in line with his own personal standards. A good man will not do the easy thing or the convenient thing, or even the thing that he wants to do; he will do what he knows to be the good thing. He will never lie to you to spare your feelings or attend something because social constructs deem it the courteous or polite course of action, and he will in fact do many things that anger and frustrate you. But you cannot get mad at him, because after all, he is a good man. A good man is the man who will take his ex-girlfriends call while he’s with you, because he knows that she has anxiety and would only ever call in an emergency, and he is obligated as a good man to do whatever he can to help even when it...

Have you made an employer’s short-list in a job hunt lately? If you’re one of the finalist candidates – or the chosen applicant – the employer may want to conduct a background check on you before bringing you on board. Employers who conduct background checks want to confirm details about you and see if you present a risk to them. Being prepared will help you avoid any nasty surprises. After all the work you’ve done to get this far, you don’t want to let incorrect or missing information prevent you from getting that great new job. Check your social media:   Social media is the new job market and what better way to check out your habits, behaviours and thoughts than via your social media pages. Many youths have lost job opportunities due to obscene and derogatory posts on their social media accounts. Also, always  ensure the information on your CV and your social media accounts tally, you don’t want employers to see Unilag on your CV and LASU on your LinkedIn pr...

HABIT 1 : BE PROACTIVE Your life doesn't just "happen." Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you. The choices, after all, are yours. You choose happiness. You choose sadness. You choose decisiveness. You choose ambivalence. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear. Just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice. And in doing so, it gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results. Habit 1: Be Proactive is about taking responsibility for your life. You can't keep blaming everything on your parents or grandparents. Proactive people recognize that they are "response-able." They don't blame genetics, circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. They know they choose their behavior. Reactive people, on the other hand, are often affected by their physical environment. They f...

Preparation: It is preparation that determines your experience; a wise man said “when preparation meets with opportunity success is inevitable. You don’t prepare in greatness you prepare for greatness, no one prepares for an exam in the examination hall. A popular comedian said that people always described him as one who came from nowhere and now dominating the comedy industry, and he will always reply by saying I came from somewhere, and when they ask him further what he means, he said “I have been preparing myself all those years you never heard about me”. People have lost several opportunities to become great in life because of lack of preparedness. Investment / Sowers mentality: No one becomes wealthy by savings, it is good to save but it is better to invest. Whatever you don’t invest will never increase. A lot of people are poor not because they never had money before but because they failed to invest the one they had by spending it on worthless things. Everyone loves t...

I have a problem with this qoute by GreenYatra on behalf of psychologist  “People don’t necessarily change, they just become who they were supposed to be which comes with growing up grow up”… Am like, grow up to what?   Mehn! Tell me what growing up has to do with developing the right mindset? So a pick pocket doesn’t change, he just grows up from a pick pocket to a thief, and from a thief to an arm robber, and from an arm robber to a terrorist; a carpenter grows up to a coffin maker, then someone in the military can grow up to a dictator and from a dictator to become a civilian president; Hahahaha... I mean that’s growing up because that is who you were supposed to be… That's   Nonsense!!! Paul said when I was a child I acted as a child but when became an adult (grow up) I had to consciously put away (change) childish act. If you say people don’t change what happens when the person grows up and still acts as a child? Growth is not a proof of maturity; even a chi...

The internet is filled with all the things you have to do to get your job but no one ever talks about all the things you have to not do to get a job. So here are some important “don’ts” of job hunting. Don’t use one method of job hunting: Ok, we get that social media and online applications are the in-thing now but never forget or underestimate the power of plain ol’ physical applications submissions, recruiting agencies and “connect” referrals. Don’t do mass applications with the same CV: No really, do not do that. Don’t apply for every job (you really cannot do “anything”) and if you’re going to apply to a lot of jobs in your field, ensure each application is tailored to the job description and company. Don’t “play yourself”: As noted in point 1, social media is the in-thing right now and it can cost you major opportunities. Do not post anything you don’t want a prospective employer to see. If you do? Congratulations, you just played yourself *in D Khaled’s voice* ...