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Believe and you can achieve great things in Life – Speech Debelle

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”…Norman Vincent Peale
Crystal Palace-born singer Speech Debelle was the shock winner of the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for her album Speech Therapy, which was inspired by a trouble childhood life.

Her father walked out [...]

How I went from being a 17 stone heavyweight to a lighter 14 stone

Smart Weight Loss Management
From the 1st of March when I started following a strict weight management lifestyle, I have gone from a fatty and heavyweight 17 stone (108 killograms) to what I believe is a healthy 14 stone (about 88 killograms) now. All this was achieved through hard and smart work at the gym and [...]

Be your own Guru

From the title you get an idea on what this is all about. Be your own Guru is a book that I have just started reading, written by Olivia Stefanino. The author calls it an essential guide to emotional and spiritual intelligence. So how do you become your own guru?The book promises to teach personal [...]

Five things grown up man should never do

Well, some things are better left to the ‘kids’. But one thing grown up man should do is to read Manshealth magazine, I love it and I think you will like it too. It’s full of expert advice and in the May issue they list 12 things grown up man should never do, for example [...]

Losing your job can leave you confused

Well, it happened to a Chinese worker Mr Wang Zhaoqing. It took him two months to get home after being fired from his job.Poor Mr Zhaoqing did not have enough money for a train ticket for the 1500km journey to his home in Guiyang, Guizhou province. The poor guy had to walk all the way, [...]

Lose weight by staying in bed longer

Lose weight by sleeping more. Doctors claim that ’short sleepers’ are fatter than ‘long sleepers’. Tests found that suffering sleepless nights can reduce levels of appetite suppressing hormone Leptin, causing you to eat more.Stress may also reduce the length and quality of sleep and increasing eating and other habits which can make you add more [...]

DIY Botox sounds a silly idea to me

I think the health dangers involved in medical experiments or operations carried out by non-trained people should be enough to put you off if you were thinking of doing some DIY botox on yourself. Now these botox kits are said to be available on eBay and at cheap prices as well. With the number of [...]

Russel Brand, Jonathan Ross and the radio prank phone call!

The two British comedians, Russel Brand and Jonathan Ross left some pretty outrageous and offensive phone messages on the answer machine of actor Andrew Sachs. The pair repeatedly left taunting messages on the Fawlty Towers star’s answering machine claiming Brand had slept with his granddaughter, aspiring model Georgina Baillie. Now the BBC has received [...]

What’s in a Name?

Is it just for identity or is your name supposed to mean anything?
I remember back in Zimbabwe when families would give children names that tell a story reflecting on the family situation. But giving children unusual names is something that happens in different cultures. In New Zealand, a girl was taken away from her parents [...]