How To Get The Job You Want Anywhere You Desire
The global recession has unleashed unto the world a precarious situation of severe job loss. Many young people currently in college are trained to pick up job in areas that matches their skills. The problem is, those who are in jobs are being retrenched by companies to save cost and survive the recession.
The ghost of unemployment is on the high rise. What hope is there for you as a job seeker?
Think Out Of The Box
Is it possible for you to still get any job you want in this seemingly difficult world unemployment situation? Yes. That is why I am writing this piece to open your eyes to creative principles that can land you the job you want.
Warning…………
If you are not ready to do what is unconventional and imaginative, don’t bother to read further. These job hunting techniques I want to reveal to you are not what the job seekers out there are doing. They are proven methods that work at all times if they are faithfully applied.
Get The Job You Want In 8 Simple Steps
Before I go into the proven secrets of getting any job you want, let me relate to you the life story of a young job seeker who used creative methods to get the CEO of his prospective company to want his service so desperately that he was engaged even before going for his national youth service.
This story I want to relate to you was narrated by the CEO of the company. Enjoy it……
‘I met Abdullahi in February 1996. No, I didn’t me him. He wrote me a letter from Kano, which he sent by courier. The letter reads:
Dear Sir,
I have just read the January 1996 edition of your un-put-down-able magazine; and I was most impressed by the practicability and workability of the ideas it espoused, especially those contained in the 6 Great Ideas To Brighten Your life in 1996; Roger Dawson’s You Can Get Anything You Wand and Ziglar Teachers You How To Set Goals to mention but a few.
It was after I was trough with it that I went back to the book I was reading-Enthusiasm Make The Difference By Norman V. Peale-where I read an idea which I believe if put to use by your organization will boost your sales, lead to production of top-flight managers in Nigeria who will better manage the Nigerian economy and also improve our lots.
I am 26-year-old graduate of Economics from Bayero University, Kano. I will be going for service in either late May or early June, so this leaves us with at least about 4 months to test the practicability or otherwise of this idea.
It will cost your organization nothing but a letter of introduction and a few unsold copies of your reputable magazine Success Digest. This idea has worked miracles in the United States of America, and I believe it can also work wonders in Nigeria.
I will give you a sketch of the idea when we meet-if you would give me an appointment to see you, Sir. I could be reached through….
I am presently in Kano, but I’ll be in Lagos in the first week of February 1996.
I patiently await hearing from you.
Kind regards.
Abdullahi Lawore.
That was the master piece written by this smart young Nigerian unemployed graduate. The CEO was so impressed that he promptly reached for the phone and contacted this ‘genius’ Abdullahi. He promptly gave him an appointment to see him in Lagos.
After their meeting in Lagos, the CEO has this to say about the subsequent events…
‘The young man left my office only to turn up with a comprehensive detail of his strategy for selling Success Digest. Again, it was an arresting piece of information he put together. I couldn’t resist the urge to tell him to go ahead to practicalize his dream. That was how Abdullahi Lawore found himself a job.
Should I tell you the end of the story? After this pre-national youth service freelance job placement, the CEO hired Abdullahi after his youth service. No one wants to lose a smart and diligent enterprising go-giver.
How To Get The Job You Want In 8 Simple Steps
1. Self Belief: No one can get any job he desperately desires without proven self belief. Think about the content of the letter the young man used as an example above wrote.
2. Prompt Action: When you have something to offer, act on it promptly. Express your desire and service you wish to offer in a creative and concise way as to make your offer irresistible.
3. Applied Faith: Without faith, you cannot bring to life what is not yet in existence. You want the job you want right? You must believe that you can get it. Imagine yourself doing that job the best way you could.
4. No procrastination: When idea comes to you, the best time to implement it is immediately. Don’t waste time. Contact the authorities you want to work for. Remember that the young man never waited for job vacancy advert before acting on his idea.
5. Go Extra Mile: Do something unusual to create an irresistible impression in your prospective employer. Don’t be afraid to sacrifice some amount to get across to your employer speedily e.g. using courier or speed post.
6. Handle Rejection Carefully: on your way to implementing your ideas, not everybody you contact will accept your proposal. Learn to handle rejection carefully.
7. Focus On Service Before Reward: Concentrate on what you want to offer. Build your interest in the special service you have to offer. The reward will surely follow in droves.
8. Package an attractive C.V. that forces your prospective employer to fall over themselves for your service. This is how to be in control of your job hunting exercise.
I'll be talking on How To Write An Attractive C.V. in the next issue....stay tuned
Monday, May 18, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
52 Proven Path To Abundant Success
Discover The Simplest Steps To Motivate Yourself For Life-Time Achievement
The truth is, many people desire success and achievement but they are soon frustrated by lack of correct and timely information. If you really seek easy steps to life-time riches, here they are in a box…
1 No One Drift To Success. Understand that the person who acts with purpose and a plan attracts opportunities
2 Learn How To Live Your Own Life. Name any highly successful individual you know. You will find out that they are unique in what they do. You have the prerogative over your mind. Exercise it. It is the only unchallengeable right you have.
3 Motivate yourself To Achieve Success. How do you get this done? Develop a burning desire for something you wish to have in order to reach a greater goal. Stop wishing. Decide definitely that you will have it.
4 Budget Your Time And Income. The successful person budgets time, income and expenditures. This skill will empower you to be disciplined.
5 Create Strength Out Of Struggle. Struggle is a clever way through nature compels humanity to develop, expand and progress. Without it, success is unthinkable. Begin to see struggle and difficulty as your opportunity to fully realize your dream.
6 Be Sincere To Yourself And Others. Sincerity is a trait that pays off in self-satisfaction, self-respect and spiritual ability. Others can easily detect your sincere disposition. It will sustain you through difficult periods.
7 Be Hopeful At All Times. Hope is the raw material for building success. It transforms into faith. Faith into determination and determination into action. Hope never make ashamed. It has great powers and possibilities.
8 Cultivate Patience. Patience has been described as the courage to change the things you can, the willingness to accept the things you cannot and the wisdom to know the difference. Patience is a positive force to direct your destiny. The power of patience strengthens you to overcome obstacles.
9 Be Flexible. Flexibility means the ability to bend mentally and physically to adapt one’s self to any circumstances or environment while maintaining self-control and composure. This is the first trait of a pleasing personality.
10 Imbibe Enthusiasm. ‘Enthusiasm is the radio wave by which you transmit your personality to others’. It is more powerful than logic. Know for sure that nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm. It is the winning skill to get others to accept you and your point of view.
11 Use Your Personal Magnetism. Here is the secret to influencing others and making friends. You can get people to find it difficult to resist you even on initial contact with this skill. Everybody has a measure of personal magnetism. Learn to use your own profitably.
12 Have Confidence In Yourself. Out there are people who are ever ready to shout you down and kill your dream. Self confidence is the only means to make your subconscious mind to work for you. Remember that your subconscious mind believe everything it is told. Use your subconscious mind to build your self confidence.
13 Strengthen Your Strength Of Humor. Develop a cheerful disposition. It will make you more likable and attractive.
14 Exhibit Creative Showmanship. You can get yourself into the heart of others by simply paying special attention to niceties of courtesy and politeness. You’ll be more appreciated if you appreciate the values of others.
15 Choose Your Goal. About 2 out of every hundred people actually know what they want from life. These are the leaders in every walk of life. They make life pay off on their own terms. Decide precisely what you want, how much of it you want and when you want to have it in possession.
16 Use Your Personal Initiative. Personal initiative is the only cure for procrastination. There is no more destructive human habit than procrastination. Take voluntary action daily towards achieving your goal. This is personal initiative.
17 Get The Job You Want. The best job offered you may not be the one with the highest pay. Always think about the future and what you really want to become when hunting for job.
18 Smartly Get Your Promotion. Though not in the conventional way. A creative way to get unusual promotion is to offer more and better service than is expected of you.
19 Be Resourceful. If you cannot do a task, find someone who can do it so that you still achieve your results. You will be marked out as a good executive material.
20 Lend A Helping Hand. One of the surest ways to achieve your own success is to help others to attain theirs. Almost anyone can contribute to those who are less fortunate.
21 Live Harmoniously With Others. If you can’t get along harmoniously with others, you cannot be successful. Follow peace with all men. Even without it, no man can see the Lord.
22 Let Others Help You Achieve Success. It is certain that success will come more quickly if you learn to use the education, experience, ability and influence of others.
23 Welcome Help From Others. In your time of worry, you cannot think clearly. This is the time to seek the aid of others whose minds are not clouded by fear and worry.
24 Work With Your Team. Cooperation is indispensable in your home, your job and your social life. Learn to induce friendly cooperation from others.
25 Operate Under The Force Of Humility. No. Humility is not a negative virtue. All of humanity’s greatest advances whether spiritual or material has been based on it. No matter what your goal is, humility is a powerful and positive trait you need to achieve personal success.
26 Boost Your Self Esteem. One of the most effective ways to boost your self esteem is to find some persons as models whose achievement you would like to equal or exceed.
