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23 Surprising Facts About Being an Entrepreneur

Starting a business can be the roller coaster ride of your life. Know the good and the bad in advance, and hold on tight. Being an entrepreneur is definitely not for the faint of heart,  but it does open up the amazing opportunity  to run with your ideas and see if they will actually work. It is a way to bring your passion to life as you help make people's lives better. It is your avenue to severing the ties of a 9-to-5 job and someone else being in charge of your work life. Launching your own business can be the most exhilarating, mind-boggling, mind-blowing, happy, frustrating --and profitable--adventure of your life. Here are 23 sometimes hard-to-swallow facts that most entrepreneurs experience throughout their incredible journeys. 1. You have to  get out of your comfort zone daily 2. Your first try at launching your product or service will most likely fall short or even fail completely 3. You have to kiss up to a lot of people you don't even lik...

Mahathir Mohamad Biography Prime Minister (1925–)

QUICK FACTS NAME Mahathir Mohamad OCCUPATION Prime Minister BIRTH DATE December 20 ,  1925  (age 90) EDUCATION University of Malaya PLACE OF BIRTH Alor Setar, Kedah ,  Malaysia AKA Mahathir bin Mohamad Mahathir Mohamad FULL NAME Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad ZODIAC SIGN Sagittarius Mahathir Mohamad was the fourth prime minister of Malaysia, holding office from 1981 to 2003. He improved the economy and was a champion of developing nations. Synopsis Mahathir Mohamad was born in 1925 in Alor Setar, Malaysia. He was a doctor before becoming a politician with the UMNO party, and ascended quickly from member of parliament to prime minister. During his 22 years in office, he grew the economy and was an activist for developing nations, but also imposed harsh restrictions on civil liberties. He resigned office in 2003. Early Life Mahathir Mohamad was born on December 20, 1925, in Alor Setar, in the state of Kedah in northern Malaysia. His ...

Education AND Suicide

Education and Suicide Abstract : Whether we fail in school or life exams, suicide is not an answer. What is the meaning of education?How to heal the pain within us, which one day might result in divisions and conflicts at large? Keywords : Education, suicide, youth, meaning of life, challenges. My humble personal experience in counseling in many countries, my exposure to and dealing with some complex cases of suicidal attempts in individuals I’ve been working on, the requests for holding seminars for youth on meaning of life as well as studying some reports I’ve received on students’ suicides, all these have led me to ponder on the problem of education and its purposes. Life brings different experiences, challenges and lessons. Sometimes we find ourselves at the edge of darkness, uncertain and lost. And sometimes, some of us, take an irreversible step plunging into shadows. Youth suicide has been a serious problem in many countries over the past four decades; with scho...