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 Especially when someone you ever talk with, and often socialize with was gone Especially when the hands of time was hard to turn back But your neck remains on your neck. It hurts when profound change comes knocking It hurts. And indeed it hurts.

 There is one thing I know that brings pain. I mean the painful pain Not the pains when you got wounded Not the pains when someone disappoints you The pains when someone you ever with, chat, discuss and share words with is gone. I mean the pain that emerges from cuts from socializing with that person It pains when someone you ever love was gone It pains when someone you ever live with or see everyday, now and often travel or walk off and left you. The pain is painful. But no one has an eye to see the colours of pain.

Wives worry and fear that they might lose their husband to other women Husbands experience heart-broken that their wives were cheating  This fear engulf many across geographies.  What should a wife or husband do instead? The fact is that cheating is universalistic. If your husband was able to love you, what made you think that he cannot love another woman possibly? While I don't support or subscribe to the behaviour as it's against the societal moral standards, just like fornication, cheating will continue to exist. No amount of prayer, laws and regulations can totally eliminate the fornication habit that leads to cheating Because the eyes is capable of beholding, of appreciating and of loving what it admires. If we fornicate to buy a well package mobile phone, cars, clothes and beautiful homes. If the eyes must behold to admire. If we can love beautiful things. What make you think that your husband or a wife cannot do otherwise? One solution is to advise, educate and persuade...

 Here is a message from a local bank: H ave you been busy all week long and can't visit any of our branches?   Don’t worry, come in this Saturday from  10 am – 1 pm   and get a  debit card  while you deposit your old currency notes; there will be no charges for cash returned/paid into your accounts.   Marketing is not what you have made.    Marketing is neither advertisement of putting responsibility on people to buy Marketing is about how you matter to your customers  

 If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a current event, the past or future experiences, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.  Guilt means that you use up your present moments being immobilized as a result of past behavior, while worry is the contrivance that keeps you immobilized in the now about something in the future—frequently something over which you have no control.  You can see this clearly if you try to think of yourself as feeling guilty about an event that has yet to occur, or to worry about something that has happened.  Although one response is to the future and the other to the past, they both serve the identical purpose of keeping you upset or immobile in your present moment.  Robert Jones Burdette wrote in Golden Day:  It isn’t the experience of today that drives ...

 Think for a minute about an orange. When you squeeze it as hard as you can, what comes out? Orange juice, of course.  But the question is, why does juice come out when an orange is squeezed?  The answer is, because that is what’s in the orange.  Now, does it matter who does the squeezing?  Does it matter how you do it, what instrument you use, or what time of the day you do it?  No.  When you squeeze an orange, what always comes out is what’s inside.  Similarly, when you squeeze a person—that is, put pressure on them of any kind—and anger and hatred and stress and depression come out, it isn’t because of who is doing the squeezing or when they do it or how they choose to do it.  It’s because that is what’s inside that person. If you don’t have it inside, it can never come out, no matter what your circumstances are.  When somebody cuts you off on the freeway and you’re mad as hell, it isn’t because they cut you off that you’re so upset; ...

 Guilt is not merely a concern with the past; it is a present-moment immobilization about a past event. And the degree of immobilization can run from mild upset to severe depression.  If you are simply learning from your past, and vowing to avoid the repetition of some specific behavior, this is not guilt. You experience guilt only when you are prevented from taking action now as a result of having behaved in a certain way previously. Learning from your mistakes is healthy and a necessary part of growth.  Guilt is unhealthy because you are ineffectively using up your energy in the present feeling hurt, upset and depressed about a historical happening. And it’s futile as well as unhealthy.  No amount of guilt can ever undo anything.

 You may be spending far too many of your present moments in efforts to win the approval of others, or in being concerned with some disapproval that you have encountered. If approval has become a need in your life, then you have some work to do.  You can begin by understanding that approval-seeking is a desire rather than a necessity. We all enjoy applause, compliments and praise. It feels good when we are mentally stroked. Who would want to give this up?  Well, there’s no need to. Approval in itself is not unhealthy; in fact, adulation is deliciously pleasurable. Approval-seeking is an erroneous zone only when it becomes a need rather than a want. If you want the approval, you are simply happy to have the endorsement of other people. But, if you need it, you are going to collapse if you don’t get it.  That’s when the self-destructive forces move in. Similarly, when approval-seeking becomes a need, you give up a chunk of yourself to the “outside person” whose advoca...

