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Politics / Re: Shiite Muslims In Kano Mourn Victims Of Zaria Massacre by outflank: 11:03am On Dec 25, 2015 |
hammariise:You're right. Why post things that could arouse anger that could lead to violence? And the funny thing is that it's the christians that will bear the brunt of the whole thing. |
Celebrities / Re: Empress Njama Releases Christmas Photos by outflank: 9:40am On Dec 24, 2015 |
Cute dog. |
Travel / Re: "Young People Who Chartered Plane Chose To Disembark With Ladder"-AeroContractor by outflank: 9:08am On Dec 22, 2015 |
"Young people who chartered plane"...All hail Nigerian reporters. 1 Like |
Car Talk / Re: Check Out The Chinese Version Of Range Rover, So Cute! (Photos) by outflank: 5:48pm On Dec 14, 2015 |
Hope say e go cheap sha! |
Politics / Re: Bida Market Where Boko Haram Trades - Daily Trust by outflank: 12:42am On Dec 06, 2015 |
Trut:MOST soldiers? Where's your proof? |
Crime / Re: Passenger Beats Conductor To Stupor In Ikeja, Lagos (photos) by outflank: 8:49pm On Dec 05, 2015 |
Who be passenger who be conductor out of the two of them? |
Celebrities / Re: Jim Iyke, Dbanj Who Rocked The Denim On Denim Better? by outflank: 8:37pm On Nov 29, 2015 |
Jim it is. |
Health / Re: 15 Tips To Maintain A Healthy Skin by outflank: 9:10pm On Nov 19, 2015 |
Feranchek:what's the name of the cream please? |
Family / Re: Woman Bathes Husband With Hot Water Over Breakfast by outflank: 10:39am On Nov 17, 2015 |
KashyBaby:Would you support your mother bathing your father with hot water because he cheated? It beats me how some of you women can be so depraved in your thinking. |
Celebrities / Re: Lailasblog Shares Photos Of Herself & Kids To Celebrate 7th Wedding Anniversary by outflank: 10:18pm On Nov 16, 2015 |
Decapo:Leaves a big question mark on my mind too. |
Romance / Re: Nigerian Lady Tells Fellow Women To Dump Their Boyfriend If He Just Did His BVN by outflank: 10:31pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
viickerz:Epic response. 1 Like |
Adverts / Re: My Testimony, Am Thirty Thousand Naira Richer With Just N2500. by outflank: 6:39pm On Oct 15, 2015 |
mail me at outflankk@gmail.com, thanks. |
Education / Re: Lecturer Caught Pants Down With Married Woman In Asaba Hotel by outflank: 7:45pm On Sep 15, 2015 |
lalasticlala:For pete's sake, what right did they have to beat her? |
Phones / Re: Which Song Do You Use As Ringtone And Why? by outflank: 9:04am On Sep 13, 2015 |
Celebrate by Common; the intro is killer. |
Business / Re: 5 Habits That Helped Turn Ordinary People Into Self-made Millionaires. by outflank: 8:38pm On Sep 08, 2015 |
Sabrwahaqqo:Lol, I won't rule out the possibility. |
Business / Re: 5 Habits That Helped Turn Ordinary People Into Self-made Millionaires. by outflank: 8:05pm On Sep 08, 2015 |
Sabrwahaqqo:I don't think it's luck, I think it's persistence. |
Celebrities / Re: 9 Nigerian Celebrities And The American Stars They Resemble (Photos) by outflank: 7:59pm On Sep 08, 2015 |
philips70:Yeah! I've always thought Martin Lawrence looked familiar. 2 Likes |
Business / 5 Habits That Helped Turn Ordinary People Into Self-made Millionaires. by outflank: 7:20pm On Sep 08, 2015 |
Ordinary people can earn their fortunes — with the right habits. Of all of your daily activities, 40% of them are habits, according to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. This means 40% of the time you're on auto-pilot, every day. Habits save the brain work and conserve brain fuel. There is very little processing power involved with respect to habits. So what does that have to do with being rich? I studied 177 self-made millionaires and uncovered certain unique good habits that made it possible for them to automatically process success on a daily basis. Here are five of the top habits of self-made millionaires that helped them accumulate an average of $7.4 million in 12 years. 1. They set good goals vs. bad goals. You hardly ever hear anyone talk about goals in a negative context. Goals are almost always perceived to be good. But there are goals that add no real value to your life when achieved yet consume valuable resources. So how do you know when a goal is good or bad? Good goals create long-term benefits and long-term happiness when achieved. They allow you to grow as an individual and alter your behavior in a positive way. Good goals get you from point A to point B. Point B being a better place, such as more wealth, a better job, higher income, better school system for your kids, etc. An example of a good goal would be to lose 20 pounds. Setting a weight-loss goal often involves a daily regimen of exercise, healthy eating and