Ten tips to ensure healthy diets during the festive season

Everyone puts on weight over the holidays, but it need not be as bad as you fear. These hints from a dietitian will show you what foods to avoid, what to eat more of, and how to keep yourself from indulging too much.

“Weight gained during the holidays often comes from eating foods that are high in sugar and fat,” warns Joan Daniels, a dietitian.

Self Confidence

What is self confidence?
“realistic confidence in one’s own judgment, ability, power, etc … belief in oneself and one’s powers or abilities”
The word confidence originates from the Latin “confidere”, meaning to trust. Trusting and believing in ourselves, having faith in our ability in whatever situation we need to perform.
Building Self Confidence
To be more confident then, we have to somehow generate this faith or trust in our abilities. Unfortunately, we are constantly being challenged by new situations full of variables we cannot control. In building confidence, we cannot eliminate this uncertainty.
A common approach to build confidence is good preparation. If I have to give a speech tomorrow, I would carefully prepare what I was going to say. I could reassure myself, challenging my automatic negative thoughts. However, even though I've given speeches before, there are always going to be variables that I cannot eliminate or control.
At the heart of building self confidence and becoming more confident is this conundrum of uncertainty, our inability to control the world around us. Whilst there are many other techniques and ideas that we will cover in this blog, the first and most important is to accept this lack of control.
You can build self confidence by not letting the feelings generated by uncertainty take over. We have an built in system to protect us from danger – "fight or flight" – that creates what we identify as anxiety symptoms when threatened. Tolerate that feeling of anxiety, recognise that uncertainty is a challenge rather than a threat. Once you start to do that, then you're on the way to building confidence and generally being more confident.

It Begins With You

There is an interesting advert that was on television for quite some time. I have also seen it on web sites. The closing words of that advert were:

"Imagine the possibility of an HIV free generation,
it begins with you."

If this is true, then I want to challenge you that for all that you either desire for yourself, family, community, state, country or the world, it all begins with you.
• Imagine the possibility of a lawless you,
it begins with you!
• Imagine the possibility of a happy family,
it begins with you!
• Imagine the possibility of a progressive community,
it begins with you.
• Imagine the possibility of a corruption free state,
it begins with you.
• Imagine the possibility of smooth traffic from one country to another without visas,
it begins with you.
• Imagine the possibility of a peaceful world,
it begins with you.
I do not want to be self-centered; my very last words in this piece will be that for every desire of ours truly begins with "you" - that "you" is "You and Me and everybody".

What is /are Life issues?

Life issues are common challenges, issues and/or crises that happen to ordinary people living normal lives. Examples include managing one's emotion so that they are healthy and functional, surviving disabilities, loss and self-esteem issues, personal finance issues among others. These are some of the issues for discussion on this blog.

Welcome to my world; Touching and improving lives

Now that the changes is now a reality, i intend to highlight the aspect of life issues i will major on and it is that aspect that will in one way or the other affect somebody's life positively.

Changes in the blog

i am changing my business success blog to a life issue blog so as to enable me to blog on other aspect of life apart from business. i decided not to open another blog for that purpose because i might not be able to maintain all the blogs.i am doing this because i want something that will enable me to touch and improve lives.
Your comments on how it can be a better blog will be highly appreciated

Happy reading

What To Consider When You Weigh The Options

In evaluating the options you identify, your goal is to choose a business that inherently has good potentials of success. While the ultimate performance will depend on how well you run your business, starting on a strong footing will be important. Give careful consideration to the nature of the product or service. The following factors are important:

The Face of Business Opportunities

A business must have good patronage to be successful . The target market will only patronise your product or service if it meets a yearning need. In looking for a business opportunity, you need to identify a need-gap and fill it. Your potential for success is dependent on this relationship between a need and the solution you offer. The more intense the need and more appropriate your solution is, the more successful your business will be. So, look for business opportunities in the daily needs, pains, difficulties and desires of the people. Find a good solution at the right price for any of these and be sure you'll soon be smiling to the bank.

Viable Business Ideas in Nigeria

With a large and boisterous population estimated at between 120 - 150 millions, a large reserve of natural resources (oil , gas, solid minerals, etc) and an expansive untapped potential in agriculture, Nigeria is clearly a huge market, offering immense opportunities for business. There are infrastructural problems alright, but the spirit of entrepreneurship does not surrender to challenges. It is also true that many of the problems present opportunities for profitable business.

5 traits of entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs generally turn into lousy CEOs for the very reasons they thrive on startups. Below are five traits of entrepreneurs � which often work against them as managers.
• They're perfectionists. "Entrepreneurs like to micro-manage everything," says Houston management consultant Linda Talley.
• They're disinterested in consensus or feedback. "They herd departments," says Dave Rohlander, founder of a two-year-old software company, RFQsolutions, in San Diego. "The energy and vision and aggressiveness it takes to be an entrepreneur doesn't sit well with larger groups of people."
• They're mavericks. "Entrepreneurs are typically risk-takers," says ArLyne Diamond, a psychologist and management consultant in Santa Clara, Calif. "In the rush to get it done, they don't have the patience to manage people."
• They prefer to do everything themselves. "The challenge is believing that anyone else can do it better," admits Emory Mulling, chairman of his own 15-year-old executive outplacement, coaching and search firms in Atlanta. "For too long, I worked with every individual in our training program," he says of his own personal experience. "It took four years for me to find someone else."
• Their focus is one-sided. "Male entrepreneurs tend toward vision and analysis. They're comfortable with numbers," says profitability consultant Karen Lund in St. Paul, Minn. "Women entrepreneurs tend to focus on how well people are doing and not on operating and financials. When they don't focus on both sides, entrepreneurs fail."

