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Happy new year dear readers!

Welcome to this episode of my personal development update for the month of December 2019. In my last update, I explained that I will be sharing with you guys the things I do for my personal development each month. Hope you follow up and share your own experiences with me in the comment section.

Episode #2 : Personal Growth Update December 2019

December was a month of growth to maturity for me. I had to face some of my fears and open up to things which I didn't want to deal with at the moment. But it felt so good afterwards. I had some family issues which have been affecting me intensively for the past four years. It was very hard to talk about them. I cried so deeply when I opened up about it every time. But it doesn't make me cry that much right now and I look forward to the day I will talk about it without any tears in my eyes. But I'm super proud of myself for finding the courage to open up.

I planned to read a book this month of December but I couldn't. I would say lack of time is the reason though I think I can find some time to read. Reading is such an important part of self-development and I really want to get back to reading more books. I read mostly self-development blogs and so I want to read more books that can also contribute to my growth. I wanted to read FU MONEY by Dan Lok. I hope to read that this month. I downloaded it for free on his website some time ago. That's one of my goals this month.

One major thing I worked on this December was to write down positive affirmations and mantras that I want to manifest in my life this new year. It was an interesting process and it helped me to really define certain aspects of my life. I had problems with remembering to recite my mantras. New habits take time to stick. My aim was to repeat them every morning and every evening before I go to bed. But some mornings I forgot and in the evenings I was too tired to remember to say them. I hope that this month I will do better.

As for new year resolutions, I don't have any. I just want to keep being the best version of myself and the only new thing is that I really want to step out of my comfort zone - try new things even if it makes me very uncomfortable.

I'm looking forward to a better month this January. It's the first month of the year so I'm optimistic and want to set a good pace for the year.

Let's do this!

Hope you are sticking to your self-development plans and if you want to share with me how you are doing, please do so in the comment section.

Thanks for reading and as always I'll see you in my next one.
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The only thing which is constant in life is change. And for change to be positive you need personal development. But personal development may not produce results sometimes no matter how hard we try. This means there are some things missing in our personal development efforts. These things may look simple but may be quite hard to implement because we are often anxious to see the results of our personal development efforts.

Here are 3 Reasons Why Personal Development Is Not Working For You

1. You are not patient enough

Patience, patience, patience. You are not giving it enough time to work. Change takes time and if you are not giving yourself enough time to adopt new habits, you won't notice any development.

Taking a few steps and expecting to see a huge difference is sometimes not the case in personal development. Take note that the things you are trying to change have been present for a while now and stopping them also requires time to get your mind and body into your new self.

Give yourself time to accept, heal and start a new life when you are going on a journey of self-development.

2. You are not practising what you learn

If you don't implement what you read, watch or listen to, you will not develop yourself. You have to put into practice all the steps and tips that you acquire. It is important to select the best tips and do a few at a time or one at a time to know exactly which one is working for you.

3. You are trying the wrong methods or taking the wrong advice

The wrong methods or advice could get you turning in circles and so you may have no results. It's not easy to know which method is best until you try it. Keep trying various ways of self-development to see which one really works for you. I won't say that some personal development methods are wrong in general, but they could be wrong for you in particular. So some methods work for others and may not work for you.

Don't relent on finding the right method for you.

If you feel like your personal development isn't working then you should evaluate yourself using the above points to see if you are doing it right? Are you patient enough? Are you practising the tips you receive? And are you taking the right advice?

I hope that this post was helpful to you. Thanks for reading and I'll see you in my next one.

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Levelling up is the one thing most people don't get tired of doing. We all want to level up our lives. That's why you are reading this post. Most of our decisions in life are linked to levelling up. Behaving better, eating, sleeping, and providing a better life for our loved ones is the dream we all seek to make a reality.

Earlier this year, I shared with you guys HOW TO LEVEL UP YOUR LIFE and a lot of you loved it. I found out some new ways to level up and decided to do a part two in order to share with you as much information as possible on this topic.

You can read the blog post or watch the video below. The video has more explanation and depth into the topic so you might want to consider watching it.

