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PiggyVest is an ultra modern platform or app established with the aim of integrating savings and investments. Since its introduction in 2016 as PiggyBank.ng, PiggyVest has transformed and is growing into a large financial management platform with products planned for the next few years to enable you manage your finances better. PiggyVest has more saving and investment products designed to help you manage and grow your finances, providing quality services to help achieve financial freedom by merging flexibility, simplicity, discipline, and convenience, thereby taking away financial stress. Below are 9 things you don't know about PiggyVest. IT IS SAFE: PiggyVest is safe in a way that it keeps customers records with utmost and highly efficient security plans, as all financial informations are encrypted and stored to a high level standard, which gives no chance to third party interference. Also all transmission to its banking partners, and on its site is encrypted to t

There’s immense power in respect. Something as simple as the act of treating others as though they really matter goes a long way. If you're wondering how to show up with behaviors that earn respect, here are tips that will improve your personality over time. Be worthy of earning people’s respect:  Respect has to be earned. Before you earn people’s respect, you have to possess a level of confidence in yourself, and show competence. You have to simply do the things that are worthy of receiving that level of respect you expect.  If you’re in a leadership position for example, and you’re asking your subordinates to do something you’re not willing to do yourself, they’re never going to respect you. When your words and actions are in alignment, you are being a man of your word. People would naturally respect you. Stand up for your opinions and beliefs in a respectful way:  To be candid, the minute you start compromising your beliefs, you lose your respect. Wh

Negative self talk can be refers to as self demoting thoughts or self depreciation. In other words, bringing yourself down, believing you "CANNOT" or "CAN NEVER" achieve something or do it right or better. This kind of thoughts keeps you telling yourself you "CAN'T " or you are "NOT FIT" to do things, simply writing yourself off. Negative self talk can affects us extremely in many ways, such as increase in the level of stress and decrease in self esteem, decrease in motivation and possibly, leads to depression. A person with a high level of negative self talk will see him or herself as being unable to handle challenges, and only see things more from the negative side than the positive side. Now, how am i going to stop negative self talk? There are many ways to stop this in your daily life but be reminded, whether you're going to get over it or not simply depends on YOU. These are ways to STOP negative self talk. TAKE NOTE OF

You can call her the most talented, hardworking and influential woman in show business in the world. Former Destiny’s Child singer, Beyonce Knowles with (Net Worth Over: $500 Million), managed to become the image of success and perfection. Before she became this, gracing the billboards, Grammys and several other awards, Beyoncé Knowles was an aspiring singer from Houston, Texas. Let’s get started with the facts you didn’t know about the legendary Beyonce. She Had the Entrepreneurial Spirit Since She was a Child  Beyonce realized her value at an early age which is very significant in the lives of successful entrepreneurs. Queen Bey started by charging every house guest $5 to watch her perform which is very mature and lit! Beyonce’s Dance Teacher Discovered her Singing Ability In an interview with her childhood teacher, Darlette Johnson told CNN in 2013 that she hummed a song, and Beyonce finished the song perfectly which blew her away.  She went ahead to tell he

Dear entrepreneurs, you have to know this: Spending too much isn't the problem, the problem is spending on the wrong things at the wrong time. It is okay for you to purchase things but purchasing things you don’t need doesn’t make any sense. So here are Common Financial Mistakes Entrepreneurs make. You Haven’t Made Savings a Priority Businesses are so unpredictable. It is not the same as having a 9-5 job where you have a salary structure. That’s why it’s important that as an entrepreneur, you SAVE MONEY. There are ups and downs in business, so you have to have a backup plan when things go down. You need to make saving money an automatic habit so that your savings will be there to save you when you need it! So to guide on how to save, I’ll recommend Nicolas Gremion’s " Solving the Money Puzzle : Personal Finance Made Simple" because it's crucial for entrepreneurs to properly manage their personal finances before being endowed with startup capital

Do you know what it means to explain yourself to an excessive length? It simply means while you're trying to make yourself clear to people, you say more than necessary. You're really trying to make people understand you, but you're talking too much in the process. While explaining yourself sometimes, you intend to please people, but a simple "YES" or a "NO" will be sufficient to answer a question instead of you stating the reason why you have to say a yes or a no. Some will understand your reasons clearly, even without an explanation and some won't, even when you explain. So don't explain to people that won't understand you or accept your choice just be yourself and people will understand and love you for who you are, as well as respect your choice. Most people do this unintentionally, you do it most of the time because you want people to acknowledge your motions, praise your ideas as well as to honor you, but fail to realize tha

There are a bunch of things we can’t control as humans. These are things I’ll like to let you know about today. Too many people are unhappy because they do not accept things or circumstances that they cannot change or control. The goal of this article is to make you understand these things so that you won't waste time worrying about them and focus on those things you can control. Here are 9 things you can’t control in life: What people think or say about you Another thing you don’t have control of is what people think about you, as well as what people say about you. You can suggest, demand, implore--you can scream it at the top of your lungs, but you can't always change another person's mind or perspective. You can't make everyone like, love or forgive you. You can't win their respect if they're not willing to give it. For instance, there must be a certain successful person you know of, probably from your village or neighbourhood, whose wealth i

One of the most powerful women in Africa and the richest woman in Nigeria, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija born on July 15 1951, is a renown businesswoman and an entrepreneur who has in no doubt manage to amass more wealth than most Nigerians could ever imagined most especially men, she was said to have made a lot of money from her investment in the oil and printing industries. A quote from an American writer Jean Chatzky, in her book Women With Money said "It's not a big surprise that women mature earlier than men. As a result, they tend to deliver better judgment,  particularly when it comes to money." So is the way of Mrs Alakija as her quality judgement in investing in oil business in 1993 has given her a place among the top guns in Africa and beyond. Mrs Folorunsho Alakija has a full length profile on the internet as well as a high profile on Forbes list but here are 9 things you probably didn't know about the female billionaire. BORN TO A WEALTHY FAMILY:

      A renown business mogul, known all over Africa and beyond, born 10th of April, 1957 is the owner of Dangote Group, who dominates some commodities in Nigeria and other African countries? he's no other than Alhaji Aliko Dangote GCON. He was ranked the richest person in Africa and 23rd in the worlds by Forbes. Valued at about $25 billion, is the first black man to attain that position among the worlds 25 richest people. Not so many things are hidden about the Nigerian billionaire as his profile is all over the internet, but here are few things you probably don't know about the C.E.O of Dangote Group. 1.HE'S HAD AN EYE IN BUSINESS FROM CHILDHOOD: Youth that actually aspires to be like Dangote should not think he achieved what he is today overnight. He was said to have been in love with business right from his tender age. Napoleon Hill stated in his book, " Think And Grow Rich ", that "When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to pos