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Misty Copeland, the First African-American Principal Ballerina

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Good day everyone, how are you today? I have not written for a long time because I have been busy working on successfully creating my natural beauty product line (which I have successfully formulated and will discuss in another blog post). However, the desire to encourage people to live beyond their present situation has brought me back to blogging. This time, I wrote about Misty Danielle Copeland, the first African-American performer, who was appointed as a principal dancer for American Ballet Theatre (typically considered the best company for classical ballet in America) in June, 2015. The reason I decided to write about her is because she has surmounted different hurdles in life to get to where she is today. Oftentimes, we have challenges and life hardly goes the way we want it. But it is our duty to make the best of the available opportunities or challenges we have. Kindly read about this wonderful, multi-talented African-American ballet dancer and get inspired to do that whic...

Story of An Icon: Giuliana Rancic

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Giuliana Rancic (1974 - ) is an American journalist and television personality of Italian decent, who is New York Times best-selling author and the winner of the Fan Favorite award at the 2014 Daytime Emmy Award. She is also an entertainment journalist, author, fashion and beauty expert and television personality with over 3.5 million devoted followers on Twitter and 7 million followers across three social media platforms. History Giuliana was born on August, 17, 1974, Naples, Italy to Eduardo and Anna DePandi and immigrated to Maryland at age 7, along with her family. As a new immigrant, her English skills were close to zero. Her love affair with television journalism began before she could even speak English. Her parents couldn’t afford a tutor, so she learned the language by watching television, mostly various news channels, and trying to repeat the sentences she had heard. Education In the United States, Giuliana attended Walt Whitman High School, after which she enrolled i...

FAILURE, A ROAD MAP TO SUCCESS: Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs (1955–2011) was the co-founder of Apple Computers. Through Apple Computers, he pioneered a series of revolutionary technologies, including the iPhone and iPad, which are successful today. Childhood Steve was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption. He was later adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs.as always an intelligent and innovative thinker. Though as a youth, he had frustrations over formal schooling that his fourth-grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. He dropped out of college after six months due to lack of direction and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes at the school. In the summer of 1968, the 13-year-old Steve gets a summer job at the HP factory. In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computer. Apple Computers In 1985 Jobs was fired from Apple and immediately founded another computer c...

Success Initiatives

The secret to success is laws. We must understand them. Laws have no respect for location or time. They are not controlled by environment but can control environment. However, most of us try to succeed on emotion and scheming. Laws are designed to guarantee success 8 principles of Laws 1. Law sand principles protect the product. 2. Laws and principles preserve the product. 3. Laws and principles serve the product. 4. Laws and principles guarantee the function of the products. 5. Laws and principles simplify product function. 6. Laws and Principles bring peace and confidence. 7. Laws and principles protect against experimentation. 8. Laws and principles are the enemies of fear. The knowledge of laws are the source of wisdom.

FAILURE, A ROAD MAP TO SUCCESS: Oprah

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Oprah, whose birth name is Orpah has been cited as the richest African American of the 20th century. She is currently worth $3 billion. However, she was born in an economically troubled neighborhood and raised by a single-teenaged mother in the city of Milwaukee. Initially, Oprah was raised by her maternal grandmother, who taught her to read at an early age. Due to her ability to read and write before the age of three, she was often promoted several grades ahead of her age when enrolled in school. However, when she was sent to her mother in Milwaukee, her lack of supervision enabled several male relatives and friends to sexually abuse Oprah, who gave birth to a premature baby (who died shortly after birth) at the age of fourteen. After the death of her baby, she went to Nashville, Tennessee to live with her father, Vernon Winfrey. Vernon was a strict disciplinarian, who gave his daughter the secure home life she needed to flourish. It was here that she became an honor student and...

FAILURE, A ROAD MAP TO SUCCESS

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Hello, how are you doing? This is my first post since a week ago and I am happy to share this knowledge with you. Today, I gave a presentation in my office on the topic written above. I am sharing it with you  hope this adds value to your lives. You can like, comment and share with family, friends and 'enemies' if it pleases you. What is Failure? Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective – wikipedia. “Failure and defeat are life’s greatest teachers [but] sadly, most people, and particularly conservative corporate cultures, don’t want to go there,” - Ralph Heath. What is Success? Success means completing an objective or reaching a goal- business directory.com. Success means having each area of our life balanced. These areas include self, family, friends, work/business, community, spiritual and material things. * Try not to ignore any of these. When someone concentrates on just one or two of these areas, then the others will f...

