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Swimming To Success

Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 23, 2020
1 min

Swimming To Success

Not too long ago, our ten-year-old daughter Ntsongmboma said she was going to write a book. I promised her that if the book is written it will be published. Here is what she says about her work: The IEM APPROACH is a holistic way of life; the physical and spiritual must be in synergy for real, lasting, and sustainable success. Are you in? Subscribe for daily holistic, inspirational updates! https://www.erictangumonkem.com/ Subscribe for daily holistic, inspirational updates!

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Knowing The Truth Must be More than Head Knowledge

Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 23, 2020
4 min

Knowing The Truth Must be More than Head Knowledge

I count not the number of times my son says, “I know” after I have corrected him about something wrong that he has done. Each time he says, “I know”, my response is,” If you knew it, you would have done what I asked you to do in the first place”, or “If you knew it, you would not have done what you just did.” I am not going to minimize knowledge but will state emphatically that knowledge which does not lead to ACTION will do you no good. It does not matter how much you know.

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 22, 2020
2 min

Drop it before it is too late

Do you want to reach your full potential? Then you must drop some of the load you are carrying. You already have great potential in you and have been uniquely gifted to accomplish an assignment that only you can. You are here at a time, such as this, because you are needed. That is why you must find this assignment and get behind it. But it will be impossible for you to reach your full potential if you keep carrying things that are hampering you and making it difficult for yo

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 22, 2020
3 min

All you need is the truth

More than two thousand years ago a bold declaration and profound statement were made by Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He declared, “You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free”. These few words have the potential of completely transforming every aspect of your life. You will reap a great reward when you begin to know the truth about your spiritual condition, health, finances, job, marriage, education, friends, investments, history, future, sleep, alcohol and the food

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 22, 2020
3 min

You can Help Stop Cyber #buylling

You may be wondering if cyberbullying is happening on a “professional” site like LinkedIn and if there is any point in writing about it. Bullying is well and alive and the perpetrators hide behind keeping all discussions on LinkedIn “professional” and try to silence others. These self-appointed LinkedIn gatekeepers and information moderators have come up with a “moral code for LinkedIn.” They have a strict standard that every discussion has to adhere to. For example, mentioni

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 22, 2020
2 min

One Sure Way Of Overcoming #discouragement

Discouragement comes to all. If you are not discouraged today and know somebody who is dealing with discouragement, I encourage you to reach out to them. Discouragement is one of the greatest “enemies” to productivity and has killed more dreams than anything else. Discouragement is dangerous because it tells you some of the following: You lack the necessary skills to accomplish the task before you You do not have what it takes to lunch a new product You do not have the right

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How to Know When Not to Give Up

Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 22, 2020
3 min

How to Know When Not to Give Up

There is no single bullet or crystal ball through which you can read what the future holds for you. But it is crucial for you to know when not to give up. The paramount reason for you to remain in the games is that only those who stay in the game have a chance of winning the trophy. Those who quit have zero chance of receiving any reward. Jesus of Nazareth told a story about three servants who were given money by their master to invest in the market place. After giving the mo

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 21, 2020
3 min

How to Overcome #But.....

But is just a three letter word, yet it has killed more dreams and stopped most visions than any other word in the English language. It is one of the words that has the potential to stop a well-equipped and advancing army. BUT simply means, “Between Us and the Target”. You have a target, a goal, a vision and a dream about the type of life you desire to live or the type of work environment you want to work in, and then you let BUT come between you and where you want to be. You

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 21, 2020
2 min

Why you must make some corrections

Do you want to reach your full potential? Then you must make some corrections. Those who reach their full potential do so not because they did not fail or had setbacks. In fact, the hallmark of the most successful people is how many times they have failed and all the obstacles they have overcome. Those who reach their full potential refuse to let guilt, shame, defeat, anger, bitterness, and so on to stop them from pursuing their dreams. These people keep plotting on, no matte

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#Love is in the Air

Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 21, 2020
3 min

#Love is in the Air

This Saturday was Valentine’s Day and love was in many people’s minds. We will all agree that all we need is love and all the chaos, heartache, pain, injustices, and suffering in the world will disappear. “All we need is love” is an outcry that has been echoed for many decades. Unfortunately, we struggle to truly love. Maybe because we have failed to define what love truly is or have a misunderstanding of how to express it. You have surely been shocked at some of the atrociti

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Three Things that will help you Thrive in a Toxic Work #Environment

Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 21, 2020
3 min

Three Things that will help you Thrive in a Toxic Work #Environment

Where there are people, issues, and problems will eventually arise, and it is essential to learn how to continue thriving even when the going gets tough. At times the people making the work environment toxic may be acting out of ignorance, and may not mean any ill at all. In some cases, some people out of frustration, or whatever reason they may have decided to make life difficult for others. For example, you walk into a meeting with them, and they perpetually talk down on ot

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One #powerful #lesson you can learn from #rocks

Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 20, 2020
2 min

One #powerful #lesson you can learn from #rocks

You may think that a rock is a non-living thing and has little to teach us. Permit me to say that there is one lesson that rocks can teach all of us. Rocks will teach you how to increase your Cultural Intelligence, Cultural Quotient or CQ. The CQ is the ability to work effectively in a multicultural setting. The market place is getting more and more diversified and this trend is bound to keep growing. Therefore winners and highly productive individuals will be those with a hi

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#How to put on work gloves in #corporate America

Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 20, 2020
4 min

#How to put on work gloves in #corporate America

Yesterday morning I started getting my garden ready to plant some onions and Georgian collard greens. It occurred to me that I was wearing gloves, usually I like working without gloves, because I like the feel of the soil on my hands and the connection with the plants, seeds and soil that comes with it. This is a legitimate feeling and a good one for that matter, but it comes at a price, dirt enters deep into your fingernails, your fingers, get pierced by sharp objects, your

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 20, 2020
2 min

All #lives are #valuable; You can say No to #Racism

As the world decries the recent heartless and senseless murder of 17 people in France by people who claimed to be doing it in the name of the Prophet Mohammed, you should not stand on the sidelines. One life that is lost through such senseless brutality is one life too many. Nobody no matter where they live or who they are should be shot in cold blood or blown to pieces by bombs, because they have a different belief system. According to the following BBC article last Sunday m

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5 Things that will guarantee a #successful #2015

Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 20, 2020
1 min

5 Things that will guarantee a #successful #2015

Let go of the past. You are not the only one who made mistakes in 2014. All you need is to ask others and you will be surprised by how many made the same mistakes you made. Therefore forgive yourself, let go of last year and move forward. Forgive others. You have to forgive those who wronged you in 2014 for your 2015 to be successful. Keep your goals simple. It is not the number of goals that matter. Do not try to get too much done and finally get nothing done. Goals no matte

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An #Inspirational and Motivational Personal Story

Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 20, 2020
4 min

An #Inspirational and Motivational Personal Story

Coming to America: A Journey of Faith is the personal story of a young Cameroonian man who follows God’s leading to leave family, friends, and country, to fulfill his lifelong dream of obtaining the education of his dreams. Eric Tangumonkem (hereafter, Eric), was an acquaintance of mine when I was a missionary in Cameroon, his home country. We met off and on during the seven years I was there, as our lives intersected for brief moments in time. Little did Eric or I know the i

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One Reason Why People Fail all The Time

Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 20, 2020
2 min

One Reason Why People Fail all The Time

I was reading an article this morning about the confessions of a smartphone Thief. The author described the circumstances surrounding the young man as follows, “Greg had doubts before making the grab that day. He hadn’t been in trouble for 18 months, although he had two prior stints in juvie for noncriminal charges. There were a few violations here and there — remnants from falling in with the wrong crowd while growing up in a housing project. But he thought about his 9-month

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 20, 2020
2 min

Why you must drop the junk you are carrying

Do you want to reach your full potential? Then you must drop the junk you are carrying. It is more comfortable to carry on all sorts of junk because of where you have been and what has happened to you. The broken marriage left some scars and a heavy burden on your shoulders. An abusive parent caused almost irreparable damage, and you are overloaded with the load. Your past failures and sins are weight heavily on you. The guilt of past mistakes is almost impossible to shake o

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Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 20, 2020
2 min

One Reason to be Thankful

Your attention is often drawn to the things that are wrong or going wrong in your life. You spend more time wishing you had not made one mistake than think about the many successes you have had. For example, a presentation at work that does not go well may completely replace all the other presentations that went well. It seems by default humans tend to worry and take for granted the things that go well in their lives. When we are healthy and strong; drive to work and back wit

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Three Solutions to the Problem of Illegal Immigration

Eric Tangumonkem, Ph.D.

Jul 20, 2020
4 min

Three Solutions to the Problem of Illegal Immigration

More than a decade ago I stood in the office of the head of the geology department at the University of Texas at Dallas wondering how I was going to pay my tuition. I was a newly arrived international student with little money and had come with the expectation of working and going to school. Oh, boy was I wrong! During orientation, we had been told that we could only work on campus and will have to be in school for a year before we can apply to work off campus if we ran into

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