Yeah, you heard me right. Today I was scrolling through some Instagram Reels and I saw a video of a person saying this. I'm still confused. Should I laugh or should I feel sorry for that person? So here's how the whole video goes. The man said and I quote" I saw my salary on a bottle of perfume today. So you are saying that someone out there smells like my salary."
It's kind of funny but also sad at the same time. Where have we come today? There are people trying to live a normal life with what little amount they earn. And there are people using the same amount of money just to smell good.

I bring up this to talk about financial freedom. What is financial freedom to you? Is it about having a certain amount of money that is required to have financial freedom or to have an amount of money which can potentially give you freedom in the future?

To me, I will choose the second one. If I am happy with what I have and I am certain that it will continue to help me in the future too, then I have successfully achieved financial freedom. But most people these days are caught up with the thought of using luxurious thing and being able to continuously use it is financial freedom to them.

Do you agree or disagree to this? Let me know your thoughts.

[Just for context, I am not talking about holding money. I am talking about investments that could give me passive income that will continue to come in the future and give me financial freedom. As long as I can survive with that amount of money and not worry about the future, then it is financial freedom to me.]

I would just like to share few points which newbie should always remember and to avoid indulging in these things as mentioned below.

1. Avoid burst posting:
I have seen users making continuous posts without any time gap just to complete their weekly Target for bounty campaigns or even signature campaigns, this can get you flagged and there are chances you will be removed from campaign and be in the spammers list thus eradicating your chances of being a part of further campaigns.

Thanks to merit system that users cannot climb up the ranking just by count of posts and activity as merit is required because I have seen people used to make numerous posts even single or two worded to climb the ladder of the ranks before merit was made mandatory for ranking system.

2. Trading of merits:
Most of us will receive a random DM by users offering exchange saying they will share a merit to your account from their alternative account and ask you to share merit on their account. Never indulge in this activity as moderators can easily identify it and your account may be blacklisted and sometimes newbie are cheated on this context as there are group who will ask you to pay for merit and end up running away with your money once you pay it.

**Correction** "burst posting"

Apologies

The red card has already affected Manchester United play because Copenhagen have leveled the score to make it 2-2 in a penalty kick just some seconds before half time. Galatasary will be happy with Manchester United situation if they can be able to add more point in their match against Bayern Munich because they are currently goalless.

Arsenal’s first half performance is very impressive, many people will be thinking that Arsenal will not play well because of injuries not knowing that Sevilla also have some their first team players absent in the match which makes it balanced.

Although I expect Arsenal to win because Sevilla statistically are very poor away from home in European competitions; they were winless in their last 14 games away from home in the European competitions that is why I expect Arsenal to win the match without any doubt.

Despite the fact that Manchester United has improved since defeating Fulham last week, and despite the fact that they are playing well for the first half of the match, since they first  lead comprehend with 2-1 lead and before end of the first half comprehend eventually equalized back, my prediction is that comprehend will win against Manchester United because Manchester United is now in trouble after receiving one red card.

India is the new leader of the global south .... And a replacement for China ?

China has recently started to openly surrender its position. both politically and economically.
politics is not the place to discuss, but the economy leaves much to be desired. Although it is partly a consequence of politics )

But to the main point - in the "Global South" today there is a situation when yesterday's leader, China, can no longer fulfill this role (although it wants to), and no one can take this place except India, due to many reasons.

At the same time, India looks much more attractive to the "Global West" than China, which has decided to go into a dictatorship inside, and has a rather dubious foreign policy. China has ceased to be a profitable global factory, plus purely political contradictions with the West. It was the outflow of Western investments, and the decline in demand of the Western market for products manufactured in China, that became the catalyst that accelerated the 3 processes:
- Import growth
- Reduced exports.
- And as a consequence, a shrinking trade surplus.

At the same time, a very complicated situation is brewing inside China with a chain of bankruptcies of budget-forming companies. Of course, China will hide it, but as they say "you can't cheat arithmetic, and 2+3 will never be 10". Another problem is the relocation of Western assembly sites from China. Large regional high-tech companies are also leaving Chinese sites - for example, Samsung.

And guess where all this is moving to ? That's right - to INDIA ! Stable, predictable, adopting the Western vector of development, and moving away from contacts with "dubious countries". India does not "beat in hysterics of dedolarization", does not conduct dubious negotiations, and does not support economic terrorism of some other countries against the world economy. India benefits from stability, long-term mutually beneficial relations with the developed world, a well-deserved place in the world economy and financial system, and realization of its regional ambitions, which China is beginning to lose by failing to implement 2 projects:
- "Yuanization" of the BRICS countries
- An attempt to "put the same BRICS club members on the needle" of importing Chinese products.
It was a poorly concealed but absolutely understandable attempt to save the economy, but ...

