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How To Use Blog To Boost Internet Marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:15:00 +0000

Blog is the widely used term that refers to web log. Basically, a blog is an online journal. A blog could be set up at no cost at all, and can be used for just for the fun of it or for business reasons.

It is becoming a norm these days to use Blog as a way to boost the visibility of online products and services. Below are some ways that blog can be used to effectively promote your internet marketing:

1. Make your clients or customers abreast on your website's alterations. Your new products and affiliate websites could also be announced through your blog.

2. Keep track of your business objectives and plans through open writing. Your blog content can be easily stored through archives. What could be better than searchable information that could be easily accessed by anyone browsing the web, right?

3. Air your opinions, advice or reviews on specific services or products that are related to your business. Publishing is a very easy process with blogging.

4. Include links that will fetch back links and subsequently improve your ranking on search engines. This could be better executed through putting well-written articles in your website. Affiliate links could also be included in your blog to earn more extra income.

5. Collect response through the ability of blogs to fetch comments from your blog readers. You can learn and improve your products and services through with the feedback from your readers.

6. Connect easily with other bloggers. When other bloggers notice that you have something good in your blog, they will put you in their favorite lists that will automatically link you to their blogs.

So, how do you set up a blog? Here are some of the options you can make use of to take advantage of this fun way to advertise your Internet business.

Either you load blogging software or let a blogging hosting service do it for you. Host services such as Blogger.com. Such host will provide you with easy instructions on how to put up your blog.

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4 Tips To Survive Economic Recession Times.

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:50:00 +0000

Human life is frost with ups and downs, good and bad moments, boom and downturn economic era of which we are now. The question to ask now is how do we survive or get rid of the harsh effects of the economic recession?

The truth is that we are not just waking one morning and get confronted with harsh economic times. What we are facing now is the cumulative effects of wrong or bad decisions, miscalculated or mis-interpreted of the indexes that determine or drives our economic usually by those that we have saddled with the responsibilities of decision making. And we are all living with the consequences now.

To get out of the situation or at least reduce the effects to the barest minimum, we must do the following:

1. Survival Mindset

The first thing we must do is to have a survival mindset, we must believe that we have what it takes to get out of the economic recession, it is when we have this that we can begin to direct our thoughts and energy in the direction that would make us to tap into our intellect to come up with solutions.

2. Find Ways To Earn More By Creating Value To people

We must learn to provide real value to people through services that are being rendered. To me economic recession is occasioned by imbalances in wealth accumulation. Some people are having more than enough while others have little or nothing at all. Therefore, those who have less or nothing must find ways of creating and offer valuable services, mostly, to those who have. Internet has, in recent times, offers simpler ways to generate passive income. If you are interested you might check out sites like unlimited cash info to get free and valuable information on how you can generate income even in these economic recession.

3. Be Mindful Of How And What You Spend.

Wasteful spending must be avoided during the economic recession and any act of impulse buying must be shunned. Only spend your money on the essentials and the necessities. You might want to make less use or even stop using your credit cards.

4. Make Yourself Indispensable

You must upgrade your skills, experience and even diversify in terms of services that you can offer to the people. The more people you can provide valuable services to, the better you are. And if you are an employee, volunteer and always be ready to do what others don't want to do. In doing that you will be making it difficult for your employer to lay you off.

5 SIMPLE STEPS TO TURN YOUR TIME INTO MONEY.

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:29:00 +0000

Every one of us has been given twenty-four hours a day to spend. However, the way we spend it differs. How do you spend your own time? Have you ever consider your time in terms of monetary value? How much does your time worth? Have you ever consider the fact that when you squander away your time, you are invariable wasting money? Do you know that when you spend the bulk of your time watching TV, you are wasting away creative time that could have been otherwise spent to bring value to other people’s lives and enrich your own pocket as well?

Let’s take a look at these 5 simple steps you can follow to turn your time into money:

1. Separate what is important from what is not.

What do you set out to achieve in your business and life? What are your values? What are your missions and visions in life and business? You must be able to define all these clearly in black and white.

Now whatever you do every seconds of the day would either be in line with or out of tune with these values and goals that you have set for yourself.

Any thing you do at any time to bring you closer to achieving or attaining any of these are important and would invariably turn your time into money whilst you are enjoying doing it.

It therefore suffice to say here that the first step towards spending your time doing what is important and what is not is by setting up at the beginning those values and goals you want to achieve. It is a must if you must convert your time into money.

2. You Must Set Your Priorities.

It is not sufficient that you define your values and set your goals, you must also arrange and take actions to do them in accordance with the time frame you have set to achieve everyone of them.

You must set and take action to achieve and attain your short term goals before you embark on your long term goals, otherwise, you would be courting disaster and it would be a gross mismanagement of your valuable time without anything to show for it.
You must decide at the onset the results you want to achieve and then do everything within your power to invest the bulk of your time in attaining exactly that.

3. Don’t Work Hard But Work Smart!

If you spend 5 hours to do work that you could have spent 3 hours in accomplishing, then you are working hard and not smart. This is definitely not a good way to spend your time and you are wasting away!

You must work to achieve your goals with the minimum investment of your time and energy.

4. Take Note Of What Works And What Doesn’t.

One way to work smart and not hard is to take note of every steps and time it takes you to achieve a particular task so that next time you have to carry out such task or a similar one you will be able to cut out all the ‘trial and error’s time you went through doing such task initially.

You will save yourself lots of valuable time and energy if you take time to develop templates for your repetitive tasks. It would definitely enable you to achieve more in less time. Try it out and you will thank me for it.

5. Strive For Efficiency The First Time.

Whatever you do always aim for efficiency and effectiveness the first time you do it. You waste valuable time if you have to do the same task all over again.

Concentrate and focus on the task at hand so that you don’t have to spend another time doing it again.

Finally, you will be turning your time into money when you:

• decide on what is most important;

• Set goals and prioritize to do what is most important;
• Work smart and not hard;
• Concentrates on what works;
• Make efficiency your priority.

A Scripted Life: What Choice Do You Have?

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:12:00 +0000

I have no knowledge in programming but there is still one thing I managed to pick up from my little bit of venturing into JavaScript (I only know probably the first few lines of the syntax).

I understand that as a programmer you would plan and write out in details the instructions that your program must follow for it to perform the tasks you intended it to carry out. No matter how smart or effective the program might be, It can and would never function outside what you have programmed it to do.

Recently, I have been very restless as most things that happened to me in the past which are better forgotten were etching themselves into my memory and I begin to ask myself that: as human beings do we actually make choices in our lives? Are we not acting out what has been programmed into our lives by God, Fate, Destiny or whatever?

If you are successful in life, does that mean it couldn’t have been otherwise? That whatever you do, you must be successful or poor as the case may be?

In programming, I remember that you could have syntax like “if….else….” meaning the programmer has given the program choices to operate within. If it encounters certain predetermined conditions it acts in a certain way…else …it acts differently!

We have the same conditions scripted into our lives. That is why you see once an introvert person becoming an extrovert; a very shy person becoming a great speaker and motivator. Once a poor sales person becoming a super sales star. The list is endless. Once belittled people in our societies suddenly become our heroes because they consciously follow a predetermined condition different form the one they have been following.

These people have not really created a new condition or choice rather they have run through the scripts of their lives and make shift from a condition or instruction (if you prefer the word ‘instruction’ to ‘condition’ as used in this context) that does not empower them to one that empowers them.

Success and failure have been part of our human lives right from day one of our existence; the outcome is only determined by the choice we made; what we choose to do or not to do.

These two conditions are programmed into our lives with specific instructions to follow as we received the visa to come to this world. We all move around having equal tendency to succeed or fail in life; just like a program that can be run in a default mode...

our default mode as human beings is failure mode; that is why it doesn’t take conscious efforts to fail.

But to succeed in life, you must take conscious steps and follow the laid down instructions for a successful life.

The beauty of it is that, we don’t have to write these instructions ourselves that has been taken care of for us, all we need to do is to follow them. And “to follow” instructions is what majority of the people are finding difficult to do.

“Write out your goals,
write out the list of ten things you must do the following day,
commit yourself to follow them through”

Many people are finding it extremely difficult to follow this simple instruction and no wonder there are many unrealized goals.

You can never realize the full potential of any computer program if you continue to run it in its default mode neither can you…

discover your true self and what you are capable of achieving in life if you continue to run your life in default mode.

If you have operated your life in default failure mode for a long time, it might be difficult for you to retrieve the instructions to shift to success mode from within you.

Don’t despair, you can get back this success consciousness and make a huge success out of your life by following the footsteps of those who have been operating in the success mode

Why Do Most People Fail In Life?

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:52:00 +0000

Few days ago, my Boss saw a copy of the book written by Steve Pavlina: Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth and he became interested and asked where he could get a copy for himself. I told him I ordered it over the internet through Amazon Store I went further to open the author’s website for him so that he could read some of the articles there.

