Life and Business Improvement

New Year was first observed about 4000 years ago. In the year around 200BC, the Babylonians celebrated the beginning of New Year on what is now March 23, although they themselves had no written calendar. Ever since, New Year has been celebrated in numerous forms – as the date of its celebration has been witnessing changes. For instance, the Babylonians celebrated New Year on March 23, as March was a logical choice for the beginning of a new year. It is the time of the year that spring begins and new crops planted. January 1, on the other hand, has no astronous agricultural significance. It is purely arbitrary. The Babylonian New Year celebration lasted for eleven days. Each day had its own particular celebration. The Romans continued to observe the New Year on March 25, but the calendar was constantly tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization of the sun. IN order to set the calendar right, the Roman sena...

W elcome to year 2012, the year with great promises. Every year comeS with its challenges and blessings. While others are crying that a year is bad, others smile to the bank always. So what makes others cry while others laugh in a year with great promises such as this? It all depends on how we start our year. How well did you lay the foundation of your year in order to reap the benefits this year promises? Are you depending on chance or luck? Let me tell you my FRIEND, in our present world, nothing works on chance or luck. You either plan for or be prepared to fail! You either pay the price OR you don't deserve the prize! The year has just began: have you draw up your plan for the year? Or are you waiting for manna to fall from heaven? The days of manna are no more! This is the time of fending for yourself. And how will you fend for yourself when you don't have a well written plan to guide you in your life dealings? My dear, start this year with a plan. A simple plan will do -...

TO YOU ALL MY ESTEEM READERS, YOU'VE MADE THIS BLOG WHAT IT IS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH IN KEEPING FAITH IN THIS BLOG. THE BEST IS YET TO COME! AS YOU CELEBRATE THIS XMAS, REMEMBER YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE, ACT RESPONSIBLY. PLEASE, DO NOT DO WHAT YOU'LL REGRET LATER. HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS!

The market for cartons is very wide. Carton is used in packing a variety of items churned out from the factory. Drugs must be packaged before they are stocked or made available for sale. Soap manufacturers too cannot do without cartons for the same purpose. The same can be said of shoes, cosmetics’, electrical gadgets, and electronic equipment. There is hardly commodity that does not need carton for its packaging. Machinery and equipment required for designing and making a paperboard carton include cutting and creasing machine and the sticking machine. A printing machine is also required to print the labels and specifications of the product. However, investors are advised to be careful in their plant selection decisions in order to avoid buying malfunctioning , non-durable equipment. The core raw materials for carton making is plastic, polyethylene or paperboard but paperboard is the most common. Other raw materials ...

What is it about the average man that simply attracts him to ‘taking a chance’? Do we just have a craving for living on the edge or is just a natural aspect of our make-up that makes us embrace gambling’ willy-nilly? I am not sure if I am able to proffer a water-tight explanation of this phenomenon but this much I do know about the average man: he will try ‘anything and everything’ in his search for a way out and the means to make his life more meaningful. His reasons may not be altogether plausible, but who cares anyway? In a land where everything has seemingly turned to a game of chance; who really cares? The scramble for scarce resources and political clout in the third world especially has created citizens that have no clear hope of a better day in sight. That natural aphrodisiac that every human needs to keep him going from day to day, month to month, year to year has long been replaced by fear, insecurity, lack, class restructuring, loss of a fee...

These days it seems that “mobile” is the word on every digital marketer’s lips as the next big opportunity (right after, perhaps, “social”). US mobile advertising is predicted to reach $1 billion this year, up 48% from 2010, according to e-marketer. The entire Android operating system (now the US market leader in smartphones) was launched for the sole purpose of protecting Google ’s share of the digital advertising market as consumers shift more and more of their time to mobile devices. The African market also is taking a big turn with the introduction of mobile banking. VT...

Growth is the mother of Invention. A life without growth is a life left to chance. Chance cannot guarantee success. The tendency is, it could be left in a worst state than it started. Many people wants to start a business, but few are ready to start on a small scale. Many wants to start at a “bigger level”. This is a big pitfall that must be avoided if you want to make a headway in business. There is nothing like ego when it comes to starting a business. If you have the money to start big, well and good, but if you don’t have, start with what you have and grow...