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Coming Soon:
Black Africans Need
To Stop Whining & Start Acting!(Article) Updates About SDAc's Activities/Tips You Can Use |
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the first issue of this newsletter for 2007, I will be featuring an article
with the above title in continuation of my campaign to make Nigerians
& Africans in general realise they can take control of their own destinies
through individual/personal action.
Like I have said in many of my previous writings, people in our part of the world seem so preoccupied with material things, and very often want to pass responsibility for improvement of their circumstances to others - or some spiritual being, when many times it is they who need to get up and take control! In the article mentioned above I will be tracing our history BEFORE colonisation, as is now being retold by so many so-called leaders, and calling attention to the fact that nobody - least of all the white man - can stop us Black Africans from becoming a force to reckon with in today's world, the way we "ruled" in those pre-colonial days. Like the Asians did/are doing, we can also do it. BUT do we want to? Central to my discussion in that article will be an exploration of the reason(s) why the following saying about Black people, though upsetting, tends to ring true for MOST of us: "If you want to hide something from a black man, put it in a book!". Have I piqued your interest already? Good! See you in 2007! a. I Am A Self-Development Educator & NOT A Motivational Speaker (Pub: 27th March 2003) b. Why I Do What I Do, The Way I Do It (Pub: 2nd March 2003)
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Nugget™ : You
Need To Be Physically Fit In Order To Excel Ideas To Help You Develop Yourself To Achieve Your FULL Potential |
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In a brief preview to this last newsletter issue for 2006, I announced the fact that I took part in the 2006 edition of the MTN Lagos International Half- Marathon, promising to share a few of the intense moments of my experience with you all. Here it is. Preparing For The 2006 MTN 21Km International Half-Marathon I now share with you details of my recent attempt to take my fitness level up a notch by entering the 2006 MTN 21Km International Half-Marathon. We all run life's marathon. But if we really want to run it well, we need to be at our best at all times. Doing so successfully, will depend - in part - on how fit we are. Running in some marathon - even if in our bedrooms - can help us stay fit enough to run life's marathon well and achieve a fulfilling existence. 1. Deciding To Enter For The Race: About the first week of November, the idea came to me - after watching one of the adverts for the then impending marathon - to enter for the race. When I told my wife she did not show surprise - having gotten used to my sudden unusual decision making.* So, I stepped up the intensity of my exercise routines every other day. Instead of twenty sit-ups, I went for fifty, but only managed forty. I aimed for seventy push-ups, but dropped at sixty. Then I would run up and down the steep flight of stairs leading from the sitting room up to the bedrooms at first twenty times each way(up and down). By the end of the second week, I could do it 100 times each way. I would take 2 to 5 minute breaks between each round of exercises and then start all over again. I knew this was not enough but I could do no more because virtually the only free time I had was when I was not sitting behind the PC working on the Excel VB projects I had been paid for. The benefits of this approach compared to challenges of going out to jog along the roads out here also made it preferable. *(I recall back in 1999 while still employed as a brewer, I would take her and my son with me to the Ogbe stadium in Benin City, Edo State where we lived then, so I could train with the Edo State Senior Handball team). Wednesday 29th November 2006, between 12.30pm and 4.00pm: I stood in a "loooong" queue for over three and a half hours on one of the ramps at the National Stadium to eventually get my race number sticker(17604 - Click here to see the picture) in a bag containing a yellow race T-shirt and the Race Route Map. <Click here to continue reading>
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Online Self-Development(SD) Resource Links Resource URLs For Entrepreneurs, Employees, Parents, Teachers & Students |
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1. 10 Website Design Tips(What Every Website Needs To Do) - By Anthony Hamill 2. You Need To Be Physically Fit In Order To Excel 3. The Customer Will NOT Always Be Right: Don't Be A Victim Of Entrepreneur Abuse™! 4. Six(6) Warning Signs That Can Help You Avoid Wasting Time Marketing To The Wrong Prospects |
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Yours in Self-Development! Tayo K. Solagbade |
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