27 Wake Up To Meet Your Positive Self. If you aspire to the higher planes of success in life, you should become better acquainted with that great, powerful, positive self who lives in your body.
28 Acquire The Power Of Positive Mental Attitude. Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, your mind can achieve. Learn to positively take possession of the power of your mind and direct it to ends of your own choice.
29 Tell Yourself ‘I Can Do It’. Remember that you cannot stand still. You must move upward towards success or downward toward failure. The choice is yours.
30 Practice The Habit Of Optimism. Optimism develop from good sense of humor, hopefulness, ability to overcome fear, contentment, positive mental attitude, flexibility faith, decisiveness and enthusiasm. Instead of worrying about the bad things that might befall you, spend a few minutes everyday enumerating pleasant events that will happen tomorrow.
31 Control Your Mental Attitude. Your mental attitude can be controlled by a burning desire, close association with people who are positive minded, daily devotion and definite directives.
32 Appreciate The Value Of Positive Thinking. A positive mind attracts opportunities for success while a negative mind repels opportunities and never take advantage of them when they arise.
33 Let Habits Work For You. All of us are ruled by habits. Reorganize your habits and build success habits by concentrating your effort on whatever the desire.
34 Think Accurately. Accurate thinking separates facts from fiction. Facts are also separated into important and unimportant ones. Accurate thinkers know that emotions are not reliable. Accurate thinkers protect themselves through the power of reason and rules of logic.
35 Cultivate Creative Vision. Creative vision reveals new ideas, concepts and plans. It operates through the sixth sense. This is the way to discover new inventions and products. New breakthroughs are impossible without creative vision.
36 Concentrate Your Effort. Most successful people have mastered the skill of concentrating on a single thing at a time, instead of spreading their efforts over many fields.
37 Have An Open Mind. Intolerance is a two edged sword that cuts off opportunities and lines of communication. Open mind helps you to develop vision.
38 Recognize Blessings In Failure. Surely, failure sometimes becomes a blessing. If often opens new doors to opportunity. It also provides firsthand knowledge of the realities of life.
39 Learn From Defeat. There is adversity in life. However, each adversity comes with the seed of equivalent benefit. Defeat bring people under a spirit of humility so that they can acquire wisdom and understanding.
40 Overcome Fear To Reach Your Goal. Fear is an obstacle to success. It is your responsibility to control fear and turn it into useful tool for your success.
41 Discipline Yourself. According to Benjamin Disreali-former British Prime Minister who developed his willpower to its greatest capacity after repeated failures, ‘The secret of success is constancy of purpose’. You should turn on the full powers of your will and take complete control of your life.
42 Stop Making Failure Out Of Your Children. Napoleon Hill’s step mother gave him the best chance to take a shot at responsible living. She created time to build him up in skills he never thought he could acquire. History shows the great success he later achieved. Learn to give your children reputation to live up to irrespective of their mistakes today.
43 Identify The Spiritual Power Of Grief. Sorrow can serve a highly useful spiritual purpose. It can break old, unproductive habit. It is also a medicine for the soul and mind.
44 Look In The Mirror. There is a man who can help you attain your life’s success. You must learn to depend upon him and get acquainted with him. Check him out in the mirror.
45 Never Surrender Your Emotion To Mean People. No one can make you angry or hurt your feelings without your cooperation. If anyone offend you, forgive and put your hurt behind as quickly as possible. Your state of mind is something you can control completely. Never surrender it to intruders who envy you and are determined to get you offended.
46 Use The Unbeatable Master. Faith is the unbeatable master. Choose faith instead of fear. Condition your mind to believe. Put your faith to work. Active faith knows no fear. No self-imposed limitations. With faith, you’ll be mightier than disaster, stronger than failure and more powerful than fear.
47 Give Thanks Everyday. Whatever status of success you may attain, remember that you did not do it alone. Some people contributed to it. Show gratitude to God and those who have helped you one time or the other. By so doing, your personality will become more courtly, dignified and gracious.
48 Close Your Door Against Unpleasant Experiences. Your experiences-good or bad are not important in themselves. What counts is your reaction to those experiences.
49 Be Contented. We brought nothing into this world and it is certain that we can carry nothing out. Be contented with whatever you have while working to attain your desired goal.
50 Not Too Much, Not Too Little. Seek happiness. Success is not all about riches. Money alone cannot bring peace of mind. Strive to be the master of money and not its slave.
51 Take Time To Assess Yourself. Critical and sincere self-analysis is very important. When often neglected, it is possible to derail from your target and be distracted so find time to review your activities and lifestyle.
52 Apply The Golden Rule. Life is a boomerang. What you sow, you shall reap. Be ready always to do to others what you want them to do unto you. Show love and kindness to others. By so doing, you too will get affection from them.
The truth is, many people desire success and achievement but they are soon frustrated by lack of correct and timely information. If you really seek easy steps to life-time riches, here they are in a box…
1 No One Drift To Success. Understand that the person who acts with purpose and a plan attracts opportunities
2 Learn How To Live Your Own Life. Name any highly successful individual you know. You will find out that they are unique in what they do. You have the prerogative over your mind. Exercise it. It is the only unchallengeable right you have.
3 Motivate yourself To Achieve Success. How do you get this done? Develop a burning desire for something you wish to have in order to reach a greater goal. Stop wishing. Decide definitely that you will have it.
4 Budget Your Time And Income. The successful person budgets time, income and expenditures. This skill will empower you to be disciplined.
5 Create Strength Out Of Struggle. Struggle is a clever way through nature compels humanity to develop, expand and progress. Without it, success is unthinkable. Begin to see struggle and difficulty as your opportunity to fully realize your dream.
6 Be Sincere To Yourself And Others. Sincerity is a trait that pays off in self-satisfaction, self-respect and spiritual ability. Others can easily detect your sincere disposition. It will sustain you through difficult periods.
7 Be Hopeful At All Times. Hope is the raw material for building success. It transforms into faith. Faith into determination and determination into action. Hope never make ashamed. It has great powers and possibilities.
8 Cultivate Patience. Patience has been described as the courage to change the things you can, the willingness to accept the things you cannot and the wisdom to know the difference. Patience is a positive force to direct your destiny. The power of patience strengthens you to overcome obstacles.
9 Be Flexible. Flexibility means the ability to bend mentally and physically to adapt one’s self to any circumstances or environment while maintaining self-control and composure. This is the first trait of a pleasing personality.
10 Imbibe Enthusiasm. ‘Enthusiasm is the radio wave by which you transmit your personality to others’. It is more powerful than logic. Know for sure that nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm. It is the winning skill to get others to accept you and your point of view.
11 Use Your Personal Magnetism. Here is the secret to influencing others and making friends. You can get people to find it difficult to resist you even on initial contact with this skill. Everybody has a measure of personal magnetism. Learn to use your own profitably.
12 Have Confidence In Yourself. Out there are people who are ever ready to shout you down and kill your dream. Self confidence is the only means to make your subconscious mind to work for you. Remember that your subconscious mind believe everything it is told. Use your subconscious mind to build your self confidence.
13 Strengthen Your Strength Of Humor. Develop a cheerful disposition. It will make you more likable and attractive.
14 Exhibit Creative Showmanship. You can get yourself into the heart of others by simply paying special attention to niceties of courtesy and politeness. You’ll be more appreciated if you appreciate the values of others.
15 Choose Your Goal. About 2 out of every hundred people actually know what they want from life. These are the leaders in every walk of life. They make life pay off on their own terms. Decide precisely what you want, how much of it you want and when you want to have it in possession.
16 Use Your Personal Initiative. Personal initiative is the only cure for procrastination. There is no more destructive human habit than procrastination. Take voluntary action daily towards achieving your goal. This is personal initiative.
17 Get The Job You Want. The best job offered you may not be the one with the highest pay. Always think about the future and what you really want to become when hunting for job.
18 Smartly Get Your Promotion. Though not in the conventional way. A creative way to get unusual promotion is to offer more and better service than is expected of you.
19 Be Resourceful. If you cannot do a task, find someone who can do it so that you still achieve your results. You will be marked out as a good executive material.
20 Lend A Helping Hand. One of the surest ways to achieve your own success is to help others to attain theirs. Almost anyone can contribute to those who are less fortunate.
21 Live Harmoniously With Others. If you can’t get along harmoniously with others, you cannot be successful. Follow peace with all men. Even without it, no man can see the Lord.
22 Let Others Help You Achieve Success. It is certain that success will come more quickly if you learn to use the education, experience, ability and influence of others.
23 Welcome Help From Others. In your time of worry, you cannot think clearly. This is the time to seek the aid of others whose minds are not clouded by fear and worry.
24 Work With Your Team. Cooperation is indispensable in your home, your job and your social life. Learn to induce friendly cooperation from others.
25 Operate Under The Force Of Humility. No. Humility is not a negative virtue. All of humanity’s greatest advances whether spiritual or material has been based on it. No matter what your goal is, humility is a powerful and positive trait you need to achieve personal success.
