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Doc, Dopey, Bashful, Sneezy, Sleepy, Grumpy, and Happy are the names of the seven dwarfs…from the movie “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. And, for the purposes of this message, we are going to drop five and focus on two… Grumpy and Happy. Why? Because these two characters, these polar opposites beautifully demonstrate the best and worst attitude one can have as it relates to life and work. HAPPY A common misconception of work for far too many people is that they associate it with hardship, misfortune, pain, inconvenience, and stress. However, when you look at your work as a curse, as a grind…as something you must endure…you are missing out on one of the greatest joys of life. Kahil Gibran the Lebanese artist and philosopher said in his essay On Work that…” work is love made visible “, and I for one wholeheartedly agree. The word love is appropriate because it is precisely right in both the meaning and the feeling that it carries. Work can, should and must be a...

The Difference Between Gold and Silver Small Actions – Big Results Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps. As the Rio Olympics are coming to a close this evening, I am reminded of a 60 Minutes interview with Olympic Champion Michael Phelps. During the interview, the host Anderson Cooper showed pictures of Phelps winning the 100-meter butterfly final at the Water Cube in Beijing by ONE-HUNDREDTH of a second over Serbia’s Milorad Cavic. Phelps admitted that his winning margin of one-hundredth of a second was almost impossible to see but it was because of ONE small difference, on the final stroke Cavic lifted his head up just slightly which acted as a mini speed bump and I kept my head down streamlined. Small stuff matters a lot! It’s important to keep in mind that high achievers in every vocation turn over all stones, understanding and exploiting to their benefit the fact that the critical difference between merely acceptable versus excellent results lies in the sm...

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Premier league preview part one The English premier league kicks off in a matter of hours and we can't but preview as always, the wait is over, men have moved, managers have changed jobs, but the league remains. Notable absentee from the dugout this time is the self styled relegation battle expert Sam Alardyce, who surprisingly was named as the new manager of the Three Lions, Jose Mourinho made a quick return to active service after being laid off by Chelsea last winter following another defeat at Leicester, and of course the biggest name (arguably) from the new bunch has to be Pep Guardiola, who now manages the blue half of Manchester. It's a season like no other, with big names leading out the teams in different ideologies and tactics, but there can only be one winner, and there can only be four champions league place finishers, so who misses out? Watford have a veteran in Walter Mazzari, Slaven Bilic proved his mettle last term, Mauricio Pochetinno gave a good fight as w...

Hello everyone, we could feel your loud heave from here, it was a long wait, spiced by the ever inconsiderate inconsistencies of the transfer window, but the new season is upon us, get in here bookies, let's make some money! Where will the first goal come from? There can only be one winner at the end of the thirty eight round bout, it's a marathon, the new managers want the title, the longest serving Frenchman somewhere in north London got points to prove, the rookies that made statements last term, predominantly from north and west London will try again, but how will the first round go? Here's our take at the predictions table. Saturday 12th August Hull City vs Leicester City KCOM stadium 12:30pm Who would have thought it rightly, 365 days ago that Leicester City would be filing out on a day like this as a league defending champions? Not even the best of crystal ball custodians would have predicted that, but here we are, the champions travel to new comers Hull for ...

Oh little dear Born without a silver spoon Blackened by the heat from a yellow ball With agony of the skin And cries from our mouth “Melanin, what is our crime?” Oh little dear Whelped and bred in the darkness of light In the blackness of darkness abide thee Waffling and babbling, ye claim to speak Maliciously with vitreous lens, ye survey the earth Mother Nature, why torment us? Oh little dear Sold to slavery, a suffragan people Like oil and water, immiscible with the whites Mentally psycho, bond by the chains of western westerners Amidst this, ye are sozzled Not with palmie, but… Oh little dear The say when there is life, hope is sure Yes! We are sozzled with hope Our hope lies in the never ending slumber What a silhouette of hope A hope silhouette Oh little dear Arise and shine, for thy light has come A glorious glory is risen upon thee The Maker has heard thy cries Even thy wafflings have the heavens embraced Freedom is come, free ...

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The watch can say the time in Yoruba Language. A graduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University named Moyinoluwa Adeyemi who studied Computer Science and mathematics from Obafemi Awolowo University has to her glory an Android application that says the time in Yoruba language. Moyin as she is popularly called is a Software Engineer at Swifta Systems and also a co-organizer at Google While speaking to her on how she managed to build the application on a watch, she said that “One Friday evening after work, I had moment. I looked at a clock and thought What if it could tell the time in Yoruba?. That question has lead to the development of an Android Watch Face that tells time in Yoruba language” she concluded. She further explained that it was not easy for her, as she had to get the ideas from her colleges and friends. “I had to do extensive research before I came up with a working prototype. It will probably be the first ever indigenous watch face app on the google play store.” Th...

She was named winner after her mother’s intervention. Ten-year-old Rhea has been named Child Genius 2016 after her mother intervened to dispute one of the answers in the Channel 4 show’s final. The west London schoolgirl beat nine-year-old Saffy by spelling the word “eleemosynary”, meaning charitable. Rhea got through to the head-to-head after her mother contested an incorrect answer during her earlier specialist round about Florence Nightingale. Independent adjudicator Olivia van der Werff later ruled it was acceptable. The dispute centred on the question: “To which medical officer did Florence Nightingale report in the Crimea?” Rhea’s answer Duncan Menzies was initially deemed incorrect. But her mother Sonal, who gave up her job as an obstetrician to help educate Rhea, successfully argued that Nightingale effectively reported to every medical officer. The programme was watched on Channel 4 on Tuesday by an average of 1.3 million viewers. Some of the ...

By Gary Ryan Blair in Rants and Raves Whether the goal is to get out of the comfort zone or to deliver an out of this world speech, the solution is always the same… improve your how by outbehaving who you were yesterday. Outsmart Outperform Outlead Outcare Outmaneuver Outinvest Outlisten Outconnect Outgive Outlearn Outwork Outspend Outrespect Outinnovate Outrisk Outpersevere Outinspect Outproduce Outrisk Outlove… Bookmark It Join us on facebook

Minimizing Distraction Stay focused at work to increase your productivity. "So, what did you do at the weekend?" begins the water cooler conversation. It can feel like some welcome downtime from your intense workload during a busy day, but time flies and, 15 minutes later, you realize that you're late for a meeting with your manager. And the stress returns. Sometimes, it seems as though our workplaces have been designed to break our focus. Even when you're "snowed under" with work, you'll still likely check your emails regularly, read customers' Twitter comments, or – even though your manager would disapprove – surf the Internet for cheap vacation flights. Dr Gloria Mark, Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, says that distractions such as these are both stressful and costly. She has found that it takes an average of 23 minutes for a person to fully regain his or her focus on a task after being distrac...

An In-depth expository of the Living Legend A Writer A Scholar An Activist Professor 'Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka   popularly known as ‘Wole Soyinka’ was born into a Yoruba family, the second of six children, descendant of a Remo family of Isara-Remo  in the city of Abeokuta , Ogun State in Nigeria, on the 13th of July, 1934 . He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature the first African to be honoured in that category. His Nobel acceptance speech, "This Past Must Address Its Present", was devoted to South African freedom-fighter Nelson Mandela Soyinka's mother, Grace Eniola Soyinka (whom he dubbed the "Wild Christian"), owned a shop in the nearby market. She was a political activist within the women's movement in the local community. She was also an Anglican He was raised in a religious family, attending church services and singing in the choir from an early age; however Soyinka himself ...