TRUTH SERIES 36-PREPARING FOR SUCCESS in 2011-PT 2

GETTING READY FOR SUCCESS

There are a series of things that you can do to become ready for success. All of these activities require self-discipline and a great deal of faith. They require self-discipline because the most normal and natural thing for people to do is to try to get by without preparation.

YOU MUST HAVE FAITH

Success most times are not attain at the beginning and at first attempt. Sometimes you have to keep on doing what you believe in until a desired result is achieved. To increase our passion for success ,a lot of faith is needed as we prepare for success i.e a strong believe in our actions towards fulfilling a set goal.

Preparation also requires a lot of faith because you have no guarantee that your preparation will pay off. You simply have to believe, deep within yourself, that everything you do of a constructive nature will come back to you in some way.

You have to know that a good effort is never wasted. You have to be willing to sow for a long time before you reap, knowing that if you do sow in quality and quantity, the reaping will come about inevitably with force of a law of nature.

FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTH

In preparing for success, one of the very best questions that you can ask yourself, continually, is: What can I do, that if done well, will make a difference in my career? Your ability to honestly appraise yourself and to identify the particular skill area that may be holding you back is critical for your future success.avoid those areas that you dont enjoy because youre not particularly good at them. It requires faith and character for you to admit your weaknesses in a particular area and then resolve to go to work to develop yourself so those weaknesses dont hold you back.

GET INFORMED

One of the greatest changes that has ever taken place in our society happened in 1989 when the world changed from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. We are now living in an information-based society. Because of the internet and other technological advances more than 60 percent of the working population is in the business of processing information in some way.

This means that we now are living in a knowledge-based society and you have to be a person of knowledge if youre going to succeed. To succeed you must be able to work with your mind, your mental talents and abilities. Gone are the days of laboring in the factories and the mills.

THINKING

In a way your thoughts are connected with your success. You must first succeed inside your thoughts before you succeed in the physical world. Today you can succeed only by thinking, and the more effectively you think and the better prepared you are mentally, the more productive and positive youll be.mind you, if you must think, think out of the box, think possibility ,think creative.

READING

One of the most important things you can do to prepare yourself for success is to set aside one to two hours each day to read something uplifting. It will amaze you that He who does not read is not different from him who cannot read. Read material that is educational, motivational, or inspirational. If you spend at least one hour each day investing in your mind, taking in mental protein reading good books, business magazines, trade journals, and newsletters.

See you for the concluding part as u get prepare to succeed in 2011.

TRUTH SERIES 35-PREPARING FOR SUCCESS 1

PREPARING FOR SUCCESS 1

There is a quotation by Abraham Lincoln made when he was a young lawyer in Springfield, Illinois. He said, I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come.

In my own words, I see success like an occasion or an examination we must prepare for.

Lets Ponder a little bit, what comes to your mind when you hear the word success? What then is success?

Success is simply achieving set goals or getting what we desired.

Success is having results i.e Positive.

Success is also becoming who will dream or desired to become.

Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to have more, be more, do more, and enjoy more of what life has to offer. Everyone wants to be successful. But very few people want to engage in the rigorous hard work, hour after hour, month after month, and year after year, that is required to prepare themselves for success.

You too, want to be successful. You want to be a big success in life. You want to develop your potential to the maximum. You want to be everything you are capable of becoming. You want to make all the money you possible can and enjoy the finest standards of living that you can achieve. You want to earn the esteem and appreciation of all those people around you whose opinions you care about. The way to be successful has never changed. Success requires preparation.

Preparation and Opportunity

Author and speaker, Earl Nightingale said that if a person does not prepare for his success, when the opportunity comes, it will only make him look foolish. Youve probably heard it said repeatedly that luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity.

It is only, when youve paid the price to be ready for your success that you will be in a position to take advantage of your opportunities, when they arise. And the most remarkable thing is this: The very act of preparation attracts to you, like iron fillings to a magnet, opportunities to use that preparation to advance your life. You’ll seldom learn anything of value, or prepare yourself in any area, without soon having a chance to use your new knowledge and your new skills to move ahead more rapidly.

