Short Story Collection Titled ‘Three Very Different Short Stories” Available for Free on Amazon for Five Days!

My short story collection, called Three Very Different Short Stories, is avaiable for free on Amazon for the next five days or so! It features three short works that contrast greatly, as the title suggests.

Three Very Different Short Stories by [Mahmoud Suleiman Abdi Dualeh]

The first work is called Family Day, which is a story about family separtion and missing loved ones. Have you ever wondered what happens to ICE detainees when the government agency splits and tears families apart? This story deals with this subject matter and is emotional, topsy-turvy and more, at least it is intended to be. Please read this story, which is also avaialbe as a stand-alone eBook.

Family Day (the Short Story) by [Mahmoud Suleiman Abdi Dualeh]

Karen, the Misbehaved Girl is the second story in this collection. It is a really short piece which touches on the genre of folklore. Kind of like the Boy Who Cried Wolf, this story borrows heavily from behaviour and morality. A girl is misbehaving and is as naughty as she is mean. This girl, Karen, does all sorts of bad things. Does she learn the errors of her ways? Find out in Karen, the Misbehaved Girl.

Karen, the Misbehaved Girl (the Short Story) by [Mahmoud Suleiman Abdi Dualeh]

Finally, the last story is a Superhero piece called Mersa’s Surge of Energy. This story is about someone finding out they have energy superpowers, kind of like how Harry Potter discovers he is a wizard/magical being. Energ-beings in this story have a training center for their like. Mersa has a problem though. An old foe and arch-nemesis of the energ-beings is out to get them. What happens, will Mersa learn more about his powers and how will arch-nemesis, enemy and foe be dealt with?

Mersa's Surge of Energy by [Mahmoud Suleiman Abdi Dualeh]

The link to Three Very Different Short stories can be found below (enjoy and get your copy)!

Understanding Organization/Business: the Key to Financial, Monetary and Business Success

So, the world is made up of organizations that are the sum of individual and group organizational actions. But, what is a business? And how do you become successful in one? The key to understanding this is to understand profit, business ideas and strategy as well as Chartered accounting and financial nous, knowledge and information. Business is the structure of an idea that aims to generate profits, maximize owner/shareholder wealth and do more that is taught in ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).

A business has an idea to start with. If you want to sell music, you can make albums/singles, record them and relase them to the public. You can also sell the CDs, digital downloads, vinyl copies and stream music in various stores, online platforms and more.

There are somethings that are universal in all businesses in capitalism. You need capital in capitalism. You also need to earn, generate and make more money/income/revenue than you spend, expense and what your product costs. Additionally, there are other costs like selling and administrative costs (as taught in ACCA). These are the operational and professional costs that are included in your business, such as manager salaries, worker salaries and more, like office rent/cost, electricity and the cost of selling your product and/or service.

How To Start A Business

It is important for you to know that making more money than you spend means that your selling price needs to be higher than the cost per unit. If it costs you $10,000,000 to make a 1,000,000 units, then you need to charge higher than $10, like $20, for each unit. That way you always make a product. Charging more per unit than your cost per unit, and selling enough units (ideally all), is the only way to make a profit and ensure that your business succeeds. But, what is all this fuss about profits?

Without profits, you are breaking even or in the red. Breaking even is actually zero profit. If you don’t make a profit, that means you have incurred debt. Debt is a slippery slope where people you took money from, like owners/owners, investors/financiers/lenders, creditors that you give raw materials on credit and other people will chase you ’till judgement day. You will always be running towards or away from paying back your debts.

11 tips for starting a small business with little to no money | Business Insider India

Moreover, you will not have any money to buy a nice house (just joking, who wants a nice house; a mega-mega-mega villa, castle and building), cars and other cool stuff you want if you are all up there and superior.

So, profit is important is a point a can’t stress enough. But, what is also important is Chartered accounting, project managment, IT and operations. More on those things later!

Short Stories of Under a Dollar on Amazon

Hey guys,

While I am a chartered accountant/project manager, I am also a writing enthusiast, writer and author.

I have started my career at a young age, being first published in 2003. My class assignment, titled The Hazardous Delivery, was a story about my Mom’s difficult birth to my youngest sister. I then wrote stories on family separation (called Family Day), fantasy and superpowers (Mersa’s Surge of Energy) and other short stories.

