Quotes are life

Great day a friend shared this with me in a mail this week and I found it helpful, so I think every should be bless by them.

Here are a few quotes about wealth that I feel the urge to push into your face this morning

·        If you don’t see the need for an extra income, please just get it at least for the fatherless and motherless. Godfrey Ogbuehi

·        “Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

·        You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.” Garth Brooks (American Country singer)

·        “Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time” Margaret Bonnano

·        How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy

·        The No. 1 rule is to know the difference between an asset and a liability. The rich focus on their asset columns while everyone else focuses on their income statements. The more money that goes into my asset column, the more my asset column grows. The more my assets grow, the more my cash flow grows. And as long as I keep my expenses less than the cash flow from these assets, I will grow richer, with more and more income from sources other than my physical labor.            Robert T. Kiyosaki

·      Money isn't everything...but it ranks right up there with oxygen. Rita Davenport

·     “[The] ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.” John Sterling quotes

·     Happiness is a positive cash flow. Fred Adler

·     Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. Benjamin Franklin

·     Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

·     Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. Suzanne Necker

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LIVING YOUR DREAM

Dreams are the mental pictures of a preferable future.

Living without such burning desires for better days ahead, is dangerous.

Living without a goal is living like a goat.

Live for something higher than you.

A man can only emerge a success only when he decides to live for something higher than him. If you will run from the challenges of today you will not enjoy the pleasures of tomorrow. Tomorrow belongs to those who a willing to deny self for the joy of tomorrow.

Live deliberately.

There are no accidents or coincidence in life.

Never live like a mistake, allowing life to roll bye anyhow. It’s the most dangerous way to live.

Learn to create your world. Get on the driver seat of your life.

If you will live your life anyhow, you will end up a surprise, but not a pleasant one.

I often ask who taught us those bad pronunciations. May be we did not learn how to live deliberately, learning the rudiments of the language.

Life is to be lived deliberately

Take steps towards the big goal each day.

Success is a product of calculated steps.

Right things done daily, compound into success.

Take steps today.

Build relationships for the future.

People are precious; you cannot afford to lose a friend.

The future is locked up in people you meet and the books you read.

Save for the future.

Cultivate the habit of saving for the future. Set aside funds for raining days.

Be financially intelligent.

Develop skills for the future.

Skills will elevate and project your persona.

Among the skills of the future is ability to speak and write well.

Kindly give yourself this wonderful gift of the future, get a coach today. Live for the future.

Live each day like tomorrow.

Dont wait for the future to come, start living it now!

Dress for the future. Dress your dream.

Talk the future. Live in it today!

The Icon is gone: Steve Jobs of Apple in history

"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius and the world has lost an amazing human being," Apple said. "Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives."

What a great loses to technology as Steve Jobs bow to the battle against pancreatic cancer. To fans of Apple from America to Australia gather to pay tribute to a man who transformed the phone, music and computing industry.

What a short and eventful life. The world will not forget Jobs in a hurry.

Apple co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs has died at the age of 56.

 The pioneering businessman, who was the mind behind the revolutionary iPhone and iPad devices, had been battling pancreatic cancer.

He stepped down from his post as Apple's chief executive in August saying he could no longer handle the job due to his illness.

Mr Jobs, who lived in Silicone Valley, California, died on Wednesday surrounded by his family. Apple said it was "deeply saddened" by the news.

A company spokesman said: "Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

"His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts."

A statement released by his family added: "In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life, he cherished his family. We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve's illness."

The father-of-four started Apple Computer with high school friend Steve Wozniak in his garage in 1976 but was forced out a decade later. He returned in the mid-1990s and transformed Apple into one of the world's most powerful companies.

Just two months ago the frail-looking businessman resigned as the company's CEO due to his health, but said he would continue to play a leadership role. He was replaced by Apple's chief operating officer, Tim Cook, and took the role of chairman of the company's board.

Mr Jobs, described by many as an industry oracle who revolutionised computing, survived pancreatic cancer in 2004 before receiving a liver transplant in 2009. He had taken three spells of leave over the past several years, with the most recent spell in January.

Steve Jobs works and words live with us forever, reading through some of his speeches and quotes I could tell he was a man deep and truly great. Greatness is from the heart, communicated in words, demonstrated in deeds. A tireless worker and visionary, you have stamp your stamped your feet on the sound of time and heart of men forever.

I found his words enriching, kindly read:

COMMENCEMENT SPEECH AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 2005

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.''

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.''

"Stay hungry, stay foolish."

"Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.''

"And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.''

INTERVIEW WITH FORTUNE MAGAZINE, 2000

"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.''

"My position coming back to Apple was that our industry was in a coma. It reminded me of Detroit in the '70s, when American cars were boats on wheels.''

INTERVIEW WITH WIRED, 1996

"These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.''

INTERVIEW WITH PLAYBOY MAGAZINE, 1985

"I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore. When we finally presented it at the shareholders' meeting, everyone in the auditorium stood up and gave it a 5-minute ovation. What was incredible to me was that I could see the Mac team in the first few rows. It was as though none of us could believe that we'd actually finished it. Everyone started crying.''

COMMENT TO NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER WHO ASKED ABOUT JOBS' HEALTH, 2008

"You think I'm an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he's above the law, and I think you're a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.''