How To Level Up Your Life ( Pt 2)

1. Be self-aware

Self-awareness helps you to know yourself. It reveals to you the things you like and don't like. It also enables you to have a deep understanding of your reactions to different situations. Self-awareness is like having a new friend and making efforts to know them in order to build trust and a deeper friendship with them.

Take time to know and understand who you really are. It's very important to your level up journey. It will help you to define your personality and what you want in life. And that is the foundation of your level up journey.

Resources to help you with self-awareness. Click on images to get them.

2. Do what you love

Doing the things that you love sparks some energy into you and motivates you to do even the things that you don't enjoy doing. Take a hobby or a passion and do it. The fulfilment you get from it will make you really happy and you need an energized and happy state of mind to level up your life.

3. Meditate and manifest your desires

Meditate on your desires to help them manifest. Meditate on them with belief and with a very positive mind. Think of all the positive ways that your desires can come to pass.

4. Trust God for all things

You can't do it all by yourself. You need God to make all your efforts worthwhile. Believe in God and ask him to help you do the right things to level up.

5. Believe in Yourself

Believe in yourself because you were born to win and shine. You have all it takes to be a better person. You need to believe in your capacities because you were born with them. All you need to do is develop these capacities and become a better person.

6. Work hard

This is one of the most important points you should consider. Work hard at the things that you need to do in order to level up. God will bless your hard work. Your desires will manifest faster when you work hard to achieve them. You will succeed easily when you work hard. Work hard and make your dreams come true.

Resources to help you with working hard. Click on images to get it.

I hope you enjoyed this post. Thanks for reading and watching the video. Please share your thoughts in the comment section. I'll see you in my next one.

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If you've been following my blog for a long time, you would know that I separated content about my personal life and left just the content on personal development on here.

I love personal development and I also enjoy sharing part of my personal life with you guys but as my blog grew, it felt uncomfortable to have both types of content in the same space.

So I created another blog, My Local Adventures Blog to share more personal stories. As a result, I decided to no longer be personal on this blog and write strictly for my audience. But to be honest, it made me feel like a robot. This blog became lifeless (to me, don't know if you noticed).

That is about to change because I am adding a monthly update in which I will talk with you guys how I have been doing with personal growth. Each episode will contain lessons that I've learned and how I managed difficult situations during the past month.

This is the first episode and it is for the month of November 2019.

Episode #1 : Personal Growth Update November 2019

I was very excited to be in the month of November and it felt so close to the end of the year already.

I reflected on the fact that the year is almost over and I am not where I want to be, neither have I achieved the things I hoped to achieve by this time. But I didn't want to stress on that. I let it pass as a thought.

The most difficult thing I faced this month of November was combatting the feeling of stagnation and this made me feel so powerless. I realised that there are things beyond my control and it can be so frustrating to not have control of the things that mean a lot to you.

The one thing I'm proud of is that I was pushed beyond my limit of patience so many times and I still managed to stay calm and talk myself into keep going ahead and finding new ways to obtain results.

Following a dream can be frustrating at times when you can't see how it will end and facing the fears of what if it doesn't work out. I think that's the hardest part of chasing your dreams. I was tested with this a lot this month. But I am glad that I am still here believing and pushing harder to make this dream a reality.

Thanks for reading this episode of my personal growth update. I hope you enjoyed it. I'll see you in my next one.
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I have come across many articles saying that self-development and motivation didn't work for them. I understand. I felt the same way about self-development at one time. I asked myself what's the point if I still feel discouraged and less confident? But like this saying by Zig Ziglar “Motivation doesn’t last. Neither do showers. That’s why they’re recommended daily.”

Yet this doesn't mean that you can't get enough of self-development. It's necessary to improve and develop yourself daily but you may also need to stop or slow down for a while in order to get the best out of it.

How to know when you've had enough self-development

You don't feel like consuming more self-developing content

It doesn't entice you any longer.

Reading or listening to self-development makes you feel worse

Self-development can make you feel worse when all you do is read books, blogs and watch videos or audios without a break.

When you feel that it's not working for you

When you don't see as much result as the effort you put into self-development, you may begin to feel like you need to stop because it's not working.

When everything you see about self-development is Deja Vu

Does every content you see on self-development look familiar? Do you feel like you've seen it or read it all already? When you can tell the rest of the article or video after seeing the title or intro then you've consumed enough self-development content.

