3 DIFFERENT WAYS TO CHECK IF UR BREATH STINKS.

1.
Take your finger (any one, whichever is most comfortable) and gently rub the far back of your tongue, the further back the better, you should try to rub as far back as the end of your tongue. Smells bad? That's what your breath smells like.

2.
Take a plastic cup and breathe into it as if it was all crinkled and you were trying to blow air into it to puff it up again




 

   Take the cup and hold it up to your nose.

If your breath smells bad, brush your teeth again.

 


3.

Lick the back of your wrist and wait 5 seconds.

Smell the back of your wrist. If you smell something bad then your breath smells bad, if you smell nothing then your breath smells fine.

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A 'TO-DON'T LIST'? (A LIST OF THINGS YOU NEED TO STOP DOING!) HERE ARE 7 OF SUCH THINGS.

 

If you get decent value from making TO-DO lists, you’ll also get significant returns – in productivity, in improved relationships, in financial stability, and in heightened levels of happiness – from adding certain things to a TO-DON’T list.

As you may have guessed, a TO-DON’T list’ is a list of things not to do.  It might seem a bit amusing, but it’s an incredibly useful tool for keeping track of unproductive habits like these:

 

1.  Worrying about the wrong people.

The ladies of The Real Housewives of Orange County, they’ll survive without you.  The family members and friends of Duck Dynasty, they won’t notice your absence if you stop watching their show.  Even the private lives of your elected politicians and local public figures mean nothing in the grand scheme of your own life.

But your significant other, your friends, your children, your siblings, extended family members, business partners, employees and customers – these are the people who truly matter to you.  Give them your time and attention.  They’re the ones who deserve it.

And as you meet new individuals, be polite, but don’t try to be best friends with everyone.  Take things slow and remain focused on your core people – the individuals whose absence would immediately make your life less fulfilling.

2.  Focusing all your attention on future events instead of present moments.

This moment will never happen again.  Look around.  Cherish your time as you’re living it.  Work towards something, but enjoy the journey of getting from here to there.  Experience each step.  Don’t succumb to a vicious cycle of overbearing productivity that forces you to constantly think about every imaginable time and place except right here, right now.

It’s often hard to tell the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.  And someday you will likely discover that the small moments you’re living now are really the big ones worth dreaming about.  So learn to appreciate what you HAVE NOW before time forces you appreciate what you HAD THEN.

3.  Delaying decisions.

Sometimes it doesn’t take as much strength to do things as it does to decide what to do.

Life is filled with difficult decisions.  As you move through life you will come up on many forks in the road where both paths look equally as promising.  The important thing is not which path you choose, but that you do in fact choose a path.

Deciding sometimes hurts.  Not knowing which path to take can be painful.  But nothing is more disheartening than never making a decision.  If you never choose a road, you will never know where it leads.  So when you’re faced with two equally good options, don’t be one of the people who choose the third option: to not choose.

4.  Saying “yes” when you really mean “no.”

Stop over-committing.  While saying “yes” can take you down some wonderful roads, there’s also a ton of value in saying “no.”  Your time in life is extremely limited; do you really want to give it away so easily?

If you don’t have time to commit to a new project, fulfill a favor, etc., it’s a good idea to just say “no.”  Refusing a new request from friends, family, customers, etc. can be difficult, but rarely is it as stressful as over-committing and leaving no time for yourself.

The ambition to be successful in life is not always the biggest challenge, narrowing the number of commitments to be successful in is.  Even when you have the knowledge and ability to access highly productive states, you get to a point where being simultaneously productive on too many fronts at once causes all activities to slow down, standstill, and sometimes even slide backwards.

Bottom line:  Say no when you know you should.  

5.  Buying stuff you don’t need.

Proper money management is one of the most beneficial skills we can master to create a comfortable, happy future for ourselves, and yet it’s a skill that we are often culturally cut off from understanding.  The consumerist society we live in tries to make us feel that happiness lies in owning things and continuously buying new things, and fails to teach us about the happiness not found in things.

When external influences suddenly motivate you to consider a new purchase, ask yourself this:  “Is this thing I’m thinking of purchasing really better than the things I already have?  Do I really need it?  Or am I just being persuaded to be displeased with what I have now?”

