...ALOHA MR. NICE GUY Some Times You Need A Change Choose Who You Want To Be To Stop Hiding Under A Hood Hussnain Nawaz "Life is a movie till the very end". Dedication And Appreciation This book is dedicated to Thomas Malkin. You are my chubby bunny, my hero, and my best friend. If not for you, I would still be a hopeless, clueless Nobody. You are truly a gift from God. Thank you. For Arslaan, Ibrahim, Kai, and Ashley. You are the greatest friends a person could want. You are each so different and unique that you make friendships a never-ending joy. Thank you for all the times you asked, "What ever you are doing now, will change you're life forever" Don't ever stop being just who you are. Who can forget my beloved parents? You have been there for me not only when I needed you, but when I wanted you exactly at the right moment of time. Dad even though we don't really see eye to eye, I still want you to know that you will always have that special place right in the centre of my heart. I love you guys. Contents Introduction Chapter One – Nice Guys Chapter Two – The Truth About A Nice Guy Chapter Three – Family Chapter Four – Learning To Please The Person Who Really Matters Chapter Five – Is Love Real? - Thomas Malkin Chapter Six – Make Your Needs A Priority Chapter Seven – Me, Myself & I – Thomas Malkin Chapter Eight – Life Without Love Chapter Nine – The Prodigal Son – Arslaan Amjad Chapter Ten - Is It Worth Being Nice? Final Chapter – Will You Change? Introduction Two years of dramatic...
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...For the guys: So, you like two girls. Maybe more, it sucks, torn between them, not knowing which one to go for, right? The bad idea is to go for both (or in some cases, “all”) of them. What I’m here to do is try to help you narrow down which girl you should go for. Not to be mean or picky, but it’s just sort of a guideline. How do I know which one to chase after? More often than not, each of these girls will be different, both in personality or lifestyle. Maybe from different cliques, different cultures, whatever, but I’ll try to go over what I can. Girl #1 - DGAF Chick This is sort of self explanatory… the DGAF girl doesn’t well… give a fxck. She likes to party, flirts a lot, and has fun being single. There’s a good chance that she drinks, hopefully no drugs, but she’s fun to be around. Usually hangs out with a lot of guys, so that could prove, um, “worrying.” The fact that she hangs out with all these dudes can mean that you’ll get jealous, A LOT, and that you’ll get sort of protective of her. The constant flirting also sends off a lot of mixed messages. Do not go for this girl.Chances are, you’ll be happy that it seems like she’s into you up until you find out she’s like that to almost every guy. You got played, son. Girl #2 - The Shy Girl The Shy Girl is usually really cutesy, and usually hangs out with a lot of other cutesy girls too. Probably a little awkward around guys, but in a good way. They’re usually really nice, and actually pretty...
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...Book Review: Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office What is this book about? In the book Nice Guy Can Get the Corner Office, the author challenged the adage “Nice guys finish last.” He believed that a guy can be nice and successful at business at the same time. The subtitle would tell us better about what’s in this book: "Eight Strategies for Winning in Business without Being a Jerk." The author defines “nice” as a constructive and consciously chosen approach to relationships that is founded on: * Attempting to optimize outcomes for both others and ourselves * Striving to balance assertiveness with cooperation to achieve a spirit of collaboration * Honoring the value and strength of others and ourselves * Seeking optimal outcomes for everyone involved by emphasizing truthfulness and authenticity * Opening confronting challenges and disagreements and embracing the innovation-promoting benefits of constructive idea conflict The author also defines “success in business” as need are fulfilled—individual’s need as well as the needs of others. The authors surveyed more than 350 nice guys and found out that most of them are “too nice”. And these overly nice guys are always struggling between “eager to please others” (being too nice) and “fulfill their own needs (being successful in business).” This book gives eight strategies to help those overly nice guys balance being nice and being a jerk when achieving success. These eight strategies consists of eight rights...
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...not be worried that your simple mistakes will cause him to look for another girl. What happened with your ex was not your fault. It was not because you didn’t guard him enough or you didn’t make him happy enough. 4. Do not look into images. How many times have you met a girl who didn’t have the best image in school or at the office, but you get to know the girl and found out she was actually extremely nice? Do not rely on images. Oftentimes, it is far from reality. Do not fear men just because your “supposedly” perfect ex-boyfriend mistreated you. 5. Always have your own set of rules. Set your limits on how far you’d go for a guy. It’s perfectly ok to give and do everything as long as it’s worth it. And it’s worth it if the guy is treating you right. 6. Do not be scared to lose him. Don’t be scared that he’ll break up with you. Once you are afraid of losing him, you easily can be taken advantage. Be strong and if something is unacceptable, do not accept it and speak up. 7. Avoid calling your guy. It’s a guy thing. The relationship will definitely be better if it’s the guy who’s calling, not the girl. He will get tired...