 The need for approval is based on a single assumption. “Don’t trust yourself—check it out with someone else first.” Our culture is one that reinforces approval-seeking behavior as a standard of life.  Independent thinking is not only unconventional, it is the enemy of the very institutions that constitute the bulwark of our society.  If you’ve grown up in this society, you’ve been tainted by this attribute. “Don’t swear by yourself” is the essence of the need for tribute —and the backbone of our culture.  Make someone else’s opinion more important than your own, then if you don’t get their approval, you have every reason to feel depressed, unworthy, or guilty, since they are more important than you.  The bestowal of approval can be a great manipulator. Your worth is lodged in others and if they refuse to dole out their approval, you’ve got nothing. You are without worth.  And so it goes, the more flattery you need, the more you can be manipulated by others...

 You can also choose to eliminate some physical sufferings which are not rooted in a known organic dysfunction. Some common physical ailments, which often do not have an origin in a physiological disorder, include headaches, backaches, ulcers, hypertension, rashes, skin eruptions, cramps, fleeting pains and the like. There was someone who swore she had a headache every morning for the past four years. Each morning at 6:45 she waited for it to arrive and then took her pain pills. She also kept each of her friends and co-workers informed of how much she was suffering. She wanted the headaches, and had actually chosen them as a means of being noticed and as a means of receiving sympathy and pity. The fact is that she could learn not to want this for herself and to practice making the headache shift from a point located centrally on her forehead to one on the side of her head.  How could she eliminate that. She learnt that she could controlled the headache by making it move around...

 If you still believe that you don’t choose to be unhappy, try to imagine this course of events. Each time you become unhappy you are subjected to some treatment you find unpleasant.  Perhaps you are locked in a room alone for long periods of time or, conversely, forced into a crowded elevator where you must stand for days.  You may be deprived of all food or forced to eat some dish you find particularly distasteful. Or perhaps you will be tortured—physically tortured by others, rather than mentally tortured by yourself.  Imagine that you were subjected to any one of these punishments until you made your unhappy feelings go away. How long do you think you would continue to hold on to them? Chances are you would take control rather quickly. So the issue is not whether you can take control of your feelings, but whether you will. What must you endure before you’ll make such a choice?  Some people choose to go insane rather than take control. Others merely give up a...

 You have grown up in a culture which has taught you that you are not responsible for your feelings even though the syllogistic truth is that you always were.  You’ve learned a host of sayings to defend yourself against the fact that you do control your feelings. Here is a brief list of such utterances that you have used over and over. Examine the message they send. “You hurt my feelings.” “You make me feel bad.” “I can’t help the way I feel.” “I just feel angry, don’t ask me to explain it.”\ “He makes me sick.” “Heights scare me.” “You’re embarrassing me.” “She really turns me on.” “You made a fool of me in public.” The list is potentially endless. Each saying has a built-in message that you are not responsible for how you feel.  Now rewrite the list so it is accurate, so it reflects the fact that you are in charge of how you feel and that your feelings come from the thoughts you have about anything.  “I hurt my feelings because of the things I told myself about you...

 Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you.  There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly.  Many are sound asleep because they do not know about this gold mine of infinite intelligence and boundless love within themselves.  Whatever you want, you can draw forth. A magnetized piece of steel will lift about twelve times its own weight, and if you demagnetize this same piece of steel, it will not even lift a feather.  Similarly, there are two types of men.  There is the magnetized man who is full of confidence and faith. He knows that he is born to win and to succeed.  Then, there is the type of man who is demagnetized. He is full of fears and doubts. Opportunities come, and he says, “I might fail; I might lose my money; people will laugh at me.”  This type of man will not get very far in ...

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The Ransford's 6-month MBA mini in Marketing management has broad objectives: Introduce you to marketing discipline, its nature, scope and sub- divisions, as well as the validity or otherwise of the claim of marketing to the status of a management science. Equip you with core concepts marketing such as needs, wants and demand as well as company orientation towards the marketplace, including the important place they occupy in the practice of marketing. Examine the nature and importance of marketing strategies, customer insights, market segmentation, and development of marketing plan to achieve organizational objectives. Expose you to the knowledge of Marketing mix, the controllable variables in the hands of marketers Enable you to understand how marketing creates value for customers, organization and societal. Appreciate the concept of brand management, brand positioning, and marketing communication Understand integrated distribution and marketing at global mark...

