The Treasure House Blog

 By Brian Tracy You can imagine your personality by thinking of a target with concentric rings. Your personality is made up of five rings, starting from the center with your values and radiating outward to the next circle, your beliefs and values in life. Believe in Yourself Your   values in life   determine your beliefs,   about yourself and the world around you. If you have positive values, such as love, compassion, and generosity, you will believe that people in your world are deserving of these values and you will treat them accordingly. When you believe in yourself and chose to be a good person you will find yourself to be more positive and successful in life. Set Expectations and Know Your Values in Life Your beliefs, in turn, determine the third ring of your personality, your   expectations.   If you have positive values, you will believe yourself to   be a good person . If you believe in yourself to be a good person, you will expect   good things to happen   to you.

By Thomas Hansen LAGOS — At the first glance, Nigeria does not appear particularly alluring to international investors. The country’s important oil industry is in the doldrums with crude production stagnating at around 2 million barrels per day. Oil investment is held back by the failure to pass a key reform bill. Pervasive theft of crude oil is nibbling away at onshore oil pipelines as well as export figures. Previously a major crude oil exporter to the US, Nigeria’s share of US oil imports has dropped 11 to 5 percent in the last year. The political outlook is scarcely any better. Nigeria’s government is fighting a vicious Islamist insurgency in the country’s remote and sparsely populated northeast that has the potential to trigger further attacks in other parts of the country. The ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been tearing itself apart over the intent of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, a southerner from the Niger delta, to run for another term in the 2015 ele