I purposely printed an article where Steve gave ten reasons people should never get a job. The article got him hooked and he became sober for most part of the day. He was able to reflect over the past years of not fulfilling his dreams. He ought to be running his own business by now rather than working for somebody who is not even up to him in age.

His reactions got me thinking and I realized that the only main reason, aside other factors which I am not going to talk about here now, people fail in life is due to the fear of unknown. Most people really want to see clearly what lies in the dark before they make the move; they are waiting for the perfect conditions.

How many times have you decided to purse a course of action or vision that you are very passionate about but find it impossible to take off because you are not sure of what lies beyond the present? You don’t want to take off until you are sure that the outcome will be exactly what you anticipated. And the result? You never get off where you are.

It happens to every one of us at one time or the other in our lifetime. But those that do move are those that dare to take the courage and plunge into the unknown; they look at the fear of unknown in the face and move towards it.

Somebody once said that:

“Courage is not the absence of fear; but the ability to move on despite the fear”.

it is better to try and make mistakes or face numerous challenges than sit back and expect things to get perfected or until a soothsayer comes around and say “go ahead the coast is clear.”

No doubt many of us have missed great opportunities in life because we could not see and actually go beyond our fears. How sad in retrospect!

I used to belief that those that are successful in life are luckier than the rest of the society that are struggling to make ends meet. But now, I know better. Opportunities in life go to those that are ready for it. Why do people keep working on jobs they don’t like? They are afraid to start their own business, because of fear of not succeeding at it. Not even now that the internet has simplified the way business is conducted over the internet.

I eventually encouraged him and he promised place order for his own copy so that he could learn how to overcome the fear of unknown in his life.

365 Days Of No Post! - What Have I Been Doing?

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:32:00 +0000

How time flies? I couldn’t believe it that I have not really had the chance of making even a single post here in the last 365 days.

My first reaction upon this discovery was to reflect on what had actually kept me from my blog entries in the last twelve months, have I lost interest or is it that I have nothing to blog about? The followings are what I came up with…

A Very Limited Time

I spend a chunk of my time on my 8 to 5 day job. I usually wake by 4:30am and leave my house for office by 5:45am. I might not get to the office until 7: 20am or 7:40am or later depending on the traffic situation on the road. I then go through the usual routines in the office till 5:30pm or 6:00pm or past depending on whether I have urgent job to complete before I could go home.

Going home is the most dreadful part of my typical day because I would spend about 3 hours or more on the road. How long I stay on the road is usually determine by the traffics situation.

Darkness is another thing I contend with at home on a daily basis due to incessant power outage which could be on for days; generators with their attending nauseating noise have become our major source of power. Hardly would I spend another three hours at home before I surrender to the cold hands of sleep!

A Shift Of Interest In My Career

I am an insurer by profession, but in the last few years I have developed so much interest in computers and the internet that I am really considering a career change. My co-workers usually call me to help do one or two things with their PCs whenever there are problems. I also pick interest in Web design that I spent most of my time last two years buying web design books from Amazon and I have spent almost my free time including weekends in year 2008 learning web design through the pages of those books I bought from my Amazon Store. Hopefully, I might publish here my review of the books and maybe links to sites I build as a result of the knowledge I gained from my self-taught skills in web designing.

Environmental Challenges

Like the traffics and incessant power outage I mentioned earlier on; internet accessible is also a little bit of an issue especially in months that I have more financial constrains. Often times, I might not be able to spend more than two or three hours on the internet and I normally used this time in last one year to get tons of free resources and paid information on web design and online marketing . I really want to have a feel of how I could market my knowledge and experience when I eventually kiss my day job goodbye!

Finally, I will be glad to receive your comments on how you think I could tackle these challenges differently or what you would have done if you happen to find yourself in my typical environment.

YOU HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY.

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:40:00 +0000

Last Sunday I was in church and during the praise and worship session something struck my mind concerning the fufilment of our purpose in life. As christians or whatever your religious inclination is, there is this overall belief that there is a supreme being up there that directs the affairs of man. He determines our destiny; what we be or what we are not in life. Now I want to belief that He has given unto us equal measure and opportunity, which could be in various shapes, that we need to succeed in life. But there are certain things He would definiely not do for us which, despite the fact that He has programmed our lives for success, if we fail to do will ultimately lead to non-fufilment of our purpose in life.

For instance, He would not manage our Time for us, we have to do that for ourselves. Time has been given equally to every man. in other words, we all have 24 hours a day to utilize but how we spend the hours is a different thing, and this determines the difference between failure and success; between haves and have nots. Ask yourself, in what are you investing your time? Is it towards activities that are inline with your purpose or are they out of tune?

Can He do the thinking for us? NO! Because He has already provided us with the resources to think and the ability to act on our thoughts. We are responsible to provide the link, which is our input, to what he has programmed for us, our destiny.

What more? We are co-creators- through the power of our thought; our mind has been designed not only to imagine but to bring to reality the object of our imagination. However, the fact still remains that we have to put our minds to use.

Now I put this question to you, what role are you playing, right now -with all the resources at your disposal, in the fufilment of your destiny. Are you folding your arms, waiting for the elusive big fall ? Remember, manna no longer fall from heaven. You can't reap if you don't sow and the quality of your output is determined by the quality of your input.

Can Everyone Be Rich Or Successful

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:47:00 +0000

Hey! Life could be hectic some times. Yesterday was one of those days I wished my house were close to my place of work. I was stuck in traffic for hours; a journey of less than 20 minutes took me close to three hours. Even though I tried to convert those hours to learning moment, I still strayed to imagine what most of us are going through daily, in the name of work.

When I eventually got home, I rested a while and powered on my laptop to type out the list of books in my library and check out which one I am yet to read and I was stunned to realize that I still have quite a number of books to read through. Concurrently, I slot in the “Why We Want You To Be Rich” audio CD 2 and while listening, Robert Kiyosaki said something that made me asked myself that “Can Everybody Be Rich Or Successful”?

In a swift reaction my mind answered the question that it is actually possible for everybody to be rich or successful. How? I probed further. Success is a habit; it conforms to certain principles that anyone can follow and get results. Then why is everybody not successful? I asked myself again?

The answer I got is that it is not everybody that can follow the principles not to talk of exhibit success habits. This answer shocked me because I know it refers to me too! There are certain things I read about success from renowned successful men like Brian Tracy, Anthony Robins etc that I am yet to put into action. It dawned on me that whatever position I am today, I am solely responsible and that neither my society nor my employer is. I jus have to change certain things and the result would be unimaginable!

I must confess that listening to this audio CD is really changing my perspective and expanding my thinking in a way I never thought possible.

You Can’t Do Without Change If You Must Succeed In Year 2008!

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:59:00 +0000

A wise man once said that the definition of insanity is doing things the same way all the time and still expect a different result.

I was listening to the audio CD of “Why We Want You To Be Rich” authored by Robert Kiyosaki And Donald Trump. One of the main lessons I drew from the audio is that Change is all about state; you can't get to where you want to be without leaving where you are. If you want to become rich then you have to decide and leave everything that is or has to do with poverty.

Everything has to change; mediocrity, shallow thinking; irresponsibility; lack of vision; lack of perseverance; inability to read and analyze situation for a better decision. If you don’t like where you are or what you are doing then you must be prepared to do what would take you to the place you want to be.

However, I realized that even though change is desirable yet it is most resisted. Why? There is no change without pain. Most people cannot afford the pain of change yet they want to experience new things. And the fact is that you will have to give up something for some things to come into your life. For instance, you might need to give up a childhood friendship for a new one before you can move ahead in life.

How Do You Change?

You Must Desire It
The first thing you can do is that you must desire to change. A burning desire to change is the first to get you out of your comfort zone and the level of mediocrity. You must have strong reasons to want to change your state. For instance, everyone wants to be wealthy but only few actually have reasons that make them desire wealth. This desire is what propel them to take actions that finally brought them the desires of their hearts.

Know Where You Are Going

Another thing for change to occur is that you must have a clear picture of where next you want to be; what next you want have; who next you want to meet and so on. The reason many people are not making considerable change in their lives is because of a blur vision of where they want to be or what they want to have. Brian Tracy once said, "You can hit a target if you don't know what it is"

It could not be better said than that.

Discard Any Fear You Have About Change

Change is a natural phenomenon that should not be feared. do you know we changed everyday. Are you the same person you were yesterday? A week ago? A month? Are you still crawling as you were a baby? You see what I mean? The best way to handle change is to regard it as a part and parcel of our daily life occurence.

What you should fear is your fear to explore the virgin land of treasures that lie at the other side of your fear.

Finally, look around you today, those who are succeeding are those who are not afraid to engage in new things; the highly adventurous in our society. Civilization and all its attending technological benefits are made possible by those men who are not afraid to try new things. Men that are not afraid of failure because they know that failure is not a destination.