INTERVIEW WITH WIRED, 1996

"These technologies can make life easier; can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.''

INTERVIEW WITH FORTUNE, 2008

"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and everyone should be really excellent. Because this is our life."

INTERVIEW WITH THE NEW YORK TIMES, 2003

"Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works."

INTERVIEW WITH THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 1993

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me."

INTERVIEW WITH INC MAGAZINE, 1989

"You can't just ask the customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Steve Jobs died 5^th October 2011.

Sources: MSN and Telegraph.

The Psychology of Success

Success is purely a product of well calculated steps, nothing just happen.

The instrumental force of success is in the ability to utilise the mind.

Never allow yourself reduced to a physical job handler, kindly don’t delight in it.

The best of men knows that success in a mind game.

The psychology of success is THINK, FEEL, and ACT.

When you think it, you feel it, when you feel it, you act it!

 Take time to invest in your mind.

Concentrate on an idea it will yield result.

Every picture that stays long enough on your mind will attract its material equivalence.

The human mind is structure to attract the object of focus from the mental realm to the material universe.

Our lives is practically dominated by the things will think, feel and do.

Get rid of the junk, let start succeeding on a higher scale.

My secret love for President Barack Obama

As a black skin young man I could not imagine how much dignity was brought to my race when one man took the courage of stepping into the waters where only the mighty could swim, full of sharks and dared the impossible.

 He through the boldness of his soul took the high and mighty in contest, many thought he will only make a few noise here and there, then he will just be history, but he seems to have seen the future through the eye of the great Martin Luther king jnr who prophesy the today that we live in. Martin Luther in a speech said he has seen the future, just as dramatic as it seems the world and America today, have a black man sitting and governing from the white house.

I only saw a movie of a black man on the race for the president of the world power-united state of America. Little did I know that some day it will soon become the experience of our days? A black man of Kenyan origin, born and raised in white family will rule the world power, which made him the most powerful human on earth and commanding the highest honour of all times.

This is a mystery!

I love this man Barack Obama, the 44^th president of the united state of America.

I love him for his:

Boldness: The cowards die a million times before their actual death. Boldness has some genius in it.

Wealth of knowledge: knowledge is power; it will differentiate who wins and who loses.

Panache: Barack is in a class of his own. Style is an attracting force; anyone could be pulled by this force.

Gift of the mouth: the mouth is a defence. Carefully crafted and well spoken words are an adornment on the neck of the speaker, priceless, more than the finest of gold.

Hospitality: great leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand, Barack knows how to make friend out of a total stranger he is meeting for the first time.

Never take defeat seriously: he never gave up fight. He knows how to calm the storm.

Believe: you can tell a man will succeed from his looks, so much believe radiate through him, America could not but trust him. He believed the words of Martin Luther king Jnr. You could tell in his speech, just like mlk!

Strategic: how more strategic a man can be? He took off the terror leader of the 9/11, with no trace before hand, taking the world by surprise.

Discipline: not one cigarette since the white house.lol.

Finally my secret love lessons exposed!

Many more later............. I love you Barack!

7 laws that will change your life.

1.       Law of Instruction: Says that extra-ordinary results have in its foundation extra-ordinary instructions beyond the intelligence and activity of men.

Get your instruction right, location is important to sowing and reaping.  Harvest is geographical.

2.       Law of Saturation: says that an entity posses’ dominion over an environment only after its voice has saturated the environment concern.

 Saturate your immediate environment with your materials or advert.

3.       Law of Connectivity: says that the soul of men have being structured to only draw towards pleasure and friendship.

Connect with the people you are sent to first. Be friendly.

How you connect in different environment is dynamic and location specific. Study your environment and never be weary of trying something new, it may just be it.

4.       Law of Visual appeal: says that abilities and character is often judged at first sight.

 Your attire should reflect who you are and what you do.

5.       Law of Request: says that there are no commitments unless there is an asking.

Always ask for what you want from the people.

6.       Law of the Inner code: says everyone has an encoding that must be decoded to enjoy the inner treasure within them.

The people your sent to have an un-written code within them they see things in a particular way.

7.       Law of Total harvest: says that for a bountiful harvest all available harvest tools must be utilised. Involve your whole faculty in a strategic way.

How to Develop a Winning Attitude

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." -Henry Ford

Man's ability over all other creatures on this Earth is the ability to think. All successful people use this talent to improve their lives and control their own destiny.

Only you can take the initial step toward the unleashing of the power within your own mind. The power is awesome and at times can be frightening.

However, man has abilities of the mind that many people cannot or would not believe.
The first step in using your true mental abilities is understanding the seven triggering mechanisms that guarantee success.

1. Passion - All truly successful people have a driving force within them that sets them apart from others. A desire, an energy that gives them the fuel to reach their true potential.

This force is a part of them 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It never subsides. Their total existence is sustained for the fulfilment of their goals.

The passion within this individual to achieve has been so deeply implanted, that their mental power is driven by this force and will not let them do anything other than achieve.

2. Belief - "They can because they think they can"-Virgil. You will only make $100,000 this year if you first believe you can. If you do not believe you can you are telling yourself you want it, but it is truly not obtainable.