I hope to become successful, but I know that the readers have the final say on the acclaim and commercial success of my written works. I hope that a number of you can read my works on Amazon and leave honest reviews. If you don’t like the works, that’s fine. I can always write something else that will hopefully be better. I did put a lot of thought and work into these stories though, so I trust they can be good enough.

Family Day; Mersa’s Surge of Energy; Karen, the Misbehaved Girl; The Archaeologist’s Secret and Souhail and the Realm of Super beings are all my short stories, available on Amazon. I also have two cost-effective short story collections, Three Very Different Short Stories and Four Very Different Short Stories. My works start at a price of only $0.99.

Here is the link to my author’s page where you can buy and browse all my works:

What is Ancient Mesopotamia: The Start of History, Civilization and Other Things

Mesopotamia is a great civilization that is very special for many reasons, but predominantly one. It was the first civilization that emerged in history. It started around 6000 years ago, or 4000 BCE (4021 BCE for all you technical nerds/geeks). It has a really interesting story, which is vital to the trajectory, growth and development and prosperity of human peoples and individuals.

What is mesopotamia? - WhatMaster
Map of Ancient Mesopotamia

Ancient Mesopotamia started when the two rivers around the Tigris and the Euphrates flooded bi-annually. A flood is seemingly destructive, but this brought forth great reward. The floods took silt from the bottom of the river and saw its way up to the becomingly fertile land above. The created a stable food supply that resulted in the Birth of Civilization. Quintessentially, that is just the start!

Mesopotamian art and architecture | Characteristics, Facts, & History | Britannica

Mesopotamia is great because it brought forth the invention of writing, the wheel and other things. Writing is what started history and distinguishes it from pre-history. All records in pre-history amount to things like cave paintings, tools used by humans and other species/animals and structures, among other things. Everything in history is found in writing in terms of sentiment, a telling salute to the works of the Mesopotamian. Of course, the same mechanisms of pre-history can be used in historic research, like study9ing old buildings, paintings and more.

Messed Up Things That Happened In Ancient Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia ventured off into Akkadian, Babylonia and Assyria. Those are Empires and Civilizations that spawned from the Mesopotamian steppe. In Akkadia, there was the Sargon of Akkad. Babylonia had Nebuchadnezzar the 1st and 2nd. Assyrian rulers include, “Tiglath-pileser III, Sargon II, Sennacherib, and Esarhaddon,” according to Britannica. This is all important to know because ever Queen, Prime Minister, Monarch, King, President, Emperor and Ruler has something to teach, bestow and pass back. We can learn from heads of state past/future/present.

Mesopotamia: Overview and Summary - History

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this piece. I will have more history, science and sport articles coming up, as well as my writing, publishing and medicine/health articles coming up. We at Writers in the Family, the Dualeh Family, also want to write about and continue writing about art, business and additional fields. On this subject (never), we will talk about Mesopatamia’s Equal of the Past, the Great, Legendary and History World of Ancient Egypt.

Carnivores/Scavengers/Prey and Herbivores/Carnivores/Omnivores

Killing an animal for food, being hunted and killed and eating scraps are the recipes of life for all organisms. We are carnivores, scavengers or prey. Even single-cellular organisms, inanimate material and other objects have food, water sources and inputs. We are also selective of what we eat. Brachiosauraus, Elephants and other animals eat only plants, fruit and vegetables. Lions, Crocodiles and piranhas only eat meat. While others still are eat both. I am saying here that we should only be scavengers and omnivores.

Scavenger - Wikipedia
Vultures, from Google

First of all, it is immoral to kill something just for food. The Food for Oil scandal showed the travesty of trading off between food and something else. Yes, we need food in no one’s mind. We produce are own nutrition in our body. If we, for say, produce enough to not need external sources of food, then we will just be killing things to satisfy our wants. Wanting is good, and we usually want things for other people and the rest of us. However, we should never kill for food. We could just wait for organisms, like livestock, plants and other organisms, to die before we eat them. That is why we should be scavengers.

