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Continue reading →: 7-inch non-foldable phones you can buy Why you may need them?Before we go any further, ladies and gentlemen we need to start with a list of 7-inch screened non-folding smartphones on the market. The guideline I am using says the qualifying devices: The list I am giving will start with OEMs that have offerings in the flagship class. Budget range…
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Continue reading →: Why people cheat in relationships? The defence.
Have you been cheated on, especially by a marriage partner? There is a wide contrast between one who loves you and one who is faithful to you. It is possible that your partner loves you and is faithful to you. It is the lack of this faithfulness, not the lack…
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Continue reading →: Lessons from doing the same thing over and over
The above heading should be “Lessons I learned from having to do the same thing over and over”. Only it had to be shortened. But I am so sure shortening the time you take doing what you do is not ideal when you have your curiosity to raise and learn…
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Continue reading →: How to mix manual work and creative writing.When I wrote this article by mostly jotting down ideas on a rooftop while working as an assistant roofing carpenter. Ideas and thoughts came quickly and disappeared like smoke. A good example is a thought “In trying to have you, I lost you.” Skipping five minutes without putting this thought…
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Continue reading →: Your dream or vision is your problem. Deal with it.It is not someone’s fault that you have a dream and a vision that he can’t understand and can not be there to help you grow. But it is your problem that you have it. So learn to understand the complexities of it and help yourself to grow it. You…
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Continue reading →: Question! See success in failure.Can there be such a thing as static progress? Progress that doesn’t qualify to be called progress. Where there is only an illusion of progress but nothing more than that. Great achievements require that you go easy on trying to achieve your goals early. You need to welcome delays, too.…
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Continue reading →: Leadership: Know these 3 qualities of people.
Some people lack before they see, observe and understand if anything is lacking. They are inadequate before they are. They need more before they know how many and how much. Their major problem is they will never get to know how much they need. They already need a jacket before…
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Continue reading →: Motives, desire, satifaction in my understanding.Motives and desires drive individuals to their limits of abilities and build their visions. Satisfaction on the other hand stalls as if to put a rest to a being who is yet to rest in peace. This article has the nerve to discuss the trio (motives, desire and satisfaction) differently.…
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Continue reading →: Meanings of ‘I love you’ when dating, kisses and physical affection.You don’t just say “I love you” to your lover. But you say it and you mean it. It is more than the words but the assurance that you have already signed up for a life-long partnership. It is certain that even when you do not have anything tangible to…
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Continue reading →: Teaching kids about failure and blaming none.Few advise that you need not to punish a kid who fails. Because as failure becomes scary and a thing to run away from, the kid activates blaming gears when s/he can’t win it all, and do all s/he can pass every exam and trial. Most prefer to punish. They…
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Continue reading →: 5 Factors behind creativity and imaginationCreativity and imagination are the root of all abilities mankind has. By imagining things beyond our limits and turning them into tangible items we unlock great potential in us. Creativity and imaginations makes one resourceful and achieve great things starting with limited resources and from a poor background. 1. Scarcity…
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Continue reading →: 6 things about wealth to know before you get richIn modern terms, wealth is money. Wealth is money in one’s possession and abundance. Wealth is the ability to provide proof that you are wealthy (even if you are not). There is nothing wrong with how you define it. What is wrong is what we have been taught about it.…
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Continue reading →: Agama the lizard and Foxy the lazy fox (Short story)Agama had quick morning routines. Filling his belly was priority number one, but never allowing it to fill was his ordeal. So, he happened to meet his usual friend who was up to a hundred times his size, Foxy the lazy fox. The two had grown up together and had…
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Continue reading →: Why won’t rich relatives help with capital? How to or not change their minds?Have you ever been asked for money by a homeless person whilst seated on a bench in the park? How many times has this happened just when you have the lowest denominations in your pockets that are so low that you don’t feel that they belong in your pocket? How…
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Continue reading →: Failure: A motivational article
He who finds himself not left behind calms to observe and discover means to breakthrough, welcomes failure and carries the responsibility on own shoulders. He knows that from those lessons whatever to come in the future is made. When failure put you behind, allow it to. It will work with…
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Continue reading →: What my dad’s death taught me?After trying his phone five consecutive times, I realised that he was not coming back. It was only hours after his death and his line had been discarded to avoid anyone calling to confirm from the man himself to hear if it were true. I looked at my image in…
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Continue reading →: Is it okay to kiss (or not) before marriage?Before going any further here is my position as a modern conservative: It is ok to kiss before marriage. Yes, it is. In fact, it is the best choice to kiss before marriage, only if you limit yourself to kissing. But I will also argue why it is ideal to…
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Continue reading →: What are qualities of a vision and a visionary?A vision is place-specific. Someone who is dreaming big and hoping to make it to Silicon Valley must make it to Silicon Valley. If taken to Bengal Valley he won’t make it. Both are tech-rich valleys to fill with the same calibre of vision (not mountains to move). In building…
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Continue reading →: Relationships: How to end a point of no return, calm tensions, end phases of silence?