encourages a healthy lifestyle. Good health results from exercising and eating right. It may also motivate you to moderate your consumption of alcohol or to quit smoking. When the weight eventually comes off you enjoy the compliments, feel healthier and all of this creates lasting happiness. Bad goals create short-term happiness and no long- term benefits when achieved. An example of a bad goal might be to own a Ferrari, particularly if it is not within your means. In that case, in order to own a Ferrari, you must make more money. Making more money will likely involve either more work or taking excessive financial risk (for example, taking out a loan you may not be able to afford — or, say, gambling, if that's your tendency). There's a cost-benefit to working more — you invest time that you will never recoup. Don't misunderstand me here. Working more to make more money can be a good thing. But where the goal goes south is when you then use that money to buy stuff, like a Ferrari, that is financially out of your reach and perhaps not a necessity. The happiness you derive from owning more or better stuff fades over time, since happiness derived from buying stuff is typically short-term. You will eventually revert back to your genetic happiness baseline and, after a few weeks, the Ferrari will no longer create lasting happiness. The lost time with the family, however, can never be recouped. If the goal, instead, was to judiciously invest that extra money you earned into a calculated risk, such as a side business, an investment or a vacation home that would enable you to spend more time with your family, then it may shifts the "work more/earn more" goal into a good goal. Ideally, achieving a goal will create long-term benefits: a stronger business, more time with the family, more personal growth, financial independence, improved health, etc. 2. They avoid time-wasters. Sixty-seven percent of wealthy people watch less than an hour of TV a day and 63% spend less than an hour a day on the Internet, unless it is job-related. They spend their free time instead engaged in self- improvement, networking, volunteering, working side jobs or side businesses, or pursuing some goal or dream that will lead to financial rewards down the road. 3. They dream-set before they goal-set. You must Dream-Set before you Goal-Set. Dream- Setting provides you with the destination; Goal- Setting is the transportation to get you to your destination. Dreams represent a vision of some future, ideal state or reality. Dreams are the springboard for goals. You can't achieve goals that are actually dreams in disguise. Most who set goals, mistake a dream for a goal, and that is why most fail to achieve their goals. For example, making an additional $100,000 a year is a dream, not a goal. Becoming an Olympic athlete is a dream, not a goal. Owning a house on the beach is a dream, not a goal (unless you have the money already). Dream-Setting is the act of clearly defining a dream. It's a two-step process: 1. Ask yourself what you want your ideal life to be 10, 15 or 20 years out. Then write down every detail of your ideal future life. Be very specific in the details: the income you earn, the house you live in, the boat you own, the car you drive, the money you've accumulated, etc. 2. Using this detailed description of your ideal future life, make a bullet-point list of each one of the details that represent your ideal life. These would be the income you earn, the house you live in, the boat your own, etc. These details represent your wishes or dreams. Goal-Setting requires you to build goals around each one of your wishes or dreams. In order to build goals around each wish or dream you need to ask yourself two questions: 1. What would I need to do, what activities would I need to engage in, in order for each wish or dream to come true? 2. Can I perform those activities? If the answer to Question #2 is yes, then those activities represent your goals. Goals are only goals when they involve physical action and you have the capability to successfully take action. Let's summarize this Dream-Setting / Goal-Setting process: 1. Paint a picture with words of your ideal life. 2. Define each wish or dream that must be realized in order to have your ideal future life. 3. Establish specific goals around each one of your wishes or dreams. 