Brachiosaurus Images, Stock Photos & Vectors | Shutterstock

Also, we need a lot of nutrition never. That is to say that we do not need external food. We don’t need; we produce it; we are it. We just want to have a balanced diet. This includes, fruit, vegetables, plants, meat, milk, eggs, spices, sugar and other carbohydrates and protein. That is why we should eat plant and meat material.

Scavengers means we eat dead and killed food. We can only eat dead food that wasn’t killed to support the right to life. We could also eat killed food and that would be better than killing our own food.

Spotted Hyena in Africa | Expert Africa

Omnivore means eating both meat and plants. Carnivore means eating only meant. Herbivore, meanwhile, means eating only plants.

Predators kill prey for food and prey are killed by predators and then eaten (if they die and have been caught).

We should be scavengers and omnivores. Don’t get it twisted. Vegetarians don’t eat meat, but they be committing genocide against plants. Vegans are even worse. Meat-eaters of killed meat are saddened by their actions. Maybe we never fit into these groups, but we should institutionalize the practice, industry and economic segment of scavengering and omnivore-based diets.

Check Out Teresa Siquera’s Staycation Article: Link Included!

Teresa Siquera, a world-class blogger, excellent writer and someone I deeply like, look up to and admire, has written a great piece on staycations. What are the odds, considering I wrote a piece about it as well. Can you remember that or maybe not? I hope you do. Anyways, I think this poses a great debate. Can two people come up with the same idea or not; remember, great minds think alike.

I am deeply moved by all the work in the world (on the internet, in record studios and inside football stadiums, etc. ). I am always inspired and find that some of the things I think and end up writing are on the internet already. Does that mean that I plagriaized. I think not. But, only one person thought about first. (The thinker, the great mind, the female inventory) they are always one.

Having said all that, this is a great article with a completely different focus to mine. She thought of doing a staycation in your home and with your family; as did I, partially. Those are great ideas. Having fun with your family is really great. Playing games, doing activities in the yard (outside!) and pampering each other, women only, is important, uplifting and healthy. I really appreciate her, Teresa’s, work. Teresa Siquera is a wonderful writer who will make great waves at the stroke of a finger.

This is taken from Teresa’s blog on the link found in this article

I thought of staycations in the same country. When I was younger, I lived in Switzerland with my immediate family. My immediate family is actually bigger than that, and we still live together. Living in Geneva was great. We ended travelling to Lausanne and Lugano. It was like a skiers wet dream meeting a waking up to heaven, separately and holistically. That is what I was thinking.

You can read both articles. Here is the link to Teresa’s piece titled: How to Plan the Best Staycation Ever!

Finally, my, Mahmoud Dualeh from Writers in the Family’s, article on staycation, titled Should You Go on a Vacation or Staycation, can be found below:

I Got a Job!

You know how they say that most jobs are landed through connections. While I was busy sending job inquiry after job inquiry, my Dad got me a job in an accounting firm! I’m so thrilled. Now, I can move forward with my career and stop obsessing on whether hiring managers are going to reply to my last email.

7 Tips For Making Your Job Change A Breeze | Job quotes, New job quotes, Job promotion quotes

I also think it is important that you remember the 80/20 rule. 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts. I spent most of my time sending emails, but I also talked to those close to me about my job hunt. If I focused on the connections, which were more effective, then I could have probably landed a job faster.

Also, don’t think too negatively. At one point, I was convinced that I did not have enough qualifications to get employed. That was obviously not true. Why waste away at the worst case scenario when life never plays out that way.

Anyways, here’s to all of you continuing with your new careers or starting them, if you were also looking for work.

New Kid’s Stories

So, I have made a list of three best-selling kids’ stories. You can find them all on Amazon

The first one is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This story is a classic, that is being sold every 30 seconds. It’s a must have for any child and the perfect gift for a baby shower, birthday party or what not.

https://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ac&ref=tf_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mahmouddual0a-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=0399226907&asins=0399226907&linkId=0e85d0fe650bc22336b759b6ec6aaf1a&show_border=false&link_opens_in_new_window=false&price_color=333333&title_color=0066C0&bg_color=FFFFFF

Next up is Oh, the Places You’ll Go! This a Dr. Seuss classic which is a great addition to any young child’s learning process.