Change is inevitable. You Must Desire It

SITE THEME REDEFINED!

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:35:00 +0000

Even though I can’t remember if I ever defined the theme of this site at inception; I presumed it was implied in its title: “WinnersGarden” - a resource centre where anyone can come and learn one or two things that would enable him/her to win in life and business.

In this year 2008, I have resolved to invest more in my education, not by attending class in the traditional setting, but to learn more with each passing day from, books, audio, seminars as well as events that go on around me – in the office and at home.

"The day you stop learning is the day you start dying!"

One more thing, I am going to share them on this page so that we can all learn and grow together; hence your comments are highly welcomed.

Today I learn something from Robert Kiyosaki's book that I will share with you tomorrow!

Till then keep on learning to be winners!

Taking Stock Of Year 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:04:00 +0000

Tonight I was going through my list of what I proposed to achieve this year, as it approaches its terminal date and I see that I had not really achieve upto 40% of what I set out to achieve this year.

I really feel bad and realized that the result I have at hand was created by my own making in part and by circumstances beyond my control, that notwithstanding, it has been mainly my doing. God willing, I shall ensure that history does not repeat itself in year 2008.

I have veered off the path I intended partly because I suddenly have new interests in terms of career, hobbies and such like. These are at variance with my initial interests at the begining of this year.

On the other hand, I suffered greatly from what I preached against in my last post: "The Power Of Inertia" When I looked at that post, I shivered because it was as if I have foreseen what would happen to me later and predicted it. So much about Mind Power!

One thing I learn from this is that I am solely responsible for the use of my time as well as the consequences of the usage.

I have vowed to avoid those pitfalls, temptations, distractions and what have you in year 2008.

Are you?

How To Realize Your Goals

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Sat, 19 May 2007 17:33:00 +0000

Do you set goals for yourself at the beginning of this year? How close or far away are you from realizing or achieving these goals? So far, can you say with all certainty that you have realized at least fifty percent of the goals you set for yourself? If you have, then I doff my hat for you! But if you are like most people, then you are probably still struggling with “inertia” syndrome. Now the question is are you still struggling at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb? What factors or forces are keeping you there and how can you overcome these forces?

Align Your Goals With Your Inner Values

Foremost, you will be struggling with achieving your goals if your inner values are in disparity with what you intend to achieve. There must be a meeting point between where you are and where you want to be. Where you are must be able to take you to where you want to be.

Be Obsessed With Your Goals

How passionate are you about your goals? How often do you review them, daily, weekly or monthly? How often do you discuss or talk about your goals daily? It is the passion you have for your goal that would activate your subconscious mind which would in turn set out to ensure the realization of your goal. If you don’t believe in your goals you won’t be able to talk about it and when you don’t talk about your goal you won’t be passionate about it and when you are not passionate about it you won’t realize it.

Managing Your Time

How do you spend your most valuable resources on earth? Talking about your time. Do you spend the bulk of your time on activities that would enable you to realize your goals or are you spending it on frivolous things; those things that are not profitable? How you spend your time would determine the quality of your life. You must learn to convert your time to wealth, peace of mind and other valuable things you desire in life. Whatever, you spend your time doing now determines the kind of future that awaits you. Sam Adeyemi said and I quote: “You don’t have the capacity to kill time; it is time that has the capacity to kill you”

Spending your time wisely and fruitfully is a choice that you must make if you really want to achieve your goals. Remember, virtually everything is struggling for your time and often time those things are out of tune with your goals and ultimate success in life. It is your conscious effort to effectively spend your time that would save you from default life of mediocrity that majority are living, due to improper management of their time.

One way to spend your time qualitatively is to devote yourself to a life of continuous living in the areas of your goal. Find out and spend your time with those who are already where you want to be. Ask questions and most importantly do exactly what they do. Pay attention to what Brian Tracy said: “Don’t reinvent the wheels; life is too short for that”

And always remember that How, Where, When and With Whom you spend your time would consequently determine the outcome of your life.

Take Action

“Delayed action is delayed destiny”. ----Sam Adeyemi

No matter what you know if you don’t act on what you know; you won’t leave where you are and realizing your goals would continue to be elusive.

The effect of your efforts might not be immediately felt but if you continue to act on what you know and learn along the way and always apply what you know, then it is a matter of time before you hit the bull’s eye and crack the code of the combination key to the life you desire and you would have succeeded in unlocking a new and desired future unto yourself.

How Good Are You To Your Dream?

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:23:00 +0000

When we started out in life at a very tender age, we had a blur/clear vision of where we want to be and what we want to do with our lives.

Most of these visions are aborted and some are stillborn because the owners made them what they are – dreams!. Mere dreams! Nothing but dreams!

However, at the other end of the spectrum are very (lucky?) few who were true to their dreams. They had a clear, unobstructed view of their visions and they set out to work on them and they allow nothing else to come in until they have reached their destination. Of course, they tweak it here and there along the way but they never deviated from their original vision. Their dreams remain intact and they remain unrelenting without distraction.

What is your dream for your online business, your marriage, your career and your family? How close are you to realizing your dreams what challenges are you facing right now? Don’t you think you can overcome them?

The question is: where are you? Where is your dream? Has it been thrown to the winds at the instance of seemingly insurmountable challenges?

Why did you give up on your laudable idea? Is it time factor? Lack of money? Lack of skills? Or lack of tools? Whatever it is I want you to know that what prevents you from getting to your destination is the challenges you are presently facing. Interestingly, the challenges (or whatever you choose to call it) are not as difficult as you imagine them to be. The challenges are just putting up bold and intimidating face to scare you away, thereby stifling life out of your dream. Inwardly, the challenges are coward and very soft. Arise, be bold and attack every challenges on your way and you will be surprised the way they would melt away.

Often time, what keep you from realizing your dream is inconsistence and lack of perseverance. Probably you saddled yourself with many unrelated dreams and your efforts are never consolidated to achieve any of them. How sad!

I leave you with this: how true you are to your dream is a function of your clear vision; purposefulness, consistence, persistence and positive expectations of the outcome of your efforts.

Swallowing The Bitter Pill Of Inaction!

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:37:00 +0000

It is ironical that I have at one time or the other in my articles say one or two things about taking actions that would generate the results we desired. Despite this, I recently swallowed the bitter pill of inaction. This has revealed to me the imperfection in us all as mortals. Often time, we desired or want one thing and despite the fact that it is ours for grabs we still fail to have it simply because we fail to do that which we are supposed to do. Just like Apostle Paul said: “that which I suppose to do I do not; and that which I ought not to do that I do”

On May 1st 2006, I attended a FREE SEMINAR on “4 steps to create a system that would guarantee money into your bank account even why you sleep”.

Expectedly, probably because it was free, many people attended. However the desire of financial freedom must have prompted many people to turn up at the venue of the seminar very early. People trooped in droves because they desired to change their fortune and probably enhance or rewrite their destiny!

However, it was not until almost a year later that many of us came to the realization that we had gone to the seminar to waste not just our time but the organizer’s. Why? WE TOOK LITTLE OR NO ACTION on what we were thought that day and thereby generated Zero result! How sad I was to discovered that I was one of the majority that took little or no action.

In actual fact, I did took action but my efforts in that respect were not concentrated enough to generate the result that was desired. Let’s just say I got distracted along the way. I lost focus and got immersed in the hectic and strenuous life out there.

The gravity of the loss my inaction caused me hit me hard like a sledge hammer when I read and saw the picture on the newspaper of one of the attendees, of the seminar that refused to be among the crowd by taking decisive action and thereby generated expected results, being presented with $500 just because he acted and proved the organizer of the seminar right! In addition to whatever amount of money he might have realized for implementing the program, he received a cool 500 dollar crispy note. What a reward for simply tasking action.

Then it dawn on me that those of us that failed to take action on what we learn at the seminar were simply selfish because we refused to offer the world the best that lies within us. Somebody somewhere is suffering, struggling and wallowing in pains, all kinds of pain, all because we failed to act and do that which we are supposed to do.

But thank God it is never too late because we are still alive, we can still go back to our notes – to the basics- and begin to do that which we are supposed to do and very soon we too, would beginning to enjoy the fruit and unending benefits of taking action and in a short while the taste of the bitter pill of inaction that has pervaded our being will be replaced by sweetness of winning brought about by acting and doing that which are necessary.

It Makes Lots Of Difference!

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:15:00 +0000

Taking the first step is very crucial in whatever it is that we want to do in life and taking this crucial first step has been very demanding and difficult for many of us. And until we take the first step nothing happens; our intention is made manifest by our ability to take the first crucial step that will set us in motion and sustain the momentum. This is what makes the difference between a dreamer and a realist; failure and success; winners and losers.

Few weeks ago many people over the world came up with their intentions and expectations for this year. The question is that after the usual euphoria, how many has really taken the first step that we set them on the path to attain or realize their expectations and intentions for the year?