The Story of An Icon

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Have you heard the name, Adepeju Jaiyeoba (nee Mabadeje)? May be not. Well, I will tell you a few things about her. Adepeju is a Nigerian trained lawyer and founder of Brown Button Foundation , an NGO established to help curb the high mortality rates in Nigeria, promote women’s sexual and reproductive rights and helping them to make informed choices. Over time, Adepeju has headed and contributed to different spheres of life. She was the NYSC Legal Aid group committee head on women and children’s right between 2008 and 2009.  In 2009, she was a volunteer guest writer for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in Trinidad and Tobago. Also, she was selected to participate in a capacity building and young women mentoring program with the Women in Successful Careers (WISCAR) organization where her leadership skills were further sharpened in 2010. In 2011, Adepeju founded Brown Button Foundation and sold Mother’s Delivery Kits, which are cost-effective and life-...

Africa's Billionaire, Dangote

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Brief Profile Aliko Dangote , the richest man in Nigeria and first Nigerian Billionaire to be listed on New York-based Forbes , was born on the 10th of April, 1957. He is the founder of Dangote Group , which has subsidiaries that supply commodities like cements, sugar, salt, flour, rice, spaghetti, fabric and the like at affordable prices. This Dangote Group imports 400,000 metric tonnes of sugar annually which makes up about 70 per cent of the total requirements of the nation and is a major supplier of the product to the manufacturers of Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola and Seven-Up in Nigeria. Dangote was ranked first (weath-wise) in Nigeria in the 2008 Forbes Magazine with an estimated fortune of 3.3 billion dollars. At the monment, he is estimated to be worth 17.9 billion dollars on Forbes in 2015.  Background Aliko Dangote was born in Kano, where his grandfather, the late Alhaji Sanusi Dantata provided him Aliko Dangote and Bill Gates with a small capital to start his own busine...

Success Fundamentals - The Battle-Field of the Mind (Episode 3)

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Hello friends. How are you today? I am sure some of us must be sleeping now, others may be going about their daily activities. This is dependent on the side of the world we are. Today, I am updating my blog post on “SUCCESS FUNDAMENTAL". It is a series of write-ups that is broken down into six episodes. Overtime, I have published two episodes. The first one can be found here , while the second one is here . At the moment, I will be bringing to you the episode 3 of Success Fundamentals - The Battle-Field of the Mind, which is written by Emeka Nwonu , a Speaker, Trainer, Life Coach and Creativity Consultant. The Battle-Field of the Mind (Episode 3) A decision is left for the owner of the mind to either throw his weight behind the Forces of WILL or pitch camp with the Forces of RUIN. Whatsoever his decision is, it comes with weighty consequences either for good or bad. Whenever you see a poor, miserable man devoid of ideas on what next to do to improve his situation, you can ...

SUCCESS FUNDAMENTALS - The Battle field of the Mind. (Episode 2)

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Hi friend, I believe you had a dreamy night. This write-up is a continuation from last week’s post on success fundamental, which is brought to you by Emeka Nwonu , a Speaker, Trainer, Life Coach and Creativity Consultant. Before I proceed to the business of the day, which is of course a compelling but multi-dimensional task, I must do that which is required and that is reminding you of the deepness and maximum concentration needed for what I'm about to share. LET’S SHOOT! The two rival forces of the mind - the 'Forces of WILL' and the Forces of 'RUIN' are engaged in a clash of the titans for the solitary aim of having exclusive rights to the complete control of the mind. If the victory goes to the Forces of WILL, they breed SUCCESS and export it as a by-product to the World Without. On the other hand, if the victory goes to the Forces of RUIN, they breed failure and mediocrity and as well export it to the World Without. Remember that this battle fought is i...

SUCCESS FUNDAMENTALS - The Battle field of the Mind. (Episode 1)

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Hi friends, happy new week. For the next six weeks, I will be sharing with you “Success Fundamental” written by Emeka Nwonu , a Speaker, Trainer, Life Coach and Creativity Consultant. I hope these write-ups will inspire you to take positive actions in your lives. Kindly tune in for the latest post every Monday for the next six weeks. Thank you. Today, I will be sharing with you, the episode one of Success Fundamental “Battle field of the Mind”. Every individual has two Worlds in his lifetime delicately balanced and poised to either make or mar him. They are the 'World Within' and the 'World Without'. The World Within is characterised by the workings of the mind and it's tendency to provide the battlefield for the clash of two mighty forces seeking dominion and control of the mind. The mind in this instance is only a Spectator and watches as the drama unfolds. The World Without is the Physical World and it is expressed fully by the outcome of the battle in th...