self development

101 Success Tips Complete List

2011-07-27T02:14:00.000-07:00

101 Success Tips Complete List

Tip 01: Introduction
Tip 02: Your Success Promise to Yourself!
Tip 03: The Half-Job Tip
Tip 04: Making Use of Your Dead-Time
Tip 05: Creating Urgency
Tip 06: Improve your Decision Making
Tip 07: Start Volunteering!
Tip 08: Be tougher on yourself
Tip 09: What Flaw is Holding You Back
Tip 10: 24 freight train wagons arrive every day
Tip 11: Listening
Tip 12: ANT - Automatic Negative Thoughts
Tip 13: Breaking out of your Comfort Zone
Tip 14: Inventory your Life Successes (Success Diary)
Tip 15: Finding the Positive in the Negative
Tip 16: Bouncing
Tip 17: Success Mantra
Tip 18: Finishing Tasks
Tip 19: Why You Need a Success Partner or Mastermind Group
Tip 20: Time Slicing
Tip 21: Be Positive!
Tip 22: Manifestation
Tip 23: Getting into the State: Breathing Exercises
Tip 24: Do the Most Important Thing First
Tip 25: Health
Tip 26: Procrastination I
Tip 27: Give Money Away
Tip 28: Mentors
Tip 29: Seminars
Tip 30: What is your Ambition
Tip 31: Do Something Unexpected Today
Tip 32: 4 Steps to Starting your Success
Tip 33: Day 33 Review
Tip 34: Are you a YAPPER?
Tip 35: Starting the Day : Black Pig Method
Tip 36: Why you must write things down (brainstorming with a
Tip 37: Just Get Going!
Tip 38: Swap Success for little Comforts
Tip 39: Procrastination II
Tip 40: Another Success Mantra
Tip 41: Finding time for reflection: Still Points and Stopovers
Tip 42: CANI : Constant And Never-ending Improvement
Tip 43: Time Management : The Four D's
Tip 44: Taking the different path (the less walked way)
Tip 45: Planning a Trip/Meeting
Tip 46: A Few Tricks to Remember Errands
Tip 47: What's Wrong with School
Tip 48: Power Four - Get your Energy Flowing
Tip 49: The ABCDE Method for Priorities
Tip 50: The story so far: You can achieve success if
Tip 51: Importance of Punctuality
Tip 52: Procrastination III : Living with or Exploiting it
Tip 53: The Life Plan
Tip 54: Your Lists
Tip 55: Elevator Pitch
Tip 56: Vital Questions to Discover Your Life Purpose
Tip 57: The Brutal Truth : Doing that Bit Extra
Tip 58: Your Dated Ambition Envelope
Tip 59: Taking the Leap
Tip 60: Picking a Business : Avoiding bandwagons
Tip 61: The Golden Goose : Google Adsense
Tip 62: Building your Confidence, Defeating Fear
Tip 63: The 4 types of Excuses (Excusitis)
Tip 64: How to Succeed in Your Career
Tip 65: Creative Thinking/Lateral Thinking
Tip 66: The Secret of Hotsheets
Tip 67: Find Your Why (John Di Lemme)
Tip 68: Recognising the Big Chance
Tip 69: 21 Suggestions for Success by H. Jackson Brown Jnr.
Tip 70: Falling at the Last Hurdle
Tip 71: Inside the Heads of Successful People
Tip 72: Tasks : Important but not Urgent
Tip 73: How to easily remember ten things in your head
Tip 74: Pipelines or Residual Income
Tip 75: Delegation
Tip 76: How to Focus on a Task
Tip 77: The Success Keyhole
Tip 78: Goal Setting Exercise
Tip 79: Changing your Mood
Tip 80: What is NLP?
Tip 81: The 4 Ways (Categories) of Making Money (Cashflow Quadrant)
Tip 82: Gain Motivation using the Centering Technique
Tip 83: Mailing Lists
Tip 84: KISS Keep It Short and Simple
Tip 85: Be Curious about about other People's Success
Tip 86: The Zone
Tip 87: The Tipping Point
Tip 88: Interview Techniques
Tip 89: Due Diligence
Tip 90: Can you make it on eBay?
Tip 91: Ask for Help More Often
Tip 92: Write Down and Display Your Daily Tasks
Tip 93: Duplicate Success (Modelling)
Tip 94: Create Your First Dream Board (Dream It, Create It, Become It)
Tip 95: GTD , Getting Thing Done Technique
Tip 96: Make the Best Decision you Can!
Tip 97: Thinking Out of The Box
Tip 98: To be your Own Boss, you must become your best Employee
Tip 99: Always have a Strategy for EVERY Occasion
Tip 100: Success Summary
Tip 101: Mystery

Where Are You?