See you in Part two of this write up as I write on what are the things to do in getting ready for Success.

UNIQUE Seun

TRUTH SERIES 34-REAL MONEY IS VALUE !

Hope you can still remember the guy who won 10million naira in the MTN Who wants to be a millionaire show? He got to the show with zero naira but He left with a 10 million naira ultimate cash prize. During the course of this write up ,I will remind you of the guy’s name and why was he able to win the 10million naira just like that within 30mins of sitting on the hot seat.

Meanwhile, Let me start by establishing this fact that everybody want money, but very few get it ,because only few have what it takes to make money.

Money is not what one pursue, it is what one attract- Fela Durotoye

By the way, what is money? It is a medium of exchange .It is a legal tender.
Lets take a trip back to history,Before the use of money. It is the Trade by Barter system that was in place, which is an exchange of one item to get another item which has the same proportion of value. E.g. 10 tubers of yam for 10 tubers of cassava, during that time, everyone must have something at hand to be exchange for another item from another person at any particular point in time.

What is then REAL MONEY? It is simply VALUE. It is not the paper note. It is intangible. It cannot be seen with the naked eyes. It cannot be touched. Value only be seen with the mind but it can be felt.

Life is indeed buying and selling, it is a natural law. So in life, to get real money, one must either have something of value or do something of value in terms of services. Value is an intangible resources or wealth which must be converted to tangible wealth.

Intangible wealth in form of value are

A, IDEAS
B,TALENTS
C,SKILLS
D,KNOWLEDGE

The guy who won the 10million Prize money on MTN show is Aroma Ufodike , He won the cash prize because there was an exchange, he knew something in terms of knowledge which is value. The value of what he knew helped him to win the 10million he won. He came there with his intangible wealth and exchanges it for MTN 10Million naira. So simple!

It may surprised you that what the yahoo yahoo boys, kidnappers, militants , armed robbers are looking for is real money but they don’t have something of value to earn it.

So to be relevant, beyond been employed you must have something of value ,which must be converted to a tangible wealth, by packaging it in a business plan, proposal ,services etc. then automatically real money will flow in your direction. See you at the top as you are on you way to make your millions. Discover something of value you can sell to your world today.I look forward to hear from you.

God bless you. God bless Nigeria !

TRUTH SERIES 33-MY NEW FRIEND

This week I will be sharing with you a conversation I engaged with my new friend, which we can all learn from. Some few weeks ago at the restaurant, I met a young man, a graduate of geography and town planning. I overheard this young man telling the guy sitting beside him that he is frustrated, he said how can I as a graduate not have a meaning job , at a point I don’t want to interfere in their conversation not until when he said ,even if he has opportunity to smuggle cocaine out of Nigeria, that he does not mind to be involve.

I can’t but share my thoughts with him that he does not need to be involved in such illegal act.

We engaged in the following conversation.

Unique seun: I ask my new friend , what if you are caught by NDLEA? He could not give a straight answer. I told him you will spend the rest of your life in jail, which is not the best for you.

My new friend: He said in this country that one need connection to make it but unfortunately , nobody is willing to help.

Unique seun: I agreed, but I ask how prepared are you for this connection? Hmm, He ponders on it for a while. I gave him a scenario, which goes thus, what if by chance you meet with the minister of housing. As a graduate of Town planning and Geography, what will you put before the minster? Do you have a business proposal? Do you have a business card? I told him an exchange must take place before he can get anything out of life.

My new Friend: I have an idea of rural housing Estates.

Unique seun: fine, have you put it in black and white?

My new friend: No, I have it on my head.

Unique seun: Hmmm, I told him point blank, you are not yet prepared, that what you have not put in black and white, you have not yet believe in it, and you cannot work on it or take action on it. I said the bible is so powerful because it is the written word of God and same goes for the constitution of any nation.

