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Business › Re: ➜ ➜ ➜Currency/E-currency Market Deals➜ ➜ ➜ by LASTMAN2018: 2:11pm On Feb 27, 2019

I need Vanilla gift card

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Chelsea Vs Manchester United: F.A Cup (0 - 2) On 18th February 2019 by LASTMAN2018: 9:04pm On Feb 18, 2019

AdiscoPele:
FACT!!!

In all competitions, Manchester United have won juanst two of their last 22 away games against Chelsea (D7 L13), failing to win any of their last nine.

well done with your analysis oya 0-1 up man u

Crime › Re: Indonesian Police Use Live Snake To Interrogate Black Man (Photos) by LASTMAN2018: 1:19pm On Feb 12, 2019

[color=]the police officer said the snake not does have venoms just watch the video now[color]

Career › How To Live Up To Your Full Potential And Succeed In Life by LASTMAN2018(op): 8:33pm On Feb 11, 2019

Have you ever heard the phrase “He had so much
potential, it’s a shame he wasted it.” In our
culture, not living up to your full potential is
frowned upon, but why?
In this article, we will look into the factors that
influence a person’s potential and the ways to
help you live up to your full potential for a
successful life.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. What Determines a Person's Potential?
2. Your Mindset Is the Key
3. How to Live up to Your Full Potential and
Succeed in Life
4. Final Thoughts

What Determines a Person’s
Potential?

A person’s potential is determined by several
factors: Physical Security, Emotional Security,
Environment and Mindset.
Physical Security
Before we can even strive to fulfill our potential,
our basic physical needs must be met. Without
adequate food, water and shelter, our days must
be spent acquiring these basic needs in order to
survive.
You can think of it this way, the person with the
potential to become the most brilliant computer
programmer ever could be living right now with a
nomadic tribe in sub-Saharan Africa. But because
they must spend their days meeting these basic
physical needs, that potential will remain
untapped.

Emotional Security
Humans are social animals, we don’t do well in
isolation. Studies have shown that forming
intimate bonds with others is incredibly
important for our mental health. These bonds
start to develop in infancy, babies rely on this
bond with a parent or caretaker to fulfill their
needs, and if the bond is missing for some
reason it can have lifelong psychological
consequences.

Environment
Your environment is another important factor that
shapes how you achieve your full potential.
Just like the computer programmer in the
previous example. You could have the potential
to be the greatest composer since Beethoven,
but if you had no access to music or you came
from a family that didn’t value that skill set, it’s
unlikely that you would fulfill your potential in that
area.

Mindset
For most of us, we don’t have to worry about
getting enough food, water or shelter. Both our
physical and emotional needs have been met (to
a large extent anyway). And any limits that our
environment has imposed are minimal (especially
with the availability of the internet).
So for most of us, the main thing that is limiting
us from reaching our full potential is our
mindset. Our mindset is the story we carry
around with us in our head. It starts to develop in
childhood and can be with us our entire life.

Your Mindset Is the Key
The problem with most people’s mindset is that
it’s negative and limiting. The good news is that
you can change your mindset. Author Carol
Dweck in her best selling book Mindset points
out that there are two types of mindsets: fixed
and growth.

A Fixed Mindset
A fixed mindset is one where you have concrete
beliefs about yourself. Someone with a fixed
mindset came up with “their story” in childhood
and it hasn’t changes much over the years. They
may believe that they aren’t good at public
speaking, math or writing just because they
struggled with those subjects in school.
So when something goes wrong, a common
thought for someone with a fixed mindset is
“What an idiot, I knew I wasn’t any good at that.”
Or “Well that just confirmed what I already knew, I
won’t be doing that again” . Having a fixed
mindset just reinforces negative thoughts and
attitudes, making it harder to reach your full
potential.

A Growth Mindset
A growth mindset, on the other hand, is exactly
the opposite. With a growth mindset, you believe
anything is possible (but don’t confuse this with
being delusional! As a 5’10” 54 year old I’m not
going to play in the NBA!). It’s more of the way
you think about and approach problems.
Let’s go back to the issue of not being good at
public speaking, when things go wrong, instead
of telling yourself that you have never been good
at public speaking and never will be. A person
with a growth mindset will analyze what went
wrong and come up with solutions to make it
better next time.
For instance, they may take a class on public
speaking at their local community college, or join
the Toastmaster’s organization. Whatever it is,
they don’t look at failure as an insurmountable
roadblock, rather a minor detour on the road to
their destination.