There is tension and intense fighting, and you only wish there was a way to turn it off. But you can not. Or there is the worst of it: Silence. Silence burns. It hurts and it is difficult to settle than a fight. The more you try to solve it…
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Continue reading →: Let it take time and delays.The journey to success is a continual process of mastering your limited means. Means are always limited by the way. Letting there be delays to your ultimate success is the best way through which to discover means to understanding your limited means and harnessing them. To delay is not to…
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Continue reading →: How to get started and get it done?The best way to get started is to get it done The reason why we get started is to get it done. “How to get started” is a different question. It is about methods you can employ to get started. But do we really need a methodologies when it comes…
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Continue reading →: Resourced or resourcefulWe are only resourceful after finding out how to be, and mostly, when we happen to be unresourced. A zeal to achieve drives us further into being resourceful. Resourcefulness is the art of avoiding the defeat of dreams by scarcity. It is also one of putting your advantages into use.…
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Continue reading →: The process of apologising and forgiving
We struggle with apologies in this life. This article offers advice to the one asking for fogiveness as well as to the one offended. It outlines what both parties must do for an apology to work.
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Continue reading →: Things we are capable of: Creativity, imagination and potential.If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would astound ourselves. Thomas Edison. Where else to look for words relating to improvement, potential, creativity and imagination? Edison is known for many inventions including the microphone, phonography, incandescent electric light and kinetoscope. An inventor is a person…
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Continue reading →: Why did I drop out of College: Part IIITo my disciple and brother, Chris: That minor confrontation between me and grandfather when I said I would be a boss, not a doctor or a pilot was a conflict. It was one between the education system and me the student. This conflict was all because I refused to accept…
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Continue reading →: Why did I drop out of collage: Part IIMy disciple, Chris: You have heard of and witnessed the bond that was between me and our late grandfather, a man I have his name. He ranks fifth in my Hall of Fame, and he was inducted early. There was not ever going to be an educated me without his…
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Continue reading →: Why did I drop out of College: Part IDear Chris: I know you do not like the name “Christian” but it is the one I am used to. It takes getting used to, right? And I am so sure you will be used to my argument that the formal education system is not all roses. You might think…
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Continue reading →: Men’s ‘money confidence’ and women’s ‘beauty confidence’.I was once told that men are confident when they have money during their dating phase of their lives. That they feel they must not only pay for bills, but risk paying more where they should go for less or no payment. I did not take this as entirely a…
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Continue reading →: How did I become a blogger [Part 1 of ]?In 2013, a senior teacher by the self-given moniker, Pee Prize, invited us to the Library. There was nothing in the library for the building to deserve this name, and Prize had a plan. He was senior, thanks to promotion, and not age. Then a man in his mid-late twenties…
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Continue reading →: 7 ways of turning your failures into successThe impact a failure can make in your life is simply a result of how you take that failure as. Failure will build you if you are one who believes that it is part of your journey to success. During your failure time, it is helpful to have a skill…
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Continue reading →: Life is a one time event. Live it finally.Statements like the one above “Life is a one-time event. Live it finally.” Reminds me of a common phrase, “You only live once.” We interpret them in a way justifying our wastefulness of time and resources, and our lack of concern over future matters. On 17 January 2022, I wrote,…
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Continue reading →: It’s not about losing. It’s about winning. Fail to succeed.People who feel that they are losing and so detest to lose are people who lose a lot. They miss by miles what have been their dreams. They miss out that it’s not about losing. It is about winning. Winning takes a lot. It takes failing countless times before it…
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Continue reading →: Letter to Ex-lover [Part 1 of 1]This is a letter to my Ex-lover. It comes in three-part series. Enjoy it.
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Continue reading →: Visions can die closer to the breakthrough. Can’t they?Avoid getting your vision go to death before your breakthrough. We dream, we act. We act and we act bad. We dream again. Or we dream and do nothing about it. A vision is an abstract construct of dreams, pegged on a line of a different mindset, a mindset that…
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Continue reading →: Anger, finding a passion, patience and purpose—what passion is and what it isn’t?Passion is the work of mere calmness and the zero-harm zeal which, if it coexist with patience, does not only persist through obstacles but is happy to welcome obstacled. (Most mistaken this zero-harm zeal with anger). If true passion is to find its way into what you do, allow time…
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Continue reading →: Introduction: Mentor’s Letter to Sister [1/2]At first, when I undertook to write you a letter, I expected it to be short and having it delivered to you in place of a key of life for your twenty-first birthday in October 2021. You had in August of the said year recognised me as your mentor. That…
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