26 Boost Your Self Esteem. One of the most effective ways to boost your self esteem is to find some persons as models whose achievement you would like to equal or exceed.
27 Wake Up To Meet Your Positive Self. If you aspire to the higher planes of success in life, you should become better acquainted with that great, powerful, positive self who lives in your body.
28 Acquire The Power Of Positive Mental Attitude. Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, your mind can achieve. Learn to positively take possession of the power of your mind and direct it to ends of your own choice.
29 Tell Yourself ‘I Can Do It’. Remember that you cannot stand still. You must move upward towards success or downward toward failure. The choice is yours.
30 Practice The Habit Of Optimism. Optimism develop from good sense of humor, hopefulness, ability to overcome fear, contentment, positive mental attitude, flexibility faith, decisiveness and enthusiasm. Instead of worrying about the bad things that might befall you, spend a few minutes everyday enumerating pleasant events that will happen tomorrow.
31 Control Your Mental Attitude. Your mental attitude can be controlled by a burning desire, close association with people who are positive minded, daily devotion and definite directives.
32 Appreciate The Value Of Positive Thinking. A positive mind attracts opportunities for success while a negative mind repels opportunities and never take advantage of them when they arise.
33 Let Habits Work For You. All of us are ruled by habits. Reorganize your habits and build success habits by concentrating your effort on whatever the desire.
34 Think Accurately. Accurate thinking separates facts from fiction. Facts are also separated into important and unimportant ones. Accurate thinkers know that emotions are not reliable. Accurate thinkers protect themselves through the power of reason and rules of logic.
35 Cultivate Creative Vision. Creative vision reveals new ideas, concepts and plans. It operates through the sixth sense. This is the way to discover new inventions and products. New breakthroughs are impossible without creative vision.
36 Concentrate Your Effort. Most successful people have mastered the skill of concentrating on a single thing at a time, instead of spreading their efforts over many fields.
37 Have An Open Mind. Intolerance is a two edged sword that cuts off opportunities and lines of communication. Open mind helps you to develop vision.
38 Recognize Blessings In Failure. Surely, failure sometimes becomes a blessing. If often opens new doors to opportunity. It also provides firsthand knowledge of the realities of life.
39 Learn From Defeat. There is adversity in life. However, each adversity comes with the seed of equivalent benefit. Defeat bring people under a spirit of humility so that they can acquire wisdom and understanding.
40 Overcome Fear To Reach Your Goal. Fear is an obstacle to success. It is your responsibility to control fear and turn it into useful tool for your success.
41 Discipline Yourself. According to Benjamin Disreali-former British Prime Minister who developed his willpower to its greatest capacity after repeated failures, ‘The secret of success is constancy of purpose’. You should turn on the full powers of your will and take complete control of your life.
42 Stop Making Failure Out Of Your Children. Napoleon Hill’s step mother gave him the best chance to take a shot at responsible living. She created time to build him up in skills he never thought he could acquire. History shows the great success he later achieved. Learn to give your children reputation to live up to irrespective of their mistakes today.
43 Identify The Spiritual Power Of Grief. Sorrow can serve a highly useful spiritual purpose. It can break old, unproductive habit. It is also a medicine for the soul and mind.
44 Look In The Mirror. There is a man who can help you attain your life’s success. You must learn to depend upon him and get acquainted with him. Check him out in the mirror.
45 Never Surrender Your Emotion To Mean People. No one can make you angry or hurt your feelings without your cooperation. If anyone offend you, forgive and put your hurt behind as quickly as possible. Your state of mind is something you can control completely. Never surrender it to intruders who envy you and are determined to get you offended.
46 Use The Unbeatable Master. Faith is the unbeatable master. Choose faith instead of fear. Condition your mind to believe. Put your faith to work. Active faith knows no fear. No self-imposed limitations. With faith, you’ll be mightier than disaster, stronger than failure and more powerful than fear.
47 Give Thanks Everyday. Whatever status of success you may attain, remember that you did not do it alone. Some people contributed to it. Show gratitude to God and those who have helped you one time or the other. By so doing, your personality will become more courtly, dignified and gracious.
48 Close Your Door Against Unpleasant Experiences. Your experiences-good or bad are not important in themselves. What counts is your reaction to those experiences.
49 Be Contented. We brought nothing into this world and it is certain that we can carry nothing out. Be contented with whatever you have while working to attain your desired goal.
50 Not Too Much, Not Too Little. Seek happiness. Success is not all about riches. Money alone cannot bring peace of mind. Strive to be the master of money and not its slave.
51 Take Time To Assess Yourself. Critical and sincere self-analysis is very important. When often neglected, it is possible to derail from your target and be distracted so find time to review your activities and lifestyle.
52 Apply The Golden Rule. Life is a boomerang. What you sow, you shall reap. Be ready always to do to others what you want them to do unto you. Show love and kindness to others. By so doing, you too will get affection from them.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Maintaining Honesty and Integrity by Jim Rohn (excerpted from Cultivating an Unshakable Character)
What has honesty and integrity got to do with success? In today's world, these are values not often appreciated and it cuts across all shades of life. Government tactically ignore it in burning national and global issues. In the place of work, those who dare to keep these virtues are looked upon as misfit-fools. But here is a reminder to the necessity of these values if you really desire true success. You will make them your inseparable companion. Find what Jim Rohn has to say about this evergreen concept......
For a leader, honesty and integrity are absolutely essential to survival. A lot of business people don't realize how closely they're being watched by their subordinates. Remember when you were a kid in grammar school, how you used to sit there staring at your teacher all day? By the end of the school year, you could do a perfect imitation of all your teacher's mannerisms. You were aware of the slightest nuances in your teacher's voice - all the little clues that distinguished levels of meaning that told you the difference between bluff and "now I mean business".
And you were able to do that after eight or nine months of observation. Suppose you had five or 10 years. Do you think there would have been anything about your teacher you didn't know?
Now fast forward and use that analogy as a manager. Do you think there's anything your people don't know about you right this minute? If you haven't been totally aboveboard and honest with them, do you really think you've gotten away with it? Not too likely. But if you've been led to believe that you've gotten away with it, there might be a good probability that people are afraid of you, and that's a problem in its own right.
But there is another side of this coin. In any organization, people want to believe in their leaders. If you give them reason to trust you, they're not going to go looking for reasons to think otherwise, and they'll be just as perceptive about your positive qualities as they are about the negative ones.
A situation that happened some years ago at a company in the Midwest illustrates this perfectly. The wife of a new employee experienced complications in the delivery of a baby. There was a medical bill of more than $10,000, and the health insurance company didn't want to cover it. The employee hadn't been on the payroll long enough, the pregnancy was a preexisting condition, etc,etc,..
In any case, the employee was desperate. He approached the company CEO and asked him to talk to the insurance people. The CEO agreed, and the next thing the employee knew, the bill was gone and the charges were rescinded.
Then he told some colleagues about the way the CEO had so readily used his influence with the insurance company, they just shook their heads and smiled. The CEO had paid the bill out of his own pocket, and everybody knew it, no matter how quietly it had been done.
Now an act of dishonesty can't be hidden either, and it will instantly undermine the authority of a leader. But an act of integrity and kindness like the example above is just as obvious to all concerned. When you're in a leadership position, you have the choice of how you will be seen, but you will be seen one way or the other, make no mistake about it.
One of the most challenging areas of leadership is your family. Leadership of a family demands even higher standards of honesty and integrity, and the stakes are higher too. You can replace disgruntled employees and start over. You can even get a new job for yourself, if it comes to that. But your family can't be shuffled like a deck of cards. If you haven't noticed, kids are great moral philosophers, especially as they get into adolescence. They're determined to discover and expose any kind of hypocrisy, phoniness, or lack of integrity on the part of authority figures, and if we're parents, that means us. It's frightening how unforgiving kids can be about this, but it really isn't a conscious decision on their part; it's just a necessary phase of growing up.
They're testing everything, especially their parents.
As a person of integrity yourself, you'll find it easy to teach integrity to your kids, and they in turn will find it easy to accept you as a teacher. This is a great opportunity and also a supreme responsibility, because kids simply must be taught to tell the truth: to mean what they say and to say what they mean.
Praise is one of the world's most effective teaching and leadership tools. Criticism and blame, even if deserved, are counterproductive unless all other approaches have failed.
Now for the other side of the equation, we all know people who have gotten ahead as a result of dishonest or unethical behavior. When you're a kid, you might naively think that never happens, but when you get older, you realize that it does. Then you think you've really wised up. But that's not the real end of it. When you get older, you see the long-term consequences of dishonest gain, and you realize that in the end it doesn't pay.
“Hope of dishonest gain is the beginning of loss.’ I don't think that old saying refers to loss of money. I think it actually means loss of self-respect. You can have all the material things in the world, but if you've lost respect for yourself, what do you really have? The only way to ever attain success and enjoy it is to achieve it honestly with pride in what you've done.