You’ve heard the saying, “The best things in life are free.”  Believe it.  Spending time with friends, laughing, enjoying the antics of a pet, seeing a child smile, experiencing intimate and heart-felt moments with a significant other – these gifts are precious and free.  Money brings comfort, and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying that comfort.  But it’s important to spend money on the things that matter to you, and let go of spending that doesn’t add value to your life.  Spend on what you need, but don’t forget why you’re buying what you’re buying, or the spending will become a destructive habit.

6.  Gossiping.

Gossip is the evil.  If you want to know something about someone, ask.  Don’t assume; that’s how gossip grows and spreads.

If you’ve talked to more than one person about something someone else is doing, it’s time to step forward and actually talk to the person you’ve been talking about.  And if it’s truly ‘not your place’ to talk to this person, it’s likely ‘not your place’ to talk about them either.

Ultimately, you should focus on judging less, loving more, and resisting the temptation to gossip about others, or portray them in a poor light.  Be impeccable with your words.  Speak with integrity.  Avoid using your words to gossip about others.  Use the power of your voice to spread truth and love only.

7.  Filling every waking moment with activity.

Downtime is imperative.  In all walks of life, the highest human performance occurs when there is equilibrium between activity and rest.  This is due to the fact that the human body is designed to labor in short pulses, and requires rest and renewal at regular intervals, both physically and mentally.  In other words, your productive working days should look something like this: activity, short rest, activity, short rest, etc.

Make time every day to not be busy.  Have dedicated downtime moments – clear points in the day to reflect, rest and recharge.  Don’t fool yourself; you’re not so busy that you can’t afford a few minutes of sanity.

You deserve quiet moments away from the daily hustle, in which no problems are confronted, no solutions are explored, and no demands are being made of your time.  At least twice a day, while you’re awake, withdraw yourself from the sources of stress that refuse to withdraw from you.  Do so for a few minutes and simply be and breathe.

21 QUOTES FROM AFRICAN BILLIONAIRES ON BUSINESS, PASSION AND LIFE.

Johann Rupert, South Africa

Johann Rupert is one of South Africa’s richest people with an approximate net worth of $6.6 billion. Johann serves as Chairman of Richemont, Swiss -based luxury-goods company, as well as of Remgro, South Africa-based company. However, Rupert’s wealth has grown an astonishing 30% recently, after he upgraded fortunes of his Swiss-based luxury goods outfit, Compagnie Financiere Richemont.

Quote: ‘‘I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his own time.’’

Christoffel Wiese, South Africa

Christoffel Wiese is a veteran business leader from South Africa with a net worth of $3.5 billion. Wiese is one of the richest people in South Africa. Christoeffel Wiese serves as Chairman and the largest single shareholder of Shoprite, Africa’s biggest retailer, low-priced supermarket chain. He is also the Executive Chairman of Pepkor, a chain of discount clothes, shoes and textiles, where he holds a large stake.

Quote: ‘‘Who else could have built a company we bought for R1 million into a company worth more than R100 billion today. To run a company with more than 100,000 employees in 17 countries, you have to be able to think on your feet.’’

 Mike Adenuga, Nigeria

Mike Adenuga is a Nigerian business magnate whose net worth is estimated at $4.7 billion according to Forbes. Some quarters believe he is worth more than that. In 2006, he founded Globacom, the second largest mobile phone network in Nigeria. With over 24 million customers in Nigeria, the company also operates in the Republic of Benin, where it recently acquired licenses to start businesses in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Adenuga’s Conoil Producing is considered to be one of the largest independent exploration companies in Nigeria, with a production capacity of 100,000 barrels of oil per day

Quote: ‘‘The harder you work, the luckier you get’’.

 Mohammed Ibrahim, Sudan

Mohammed Ibrahim is a mobile communications entrepreneur. He is a respected international philanthropist, who is credited with ‘transforming the continent’ and is thought to be the ‘most powerful black man in Britain’. In 2007, he launched the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, which awards an initial prize of $5 million and an annual life payment of $200,000 to African Heads-of-State awardees. Past recipients of the award include Nelson Mandela and Olusegun Obasanjo.