The truth of life is that man's limits are self imposed by what the mind is given to believe. If you expand your belief of your own abilities, you will also expand your true realm of accomplishment.

A man of whom all are aware, lived his life with adversity, but he constantly believed he could achieve.

* Failed in business at age 31
* Was defeated in a legislative race at age 32
* Failed again in business at age 34
* Overcome death of sweetheart at age 35
* Had a nervous breakdown at age 36
* Lost an election at age 38
* Lost a congressional race at age 43
* Lost a congressional race at age 46
* Lost a congressional race at age 48
* Lost a Senatorial race at age 55
* Failed to become Vice President at age 56
* Lost a Senatorial race at age 58
* Was elected President of the United States at age 60


With all the adversity that faced him, President Abraham Lincoln had no reason to continually try other than the fact that he believed it was his destiny and measure of success to accomplish this task.

"Man is what believes" -Anton Checkhov

3. Strategy - A strategy is your game plan of life. The road map you will use to accomplish your goals, ambitions and desires.

Just to believe you can earn $100,000 a year is not enough, you must design a strategy that gives your life direction and navigates you toward success.

The key to strategy is to design a proper strategy to achieve your success without the detours of life, to find the shortest distance between two points.

4. Clarity of Values - Man must first determine which things in life are most valuable to him. He must determine his feeling about such things as patriotism, pride, love, freedom, excellence, ownership and tolerance.

These are values in society, the moral, ethical and fundamental judgements that we, as individuals, deem important. Without a clear system of values for ourselves, it is impossible to believe in something with a passion that has no value to us.

Once we have established our individual value system we are then able to determine how we can achieve success based on our priority of values. What must we five up in one hand to accomplish what we desire on the other.

Without a value system we can never move forward for we may be trading without increasing our potential for success.

5. Energy - Without the physical vitality to take action, nothing would ever come of our system to this point.

The passion could build, our belief of accomplishment could be overwhelming, we could have the best strategy or map to achieve the ultimate value for our own life, but if not for taking the first step, nothing could ever be accomplished.

Great success cannot be separated from physical, spiritual and mental energy that allows us, compels us, to accomplish the most with what we have to work with.

Physical energy comes from the strength of the body itself fuelled by our intake of nourishment. It is therefore important that we fuel our engine with premium fuel (good eating habits), not low grade regular (junk food).

Our spiritual and intellectual energy evolves from our environment and it is therefore important that we assess our own personal environment to maximize the energy that we can obtain.

6. Bonding Power - We have all known people that have exhibited the ability to get along with anyone and everyone.

The ability to be a chameleon is truly the ability to connect with and bond with others.

The ability to build rapport. Being able to deal with others as Mr. Robbins says "To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."

7. Mastery of Communication - Take charge and run your own mind. No longer allow our mind to run our lives, but rather take charge of our own mental abilities and cause them to work for our own accomplishment of success.

Adjustment

The secret of great men is the ability to adjust to prevailing forces and then flourish.

Men may not be born great, but men evolve.

Some entrepreneurs, who didn't adjust to the evolution of the age moving from type writer to the computer, such got their fingers burnt in the fire of regret. When men do not shift with ideas they are left behind and lose their glory.

That was the tale of a friend’s father who uses to be a flourishing entrepreneur using the type writer for business and selling wholesales, but he refuse to change with the computer age.

 He had in store large shipment of outdated equipment worth millions that no one desire to purchase or take as a monument. His business did not only sink, he sank with the business and the entire family was left to suffer. He made a ship wreck of himself and his family vision. What a sad story to remember.

Man is not finality, but a possibility, in the womb of patience and perseverance is life is breed. To ignore the power and potency of the principle of adjustment is to be dead while breathing.

Disorder causes pain. When pain is felt it's a proof of disorder something is not in its proper place. If pain must stop we must adjust.

With a little experience about the fundamentals of the camera, I learnt that proper adjustment of the lens must be done to focus on the object; at some point the person in waiting just want the picture done but the expert by experience will insist on focus. When proper adjustment is done then the job is eighty percent done.

Such is our lives, if only we make the adjustments necessary at every change in the click of time, living will be without stress.

Adjustment will require a diligent search, kindly give it the best of your thinking and time, life will pay you in due season.

There are no time wasted in preparation, so also there no time wasted in adjusting, rather it saves time and deliver from the pain and agony of life.

Making the right adjustment may just be mental and not necessarily physical; this is the most important adjustment because everything changes in the direction of the mind.

Our minds are the helm turning the TITANIC ship of our destiny.

Only mad men don't change their mind. That was the strongest quote for adjustment I and a group of friends shared while we were in the college.

 It motivated us never to feel bad changing our minds and adjusting to prevailing instructions. I have learnt by experience that if I didn’t want to lose my mind adjustment is crucial.

Adjust, time is running out!

Instructions

To be instructed is to be guided. Instructions are the step by step guidance into predetermined future. For an extra-ordinary living man will have to first decide what he wants, then his spirit receive sets of instructions to attain them. The forces of life will take you through the kind of life you desire.

Until your instruction is complete you don’t challenge the norm, you don’t make news without complete instructions. This singular principle distinguishes between a wholesome personality and half baked type.

Servants and apprentices are challenged to be patient, make sure that your instructions are complete. Instructions make winners not size. Battles in life are won by complete instructions. Wondering generality do not make for success, be specific in your instruction.