What about India? A country with a huge territory and great human potential, developed industry, and long-established ties with the Western world. India has a very good education, and not a small middle class, with good education from western educational institutions. In India, stealing Western technology is not part of the economy as it is in China, for example. In terms of logistics to EU and African countries, India is more conveniently located. Plus in India there is no problem of population aging, which started to give itself in China "thanks to" the policy - "one family - one child". It is also worth paying attention to the IT market - it is perfectly developed in India and continues to compete with other markets. Plus - wiser, more balanced and liberal business policy is what China is losing and will not contribute to the free development of the economy.


So the question is - what do you think about India's potential, opportunities and prospects, in light of the idea of India becoming at least the economical "Head of the Global South", and possibly "one of the poles of the world system" ?

Manchester united is very brilliant today, they have been really  good with their performance so far in the first half bof the game leading by a goal already but Copenhagen isn't relenting with their attacks bas they are looking for a possible counter attack opportunity.

The match has been characterized with a few stops but they are back on play, this may attract further extension of the first half, hojlund has been really brilliant tonight, rashford is yet to give any action, hojlund has already gotten a brace in the first half of the game. This win will seal their chances for qualification if by the end of the second half Manchester united wins, Arsenal is also leading by a goal, the champions league seem to be characterized with many goals tonight.

Everyone have a target and if you don't have a target you will not achieve your goals, and if you allow 2024 to come first before you began to think of what you achieve inside 2024 I think is a wrong plan of thinking and sometimes another thing will make us to deviate from what we are often to achieve. Myself I think that our brothers that registered newly this will make them to think of what to do and what not to do as their plan to achieve betterment in the forum.

Let me start by reviewing my small plans in 2024 but I will not review all at least some of them if it will reach up to two, because our people said that we should think for the future and also documents our plans should in case if we are not opportune to make use of our plans and any other person who view our plans can work on it for its benefits.

Accumulating of bitcoin: this is my first plan in 2024, because I seen that many of us praise bitcoin but we don't have more of bitcoin, why some people from other locals boards have thousands of bitcoin.

What strategies can be use to accumulate a bitcoin: this is another thing we should think of in bitcoin accumulations, some of us do not buy bitcoin when the price is low but they buy bitcoin when the price is increasing, the best time to accumulate your bitcoin is when is in DIP and when it rise you get high numbers of bitcoin.

At least this is one of the plan I have next year no matter bullrun or bearish manifest and I will like us to outline our plans we have in bitcoin in next year

The rate at which young people dey get diabetis and hypertension these days is alarming.
The rate at wish young boys dey consume beer with no moderation is increasing everyday. Some go take five to ten bottle of beers dey call am enjoyment. That kind life no be enjoyment. You dey only destroy your body system.
Excess consumption of alcohol fit cause diabetes.

E get wetin dey regulate our sugar intake , them dey call am INSULIN. When you take too much beer, e go make the insulin no dey work well again, this will then cause increase blood sugar level. Excess beer dey destroy won organ for our body wey them dey call Pancreas. This pancreas  dey produce Insulin wey dey regulate sugar as I mentioned earlier. Imagine say that organ is destroyed, that's the worst type of diabetes

Do you also know that excess beer consumption  dey cause Obesity which is a risk factor for diabetes?
Diabetes is also link with hypertension, e mean say person wey his or her sugar level dey high fit get hypertension too which is dangerous to you heart, if e affect heart, na Cardiac arrest, if e affect kidney, na kidney failure and if e affect  brain, na stroke be that.

Some young guys now dey complain say their manhood no dey stand well( Poor Erection) some of them na due to excess sugar for body. So if you get this kind issue and you know say you dey drink alcohol well well, go check your sugar level.

Diabetes no get cure, you can only manage it with life style changes till you go old die.
I say make I bring this thread here because I get person wey get this diabetes for young age and I know wetin the person they pass through.

Please drink in moderation if you choose to drink, and do not make it a daily lifestyle
I hope this message help someone here.

PSG scored their first goal in the first half of the match at the 9th minutes which could be considered an early goal which got everyone thinking it's definitely going to be a win in favour of the french side but AC Milan got an equalizer pretty soon before the end of the first half.

They are few minutes into the second half of the match already and we would hope it end in favour of PSG although AC Milan have got the home advantage but PSG isn't showing any form of weakness in this game rather they are doing just well, if they are able to secure a goal in the second half of their game and seal their victory, they will be at the top of their group leading Dortmund with two points, but at the moment they are ahead of Dortmund with goal difference but sharing same points.

Early Kickoff games have disappointed!!!