2011-07-26T02:57:00.000-07:00

“Where are you?” That statement dates back to the beginning of time. That question was the first question that God asked man after man sinned in the Garden of Eden. “Where are you?” Imagine that God is asking you that same question today! Imagine that the purpose for your being, is asking that question today! Imagine that your community and the predestined boundaries of your existence are with one voice asking – “Where are you?”.

Oh, once upon a time you were the leader of the group. Oh, you were the chief usher for your fellowship back on campus, you were the sister’s leader, bible study secretary, head of a subgroup, president of a society, pastor of a fellowship! Oh you were great, you were grand, you results were exceptional, your story was unique and you made a mark! The question today however is not where were you, or who were you or what did you do? Today’s question is “Where are you?”. Where are you today, and what exactly is your story? Or let me put it more succinctly, what is your excuse? Don’t be tongue tied, you might find your answer within the first answer ever given!

“I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked. I hid myself” – Adam

1. I heard you in the garden and I was afraid

Are you in a place where the lack of alignment between God’s promises to you 10 years ago, and your current lifestyle evokes fear? Are you so far off what you believed your potentials were, that you fear that your life may have missed the mark? When you hear of some of your colleagues and the good turns that their lives have taken, does it fill you with fear? Do you heartily rejoice with the news of others’ progress or do you weep inside? The same words that filled you with excitement and joy, do they now fill you with fear?

Sometimes I’m tempted to wonder how the people who once pastored our current pastors’ feel today? I wonder how brighter and much more accomplished classmates of the current captains of industry feel? I wonder the quality of social impact, political power or economic empowerment comes from those rated most likely to succeed. If the voice that once relaxed you and got you engaging in thoughts and plans for your future now scares you, you need to turn away from your current track and repent!

2. Because

Whenever this word enters into your phrase or sentence, it means that your life and future are not totally your responsibility. Words like they, theirs, them, he, she, her and because are signposts of a life of dependency. If the question “where are you?” evokes any answer linked to “because”, you are not yet the co-architect of your destiny. I am where I am today, because… there was no choice, I didn’t finish with a good grade, it’s my background, I didn’t get a good break e.t.c. There is no reason strong enough for living a mediocre life.

So where are you? Are you living a life you are happy about? Do you feel trapped? Do you have the life you dreamed about years ago, or have you become a realist and settled for because? If you are not on track, can you get back on the track?

3. I was naked

Are you giving free reigns and full expression to your talents? Or are you cowering and taking refuge under the cover of shyness, timidity and shame? Have you “Seen yourself finish?”. Are you so totally consumed with your realities that your dreams no longer make sense? Contrary to your likely to succeed profile, have you decided to see yourself as common, trivial and not worth much?

Are you where you are because you feel naked on your own? Are you enjoying the false security of a system that clothes you under the insecurity of another man? Does your current employer or core work give you the impression of being clothed? Is your comfort derived from knowing that if you leave your current sheltered life, you will be naked?

4. I hid myself

The first 3 answers were child’s play compared to this one. Where are you? Are you somewhere hiding? Are you known? Are you relevant? Or are you hiding obscurity under humility? Are you camouflaging irrelevance with the cloak of responsibility? Are you in hiding? Do you have capacity to do much more than what you are currently doing? Is your light shining from a visible pedestal or are you dulling? Our design is to shine not hide. We are meant to be generous with our lives, are you generous with yours? Can you say your light is lighting up the paths for others to follow, can you say that you are light bearer ? Are you an entrepreneur hiding in employment? Are you a pastor hiding in the pew? Are you shining your light or hiding it!

Where are you?!
Adeolu Akinyemi is the MD of Avenues to Wealth Nigeria. He is an Entrepreneur, a Teacher, a Life Coach, a Networker and a Writer. Adeolu's career kicked off in Human Resources Management, where he had the opportunity to lead people development functions in some leading organizations. He since then moved on to consult for a wide variety of top Nigerian brands. In recognition of Adeolu's works, he's won scholarships, awards and recognitions in the last 18 consecutive years. He's a sought after trainer, a husband of one and a father of two children.

Self Development

2011-07-25T04:21:00.000-07:00

* Self-Development

* What It Is.
Self-Development is taking personal responsibility for one's own learning and development through a process of assessment, reflection, and taking action.

* When To Use It.
* To continually update skills and to remain marketable in the workplace.
* To determine future career direction.

* Assess your current skills and interest through paper-and-pencil career tests or through computer programs that analyze skills and interests.
* Maintain a learning log or diary to help you analyze what you are learning from work experiences.
* Write a personal vision and mission statement.
* Develop a personal development plan that identifies your learning needs and goals.
* Find a mentor who can provide you with support, advice, and assistance in your career direction.
* Become involved in professional organizations.
* Read professional journals and trade magazines to keep current on the latest developments in your field.