It makes a lot of difference to be able to distinguise New Year resolution from expectations for the year or at a particular point in time! Your New Year Resolution is a mere list of what and what you don’t want to continue doing in the New Year.

On the other hand, your expectations go beyond the mere list of those habits you want to get away from. It encompasses everything you want to achieve in the New Year. The goals you set for yourself for the coming months. Your thinking in the right direction makes a lot of difference.

What are your expectations for your marriage/relationship this year? How do you intend to resolve issues and conflicts? Would you just fold your hands and watch things deteriorating into unbearable situation? Every single step or decision you take to ensure things are put on the right path this year makes a lot of difference.

Many times you want to do some things but you can’t just get started; you have lots of projects lined up for you to carry out; a lot of tasks that you don’t even know where to start. So many business deals to close; the e-mails are flooding in by each passing seconds and lots of sales letters are still not yet written. All these tasks are so overwhelming that you eventually surrendered to the power of inertia - inaction.

But do you have to surrender just like that? Many of us are in this situation because we have on our own volition refused or failed to do something about the situation we don’t like or tasks that we must carry out. What we probably fail to realize is that all we need to do to make a lot of difference and move from the state of inaction to the splendid state of accomplishment is to take that first step, no matter how small or ineffective or imperfect it might seem to be.

You should not aim for perfection before we get started otherwise nothing will be done. That phone call to your business associate could seal the business deal you have been aspiring for. A meeting with your mentor could bring a tremendous change to your personal growth. Taking a step of reconciliation could restore your marriage and bring unimaginable happiness into your life.

Even in a situation where you could not achieve or complete a task or activity by taking a step towards it; that singular step will still make a lot of difference, it means you are a step closer to achieving your goals or completing the task.

The bottom line is envisage or build up your expectation of the exact situation – it could be getting ideal partner, opening up a business etc- that you really desire and do something towards achieving your goal. And this means just take that first step which makes lots of difference.

The climbing of mount Everest actually began with a step and this is what makes the difference between those who had achieved the rare feat of reaching the top of this mount and those whose sit back nurturing the idea in their minds without doing anything to actualise it.

We cannot be where we want to be without leaving where we are and the best thing to do in this situation is to take the bold step towards our destination- this makes a lot of difference.

In conclusion as you move in life, let your expectations about yourself, your spouse, your business, and so on be high. And then go out there and act according to your expectation and in a short while your life would definitely improve. It is your action that would make the difference.

Remember that intention is nothing until you act and do what you intend. The world only knows you for what you do and not what you intend. And what you do at this very moment makes lots of difference to the actualization of your intentions.

Do You Have A Mind Of Your Own?

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:46:00 +0000

How often do you really want to do what you know and believe is right but the fear of what people would say or how would so and so react, held you back? Do you remember how many times your good intentions have been sabotaged just because of the opinions and belief of other people? Do you remember how many times you have been subtly talked out of what you want to do?

It is really amazing to discover that many are not making headways in their career, business and marriage because they allowed themselves to be subtly guided by the opinion of other people. They seem not to have minds of their own. Whatever the crowds say is okay is okay by them. They never thought over any issue on their own. On the other hand, those who do think, to a certain extent, on their own sometimes, lack the courage to carry out their intentions; they get carried away by the opinions of the majority. And what they fail to realize is that often times the majority are wrong.

When such people find themselves in any employment they got immersed in the wrong belief fed them by their employers or trade associations. They are so gullible and believe that authorities cannot be queried or call to other even when they are doing the wrong thing or oppressing them. Their minds are so contaminated to the extent that they belief that they cannot get employment elsewhere. They suffer in silence any hardship their task master (Oh! Sorry, their employer!) might be dishing out to them. They are made to belief that they are being favored with the employment and are brainwashed not to question such belief or thought.

You Are Been Ruled By Fear!

Fear. This is one of the weapons that are usually employed to erode away right thinking mind of the majority of the people that keep the in the circle of the struggling masses!

“I am going to sack you!”

“There are too many and better people out there looking for job”

“I can feel your impact in this organization”- even though you are really working yourself out.
“How can you survive if you lost this job”

“Since you haven’t got another job, play safe and just stomach whatever the taskmaster throw at you”

“What can you do on your own at this age or stage of your life?”

“You can never amount to anything in life again”

All these statement are meant to condition your mind to a state of blankness where you will be so scared that you won’t dare to step out and explore the world of abundance that exist outside you cage that you refer to as employment. You are being conditioned to not to ask for more pay because in the first place you have been made to belief that you are being favored.

Break Lose!

The first step is for you to realize that you are been fed with wrong information and at the same time been conditioned for perpetual slavery and being kept in a cage. Then set yourself free by freeing your mind of whatever wrong information or conditioning you have been fed with. Just walk right into your fear, who says you can’t get job elsewhere? If you need to update your skills to achieve this, then upgrade your skills and get out of the cage you called job.

Whatever knowledge you have acquired in the course of your employment could be properly packaged and offer for sale. THIINK! And the solution would come; Then ACT! And you get Results. But the problem or the challenge is that many people are too lazy to think and that is why it is their employers that are doing the thinking for them and in the process oppressing them. The truth is that until they begin to think and act they will remain where they are and what they are- an instrument of creating wealth in another man’s hand!

Similarly, in the business world, even if you are self-employed and you don’t have a mind of your own that would enable you to think on your own and come up with a different idea that is unique, you will continue to struggle while your competitors cart away all the money.

Is that what you want?

Do something, Break loose and Follow your Mind. Do the very thing you really want to do.

How Do You Attract The Right People Into Your Life?

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:02:00 +0000

This article is sequel to my earlier article titled: The Importance of People in Your Journey to Success,

This article would show you:
· What You Can Do To Attract The Right People Into Your Life For Maximum Leverage Of their Time And Knowledge;
· What You Must Not Do To Others If You Must Benefit From Their Knowledge and Experience
· And Many More...
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What brings the right people into your lifer? What makes people to be attracted and want to associate with you? How do you attract the right people into your life?

It is not sufficient that you realize the importance of others (people) in your life; but you must equally know how to attract the right people into your life. Of course, you won’t need everybody; however, getting the right people on board with you is very important. You must be able to attract and retain the right people that would contribute immensely and meaningfully into your life and success.

The question is how do you achieve this objective? The “how” is answered by the following:

Your Attitude Is Everything

How do you relate with and to people? Do you always snub or belittle them? Are you arrogant and rigid in your decisions and opinions? Do you disregard the opinion of other people without given it due consideration? Do you flagrantly display your knowledge and skills?

The presence of these vices (and many more) in your life would in the long run repel the right people that could uplift you. It is your attitude that would endear (or otherwise repel) others to you and it is only when people can conveniently come to you that they would be willing to share their knowledge with you. You must possess the right attitude to be able to learn and attract the right people into your life.

Be Prepared To Give

The level at which the right and relevant people are attracted into your life would be determined by the extent to which you shall willingly give out to them, selfishlessly. You must first give to people before they would be willing to give unto. Sow into people’s lives and you will reap bountifully in due season. Mind you, you will definitely reap the fruit of the kind of seed that you sow into people’s lives. Hence, there is need for you to sow or give out things of immense value to people? As human beings, we always gravitate towards any relationship or association that promises and or provide us with the kinds of benefits we are looking for.

In other words, you will only attract right people into your life when they perceived that you too ahs something to offer them, no matter how small such thing might be.

Most importantly, you must be prepared to give unconditionally, without clouding your mind with what you could possibly get in return, thus, you must give your best and would definitely get the best from others in due course.

Your Perception Of Others Counts

How do you see and judge others? Do you judge them by the physical appearance/possession? Do you write people off easily? Do oyu foresee the hidden potentials and gifts in other people? Many people have unknowingly chase away those people that would have contributed immensely to their lives and success due to poor judgment and perception.

Often time, the very people we overlook or neglect are the very people that own the key to our breakthrough and success in life.

Be At The Right Place

If you want to eat antelope, you won’t go to the sea or pond; you will have to be in the bush where antelopes reside. Also, if you want to fly with eagles; you have no business scratching the ground with turkeys! Similarly, in order to attract the right people into your life you must go to where they are. It could be club, online forums and particular associations. You must first determine the kind of people that are right for you, those that are in line with what you want to do. Thereafter, find out where they spend their time and ensure to be there.

PURPOSEFULNESS: One Of Your Key To Success This Year!

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:32:00 +0000

“If you don’t know your purpose in life, you will be slave to those who do”

Are you living a live of mediocrity? Do you always settle for less than you could actually have in life? Are you presently living your life without any sense of direction and you are comfortable with whatever life dish out to you on a daily basis? Are you among the crumb-eaters in the society and seem not to bother about it; Are you so comfortable in your comfort zone?