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 Learn Accounting to help you better record and report financial activities in Organizations. Accounting will equip you with knowledge and principles of transaction recording and enable you to understand business activities in your organization and how it operates, as well as communicate transaction information for decisions.  S tudents of accounting gain better understanding and practical applications of accounting concepts & techniques.  Accounting students  calculate transactions and communicate financial information in organizations.  Students learn essential concepts, theories, and insights in accounting. The system aims to provide learners with a thorough understanding of the principles of Accounting—a conceptual toolkit for making smart financial analysis and the confidence to clearly articulate those analysis to key stakeholders. Students receive course materials by E-mail to  study    on their mobile phone.  You will l...

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  Click here to request further course descriptions and sample study materials for trial ` Ancient studies is  an interdisciplinary approach to examining the world of the ancient Greeks and Romans.  Students specifically study ancient architecture, sculpture, painting, art and other material remains. It is central to Classical Studies, and so students learn to master varieties of evidence.    Written texts, archaeological remains and the visual arts are equally important in forming a comprehensive understanding of antiquity. Thus, almost every Classical Studies course integrates the study and analysis of art and material culture into its course content.   The Advanced Certificate in Classical Studies has the following modules:   1.        History of the Ancient World 2.        The World of Prometheus 3.        Classical Greek Literature 4.  ...

  Click here to request course materials   Ancient studies is  an interdisciplinary approach to examining the world of the ancient Greeks and Romans.  Students specifically study ancient architecture, sculpture, painting, art and other material remains. It is central to Classical Studies, and so students learn to master varieties of evidence.    Written texts, archaeological remains and the visual arts are equally important in forming a comprehensive understanding of antiquity. Thus, almost every Classical Studies course integrates the study and analysis of art and material culture into its course content. The study of “classics” allows students to connect directly with the foundations of Western Civilization in art, literature, history, and science and appreciate how these seminal influences have shaped and continue to shape our culture, our ideas, our traditions.   Students who study Classics will increase their analytical and critical th...

  Top up your skills; learn how to handle life situations at Ransford  If you control your thoughts, as your feelings come from your thoughts, then you are capable of controlling your own feelings.  You control your feelings by working on the thoughts that preceded them. Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy because of the thoughts that you have about the people or things in your life.  Becoming a free and healthy person involves learning to think differently. Once you can change your thoughts, your new feelings will begin to emerge, and you will have taken the first step on the road to your personal freedom. To look at the syllogism in a more personal light, let’s consider the case of Cal, a young executive who spends most of his time agonizing over the fact that his boss thinks he is stupid. Cal is very unhappy because his boss has a low opinion of him. But if Cal didn’t know that his bos...

  Join Ransford to Start leaning on mobile immediatly Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have. If you are in charge of your own emotions, you don’t have to choose self-defeating reactions. Once you learn that you can feel what you choose to feel, you will be on the road to “intelligence”—a road where there are no bypaths that lead to N.B.D.’s. This road will be new because you’ll see a given emotion as a choice rather than as a condition of life. This is the very heart and soul of personal freedom. You can attack the myth of not being in charge of your emotions through logic. By using a simple syllogism (a formulation in logic, in which you have a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion based upon the agreement between the two premises) you can begin the process of being in charge of yourself, both thinkingly and emotionally. Logic—Syllogism MAJOR PREMISE: Aristotle is a Man. MINOR PREMISE: All men have facial hair. CONCL...

  Top up your skills at Ransford Consumers’ needs and wants are fulfilled through market offerings—some combination of products, services, information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or a want. Market offerings are not limited to physical products. They also include services—activities or benefits offered for sale that are essentially intangible and do not result in the ownership of anything. Examples include banking, airline, hotel, retailing, and home repair services. More broadly, market offerings also include other entities, such as persons, places, organizations, information, and ideas. For example, San Diego runs a “Happiness Is Calling” advertising campaign that invites visitors to come and enjoy the city’s great weather and good times—everything from its bays and beaches to its downtown nightlife and urban scenes. And the Ad Council and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration created a “Stop the Texts. Stop the Wrecks.” campaign that markets...

  Top up your skills with Advanced Certificate in Marketing at Ransford The most basic concept underlying marketing is that of human needs. Human needs are states of felt deprivation. They include basic physical needs for food, clothing, warmth, and safety; social needs for belonging and affection; and individual needs for knowledge and self-expression. Marketers did not create these needs; they are a basic part of the human makeup. Wants are the form human needs take as they are shaped by culture and individual personality. An American needs food but wants a Big Mac, fries, and a soft drink. A person in Papua, New Guinea, needs food but wants taro, rice, yams, and pork. Wants are shaped by one’s society and are described in terms of objects that will satisfy those needs. When backed by buying power, wants become demands. Given their wants and resources, people demand products and services with benefits that add up to the most value and satisfaction. Companies go to great lengths t...