This isn't just a sermon, it's very practical advice. Not only can you take it to heart - you can take it to the bank.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
For a leader, honesty and integrity are absolutely essential to survival. A lot of business people don't realize how closely they're being watched by their subordinates. Remember when you were a kid in grammar school, how you used to sit there staring at your teacher all day? By the end of the school year, you could do a perfect imitation of all your teacher's mannerisms. You were aware of the slightest nuances in your teacher's voice - all the little clues that distinguished levels of meaning that told you the difference between bluff and "now I mean business".
And you were able to do that after eight or nine months of observation. Suppose you had five or 10 years. Do you think there would have been anything about your teacher you didn't know?
Now fast forward and use that analogy as a manager. Do you think there's anything your people don't know about you right this minute? If you haven't been totally aboveboard and honest with them, do you really think you've gotten away with it? Not too likely. But if you've been led to believe that you've gotten away with it, there might be a good probability that people are afraid of you, and that's a problem in its own right.
But there is another side of this coin. In any organization, people want to believe in their leaders. If you give them reason to trust you, they're not going to go looking for reasons to think otherwise, and they'll be just as perceptive about your positive qualities as they are about the negative ones.
A situation that happened some years ago at a company in the Midwest illustrates this perfectly. The wife of a new employee experienced complications in the delivery of a baby. There was a medical bill of more than $10,000, and the health insurance company didn't want to cover it. The employee hadn't been on the payroll long enough, the pregnancy was a preexisting condition, etc,etc,..
In any case, the employee was desperate. He approached the company CEO and asked him to talk to the insurance people. The CEO agreed, and the next thing the employee knew, the bill was gone and the charges were rescinded.
Then he told some colleagues about the way the CEO had so readily used his influence with the insurance company, they just shook their heads and smiled. The CEO had paid the bill out of his own pocket, and everybody knew it, no matter how quietly it had been done.
Now an act of dishonesty can't be hidden either, and it will instantly undermine the authority of a leader. But an act of integrity and kindness like the example above is just as obvious to all concerned. When you're in a leadership position, you have the choice of how you will be seen, but you will be seen one way or the other, make no mistake about it.
One of the most challenging areas of leadership is your family. Leadership of a family demands even higher standards of honesty and integrity, and the stakes are higher too. You can replace disgruntled employees and start over. You can even get a new job for yourself, if it comes to that. But your family can't be shuffled like a deck of cards. If you haven't noticed, kids are great moral philosophers, especially as they get into adolescence. They're determined to discover and expose any kind of hypocrisy, phoniness, or lack of integrity on the part of authority figures, and if we're parents, that means us. It's frightening how unforgiving kids can be about this, but it really isn't a conscious decision on their part; it's just a necessary phase of growing up.
They're testing everything, especially their parents.
As a person of integrity yourself, you'll find it easy to teach integrity to your kids, and they in turn will find it easy to accept you as a teacher. This is a great opportunity and also a supreme responsibility, because kids simply must be taught to tell the truth: to mean what they say and to say what they mean.
Praise is one of the world's most effective teaching and leadership tools. Criticism and blame, even if deserved, are counterproductive unless all other approaches have failed.
Now for the other side of the equation, we all know people who have gotten ahead as a result of dishonest or unethical behavior. When you're a kid, you might naively think that never happens, but when you get older, you realize that it does. Then you think you've really wised up. But that's not the real end of it. When you get older, you see the long-term consequences of dishonest gain, and you realize that in the end it doesn't pay.
“Hope of dishonest gain is the beginning of loss.’ I don't think that old saying refers to loss of money. I think it actually means loss of self-respect. You can have all the material things in the world, but if you've lost respect for yourself, what do you really have? The only way to ever attain success and enjoy it is to achieve it honestly with pride in what you've done.
This isn't just a sermon, it's very practical advice. Not only can you take it to heart - you can take it to the bank.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Multiple Skills For The 21st Centurey:Multiple Streams Of Income For Unlimited Wealth
That was the topic of the lecture I delivered to a selected group of University Students at the campus on the weekend Sunday 19th April, 2009.
The students were highly motivated and desperate to learn about personal development tips and how to be on top of their personal finances.
Their enthusiasm was infectious and that impressed me so much that I asked them to tell me some of their desires. I already knew that every normal human being have desires which they will be ready to do anything legitimate to achieve. Previously, I had learnt that human desires are many and cut across all races and religion. Men are the same every where in terms of what they want in their life time. So in order to practically engage my audience, I put it across to them to say their desires. I pointed at nine people who listed the following desires one after the order……..
1. Success
2. Good Health
3. Serve God
4. Be wealthy or rich
5. Authority/Power
6. To Be Loved
7. To Be secured
8. To own Business
9. To Look beautiful/decent/presentable
Those smart students who gave those correct answers got my free gift of Success Digest Extra each. Success Digest Extra is my top resource material that teaches you how to make money with peace of mind. It is the most demanded business guide that opens your eyes to money making ideas you never knew existed before. To subscribe for it follow these 2 steps:
1. sign up with fastecash Click Here Now!
2. Sign up with sen2020 here Click Here
Okay. Enough of that.
What I shared with those group of students who cared enough to devote their evening to learn about financial education and personal development that can empower to start generating life time income right from the campus so that they can attain financial freedom is what you will get in this write up.
So what were they taught in that sensational and unforgettable moment?
13 Top Skills For The 21ST Century
There are skills compatible with the information age. Whatever vocation or profession you may belong, you need multiple skills to survive in the 21st century. Every skill you acquire have a cycle and season. If it is up today, it may be down tomorrow. A good example is the current global meltdown in the stock market.
Once there is no more demand for the service your skill can provide, you stop earning sustainable income from it. That can hut your finance and negatively affect your family. You want to be able to put food on your table so that your wife and children can feed well and live a good life but if your single source of income is blocked what can you do? I don’t wish that for your enemy.
Smart people in the 21st century knows that what they need to bullet-proof themselves from poverty and attain financial security is to acquire multiple skills and earn multiple streams of income.
These 13 Top Skills naturally attract income that could swell your bank account so let’s consider them one after the other………..
Skill 1 Entrepreneural Skill: You need to learn to make money one way or the other. You want to be rich or wealth. Wages can make you comfortable but you only be wealthy when you make profit. The only way to profit is through entrepreneurial vocation. Every profession has its entrepreneurial side. Explore it. It is a vital skill for the 21st century. Learn to create wealth through business enterprise.
Skill 2 Internet Skill: Every top money earners and highly rated professionals in every field are internet savvy. You want to get to the top right? You need to acquire internet skills. You don’t have to know everything but know basic concept of how it works and how you can use it profitably.
Skill 3 Computer Skill: This is closely related to internet skills. Get familiar with basic computing skills. Enroll for a computer training class. It is one of the vital machine you cannot ignore in the 21st century. Learn how to operate the computer by yourself. There is a way you can operate the computer without typing skills if you are scared of taking typing lessons. Money will follow this skill. It is guaranteed. Top companies want people in their organization in specific fields but they must be able to use the computer machine. So empower yourself and make yourself attractive to your prospective employer.
Skill 4 Writing Skill: Can you talk? Then you can write. Put down your thought down on paper. You can do this easily and inexpensively. You can afford to get a pencil and jotter right? So learn to write as if you are talking. That is what I am just doing as I write this article for you to read. It is as if I am talking to you. Are you following? Ok.
Know certainly that some people are right there waiting for you to share your knowledge with them. Writing it down makes it easy for these people to learn from you through your books when you are not physically there. There are software you can use to translate your voice to letters and simple book people can read. It is a time tested skill that generates life time income if you master the skill.
Skill 5 Sales Skill: No one get to use your service if you don’t offer it to them. When you sell successfully, you will make money. When you make money, you can earn profit. On vital skill you must acquire is how to sell yourself successfully through life. Napoleon Hill has done justice to this topic in his book-Think and grow rich. Leave a comment on this post at the comment link if you wish to get a free copy of the powerful, life-changing book.
Skill 6 Budgeting Skill: A vital skill you can certainly not afford to ignore in the 21st century is how to budget your time and money. Determine in advance how you want to spend your money before you get it physically. You can double your income instantly with this skill. You will be empowered to be more productive and highly effective. Most income earners fail in their quest to be financially secure and free because of lack of this skill.
Skill 7 Copy Writing Skill: How do you attract people to beg you for your service or product? It is through persuasive writing skill. Your offer must be compelling and crowd pulling. It must grab the attention of the readers. This is the secret behind the success of newspapers and highly successful publications. It about knowing powerful words that sell and make your offer irresistible. You need to learn this skill. With this singular skill, your clients will keep on asking for more.
Skill 8 Money Management Skill: No matter how much you earn if you don’t know how to manage it, you cannot expect to become rich or wealthy. It is easier to spend money than to manage it. Your attitude to money is vital to your financial success and the only way to attain such lofty height is to learn how to manage money. It is a time tested, proven strategy for creating and building wealth. You should master this skill. It will empower you to generate income for life. I shall elaborate more on this very soon.