Are you among those that don’t know what they aspire for in life and care less about it? Such people have accepted failure, without any resistance whatsoever, as their lots in life. A handful of them actually know what they want but either the desire is weak or feeble or they lack the courage to move toward their goals.

Simply put this set of people lack the zeal to pursue their life goal or passion. They are wishful-thinkers and always build their castles in the air; their desires are so fragile that they throw in the towel at the first sight of obstacles or resistance. They quit so early that they never won! As somebody rightly said “if you quit before your time; no dinner for you”

The worst thing you could ever do to yourself and generations coming after you is to be among this group of bench warmers! They are those who, by default, have accepted to be spectators in life and they struggle through life.

Who says you can’t be among the real players and be celebrated as winners and live a fulfilling and well transformed life? Your thinking and imagination is your limitation. You can never rise above your thinking. The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thought.

Why don’t you make up your mind to enroll, today, into the league of winners? And it is absolutely free! Nonetheless, there is always a price to pay and the only price you have to pay is determination and singleness of purpose coupled with focus, the sacrifice that the failures, crumble-eaters and bench-warmers are scary of.

Winners are a different breed of the pack; they know exactly what they want in life and never settled for less. They pursue their goal/vision with amazing ferocity that nothing could eventually stand on their way; they are consumed with each passing seconds with the object of their heart desire and no matter the obstacles, they Never! Never!! Never!!! give up. Unlike those that have accepted failure in life, they don’t waiver.

The choice of which group to belong is entirely yours and the beauty of it all is that they both have their rewards which you will receive depending on your choice. Life adequately rewards every man according to his level of toil; what you sow is what you reap.

The first place to begin is by asking yourself series of questions that you must provide immediate answers to. It would serve you well to do this with your pen and notepad in hand or alternatively keyboard and computer.

What is your exact purpose in life? What is the main reason for your existence? Why are you on this planet? What is you passion and what drives you? What do you enjoy doing effortlessly without noting the passage of time? What do you really desire in your business, career, relationship, finances and personal life? How vigorously do you pursue the object of your desire without depriving others of their rights? When last did you work on your project or the object of your desire? What progress have you made in your business, career, marriage, personal life between last year and now? Is what you engage in presently related to the object of your desire? Are you being driven to your desire and passion on daily basis?

Your response to these questions would enable you to determine your purpose in life and indicate if you are a winner or not. Until you are alive to, and pursue your purpose in life, you will just be wandering around aimlessly. Your purpose in life gives you reasons to live.

The Importance Of People In Your Journey To Success.

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:07:00 +0000

“All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people” – Alexix Carrel

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. People always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great.” – Mark Twain

“A tree cannot make a forest” – Yoruba Proverb, Western Nigeria
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Human beings are social animals and the essence of our living is premised on purposeful and quality interaction with one another vis-à-vis the environment we live in. No human being can exist in isolation, no matter how talented you might be. It doesn’t matter your ingenuity, you need other people to express your talent and achieve your life purpose. Any attempt to go solo usually result in frustration and failure is inevitable which might even lead to confinement in a psychiatric home!

Our association with others determines who we are; where we are; and what we have. We can’t rise above the collective thinking and belief of our associations.

Consequently, your achievement or success this year 2007 would be determined by the kind of people you hang out with. What do they do? What do they belief in? What do they confess with their mouths? Are they negative or positive thinkers? Is their belief ingrained in impossibilities? Are they a bunch of mediocre? Are they inconsistently consistent in their thinking and actions? Who are their friends? What goals do they set for themselves? Do they belief in their own abilities? What are their philosophies of life? what do they wear? And so on.

Brian Tracy once said that: "you cannot scratch with turkey and fly with eagles"; you cannot relate with mediocre, uninspired and unfocused people and expect yourself to be different from them. It is either you associate with people that can lift you up or you go out with those that would drag you into mud.

Consequently, as you take the bold step toward success this year 2007 you must be very selective of the people you are going to associate with. You should hang out only with those people that share similar ideals, belief and opinions with you. Any friendship or association that cannot take you to your Cannan land must be done away with. You must, as a matter of fact, evaluate your present crops of friends or associates. What have they contributed to your life in the previous years? Are you progressing or retrogressing as a result of your association with them? What opportunity has your association with them brought your way? Do they motivate or demotivate you? How many of your dreams do they belief in? what has been their contributions in achieveing any of your dreams? If you answer to all these questions is negative then let go of such friends. You don’t need them!

Since you are spending some time out with your friends and associates, then it is expedient that you, from time to time, audit your friends and associates to determine the continuity or otherwise of your friendship or association with them. This is very important because the time you spend with them is taken out of your life and cannot be recouped, it is therefore absolutely necessary that you to spend it meaningfully and wisely; it must be with the right people.

True friendship and association is one that is based on win/win. It is a kind of friendship or association where everyone benefits. People assist one another to move ahead in life and business. It is this kind of association that form the basis of the master mind group that Napoleon Hill mentioned in Think And Grow Rich as one of those things that would ensure your success in any endeavour you found yourself.

It, therefore, follows that you must avoid any association that is based on win/lose and or lose/lose situation. Such is a parasitic friendship and it is a plague that you must be far away from; run as far as you legs could carry you!

Finally, the kind of people that would be attracted into your life will be determined by your attitude, dominant thoughts and your way of interaction.
Like attracts likes; if you are ambitious, goals-oriented, purposeful, possibility and positive thinker etc, then you are bound to attract people of similar qualities into your life. The bottom line is that you must work on yourself to become the person you want to see in others.

How To Turn Problems And Failure To Your Springboard For Success!

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:48:00 +0000

“To succeed you’ve to be open to problems. You’ve to be open to failure. And as you go up the ladder, you gain the right to get more problems” --- Dave Anderson

“Problems create situations in which we can grow. The very things we want to avoid in life are the things that shape us into the persons we should be”

“Yesterday’s problems beget today’s comforts and inventions” --- Taye Adamo

Many of us have come to regard problems and failures as plagues that are to be avoided at all cost. They are simply undesirable and we tend to shy away from our problems rather than confronting them or embracing them. Some even held the belief that problems and failures are bestowed on them by their real and imagined enemies or some unseen (spiritual) forces.

While such belief might be true in certain regions (especially in some part of Africa – even though a white man might call it mere superstition- we know there are unseen forces which could be evil or good), often times, it is wrongly held belief. No wonder many are poor.

We cannot be separated from failures and problems if we must succeed and excel in whatever we do. They provide litmus tests for our intellectual capability and creativity as higher mammals and if we fail to exercise it for whatever reason then we won’t be different from animals or other lower mammals!

Problems and failures are meant to challenge our thoughts about the undesirable situations we are in to the point we are able to create a desirable one. It is inside out. And unless we confront it, we won’t be able to turn it inside out. Failure, they say, is success inside out.

Yesterday’s Problems Produced Today’s Comforts And Inventions

My maternal grandfather used to narrate a story of how they had to travel long distance in those darkest days of pre-civilization. Journeys of about 1000 km usually took those days to accomplish and they must travel in groups. It was a major problem then that got certain people thinking as the generations of human beings pass by. Then somebody stumbled on the situation through his incessant thought of devising a solution to the problem and automobiles came into being. Short after another problem of saving time by travelling faster arose and aeroplanes were invented as a result.
Now do you think there would have been these inventions if the initial problems were not confronted and turned around to bring about a desired situation?

Similarly the problem of high rate of mortality recorded in the early century of human history led to unimaginable discovery of improved medical facilities and practice.

In essence, wise men have been producing one invention or the other to alleviate problems in their lives and the society which accounted for the level of civilization and technological advancement in the world today and the world is done yet.

You Must Confront Your Problems.

I strongly belief that as you are reading this article now, you have one or two problems going on in your life or business, and so are many of us.

But while it might seem to you that others have no problems as you do is because you have not learnt, as they do, to confront your problems and turn them to spring boards for your success.

Do you have cash flow problem? Then what are you doing about? Folding your arms, I suppose? You are probably hoping manna would fall from heaven. No more manna from heaven, it only happened during the biblical days and not ever since. Hence you must wake up from your slumber and confront your problems.

You Must Have The Right Perspective About The Problem.

You must know the problem inside out and it is only when you are able to diagnose the problem you won’t be able to know what solution to come up with.

I normally tell people that you cannot confront physical problems with spiritual solutions. For instance somebody that was involved in an accident and had his leg chopped off and resorted to prayers that the leg be replaced!

Or a student who refused so burn the mid-night oil but rather keep on praying that he/she pass his/her exams would definitely fail.

The problem of low-paid salaried job might get you thinking in the right direction of starting your own problem or generate ideas to solve other people’s problems and charged them for consulting fees. It might even lead you to find a part business that you could engage in to generate additional income. And in the long run the cash flow problem would vanish.

In other to turn the problem to spring board for your success, your level of thinking in terns of problem perception and analysis as well as solution generation must be higher than the level of your thought or action that created the problem in the first place.