When you are looking for something new, personal or specific

When you are looking for more personal information that applies to you and what you are passing through, then you have consumed a lot of self-development content.

What do you do after you have consumed enough self-development content?

Practice what you have learnt from all the self-development articles, audios and videos.

Take out time to try them out and verify the information you have acquired.

Give yourself time to learn your new habits.

Rome was not built in a day. You need time to learn new habits and practice them in order to see results.

Take it easy with acquiring more self-development knowledge

Slow down on getting more self-development ideas. Work on the knowledge you already have.

Stick to just motivation for the main time

Have your daily dose of motivation while you apply other self-development tricks you have learnt.

Self-development is great but can be overwhelming when you are not seeing results or have had too much of it.

I hope you like this post. Thanks for reading and I'll see you in my next one.

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One thing that drives women crazy is not being able to vent their thoughts and emotions. It's important for a woman to talk to someone about how she feels especially when her emotions are triggered and are all over the place. It helps her to calm down and to think straight.

So if you are a loner or a woman without friends or you got a lot of emotions running through you and you can't reach your best friend, then this is how you can vent or release.

Ladies this is how to vent your emotions when you've got no one to talk to at the moment

mylocaladventuresblo.blogspot.com - So ladies, here are the three ways you can vent when those hot emotions set in - be it anger, frustration or disappointment.

Write your feelings down on a paper and tear it up

Yes girl, write it down just the way it is. Say all that you have to say to the paper and just pour it all out there. Putting your thoughts on paper helps you to get in touch with your emotions especially when you read it to yourself. So get a piece of paper and a pen and just write it down.

Then tear it up when you are done, girl. You don't want somebody who is not your best friend to read it. Except it's a letter addressed to them.

Scream in a pillow

Find a big pillow and scream into it. Yes, screaming can do the job but you don't want your neighbours and others around you rushing in to find out why you are screaming. Just bury your mouth in a pillow and scream. Let out the frustration into the pillow.

Talk to yourself in a low voice

If you can stay calm then talk to yourself in a low voice or better still in your mind but I wouldn't call that venting. If you are alone in the house then you can raise your voice. This one is my favourite. I enjoy venting by myself at home when I'm alone. I can hear my own voice clearly and when I'm done I take a dip sigh and move forward to other things.

So ladies, here are the three ways you can vent when those hot emotions set in - be it anger, frustration or disappointment.

Aside from these ways, how do you vent?

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Making a career is complicated for most people when they don't have professional education. People on the academic path find it hard to make a career because they do not know how to use and apply the knowledge that they have acquired. But it is possible to make a career from your academic degree. Here is how.

How To Make A Career (Money) With Your Academic Degree

Academic degrees are not professional or skill-based so it can be really difficult to convince anyone that you can make something out of it. This kind of degree is always seen as knowledge which is meant to enhance your personal intelligence and not as knowledge which can be applied to help others. Take for example; History or even Geography from which lots of people graduate from. It is difficult to get a job with this kind of degree because it is mostly knowledge you get from it and not skills. Other fields which face this difficulty are language degrees - French, English, Spanish, German etc. Those who take courses in these usually find themselves changing or moving to a more professional field later because it is hard to make it a skill.

In this post, we will find out how to make your academic degree worth it. We will also find out how to present your degree to possible employers with conviction.

Why is it difficult to get a job or make a career with an academic degree or education?

Here is why:

- You hardly acquire professional skills from academic education. Academic education is theory so it's difficult to learn a skill from it. Whenever you are going for a job interview, your employer wants to know what you can do for him/her which is your skills. Having knowledge without skills makes it difficult to get a job.

- You don't have practical sessions like internships or outdoor studies. This makes academic degrees full of theory. Fieldwork and internships contribute to making your degree more practical. The absence of these makes it void of reality.

- The teachers are not professionals in the domain, they are just trained teachers. They teach just what they learn because they are not applying their knowledge to the industry of the subject they teach.

Those are the reasons why its hard to get a job with academic degrees. Most academic degree holders turn out to be teachers and they still have to go out to get teaching skills in order to teach most of the times. For those who studied languages, they can translate and those doing history or archaeology can work in heritage preservation but there is still a need to add a skill to this knowledge.