How to Live up to Your Full
Potential and Succeed in Life

1. Develop a goal
When setting goals, it’s important to keep in
mind three things:
First, they should be specific and not vague. So
instead of saying “I want to live up to my full
potential in life” , a more specific goal would be
“I want to become the best (salesman, artist,
internet marketer) that I can be.” This is a much
more specific goal.
Second, your goal should be measurable. In
other words, you should be able to measure your
progress towards the goal. Again, it’s much
easier to measure your progress to becoming the
best artist you can be than it is trying to measure
your progress at living up to your “full potential”.
Finally, a goal must be written down. This takes
the goal out of the realm of wishful thinking and
makes it more real. It also can serve as
motivation if you post your goal where you will
see it. Put it on your desk, or next to your
computer just to remind yourself to keep moving
forward. In short, a goal that isn’t written down is
just a wish.
This article can help you about setting personal
goals to become a great achiever:
How Setting Personal Goals Makes You a Greater
Achiever

2. Understand that achieving your goal is
often times a by-product of what you are
doing
Let’s say that your goal is to become the best
writer you can be. You may want to measure your
success by your ability to get published or in the
case of blogging, how widely read your articles
are.
Instead of constantly worrying about reaching
your goal to be the best, your time is much
better spent just writing. As with anything, the
more you do it, the better you’ll get.
It’s the same with any goal, it’s important to set
them, but achieving your goal of becoming the
best salesperson is really just the by-product of
you getting out there and selling!

3. Don’t let popular opinion dissuade you
Have you ever heard of the Bannister Effect ? For
years it was considered a law of nature that the
human body was incapable of running a mile in
less than 4 minutes. That was until May 6, 1954
when Roger Bannister ran a mile in 3 minutes
59.4 seconds. He did what was long considered
impossible, but it turned out that it was only
impossible because people believed it was
impossible.
Roger Bannister didn’t let popular opinion stand
in his way, and after he proved that the 4 minute
mile was only a psychological barrier, others
have continued to break records. Today the
current record holder is Hicham El Guerrouj with
a time of 3 minutes 43.13 seconds!

4. Don’t be afraid to push the envelope
Almost by definition, living up to your full
potential requires you to step outside your
comfort zone and expand your boundaries.
Average people do average things, get average
results and live average lives. Extraordinary
people do extraordinary things, get extraordinary
results and live extraordinary lives.
You’ll only live your best life once you step out.
Here’s how.

5. Practice discipline
Admittedly, this comes easier for some people
than others, but it’s a skill that you can develop
and will serve you well in all aspects of your life.
Another way of thinking about discipline is just
delayed gratification . How many times have you
been on a diet, but there’s a piece of cheese
cake in the refrigerator calling out your name!
Having discipline is not a matter of not wanting
the cheese cake, discipline is acknowledging
your desire for the cheese cake but realizing that
this craving is only temporary, and once it
passes, you will be much happier that we didn’t
succumb to a temporary urge.
The bottom line here is that while you may want
to stop working at 5pm sharp, or watch the
game on Saturday, but by developing the
discipline to delay satisfaction you will be
pushing your boundaries and reaping the rewards
that come from that extra effort.

6. Be confident
Have you ever dealt with someone who was new
at their job and lacked confidence? Maybe it was
a salesperson who couldn’t answer basic
questions about a product or just gave you flat
out wrong information. Did you end up buying
from that salesperson?
My guess is no, I sure wouldn’t.
Confidence comes with knowledge, discipline
and experience. But how do you develop
confidence if you are just starting out like our
intrepid salesperson? While experience comes
with time, knowledge can be acquired fairly
quickly, especially if you have already mastered
the art of self discipline!
A good rule of thumb is to always start with
knowledge. Learn as much as you can, take
classes, get a mentor or just do research. If you
are disciplined enough to develop the knowledge
it will make getting the experience much easier.

7. Accept that you will fail
There is no such thing as an overnight success.
Failure is a part of life and it happens to
everyone. In fact, there is a whole body of
thinking that failure is actually better than
success!
While most of us would agree that success is
better than failure, when it does happen, here are
some thing to keep in mind:
Don’t take it personally. A failure in a job, career,
business or marriage is just that. It is not
reflection on you as a person. I had a friend who
lost his entire fortune (over 20 million dollars) in
a business deal. I called him shortly after and as
expected he was very depressed. My only advice
to him was to:
Move on, failures can be heartbreaking,
embarrassing and demoralizing. Take the time
needed to go through those feelings and process
the emotions. Then, let it go, holding on to
negative emotions keeps you stuck in a fixed
mindset. Remember that your goal here is to live
up to your full potential and succeed in life.
Dwelling on past mistakes and failures is the
surest way to derail your progress.
Let failure be a learning opportunity. I know it’s a
cliche, but it’s a cliche for a reason, it’s true!
When I first started internet marketing, I started
using Facebook ads for practically everything I
did. Pretty soon I found that I was spending
about $1,000 on ads that were generating about
$200 in income, not a very good business
model! I took that failure and redesigned my
marketing efforts. I was able to both reduced my
costs and increased my sales so that now for
every $1,000 in advertising I am generating
around $5,000 in income.