You must gather all information you could, from whatever source you could think of, and also seek the assistance of those that had experience relating to such problem or failure.

Finally, tap into your intuition and follow your guts. Sit down quietly and meditate over the problem with a singular intention of finding lasting and best solution to the problem.

The Way You Perceive The Problem Counts.

The way you see the problem in your mind eye would determine your ability to come up with solution. You might belief you have the power or innate ability to solve the problem. You could otherwise held the belief that the problem is beyond you, that you could never came up with any solution. In either case, you are very much correct. As you think in your heart, so you are.

Two individuals looking at the same problem would definitely perceive it differently and each would be right in his/her own and would react to the problem according to the nature and level of his/her perception.

The Right Perception Is Not Enough!

You might have the right perception of the problem or situation and you might even analyse it accurately but until you act or do something about the situation, nothing happens and the problem won’t just go away. Your thought won’t solve the problem, your actions would do.

In conclusion, you should never allow the fear of unknown or the uncertainties of the outcome of the solution you have in mind to forestall your taking action on your intention toward solving the problem.

That problem you are passing through now is just a shield to your success, GET UP, GRAB IT AND REMOVE IT NOW!

Beware of These Goal Killers If You Must Succeed This Year!

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:55:00 +0000

I am sure by now you already have your year 2007 goals well set and your actions towards achieving them have been adequately planned out. In other words, you must have put in place all necessary structures and strategies to ensure you succeed and attain your goals this year. Right? Fine.

But Don’t Be…

Ignorance of the devices of the trio of Fear, Inaction and Procrastination, because you are not up against their mere existence but against their destructive and deadly powers that could render your dreams stillborn and goals unrealised. They possess the subtle effects of stifling your success.

Fear, Inaction and Procrastination have been the major causes of failure in many lives and business.

In this article, I will be discussing how they could affect your plans to attain your goals this year and I will also provide you with antidotes to counter their vision killing and dream shattering effects.

1. Inaction.

How many times have you made up your mind to do something without eventually getting round to do it? How often have you postponed starting your own (part time) business but never pull yourself together to begin? What about the training or academic pursuits you promised yourself about two years ago but never got started even up till now? And on and on like that. The list could be limitless.

There is definitely a gap between where you are now and where you want to be in a month’s time, a year, five years and so on.

For instance, if you are overweight and you want to become slimmer and elegant. Then shedding or losing weight represents the gap between your being overweight and slim and elegant.

In essence, you are at point A- overweight and point B- slim and elegant, is your destination. Point B stands for the attainment of your success and the achievement/realisation of your goals and vision.

However, like many people, you will discover to your utmost dismay that you never leave point A? Why? Inaction.

...Nothing Moves Until You move.

If you don’t take actions that would move you from point A to point B, then it evident you will definitely not be there. Period!

The following are the causes of why often times, you fail to act:
· Laziness – you simply don’t want to do anything or take action
· Incompetence – you lack the skills and experience to take off or act,
· Confusion – you just don’t know what to do which could be as a result of inadequate information or information overload on what you must do to reach your goals.
· Lack of Motivation In order to get out of inaction cobweb, and set you on the path to act your plans and achieve your goals this year.

You must generate a clear mental picture of your destination (your point B) on a daily basis. Visualize the benefits that would accrue to you when you get there and begin to comport and conduct yourself in manners that are congruent and consistent with that mental picture of what you want to have at your destination.

Initially, this approach might seem absurd, impracticable and probably stupid but never mind and don’t give. If you don’t give it would come to a point that your subconscious mind would get the message and spur you to begin to act on your plans.

2. Fear

“The most danger we face is the danger of being paralysed by doubts and FEARS …” – Anonymous

Some people are not lazy, incompetent, confused and neither are they not motivated but still they never leave their point A in life and business. And this could be attributed to one thing in their lives: FEAR.

As Dr. J. Allan has rightly said and I quote:
“Everyone at one time or another has felt like a complete failure. Many have allowed the fear of failure to destroy them. Actually fear is more destructive than failure in any area of life. Fear of failure can defeat you before you get started.”

Fear of failure, rejection and criticism are holding many people back on what they could do to achieve the dreams of their lives.

Many times I have people saying:
“I can’t start my own business because it might not work out…so and so did it and failed”
“I don’t want to enrol for any degree or professional exams now because I don’t have the time to study and pass”

…and so on

When you begin to worry yourself about what others (people) would say about your decision, action or inaction then you are beginning to lose grip on your own life. You are simply giving the control of your life to such people.

Fear of success is another crippling force in the life of many that could have been celebrated as success today. They are some people that are afraid of getting to their point B because they can’t imagine themselves coping with the demands of success up there!

Ask many people out there what they would if they come into one million Dollar/Naira/Pound Sterling today and you would be confronted with many bewildered and confused faces!

Similarly, the inability to cope/accept the fame and publicity that accompany success in certain fields of endeavour such as the entertainment industry has been the sole reason many would have been world-acclaimed artist, writer, singer etc are languishing in obscurity.

…then how do you conquer this enemy?

In the first instance, simply walk through your fear, confront that which you are afraid to do headlong. Do exactly that which you are afraid of doing. Once you have made up your mind on what to do, don’t sit back and begin to figure out whether it would work or not or how many people have done it and fail. Such line of thought would only ensure you never got started.

Simply take the courage and do something in the direction you want to go. Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to go ahead in spite of the fear. Even if you do something for the first and experience a kind of setback (note: I didn’t say Fail, because your choice of words too matter a lot and it could spur or stifle your efforts to begin again), don’t give up. Remember, failure is success inside out and at the point you are experiencing one set back or the other, you are definitely better than those that are afraid to begin.

…But Don’t Be Insane!

Because insanity is doing things the same way over and over again and still expect to get different results. Commit to learn from your mistakes and set backs and use them to spring ahead.

In the second instance, simply break, whenever you are visualizing, your goals into manageable chunks of success or achievement that would not intimidate you. And concentrate on attain one manageable piece at a time until you have achieved and comfortable with your new level of such achievement or success.

For instance, if the mere thought of having a millionaire dollar/naira/pound sterling scares you now. Then try and envisage yourself having and actually spending five hundred thousand dollar/naira/pound sterling until you are comfortably in such position and by then you can up the scale to probably seven fifty or a million depending on how comfortable you are now to manage the impending success/achievement based on your previous experience.

Similarly, aim first to become a local champion in your community, after that move to be one in your state, country and the world in general..

3. Procrastination

“Procrastination is a thief of time and killer of destiny” – Taye Adamo

When you put off every time what you are supposed to do or you are in the habit of postponing things that requires your immediate attention or action. Then you are courting failure and stillborn of your dreams.

By postponement, you are chipping away your fixed asset, which is time. And don’t you ever think you are only wasting away the time it would have taken you to achieve your goals and dreams. It goes beyond that. Because in actual fact it is the time you could have spent to enjoy the success or achievement that you have wasted or chipped away.

If you don’t take action, you don’t succeed or achieve and if you don’t succeed you won’t enjoy.

The best you could do to stop procrastinating is to divide your tasks and activities into bits that could get done at a time and resolve to do them when they should be done.

Success Kit For Year 2007!

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:12:00 +0000

Thank God you survived year 2006. It is worth celebrating but then here lies before you year 2007 with its yet to be tapped potentials, opportunities, comforts, and what have you. The question is how do you equip yourself and be well positioned to ensure that you are part of year 2007 success story? To help you achieve this, I have put together a success kit that would see you through year 2007 and place you among the winners in this Year.
If you really follow the simple steps am going to analyze here to the letter then you will really be successful this year but if you allow their simplicity to fool you and you ignore them or follow them half-heartedly, then your guess is as good as mine!

Gratitude
The first place to take off is to examine year 2006 and review your achievements and activities and you will definitely found one or two things to be grateful for. Probably you want to say you have nothing to be grateful for. What about your life? Life is a gift and for this you must show gratitude. Whatever you might have in mind to achieve in year 2007 would only be possible when you still have that gift of life. You have it this very moment, you ought to be grateful.
When you show gratitude for what you already have, it connects you with greater things and brings them your way. Your mind would be free of any clog and you will be in a receptive state of mind for creativity and breakthrough ideas that would bring success your way.
But most importantly is the fact that it is spiritual, it connects you with higher power and makes your journey to success hitch-free. This fact has nothing to do with your religious inclination, showing gratitude in life for things you have, no matter how small, brings you at peace with the higher power.
The point I am explaining here could be likened to a situation where you did something for somebody and s/he came back to thank you, showing gratitude for that little hand of kindness you extended to him/her. Won’t you be encouraged to be more compassionate on such person next time? I bet you will!