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Step-by-Step Guide to Start A Business

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Begin to Plan - Make Your Strategic Plans

Planning is the process of setting objectives, when you start a business, and devising actions to achieve those objectives. Strategic planning is long-term planning when you start a business. You set a mission which would be the long-term direction of the business. For example, when you start a business, most business owners have as their strategic goal long-term financial security.

When business owners start a business, one part of strategic planners is often a SWOT analysis. SWOT means Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats. Strengths and Weaknesses are internal to the firm, while Opportunities and Threats are external. Business owners try to eliminate weaknesses and threats and build on strengths and opportunities.

Rules for Small Business Success

Every day, new business ventures are created. Some of these businesses will succeed, but many will fall by the wayside. Will your business thrive, or will it join thousands of others that have faltered along the way? Here are ten rules to make sure your business grows and prospers.

Habits of Business Success

The subtle dream of business success captures the imagination of would-be and existing business owners everywhere. A vision of flowing profits, industry respect, thrilled customers, and a balanced life. This vision is only possible by developing habits that drive business success. Take the time to learn the habits of business success.

Why businesses fails

Every time a small business fails I felt sad. The owners of a new business have often staked their entire capital on a new venture and they stand to lose a lot more than if a big company fails in their new venture. Before you start a new business familiarise yourself with the top 10 reasons why many new businesses fail.

Factors for consideration in business startup

This write up describes different factors which need to be kept in mind before starting your own business. It mainly talks about a business from a proprietorship point of view, rather than from a corporate point of view. Thus it is intended for small business.

How Wikileaks information will affect world's economy

The sensitive information was released to the public and some of the information from WikiLeaks include
Vladimir Putin rules Russia by allowing a venal elite to siphon off cash from the world's biggest energy producer, according to a picture painted by U.S. diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks.
ITALY
- U.S. diplomats voiced concern over Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ties to Russia's Vladimir Putin and the grip of energy interests on Rome's foreign policy.
The website had previously given a flavor of the U.S. view of Berlusconi, but what appeared to be a full cable from the U.S. embassy in Rome fills out a gloomy assessment that depicts Italy in thrall to Moscow.
The lawyer acting for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied that Sweden had issued a valid European arrest warrant for alleged sex crimes, despite Stockholm's insistence that legal difficulties with the warrant were resolved.
Swedish police earlier said technical problems hindering the arrest of the 39-year-old Australian had been ironed out, and a newspaper report said he was in Britain.
How it will affect the economy is what is not clear yet?

EFCC files charges against former US Vice President

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nigeria said on Thursday it planned to file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney in a $180 million bribery case involving a former unit of oil services firm, Halliburton.
The EFCC on Tuesday summoned the country chief of Halliburton and last week detained 10 Nigerian and expatriate Halliburton staff for questioning after raiding its Lagos office.
“We are filing charges against Cheney,” EFCC spokesman, Femi Babafemi told Reuters.
Asked whether Cheney would be charged over the investigation into construction of a liquefied natural gas plant in Nigeria, Femi Babafemi said, “it’s true ... definitely.”
The spokesman would not give details on the charges that he says are likely to be filed next week, but said “they are not unconnected to his role as the chief executive of Halliburton.”
A prosecutor on the case, Godwin Obla, said joint charges would be filed against Cheney along with the former and current leadership of Halliburton and others.
The charges are to be filed at the high court in Abuja, he said.
KBR, and Halliburton which was once headed by Cheney, reached a $579 million settlement in the United States but Nigeria, France and Switzerland have conducted their own investigations into the case.
Halliburton split from KBR in 2007 and has said that its current operations in Nigeria are unrelated.

Russia and Qatar for 2018, 2022 FIFA World cup

It is indeed a good business for Russia and Qatar to have won the right to host the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World cup respectively. My congratulations to the people of Russia and Qatar as the world await the first world cup to be hosted in eastern europe and the Middle east.

New face of telecomms business in nigeria

The telecommunication sector in Nigeria have since its privatisation in 2001 by the then president Chief Olusegun Obsanjo with the arrival of Econet and Mtn have undergo series of development. Since then, subscribers were made to pay high tariffs until globccom came into the scene and introduced per/seconds billing which mark the beginning of the price reduction. Around two years ago, Etisalat came into the scene with a strategy and this also lead to price reduction of calls.
The then econet changed to vodacom, ..... and now Airtel. Airtel is the company that has come up with the latest price slash to N12 / mins which is by far the lowest in the country for now.
The questions in the mind of average phone users is whether all these have come to stay. will there be further reduction.? Time will tell.

Towards year 2011

I woke up this morning and i realised that it is exactly 29 days to the beginning of a new calendar year 2011.
i asked my self, what were my goals at the beginning of the year? am i able to achieve any of the goals? and then i asked you my audience,have you ask your self these questions?
If you were able to achieve all your goals,give thanks to the Lord and then flash back to review what you did to achieve those goals and learn from it.if you achieve some or unable to achieve all, still give thanks to the Lord and evaluate yourself on how to move on.
For the coming year? start the preparation now on what you want to achieve next year in your personal and business life. yes personal life, because it affects your business life.
All the best and happy new business year 2011 in advance.