8. Learn to embrace uncomfortable
situations
Succeeding in life by living up to your full
potential means embracing uncomfortable
situations. Chris and Heidi Powell, well known
personal trainers and hosts of the show Extreme
Weight Loss use this technique with their clients.
It works like this:
They set a goal for their client that the client
thinks is just out of reach. Then through
encouragement and motivation, they help the
client work though the uncomfortableness and
pain to achieve the goal.
This technique works for both physical and
psychological challenges. Both our bodies and
minds are capable of much more that we think
they are.

9. Set small goals to achieve big results
When you are first setting goals, don’t be afraid
to make them big! “I want to be the #1
salesperson in the company” or “I want to be a
successful artist” . But once you have those goals
set, you then need an action plan to get there.
It’s in this action plan that you should set many
small, easily attainable goals.
For the salesperson, it might be to increase the
number of sales they make by one a week in the
next quarter, two a week for the 2nd quarter etc…
For the artist, it might be to master a technique
before the next art show, or produce X number of
works to sell at the art show.
Whatever the goals are, they need to get you
closer to your ultimate goal while at the same
time be attainable. Success builds on success,
so achieving these small goals helps to motivate
you to continue on to your bigger goals.

10. Take time to recharge
Everyone needs “down time”, trying to do
everything yourself, all at once is a recipe for
disaster.
We talked a lot about being motivated and
disciplined in this article; while they are essential
to living up to your full potential and succeeding
in life, having adequate down time is just as
important.
Any personal trainer will tell you that to get the
most out of your workouts, you need to take 1 to
2 days off a week. This gives your body a
chance to recover and actually get stronger.
The same is true when we are trying to expand
our boundaries and fulfill our potential. Making
sure we have adequate down time prevents
fatigue anxiety and poor decision making.
Final Thoughts
The success you’ll find from living life to your
full potential is its own reward. One day, we all
will look back on our lives and and think “I wish
I would have done …” , “I had a chance to to be a
… but I was to scared” , “I could have been a
great … if I had put the time in.”
I hope that in this article, we have given you both
the motivation and tools to push yourself to your
full potential in life, so that when you look back
one day your regrets will be few.

Business › Re: Forex Trade Alerts: Season 19 by LASTMAN2018: 9:57pm On Feb 07, 2019

AXYZ:
It's apparently easier trading demo. In the sense that it's virtual money and you're under no pressure. Notwithstanding well done bro.

thank you very much sir I really appreciate but can you please tell me the broker you will advise me to use

Business › Re: Forex Trade Alerts: Season 19 by LASTMAN2018: 9:56pm On Feb 07, 2019

infofirst:
Yeah. You did great. But you will even do more if you can try to use a trading account size that's close to what you will do with live account. And you need more than a day to tell whether a new strategy is okay or not. All the very best.

thank you very much sir I really appreciate but can you please tell me the broker you will advise me to use

Business › Re: Forex Trade Alerts: Season 19 by LASTMAN2018: 9:55pm On Feb 07, 2019

infofirst:
Yeah. You did great. But you will even do more if you can try to use a trading account size that's close to what you will do with live account. And you need more than a day to tell whether a new strategy is okay or not. All the very best.

thank you very much sir I really appreciate but can you please tell me the broker you will advise me to use

Business › Re: Forex Trade Alerts: Season 19 by LASTMAN2018: 7:37pm On Feb 07, 2019

PJAMES1:
Since it's demo. I just think you could open a standard account to demo trade. That is If you plan to use a standard account when you go live.

But if you plan to trade with a cent account when you go live, cent account is okay for practice. If that's your plan (to trade live with a cent account), then you could continue using cent account for demo.

thanks boss what broker do you recommend I open an account with that I will not find it hard to withdraw my profit

Business › Re: Forex Trade Alerts: Season 19 by LASTMAN2018: 6:33pm On Feb 07, 2019

same strategy I think this is working

Business › Re: Forex Trade Alerts: Season 19 by LASTMAN2018: 6:29pm On Feb 07, 2019

PJAMES1:
Which kind of account is this? I mean which account type?

my Oga na cent ooo just using it to test run a strategy

Business › Re: Forex Trade Alerts: Season 19 by LASTMAN2018: 6:14pm On Feb 07, 2019

can someone tell me am doing great

Christianity Etc › Re: Whats Your Opinion ON CELESTIAL CHURCH by LASTMAN2018(op): 8:34am On Feb 07, 2019

kaycexx:
I don’t understand your anger.

neither do I please sir what do you think on this

Christianity Etc › Re: Whats Your Opinion ON CELESTIAL CHURCH by LASTMAN2018(op): 8:32am On Feb 07, 2019

samuel900:
You must be mad......cos you don't have ideal of the church, neither do you know the generation of the church. Celestial is not like any other church.