Skill 9 Marketing Skill: Getting your prospective clients to know about your service or product and getting it into their subconscious mind until they are consumed with the desire to exchange their money for your service is what marketing is about. People must be exposed to what you have to offer before they can buy it. If they don’t know about it, they won’t buy it. If they don’t buy, you won’t make money.
Skill 10 Public Speaking Skill: Some folks find it very difficult to stand before people to talk. They are scared to hell just because they lack the ‘know how’. If you want to truly make friends and positively influence people, this is a vital skill to acquire. Some doors cannot be opened for you until you acquire this skill. It will connect you with people you never imagined you can meet in your life time. Apart from that, this industry is a multibillion dollar income generating niche.
Skill 11 Organizational Skill: Learn to get people to do certain defined project within a limit of time. This skill will position you for leadership automatically. It is about using the talent and time of others to achieve a target. In your case it could be to make more money.
Skill 12 Farming Skill: Not the type you are thinking about. Simple gardening is the most popular aspect of this skill. What about keeping a backyard poultry or snail raring? This skill puts you in control of the king of food and meat you eat and it is vital for your good health and long life.
Skill 13 Cooking Skill: People like good food. It adds pleasure to life and guarantees satisfaction. There are recipes that keep those who eat licking their fingers while they ask for more. Special recipes once you know them are needed by other people hanging out there. They will be ready to pay you to teach them how you do it so effortlessly to the delight of others.
There you have it. Multiple skills that guarantees you continue to generate a life time income.
I had promised to elaborate on money management skill earlier in this write up. So let us talk about it but succinctly.
7 Money Management Skills Guaranteed To Put You OnThe Path To Wealth
These are the money habits of the rich. You need to adopt it from today to spice up your personal finance.
1. Value It. What is the value of money to you? Do you know that you can get rich on one dollar a day? You can replace that with the currency of your country wherever you might be reading this piece. At the rate of 20% interest, one dollar will be $1million in 32 years. So that one dollar in your hand is a money seed. It is a potential million. Don’t waste it. Value it.
2. Control it. You should be able to determine where your money goes. Do this in advance. Write it down. Get a ledger book for your expenditure so that you can track how you spend your money. You will have information of how usefully you have been spending your money.
3. Save It. Expert advice that you save at least 10% of your profit or wage. Pay yourself first. By saving money, you are laying the foundation for your wealth. The money you save will save you. The money you save must have a purpose. In summary, if you don’t value money, you won’t make the effort to control it. If you don’t control it, you won’t be able to save it. If you can’t save it, there won’t be any surplus to invest. That leads us naturally to the 4th money skill you must acquire.
4. Invest It. There are investment vehicles you can use to multiply money. Stock market investment and real estate guarantees a life time of passive income. Learn to invest. This is what you should use your savings for.
5. Make It. This is the entrepreneurial side of money. This is the path to regular income and profit. With wage, you earn income but with making money, you can generate profit.
6. Shield It. The rich set up corporation to protect their wealth. You should think about that after you had successfully reach step 5.
7. Share It. Bill Gates foundation is currently sharing his life time wealth with poor African Countries to fight polio virus and malaria scourge. This is how to put wealth to work. Use it to empower others and add value to their lives. Make them live comfortably through humanitarian services. Bill Gates has estimated that for the next 100 years, he will keep on spending money without having to work for money again. He earn $3million per day.
Yes. There is it. The hidden money management skills you had always wanted to know. I hope you’ll give yourself the chance to profit from this life-changing information. Take ACTION and take practical steps to implement them personally.
The students were highly motivated and desperate to learn about personal development tips and how to be on top of their personal finances.
Their enthusiasm was infectious and that impressed me so much that I asked them to tell me some of their desires. I already knew that every normal human being have desires which they will be ready to do anything legitimate to achieve. Previously, I had learnt that human desires are many and cut across all races and religion. Men are the same every where in terms of what they want in their life time. So in order to practically engage my audience, I put it across to them to say their desires. I pointed at nine people who listed the following desires one after the order……..
1. Success
2. Good Health
3. Serve God
4. Be wealthy or rich
5. Authority/Power
6. To Be Loved
7. To Be secured
8. To own Business
9. To Look beautiful/decent/presentable
Those smart students who gave those correct answers got my free gift of Success Digest Extra each. Success Digest Extra is my top resource material that teaches you how to make money with peace of mind. It is the most demanded business guide that opens your eyes to money making ideas you never knew existed before. To subscribe for it follow these 2 steps:
1. sign up with fastecash Click Here Now!
2. Sign up with sen2020 here Click Here
Okay. Enough of that.
What I shared with those group of students who cared enough to devote their evening to learn about financial education and personal development that can empower to start generating life time income right from the campus so that they can attain financial freedom is what you will get in this write up.
So what were they taught in that sensational and unforgettable moment?
13 Top Skills For The 21ST Century
There are skills compatible with the information age. Whatever vocation or profession you may belong, you need multiple skills to survive in the 21st century. Every skill you acquire have a cycle and season. If it is up today, it may be down tomorrow. A good example is the current global meltdown in the stock market.
Once there is no more demand for the service your skill can provide, you stop earning sustainable income from it. That can hut your finance and negatively affect your family. You want to be able to put food on your table so that your wife and children can feed well and live a good life but if your single source of income is blocked what can you do? I don’t wish that for your enemy.
Smart people in the 21st century knows that what they need to bullet-proof themselves from poverty and attain financial security is to acquire multiple skills and earn multiple streams of income.
These 13 Top Skills naturally attract income that could swell your bank account so let’s consider them one after the other………..
Skill 1 Entrepreneural Skill: You need to learn to make money one way or the other. You want to be rich or wealth. Wages can make you comfortable but you only be wealthy when you make profit. The only way to profit is through entrepreneurial vocation. Every profession has its entrepreneurial side. Explore it. It is a vital skill for the 21st century. Learn to create wealth through business enterprise.
Skill 2 Internet Skill: Every top money earners and highly rated professionals in every field are internet savvy. You want to get to the top right? You need to acquire internet skills. You don’t have to know everything but know basic concept of how it works and how you can use it profitably.
Skill 3 Computer Skill: This is closely related to internet skills. Get familiar with basic computing skills. Enroll for a computer training class. It is one of the vital machine you cannot ignore in the 21st century. Learn how to operate the computer by yourself. There is a way you can operate the computer without typing skills if you are scared of taking typing lessons. Money will follow this skill. It is guaranteed. Top companies want people in their organization in specific fields but they must be able to use the computer machine. So empower yourself and make yourself attractive to your prospective employer.
Skill 4 Writing Skill: Can you talk? Then you can write. Put down your thought down on paper. You can do this easily and inexpensively. You can afford to get a pencil and jotter right? So learn to write as if you are talking. That is what I am just doing as I write this article for you to read. It is as if I am talking to you. Are you following? Ok.
Know certainly that some people are right there waiting for you to share your knowledge with them. Writing it down makes it easy for these people to learn from you through your books when you are not physically there. There are software you can use to translate your voice to letters and simple book people can read. It is a time tested skill that generates life time income if you master the skill.
Skill 5 Sales Skill: No one get to use your service if you don’t offer it to them. When you sell successfully, you will make money. When you make money, you can earn profit. On vital skill you must acquire is how to sell yourself successfully through life. Napoleon Hill has done justice to this topic in his book-Think and grow rich. Leave a comment on this post at the comment link if you wish to get a free copy of the powerful, life-changing book.
Skill 6 Budgeting Skill: A vital skill you can certainly not afford to ignore in the 21st century is how to budget your time and money. Determine in advance how you want to spend your money before you get it physically. You can double your income instantly with this skill. You will be empowered to be more productive and highly effective. Most income earners fail in their quest to be financially secure and free because of lack of this skill.
Skill 7 Copy Writing Skill: How do you attract people to beg you for your service or product? It is through persuasive writing skill. Your offer must be compelling and crowd pulling. It must grab the attention of the readers. This is the secret behind the success of newspapers and highly successful publications. It about knowing powerful words that sell and make your offer irresistible. You need to learn this skill. With this singular skill, your clients will keep on asking for more.
Skill 8 Money Management Skill: No matter how much you earn if you don’t know how to manage it, you cannot expect to become rich or wealthy. It is easier to spend money than to manage it. Your attitude to money is vital to your financial success and the only way to attain such lofty height is to learn how to manage money. It is a time tested, proven strategy for creating and building wealth. You should master this skill. It will empower you to generate income for life. I shall elaborate more on this very soon.
Skill 9 Marketing Skill: Getting your prospective clients to know about your service or product and getting it into their subconscious mind until they are consumed with the desire to exchange their money for your service is what marketing is about. People must be exposed to what you have to offer before they can buy it. If they don’t know about it, they won’t buy it. If they don’t buy, you won’t make money.
