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We all need a good friend! Friends are one of the most important and one of the least understood aspects of our lives. When it comes to happiness, our friends are a major key. Our friends affect and influence us in more ways than we realize, they play a part in determining our sense of self and the direction of our lives. Whether we like it or not, our friends have shaped who we are today. We are products of friends who are no longer our friends. Based on the influence our friends can have on us and on achieving  our goals and objectives in life, it is of primordial importance for us to understand the type of friends we have. Knowledge of our type of friends guides us on how we relate with people, especially when it comes to sharing our life's plans and dreams with them. Bishop T.D. Jakes, one of the world’s most revered mastermind shares with us 3 types of friends; Confidants, Constituents and Comrades. 1) Confidants   You have very few confidants. Confidants a...

As business managers and owners, we always seek information and knowledge to aid us to running our businesses towards ultimate success. We naturally turn to experts or to the over 20,000 business books published worldwide annually for some valuable information to aid us. There is this one book though which we are very much familiar with and because of our familiarity with it, we turn to ignore it. This Book is the Holy Bible. The Bible mentions money over 800 times and makes over 2,000 financial and economic references. If there is one person who knows a lot about business and wealth, it is the One who created it all! Whether you are a Christian, Muslim, agnostic, or atheist, there is a wealth of ancient wisdom about business found in the Bible. Here are 5 Bible verses every CEO needs to know. 1. The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. – Genesis 2:15 This is a fundamental truth of humanity- God designed us and He desi...

Jesse Carlton AKA "Mr SPEAKER" Public speaking is one of the most effective way to get your message across in a formal setting like in business meetings and seminars or in informal settings like day-to-day conversations with family and friends. It is also one of the most feared things in the world. it is up there with the likes of death and snakes. Some people would rather be dead than make a sentence in public. We all have that fear for public speaking. But rather than forget about the public speaking and die with our opinions buried within us, we could rise above our fear and master the necessary skills of the public speaking. But how do we rise above the fear? Our resurrection begins with making a decision to learn the skills of public speaking. Here are 11 places to learn those skills for free: 1.  Learn by Example on Udemy Video-based learning platform Udemy has a great public speaking course offered free of charge by Professor Chris Haroun, business sch...

Be a Goal Digger. https://nkwaincarlson.blogspot.com We are in the dawn of a new year and we could use these early days to make the rest of our lives the best of our lives.   The best way to predict the future is to create it today. So how would you want 2017 to look like? Would you want to ride you own Car or have the HP Pavilion 15z like me or experience business and financial growth. The best time to ensure that happens are in the next couple of days.  Make the rest of your life the  best of your life by taking time out to fantasize about the perfect next year. Transform those fantasies to wishes and develop your wishes into concrete goals. The tips mentioned in this post would be very helpful in setting goals which would guarantee success if you are committed in getting them. Hard goals are SMART goals in that they must be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time bound . To be Specific, I want an HP Pavilion 15z next...