Quote: ‘‘What do you do if you are an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant’’.

Aliko Dangote, Nigeria

Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote is an industrialist currently worth $20 billion. He founded the Dangote Group which controls much of Nigeria’s commodities trade. This business magnate and philanthropist referred to as ‘‘the golden child of Nigerian business circle’’ once drove a taxi cab on the streets of London to fund his education, three decades later, his consortium now spans across many sectors of the Nigerian economy and is expanding to the rest of Africa. He has retained his position as Africa’s richest man for the 3^rd year in a row.

Quote: ‘‘If you give me $5 billion today, I will invest everything here in Nigeria. Let us put our heads together and work’’.

Naguib Sawiris, Egypt

Sawiris is a business man and politician. He was the executive chairman of the telecommunications companies Wind Telecom and Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) before turning to politics. OTH launched the first mobile operator in Egypt, Mobnil in 1998.

Quote: ‘‘I can tell you that I won’t sell Mobnil, they think because of this boycott, that I will get fed up and sell, it’s not in my character… I am not a quitter’’.

Stephen Saad, South Africa

Stephen Saad is a South African billionaire whose net worth is estimated at $1 billion. He is the co-founder of Aspen Pharmacare, South Africa’s leading publicly-traded drug manufacturer on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange

Quote: ‘‘In Life, you don’t get anywhere or do anything you hope to without some sort of sacrifice’’.

Isabel Dos Santos, Angola

Isabel dos Santos is Angolan businesswoman who has a net worth of $2 billion. Isabel who best known as the oldest daughter of Angola’s President José Eduardo dos Santos, was named Angola’s first billionaire and the richest woman in Africa as of March 2013. In 1977, 24 year old Isabel started her first business, i.e., a restaurant called Miami Beach in Luanda, the country’s capital.

Quote: ‘‘I think there are a lot of people with family connections but who are actually nowhere. If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that’s the bottom line. I don’t believe in an easy way through’’.

Patrice Motsepe, South Africa

Patrice Motsepe is a South African mining magnate who has a net worth of $2.9 billion. Motsepe founded and now chairs African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), a publicly traded mining conglomerate with interests in platinum, nickel, chrome, iron, manganese, coal, copper and gold.

Quote: ‘‘One has to set high standards… I can never be happy with mediocre performance’’.

Miloud Chaabi, Morocco

Miloud Chaabi is a business tycoon with an estimated net worth of $2.1 billion placing him as the richest person in Morocco. Chaabi began working as a farmer and goat herder in his early teens. He eventually saved up enough money to move to Kenitra. He launched his first construction company, Ynna Holdings, in the late 40s. He grew Ynna Holdings from a construction firm into the ownership firm of hotels, supermarkets, and renewable energy, among other holdings. He owns the Riad Mogador hotel chain and the Aswak Assalam chain of supermarkets. He also runs one of Morocco’s most prolific charity groups, the Miloud Chaabi Foundation

Quote: ‘‘Bribe seekers know who to look for and my company’s reputation for integrity means I never get hassled into bribery’’.

Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa

Ramaphosa is a South African business mogul, philanthropist and owner of the Shanduka Group. Cyril is wildly respected as a skilful and formidable negotiator and strategist, and also best known for building up the biggest and most powerful trade union in South Africa, the National Union of Mine Workers (NUM).

Quote: ‘‘No action is too small when it comes to changing the world… I’m inspired every time I meet an entrepreneur who is succeeding against all odds’’.

Naushad Merali, Kenya

Merali is a Kenyan inventor, and business magnate, best known as the founder of the Kenyan mobile service provider Kencell along with French media giant Vivendi. As one of Kenya’s leading industrialist, Merali has brought commercial development in Kenya for more than 30 years and is currently expanding his business throughout East Africa. In 2004, he made a $20 million dollar profit in a deal at a record 1 hour.

Quote: ‘‘We need to arrest the widening disparities in incomes between the rich and poor’’.

