The Success Digest

Ugochi being crowned winner of MBGN 2017 Michel Ugochi Ihezue yesterday emerged the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria in the just concluded MBGN 2017 hosted and sponsored by the Silverbird Group. She beat 35 other contestants to emerge the winner. This was the same pageant that saw Nigeria producing Africa's ever first Miss World, Agbani Darego in 2001. The Success Digest would try to get an exclusive on her.

Photo credit theodesseyonline.com Of all the goals people set in life, two stand out: success in our personal and professional lives. It turns out, these two are interdependent. Personal success supports and reinforces professional success. Professional success reinforces personal success. And together, they reinforce life’s most important pursuit -- happiness. That’s why both goals are on top of everyone’s agenda, especially the 20-something generation, as they begin the life journey from their parents’ nest. How are these goals achieved? What does it take? If you ask Rhonday Byrne, she’d tell you it’s The  Law  of Attraction. Byrne argues in  The Secret  for the power of positive thoughts, which she says will act as a powerful magnet to bring things your way, and help you to identify and externalize your internal strengths and capabilities. Put good things in your mind, says Byrne, and they’ll happen. While positive thought may be a necessary condition for b

Success is relative. Here are some really great and interesting definitions about success: Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington says that money and power aren't enough. Getty Images/ Astrid Stawiarz Huffington says that while we tend to think of success along two metrics — money and power — we need to add a third. "To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric,"  she says , "a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving." Together, those factors help you to take care of your psychological life and truly be successful, or as the title of her new book suggests, " Thrive ." Legendary basketball coach John Wooden says it's a matter of satisfaction. The Associated Press With  620 victories and 10 national titles , Wooden is the winningest coach in college basketb

Everyone has bad habits. Even those who’ve risen to entrepreneurial greatness Steve Jobs  had poor hygiene , Walt Disney  smoked three packs a day  and Michael Bloomberg  has a sodium addiction . But more iconic than their flaws is the success that ensued despite their insufficiencies. What could have been their undoing was, instead, their humanizing characteristic. And that’s the case with our flaws. The worst thing any of us can do is  hide our imperfections . No matter how glaring, strange or destructive, our shortcomings flourish in the dark, but atrophy in the light. So in the spirit of transparency, here are 22 entrepreneurs owing up to their worst habit. 1. I do too much at once. “I continually try to do too much at once. Before, I would take on any idea or project that I liked. Now, I  focus more . I still get caught up in doing too many things, but I catch myself before I go too far down that route. It’s my biggest weakness.” — Neil Patel, f ounder of  Neil