My new friend: Hmm, He nodded in agreement.

Unique seun: I said success only happens when preparation meets with opportunity. I told him, now that you are not yet employed, you have the greatest opportunity to sit down and think your way out of your present situation. I told him he has a great future ahead of him. That he just need an idea to access the wealth of the land.

First and foremost, I told my friend, he should never put money first in what ever he wants to embark on, because at first ,you will not always have enough to start something.I said this is the key, You need to ask yourself these sincere questions, What can I do well? What do I have passion for? What am I good at? What do I have now to get what I want ?

After about 35minutes of our discussion, my new friend was encouraged, he reversed the statement he earlier made that he will get himself involved in pushing cocaine. He admitted that he made the statement out of frustration, that now, I have helped him to see things in a new perspective and I have given him a new understanding. He thanked me and said I am God sent.

Dear reader, our words are powerful. We may not have all the money to give to people around us, but we have the power of life in our tongue. Let us watch out for people around us who are frustrated and discouraged, lets spend some few minutes with them and share some word of life with them. My new friend went away challenged and inspired to start something. I see my friend in the future becoming a CEO of a big corporation or a big businessman in Real estate business.Remember a candle loses nothing by lighting other candles.

Your response and comments are welcome.adeagbo_seun@yahoo.com

TRUTH SERIES 33-OUR OPPORTUNITIES MUST BE EXPLORED

Let me now share with you what I delivered, I started with our opportunities must be explored. I started with a quote, Winston Churchill “A pessimist will always see difficulty in every opportunity, while an optimist will always see an opportunity in every difficulty.” I asked who are you? A pessimist or optimist. I proceeded by telling them Opportunities abound in Nigeria, that there are no green pastures any where, that it you that will determine to make a place a green pasture. I said unfortunately, why many of us are traveling out in frustration to seek for greener pastures, that foreign business men are coming in to tap into our opportunities to do business. A Yoruba sayings goes thus, nkon taw a lo si sokoto wa ni sokoto wa, meaning what we are looking afar of is within where we are. I said opportunity is all about discovering a need and providing services to meet that need, very simple as ABC, It is solving problems. But I told them, where many young people have challenges is that opportunities are not seen with naked eyes, they are only seen with the mind.

I made them realized that going to school is not to graduate and start looking for job, but the essence of going to school is to build one’s capacity to think to solve problems. I emphasized that there are no jobs for job seekers but only for problem solvers. I sound it clear that organization main goal is not to employ people but to meet some certain objectives; they only employ problem solvers to meet that set aims and objectives.

I challenge my audience that if we have enough problems and challenge them we have enough opportunities too. That our challenges are proportionally to the opportunities available. In US for instance, they have less societal problems, they have a good conducive environment, because most of their problems have been solved.

I highlighted 7 areas where they can tap into:

A, ICT

B, FOOD

C, ENTERTAINMENT

D, EDUCATION

E, LEADERSHIP AND VALUES

F, FASHION

G, AUTO MECHANICS

I hope I have been able to challenged you too by this write up, I want to hear from you. Don’t forget, Opportunity is all about discovering a need and meeting it,in doing so,money flow towards you.SEE U ON TOP.dreamnewnigeria@yahoo.com, 0803 443 8232,WATCH OUT FOR MY COLUMN IN THE NEWSPAPER SOON!

TRUTH SERIES 32-MY JOURNEY TO KEFFI ,PART1

I am sorry that for the past weeks, I have not been able to update my blog. My schedule has been very tight. Just last week Tuesday, I was at the NYSC camp, keffi ,Nassarawa state to speak to about 1,000 youths Participants at the International Youth week celebration organized by the federal ministry of youth development, It was a new experience and opportunity to impact my generation .I spoke on 2 truths every Nigerian youth must know, i.e Our opportunities must be explored and secondly, Real money is value .My journey to keffi was a one I never dreamt of ,I was only informed like 4 days to the Program to come and share some contents in my book that is about to the out,14 TRUTHS NIGERIAN YOUTH MUST KNOW. But you know when preparation meets with opportunity, success will definitely happen. So I rose to the occasion.

