In search of Success
Lesson #1: Success is never out of convenience.
Success is in the extra-mile.
It may not seem to be easy. Learn to enjoy the process, while you wait patiently for the end result. In success the mean justifies the end.
The moment a door closes, reach out for another. Dig more wells than your enemies can fill. Always seek to break your own record daily.
If you cannot stretch, you cannot succeed. That’s hard, but true.
Be a law to yourself. Be diligent. Been diligent is becoming a law to yourself without an external force compelling you.
Be ready at all time to sow your seed. What can you do? Learn to do them even if it’s not convenient.
The lazy can’t win in the race of life. When you notice those tendencies in your life, don’t wait for someone to call your attention to it, beat yourself to shape.
The lazy don’t win in the race of life. If you are sloppy or drags, the race is not for you either, get back to shape, less the game be over without you winning.
Never be too slow or too fast. Success and life is a game of time and season, the trophy goes to the most strategic team player. You are that team player.
Lesson #2: Think the good life
A. Change your thought pattern. Harmonise your thought with the thought of God for your life. The supreme one, your creator, thinks the best of you, why think less.
Thinking is exploring your mental ability to maximize your God given potential. Thinking is a discipline. Make good thinking your profession. Make it a career. Make it your priority. Doing anything without good thinking is having a concert before turning on the instrument.
“Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches or pounds, or college degrees, or family backyard; they are measured by the size of their thinking” -DAVID SCHWARTZ.
How to become a good thinker.
1. Expose yourself to good input.
Read books, review magazines, listen to tapes, and spend time with good thinkers. Put your thought in writing and keep it somewhere in your favourite thinking place to stimulate your thinking.
2. Expose yourself to good thinkers.
Spend time with the right people. If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people, observe and learn from them.
“The one who associates with the wise grows wise,
but a companion of fools suffers harm”. Proverbs
3. Choose to think good thoughts.
No matter what you choose to do, go to your thinking place, take paper and pen, make sure you capture your ideas in writing.
4. Act on your good thoughts.
Ideas have shelf life.
You must act on them before the expiration date. Think things through- then follow through.” –Eddie Rickenbacker.
The mind is like a satellite receiver a lot of people picked the idea like you did. Act first, be the first to do.
5. Allow your emotions to create another good thought.
6. Repeat the process.
Attitude of big thinkers.
1. Learn continually
Big thinkers are never comfortable with what they already know. Read a new book. Attend that seminar. Never be comfortable with the usual.
2. Listen intentionally
When you meet with great minds ask questions and listen intentionally. Listen for the things that were not spoken in words. When you meet with people, it’s good to have an agenda so that you can learn.
3. Look expansively: .... who you are is what you see.
4. Live completely: live your thoughts.
B. Live a balance life. Balance may not be achieved at the midpoint of every object, it may tilt to the side a little or far away for another. There are no iron clad rules in life, but always be sure you are correct, and you can be correct.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Vital lessonsPart 1: leadership and life .
Vital lessons.
In the last fifteen years of my life I have commented to personal development. My notes are full, I probably cannot remember who thought me or where I read what, but I can tell I have learnt from the best ever lived. I hope to bring to bear some of the lessons I was able to pen down from learning and my speech over the years. These may not be all and exhaustive, but I will try to put them in bullet point. Enjoy the ride.
LEADERSHIP
• Good leadership do not just build their personal credibility, they build the organisations leadership capacity or the capacity of the organisation to sustain future leaders.
• Studies of leadership began with a simple premise: leaders must deliver results.
• Leadership must develop a logical framework for making intangibles tangible in manner that increases confidence in the future.
• Leaders are dealer in hope.
• Never spend the money you don’t have to buy what you don’t need to impress people you don’t like.
• What you don’t have you can’t give. When a leader read a book the organisation has benefited from its content. When a leader is ignorant the organisation suffers. You must always and constantly by going and exploring new territory.