https://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ac&ref=tf_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mahmouddual0a-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=0679805273&asins=0679805273&linkId=f58ec1282fd61c57cfb0880826300fcd&show_border=false&link_opens_in_new_window=false&price_color=333333&title_color=0066c0&bg_color=ffffff

Finally, there’s If Animals Kissed Good Night. This story is part of the If Animals… series. It asks the question what if animals kissed good night and imagines different pairs of animals doing so. This is a great story for any child.

https://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ac&ref=tf_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=mahmouddual0a-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=0374300216&asins=0374300216&linkId=a066a647aa612948885aad7847040cd0&show_border=false&link_opens_in_new_window=false&price_color=333333&title_color=0066c0&bg_color=ffffff

My Experience with Blogging, So Far

So, I am someone who has been blogging, on and off, for a few years now. This is my third year on WordPress and I am really enjoying the experience. In fact, I would recommend for everyone to have a blog. Whether that be a fitness site, a business journal or even one on your life, you should get in the habit of writing and seeing people engage with what you have to share. Remember, sharing is caring! It is also exhilaratingly fulfilling.

Sharing Is Caring Except Germs – Remy Lane Designs

A lot of people struggle with the idea of coming up with an idea and title for their blog. My advice is don’t sweat it. You don’t have to be super niche or super original. People have talked about broad topics, entire disciplines and ventured into fields that have already been explore. While it’s great to be a pioneer, you only discover something once. However, you can add to fields and specialize in known areas of life and practice as many times as you want to. Take Avocadu, for example. They haven’t invented health and fitness, but they are leaders in the field due to their specialism.

Also, it is important to get into the habit of posting regularly. Quality is also important. What I mean by that is try to aim to have at least ten or more days a month where you are posting, and make sure that the posts are long, meaningful or of a high quality otherwise. I try to make my blogs useful, but I am also learning as I go along.

Anyways, that’s that for today’s post. Here’s to me blogging for a long time. Cheers!

Here’s My Attempt at a Paradox, Weaknesses/Strengths

Do not let weaknesses undermine your worth, value and what you can provide to others, society at large and the world. Take a character like Harry Potter. He is neither as bright as Hermione nor is he as good as a chess player as Ron. However, he is a wonderful auror (person who defends against dark magic), incredibly kind and the bravest, most impactful and most wonderful character of the wizarding world. Here’s my attempt at a paradox, “don’t let your weakness undermine your worth, for your weakness could be your biggest strength.”

Appraisal Tips for Managers: Focusing on Strengths | Clear Review

They say that you can be a, “jack of all trades, master of none.” We are not all equally strong at everything or the best in the world in every discipline, field and area of study and practice. Whether you believe in God or not, we were all created/built to have strengths and weaknesses. That is what makes us human. Don’t get me wrong. There are many people who are strong in many fields, but no one is number one in every career. That’s okay, considering with specialization you can be even better in one thing than just spreading yourself thin and not excelling in anything.

People should try their hardest to do their best, not the best in comparison to everyone. Don’t ever compare yourself to others. I tell myself that as much as I would say that to anyone else; because, comparison is a weakness of mine. I would say, however, that we are all capable at being the best in the world at one or a few thing(s). Whether that is something incredibly specific, like balancing a financial account, or apparently more appreciated, like singing, we can all strive with greater specialization.

You can still do more than one thing. Take Jennifer Lopez, who is an actress, singer and dancer. She is incredible at all three, but even she doesn’t try to busy herself with ever career, profession and job in today’s complex world. There just isn’t enough time or energy to do that. Remember, “there aren’t 48 hours in a day.” Moreover, doing to many things is not ideal. I for one, like business, sports, arts, science, math and philanthropy. I am however hopeless at film-making, not sure of my ability in engineering and someone who has faced other challenges/having other weaknesses. That all does not mean that I cannot be of value to myself, family and others, as well as successful in the fields I chose/am strong in.

Answering "what are your weaknesses?" | Ryan Recruitment

In conclusion, don’t let your weaknesses define you. They can be your biggest strengths. We are all human and have both strengths in weaknesses. If we identify what we are good at, then we can be the best in the world at it. It is still possible to do more than one thing, but never everything. Let’s all remember that and strive to make the biggest impacts we can make.