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 SHOUTS OF VICTORY Desire makes one achieve in the heart. Work makes one achieve on the earth. Success will not come to you. You must go to it. "Victory belongs to the most persevering" - Napoleon Hill The story is told of a wise old man who had answers to knotty questions and solutions to life issues. One day, a young man came asking the question, "How do I get success in a definite manner; How do I get success badly?" The old man did not say anything. The young man came every day for the next four months but the old man did not so much as utter a word. On the fifth month, the old man took the young man into a nearby river and dipped the young man into the waters while covering the young man's nostrils with his hands. Just as the young man was gasping for breath, the old man brought him up. The young man was furious as they left the river. He angrily asked the old man, "What was that for!" The old man simply smiled and said, "When I put you under...

Cross examination is a delicate act and art that requires mastery of the intricacies therein and understanding of the subtle nuances of human nature. The following tips are relevant.  The first rule of cross examination is not to examine crossly. Abuse is not an argument, no matter who gives it. It is dog's eloquence to  abuse and stoop low to injure another's personality. Get the defendant to commit to absolute statements; then confront him with the damaging letter or evidence. Proceed with as much easiness as if the value of a loss in cross examination were less than a kobo. Establish other possibilities that are open even when the evidence is or appears to be  substantially true. Cross examination can be directed to show that witness was occupied with circumstances surrounding the fact rather than the fact itself. This can be skewed to show that the witness was completely inattentive when the incident happened.

  The HIV syndrome stands for having insufficient vision. What do you see concerning yourself? Your finances, your health, your career? Your future? Your marriage? etc. Make sure that you are seeing yourself not as you are but as God wants you to be. Make sure you are imagining the best about yourself because your imagination is the workshop of God upon which engravings of the future are carved. It is what you see that you are empowered to seize. I will quickly tell the story of two people who visited a poor village. The village was characterized by pervasive poverty. One of the two persons focused on the poverty and said: "I have never seen this large number of poor people gathered in one place". Thereafter he shook his head and left. The other man was not looking at the poverty in the village. Guess what? He was looking at their feet and the fact that the people had no shoes. Instead of leaving like the first man, the second man, having seen a business opportunity, left the...

  Always remember that the only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. An Appeal that everyone likes is an appeal to nobler motives for everyone as a high regard for themselves and like to be fine and unselfish in their own estimation. This is why you must paint other people in a good light. Another key to influence is to dramatize your ideas; the movies does it, the TV does it, why don't you do it, - Dramatize your ideas, it works in business and home life as well and this explains why a lover goes down on his knees to propose to his sweetheart. Also, when nothing else works, throw down a challenge. Charles Schwab: The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money getting way but in the desire to excel. "All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward  sometimes to death but always to victory..." Motto of the King's guard in ancient Greece.

Dealing with people and relationships generally require some level of adroitness. Keep these tips in mind: Call attention to other people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes first.    Humble yourself and praise the other. No one likes to take orders. Ask questions relating to what you want. Let the other person save face rather than find fault. French aviation pioneer, Antoine de Saint- Exupery wrote: "I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man's dignity is a crime."        HOW TO SPUR PEOPLE ON TO SUCCESS You encourage people to be their best selves when you praise even the slightest improvement.      This is not about excess flattery. It is simply capitalizing on the inherent need in every human to feel appreciated.      Psychologist Jess Lair said, "Praise is like sunshine to ...

25 Habits That Will Guarantee You Success The ancients were fond of an expression: Character is fate. It means that character is deterministic, that who you are determines what you will do. Self-discipline is one of those special things that is both predictive and deterministic. It both predicts that you will be great, AND it makes whatever you are doing great. It is not a means to an end. It is not just something we value until we get something we think we might really value—this job title, that amount of money, winning the biggest game, landing the best opportunity. No. Discipline is the win. When you are disciplined about your craft…you win. When you know you put your best into something…you win. When your self-worth is tied to things you can control (effort, for example)…you win. Who we are, the standards we hold ourselves to, the things we do regularly—in the end, these are all better predictors of the trajectory of our lives than things like talent, resources, or anything e...

WHERE YOU ARE IS NOT WHO YOU ARE By ISHOLA EMMANUEL There is a very interesting experiment which I would like to share with you. The experiment is this: Try taking a container and put in it, carefully selected big stones. Make sure that the stones are big and put them at the bottom of the container. Now place on top of the container stones of smaller sizes. By now you would have a container with small stones on top and big stones underneath. The next thing is that you shake the container. What would you find? You would find that the smaller stones wuld find their way to the bottom while bigger stones will find their way to the top. The big stones signifies people who have built capacity in areas such as physically, mentally, spiritually, socially etc. but due to the vicissitudes of life find themselves down. Whenever you find yourself in this category, I am here to tell you that it is only a temporary phase. You will rise again. Whenever you find your self down ...