• Managers maintain leaders innovate. Managers keep status co, leaders create a new future. You can’t lead people where you’ve not been. Where have you been? VISION!
Four Pillars of leadership.
1. Purpose: What I was created for.
2. Conviction: Great leaders have conviction of purpose.
3. Passion: Passion makes the alarm clock irrelevant.
4. Inspiration: If you can’t inspire you manipulate, when you manipulate you are not a leader.
• Every true vision has one believer first
.
RELATIONSHIP
• “The act of been wise is knowing what to overlook” –William Jane
Operate the law of planned neglect. Learn to forgive. Forgiveness should never be with a price, give it freely. If you are able to forgive enough you will make more friends than enemies. Never hold people down in un-forgiveness, you will not be up too.
To build good relationships you must:
1. Understand people
2. Love people
3. Help people
Too many people are ready to assert their right than to assume their responsibility.
TEN relationship watch outs.
1. Never think you don’t have to build relationship.
2. Never think selfish and distrustful of others.
3. Never grow numb to positive attitude.
4. Never belittle people.
5. Always see reason to help others.
6. Always want to build Gods kingdom not yours.
7. Be responsible. Don’t fix blame fix the problem.
8. Never jump to conclusion on any matter, listen to everyone.
9. Give relevant response. When you don’t know what to say or do, keep quiet.
10. Be progressive: don’t think life should freeze.
In the last fifteen years of my life I have commented to personal development. My notes are full, I probably cannot remember who thought me or where I read what, but I can tell I have learnt from the best ever lived. I hope to bring to bear some of the lessons I was able to pen down from learning and my speech over the years. These may not be all and exhaustive, but I will try to put them in bullet point. Enjoy the ride.
LEADERSHIP
• Good leadership do not just build their personal credibility, they build the organisations leadership capacity or the capacity of the organisation to sustain future leaders.
• Studies of leadership began with a simple premise: leaders must deliver results.
• Leadership must develop a logical framework for making intangibles tangible in manner that increases confidence in the future.
• Leaders are dealer in hope.
• Never spend the money you don’t have to buy what you don’t need to impress people you don’t like.
• What you don’t have you can’t give. When a leader read a book the organisation has benefited from its content. When a leader is ignorant the organisation suffers. You must always and constantly by going and exploring new territory.
• Managers maintain leaders innovate. Managers keep status co, leaders create a new future. You can’t lead people where you’ve not been. Where have you been? VISION!
Four Pillars of leadership.
1. Purpose: What I was created for.
2. Conviction: Great leaders have conviction of purpose.
3. Passion: Passion makes the alarm clock irrelevant.
4. Inspiration: If you can’t inspire you manipulate, when you manipulate you are not a leader.
• Every true vision has one believer first
.
RELATIONSHIP
• “The act of been wise is knowing what to overlook” –William Jane
Operate the law of planned neglect. Learn to forgive. Forgiveness should never be with a price, give it freely. If you are able to forgive enough you will make more friends than enemies. Never hold people down in un-forgiveness, you will not be up too.
To build good relationships you must:
1. Understand people
2. Love people
3. Help people
Too many people are ready to assert their right than to assume their responsibility.
TEN relationship watch outs.
1. Never think you don’t have to build relationship.
2. Never think selfish and distrustful of others.
3. Never grow numb to positive attitude.
4. Never belittle people.
5. Always see reason to help others.
6. Always want to build Gods kingdom not yours.
7. Be responsible. Don’t fix blame fix the problem.
8. Never jump to conclusion on any matter, listen to everyone.
9. Give relevant response. When you don’t know what to say or do, keep quiet.
10. Be progressive: don’t think life should freeze.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
THE HEAD AND TAIL RULE
The head and tail rule.
Rule 1: The rule states that “there will always be someone ahead in the rank of life capable of blessing you”.
Never think you have arrived at destiny, keep striving for excellence.
Excellence has no finish line, it’s a quest.