Let's look into the differences between the two degrees.

Difference between academic and professional degrees

- Academic degrees don't have practical sessions but professional degrees do. Professional degrees have internships in real enterprises or practicals in labs where the student can learn more and apply his theoretical knowledge.

- Academic degrees provide general knowledge while professional degrees prepare you for a job. Academic degrees provide general knowledge and facts from old till present about a subject. The professional degree makes sure that you have the ability to carry out a specific task or job within a profession.

To go further let's know if it's necessary to have an academic degree.

Is it necessary to pursue an academic education given that professional education seems more beneficial?

Yes, Academic courses are still worth it because society still needs thinkers. Most thinkers in society come from academic courses. Their research works add to the discoveries of the world and help in the advancement of society. They can predict the future with the use of their research findings.

These courses are still very relevant to society.

How do I make a career with my academic degree? How do I make money with my academic education?

So to make money from your academic degree, you need to become the great thinker that you are. You have to do the following:

- Ask yourself if there are any skills you have acquired in the cause of studying for that degree

- Weigh your options: find out the possible things you can do with the degree

- Find out what others are doing with the same degree as you. Go to LinkedIn and other social media and find out from the profiles of those who are in the same domain as you what they do and apply their knowledge.

- Further your studies and specialize: go for a master or a doctorate degree if possible to gain more specific knowledge.

- Find complementary knowledge or skills: find a skill or knowledge that you can add to what you already know so that you can be better and more professional. Which skills or other fields complement your present field?

Skills you can acquire from an academic degree

- Research skills

- Writing skills
- Better and sharp thinking

How to present your academic degree on your CV

While developing your CV, it is important to highlight the specific skills you acquired from your studies.

Also, highlight the key lessons which are relevant to your domain or field of study and give details that you master in those details.

Say what you can do with your knowledge as well. What can you possibly use your knowledge to do for your employer?

How Can I start a business in my field of study?

Yes, you can start a business if you are an academic degree holder. And if you want to do start a business in your domain or field of study, it's also possible. It needs some thinking and research to find the best idea for business specific to your domain.

Always find out what others are doing already by asking friends or mentors and searching on the internet. Think of how useful your course is to society. How useful is history, geography, archaeology, English or sociology to society? This question will guide you to get better ideas that you can use for a business.

Take a look at the following examples:

Examples of business you can start with academic degrees

Here are some examples of ideas you can use to be an entrepreneur in various academic fields.

History

Start/open a library
Start/open a museum
Start/open a History School
Consulting

Geography

A school
A radio station to report the weather and other Geography related subjects in an area
An environmental consultant/planner
Land surveyor
Cartography centre
Risk management centre
Town/urban planning agency
Community management (NGO)
Recycling agency
Tourism officer
Transport planning

Biology

Nature conservation officer
Soil analyst
Zoologist
Botanist
Science writer
Massage therapist

Archaeology

Preservation of historic sites
Museums/gallery
Archivist
Research institute
Conservation
Heritage management
Tourism Officer

English (and other languages)

Freelance Editor (books and other documents)
Writer
Publisher
English/language school

If your field is not mentioned above, you can search on Google the possible things you can do with your degree.

Making a career from your academic degree requires research and sharp thinking. It also requires that you keep on improving on yourself and knowledge every day.

I hope that this post was helpful to you and wish you all the bests as you find your path.
Thanks for reading and I will see you in my next one.
Ngumabi.

How To Make A Career (Money) With Your Academic Degree

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We may know what our problem is already or why we are not chasing those dreams we so want to live but still pretend that we don't know what's stopping us from doing it. Ok, if that statement didn't make you guilty then you are on a journey of discovery of what is standing between you and your dream life.

So, these are the things stopping you from achieving your dreams.

Here Is What Is Preventing You from Living Your Dreams

Money

Yes, money. Money contributes a lot to living your dreams. Some dreams need a good education which cost money. Others need material or tools which costs money too. Investing in you needs money.

The lack of money may affect your dreams but this should not discourage you. You can still make it if you are determined. Find other sources of income to sponsor your dream. It may slow the process but you will surely get there

Ego

This factor is related to the first point - money. Ego may keep you away from your dreams. Most dreams require small and humble beginnings but some people will not want to start small because of their ego. if you are waiting for a huge sum of money to start that business then you may wait forever. Ask yourself how you can start with the little that you have and then grow it into something big.