The time came, I was introduced by the MC to deliver my presentation, I quickly did something to connect with my audience, because I needed to do so,so as to get their maximum attention and concentration. I asked everyone to stand and greet each other in their local dialects, it lasted for about 5minutes,It was fun hearing different tongues in the hall, it was like when the holy spirit came upon the apostles at the upper room, it was fun and they were all happy participating in the short exercise.

I also encourage anyone who can recite the National anthem and The pledge in any Nigerian Languages, As many that came out which they did excellently well ,I promised to send them the copies of my book freely to them when it is out.

See you in the second part of this write up,I Will be writing on what I spoke on.Remember,when preparation meets with opportunity,success will definitely happen.SEE U ON TOP.

TRUTH SERIES 31-MOVE WITH UR CHEESE

Who moved my cheese by Spenser Johnson is one of the Life changing books I have ever read. It is a mini story like book of about 150 pages which one can finish in less than 3hrs and the impact is Life long, and I thought it well to share some vital Life lessons I learnt while reading the book. I first read the book in 2003 which I have read so many times.

The story is about four characters, Scurry and sniff are the mice, while the hem and haw is the little people. They face unexpected change when they discover their "Cheese" has disappeared .Each character behaves differently and responds to situation differently. Some of us act like exactly the way each of the character behaves. It is either you are a sniff, scurry, hem or haw.

Sniff- He sniffs out change early.

Scurry- Scurries into action.

Hem- He denies and resists change as he fears it will lead to something worse.

Haw-He learns to adapt on time when he sees changing can lead to something better.

CHEESE represent what we want or desire in life which could be a job, money, house, wealth, health, relationship and so on. Everyman desire to have a cheese. We need it because our happiness depends on it. approach to look for it.
Most times, cheese are not always where we think it should be, so we have to be determine to move ahead and take a new

MAZE represent where we look for what we want in life i.e. the CHEESE. Maze could also represent Life. We each live in a "Maze", a metaphor for the companies or organizations we work with, the communities we live in, the families we love places where we look for the things we want in life, In as much as everyman desire a cheese, it must be look for so as to get the good things of life which brings happiness and fulfillment


And how we look and where to get our cheese are different. Each individual determine the cheese he is looking for and where to find it. Failure to get our cheese in life could lead to frustration. Our character most times help us to locate on time where to get the cheese. When we get our cheese on time, we are refers to as been lucky or favour.

Like sniff and scurry in the story, they were able to locate the new cheese station ahead of others. But unfortunately for hem because of his character and attitude,it was difficult for him to locate the new CHEESE STATION. I pray that will not be our portion in the journey of life.

I need to quickly share 6 lessons I learnt while reading this life transforming book.

LESSON 1-HAVING A CHEESE MAKES YOU HAPPY.

LESSON2 – IF YOU DO NOT CHANGE, YOU CAN BECOME EXTINCT.

LESSON 3- OLD BELIEFS DO NOT LEAD ONE TO FIND NEW CHEESE.

LESSON 4- IT IS NATURAL FOR CHANGE TO CONTINUALLY OCCUR, WHEATHER YOU EXPECT IT OR NOT.

LESSON 5-WHEN YOU CHANGE WHAT YOU BELIEVE, YOU CHANGE WHAT YOU DO.

LESSON 6- LET GO OF THE PAST AND ADAPT TO THE PRESENT.

Above all, I highly recommend this book for you, this is one book that will help you to adapt to change ,with =N=500 or less you can get a copy, and I bet it with you ,it will give you a new approach in life to develop a positive change attitude to get the next cheese you desire in life.

You may be asking, who moved my cheese? Oh it is no more there, While asking, you have got to MOVE AHEAD TO LOCATE THE NEW CHEESE STATION.
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