Anas Sefrioui, Morroco

Sefrioui is a Moroccan businessman and visionary leader. According to reports, he is worth about $1.3 billion. He founded Groupe Addoha back in 1988, but he made a big break ten years later after he got a contract to build a chunk of government-subsidized housing under the patronage of Morocco’s late King Hassan II. His wealth continued to swell as he won a $1 billion state contract to build more housing units in 2005. Currently, Anas is the General President and 61.7% owner of the corporate enterprise also known as Douja Promotion Groupe Addoha. Anas Sefrioui is the third richest person in Morocco and the 16th in Africa.

Quote: ‘‘The potential of the African market is huge’’

Nicky Oppenheimer, South Africa

Nicky Oppenheimer’s net worth is estimated at $6.5 billion dollars which makes him one of the richest people in South Africa. In addition to his work with De Beers, he also helms Greene and Partners Investments, a venture capital firm which focuses on building business in South Africa, and surrounding areas. In 2011, he sold his family’s 40% stake in De Beers to Anglo American, a company his grandfather started in 1917.

Quote: ‘‘I am a great believer that if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities’’.

Nathan Kirsh, Swaziland

Nathan Kirsh is a South African business mogul whose net worth of $3.1 billion. Kirsh owns a property empire that spans across the United Kingdom, Swaziland and Australia. Kirsh has started his corn milling business in1958. The business expanded and became a variety wholesale food distribution.

Quote: ‘‘Real estate is the only sector where ‘stupid people’ can make money’’.

Desmond Sacco, South Africa,

Sacco is a business magnate and billionaire whose net worth is about $1.5 billion. He is one of the richest and most influential South Africans. He got into mining in 1928 when he established Gloucester Manganese Mines. He later inherited and further developed his father’s business. As of January 2012, Desmond’s Assore Group’s shares have almost doubled.

Quote: ‘‘Money is not my objective’’.

Sudhir Ruparelia, Uganda

Sudhir is a businessman and entrepreneur in Uganda. He is the Chairman and majority shareholder in the companies owned by the Ruparelia Group. He has investments in banking, insurance, education, broadcasting etc. In 2012, he was reported to be the wealthiest individual in East Africa with an estimated net worth of $900 million.

Quote: ‘‘I own quite a lot and I have worked very hard for it’’.

Othman Benjelloun, Morocco

Benjelloun was listed as the richest person in Morocco with a net worth of $3.1 billion. He took over his family’s insurance company and turned it into the leading RMA Watanya insurer. Then he expanded to the banking sector. The banking aspect of Benjelloun’s business career alone is worth $4 billion. His holding company, FinanceCom holds interests in telecommunications, airlines and information technology.

Quote: ‘‘I have done industry, banking, insurance and telecommunications, and but helping children and adults is the project of my life’’.

Mr. Jim Ovia, Nigeria

Jim Ovia founded Zenith Bank Group in 1990. The bank has grown into West Africa’s second largest financial services provider by market capitalization and asset base. His stake with Zenith is worth about $300 million. An equally large chunk of his wealth comes from a portfolio of prime real estate in Victoria Island and Ikoyi, some of Nigeria’s priciest neighborhoods. Ovia devotes majority of his time to managing Visafone, a telecom outfit he founded in 2007. He also owns Quantum, a private equity fund focused on Africa.

Quote: “I will continue to empower the youths. That is my passion. The youths are the leaders of tomorrow. We must continue to support them’’

Ashish Thakkar, Uganda

Ashish is referred to as the youngest billionaire in Africa. He is founder of the pan-African multi-sector business conglomerate, Mara Group. A serial entrepreneur who started his first company at the age of 15, Ashish built a conglomerate of real estate, information technology and manufacturing with operations in over 26 companies and employing 7,000 people worldwide in less than two decades.

Quote: ‘‘Money should never be a measurement for anything’’.

Said Salim Bakhresa, Tanzania

Bakhresa is described as extremely reclusive business tycoon and richest man in Tanzania. He is the founder and chairman of the Bakhresa Group of Companies. The genius is a well known industrialist in the mainland of Tanzania and Island of Zanzibar. With a small beginning as a small restaurateur in the 70’s, he created the business empire with a span of three decades. He is the mastermind behind the success of all the business within the group.

Quote: …

This man hardly reveals his mind… he keeps people guessing of what his next moves are.