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Let Go and Let God - Casmody Reports “So if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift” (Matthew 5:23-24). Forgiveness is never an easy topic. Even thoug...

Corruption And Constitution: A Conflict Of Mindset - Casmody Reports By their argument of the angst most Nigerians is not really against corruption.They are vexed that they are not in a position to access the "national cake".

In Ajegunle The Peoples' Mandate With Rita Orji Stands - Casmody Reports Rumours festering that there is going to be a re-run for the position of the Federal House of Representative in Ajeromi Ifeodun is laughable, childish and imagination from Malaria induced dreams. The great people of Ajegunle have renewed their mandate with Hon. Rita Orji (PDP).

Lottery Winner Wears Mask To Collect His Mega Millions - Casmody Reports Dressed in a mask of “Ghostface” — a character in the “Scream” movies with a signature white face and long, wide-opened mouth — A lottery winner in Jamaica pulled out all the stops to make sure no one would know his identity. The winner, whom lottery officials only referred to him as “...

Beauty Goes Plastic - Casmody Reports Say the words “plastic surgery” and the full pouts and Barbie-like proportions endemic to Hollywood or Miami probably spring to mind. But as anyone who has spent an afternoon in Seoul, South Korea, can attest, both the unusually high occurrence of bandaged locals and the exaggerated cuteness of ...

Creator Of SpongeBob SquarePants dies of ALS At 57 - Casmody Reports Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of megahit Nickelodeon cartoon series “SpongeBob SquarePants,” died Monday after battling ALS. ALS is the acronym for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and known also by Lou Gehrig’s disease. It’s a progressive neurodegenerative disease that impacts nerve cells in...

Four Catholic Nuns and others kidnapped in Delta State - Casmody Reports Suspected kidnappers have abducted four reverend sisters and two others in Delta State. The nuns who are from the Order of the Missionary of Martha and Mary (MMM) are under the Issele-Uku Diocese in Agbor town in Ika South Local Government Area. They were on their way back from a function in the eas...

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5 GREAT PRINCIPLES THAT CAN ELEVATE YOUR BUSINESS
1. Look for the short cut, rather run the full course.
2. Be selective, not exhaustive.
3. Strive for excellence in a few things, rather than good performance in many.
4. Look beyond the normal textures of life to uncover ironies and oddities.
5. Calm down, work less and target a limited number of very valuable goals rather than pursuing every available opportunity.

EFFECTIVENESS.
Effectiveness is the point target of every role function. Yet it seems not funny that when you consider the level of failures, you must agree that effectiveness is far out of radar.
True, high intelligence is common, imagination abounds, knowledge level tends to be high, yet we seem to witness little correlation between a mans effectiveness and his accumulation of these three resources. Hmmm, brilliant men are surprisingly ineffectual: They fail to realize that brilliant insight is not by itself effective.
Effectiveness is a habit, a complex of practices which are so simple that they are hard to do well. And to be effective in anything is to monitor and practice the scales of effectiveness.
1. Monitor your time where and how you spend it. It tells what you are practicing.
2. Gear your efforts towards results rather than work
3. Build on strengths ( what you can do) and not on weakness ( what you cannot do).
4.Force yourself to face priorities. To apply Pareto 's 20/80 rule.
5. Make good decisions.
After all, being effective is common sense.

PROBLEMS VS OPPORTUNITIES:HOW TO ADDRESS THEM
In business as in everyday life, we are ever faced with the task of making decisions and the challenge always come as either problems or opportunities. Take a look at a Common Sense approach the challenge.
Of cause, you must focus on opportunities rather than problems. Sure problems have to be taken care of, they must not be swept under the carpet. But problem solving however necessary, does not produce results. It only prevents damage at best and returns you to the status quo.
Exploiting opportunities is what produces results. So never allow problems to overwhelm opportunities.
Always list opportunities on the front page.
Except there is catastrophe, problems shouldn't be an issue until opportunities are well optimized.
Always put your best hands (people and resources) on the opportunities. And do not be shy in removing with immediate effect people that consistently fail to perform..To let such persons stay is to corrupt the system.
Make your people focus on contributions in such a way that feeds opportunities and starve the problems.
Make strength productive not busy.
Above all, build the capacity to make common people achieve uncommon performance.
It makes Common Sense.

If you are faced with the challenge of spending an equal amount of money on either a problem or an opportunity....which would you chose ?