4. Take action. Pursue and achieve each of the specific goals that will make each wish or dream come true. You then repeat this process for every other wish or dream. When you realize each one of your wishes or dreams, your ideal future life will then become your actual real life. 4. They never quit on a dream. Self-made millionaires are persistent. They never quit on their dream. They would rather go down with the ship than quit. Twenty-seven percent of the self- made millionaires in my study failed at least once in business. And then they picked themselves up and went on to try again. They persisted. Persistence requires doing certain things every day that move you forward in achieving your goals or life dream. Persistence makes you unstoppable. No obstacle, mistake or momentary failure can stop you from moving forward if you keep at it. These millionaires learned to pivot and change course, growing in the process. Persistence allowed them to learn what didn't work and continuously experiment, until they found what did work. Persistence is the single greatest contributor to manifesting good luck. Those who persist, eventually get lucky. Some unintended consequence emerges, something unexpected and unanticipated happens to those who persist. Sometimes, those closest to you will urge you on and encourage you. But more often, those closest to you, those directly impacted by the obstacles, mistakes and failures that are part of the success journey, will try to stop you from persisting. It takes superhuman effort to continue to pursue success when there are so many forces fighting you. That's what makes successful people so special and also, so rare. If you want to be successful in life, you must persist in the face of unrelenting adversity. 5. They create multiple streams of income. Self-made millionaires do not rely on one singular source of income. They develop multiple streams. Three seemed to be the magic number in my study. Sixty-five percent had three or more streams of income that they created over time. Diversifying your sources of income allows you to weather the economic downturns that always occur in life. If you put "one pole in one pond," when that single income stream is negatively impacted in some way, you can suffer financially. Conversely, having "several poles in several ponds" allows you to draw income from other sources when one source is temporarily impaired. Some of the additional streams might include: real estate rentals (each rental unit = a stream of income), REITs (each one = a stream of income), tenants-in-common real estate investments (each one = a stream of income), triple net leases, stock market investments, annuities (each one = a stream of income), seasonal real estate rentals (beach rentals, ski rentals, lakefront rentals), private equity investments, part ownership in a side businesses (each one = a stream of income), financing investments, ancillary products or services and royalties (patents, books, oil, timber, etc.). Remember, this study followed ordinary people who built their wealth over a period of time. So it takes work, determination and establishing the habits that will help get you there. These are only a few examples of the many good habits that support wealth-building, but they're a good place to start. Source: www.businessinsider.com/5-habits-that-helped-turn-ordinary-people-into-self-made-millionaires-2015-9?utm_content=buffer7f94c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 3 Likes |
Celebrities / Re: Full List Of Winners & Pics From Yesterday's 2015 Nigerian Entertainment Awards by outflank: 2:25pm On Sep 07, 2015 |
boss1310:Thought I was the only one who thought the lady in the 'baggy coat' looked like M.I. |
Business / Pure Honey Needed In Large Quantity. by outflank: 10:40am On Sep 07, 2015 |
Suppliers for pure honey needed. Call 08037287322 to discuss, thanks. |
Business / Re: Money Ritual Theory. Is The Money Involved Printed By CBN? by outflank: 3:17am On Sep 07, 2015 |
AfricanApple:True, it's all Nollywood's fault. They made him believe money just appears or a spirit comes to deliver it every morning. |
Celebrities / Re: Rachel Bakam Debunks Punch Publication About Fashanu On Her Ex Husband by outflank: 2:57am On Sep 07, 2015 |
azzima:Yea, I noticed the title too, and I was like where was I when that happened? 1 Like |
Family / Re: Would You Go To An Ex's Wedding? by outflank: 2:46am On Sep 07, 2015 |
Art, Graphics & Video / Re: //pictures Speak// Ilorin Version Of #madeofblack by outflank: 11:32pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
Lovely pictures... |
Music/Radio / Re: Please Listen To My Song And Tell Me What You Think. by outflank: 10:52pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
waleyp:Lol, alright, and God bless you too. |
Music/Radio / Re: Please Listen To My Song And Tell Me What You Think. by outflank: 4:30pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
