Friday, October 24, 2008
Decision-Proven Magic Key To Success
Why do so many people fail perpetually and end their lives in frustration? What is the common enemy which every man must practically conquer? What is the quickest path to set feet on the pedestal of fortune and fame?
Several years ago, an analysis of over 25,000 men who had experienced failure was conducted in the U.S. In that prolonged study, it was discovered that lack of decision was the major reason responsible for their failure. In this one life you have, it is expedient for you to acquire the skill of taking prompt decisions on every area of your life. Your decisions should be timely, profitable and life enhancing. You need to build your capacity to take definite decisions so you can effortlessly overcome procrastination-the chief cause of under-achievement and failure.
The ability to take prompt decisions which are rarely changed will empower you to make fortunes beyond your wildest imagination. Such is the experience of hundreds of people who had accumulated fortunes well beyond the million dollar mark.
Widely recognized Internet personalities like Jimmy D. Brown, Yanik Silver, Jim Rohn, Robert Kiyosaki and others to numerous to be mentioned speak glowingly of the successes they had recorded and the fortunes they had created for themselves and others over the years through the power of decisions.
Jim Rohn told a story about his former associates who kept wondering how he became so rich and successful within a short space of 5 years. He took a decision to be rich. He learned money management skills and how to run successful businesses. They refused to change their own ways and remained in the valley of indecision as regards those subject matter. While he became so rich and highly respected 5 years later, those former associates of his remained poor, frustrated and miserable.
Taking prompt decision exert great impact on you it changes your level and rating among others. It moves you forward and makes you fulfilled years after sowing the seed.
Here are other vital points you need to consider as you make effort to positively apply the teachings of this article:
(1) Majority of people who fail to succeed are generally easily influenced by the opinion of others
(2) Opinions are the cheapest commodity on earth
(3) If you are influenced by other people’s opinions. You will not succeed in any undertaking
(4) Keep your own counsel by reaching your own decisions and following them
(5) Take no one into confidence except your frustrated associates
(6) Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well meaning but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through ‘opinion’ or ridicule
(7) Don’t disclose your purpose if you need facts or information from other people to enable you reach decisions.
(8) Keep your eyes and ears wide open and your mouth closed if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision
(9) Understand that genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence
(10) Remember that if you talk about your plans too frequently you may be surprised when you learn that some other people has beaten you to your goal
It is now your duty to start taking decisions that will improve your life and make it count.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Specialized Knowledge-The Ultimate Magic Key To Success
16th October, 2008
Have you ever asked yourself why so many professors in our universities earn average income and end up with little money while some others who never pass through the wall of the Universities end up creating fortunes for themselves and others thus becoming really rich with great capacity to employ more professors to work for them? What is the difference between general knowledge and specialized knowledge? Why do millions of people misconstrue knowledge for power? Is knowledge really power? Are you uneducated because you had little schooling?
There are millions of young folks making waves on the cyber space and in the real world today with dazzling skills never known to most university students and graduates. What makes the difference is specialized knowledge. It is the ultimate magic key to success.
Bill Gates left the university to seek after specialized knowledge in personal computers and software application. His ideas were strange to the academia. Few years after, he created a thriving business from that idea and specialized knowledge to make the world a better place to live.
Oprah Winfrey is the richest black woman in business. She is highly specialized in participatory and broadcast journalism-a talk show model never thought at the conventional school.
Li Ka Shing was a former Chinese refugee who was forced to drop out of high school. Several years later, he became ‘
Millions of people think that ‘knowledge is power’ but that is not so. It is only potential power. Knowledge becomes power when it is organized into definite plans of action to achieve a predetermined goal.
If you want to succeed in anything at all, you must seek specialized knowledge in that area. For example, knowledge will not attract money unless it is organized and intelligently directed through practical plans of action to the definite end of accumulating money.