  Top up your skills with Advanced Certificate in Marketing at Ransford Marketing, more than any other business function, deals with customers. Although we will soon explore more-detailed definitions of marketing, perhaps the simplest definition is this one: Marketing is engaging customers and managing profitable customer relationships. The twofold goal of marketing is to attract new customers by promising superior value and to keep and grow current customers by delivering value and satisfaction. For example, Nike leaves its competitors in the dust by delivering on its promise to inspire and help everyday athletes to “Just do it.” Amazon dominants the online marketplace by creating a world-class online buying experience that helps customers to “find and discover anything they might want to buy online.” Facebook has attracted more than 1.5 billion active web and mobile users worldwide by helping them to “connect and share with the people in their lives.” And Coca-Cola has earned an ...

 Join the Ransford's Marketing Management program  Today’s successful companies have one thing in common: Like Emirates, they are strongly customer focused and heavily committed to marketing. These companies share a passion for satisfying customer needs in well-defined target markets. They motivate everyone in the organization to help build lasting customer relationships based on creating value. Customer relationships and value are especially important today. Facing dramatic technological advances and deep economic, social, and environmental challenges, today’s customers are reassessing how they engage with brands.  New digital, mobile, and social media developments have revolutionized how consumers shop and interact, in turn calling for new marketing strategies and tactics. It’s now more important than ever to build strong customer engagement, relationships, and advocacy based on real and enduring customer value. In this course Ransford discusses the exciting new challe...

  Join Ransford to top up your skills learning the new ways of positioning brands No company can win if its products and services resemble every other product and offering. As part of the strategic brand management process, each companyoffering must represent the right kinds of things in the minds of the target market. Consider how DirecTV has positioned itself. Click here to Learn more.   

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 Ikeja Electric has announced the shutdown of its customers’ billing and vending channels and infrastructures for 48 hours between July 15 and July 17, 2022, to enable it to carry out a system upgrade. Learn about social issues in Africa at Ransford This disclosure is contained in a statement issued by the management of Ikeja Electric, where it advised its customers to buy energy ahead of the shutdown as they might not be able to access necessary information, vending and data. Ikeja Electric in the statement noted that this is because the ability of customers to perform these functions on its platforms may be impeded during this period of upgrade, adding that their engineers will ensure the completion of the upgrade within the scheduled time as well as minimize the impact on customer experience. The public notice by Ikeja Electric reads, ”Ikeja Electric wishes to notify its customers that in a bid to improve on our billing and other integrated platforms, we will be car...

  Deafening the nation is a noice of confusion coming from the church shouting Islamization agenda! Islamization agenda!! Islamization agenda!!!  Take online courses in Politics at Ransford The falcon is screaming itself out, yet the falconet cannot hear. Justice is judged of her valiant and equity is executed on the street by her own beneficiaries. The center indeed can no longer hold. The voice of the shepherd is lost on the sheep to the subtle momentarily soothing whisper of the hireling luring it to the slaughter slab. Deafening the nation is a noice of confusion coming from the church shouting Islamization agenda! Islamization agenda!! Islamization agenda!!!  Of course this agenda is real but it is not something that noise and empty threat can drown.  Truth must be told this agenda is beyond our country. It's a drive by Islamic fundamentalists to have control of Africa, the strategic position, economy and size of Nigeria makes her a soft target for th...

 Talk to your readers as if they're  facing you on the other side of a table.  The way to ensure your reader feels you are talking to them is to use one simple little word, over and over. That word is “you.” So in answer to the question that heads this idea, it is about you, if by you we mean the reader not the writer.   Here’s a great press ad for Magnet that begins by talking to the reader and never lets up . . . It’s only by getting to know you, your wants, needs, and desires that Magnet can create kitchens that are as individual as you are.   In 87 words of body copy, “you” or “your” appears eight times. There are just three references to Magnet. In fact that’s just about the perfect ratio of reader:writer at 2.7:1.   Why this works is because from the reader’s perspective, the copy is all about them: their concerns, their motivations, their problems.    It’s like talking to someone at a party who asks you lots of questions about yourself. We ...