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HOW BOOKS TURNED MY LIFE AROUND by Tamara Rasheed

5 1/2 YEARS AGO, MY 4 CHILDREN AND I WERE HOMELESS, SLEEPING ON A PULL-OUT COUCH. HERE’S HOW BOOKS TURNED MY LIFE AROUND. In 2017, I had just started my publishing agency at the beginning of that year. I had 17 books of my own across genres, best selling fiction and nonfiction books. I looked awesome on paper but was so miserable. My mentors at the time decided to start sending me high ticket referrals, not taking into consideration that I may have some mindset issues. I had imposter syndrome, serious procrastination issues, and I self-sabotaged.  And I had no vocabulary for what was happening. I just saw myself imploding sometimes. I was constantly feeling stuck. I closed a $3,000 sale and became arrogant, self-sabotaging everything and losing the place I was renting. I thought I could convince my landlord to treat a pest problem in my back yard if I put in my 30 day notice to quit the property. No plan b of course because I thought I had the upper hand as an OK tenant...

OKOWA'S MISUNDERSTANDING AND MISINTERPRETATION OF 'DEEP EXPERIENCE' by John Akugbe

First and foremost, I was born in the same village where Governor Okowa was born. Both of us are of Ika origin, in Delta State of Nigeria. Peter Obi hails from Anambra state, while Datti-baba Ahmed is from Kaduna state. I am doing this simply because of my patriotism and OBIDIENCE as the situation in Nigeria has demanded of us. Having gone through the statement made by governor Okowa against His Excellency, Peter Obi that; "Peter Obi's experience is not deep enough" to lead Nigeria". As shocked and confused I was over that statement, I was compelled to reason with Governor Okowa by going around to look at it through the angles Okowa might have seen Peter Obi because, the interpretation of what you see depended on the angle you viewed it from. 1. First of all, Peter Obi doesn't have that deep experience to assume being from South South with Urhobo traditional cap, just as your deep experience has turned you to become a South Easterner by wearing Igbo traditional r...