Planning

“Failure to plan is planning to fail”

After gratitude, the next thing you must do to achieve success in year 2007 is to set goals in four critical areas of your life; Spiritual –for inner peace, Social – your relationship and association with the right people as well as your family will ensure success in your life and business, Financial empowerment-your career and business that would bring you comforts of life and peace of mind and Physical/Mental Fitness-. The exercise of your body will keep you fit and ensure you are around to enjoy your success while the exercise of your mind through reading and studying would keep you at the top, far above your peers and among the winners.

You will need to pick your pen and notebook and go to a quiet place where you will not be disturbed or you could wake up in the middle of the night, as I usually do, when everybody is sleeping and go to your computer and open up the word processor. Open a page or document for each of these four critical areas in your life and write down or type all you want to achieve with each of them in the next twelve months. You should further break them down to weekly and consequently daily goals. Then draw up a daily do to list that would detail series of activities you must do that would bring you closer on daily basis to achieving your set goals.

Every goal you set here must be big enough to motivate you and not too big to de-motivate you. When you set unrealistic goals you will be de-motivated hence, you must strike a balance between these two ends. Rome, they say, was not built in a day. The goals must be set in achievable segments. For instance, if your present monthly income is N40,000:00; it would be unrealistic to set a goal of N500,000:00 monthly when you have no intention of robbing a bank. The most realistic thing to do, in this circumstances, is to set a goal of say N80,000:00 or N100,000:00 and you then look for a job that would fetch you this monthly income or you morally and legally expand your sources of income. You would begin to engage in business that would fetch you monthly income within the set range.

Probably you are overweight. It would be unrealistic to set a goal of losing about fifty pounds a week. You can begin with losing ten or lesser pounds and when you achieve this, you can then begin to raise the level up each time you reach previously set one until you finally reach your target of fifty pounds or N500,000:00 as in the case of the income goal set above.

Another instance is where you have the goal to set up your own business and you really have little or no money as capital and you went ahead and resign from your job. This is pure foolishness. The frustration you will face will make such goal or dream very unrealistic.
You could however, start your business on part time while you still keep your job for sustenance and balancing. By doing this you won’t have to dip hands into your capital, especially in your business formative years. Such business is even easier these days on the internet where you can start a business on a shoestring budget. Then the moment you are beginning to make profits or income in excess of your monthly salary, you can then conveniently kiss your job goodbye and sack your boss!

Your plan must state clearly how you intend to achieve your set goals in the four critical areas of your life. It must contain your action plan, it must state in clear terms what exactly you want to achieve. More so, you must state how long it would take you to achieve your goals. How would you know when you have arrived at your goal? With some goals such as the income target set above, the moment you have the N500,000:00 naira in your account you will know you have achieved your set goal in that respect. Similarly, when you lose the exact weight you set for yourself you will know.

Take Immediate Action
This is where most people are missing it; it is the dividing line between winners and wannabes! Many people set laudable goals backed them up with adequate plans but sadly enough, they never went beyond this point. They allow the power of inertia to prevent them from attaining their goals and they are consequently been denied of any success.

Once you have drawn up your to do list and the daily activities you have to engage yourself in. Take action immediately, don’t wait for any perfect situation or condition before you could act. Then as you beginning acting on your plans and moving towards your goals, you will have to constantly reviewing your goals on daily basis and adjust your plans as the situation demands. You must be flexible if you really want to reach your destination.

Be Determined
And getting to your destination won’t be on a roller coaster, the earlier you realize that the better. There are lots of challenges and obstacles on the way and it is only your determination to succeed as well as your perseverance that will see you through. You must constantly see the destination in your mind eye and ensure that you never give up at instance of any difficulty or problem. If it has been all that easy everyone would have been successful. Always remember that winners never quit and quitters never win.
There might be a time it would be as if you have reached a dead end in the pursuits of your goals and the first thing you want to do is to give up and abandon your goals. This is not un-usual but you should never succumb to the temptation to give up.
All you have to do is to stop and evaluate all your activities so far, adjust your plans accordingly and re-energize and set off on your journey once again. One more thing, don’t allow much time between the evaluation period and your taking off again.

You Must Be Patient
You should never be in a hurry to get results, you must exercise patient and remain focused on your goal. Most people are so much in a hurry that they want to walk before they crawl. Once they are working on an idea they never exercise enough patience before they abandon it and go to try something else. It takes time and hard work to achieve true success. It doesn’t come easy.

Take for instance, you probably set up an online business and you expect to make lots of money in the first month. You are really setting up yourself for great disappoint because it is very unrealistic. You will need time to build up the traffic that will generate revenue for you and if you are not patient, you will be jumping from one business/scheme to another and you will finally become easy prey for all the scam-related businesses on the net.

Celebrate

You must take time off to celebrate as you continue to move toward the realization of those goals that you have set for yourself. Take a break, relax and give yourself a treat once in a while. It is a means to revitalize your energy. Every little or major achievement on your way should be celebrated. And this would get you set and prepared to continue with the rest of the journey in full force and new vigor.

Top Ten Reasons People Fail In Life And Business

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:23:00 +0000

Take a look around you, in your office, environment and society and you will notice that a lot of people are struggling with living. They are trying hard to make ends meet both in their life and business. No matter how hard they try and throw up the hand-held-fan it always lands on its flat side. What else could be done? They seem not to know the cracking code for success. Especially when they compare themselves with the few people that is really moving ahead in life.
And the question to ask is why is a handful of people progressing and the rest of the populace are barely surviving? Simply put, they know what the majority don’t know or they do what the rest of the people know but won’t do.

In this post I attempted to analyze top ten reasons people struggle through life so that you can beware of them in your journey to a successful living and have a transformed life:

1. Lack of Goal, Weak Or No Clear Goal

“Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and they are willing to go through hell to get it”---- D. Marquis

If you ask most of the people that are struggling through life what they plan to achieve in a month, a year and few years from now, hardly would you get a reasonable and well satisfied answer. They don’t have goals they would want to achieve in their life time; they simply lack any sense of direction. In rare cases those that went as much as setting goals for themselves really don’t have a concrete goal in place. The goal is so weak that they lack the zeal to take off or pursue such goal.
Consequently, if you want to succeed in life you must not be among the majority that live their lives as it comes; because such people go through life wishful-thinking, hoping to make a breakthrough one day without any plan, with little or no effort on their part. Without consciously or unconsciously setting of goals it would be impossible to have any worthwhile achievement. Some people have little or no drive for achievement in little; they are comfortable with the status quo and or their comfort zone. They are afraid to set goals that would bring them success in life and they don’t dream big for fear of ridicule if they should fail to achieve whatever they have set out to achieve.

2. Fear Of Assuming Responsibility:
Those who move ahead in life are those that make up their mind to be solely responsible for their actions and whatever happens to them. Your present position and situation is the result of your total action, inaction and activities that you have engaged in up to the moment. And the only way to move ahead is to first realize where you are and accept responsibility for it whether you like your present situation or not. Then you must also accept responsibility for where you want to be and know that the transition from where you are to where you want to be is solely up to you.
Goal setting is all about making up your mind to leave where you are now to the place of your dream and in doing this you must experience change which involves taking up responsibility.
With great power comes great responsibility; greater achievements in life and business come with greater responsibilities. The biblical ten-talent servant received more when he demonstrated and showed zeal for more responsibility.

3. Short-Cut Mindset
Success in everything takes time and lots of hard work and patience, among other things. Most people however, believe they could cut corners and have success overnight. They are those that are always after Get Rich Quick, GRQ, programs or schemes everywhere on the net. They want to walk before they craw and they get crashed before they could rise. They don’t want to pay the price through hard work, commitment, patience and focus that true success requires.
Even though such people may achieve what I called pseudo-success they eventually end up being miserable and worse off.

4. Poor Relationship With People
Success in life and business is built on relationship with others. How well you are able to relate and interact with people in your life, environment and those you come in contact with determines how far you will go up the ladder of success.
Most of those that are experience one failure or the other in their life are have poor people skills and cannot relate well with people in their immediate environment. Can you communicate effectively with people at the other end of the spectrum? If you are into sales and you hate talking to or facing people how do you intend to sell your products to them?

5. No or Weak commitment

People fail in life as result of no or weak commitment to their goals, if they set any one at all. They do things half-heartedly and never completed any project before jumping to another. They jump from one business to another; move from one relationship to another. They never invest adequate time and money in any worthwhile project they might engage in. And before you blink they are on new project! They are simply not committed to excellence in whatever they do and the ultimate result of this is failure and frustration.

6. Lack Of Focus
Failure and struggling are inevitable whenever there is lack of sense of direction in life and business. Every worthwhile athlete knows that he must focus totally on the prize and task before him and should he allow any distraction or remove his eyes and mind from the prize he would never emerged the winner. So also is winning in life and business, the moment there is any distraction or lack of focus then it would be impossible to achieve the set goals.
Focus means you know and define clearly what you want, where you want to be and you set out in clear terms how you will achieve all these and did not allow anything to derail you and you remain committed to achieving your goals to the end.