How To Get Specialized Knowledge
You need to understand that schooling is not the same as being educated. You should take personal responsibility for your education. To become educated is to develop from within. According to Napoleon Hill, ‘an educated man is not necessarily someone with abundant general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so develop the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent without violating the right of others.
With a lot of self discipline, you can develop yourself to achieve any goal you set for yourself through specialized knowledge cheaply through correspondence courses and night schools. There are currently thousands of courses on the internet for serious minded individuals who may wish to change their career, earn more money or improve themselves for optimum performance.
Vital Steps To Organizing Your Knowledge
The knowledge you acquire must be organized and put into use for a definite purpose through practical plans to give you great value for your effort.
Before taking a particular course for instance, determine the reason why you want to take the course and decide where you want to take it.
Understand that knowledge-acquiring period never ends when you finish school. Learn to develop your learning curve as Jim Rohn puts it. Keep it higher and higher over time. You will smoke out wiser, better, richer and healthier.
Vitamins For The Mind In Consideration Of Specialized Knowledge
(1) Anything acquired without effort and without cost is generally unappreciated and often discredited
(2) Specialized knowledge plus imagination are ingredients of successful enterprise
(3) Specialized knowledge plus planned presentation can accelerate your promotion beyond expectation
(4) Specialized knowledge is the key to prepare you for personal service sales plan that creates fortune
(5) Knowledge paves the road to riches when you know which road to take.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
How To Develop Winning Money Management Skills
Robert G. Allen in his book multiple streams of income emphasize on the need to acquire good money management habits as the wealthy people do so that you can become wealthy and financially free. Your money habits will determine your financial future. Your money habit is the key factor to your character money- wise and your financial destiny. You will continue to experience long term lack and financial short comings as long as you remain unlearned in the skills of profitable money management.
Now back to Robert Allen. His book spoke much about what you should do with the money you earn during your working years...
6 Profitable Ways To Effectively Manage Your Hard Earned Money
Throughout Your Working Years So That You Can Gracefully Retire To Enjoy...
Money Habit 1: Value and Control It
The very first skill you must acquire is to value the money you earn. The money in your hand is likened to a seed. That seed could germinate and grow several money trees that will yield durable fruits in the future.
Do you know that the single dollar in your hand is a potential one million dollars? You call that an exaggeration? Okay listen to this. Recently an analysis was done in the United States to know the actual value of a dollar several years ago as compared with its current value at the New York exchange. That one dollar was estimated to be more than $1 million. The money was put in instruments that overgrew inflation over the years.
You can now see why you must not undermine the value of that naira in your hand?
To practically achieve this goal, you must as a matter of urgency get acquainted with how you spend every dollar you earn.
Strive to know more about your personal account. Categorize your expenditure outlets and spend your income in that order. Have a record of your personal finance in a durable book.
I learnt this lesson very early enough when I started my working career. I quickly bought a hard cover ledger book where I record my money spending habits to keep track of how my income is being spent over the years. The mere knowledge of how I spend my salary in the last 5 years has opened my eyes to several other things like the determination to take my financial future out of the hands of Government. I feel a kind of confidence and measure of power of that knowledge which has helped me to acquire financial discipline. I now know the true meaning of asset and liability.
Anything you spend your money on without the prospect of making more money is a liability. Period!
Money Habit 2: Save It
This one is not new to most civil servants. They know how to do this very well. Nevertheless, I must point your attention to how to do it for maximum benefit. Your savings should be a tangible percentage of your salary. Financial experts suggest you save up to 10% of your income and if you can do better than that, good for you.
One thing you must however work against is to allow your savings to be eaten up by inflation.
Your goal should not be only to save but to ensure that your savings is not left at the mercy of inflation. Keeping devalued money is not worth the effort.
You should adopt the principle of saving sufficient amount capable of sustaining you and your family for 3 months even if you are not paid your salary. The left over should be channeled to the next money management habit...
