The Treasure House Blog

Have you wondered why only a few people succeed in life, while the majority become their fans? Have you wondered why thousands of students would be admitted to a university but only a few will make the best results? Because they were smarter, right? Ok, how about NYSC? There’s certainly no academic work there, so why is it that of the many that go for national service, only a few receive presidential awards? Have you bothered to ask yourself? Or you simply assume that they were lucky? Well, it is neither luck no smartness. I wasn’t one of the best students in my school, neither did I receive the presidential award after NYSC.  Actually, I used to also think that those guys were smarter than I was, or were luckier. But ever since I read about the Pareto principle, my thinking has changed and I know better how to be among the best. It’s called the 80/20 rule. Also known as the Pareto principle, the 80/20 rule states that 80% of peas in a pea garden are produced by only 20% of...

YouWiN! Connect 2017, what participants need to know Congratulations and welcome to the next stage of the YouWiN! Connect 2017. YouWiN! Stands for Youth Enterprise With Innovation in Nigeria, a federal government project started in 2011 by the then federal government of Nigeria under President Jonathan. The programme gave a grant of between 1 million to 10 million naira each to 1200 youth enterprises (existing and new) every year from 2012 to and 2014. But the programme was rebranded and re-organized to YouWiN! Connect in 2016 by the current President Buhari-led administration, to a multi-media  However, it is not yet clear to many applicants what this re-branded programme will offer them and how exactly it will run.  This article is an attempt to answer some of these questions in the minds of applicants especially those that have been shortlisted into the next stage of the competition.  First; according to information from the YouWiN! Connect team, th...

Recent figures form the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) show that unemployment increased in Nigeria by 1.5 million to stand at 13.9% with youth unemployment at 25% percent. In real numbers, this translates to 11.2 million Nigerians are unemployed as at the end of 2016. Majority of these are graduates, who continue to roam the streets for jobs after many toils to obtain a degree. Whereas the government and private sectors continue to say they are doing their best, there seem to be no end in sight to youth unemployment in Nigeria. This articles focuses on how young graduates can help themselves through agricultural cooperatives integrated with smart farming to liberate themselves from the shackles of unemployment. Cooperatives are known to many as an association of people with similar interests, and rightly so. But this same concept is the reason many people neglect it or consider it as something for rural dwellers or market women and farmers. Again due to the limited know...

 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...

Social observers have said that meetings are the third major time waster in the world of work. And that as much as 50% of work time is spent in meetings, either group meetings or one-on-one meetings. In the estimate of almost every one of them, at least 50% of this time is wasted. This means that as much as 25% of all working time is lost in meetings of one kind or another. As someone who have from a tender age been in organisations and have been saddled with various responsibilities that make attending meetings almost inevitable, I do not agree any less with them. At a point in my life, I remember contemplating severing myself from any form of social or faith-based organisation, just because of the enormous time they take from me, most of them in meetings. But I realized that if I did that, it would be suppressing an important need in my life; the need to matter, to contribute and to be recognized. And I would not also have been this much experienced and skilled, and lots of ...

The ability to set goals and make plans to accomplish them is the master skill which anyone that wishes to achieve success must possess. Before I go ahead to outlining these steps, I want to say that a well-written goal must the fundamental ingredients generally referred to as S.M.A.R.T. To spill it all, your goal must be Specific , Measurable , Attainable , Relevant and Time-bound. Talking about a SMART goal can be 'theoretical' sometimes and a lot of people do not understand how to apply these theories in real time.   But whichever is the case for you, and in whatever situation you find yourself, this principle when properly applied will make the drive you along the road to success. Whether you are at the helm in ExxonMobil Nigeria, or a small business entrepreneur who wants to break even, or an student who simply needs to wake up by 5:00am daily; learning how to set SMART goals and following them through with actions is the difference between failure and ac...