Skill 10 Public Speaking Skill: Some folks find it very difficult to stand before people to talk. They are scared to hell just because they lack the ‘know how’. If you want to truly make friends and positively influence people, this is a vital skill to acquire. Some doors cannot be opened for you until you acquire this skill. It will connect you with people you never imagined you can meet in your life time. Apart from that, this industry is a multibillion dollar income generating niche.
Skill 11 Organizational Skill: Learn to get people to do certain defined project within a limit of time. This skill will position you for leadership automatically. It is about using the talent and time of others to achieve a target. In your case it could be to make more money.
Skill 12 Farming Skill: Not the type you are thinking about. Simple gardening is the most popular aspect of this skill. What about keeping a backyard poultry or snail raring? This skill puts you in control of the king of food and meat you eat and it is vital for your good health and long life.
Skill 13 Cooking Skill: People like good food. It adds pleasure to life and guarantees satisfaction. There are recipes that keep those who eat licking their fingers while they ask for more. Special recipes once you know them are needed by other people hanging out there. They will be ready to pay you to teach them how you do it so effortlessly to the delight of others.
There you have it. Multiple skills that guarantees you continue to generate a life time income.
I had promised to elaborate on money management skill earlier in this write up. So let us talk about it but succinctly.
7 Money Management Skills Guaranteed To Put You OnThe Path To Wealth
These are the money habits of the rich. You need to adopt it from today to spice up your personal finance.
1. Value It. What is the value of money to you? Do you know that you can get rich on one dollar a day? You can replace that with the currency of your country wherever you might be reading this piece. At the rate of 20% interest, one dollar will be $1million in 32 years. So that one dollar in your hand is a money seed. It is a potential million. Don’t waste it. Value it.
2. Control it. You should be able to determine where your money goes. Do this in advance. Write it down. Get a ledger book for your expenditure so that you can track how you spend your money. You will have information of how usefully you have been spending your money.
3. Save It. Expert advice that you save at least 10% of your profit or wage. Pay yourself first. By saving money, you are laying the foundation for your wealth. The money you save will save you. The money you save must have a purpose. In summary, if you don’t value money, you won’t make the effort to control it. If you don’t control it, you won’t be able to save it. If you can’t save it, there won’t be any surplus to invest. That leads us naturally to the 4th money skill you must acquire.
4. Invest It. There are investment vehicles you can use to multiply money. Stock market investment and real estate guarantees a life time of passive income. Learn to invest. This is what you should use your savings for.
5. Make It. This is the entrepreneurial side of money. This is the path to regular income and profit. With wage, you earn income but with making money, you can generate profit.
6. Shield It. The rich set up corporation to protect their wealth. You should think about that after you had successfully reach step 5.
7. Share It. Bill Gates foundation is currently sharing his life time wealth with poor African Countries to fight polio virus and malaria scourge. This is how to put wealth to work. Use it to empower others and add value to their lives. Make them live comfortably through humanitarian services. Bill Gates has estimated that for the next 100 years, he will keep on spending money without having to work for money again. He earn $3million per day.
Yes. There is it. The hidden money management skills you had always wanted to know. I hope you’ll give yourself the chance to profit from this life-changing information. Take ACTION and take practical steps to implement them personally.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Success Secrets Of The Great
What makes the great become so powerful? Enormous success power is not born with anyone. It is a skill acquired through life. You too can set yourself on the springboard of success used by the great of all ages. Here are the tips in simple A,B,C, form.
Abhor Failure
If you want to succeed , you must start well. What you do from the word go will determine to a larger extent what will happen to you. I mean whether you will succeed or not.
You must abhor failure if you want to succeed in life. Failure is very friendly. It is very, very easy to fail. It costs you nothing to fail. What I’m saying is that you must hate failure. Make it your enemy and you will be making a good start.
Be Yourself
You are a unique being that’s why you are different from others. That is why you bear a name peculiar to you. You have talents and gifts which God the creator has given you to excel so make sure you know yourself. Some people call that one self discovery.
Create Something
Yes! Folk, you can create something unique and peculiar. You can create a business opportunity, a good, a service, a model or any other thing you could imagine. You have the innate power. As a student, you can create a formula like Philip Emeagwali; as an entrepreneur, you can create a fast selling magazine like SunnyOjeagbase(Success Digest). Create something to give to others and success will be trailing after you.
Desire Success
As a man thinks in his heart so he is. If you desire to succeed, you shall succeed. You cannot have anything except you first desire it. Napoleon Hill spoke about it, Sunny Obazu repeated it. W.F. Kumuyi spoke about it in 4Ds of success. Great men who have succeeded in their vocations mentioned it. As simple as eating food is, you do not do it except you first desire it.
Enlist With Successful People
You cannot do what you want alone. You cannot achieve greatness in isolation. What you need is in the hands of other people. If you are a student, join the group of brilliant students in your class who knows better than you do. If you are an entrepreneur, join business groups which meet your standard. You will gain a lot from others and make life long contacts.
Frugality Is A Must
Be a good money spender and keeper. Waste no money. Money makes wealth but both of them are shy. If you know how not to waste money; if you know how to manage money; if you know how to handle money, you are on your way to success and wealth acquisition.
Gratitude
Learn to say thank you to God for your life everyday. Thank Him for the gifts He has endowed you with which money cannot buy. I mean good health and the ability to do what you are doing now. Learn to thank those who have helped you before, those who are helping you now and those whose favour you anticipate in the nearest future. This matters a lot.
Hone Your Skills
Do you know how to read? Continue to improve on it. Do you know how to sing? Improve yourself daily. Do you know how to communicate effectively? Go after better communication skills. If you know how to teach, make sure you are getting better on the job. Do not be discouraged. Keep on moving. Keep on growing in it and success shall be following after you.
Industry Is Vital
Success can never come near a lazy man or woman. If you are a time waster you cannot succeed. An hour wasted on unprofitable or unproductive activities is an hour far from success. Work steadily, work consistently, work with enthusiasm, work with dignity. You shall soon get there. The world shall soon celebrate you.
Just Do It
Whatever your hands find to do, do it with all your might. Do not be ashamed of any legitimate work that can earn you income. Continue working with diligence and that will be your stepping stone to greater heights.
Kindly Say No
You will have occasion to say no to irrelevant things in your life. Do not shy away from the truth. Kindly say no when it is necessary. Proposals that negate your dream and life goals shall be presented to you. Friend, learn to say No.
Love At All Times
Life will be empty without love. It is the essence of giving. It is demonstrated by giving what you have to others. It may be a service or product. It may even be your time, money or counsel. When you give to others, nature will set circumstances in motion to reward you for your benevolence.
Jesus Christ gave His life to save man from sin. He became the most talked about personality over the ages. Napoleon Hill gave “think and grow rich “ to the world; his legacy keep on enduring changing men’s life daily.
Mean What You Say
The words of your mouth will play a major , significant tangible role in your success in life. Be a man of you words. Be firm to say yes when you mean to say so and say No when you mean it. What I’m saying is that you must be honest and trustworthy. People do not like those who deceive them. Be predictable. Have integrity! In other words, let your yes be yes and your No be No.
Never Doubt Your Ability
If you do not have faith in your ability, you cannot go far. Believe in God and believe in yourself too. An unstable man cannot receive anything good from God. You can do that thing you have been dreaming about. It does not matter how long it might take you to achieve it. Stay connected! Stay motivated! Stay believing! You are able. David conquered big Goliath in the Bible. You can overcome your failures too. Have faith in God. Try that idea and you shall make it.
One Step At A Time
Do not rush things in life. Move step-wisely and with compact organizational ability. Do not be in haste. Take one step at a time. By so doing you shall prolong your life and conserve a lot of energy for future exploit.
Persistence Will Help You
Is there any uncompleted project being undertaken by you? Is there any goal you are yet to accomplish? Is there any product you have not succeeded at launching? Is there any subject you are yet to fully understand as a student? Don’t give up! Keep on working. Continue to read and study until you make it. You might need to double your effort or solicit for more assistance. You might need to engage the service of another person better than you. Move forward. Don’t be discouraged by the temporary setback. You shall have the desired breakthrough and excellent success if you are persistent.
Questions Surely Lead To Breakthrough
He who ask shall receive. If you cultivate the habit of asking questions, you are on your way to unlimited success. Ask questions! It might be your torchlight to stardom. How can I improve on my performance: how can I get what I want; who can bail me out of my predicament; who will buy my products; who can I assist? These are powerful questions that can change your life’s fortune.
Remain Focused
Never be distracted. Do not be moved by people who does not share your vision. Leave them where they are and march forward. They will surely celebrate your success with you when you eventually get there.
Stay Refreshed
Life is full of battles, pressures and it’s twin sister called anxiety. You can be free from these great giants and killers by making the Holy Bible your companion. It contains great messages that will keep you refreshed, relaxed, rejuvenated and reinvigorated. Do not neglect this book of books. It is the root of success and dominion for millions of achievers the world over.