Money Habit 3: Invest It
This is what most income earners never know how to do well. Some out -rightly avoid it for fear of losing their hard earned money and yet what they did not know is lacking is the right information on how to be smart investors.
I have taken it upon myself to speak to some senior civil servants on this matter; what I discovered left much to be desired. Some who invested put their monies on enterprise that will keep them enslaved after retirement. When are you going to enjoy your life if you still continue the same way you worked for Government after retirement? Your strength diminishes with old age so you must learn to invest your money in money instruments that has the potential to multiply the money while you rest.
Robbert Kiyosaki an American financial expert spoke extensively on the 7 levels of investors that I will share with you briefly to further sensitize and empower you to put your financial destiny in your hands.
Level 0
These people have no money to invest. They either spend everything they make or spend more than they make. There are many 'rich' people who would fall into this category. Unfortunately this zero level is where about 50% of the adult population would be categorized.
Level 1: Borrowers
These people solve financial problems by borrowing money. Often they even invest with borrowed money. Their idea of financial planning is robbing Peter to pay Paul. They live their financial lives with their head in the sand like an ostrich hoping and praying that everything will work out. While they may have a few assets, the reality is that their level of debt is simply too high. For the most part, they are not conscious about money and their spending habits.
Level 2: Savers
These people put aside a 'small amount of money usually in a regular basis'. The money is in a lower risk, low return vehicle such as a money market checking account, savings account or certificate of deposit.
They often save to consume rather than to invest ( e.g. they save for a new T.V., car, vacation etc). they believe in paying in cash, they like the security of money in the bank.
Level 3: Investors
There are 3 different types of investors in this group. This level of investor is aware of the need to invest. Generally they are intelligent people who have a solid education. They make up what we call the middle class. However when it comes to investing, they are often not educated....
Level 4: Long Term Investors
These investors are clearly aware of the need to invest. They are actively involved in their own investment decisions. They invest in their education before actually buying any investment.
If you are not yet a long-term investor, get yourself there as fast as you can. This means that you sit down and map out a plan. Get control of your spending habits. Minimize your debts liabilities. Live within your means and then increase your means.
Level 5: Sophisticated Investors
These investors can 'afford' to seek more aggressive or risky investment strategies because they have good money habits, a solid foundation of money and also investment savvy. They are focused, not usually diversified. They often buy investment wholesale rather than retail. They are well educated in the world of investing and actively seek new information.
Level 6: Capitalists
Few people in the world reach this level of investment excellence. In America, less than one person in a hundred is a true capitalist. A capitalist's purpose is to make money by synergistically orchestrating other people's money, other people's talents and other people's time. It is the capitalist that provide the money that create the jobs, the business, and the goods that make a country prosper. These are the Kennedys, Rockyfellers, Fords, J. Paul Gattys etc.
There you have it; my menu on the 7 levels of investors. Read it over and over again to know where you belong and how you can improve on your money habits. Let's now continue with money habit skills....
Money Habit 4: Make It
Making money is entirely different from investing it. This is the entrepreneurial side of money. If you are not an entrepreneur yet, learn to become one. Everyone will need to create multiple streams of income in the future. The truth is no matter what profession you belong, the present world economy does not favour a monolithic career in a single life time. The crave for downsizing and re-engineering or reform globally by government and private establishments necessitate that you retrain yourself and acquire more money making, marketable skills.
Opportunities abound in computer communication technology for whosoever cares to improve his family financial fortune. You must learn the skills of being your own boss, even if you are working for a solid corporation and plan on retiring there. The world is just too insecure to make long term plan with one company.
You can make money from what you are good at. Get on purpose. Do what you love and the money will follow.
Money Habit 5: Shield It
Making money is one set of skills. Keeping it is another. As you work toward your financial goals, you will need to learn how to preserve the wealth you are creating.
You must learn how to get your homes, cars and business entities out of sight through corporations, trusts and family partnerships to build a financial fortress around your assets. Do not create problems for your wife and children after your death. Make sure they do not fall prey to greedy relations who went to reap where they did not sow.
