Suggested Top 11 Skills By 2022: #WEF2020

1. Analytical thinking and innovation.

2. Active learning
3. Creativity
4. Tech designs

5. Critical thinking

6. Complex problem solving
7. Leadership and social influence

8. Emotional intelligence

9. Reasoning

10. Systems analysis

11. Financial technology (i.e Fintech)

6 Ways To Build Self Esteem, A Starter Guide To Self Improvement

So how do you stay calm, composed and maintain self esteem in a tough environment?
Here are some tips you may to consider as a starter guide to self improvement.
Imagine yourself as a Dart Board. Everything and everyone else around you may become Dart Pins, at one point or another. These dart pins will destroy your self esteem and pull you down in ways you won’t even remember. Don’t let them destroy you, or get the best of you. So which dart pins should you avoid?
Dart Pin #1 : Negative Work Environment
Beware of “dog eat dog” theory where everyone else is fighting just to get ahead. This is where non-appreciative people usually thrive. No one will appreciate your contributions even if you miss lunch and dinner, and stay up late. Most of the time you get to work too much without getting help from people concerned. Stay out of this, it will ruin your self esteem. Competition is at stake anywhere. Be healthy enough to compete, but in a healthy competition that is.
Dart Pin #2: Other People’s Behavior
Bulldozers, brown nosers, gossip mongers, whiners, backstabbers, snipers, people walking wounded, controllers, naggers, complainers, exploders, patronizers, sluffers… all these kinds of people will pose bad vibes for your self esteem, as well as to your self improvement scheme.
Dart Pin #3: Changing Environment
You can’t be a green bug on a brown field. Changes challenge our paradigms. It tests our flexibility, adaptability and alters the way we think. Changes will make life difficult for awhile, it may cause stress but it will help us find ways to improve our selves.

Change will be there forever, we must be susceptible to it.

Dart Pin #4: Past Experience
It’s okay to cry and say “ouch!” when we experience pain. But don’t let pain transform itself into fear. It might grab you by the tail and swing you around. Treat each failure and mistake as a lesson.
Dart Pin #5: Negative World View
Look at what you’re looking at. Don’t wrap yourself up with all the negativeness of the world. In building self esteem, we must learn how to make the best out of worst situations.
Dart Pin #6: Determination Theory
The way you are and your behavioral traits is said to be a mixed end product of your inherited traits (genetics), your upbringing (psychic), and your environmental surroundings such as your spouse, the company, the economy or your circle of friends. You have your own identity. If your father is a failure, it doesn’t mean you have to be a failure too. Learn from other people’s experience, so you’ll never have to encounter the same mistakes. Sometimes, you may want to wonder if some people are born leaders or positive thinkers. NO. Being positive, and staying positive is a choice. Building self esteem and drawing lines for self improvement is a choice, not a rule or a talent. God wouldn’t come down from heaven and tell you – “ Hey George, you may now have the permission to build self esteem and improve your self.”  In life, its hard to stay tough specially when things and people around you keep pulling you down. When we get to the battle field, we should choose the right luggage to bring and armors to use, and pick those that are bullet proof. Life’s options give us arrays of more options. Along the battle, we will get hit and bruised. And wearing a bullet proof armor ideally means ‘self change’. The kind of change which comes from within. Voluntarily. Armor or Self Change  changes 3 things: our attitude, our behavior and our way of thinking. Building self esteem will eventually lead to self improvement if we start to become responsible for who we are, what we have and what we do. Its like a flame that should gradually spread like a brush fire from inside and out. When we develop self esteem, we take control of our mission, values and discipline. Self esteem brings about self improvement, true assessment, and determination. So how do you start putting up the building blocks of self esteem? Be positive. Be contented and happy. Be appreciative. Never miss an opportunity to compliment.  A positive way of living will help you build self esteem, your starter guide to self improvement. Have a wonderful day.

Living Green

Caring for the environment is very important. Today, we are experiencing a lot of environmental problems. If we don't start acting now, we will wake up one day regretting all the times that we take the earth for granted.

 It's not hard to advocate for the environment. It only takes dedication and self- commitment. You have to know that all things start small.

 A big task always start with a commitment to one's self, the awareness of the desire to do something that is not only for your own good but also for the good of the other people around you.

Here are some tips you can follow to start caring for the environment.

Save Resources

Exploiting resources like electricity, fuel and water is one of the reasons for global warming. Try to learn to conserve our resources.

•    Electricity

Never put equipment on standby mode. If you're not using an appliance, turn it off. You'll be able to conserve more electricity by turning unnecessary equipments off than leaving them on standby mode. Let the sun in your house during the day, especially in cold weather by drawing your curtains back.

This will let heat enter your home so you won't have to use the heater during the day and turn the lights on. When no one is in the room, it's better to turn the light off.

 During the night, try to sleep with your light off. If you can't do this, draw your curtains a little so the light from the street lamp or moon can enter your room.
 
 Avoid using unnecessary equipments. Doing things manually wouldn't hurt. Washing the dishes with your hands is easy to do. If you don't have too much laundry, you can wash your clothes with your hands too.

