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Favour market (good and bad luck)

You can't be new to a place and go straight to the market on your own. Of course you need some time before you find it on your own or get someone to direct you.    DO NOT learn to disrespect people from others. I'll explain what I mean. People behave differently with people. This thing Nigerians say, ‘ our blood no just jam’ is a valid explanation for this.  You'll meet certain people and you'll instantly like them and vice versa. You'll find someone being rude to someone and getting away with it and feel you shouldn't give that person any respect too, but that's a wrong way to look at things. We must understand that people have their own ideas and thoughts about certain behaviors portrayed by different humans. Just like falling in love with a boy/girl, you find that you love something about him/her but you can't exactly explain what.  You may have a certain character trait that has mostly favoured you and then one day it doesn't.  Someti...

The number one ingredient for growth in entrepreneurship is ‘you'.

Why lose it all when you can get more than you envisioned in the beginning? Photo: Google chrome Photo: Google chrome Yes, you call the shots; you're the umpire.    My mum would always tell us when we're being lazy and refusing to do chores around the house, that “even if you employ a hundred and one helpers in your house, it can only be the way you want it to be when you show those helpers that you know what you're doing and they're only there for extra help and to earn their keep”. That way, even when they want to do something that's wrong in your abscence, they'll be scared to do it because they know you'll notice it soon as you return.     I saw the post below on Facebook and it took my mind to something I'd been wondering about. Photo: a screenshot from a post on Facebook When you open a business, is your aim to make money for just a period of time? What even drove you to start? Someone said, “ if money is your only d...