Instructions come in two ways:

1. The day to day teaching of the master to the apprentice to achieving the daily job.

Everyone must answer this sincere question of life: Whose apprentice are you? Everyone else may be satisfied by your performance, but until your master gives a thumb up, you are not there yet! The master is that person whose opinion matters per time. Masters do change at different season and per different area and assignment of our lives. Timothy had Paul; the disciples had Jesus, The Christ, who is your master?

You must have someone you are accountable to. Someone must be blessing you.

2. The internal guidance system in every man will instruct him on what to do, per time.
This makes season and determines when the cloud of glory is moving from a particular place to the other, from a particular assignment to the other.

An important instruction that must be gotten right is the instruction pertaining to location or place of assignment, your place of abode, your geographical location, this is important because God made places before He made people.

Maize cannot grow on the same soil necessary for the flourishing of rice. The former needs a well drained soil, but the later is in a deep desire for overflowing water content. Locate your soil.

Find your instructions.

I'm feeling generous

Life in itself should be live by giving. Trust me feeling generous is of God. The primary existence of man is to give and keep giving endlessly.
If you are not giving you may be close to death.

Giving should be qualified. Who you give to determines what you are connecting to. Give to everyone in need, whose heart flow with yours, don’t waste your resources if there are no heart to heart connection.

Help someone today. Give your best to lead a friend to profit, just be the source of joy for someone today.

Be generous, generousity is a higher passion than just giving. To be generous is looking out for what to do in an attempt to benefit someone, who may not be able to pay you in return or don’t even expect it.

I’m feeling generous
Time and season of life have a way of paying generousity.
Kindly be generous.

10 Ways to Enchant Your Customers

I love to do business with small businesses -- in-store, online, for myself, for others, for pleasure, for work -- it doesn't matter to me. I love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. And I love to help small business owners because they aren't flying around in corporate jets and lunching with investment bankers.

That being said, here are 10 ways that small businesses become more successful by enchanting their customers.

1. Put likable, competent and passionate people on the front line. I prefer to interact with employees who smile, know what they're talking about, and love what they sell. However, companies often put the lowest- paid, least-experienced employees behind the counter or at the front desk and hope for the best. This doesn't make sense. Ask yourself this question: Is the first impression of my business a good one? Because if it's a bad one, it may also be the last one.

2. Show me that you trust me. If you don't trust me, I'm not going to trust you. Look at the small businesses that became huge: Zappos tells me that it trusts me because it pays shipping in both directions. Nordstrom takes my word for it if I say merchandise was defective. Amazon lets me return a Kindle book for seven days -- I can read most books in seven days!
If you trust me, I'll trust you, and we can build a relationship.


3. Remove barriers to entry. Make it easy to get started with your product or service. Don't ask people to fill out 10 fields of personal information to open an account. Don't throw up a CAPTCHA system that requires fluency in Sanskrit. Don't require an appointment for a consultation. Instead, create a slippery slope that enables people to start doing business with you quickly.


4. Make it easy to give you money. Once people decide to adopt your product or service, make it easy for them to give you their money, attention or eyeballs. This requires accepting multiple methods of payment, adopting easy-to-use shopping carts, and reasonable shipping and handling charges. If there's anything worse than a company that tries to get my money with a crappy product, it's a company that makes it hard to give it my money for a great one.


5. Go deep in a segment. The Stanley Market in Hong Kong contains dozens of shops, and many of them sell a range of t-shirts, souvenirs, toys, luggage, electronics and cameras. You get the sense that these stores sell anything to make a buck. The only place that I bought something there was Tam's Art Gallery because it sells only "chops" (a stamp or seal made from stone). Since there's only one thing to buy at Tam's, it's easier to believe that this store really understands its business. My advice is that you focus on one thing whether it's selling t-shirts (Threadless), toys (CheekyMonkey), luggage (Edwards Luggage), electronics (Fry's), cameras (Keeble & Shuchat) or yogurt (Miyo Yogurt).


6. Sell something that's DICEE. This acronym defines the five qualities of great products and services: deep, intelligent, complete, empowering, and elegant. A DICEE product or service is a full-featured one (deep) that shows you understand my needs (intelligent), comes with support (complete), makes me better (empowering), and is easy to use (elegant). As you create your offerings, ask yourself if they are deep, intelligent, complete, empowering and elegant.


7. Enable hands-on trial. Assume that your customers are smart and let them decide for themselves instead of bludgeoning them into a sale. Give them the ability to try your product or service with hands-on areas or demo versions. This concept works whether you're buying a car, sampling a dessert, trying a camera, or buying a power tool. Once you've got me to try something, half the battle is over, and if you tell me that I have to buy something to try it, you've lost me.


8. Communicate with salient points. How many people truly understand what a gigabyte of storage means? A much better way to communicate the capability and capacity of your products and services is with salient points. For example, the number of songs a device can store is more illuminating than the number of gigabytes of storage capacity. You may find this harder to believe, but telling me how much weight I'll gain by eating your food would make me eat at your restaurant more often because this salient point shows that you care about my health.