Never be too assertive to loss caution. Life could be dangerous without speed limit. There is nothing call equality in the true sense of it in nature. If it were so trees will never be taller than each other.
Mother Nature could be “unnecessarily” strict and “unforgiving” if you break this law of nature. If you jump up, you will come down. Allow the growth process to take you up.
Give honour to all that it’s due.
Learn from everyone and honour everyone ahead of you in the rank.
Rule 2: “Growing up means giving away your strength, pride and reputation”.
If you ever care to be great, give away.
Burn your pride, it never count.
Burn your fear, it’s a rocking chair, it will never get you anywhere in life.
Quit thinking “me”, think “we”.
Just turning the first letter upward, you are on your way to glory.
Give up your ambition, for His purpose.
Give up your pride, for His glory.
Give up your past, for His future.
Give up your history, for His inheritance.
Give up your fear, for His faith.
Give up your thought, for His ideas.
Just like biblical Abraham,
He gave up his ambition of flourishing in Hebron to obey God.
He became blessed to be a blessing, father of nations.
Just like the biblical three Hebrew boys,
They gave up their fear of bowing to the graven image, to hour their God only.
They became a reference point and their God highly praised.
Just like YOU!
Give up the old for the new. NOW!
Rule 1: The rule states that “there will always be someone ahead in the rank of life capable of blessing you”.
Never think you have arrived at destiny, keep striving for excellence.
Excellence has no finish line, it’s a quest.
Never be too assertive to loss caution. Life could be dangerous without speed limit. There is nothing call equality in the true sense of it in nature. If it were so trees will never be taller than each other.
Mother Nature could be “unnecessarily” strict and “unforgiving” if you break this law of nature. If you jump up, you will come down. Allow the growth process to take you up.
Give honour to all that it’s due.
Learn from everyone and honour everyone ahead of you in the rank.
Rule 2: “Growing up means giving away your strength, pride and reputation”.
If you ever care to be great, give away.
Burn your pride, it never count.
Burn your fear, it’s a rocking chair, it will never get you anywhere in life.
Quit thinking “me”, think “we”.
Just turning the first letter upward, you are on your way to glory.
Give up your ambition, for His purpose.
Give up your pride, for His glory.
Give up your past, for His future.
Give up your history, for His inheritance.
Give up your fear, for His faith.
Give up your thought, for His ideas.
Just like biblical Abraham,
He gave up his ambition of flourishing in Hebron to obey God.
He became blessed to be a blessing, father of nations.
Just like the biblical three Hebrew boys,
They gave up their fear of bowing to the graven image, to hour their God only.
They became a reference point and their God highly praised.
Just like YOU!
Give up the old for the new. NOW!
Monday, January 3, 2011
WHAT EXERTLY DO YOU WANT?
The summary of life is a bundle of decisions.
The relationships you are in today is a decision,your choice of job or profession is also one.
The collection of decisions you make will determine whether you succeed or fail. certain decisions are life and death issues,while some have no place in time and (destiny) eternity .
The ability to discern this is important to decision making,less you major on minor,letting the essential of life slip out of your grip.
The starting point is WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU WANT?
If we can not answer life revealing questions we may not be ready for greatness.
Wisdom is key.
Wisdom is the right application of truth.
Wisdom comes through well processed Knowledge.
Wisdom is a Spirit and can be contacted by association.
Who have you begin with lately?
This will tell your level of wisdom.
You can only known what you want if you have meet with DESTINY.
if you can tell where you are in eternity- destiny- you have a grip on TIME , SEASON AND JUDGMENT.
Its time we lock up ourselves to discover, to recover and reposition for greatness.
I suggest a study of the book "PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE" by RICK WARREN.
Remember , with every decision we make , we initiate change.
Even when we decide not to decide, life still goes, and changes still occur.
Why?
How?
Someone or the force of nature made the decision for you.
Why not ?....... Get on the driver seat.
Ayodolapo is my name...i am your friend.
The relationships you are in today is a decision,your choice of job or profession is also one.
