Sarah Lavin recovers from hurdles mistake to book place in world championship semi-final

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Sarah Lavin shook off the nerves – and a dangerous mid-race mistake – to power through to the 100m hurdles semi-finals at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, the Limerick athlete clocking 12.99 to finish third in her heat on Saturday morning.

hat gave her an automatic qualifying spot behind Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan (12.40) and Jamaica’s Danielle Williams (12.87) and, crucially, gives Lavin a chance to correct her errors and attack her personal best of 12.84 in Sunday evening’s semi-final. On a cool, breezy morning at Hayward Field, there were several high-profile casualties in the heats with reigning world champion Nia Ali among those crashing out.

Lavin came close to a similar fate after clattering a barrier mid-race but she kept her balance to carry on and advance. “That’s a concentration thing – I have to run my own race,” she said. “The big thing today was getting through – a big Q is a luxury. Job done.”

The Emerald AC athlete had been in Eugene for nine days ahead of the race and admitted the wait had led to increased tension as she took to the line. “I was quite nervous, it’s been a hell of a wait, but we’ve got here, it’s job done this morning – reset and go again,” she said. “It was really expected of me to get through this first round, it was a weight on my shoulder I navigated. It wasn’t a clean race. I’ll have to be a lot sharper tomorrow.”

Lavin will line in up in one of three semi-finals on Sunday evening, which get under way at 5.10pm in Eugene (1.10am Irish time). “I do think a 12.70 will be required to make a final,” she said. “Derval’s national record is 12.65 and just to make a final it’s looking like you’ll have to get near that. All I can do myself is clean up today.”

It’s been a breakthrough year so far. Lavin smashed her personal best over 60m hurdles to make the world indoor final in Belgrade in March and lowered her PB to 12.84 in Cork ahead of the World Championships. The lesson she learned in Belgrade that she plans to put to use here? “Anything is possible,” she said.

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July 23, 2022

7 Steps to Becoming A Network Marketing Professional by Eric Worre, A Book Review

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To truly believe network marketing is better than a traditional job you have to understand the state of today’s economy. He makes his point about this referencing to how new technologies have taken jobs off the market. Once highly valued in yesterdays economy jobs and college educations where the only clear way to success. But not anymore. Today network marketing has proven otherwise.

More companies are going to the MLM approach to get their product out when fifteen years ago the choice would have been to create a string of store fronts. What corporations in the past spent on building stores, creating commercials on television, print ads now rather give to distributors instead. Eric emphasizes that jobs are not all coming back and one of the only ways to financial freedom for the average person is with network marketing.

Once this reality is understood he then moves on to label every network marketer into three categories. The first being a poser, then a amateur and a professional. He goes on to explain how many who think of themselves as professionals are actually amateurs or even posers. He explains this by the way they go about with their recruiting efforts and verbage. Just like anything else there is a right way and a wrong way to do things.

His point is that if you are going to get into network marketing you must decide to Go Pro not just try it and never make the effort to hone your skills. Enthusiasm is important but not knowing how to approach, respond and close professionally in a way that today’s society is more open to will break your business. Old methods of recruiting simply are not effective anymore.

Eric continues on to share his skills on effectively prospecting in a way that gets people to want to hear from you. The skills are finding prospects, inviting Prospects to Understand Your Product or Opportunity, Presenting Your Product or Opportunity to Your Prospects, Following Up With Your Prospects, Helping Your Prospects Become Customers or Distributors, Helping Your New Distributor Get Started Right and Promoting Events. He outlines also his direct and indirect approach to grabbing the attention of everyday people and then determining if they are fit to be a network marketer.

Though I barely scratched the surface on the detail in this book. If you are serious about not getting out of touch with today’s network marketing methods then you need to read this book. I give this book a thumbs up and a must read for every entrepreneur looking to either refresh their skills.

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July 19, 2022

Gambia: The Making of a Man Book Launched

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The newly launched book of HRH Oba (Rtn) Dr Moshood Kolawole Abolade (JP), the Ariwajoye 1 of Yoruba Community in The Gambia’s book titled – The Making of a Man is an epoch autobiography of his life.

It is a glossy166 pages book with eight chapters published and printed at Kings Media and Kingsmann Graffix. Chapters in the book included – in the beginning; parentage; post primary education; at St Andrew’s College; a teacher cum businessman; a call to serve my people; the beckoning to Obaship and the Nigerian Royal Father.

The Author, HRH Oba Mosshood Abolade, used photographs to illustrate the stories in each of the chapter which among included his pictures at the age of 5, his secondary school days as a young student; installation as king and among social responsibility pictures.

In the first chapter of the book, the author disclosed that ‘there cannot be history without an event,” as he delved into the history of his birth, he said when Lt. Colonel Yakubu Gowon took over the government of Nigeria from Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi. Thus there had been a counter-coup after the first coup.

At that time, in the book, he wrote “Nigeria was boiling by that time because many Senior Army Officers were killed.” General Aguiyi Ironsi who was from the Eastern part of the country was instlled being the most senior officer in the Nigerian Army. The Northerners, saw the coup as a way of getting rid of their leaders. So, on the 29th July 1966, a group of military officers mainly from northern region overthrew the Ironsi regime. The following day, 30th July 1966 one innocent cool headed, submissive and loyal woman gave birth to a baby boy.”

In this book, the author explained his teaching career and how he blended it with business saying he was teaching and at the same time having his personal shop at Alesinloye market in Ibadan, Nigeria. At this shop he was selling textile materials among other things.

Chapter six of this book delved into his call to serve his people stating that “having spent fourteen years in The Gambia and did not dream for one day that I would be so magnanimously rewarded by Almighty God and men, I dedicated myself to my profession (teaching) initially and later business and above all my community, that is the Yoruba Community in The Gambia which I joined in 2004.”

Commenting on this book, Oba Abolade said he started writing this his autobiography book in 13th July 2011while he applauded a man who saw it coming (the writing of this book) and continued to encourage and reminded him to write this book.

This book furthers understanding of the importance of everyone on this earth because “to succeed in life, it takes the selfless efforts of others who may be seen directly or indirectly.”

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