If you need to take another little job at the side in order to sponsor your dreams then don't let ego not let you to. Let go of ego and do what you have to do live your dream.

Opportunity

Some people are not either ready when an opportunity comes or they don't get the opportunity they need to realize their dreams.

Preparation plus opportunity equals success, but sometimes preparation may not meet opportunity or opportunity will meet unpreparedness.

Information

Lack of information can block you from achieving your dreams. If you can't get the information you need then you will miss opportunities to become successful.

Passport

You may need to travel or leave where you are in order to realize your dream and you can't do that without a passport or visa.

This obstacle is very common in third world countries where opportunity is limited and some people may have to relocate in order to live their dreams. If that is your case then get a passport and chase your opportunity.

School

Being a student is challenging enough. Adding your dreams to your student life can be hard. It may be hard to follow your dreams and study at the same time.

But most people start chasing their dreams while they are in school so it is not impossible. You can do it.

Time

Just like school, time is a major factor that stands in the way of you living your dreams. Maybe school or work doesn't allow you much time to do anything else.

The solution to this is to work on your dreams for as little as thirty minutes daily and you will make progress.

Lack of discipline

If you have all the time and tools and knowledge but no discipline then it is going to slow you down. Discipline is knowing what has to be done and do it consistently. It is practising and sacrificing your time, energy and focus on the things that are important to your dreams and aspirations.

If you lack discipline then it will be hard to live your dreams.

Procrastination

A friend to lack of discipline is procrastinating will only slow down your journey to living your dreams.

What you don't do today will still need to be done tomorrow so do it today.

Responsibilities

When you already have so many responsibilities like financial responsibilities or when you have to take care of others it becomes complicated to concentrate on realizing your dreams.

But think about yourself for a moment. Think of what you want for your life.

Make efforts to share the responsibility with others and help those who rely on you to become independent so that you can focus on your dreams.

Consistency

When you aren't consistent it is hard to succeed. stay consistent and you will see good results.

YOU, YOURSELF and YOUR EXCUSES

Yes, YOU. You are the obstacle to your own dreams coming true. When you procrastinate and are not disciplined. When you keep giving excuses for not working on your dreams.

You may have all the other factors working for you but if you don't work towards your dreams then you will not realize them. That is why I think that your personal effort is the most important factor that is stopping you from living your dreams. if you change your attitude towards your dreams and dedicate more time and determination, then you will succeed more easily.

Hope you found this post interesting and encouraging.
Please leave a comment below for others to learn from you about the obstacles you face while following your dreams. Thanks for reading and I'll see you in my next one.

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If you run a home business then it can be tough to sell your goods or services. But with the internet, it's possible to make more sales from home. There are many tools used to sell on the internet and today we will be focusing on the application WhatsApp.

WhatsApp is one of the most used applications in the world. Many people buy smartphones first of all to have access to WhatsApp. This application is such a trend right now and has even resulted in people referring to the technology generation as the 'WhatsApp Generation'

This application is no longer just a communication tool between friends and family. It has also become a marketplace. A lot of home business owners are making constant sales on using WhatsApp and after observing them for a while I found out what they do on WhatsApp to make sales. Here is how they do it

4 Ways To Use WhatsApp to Sell Goods & Services From Home

How to sell on WhatsApp

Your Whatsapp status

Are you still not using your WhatsApp status? Even those who are not selling online are using it to share excerpts of their day, funny images and videos.

WhatsApp status lets you post pictures, notes and videos about anything you think are relevant to your contacts. You can choose who to see or not see your status on WhatsApp.

Many home business owners use their WhatsApp status to show their products and services to their contacts. It can be a video, a photo of the product or a written note explaining what your business does.

Your status expires after 24 hours and you can see the people who saw your post. Your contacts can also respond to a post you made on your status to ask about the product you are selling.

Whatsapp groups

This method has been existing for a while now. There are groups created specifically to sell items. Before posting in a group on WhatsApp make sure that selling or marketing is allowed because not all groups have the same objective. You may have to speak to the admin or group members before posting your goods and services.