Money Habit 6: Share It
This is the last money management skill I will share with you. Remember the story of Harvard University which was rated the best in the world. Most of its facilities are not from the American Government but from wealthy Americans. You multiply what you have now through giving. The more you give, the more you too continue to receive. It is better to give than to receive.
Be a consistent giver. Pay your tithe regularly and consistently. Identify the needy around you and show them mercy. Remember that the ultimate purpose of having money is to help others.
Dear friend, here again is the summary of money management skills that will guarantee you a financially free future:
(1) value it
(2) save it
(3) invest it
(4) make it
(5) shield it
(6) share it
These are proven, timeless principles for personal wealth creation and financial freedom. You may decide not to apply these principles if you have inherited a fortune from your parents. If you however want to be a self-made individual, that is the way to go. You owe it to yourself to live a comfortable life with peace of mind.
Concentration-The Magic Key To Success
This magic key unlocks the door to education and unleash your hidden potential. It is your gateway to any position you may ever think of or imagine in life. This magic key will make you powerful just as it has done to brave men and women who applied it in the ages past. Marie Curie applied it and won the Nobel Prize twice- one in Physics and another in Chemistry.
If you are a messenger presently in a very low position and desire to become great in life and be in a better position, this magic key will help you to achieve that goal. Napoleon Hill used that key. He became a most celebrated author of Think and Grow Rich. His life was transformed from that of an ordinary errand journalist to a super human being who got the attention of political leaders of his age. His ideas still continues to transform the lives of countless people who desire riches and want to run businesses of their own. Bill Gates used this magic and became the world’s richest man at 40. Warren Buffet used this magic key and became the richest investor of all ages. Think about it. What could have been responsible for the widely acknowledged success of Donald Trump in real estate business but for this magic key. All these people accumulated vast fortunes and wealth.
This magic key cuts across all facet of human life. It will unlock the prison doors and turn hardened criminals into agent of change and dependable human beings. This magic key turns misery into happiness.
The question now is what could this magic key be?
This magic key is Concentration. It is a 13 lettered word. Very simple but powerful. It has a tremendous power that transforms life like a tornado in action. Concentration I’m talking about here means your ability to fix your attention on a particular thing you want to achieve and thoroughly familiarize yourself with that subject until you have mastered the nitty-gritty of the matter and move ahead to achieve your goal. You say no to any form of distraction whatever the sacrifice may be. Think and Grow Rich is a world’s best seller today. Very few people are there who know that it took Napoleon Hill 25 years to discover the principles espoused in that life-changing book.
Concentration in your ability to do away with destructive habits and build new ones guaranteed to make your life better. Concentration helps you to achieve complete self mastery. You attain a high level of discipline, have great power to control your thoughts and direct them to a definite purpose in life.
How To Automatically Condition Yourself To Acquire The Power Of Concentration
You need to vital supplementary keys to automatically condition yourself to attain the power of concentration.
The first principle is ambition. You need to be ambitious before you can use the power of concentration. Living aimlessly in life will keep you at the low ladder of success. You will remain a nobody and people will continue to look down on you. That is certainly not the kind of life you want to live. You want your life to count. You want to be a source of blessing to others. You want to have everything you want in life and be comfortable. You want to move to the next level in your career. You don’t want to remain uneducated. Have ambition. Aspire to be great. Take steps to improve yourself then attaining the power of concentration will not be difficult for you.
The second principle is desire. Desire is a chief factor and foundation for any successful enterprise in life. It is like a fuel that drives your car. It is the stimulant that awakes your imagination. Desire starts any good thing you can think of in life. When you combine desire with ambition, you are ready to automatically condition yourself to attain the power of concentration. That is it for you. The magic key of concentration works. Rise up and start to use it to improve your life and future.
To Your Success
Benard Solomon