•    Fuel

Save on gas and money by not using your car all the time. Use the public transport frequently. If you're not going for a long drive, try walking or biking to get to your destination.

This is not only helping the environment, this is also helping yourself be healthy and fit. Carpooling with your neighbors and friends is also a good idea. This way, you are also helping your friends save on gas and money. Also, carpooling will make your relationships with each other stronger.

•    Water

Always make it a point to check on old pipes. Look for leaks and repair these damages immediately. This will help you conserve water. Avoid using grass sprinklers. They waste too much water.  Use a water hose so you can easily stop the flow of water once you think you've watered your grass and plants enough. Avoid taking long showers.

 While standing under a hot shower is soothing, keep in mind that you are wasting water when you do this. Also, turn the shower off when you're soaping your body. Use a glass when brushing your teeth and turn the faucet off.

Follow The 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Don't throw away trash instantly. Before you discard an item, make sure that it has no use anymore. When throwing things, keep in mind to put it in its proper place. Segregate your wastes. What may not be useful to you anymore may still be useful to others.

Caring for the environment is easy. Have the dedication and commitment to be an environmental advocate. Live the environmental principles that you know and tell others to do the same.

TIPS ON HOW TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY ON YOUR LIVESTOCK FARM

As a livestock farmer, there are many things you need to put in place in order to achieve the highest productivity you desire for your agricbusiness. If you can implement these following tips, your livestock farm productivity would improve.and you will make more profit.

a, Makesure you employ the right and diligent farm workers, and always be concerned about their welfare.

b, Cull or remove any non-performing or under-performing animals from your flock and draw out an effective and workable plan to replace them with performing ones.

c, Observe all the biosecurity measures so as to prevent disease outbreaks which results in economic losses.

d, Make sure you curb any form of pilfering on your farm.

e,Take nutrition very seriously and make sure you give your animals adequate feeds for best production.
Don’t forget that water is essential to animals, so your animals should not be deprived of water.

f, Replace any damaged or expired production material with good ones.
Take up-to-date records of every activity and inventory on your farm. This is important and essential in asset evaluation and worth.

g, If you’re financially capable, upgrade your farm technology to the latest one such as introducing automatic drinking system, feeding system and make sure you have read and digested enough information about them.

h, Give appropriate vaccines and medicines to your animals and you must carry this out in the right way.
Seek for professional assistance in a situation that you believe you’re incapable of handling.

I, Avoid wastage on your farm and be resourceful to convert any animal waste into money. Such as selling poultry manure to food crop farmers, processing dead birds to feed fishes and/or use animal dungs to breed maggots and earthworms.

You will see the good result when you do all the above. However, you must also consider God as an important partner for a successful business. Start with Him and He will surely guide and manage the business with you. Your farm is your property and investment. Therefore, you should put efficient and effective measures in order to make more profit on your farm.

Have a good and profitable business year.

How To Set Up A Professional Tailoring Service

There are many service businesses one can start with little or no capital even from home and one of such businesses is Tailoring.

The good thing about this business is that you could start with just one sewing machine from your bedroom and within months be handling jobs worth hundreds of thousands of naira depending on how well you prove yourself.

The business typically involves taking customers measurements and their requirements and sewing to type.

The potential in the business is vast but is only for the skilled and patient.

NB: Your skills and expertise should be your greatest asset in this business and excellent rapport with customers else you could be frustrated and be forced to make an early exit.

Opportunities

There are many companies and institutions that need to have uniforms produced in bulk to be worn by their staff or members.

Think about churches, hotels, security guards companies, para-military institutions, factories and hospitals to mention a few.

Think of just how much contracts you could potentially secure if say you’re contacted to sew uniforms for a primary school with 1000 pupils or a security guards company that needs 300 uniforms and there thousands of companies like that all over the country.

Besides this there’s also customized tailoring in which a client wants his/her clothes sewn to their own tastes and specifications.

For this class of customers the price is premium and majority of people who fall into this category are celebrities and upwardly mobile, trendy and socially active folks who would rather rock expensive designer wares than buy common clothing.

Challenges

Tailoring is quite a challenging vocation to undertake as there are so many people doing it with profit margin not so attractive but that is if you are like every other tailor.

The key to standing out and making a brand that puts good cash in your pocket is excellence and efficiency.

Can you despite the challenges be an excellent and efficient tailoring service? One of the key challenges is low purchasing power within the economy.

People and even companies complain of cash squeeze which makes it difficult for them to pay for goods and services at premium prices so they’ll rather patronize someone else who can offer them a lesser charge that could negatively affect your bottom line.

Besides the cash squeeze could also result in low patronage.

Marketing Strategy

Reaching your target market shouldn’t be a challenge once you become a household name therefore the real strategy would be how to make yourself well known within your niche.

There are many ways to achieve this for instance effective customer service, excellent branding, referrals and direct marketing to clients.

Financial Summary

Sewing Machine: N45,000

Accessories (scissors, tape, threads etc): 15,000

Shop Space: N70,000

Furniture: N10,000

Others: N30,000