Your Profile pictures

You can use your profile to advertise or showcase your products on WhatsApp. Remember that your contacts are people you know and are definitely interested in your life so when they notice you changed your profile picture, they will want to see it closer. So use this to show your products and services.

Through Private Messages & Chats

You can contact people in private to sell to them. Don't be all sales though. It would be nice to show that you care about them genuinely too. Talking with people directly can help you sell more than talking with a group but you have to be tactful. Don't send them messages only when you want them to buy from you. Show interest in their lives. Remember WhatsApp is primarily just a communication tool and not a market.

Be human

This is related to what I just said in the previous point. Be human. Don't post only your products and services on your status and profile pictures all the time. Show your human side. Post pictures of yourself, your day, what you are doing or eating. You may not like to show your life to others but remember that these people you advertise to on WhatsApp are people you know and the best way is to communicate and care about them.

I know it is a real struggle out there to make a business grow and succeed especially when we don't have the means to rent a shop. We may have no choice but to start selling from home and getting our first clients can be a real struggle.

I hope this post helps you get more sales for your business and please feel free to share your feedback with me. All the best in your business activities whether at home or in a shop.

Tell me if you use WhatsApp to sell your goods and services in your comment. What other advice will you add to this list?

Ngumabi.

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So you own a small business or a side hustle? If the answer is yes, then you should be looking for ways to be as professional as possible.

One of the major ways to do so is to better present your message online. Everyone wants to look as professional as possible in order to attract their clients. A well-organised timeline and good images are necessary to do so.

In this post, I will enlighten you on how to have a professional-looking brand online using an app called Canva. This post is not sponsored. I have used Canva so many times for my blog and business to create images and other business-related documents.

This is how to do it.

How To Use Canva To Make Your Small Business Look Professional Online

Canva for a professional social media account:

Canva can be used to manage your social media accounts.

For a professional timeline

You can use Canva to make cute images for your Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts. You can also use it to make creative thumbnails for Youtube videos. The images respect the size and format required by the various social media apps.

For interesting stories

You can make your stories more fun and interesting with Canva. There is a section to create Instagram stories which enables you to be fun and creative.

Canva for a professional way to stay in touch with clients:

Canva can be used to help you stay in touch and share your contact with people.

For invitations

Are you hosting an event for your business and want to invite people to it? Then use Canva to create invitations to your taste.

For Complementary cards

Canva has a section where you can make business cards. It has various options and designs you can choose from and modify.

Canva for publicity:

You can also use Canva to make ads for your business.

To make posters and banners

Use the poster and banner section to create catchy ads for your business and events.

Basic tips for using Canva

If you are wondering if these services are free then know that they are free. Canva only charges you when you use an image which is being sold.

Canva has templates which is what you will modify to create your own image. These templates have texts and images in them. Some images used on these templates are being sold. That's why some templates are labelled as free and others have a dollar sign on it.

If you are asking yourself if you can use a template with a dollar sign on it the answer is yes. When you delete the image which is for sale then Canva will not ask you to pay when you are about to download your image.

Canva has a lot of images that you can use according to your subject or theme. So pictures on the templates can be replaced and moved. There are various filters to be used on your images and templates as well.

Get more knowledge on how to use Canva for your business:

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Hope you learned from this post and see you in my next one.
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Hello Smart Ladies,

It's a pleasure to meet you again this month. This edition of our magazine is brought to you with love and care as usual. If you haven't ever read The Smart Woman magazine, then I invite you to do so now by clicking the following links.

In this edition, we are giving you more tips to foster your career as an employee or an entrepreneur. We have in the spotlight Beyoncé and there's a very important lesson to learn from her. We also discuss how to make your career idea a reality, how sleep is good for your career and what etiquette to have during a business dinner.

Do learn and enjoy!

News

Hi, Smart Ladies,

This is what made top news during the month of April 2019. The world of tourism couldn't cry enough for the burning of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France on April 15th 2019. The historic church which was completed in the 13th century is one of Paris' most popular attractions, drawing an estimated 13 million visitors a year as reported by CNN.