7. Lack Of Adequate Or Poor Information
Information is power and it what makes the difference between failure and success. The information in your possession could change your life for the better and so also is the lack of it. Many fail in life and business because they never took time to gather enough information about what they want to do or who they want to associate with. They venture into business with ill-equipped information about the business and before they know it, they are experience one failure or the other. Once they see other people doing well in any business they never bother to find out the details they just plunge into it hoping to learn the intricacies as they move on forgetting that such might be all they needed to succeed in that line of business.

8. The Killing Power Of Inertia: Inaction
In truth knowledge is power but the actual power is the application of the knowledge possessed. There is no difference between a man who knows and does nothing and a man that doesn’t know. You can have all the information in this world that is needed to move forward your business and life but until you begin to apply such information you won’t experience any change at all. Many remain where they are not because they don’t know what to do to get out of their situation but because they refuse to take the step to move forward. They simply refused to take action. Failure to take the first step has always being the reason many people remain at the bottom of the success ladder and still struggling with living. What such people fail to realize is that once they take the courage and pain to take the first step it will be easier to move ahead unhindered. After all the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step taken.
It is amazing and painful seeing people telling you about their fantastic and laudable ideas and plans still struggling with living and when you probe further you discover the reason they are still struggling is because they have not acted upon their ideas and plans. They have allowed the destructive power of inertia to get at them and until they break loose and take ACTION they will remain the same.
How many of your ideas and plans did you acted upon this year? And as the year is round up, can you look back and give yourself thumb up for acting upon your ideas and plans for year 2006? Do you know that you are where you are right now as a result of your action and inaction? It is never too late. It is better now than never. Get up today and start doing something about your ideas and plans; otherwise you will remain where you are.

9. Failure To Do What They Love To Do
When you don’t follow your passion, you will continue to struggle and continuously move from one job to another; from one career to another and from one relationship to another. Many today are working on a job they don’t like, they are working a boss they hate with a passion and remain stuck in a relationship that is not giving them any fulfillment. How sad! No wonder they continue to struggle with living. How could they succeed in what they are doing without passion? Take for instance somebody who hate facing and talking to people taking up the job of a salesman and everyday he dresses to go out for business is like a hell for him. The result is already determined, he won’t succeed.
When you don’t do what you love then you are simply pursing another man’s dream and there is no way you could succeed at that.

10. Inability To Engage in a Life Time Training

Many people that fail in life do so because of their belief that they have learnt all they need to know in order to succeed in life. They believe they are reservoir of knowledge and skills in their chosen field and that there is nothing they could learn from other people, especially from people outside their chosen field. They hardly study or go for training and seminars and as such they continue to apply the same techniques, principles and ideas to their businesses and relationships whilst the rest of the world is adopting new techniques, ideas and principles to advance at a supersonic speed.

The truth is that to stay at the top in life and business you must subscribe to a life of continuous learning. Any person or business that stops learning will begin to die.

YOU HAVE THE INHERENT POWER TO SUCCEED OR FAIL: THE CHOICE IS ALWAYS YOURS

noreply@blogger.com (Bobby Tee) — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:11:00 +0000

Every one of us has the dual power to succeed or fail; the thought of good or bad; success or failure that we allow in our minds plays a major role in what we eventually become, the result will be determined by the dominant of our thoughts. Our future is actually made inside us. While we all mostly have the default state of failure, the path to success requires our conscious effort and planning. And where we failed to plan then we have inadvertently planned to fail.

Few years ago when I was preparing for my professional examinations in insurance I experienced both success and failure that clearly illustrate the point am stressing here that we all have the inbuilt power to either succeed or fail in life, or whatever it is that we lay our hands on, depending on the choice we have consciously or unconsciously made.

Taking Up The Challenge:
It took me a while to got to know that some of my course mates at the polytechnic had started writing professional exams and immediately it came to my knowledge I made up my mind to enroll instantly, which I did and I had to borrow the registration fee and money for course books. I couldn’t afford the fees charged at the tutorial so I made up my mind to study on my own. So I got down to business instantly and started studying about seven months to my exam.

Hardly had I made my intention known that I started receiving series of advice from my course mates that were already writing the examinations. They were all of the opinion that I should not put in for life business, to them it was no go area; students that write the paper every year were too scanty because of the difficulties encountered in passing the paper. Their word was anything but encouraging, and was I deterred? Not at all, rather I became more curious and determined to explore the path most of them are afraid to follow and see things for myself.

My enrolment for the life business and inability to afford fees charged at the tutorial classes made it double challenge for me. And my critics believed that for me to pass the exams I must enroll for the tutorial class.

Determination:
In every challenge we face in life and or business, our will power to succeed amidst difficulties and uncertainties goes a long way to determine our achievement at the end of the day.
Consequently, I didn’t allow the obvious obstacles and every word of discouragement to deter me from becoming a chartered insurer within the shortest time possible. Even though then I didn’t know the concept of autosuggestion and positive confession, I was telling anyone that cared to listen that I was going to study on my own and pass the examination. And I had no doubt in my mind that I was going to pass the examinations.

Adequate Planning And Preparation:
Success in every endeavor depends on adequate planning and preparation. What challenges are you facing in your life or business? You need to evaluate the situation and consciously design a workable plan that would ensure you succeed. You must also be adequately prepared to work your plan. Failure to plan is an invitation to fail.

Hence, the first thing I did was to get all the course books I would need. And honestly, it was not easy to raise the money then. Thereafter, I began to study long time before the exam commenced. I actually study the course materials eight months before the exam and at that time others were busy doing something else. I became familiar with the course materials that, as the exam was getting nearer, each time I pick them up my mind reeled off the content of the materials so easily that my appetite for them was declining due to too much familiarity.

It is worthy of note here that I didn’t have the whole day to myself because I was working on a full time job and at the same doing part time programme in the polytechnic. The only time I have to study for my professional exam was in the night. In fact this is what brought about my long time preparation.

“War doesn’t claim the life of a wise cripple; because he would have exercised the wisdom to leave the war-threatened-zone long before the war started”---Proverb, Yoruba, Western Nigeria

The Right Association
The people you associate or hang out with have a lot of influence over your success or otherwise in life and business. They determine your faith to a greater extent and because of this you must be very careful of those you associate with. Just like somebody said: ”Show me your friends and I will tell you whom you are”

I have few friends then that we study together in the night after the office hours and I was particularly close to one lady among them. We were everywhere together (whenever this was possible) studying and teaching each other what we have learnt to the best of our abilities and whenever any topic or concept is not clear to us we consult our course materials together for clarity and better understanding. When it was a week to the exam we both took casual leave from our offices and she moved over to my place. No funny stuff though. And we began revising our notes and those topics we had treated previously late into the night and many time we would felt asleep right on top of our books.

One vital thing we never did throughout this period of our intense preparation, amidst stories of how we could not pass the exams studying on our own and all that and how most students are failing the exam every year, was to entertain fear or doubt about passing the exams or not. Because of our long preparation, I had a high level of confidence, positive and right mindset toward the outcome of the result.

And The Reward Came
I was very exhilarated when the result came out and I passed the four papers I wrote that year with two distinctions sandwiched in between. It was a great achievement for me that year because most of those that went to tutorial class could not record such achievement.
This really taught me a lesson on hard work and adequate planning and preparation on everything I want to do in life. As you read on, the essence of this sentence would be clearer.

Turn Of Events
The following year I enrolled for the second stage of the examination but the settings and circumstances have changed. The preparation and association have changed, they were entirely different and so was the result at the end of the day.

Negative Confessions And Inadequate Preparation
I had the misfortune of preparation the second stage of the examination with another friend who was anything but positive minded. She was fond of calling amidst our study and said that:
“Taye, do you know if we fail this examination it won’t matter because it was our money”, “I really don’t know what to write in the exams”

…and series of negative thoughts and confessions like that.

Before I knew what was happening I had bought into her thought and when the exam came I wrote the papers amidst fear and uncertainties.

The result
You guess right. I was even lucky to pass one out of the four papers I wrote in the examination and my negative-minded friend never passed any of her papers!

Conclusion
Much later as I study more and begin to have insights into certain concepts and principles that guides our human life; I was able to realize that I was actually responsible for both my success and failure in the examinations because of the state of my mind, my belief, the people I associated with during my preparation. Both friends had influenced my thoughts in different ways and that brought about the different results that I had.

More stunning is the realization that many are going through series of events in their lives without realizing the enormous power they have by simply controlling their thoughts and associate with the right people that could turn their lives around for the better.

My message to you is that arise and make use of that power within you because if you do not; you will be fully responsible for whatever happens to you on this planet and you can't blame your creator, maker or any higher power not even unluck, as many people are fonding of saying: "He is just lucky or Am just unluck" or so so and so is responsible for my misfortune.

Change your thought and your associate and you will dramatically change your life.