Personal Development

You Only Live Once

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The man in you dies the moment you suppress yourself in order to conform to other people’s expectations. The very essence of your manhood loses its potency the day you decide to subjugate your dream in order to please others. You never get another opportunity to live twice, you have only got once! So live!

It is amazing how we allow people’s opinion to shape our lives. We literally live for others. For the fear of what people will say, we conform. God created us with diverse skills and gifts, and this diversity brings authenticity. Be yourself. Be authentic. If what you feel you are made for is to be an artist, then for God sake, be an artist, and be the best Artist!

True success starts from being yourself, finding your place, your essence and living it out. You have only got once, so live it!

God bless us all.

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Your True Value

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Diamond is one of the most precious and expensive mineral resources in the entire universe. It is widely accepted as the most precious stone. Its value is not derived from its beauty but from its applicability, its rarity and its quality! It is used for cutting, grinding, polishing, jewelry, etc. Its usefulness cuts across all fields.

Likewise your true value is derived from how useful you are. Your business value is a function of the ability of your product or service to solve people’s problems or provide solutions. If you want to increase your personal value or product’s value, increase your applicability. Make the quality of your work a rarity. Build your own brand. Be known for quality! Improve your quality.

One of the reasons we have failing homes and businesses in our world today, is the increasing number of people of low value and empty content. Martin Luther King said a man should not be judged by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. What do you carry? What is your true worth?

There is greater emphasis on physical outlook these days than on intrinsic values. Women like more of Macho men even if they are intellectual dwarfs. We want beautiful women with empty brains. We pursue form at the expense of substance. It is becoming a world full of empty people. We are carried away by the swags forgetting that swags alone don’t solve problems.

It is time to start focusing on building yourself, building people and building societies. It is time for true value appreciation!

God bless us all.

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Time to Look Inward

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We are at a critical moment as a nation. At no time in our nation’s history have things been as tough as now. Many Nigerians are already blaming the 10 months old government of President Buhari. Why? Because he promised ‘Change’, this single word seems to have become his albatross. Nigerians have forgotten that change is a process. We have forgotten that we are virtually rebuilding and there are resistance from those who prefer the old system. Try starting a business from scratch and see the experience.

Anyway, this is not my focus today. My focus is on the way Nigerians look up to government for everything. Jobs, contracts, power, fuel, housing, etc. Yes, government has a constitutional obligation to provide some of these things, but we have a more serious responsibility of looking inward. The days of waiting for budget to be approved are over. Stop waiting on government. The newspaper vendor is waiting for budget. The vulcanizer is waiting for budget. Everybody is waiting for budget!

As an individual, look inward and begin to use your innate gifts and talents. We all saw the work of Oresegun Olumide, the painter. Another guy who was shot by arm robbers and became stuck on wheelchair took to shoemaking.

What gifts do you have that can be applied to make money? Our major problem as a nation is that, for a long time we have always looked outside for everything, this was what turned us to a net-importer, a import dependent country. The moment we start looking inward to find alternatives for those things we import, our lives will become better. Our GDP will rise, our status as a developing nation will change. Stop complaining and look inward. Drop in megawatts is a pointer that we need alternative sources of energy. Government too should look inward!

God bless us all.

Good morning Africa!

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Plan to Succeed

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Prompt Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance. He who fails to plan, plans to fail. Benjamin Franklin said ‘By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.’ A goal without a plan is a mere wish. Planning is extremely important to succeed in any aspect of life.

One of the major reasons why businesses fail is lack of planning or poor planning. As a business, you must plan your income and expenditure, this is called Budgeting. Regardless of the size of your business, have a budget. It helps to manage your resources most efficiently. Create time for strategic planning. At least, every business should have a strategy session once a year. And our plans should take all things into consideration, market, product, competition, pricing, government policies, and all. Don’t take anything for granted. J. R. R Tolkien said ‘It does not do to leave a live dragon out of consideration, if you live near one.’

In your personal life, you must plan making use of budgets, personal retreats and self evaluation methods. Don’t run your life by chance and expect a miracle. The greatest undoing of the black man is believing prophecies without commensurate planning and actions. Nothing happens by chance!

As a nation, we will keep struggling as long as we take planning lightly. We spend halfway into the year before we pass our budget and we expect to be a successful nation! How? The Senate just passed the 2016 budget yesterday when a quarter of the year is gone, I just don’t get it! We need to become more serious and discipline as a nation if we are to stand shoulder to shoulder with developed economies.

Take planning serious. Learn project management, Africans are too poor in managing projects. This project called ‘Africa’ must not fail, we have got to plan!

God bless us all.

Good morning Africa!

Good morning Nigeria!

Pursuit of Power

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There are many people in our corporate world and even at the national level that are hungry for power and will do everything to get to position of power yet without the essentials qualities and skills required to make a success of the position. This seems to be our bane as a nation.
Until we elevate altruism above self aggrandizement and selfish interest, Nigeria and the Nigerian businesses will continue to struggle and continue to record the dismal performance we have been having since the exit of the likes of Zik, Awolowo, and Tafawa Balewa.
Power is not good in itself. It is only good to the extent that the holder uses it to transform and impact as many people, communities, states and nations as possible. Stop power pursuit for selfish purpose, it will only destroy you.

Watch Your Thought Pattern

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Your present condition is a product of your thought pattern. If you like where you are now, then maintain your thinking pattern. if you don’t like it, then examine your thought pattern and change it. If you are constantly thinking negatively you cannot go far in life. Negative thoughts impact negatively on your ability to succeed in life. It is not just a cliché that as a man thinks so he is, it is both a statement of fact and the truth. Watch it!