9. Deliver bad news early. Products have problems, deliveries are delayed, and employees get sick. Many businesses try to minimize the effect of bad news, but when the inevitable issue arise, be proactive and tell them about the problem before they discover the hiccup for themselves. And to get on top of your game, let them know how you'll solve the problem at the same time that you're letting them know it exists.


10. Consider all the influencers. There is a difference between the person who pays for something and the person who makes the decision to buy something. Many companies assume it's the same person, but that's not necessarily the case. Key influencers can include a spouse, sibling, colleague, parent, grandparent or child. Who is the true head of a household isn't so clear these days, so appeal to all the influencers. In my case, it's my daughter, by the way.
The single most powerful way to enchant me is a "yes" attitude, and this attitude encompasses all 10 points. It means that you believe that the customer is right and reasonable until proven wrong and unreasonable. Custom order? No problem. Early delivery? No problem. Return for full credit? No problem.
The math might show that if you did this for everyone, you'd go broke, but not everyone will ask for such treatment. In fact, very few will, and those that do will become your greatest evangelists, so they're worth the exception.

DONT TAKE DEFEAT SERIOUSLY

Never take defeat so seriously. Never, not again!

What is a defeat?
A temporary setback indicating that your plan is not complete, try again.
Always see opportunities in the defeat that comes your way, don’t take them seriously.

Life is like the flow of water and the swimming of fish in the ocean. Fishes are to swim against the flow of water, which is challenging so to say, the moment you find a fish swimming in the direction of water, that indicates death.

Don’t be quick to jump out calling for rescue when we find the forces of life pushing at us, rather re-strategies to enjoy the experience. We can tell fishes enjoys the process, it’s become natural for them.

Always find a place to meditate, reflect on your plans. Be guided by the sharpest thought within your soul. Follow that light of insight within you as result of your meditation.
He that has the light takes the lead.

Don’t rush out of a defeat with the feeling of a failure. You didn’t fail, the event did. You are a success. You are not just some kind of experiment or laboratory test. You are the handwork of the only perfect one; you are too loaded to fail.

Interact

Depth is the secret to long lasting influence. To create anything fundamental on the face of the earth a depth of interaction with the basics of the endeavour is important.

Just about anyone can establish a business, just about anyone can make money, but to establish a world class brand is a product of deep interaction with the substance of the business or such endeavour.

Having a masters degree in electronic is not a licence to set up an electronic company, attending a business school is not enough to set up a business, for all these and many more to make real impact there must have existed in the foundation an interaction with the ingredient of that produce such.

They necessarily do not have to mean a training or competence in an aspect of life, but an establishment only flourish on the wings of a revelation or instruction written on the passionate heart of men, having life in it to reproduce itself.

Every man is limited without a revelation or an insight of what make things work.

How do I generate the fabric for the interaction necessary?

1. Visit your dream:
Do you have a picture or physical representation of your desire?
If yes, place such at your glance always. Every picture that stays long enough on your mind will attract its material equivalent.
Go to that location. Take the picture of the location. Keep it at your disposal.
When the light of it shines in your heart, you already own it, it’s a matter of time it will be in your hand.

2. Vocalise: give voice to your meditation.
Give flesh to your thoughts and desires by speaking out.
Talk to yourself about what you desire in your secret, vocalise your expectation. Speak out that there is a solution, and that is coming to you speedily in pictures and various instructions.
When you do this, the forces of life will generate the fabric to reproduce your desire.
3. Listen up
Listen to intelligent minds, who have made extra-ordinary feat in your chosen field. Keep their testimonies in your heart. Testimonies or biographies of such great men have a way of reproducing itself. Connect to the contagious highly spirited men with result around you by listening to them speak.

Incubate

The incubating process is strategic to creating anything radical on planet earth. Don’t run to the street at the glimpse of every idea.

Take quality time to seat on it, brooding, meditating until a light shines in your heart as a seal of ownership.

Ideas are broadcasted at the strike of inspiration and many active minds receive it, but what makes the difference in the birthing and dimension of the result is the quality of mind involve.

Your mind can be upgraded by radical process incubation of all ideas dropped in your heart at the strike of inspiration.

How can you engage the incubating tool of your mind?
1. Ask the question:"how can it be done faster, cheaper, better?".
2. Use only world class model in modelling for creativity.
3. Transpose: ask the question "can it be done any other way round?"
4. Never run away from the tough time or hard models to crack.
Challenges are the initiator of the un-usual.
5. Think like a professional.
Assume a state of professionalism, think systems, think organisational, and think “how this affect or influence other aspect of the business or dealings”. Protect the bottom line.

Never tell everyone all that you are thinking yet! Incubate!

Stay in track

Stay in track.

Life is very busy, it can also distract you.
If you pay so much attention to the distractions of life you may never succeed. Distractions are real. They may look legitimate, but have no connection to life and destiny.

This I have resolved: never worry about how, what, which, when or who? If it doesn’t distract you from life and destiny, just stay in track. If you have seen the big picture, small things will never worry you. Take a step further into the future, step out of this zone, and then you will be willing to live without worries.

Stay in track with what you have been assigned to do.
Life and time will tell who stays in track.
Not your friends or lovers.
It may be painful or tasking. If it feels bad or good always ask yourself the big question; am I in track with life and destiny?

FOR WHAT!