Former president Barak Obama and wife Michele Obama expressed how touched they were by the incident and also shared memories they have with Notre Dame. While lots of money is needed to rebuild the damaged sections of the church caused by the fire, people are already making pledges to contribute to its reconstruction.

That's the major news we got for you this month.

Spotlight: Beyoncé and her work ethic.

Hello ladies and welcome to the spotlight of the month which is the famous, the beautiful, the hardworking, the one and only Beyoncé.

*Applause

For someone to be introduced that way, they should be quite a force to reckon with. Most of us heard about Beyoncé at the time she was with the famous group Destiney's Child. She was the lead singer. Though it is quite easy to love the lead singer of a group more than the others, she continuously earned the love of her fans from Destiney's Child till she went on to singing solo.

This woman has served us Lemonade, girl power and strength in her songs and has also produced a film which is trending on Netflix. This film has got people like Michele Obama to share powerful comments about it on Instagram.

Let's get a little bit into her career success

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Houston, Texas. She performed in various singing competitions as a child and became famous when she became the lead singer of the group Destiney's Child.

Beyoncé has sold over 100 million records worldwide as a solo artist and 60 million records with Destiny's Child, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

She has won 23 Grammy Awards, in 2014, she became the highest-paid black musician in history and was listed among Time's 100 most influential people in the world for the second year in a row.

She is also an actor, a wife to Jay-Z and a mother of three.

Lessons to learn from Queen B

If there is only one lesson to learn from this amazing and successful woman it is HARD WORK.

That is the focus of her movie Home Coming which she released on Netflix. In this movie, she shows what it takes and the work and practice it takes to put together a two-hour performance at Coachella. She shows us that there are no shortcuts to becoming who you want to become. And that you have to do the work in order to succeed.

That was our spotlight for the month ladies. Hope you learned something from this brilliant woman.

Career: How to execute your ideas with ease

Making your ideas come to life can be really challenging because you may be on your own and don't know where to start. It's amazing to take your simple idea and turn it into reality. Here are some tips to help you execute your ideas easily and get out of the fear of starting something.

Do research

Do research about your ideas. Find out if there are others who have tried it before and how they went about it. This will guide you on what to focus on and see what is possible.

Write down what you need to do

Now that you are better informed, write down how you want your end result to look like.

Find out what you need to do to get the results you want.

Do some more research and ask questions about how you are going to get your expected results. Write them down as goals.

Do it.

Start executing. Start doing. It doesn't have to be perfect. You will correct as you keep working towards your goal.

And that's how you bring your ideas to life.

Health: The importance of sleep to your career

We all know that sleeping well is healthy, but do you know that having proper sleep time can directly affect your career. Sleeping is a great way to recharge and here is how it makes you better at your work.

It increases your productivity

The best time to be productive is right after a good sleep. That's when your mind is fresh and is ready to work efficiently.

It helps you get away from distractions

When you begin to get too distracted while working, then it's time to take a nap so that your mind can forget the distractions for a while.

It improves your memory

A fresh mind can retain better than a sleepy one.

It helps you to make better decisions

Sleep helps you to ameliorate your judgement so that you can make only the best decisions. After a good sleep, your mind is reset and your ideas flow easily to help you make the best decisions for your work and career.

It helps you to not get sick

Sleep is like medicine to your body. Resting helps your body fights diseases better thus preventing you from getting sick often.

Sleep also makes you more confident at work because you feel like you can do all your tasks without any problem. It also makes you more focus and present and this is important if you work with a team so that you can be a better teammate.

Hope you add sleep to your daily to-do list at work as from now on.

Culture: Table etiquette during business dinners

Don't put your cell phone, keys or purse on the table. It may distract you and your future business partners. It also kind of suggests that you are in a hurry and may leave soon.

Dress nicely, little or no cleavage, and no rough looking outfits. Your dressing may take away the focus of the dinner which is business.

Don't start a business conversation before the end of the first-course meal

Ask to be passed something which is not within your reach. Don't reach across the table with your hands over the food of others.

Don't yell at the waiter. It shows bad character and may not impress your future business partners

Excuse yourself when going to the toilet. It's polite.

Complement your guests while waiting for food to be served. Especially after placing your orders.

Speak slowly and don't speak over people's food.

Closing words from our editor

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