Trust In The Lord
Trust in the Lord with all your heart. You cannot do anything without Him. Always look up to Him for help. He can make a great difference when other things fail. Remember that those who trust in God shall be like mount Zion that cannot be moved but abide forever.
Use Your Opportunity
Never refuse any opportunity that comes your way to showcase your talent, skill, gifts or service. Do not withhold your service from those who need it. As you help others, you are sowing seeds that will grow into a great tree of success.
Vengeance Is Ruinous
Has anybody offended you? Please forgive! Don’t take it to heart. Make your mind known to the person as quickly as possible and forge about it. Don’t avenge yourself. Let God fight for you. The path of vengeance might be too rough for you. It will surely affect your health, depress you, distract you, demobilize you and even elevate your blood pressure. It will be disastrous if you allow the ghost of your offender to hunt you. Keep calm, cool and peaceful.
Wait On The Lord
God has a divine plan for your life. He has timed the events of your life. His time is never too late. He will give you good things of life in His own time. He surely makes all things beautiful in His time. Don’t forget that they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount with wings like eagles.
X-Ray Yourself
The x-ray reveals things that are hidden. Regularly check up on yourself. What is your attitude to life, people, relationships, friendship, partnership or commeradeship. Is it positive or negative? Is it cordial? Is it benefiting? Is it encouraging? Think about these things and make correction where necessary.
You can’t Beat God Giving
Hmm! Do you want to prosper in life? Do you want riches and God’s favour, do you want open doors in the midst of closed doors, do you want to achieve your goals with jet speed? Give to God. This you can do in tithes and offerings. Special occasions will arise when you’ll need to demonstrate your love for God. Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down and shaken together shall men add to your bossom.
Zion Is A Place To Dwell
Mount Zion typifies a place where people meet with God. It might be in the church, special retreats, seminars or revival meetings. Do not neglect these programs. They are powerful avenues to making it big in life.
Abhor Failure
If you want to succeed , you must start well. What you do from the word go will determine to a larger extent what will happen to you. I mean whether you will succeed or not.
You must abhor failure if you want to succeed in life. Failure is very friendly. It is very, very easy to fail. It costs you nothing to fail. What I’m saying is that you must hate failure. Make it your enemy and you will be making a good start.
Be Yourself
You are a unique being that’s why you are different from others. That is why you bear a name peculiar to you. You have talents and gifts which God the creator has given you to excel so make sure you know yourself. Some people call that one self discovery.
Create Something
Yes! Folk, you can create something unique and peculiar. You can create a business opportunity, a good, a service, a model or any other thing you could imagine. You have the innate power. As a student, you can create a formula like Philip Emeagwali; as an entrepreneur, you can create a fast selling magazine like SunnyOjeagbase(Success Digest). Create something to give to others and success will be trailing after you.
Desire Success
As a man thinks in his heart so he is. If you desire to succeed, you shall succeed. You cannot have anything except you first desire it. Napoleon Hill spoke about it, Sunny Obazu repeated it. W.F. Kumuyi spoke about it in 4Ds of success. Great men who have succeeded in their vocations mentioned it. As simple as eating food is, you do not do it except you first desire it.
Enlist With Successful People
You cannot do what you want alone. You cannot achieve greatness in isolation. What you need is in the hands of other people. If you are a student, join the group of brilliant students in your class who knows better than you do. If you are an entrepreneur, join business groups which meet your standard. You will gain a lot from others and make life long contacts.
Frugality Is A Must
Be a good money spender and keeper. Waste no money. Money makes wealth but both of them are shy. If you know how not to waste money; if you know how to manage money; if you know how to handle money, you are on your way to success and wealth acquisition.
Gratitude
Learn to say thank you to God for your life everyday. Thank Him for the gifts He has endowed you with which money cannot buy. I mean good health and the ability to do what you are doing now. Learn to thank those who have helped you before, those who are helping you now and those whose favour you anticipate in the nearest future. This matters a lot.
Hone Your Skills
Do you know how to read? Continue to improve on it. Do you know how to sing? Improve yourself daily. Do you know how to communicate effectively? Go after better communication skills. If you know how to teach, make sure you are getting better on the job. Do not be discouraged. Keep on moving. Keep on growing in it and success shall be following after you.
Industry Is Vital
Success can never come near a lazy man or woman. If you are a time waster you cannot succeed. An hour wasted on unprofitable or unproductive activities is an hour far from success. Work steadily, work consistently, work with enthusiasm, work with dignity. You shall soon get there. The world shall soon celebrate you.
Just Do It
Whatever your hands find to do, do it with all your might. Do not be ashamed of any legitimate work that can earn you income. Continue working with diligence and that will be your stepping stone to greater heights.
Kindly Say No
You will have occasion to say no to irrelevant things in your life. Do not shy away from the truth. Kindly say no when it is necessary. Proposals that negate your dream and life goals shall be presented to you. Friend, learn to say No.
Love At All Times
Life will be empty without love. It is the essence of giving. It is demonstrated by giving what you have to others. It may be a service or product. It may even be your time, money or counsel. When you give to others, nature will set circumstances in motion to reward you for your benevolence.
Jesus Christ gave His life to save man from sin. He became the most talked about personality over the ages. Napoleon Hill gave “think and grow rich “ to the world; his legacy keep on enduring changing men’s life daily.
Mean What You Say
The words of your mouth will play a major , significant tangible role in your success in life. Be a man of you words. Be firm to say yes when you mean to say so and say No when you mean it. What I’m saying is that you must be honest and trustworthy. People do not like those who deceive them. Be predictable. Have integrity! In other words, let your yes be yes and your No be No.
Never Doubt Your Ability
If you do not have faith in your ability, you cannot go far. Believe in God and believe in yourself too. An unstable man cannot receive anything good from God. You can do that thing you have been dreaming about. It does not matter how long it might take you to achieve it. Stay connected! Stay motivated! Stay believing! You are able. David conquered big Goliath in the Bible. You can overcome your failures too. Have faith in God. Try that idea and you shall make it.
One Step At A Time
Do not rush things in life. Move step-wisely and with compact organizational ability. Do not be in haste. Take one step at a time. By so doing you shall prolong your life and conserve a lot of energy for future exploit.
Persistence Will Help You
Is there any uncompleted project being undertaken by you? Is there any goal you are yet to accomplish? Is there any product you have not succeeded at launching? Is there any subject you are yet to fully understand as a student? Don’t give up! Keep on working. Continue to read and study until you make it. You might need to double your effort or solicit for more assistance. You might need to engage the service of another person better than you. Move forward. Don’t be discouraged by the temporary setback. You shall have the desired breakthrough and excellent success if you are persistent.
Questions Surely Lead To Breakthrough
He who ask shall receive. If you cultivate the habit of asking questions, you are on your way to unlimited success. Ask questions! It might be your torchlight to stardom. How can I improve on my performance: how can I get what I want; who can bail me out of my predicament; who will buy my products; who can I assist? These are powerful questions that can change your life’s fortune.
Remain Focused
Never be distracted. Do not be moved by people who does not share your vision. Leave them where they are and march forward. They will surely celebrate your success with you when you eventually get there.
Stay Refreshed
Life is full of battles, pressures and it’s twin sister called anxiety. You can be free from these great giants and killers by making the Holy Bible your companion. It contains great messages that will keep you refreshed, relaxed, rejuvenated and reinvigorated. Do not neglect this book of books. It is the root of success and dominion for millions of achievers the world over.
Trust In The Lord
Trust in the Lord with all your heart. You cannot do anything without Him. Always look up to Him for help. He can make a great difference when other things fail. Remember that those who trust in God shall be like mount Zion that cannot be moved but abide forever.
Use Your Opportunity
Never refuse any opportunity that comes your way to showcase your talent, skill, gifts or service. Do not withhold your service from those who need it. As you help others, you are sowing seeds that will grow into a great tree of success.
Vengeance Is Ruinous
Has anybody offended you? Please forgive! Don’t take it to heart. Make your mind known to the person as quickly as possible and forge about it. Don’t avenge yourself. Let God fight for you. The path of vengeance might be too rough for you. It will surely affect your health, depress you, distract you, demobilize you and even elevate your blood pressure. It will be disastrous if you allow the ghost of your offender to hunt you. Keep calm, cool and peaceful.
Wait On The Lord
God has a divine plan for your life. He has timed the events of your life. His time is never too late. He will give you good things of life in His own time. He surely makes all things beautiful in His time. Don’t forget that they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount with wings like eagles.
X-Ray Yourself
The x-ray reveals things that are hidden. Regularly check up on yourself. What is your attitude to life, people, relationships, friendship, partnership or commeradeship. Is it positive or negative? Is it cordial? Is it benefiting? Is it encouraging? Think about these things and make correction where necessary.
You can’t Beat God Giving
Hmm! Do you want to prosper in life? Do you want riches and God’s favour, do you want open doors in the midst of closed doors, do you want to achieve your goals with jet speed? Give to God. This you can do in tithes and offerings. Special occasions will arise when you’ll need to demonstrate your love for God. Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down and shaken together shall men add to your bossom.