Endowed with so much of wisdom and the abilities to be creative yet living in a state of poverty, obscurity and lack. For What!

Haven pass through the university with great hopes and bright future, yet no one can tell if such personality could trace zero on a workbook with the aid of a round bottom flask. For What!

Knowing the right things, yet withholding from it. For What!

Living a self limiting life, while opportunities abound within our reach. When visited by foreigners, they claim we are under utilizing the resources, yet we cannot see it. For What!

Our leaders are voted into power, but use the same power to afflict the people who gave them the privilege of leadership. For What!

Joblessness is seen everywhere, families beg for daily meal, executive mode of begging are designed daily all in the attempt to survive. Are just meant to survive or leave in abundance? The later is true, but seem unachievable. For what!

Prostitution should never become the way to leave the good life. Making money should not be that cruel. For What!

People leave in the wonderful houses, why should I leave in a wreck apartment? For What!

Maximizing our destiny and resource is important to breaking out of limitation. We must get to work. NOW!

70 Facts About Brazil Legend Football Icon Pele

1. Pele scored a total of 1,283 first-class goals, including 77 for Brazil.

2. He won three World Cups, two World Club Championships and nine Sao Paulo State Championships.

3. Pele was named after American inventor Thomas Edison, his real name being Edson Arantes do Nascimiento.

4. Pele was signed by Santos when he was 15. He scored four goals on his league debut in a match against FC Corinthians on 7 September, 1956.

5. Waldemar de Brito, another great Brazilian forward, is credited with discovering Pele, taking him to Santos, and telling them then that he was going to be "the greatest football player in the world."

Record breaker | Pele after the 1958 World Cup final

6. At 17, Pele became the youngest ever winner of a World Cup. He also scored twice in the final against home side Sweden.

7. Pele was appointed as Minister of Sport in Brazil in 1995, serving until 1998.

8. He was voted athlete of the century by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1999.

9. In 1997, Pele was given an honorary British Knighthood.

10. On the 19th November 1969, Pele scored his 1000th career goal. Hundreds raced onto the pitch to mob the Brazilian star and it took over thirty minutes for the game to resume.

11. At Santos, 19th November is known as 'Pele Day', to celebrate the anniversary of his 1,000th goal.

12. Pele is 5th on the all time World Cup goal scorers list with 12 - although only the 2nd highest-placed Brazilian behind Ronaldo.

13. When Pele retired, J.B. Pinheiro, the Brazilian ambassador to the United Nations, said: "Pele played football for 22 years, and in that time he did more to promote world friendship and fraternity than any other ambassador anywhere".

14. In 1967, a 48-hour ceasefire was declared in Nigeria so that Federal and Rebel troops could watch Pele play on a visit to the war-torn nation.

15. Pele said in 2006: "For 20 years they have asked me the same question, who is the greatest? Pele or Maradona? I reply that all you have to do is look at the facts - how many goals did he score with his right foot or with his head?"

16. When Pele played for the New York Cosmos so many of his opponents wanted to swap shirts with him that the club had to give each of their opponents a shirt after every match. "Pele was the main attraction," says Gordon Bradley, one of the club's coaches at the time. "Sometimes we had to take 25 or 30 shirts with us to a match - otherwise, we'd never have got out of the stadium alive."

17. Pele made a cameo appearance in the film Mike Bassett: England manager, in which he was interiewed by the broadcaster Martin Bashir. He laughs off England's chances of winning the World Cup.

18. Pele on the importance of football stars: "When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers."

19. Pele has helped raise millions for charitable causes including Great Ormond Street and Harlem Street Soccer.

20. Noted English football writer Geoffrey Green once declared: “Di Stefano was manufactured on earth, Pele was made in heaven.”

21. On August 1, 2010, Pelé was introduced as the Honorary President of a revived New York Cosmos.

22. Pele once said: "A penalty is a cowardly way to score."

23. In March 2003, Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen was offered special intensive training in flag-waving in advance of the 32nd Brazilian Grand Prix. Why? Organisers wanted her to do a better job than soccer star Pele, the previous year's flag waver, who got "distracted" and failed to notice Michael Schumacher crossing the finish line!

24. "How do you spell Pelé?" the Times of London once declared. "G-O-D".

25. Pele and Maradona are hardly friends. Earlier this year Pele said of the Argentinian: “He is not a good example for the youth. He had the God-given gift of being able to play football, and that is why he is lucky." Maradona's response: “Who cares what Pele says? He belongs in a museum.”

26. England World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore on Pele: “The most complete player I've ever seen.”

27. His family gave him the nick-name "Dico". He did not get the nickname Pele until he started schooling. During his school days, he used to pronounce the name of the local Vasco da Gama goalkeeper Bile as Pile. Hence, a classmate of his gave him the nickname Pele.

28. Pele's father once scored five headed goals in one game, a feat that Pele was never able to replicate. The most headers Pele ever scored in a game was four.

29. Former Manchester City and England star once said of Pele: “Comparing Gascoigne to Pele is like comparing Rolf Harris to Rembrandt.”