Borussia Dortmund beat Newcastle home and away with Newcastle failing to find the back of the net in both fixtures which shows experience in these games matters alot.

Elsewhere, Shakhtar Donetsk who are far from home played from a neutral ground in Germany hamburg because of the war, but this performance they brought today was beyond them!! Who limits Barcelona to one shot on target when they have over 60% ball possession, it's unexplainable and Barcelona have themselves to blame and 12 player here didn't play a role either   Congrats Shakhtar, that was a brave fight!!!

Most Of us Nigerians get it wrong on what is causing our economy instability to move from worst to worst, most of us thinks the naira devaluation is the cause of it which is not true but the devaluation is as a result of some of these factors below which I will give you a clear reason for this, because 1 naira is greater than 1 south Korea won but South Korea has a stable economy and  this reasons include:

• Commodity imported to Nigeria is greater than the commodity exported out of Nigeria and this has caused inflation in our country, our focuses has been more on exporting oil which is affected by the Russian war, the price of oil is volatile while south Korea focuses on exporting technologies like electronics, machines and others.
• Nigeria has less financial systems supporting businesses and our bad road, insecurity and power supply, has affected our productivity in the likes of getting farm produce or raw materials and this has been a discouragement to foreign investors while South Korea does not lack in any of this
• lack of proper education, corruption and bad government has been among the major decline of our economy while in South Korea education has a really high standard and the corruption there is not like ours while the government are still alot better than ours.

Question
Will the increase of the value of naira makes the country ore stable or except this problem is solved our will continue to devaluate?

In a bull market, it doesn't matter which coin you hold, because in such a period they all increase in price. But buying altcoins today, hoping to make a profit in 2024-25, will be risky and the best solution in this case will be to trade short-term, because most altcoins are not designed to hodl.

Chelsea actually reacted very well after Tottenham got their first goal from the deflected shot on goal. Many Goals from both teams were ruled out else the goals would have been more than just one goal from both teams. Chelsea have the advantage of the extra man, they have all it takes to hand Tottenham their first loss of the season at their home ground, hopefully they know how to take it. Madison is injured, so Tottenham's creativity will be affected.

I expect a change in strategy for Chelsea in the second half, they have to make sure that they can maintain pressure on Tottenham Hotspur until they allow a goal.

I greet una my people. base on the way the countri done choke via d economic system wey our government done put us inside. Ah they see a lot of young people wey be say they they do things collaboratively. You go see house wey be say 4 persons they share rent they leave together. Weting they go just do nah to find money buy things like TV, AC, refrigerator and other house appliances and properties so that the house go make sense. Even sef for business you go see two people combine money start one large business.

Ah been they feel say nah most people like friends, relative or partners they mostly they do all these things. I con realize say this people sef nah different people wey be say they no even too know each other like that. but them just decide to collaborate. Other things i understand be say this people know say if nah only one person they do am the burden go heavy and money go finish kpata-kpata nah why they lock up collaborate.

If people collaborate like this e get somethings wey go they xup, things like.

1. Lack of privacy and at times peace of mind
2. Lack of trust after some period of time spent together
3. Jealousy or envyness based on one wey they do better than the other.
4. Fight for superiority and ownership of some things. e.t.c

Weting me i wan know now nah say which one they preferrable to they on your own or do something yourself (solo) or to collaborate or have a partnership with someone which one wey you think say go they better and go avoid you so many problems but if you they choose to make you consider your financial strength o if nah something wey you fit bear on your own.

I don't think Tottenham will disappoint tonight as they want to at least stay top of the table so must win at Chelsea.

It is difficult to understand Chelsea's game when there are many talented players in it but solid cohesiveness is not there, Poch is still very stuck to guide his players.

A bit of writing now that Chelsea are conceding goals, this has been too easy for Tottenham.

By far the most scammed is ALT Coin. Still people are more interested in investing in these coins. While ALT coins are scams, there are some coins that are exceptions. I can only trust BNB for investment, I don't trust the rest of the coins that are out there. If there is any coin worth investing in for the long term after Bitcoin, it is BNB. Other coins are also good for investment but they are for short term for trading we can use ALT coins but for long term investment I will never choose other ALT coins.

The US government and the cryptocurrency market are having a lot of ups and downs, and it seems like they're headed towards a very important conflict. This conflict will determine the fate of many people and companies involved in cryptocurrency. They might have to shut down or move to a different country.

It seems people were predicting this game correctly and I was wrong because I was expecting to see Liverpool beating Lutun in this game because they have much better players and Liverpool is in a better situation than LUtun.
Also, Liverpool had much more chances to score goals in this game but they couldn't use the chances they had and maybe that was enough for Lutun to take the one point from this hard match against Liverpool.