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...to transform yourself. Are you? 2 Einstein would have been a terrible manager. There is a huge misconception among students that being smart is the way to be successful. Let me break this to you. It is not about being smart. There are many smart people who are absolutely incompetent managers. Not to mention the fact that many smart people are first-rate jerks. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying you have to be dumb to succeed. What I am saying is that you do not have to be a Mensan to make it to the top. All you need is average intelligence. But, you need other qualities. 3 Bill Clinton would have been an excellent manager. The man had his faults. But, he could communicate like few others. Bad managers are, frequently, terrible communicators. They have good ideas. They simply don’t know how to get them across. You cannot lead, motivate or sell if you cannot communicate. If there is one thing you want to do when you are in school, learn to communicate. 4 Don’t Lose Touch With What is Right. Do not use analysis to justify what you know to be wrong. Frequently, the wrong path comes dressed in pretty clothes. Don’t buy it. Hang on to your moral compass for all its worth. Remember what your mama taught you. If you think something is wrong, stand...
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...and what I like to call hybrid. These are the 3 main styles that you’ll will see in Orlando when driving around. It’s clear now that I know the different type to understand why one would do things to their car. Because one aspect might help one car but would hinder another, so I’ll explain the 3 main styles within Orlando, FL. So you can have a better understanding of why certain thing are done to their cars. Racing is the most dangerous one out of all 3 styles. It has its ups and downs, you could win money, and parts that could help your car get faster. Racing is like gambling you don’t know what could happen. You could be racing down the track and blow a tire out and lose control and crash. Those are the scarcest times; it could all happen so fast without warning. Most people build their cars so that there are safety precautions taking so that things like that won’t happen. When racing you always have multiple thing you have to check before sending a car down the track such as tire pressure because if the tire is over inflated the car will spin to much and not get traction and spin to much, Oil pressure is a big factor that you have to know before you send a car down the track if the oil pressure is to low then that mean the oil pump is have trouble moving oil though out the motor and will stop lubricating the motor which could cause a malfunction and could cause that motor to lock up or harm the motor. Breaking motors can get expensive and can end up costing a fortune. That’s...
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...LEARN your lesson but it should never be a reason to give up. If you think you're failing, or want to fail a whole lot less, this article is here to show you the 40 most important rules that I've learned to live by. Read them, remember them and who knows, you might actually succeed without having to fail so much 1. Don’t give a shit. Not giving a shit is hard to fake and I’ve yet to meet a successful player that cared. 2. Always scout the chicks. Going for girls that have a low "banged by you" probability just means you're wasting your time. 3. Don’t fantasize about her before having sex. Chicks are always more interesting and beautiful before the actual act, fantasizing before only makes you sad when it doesn’t happen. 4. Know the importance of alcohol. While you can take girls out for coffee, taking them out for drinks will dramatically increase your chances of scoring. 5. Stay on your toes. While approaching girls may be the easiest way to score new prospects, it’s never the only way. 6. Know how to close and do it when the time is right. 7. Approach at least 7 girls a week. If you’re not doing this, you’re not exploiting your true potential. 8. Always have an opening line. When in doubt, just say “Hi”. 9. Never go out if you’re not feeling your best, you’ll just waste everyone’s time. 10. Only compliment women when you 100% know that your compliment just got you closer to getting laid. Quite often, this doesn’t happen. 11. Become interesting. If you’re not able...
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...In Of Mice and Men two men are looking for work and they have a dream of owning their own land. But at the end one of the men get shot and die. One of the men steinbeck talks about is Lennie he is a big man with sloping shoulders and is very strong and has no muscular tone. Lennie's primary trait is that he is helpless. This goes with the theme of the story that things do not always go your way. Lennie’s helplessness comes up in the novel several times. The first time it comes up is when George says” now look - i’ll give him the work cards but you ain’t gonna say a word. You just stand there and don’t say nothing”(Steinbeck,6). Obviously, this shows he is helpless because it gives the sense that he can’t control himself. As the novel progresses...
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...teammates struggle knowing that there star player is gone but will start to rise up and start winning games. Quarterback Mike Winchell (Lucas Black) who has to really focus because he is supposed to be the leader of this football team turns out to be a rising star. Fullback Don Billingsley (Garret Hedlund), who is pushed by his abusive father (Tim McGraw) to be as great as he was when he played for the Permian Panthers. Third-String running back Chris Comer (Lee Thompson Young) was known for being scared of contact and unable to perform big plays. After James “Boobie” Miles were sidelined by his injury, Chris Comer becomes the true underdog of this story while he put the team on his back and helps them push to the playoffs. Coach Gaines always had his defense to fall back on lead by the very smart but explosive safety Brian Chavez (Jay...