The collection of decisions you make will determine whether you succeed or fail. certain decisions are life and death issues,while some have no place in time and (destiny) eternity .
The ability to discern this is important to decision making,less you major on minor,letting the essential of life slip out of your grip.
The starting point is WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU WANT?
If we can not answer life revealing questions we may not be ready for greatness.
Wisdom is key.
Wisdom is the right application of truth.
Wisdom comes through well processed Knowledge.
Wisdom is a Spirit and can be contacted by association.
Who have you begin with lately?
This will tell your level of wisdom.
You can only known what you want if you have meet with DESTINY.
if you can tell where you are in eternity- destiny- you have a grip on TIME , SEASON AND JUDGMENT.
Its time we lock up ourselves to discover, to recover and reposition for greatness.
I suggest a study of the book "PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE" by RICK WARREN.
Remember , with every decision we make , we initiate change.
Even when we decide not to decide, life still goes, and changes still occur.
Why?
How?
Someone or the force of nature made the decision for you.
Why not ?....... Get on the driver seat.
Ayodolapo is my name...i am your friend.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
CODES AND NUMBERS
Codes and Numbers
As I reflect on the last ten years, the experience, achievement and leading influence. I concluded that codes and numbers have ruled the world more strongly in the last decade. That means technology influence our lives greatly, today mobile phones with specific numbers, black berry with codes call pin, not to talk of ATM cards with pin codes, soft ware’s written in codes or programming languages, even face book, whose founder (in personal opinion) is one of the most amazing man alive today with enormous influence on the world, having a large community of intelligent and daring people, this is an encoded community where codes and numbers rule.
Code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, phrase, or gesture) into another form or representation (one sign into another sign), not necessarily of the same type.
One reason for coding is to enable communication in places where ordinary spoken or written language is difficult or impossible
Men who have devoted their lives to coding have ruled our world. Bill Gate the world’s richest man is computer guru, a total coding with zone. For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new system of exchanging information and for changing how we live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg founder of face book is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year. Warren Buffet of this world has been able to decode the unwritten code of the stock market and have put his name on the lips of everyone, becoming the second world richest man. Aliko Dangote of Nigeria has made his way to the hall of fame via the power of the mind decoding the laws of business even without much business management training.
It’s a New Year and decade, to make the mark it’s either you are decoding, encoding or coding. Whatever you do go beyond the ordinary spoken or written language, overcome the barriers of our age. Make radical Impact today! For me it’s EXPLOITS: 2011. My year of advantage and rest. No time let’s get to business.
As I reflect on the last ten years, the experience, achievement and leading influence. I concluded that codes and numbers have ruled the world more strongly in the last decade. That means technology influence our lives greatly, today mobile phones with specific numbers, black berry with codes call pin, not to talk of ATM cards with pin codes, soft ware’s written in codes or programming languages, even face book, whose founder (in personal opinion) is one of the most amazing man alive today with enormous influence on the world, having a large community of intelligent and daring people, this is an encoded community where codes and numbers rule.
Code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, phrase, or gesture) into another form or representation (one sign into another sign), not necessarily of the same type.
One reason for coding is to enable communication in places where ordinary spoken or written language is difficult or impossible
Men who have devoted their lives to coding have ruled our world. Bill Gate the world’s richest man is computer guru, a total coding with zone. For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new system of exchanging information and for changing how we live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg founder of face book is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year. Warren Buffet of this world has been able to decode the unwritten code of the stock market and have put his name on the lips of everyone, becoming the second world richest man. Aliko Dangote of Nigeria has made his way to the hall of fame via the power of the mind decoding the laws of business even without much business management training.
It’s a New Year and decade, to make the mark it’s either you are decoding, encoding or coding. Whatever you do go beyond the ordinary spoken or written language, overcome the barriers of our age. Make radical Impact today! For me it’s EXPLOITS: 2011. My year of advantage and rest. No time let’s get to business.
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