waleyp:Lol, with 71% pass mark, you're being too kind; I didn't think I'd score up to that. Like I said before, my friend (an up and coming producer) and I were just playing around; I'm not promoting the song. I'm doing something a lot better that will serve both my country and 'america' so that I no go need to relocate. Thank you very much. |
Music/Radio / Re: Please Listen To My Song And Tell Me What You Think. by outflank: 4:26pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
monipherst:Thank you. |
Business / How To Become A Millionaire By Age 30!!! by outflank: 9:57am On Sep 06, 2015 |
How to get Rich before 30. Please note that these steps are not restricted to those who are below 30 alone. 1. Follow the money. In today's economic environment you cannot save your way to millionaire status. The first step is to focus on increasing your income in increments and repeating that. My income was $3,000 a month and nine years later it was $20,000 a month. Start following the money, and it will force you to control revenue and see opportunities. 2. Don't show off — show up! I didn't buy my first luxury watch or car until my businesses and investments were producing multiple secure flows of income. I was still driving a Toyota Camry when I had become a millionaire. Be known for your work ethic, not the trinkets that you buy. 3. Save to invest, don't save to save. The only reason to save money is to invest it. Put your saved money into secured, sacred (untouchable) accounts. Never use these accounts for anything, not even an emergency. This will force you to continue to follow step one (increase income). To this day, at least twice a year, I am broke because I always invest my surpluses into ventures I cannot access. 4. Avoid debt that doesn't pay you. Make it a rule that you never use debt that won't make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer. 5. Treat money like a jealous lover. Millions wish for financial freedom, but only those that make it a priority have millions. To get rich and stay rich you will have to make it a priority. Money is like a jealous lover. Ignore it, and it will ignore you, or worse, it will leave you for someone who makes it a priority. 6. Money doesn't sleep. Money doesn't know about clocks, schedules, or holidays, and you shouldn't either. Money loves people that have a great work ethic. When I was 26 years old, I was in retail, and the store I worked at closed at 7 p.m. Most times you could find me there at 11 p.m. making an extra sale. Never try to be the smartest or luckiest person — just make sure you outwork everyone. 7. Poor makes no sense. I have been poor, and it sucks. I have had just enough and that sucks almost as badly. Eliminate any and all ideas that being poor is somehow OK. Bill Gates has said, "If you're born poor, it's not your mistake. But if you die poor, it is your mistake." 8.Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources. 9. Get your money to do the heavy lifting. Investing is the Holy Grail in becoming a millionaire, and you should make more money off your investments than your work. If you don't have surplus money you won't make investments. The second company I started required a $50,000 investment. That company has paid me back that $50,000 every month for the last 10 years. My third investment was in real estate, where I started with $350,000, a large part of my net worth at the time. I still own that property today, and it continues to provide me with income. Investing is the only reason to do the other steps, and your money must work for you and do your heavy lifting. 10. Shoot for $10 million, not $1 million. The single biggest financial mistake I've made was not thinking big enough. I encourage you to go for more than a million. There is no shortage of money on this planet, only a shortage of people thinking big enough. Apply these 10 steps and they will make you rich. Steer clear of people that suggest your financial dreams are born of greed. Avoid get-rich-quick schemes, be ethical, never give up, and, once you make it, be willing to help others get there too. Source: www.businessinsider.com/how-i-became-a-millionaire-by-30-2014-11?utm_content=bufferd65b2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 2 Likes 1 Share |
Business / Re: Nigerian Companies Where Ceos Are Sons Of Founders Of The Companies by outflank: 10:18pm On Sep 05, 2015 |
emerged01:This means we should be patient in all things knowing that what will be will be no matter how long it takes. 1 Like |
Celebrities / Re: Timi Dakolo And His Beautiful Wife (photo) by outflank: 5:51pm On Sep 05, 2015 |
ekanDamie: Houseofglam7: Nairalanders and their bad mouth, lol. |
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