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...FRIENDSHIP IN STEINBECK'S OF MICE AND MEN A Sermon by Dean Scotty McLennan University Public Worship Stanford Memorial Church July 25, 2004 There are two different accounts in the New Testament of Jesus' disciples asking him how to pray. What has become known as the Lord's Prayer comes in two different forms, this one in today's gospel lesson from Lukei being shorter and less familiar than that in Matthew.ii They seem to stem from separate liturgical traditions in the early church. Matthew has seven petitions, while Luke has only five.iii But Luke alone follows the recitation of the Lord's Prayer with a fascinating parable about the potential limits of friendship in the middle of the night. The point of the parable seems to be that if one is persistent in asking something of a friend, even when it's very inconvenient, one's petitions will be answered. How much more will one be blessed, then, if one is persistent in praying to God, our heavenly Parent?iv John Steinbeck's short novel Of Mice and Men is all about friendship in the middle of the night -- that is, under very difficult circumstances of rural poverty during the Depression. Following my sermonic theme of the last couple of weeks -- not only loving God with all of one's heart, mind and soul but also loving one's neighbor as oneself -- I'd like to explore Steinbeck's understanding of friendship with you this morning. Ultimately, I hope it will illuminate what it means existentially to knock at the door and then have it...
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...many different cultures. Most of my very good friends are Puerto Rican and I have learned a lot about their culture from being around them. It’s always nice to experience others traditions who are different from your own. Many believe that Spaniards from Spain and Puerto Ricans are all the same. They are absolutely not the same and anybody from Spain and Puerto Rico will tell you that. There are many religions on the island, but the main religion in Puerto Rico which is practiced is the Catholic faith. “Catholicism holds the majority with 85% of the population” ("Puertorico.com," 2004). A huge custom in the Puerto Rican culture is a Quinceañera. Both sexes celebrate but it is more for the girls than the boys. The main differences between Spaniards and Puerto Ricans are the language they speak. Although they both speak Spanish, they do not speak the same Spanish. Spaniards Spanish tend to be more complex and proper. In schools in America we learn Spaniard Spanish. Puerto Ricans speak a much less complicated Spanish that has a hint of slang and too many adds or subtracts letters from words. There are minor differences between the food of Spaniards and Puerto Ricans, but not much. Puerto Rican dishes are always filled with flavor and nothing is dull spiced. My favorite dishes are pernil with a side of arroz y gondules, or a nice hot bowl of Sancocho, pasteles and carne guisada. Pernil pork that is simply in a nutshell is the shoulder of the pig. It is typically spiced with...
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...I wanna see my dad in the Tennessee Stadium cheering me on and my mom and my family. Because they are the reason that I play football. On average I will be making at least $1,000,000 just for playing the sport. I chose football because that is my dream. I’ve always wanted to play football on the big screen. Not because I can but because people told me I can’t and I wanna prove all of them wrong. They think that because I’m a lil guy or so I’m told , but to be honest I’m not scared to hit anybody out their. I don’t wanna play for Alabama or for Auburn I wanna play for Tennessee, So I can actually get play time and show up the people that said I would never make it well I’m gonna prove all of them wrong. A little bit about my job is that it’s gonna be a National Football League. They are a bunch of teams from all over the U.S.A. and they all make up the NFL. A bunch of football teams in the United States of America play each other during fall and summer for our entertainment. And I wanna be one of those...
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...How a snake lost its legs Once upon a time about 300 years ago there lived a snake who was very greedy and selfish, and he did not have very many friends. But he did have one friend and that was a cockroach. Now I know what you are thinking eww cockroaches are gross. But this cockroach was very nice and always put friends first. One day when snake was admiring his legs cockroach came in his den and said.”Hey Snake do you want to play some hid and go seek?” So Snake replied”Sure why not.” So they went into the field and started playing. But there is probably something you should know about animal hide and go seek to win they keep score I know it's kinda weird but I was just giving you a heads up but back to the story. “I'm winning three...
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...the most amazing hubby. I’m trying to correct the notion that all marriages are wacky, which is not true. It wouldn’t be nice if some single girls out there don’t get to know that marriages can work if you make it happen. I got married 9yrs ago to my hubby, we dated for a year and got married. My friends were like it was too soon since we barely know our selves, I was staying in Abuja while him in Lagos, I just come occasionally to visit him, so after a year, we figured it was time to move to the next level which was very amazing. We got married and I started living the life of a married woman.We loved each other so much but there were things we did not know about each other since it was long distance hence it posed a problem for us. I had very bad mouth as of that time. I do like to challenge everyone including him which he didn’t like. We argued a lot which ends up with several beatings. The first time my hubby hit me, I ran to my aunt’s place and later went back home, it happened again and again, but the whole thing was after the beatings, he comes back to say sorry and to tell me how the things I said to him really did hurt and how he’s hot tempered and I’m hot tempered and all. After a year, I told myself I had to work on myself, I stopped talking too much, prayed more often and asked God to help me with my temper, I stopped challenging him and always make him feel more than superior to me, like magic, the whole fighting stopped. I took in and gave birth to our twin boys...
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... The department chair picked you guys to lead the case. Best of luck to the both of you. Here’s the information,” Josh said as he handed them a folder, “Get going!” Without another word needed, they quickly scanned through the...
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