Zion Is A Place To Dwell
Mount Zion typifies a place where people meet with God. It might be in the church, special retreats, seminars or revival meetings. Do not neglect these programs. They are powerful avenues to making it big in life.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Reaping a Multiple Reward by Jim Rohn
For every disciplined effort, there are multiple rewards. That's one of life's great arrangements. In fact, it's an extension of the Biblical law that says that if you sow well, you will reap well.
Here's a unique part of the Law of Sowing and Reaping. Not only does it suggest that we'll all reap what we've sown, it also suggests that we'll reap much more. Life is full of laws that both govern and explain behaviors, but this may well be the major law we need to understand: for every disciplined effort, there are multiple rewards.
What a concept! If you render unique service, your reward will be multiplied. If you're fair and honest and patient with others, your reward will be multiplied. If you give more than you expect to receive, your reward is more than you expect. But remember: the key word here, as you might well imagine, is discipline.
Everything of value requires care, attention, and discipline. Our thoughts require discipline. We must consistently determine our inner boundaries and our codes of conduct, or our thoughts will be confused. And if our thoughts are confused, we will become hopelessly lost in the maze of life. Confused thoughts produce confused results.
Remember the law: "For every disciplined effort, there are multiple rewards." Learn the discipline of writing a card or a letter to a friend. Learn the discipline of paying your bills on time, arriving to appointments on time, or using your time more effectively. Learn the discipline of paying attention, or paying your taxes or paying yourself. Learn the discipline of having regular meetings with your associates, or your spouse, or your child, or your parent. Learn the discipline of learning all you can learn, of teaching all you can teach, of reading all you can read.
For each discipline, multiple rewards. For each book, new knowledge. For each success, new ambition. For each challenge, new understanding. For each failure, new determination. Life is like that. Even the bad experiences of life provide their own special contribution. But a word of caution here for those who neglect the need for care and attention to life's disciplines: everything has its price. Everything affects everything else. Neglect discipline, and there will be a price to pay. All things of value can be taken for granted with the passing of time.
That's what we call the Law of Familiarity. Without the discipline of paying constant, daily attention, we take things for granted. Be serious. Life's not a practice session.
If you're often inclined to toss your clothes onto the chair rather than hanging them in the closet, be careful. It could suggest a lack of discipline. And remember, a lack of discipline in the small areas of life can cost you heavily in the more important areas of life. You cannot clean up your company until you learn the discipline of cleaning your own garage. You cannot be impatient with your children and be patient with your distributors or your employees. You cannot inspire others to sell more when that goal is inconsistent with your own conduct. You cannot admonish others to read good books when you don't have a library card.
Think about your life at this moment. What areas need attention right now? Perhaps you've had a disagreement with someone you love or someone who loves you, and your anger won't allow you to speak to that person. Wouldn't this be an ideal time to examine your need for a new discipline? Perhaps you're on the brink of giving up, or starting over, or starting out. And the only missing ingredient to your incredible success story in the future is a new and self-imposed discipline that will make you try harder and work more intensely than you ever thought you could.
The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself. Don't wait for things to deteriorate so drastically that someone else must impose discipline in your life. Wouldn't that be tragic? How could you possibly explain the fact that someone else thought more of you than you thought of yourself? That they forced you to get up early and get out into the marketplace when you would have been content to let success go to someone else who cared more about themselves.
Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
Get an exclusive DVD collection of Jim Rohn's classic, unique and significant seminar from the early 1980s - with incredible bonuses, including a FREE Jim Rohn Leather Journal! For details: http://Classic.JimRohn.com
Here's a unique part of the Law of Sowing and Reaping. Not only does it suggest that we'll all reap what we've sown, it also suggests that we'll reap much more. Life is full of laws that both govern and explain behaviors, but this may well be the major law we need to understand: for every disciplined effort, there are multiple rewards.
What a concept! If you render unique service, your reward will be multiplied. If you're fair and honest and patient with others, your reward will be multiplied. If you give more than you expect to receive, your reward is more than you expect. But remember: the key word here, as you might well imagine, is discipline.
Everything of value requires care, attention, and discipline. Our thoughts require discipline. We must consistently determine our inner boundaries and our codes of conduct, or our thoughts will be confused. And if our thoughts are confused, we will become hopelessly lost in the maze of life. Confused thoughts produce confused results.
Remember the law: "For every disciplined effort, there are multiple rewards." Learn the discipline of writing a card or a letter to a friend. Learn the discipline of paying your bills on time, arriving to appointments on time, or using your time more effectively. Learn the discipline of paying attention, or paying your taxes or paying yourself. Learn the discipline of having regular meetings with your associates, or your spouse, or your child, or your parent. Learn the discipline of learning all you can learn, of teaching all you can teach, of reading all you can read.
For each discipline, multiple rewards. For each book, new knowledge. For each success, new ambition. For each challenge, new understanding. For each failure, new determination. Life is like that. Even the bad experiences of life provide their own special contribution. But a word of caution here for those who neglect the need for care and attention to life's disciplines: everything has its price. Everything affects everything else. Neglect discipline, and there will be a price to pay. All things of value can be taken for granted with the passing of time.
That's what we call the Law of Familiarity. Without the discipline of paying constant, daily attention, we take things for granted. Be serious. Life's not a practice session.
If you're often inclined to toss your clothes onto the chair rather than hanging them in the closet, be careful. It could suggest a lack of discipline. And remember, a lack of discipline in the small areas of life can cost you heavily in the more important areas of life. You cannot clean up your company until you learn the discipline of cleaning your own garage. You cannot be impatient with your children and be patient with your distributors or your employees. You cannot inspire others to sell more when that goal is inconsistent with your own conduct. You cannot admonish others to read good books when you don't have a library card.
Think about your life at this moment. What areas need attention right now? Perhaps you've had a disagreement with someone you love or someone who loves you, and your anger won't allow you to speak to that person. Wouldn't this be an ideal time to examine your need for a new discipline? Perhaps you're on the brink of giving up, or starting over, or starting out. And the only missing ingredient to your incredible success story in the future is a new and self-imposed discipline that will make you try harder and work more intensely than you ever thought you could.
The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself. Don't wait for things to deteriorate so drastically that someone else must impose discipline in your life. Wouldn't that be tragic? How could you possibly explain the fact that someone else thought more of you than you thought of yourself? That they forced you to get up early and get out into the marketplace when you would have been content to let success go to someone else who cared more about themselves.
Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
Get an exclusive DVD collection of Jim Rohn's classic, unique and significant seminar from the early 1980s - with incredible bonuses, including a FREE Jim Rohn Leather Journal! For details: http://Classic.JimRohn.com
Monday, April 6, 2009
The Power Of Contentment
Virutues are to be acquired and imbibed in our lives so that we can achieve our goals and live happily. You can set goals, take step to implement them and even succeed at it but if one virtue that I will reveal to you shortly is missing, there is no guarantee that your success will be permanent.
Contentment is a golden virtue that guarantees success.
Someone once said that the inventory of the richest man in the world who lived in happiness at that time include the following:
1. Happiness through helping others
2. Sound health by temperate living
3. Love and respect for manking
4. Engaging in labour of love
5. Daily prayers not for riches but for more wisdom
6. Speaking no guile of anyone.
7. Sharing blessings with those who desire them
8. Being in good terms with conscience
9. Freedom from greed
10. Working in concert with natures' laws
As I ponder over these virtues, I see contentment written all over it. In the bible, we read in 1 Timothy 6 verse 7 that 'we brought nothing into this world and it is certain that we can carry nothing out'. Living in contentment means accepting your present situation and living happily in it while looking forward to better days ahead.
The power of contentment will work for you when you seek not what is not yours. You want to work hard to merit your own blessings and wealth. The power of contentment makes you to stay in good and sound health so you can live long to enjoy the fruits of your labour. This is a vital key to success. Use it for maximum profit.
Contentment is a golden virtue that guarantees success.
Someone once said that the inventory of the richest man in the world who lived in happiness at that time include the following:
1. Happiness through helping others
2. Sound health by temperate living
3. Love and respect for manking
4. Engaging in labour of love
5. Daily prayers not for riches but for more wisdom
6. Speaking no guile of anyone.
7. Sharing blessings with those who desire them
8. Being in good terms with conscience
9. Freedom from greed
10. Working in concert with natures' laws
As I ponder over these virtues, I see contentment written all over it. In the bible, we read in 1 Timothy 6 verse 7 that 'we brought nothing into this world and it is certain that we can carry nothing out'. Living in contentment means accepting your present situation and living happily in it while looking forward to better days ahead.
The power of contentment will work for you when you seek not what is not yours. You want to work hard to merit your own blessings and wealth. The power of contentment makes you to stay in good and sound health so you can live long to enjoy the fruits of your labour. This is a vital key to success. Use it for maximum profit.
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