30. Pele's header against Brazil in the 1970 World Cup final was their 100th World Cup goal.

31. His first World Cup finals goal came against Wales in the 1958 quarter-final. Brazil won 1-0.

32. Since April 1994 Pelé has been married to psychologist and gospel singer Assíria Lemos Seixas.

33. Pele on being a role-model: "Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man."

34. Pele on achievement: "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

35. Pele is mentioned in the song "Ghetto Superstar" by the rapper Pras.

36. In 2000, Pelé was named second in the BBC's "Sportsman of the Century" award. Boxing legend Muhammad Ali came first.

Mexican delight | Pele celebrates after scoring a goal in the 1970 World Cup
37. Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian defender who marked Pelé in the 1970 World Cup Finals said afterwards: "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and bones just like everyone else — but I was wrong."

38. In Brazil he is often called “Pérola Negra”, which means Black Pearl.

39. The Brazilian government declared Pelé an official national treasure in 1961 to prevent him from being transferred out of the country.

40. In 1993, Pele was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

41. To persuade Pele to sign for the New York Cosmos in 1975, Clive Toye, the team's general manager said: "Don't go to Italy, don't go to Spain, all you can do is win a championship. Come to the U.S. and you can win a country."

42. Pele’s first football team was formed with a bunch of friends from his neighbourhood, and they called themselves ‘the shoeless ones’.

43. In Brazil, Coca-Cola sponsors a Pele museum on wheels that travels throughout the country

44. Cristiano Ronaldo said: "Pele is the greatest player in football history, and there will only be one Pele".

45. Pele is the only player to have been a part of three World Cup winning teams.

46. On November 21 1964, Pele scored eight goals against as Santos ran rout against Botafogo to register a monumental 11-0 victory.

47. Pele scored 92 hat-tricks, and scored four goals on 31 occasions, five on six occasions, and once scored eight

48. As a boy, Pele used to play with a sock stuffed with paper as he could not afford to buy a football.

49. Pele on winning: "If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing."

50. Pele has worked as a UNICEF Goodwill ambassador and as a United Nations ambassador, working to protect the environment and fight corruption in Brazil.

51. Pele came out of international retirement to play one last game for Brazil on October 6, 1976 against club side Flamengo, who won the match 2-0. His last international game for Brazil, however, was a 2-2 draw with Yugoslavia on July 18, 1971.

52. On October 1, 1977, Pele played his last game as a footballer as Santos played New York Cosmos at the Giants Stadium. He played the first half of the game for the American club, and the second half for Santos.

53. Brazil never lost a game when Pele and the legendary Garrincha played together.

54. He holds the record for the most number of goals scored for the national team, which is a record that has stood for almost 40 years.

55. Pele scored Brazil's 100th World Cup goal with his head

56. Pele had a video game named after him back in the 1980s called "Pelé's Soccer".

57. MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter Jose Landi-Jons was nicknamed "Pelé" after him.

58. Dutch artist Dick Brynestein made a drawing of him and called him Pietje Pele.

59. His presence in the USA helped boost average attendance across the league by almost 80 percent from 1975 (7,597) to 1977 (13,584).

60. Scored his first hat-trick for Santos against Lavras on June 9, 1957.

61. Pele made his first appearance for New York Cosmos on June 5, 1975, against Dallas Tornadoes. He managed to score on his debut, with the game ending in a 2-2 draw.

62. Pele starred in Escape to Victory, a World War II drama about a team of prisoners of war who play their Nazi captors in a football match. Unsurprisingly, he played the team's star attacker, Corporal Luis Fernandez, who hailed from Trinidad and Tobago.


Iconoclaust | Pele remains a hero to today's stars
63. In 2005, Pele fronted an advertising campaign for the drug Viagra, and was widely credited for breaking the taboo about speaking or receiving treatment for erectile dysfunction.

64. American forward Edson Buddle is named after the great Brazilian. "I thought naming him Pele would be too much pressure," his dad revealed. "Edson not many people would know."

65. As he prepared to kick off in a game during Mexico '70, Pele gestured to the referee that he needed to tie his laces. The cameras panned in to reveal the forward's Puma boots — the company subsequently experienced a huge sales boost.

66. Pele scored three or more goals a staggering 129 times during his career.

67. Pele has never liked his nickname, admitting it sounds like "baby-talk".

68. Pele's 1000th goal was a penalty. Romario, chasing his own 1000th strike in 2007, eventually reached the milestone in the same manner — although his tally is disputed in some quarters.

69. How hard is it to turn an elephant into Pele? Not very, at least if you're artist Paul Trevillion.

70. Filming on Citizen Kane, widely viewed as one of the defining films in Western cinema, finished on the day of Pele's birth. In 2001, on Pele's birthday the world got its first glimpse at one of the defining gadgets of the modern era — the iPod.

I LOVE PELE!

"It seems that God brought me to Earth with a mission to play soccer," Edson Arantes Do Nascimento (Pelé).

Written by Ozzie Gonzalez, www.latinosportslegends.com

Born Edson Arantes Do Nascimento (better known as Pelé) is known as a legend and the best soccer player to ever play the game. He was raised in a very poor family in Tres Coracos, Brazil and his parents, Dondinho and Celeste Nascimento called Edson "Dico," growing up.

He first learned the game of soccer from his father, Dondinho, who was a decent center forward until his career was halted by a fractured leg.

