Within each and every one of us lies an awesome potential to achieve whatever we set our minds to. To accomplish this, you must start from within. Let us agree on some fundamentals: You are talented, clever, unique, and totally special. There’s no one else like you. No one has the combination of skills and [...]

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To expect success you have to plan and prepare carefully. By the time you recognize and develop your winner capabilities, the winner in you emerges and you begin to see yourself in a different light. If you fail to plan, your chances of success are almost nil. But if you draw up your ‘success map’, [...]

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We constantly project into the future. We can’t help it, that’s part of what makes us human. We frequently think about the future, creating, reviewing, rehearsing and discarding various scenarios of what will happen, and what will not happen. We have a choice to either be optimistic or pessimistic. When you are positive and optimistic [...]

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I NEED A HERO! SEND ME AN ANGEL! NOW! Do these statements sound familiar? Yes? Then listen to what I have to say. Waiting for a hero to take you by the hand and lead you is choosing to remain a victim or a child. It is time we grow up and take responsibility for our [...]

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My name is Mosunmola Johnson; I am a 300level student, department of Industrial relation and personnel management, faculty of Business Administration. My mentor is my Daddy because he showed me the right values in life.  My ambition is to be an International human resource consultant and the best network marketer. My goal is to be the [...]

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Students of the University of Lagos seldom pass through the system without experiencing the problem of missing results. Students continually lament over this issue. Various actions have been taken to implement policies that can correct the situation. However, it has been insufficient in solving the needs of all parties involved. Here is a story that [...]

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   Believing in yourself is one of the major keys to success. It motivates you in a way nothing else can.  It gives you a sense of self-worth that can not be taken away. It banishes any feelings of inadequacy. Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxing legend of all time exemplified vividly what can be achieved [...]

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“Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. – Erica Jong. “The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.” -John Lancaster Spalding.  In our day-to-day lives, the virtue of courage doesn’t receive much attention. People believe courage [...]

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President Olusegun Obasanjo commissioned some buildings in the University of Lagos on the 6th of March 2006 as part of the re-launch of the $500m endowment fund. One of these buildings is the Afe Babalola Auditorium which was said to have cost a whooping N100 million. Yesterday, it was very surprising to find out that [...]

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There was a huge crowd of people in school yesterday. Some were gathered at the entrance of the multi-purpose hall, while others loitered around Wema Bank and the Faculty of Environmental Sciences. They had come to write the First Bank of Nigeria aptitude test that was organized for the recruitment of executive trainees to rejuvenate the [...]

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“Desire alone is not enough. But to lack desire means to lack a key ingredient in success. Many a talented individual failed because they lacked desire. Many victories have been snatched by the underdog because they wanted it more. So if you desire — intensely — and you act upon it, then everything stands within your [...]

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“The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.” James Whitcomb Riley.  One of the keys to success is having clearly-defined goals which you must focus on. You will never become successful looking at your present state, condition [...]

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The alphabetical configuration attached to my personality is S-t-e-p-h-e-n P-i-n-k-r-a-h. I have spent 21 years on this earth and happen to be the only man child in my family. It feels good sometimes, but at times it could be… I am a 400 level student in the University of Lagos studying Estate Management. I sincerely [...]

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