bro you don't have to abuse at least I wanted to know more about the church that's why I came here to seek for peoples opinion, so if you don't mind I will like to know what's your take on this

Christianity Etc › Whats Your Opinion ON CELESTIAL CHURCH by LASTMAN2018(op): 8:17am On Feb 07, 2019

Hello everyone please pardon my grammatical blunder,

I have not been to church over awhile now and I will like to start going to church now, does anyone here think celestial church is OK

And I will like to ask one or two questions

1. please what's the advantage of attending celestial church
2. please what's disadvantage
3. Can you recommend Celestial Church to anyone and why

Career › Re: When Do You Normally Receive Your Monthly Salary? by LASTMAN2018: 11:51am On Feb 06, 2019

KEK PAY US ON 45 OR 47 OF EVERY MONTH

Business › Re: Forex Trade Alerts: Season 19 by LASTMAN2018: 3:39pm On Feb 04, 2019

I will like to give this forex a trial with a cent account please how much should I start with and which broker is best for Nigerians

Family › Re: Jealousy: See How These Kids Welcome Their Newborn Siblings To The Family(Pics) by LASTMAN2018: 1:40pm On Jan 19, 2019

This can't happen in Nigeria

Business › Re: Football (+/Other Sports) Betting Season 13 by LASTMAN2018: 12:10am On Jan 16, 2019

cybertron88:
Oboy see vigil..me we gats dey work B4 7am..Choi money no easy o

same here my man ooo..............money no easy oooo

Business › Re: Football (+/Other Sports) Betting Season 13 by LASTMAN2018: 5:14pm On Jan 15, 2019

TissuePaper:
Hahahaha my body is doing me somehow, i feel like gifting someone 50k ...chewbacca pls pm me

rich people giving one another money, chai Nigeria

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Business › Re: Football (+/Other Sports) Betting Season 13 by LASTMAN2018: 1:57pm On Jan 15, 2019

chewbacca:
Thiem takes 2nd set 6-3
2 sets up, 1 more to go

congrats my man I doff my cap for you ooo

Business › Re: Football (+/Other Sports) Betting Season 13 by LASTMAN2018: 11:19am On Jan 15, 2019

chewbacca:
no, it was dropped two nights ago..first day of Australian open

please are you going to drop game tonight

Business › Re: Football (+/Other Sports) Betting Season 13 by LASTMAN2018: 10:58am On Jan 15, 2019

chewbacca:
Cashout has shown

is this the 200+ you drop at Around yesterday midnight

Business › Re: Football (+/Other Sports) Betting Season 13 by LASTMAN2018: 3:44pm On Jan 12, 2019

justwiseass:
The day FST millionaire ticket go boom all bookies in Nigeria will close shop

In other words, go and play yours today

boss where the ticket now ?

Business › Re: Football (+/Other Sports) Betting Season 13 by LASTMAN2018: 4:46pm On Jan 02, 2019

ceejayx:
OK we'll receive it tomorrow be patient

Sey you dey wine me ni? Ok I don receive am now thanks

Business › Re: Football (+/Other Sports) Betting Season 13 by LASTMAN2018: 4:02pm On Jan 02, 2019

Tissue:
2 working days...chill homie

Thanks buddy

Business › Re: Football (+/Other Sports) Betting Season 13 by LASTMAN2018: 4:01pm On Jan 02, 2019

ceejayx:
How much did we withdraw?

Business › Re: Football (+/Other Sports) Betting Season 13 by LASTMAN2018: 4:01pm On Jan 02, 2019

ceejayx:
How much did we withdraw?

Business › Re: Football (+/Other Sports) Betting Season 13 by LASTMAN2018: 3:36pm On Jan 02, 2019

Please people in the house how long does it takes Nairabet to credit your bank account. I don withdraw since yesterday night till now nothing. Please guys help me oo

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Manchester United Vs AFC Bournemouth (4 - 1) On 30th December 2018 by LASTMAN2018: 7:12pm On Dec 30, 2018

Please we want PSG next week

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Manchester United Vs AFC Bournemouth (4 - 1) On 30th December 2018 by LASTMAN2018: 7:04pm On Dec 30, 2018

Told you guys lukaku will surely perform positively today

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Manchester United Vs AFC Bournemouth (4 - 1) On 30th December 2018 by LASTMAN2018: 7:03pm On Dec 30, 2018

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Manchester United Vs AFC Bournemouth (4 - 1) On 30th December 2018 by LASTMAN2018: 7:01pm On Dec 30, 2018

kinibigdeal:
So because your team is beating one basketmouth we no go hear word

I promise you write it down the day we play your team we are going to nak you 3 goals to 1 consolation goal

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