Pelé began playing soccer for a local minor-league club when he was a teenager. When he wasn't playing soccer he shined shoes for pennies. He was discovered at the age of 11 by one of the country's premier players, Waldemar de Brito. When Brito brought Pelé to Sao Paulo he declared to the disbelieving directors of the professional team in Santos, "This boy will be the greatest soccer player in the world."

He was right! Pelé's impact was immediate! On his first appearance for the team, against Corinthians F.C., he scored a goal right away. He was only 16.

Pelé went on to play in four World Cups with Brazil's National Team. At the 1958 World Cup in Sweden -- one he nearly missed because of a knee injury -- Pelé stunned the world scoring six goals, including two in the championship game to help Brazil win its first World Cup 5-2 over Sweden. He was only 17 years-old, but a legend was born.

An average-sized man, he was blessed with speed, great balance, tremendous vision, the ability to control the ball superbly, and the ability to shoot powerfully and accurately with either foot and with his head.

Four years later he played on Brazil's World Cup team at in the finals in Chile, but an injury suffered in the first game of the tournament prevented him from helping Brazil win its second title.

Wealthy European clubs offered massive fees to sign the young player, but the government of Brazil declared Pelé an official national treasure to prevent him from being transferred out of the country.

At the 1966 World Cup in England, Pelé was the victim of some brutal tackles from Bulgarian and Portuguese defenders and left the finals injured and in tears. But the best of Pelé was still to come.

At the 1970 finals in Mexico, the 29-year-old Pelé, led one of the greatest teams ever assembled to win Brazil's third World Cup. In the 4-1 title triumph over Italy, Pelé, scored a glorious goal. It was Brazil's 100th World Cup goal, and the one he remembers the most.

"I have a special feeling for that goal because I scored it with my head," he said. "My father was a soccer player and once scored five goals in a game, all with his head. That was one record I was never able to break."

Pelé's statistics are staggering. During his career he scored 1,280 goals in 1,360 games, second only to another Brazilian, Arthur Friedenreich, who recorded 1,329 goals. He scored an average of a goal in every international game he played--the equivalent of a baseball player's hitting a home run in every World Series game over 15 years.

At the club level he shattered records in Brazil. He scored 127 goals for Santos F.C. in 1959, 110 in 1961 and 101 goals in 1965, and led the club to two World Club championships.

Pelé also holds the world record for hat tricks (92) and the number of goals scored on the international level (97). His statistics are all the more amazing when compared to today's top players who can barely score more that 30 goals in a season.

He retired from the game in 1974, but came out of retirement the following year to play in the North American Soccer League for the New York Cosmos for just over two seasons. A reported 7-million-dollar contract for three years made him the highest paid soccer player of the North American Soccer League.

His appearance in the NASL gave the American League instant credibility and made millions of Americans aware of the sport, he dubbed the "beautiful game." He said he came out of retirement, not for the money, but to "make soccer truly popular in the United States."

During his career he played in 93 full internationals for Brazil and in all first class matches scored a remarkable 1,280 goals, second only to Artur Friedenreich, another Brazilian, who holds the world record with 1,329.

In many ways, Pelé was the complete athlete. With his skill and agility, he could have played in any position on the field, but he chose on wearing the number-10 shirt as an inside-left forward. He had great balance, which enabled him to dribble effortlessly around defenders, and his heading ability was remarkable.

On Oct. 1, 1977, Pelé's mission in the NASL ended. His last match, an exhibition game between the Cosmos and Santos, was sold out six weeks beforehand, covered by 650 journalists and broadcast in 38 nations.
Muhammad Ali embraced him in the locker room before the match and said, "Now there are two of the greatest." In a speech to dignitaries, celebrities and more than 75,000 fans, Pelé urged his audience to pay attention to the children of the world. At his request, the assemblage shouted, "Love! Love! Love!"
Then he went out and played the first half for the Cosmos -- scoring a goal on a rocket from 30 yards out -- and the second half for Santos.

On Pelé's retirement, J.B. Pinheiro, Brazil's ambassador to the U.N., said Pelé had "spent 22 years playing soccer, and in that time he has done more for goodwill and friendship than all of the ambassadors ever appointed."

In addition to his great accomplishments in soccer, he published several best-selling autobiographies, starred in several documentary and semi-documentary films, and composed numerous musical pieces, including the entire sound track for the film 'Pelé' (1977). He was the 1978 recipient of the International Peace Award, and in 1980 he was named athlete of the century.

In 1993, Pelé was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame and is the former ambassador of sports in Brazil. He has also done extensive work for children's causes through UNICEF.

In 2000, Pelé was named second for the "Sportsman of the Century" award. The legendary Muhammad Ali got the honors.

OPTIONS

Options.
Life presents us with options only if we can recognise them.
The ability to locate the viable option to every hard route is the key ingredient of a "turn-around" leader.

The life-line of a team rest solely on how accurately the leadership can response and fix challenges.

First outlook to challenges of leadership is to know that they are common to men. Also, know that there are viable options if you will be patient enough to locate them.

That calm mode must be reached by every leader in any crisis before a solution is attained. Answers are never in the troubled waters.

Set out before the rain.
Start thinking options now.
Let there be a plan b for everything, only in Gods’ hands can you leave things to bear.

Never run away from your battles.
Fight them they make you stronger.
Be calm, there are viable options.