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To Learn Effective Spreadsheet Automation Generic Training Courses May Not Be Enough for YOU [Join my MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic club]

July 31, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Generic MS Excel training may NOT teach skills you need to automate YOUR unique data handling and report generation. Sometimes customizable MS Excel-VB learning solutions for results-focused users who want to do MORE, FASTER, and with less EFFORT are best. If you want that, join my MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic club, to boost your productivity. I explain why/how – below.

My approach is called “Experiential Coaching” and it ensures YOU remember what you learn, and become competent in applying it to meet your needs.

What this means is that I use mainly real life case studies from work YOU do, to teach you how to make MS Excel do what you want.

The reason it works is that rather than subject you to learning via generic examples created to appeal to majority of people, I work with you to design learning resources that focus on helping you address the specific needs you have in using MS Excel.

For instance, let’s say there is a weekly report you have to prepare for your boss every Monday, that gives you nightmares.

I would use what you tell me about it, to incorporate worksheet design enhancements and automation. that enable you generate the same report faster/with less effort than you had to expend previously. Then, I would SHOW you how to do it yourself, in a way that you can apply to meet future needs!

Depending on how far you choose to go in learning from me, you can become a Power User..

For me, the term “Power User” refers to a person who demonstrates:

a. superior proficiency to the extent that s/he is able to perpetually (or continually) optimize its an application’s to achieve maximum productivity.

b. the ability to quickly learn &/or master(via self-tutoring) additional features s/he has NOT used previously, in the same application – as the need arises.

NB: If you want, you can go even further to become a Professional Excel-VB Solutions Developer who builds/sells commercial quality Excel-VB software to a global audience – like me e.g. my Ration Formulator software, Poultry Farm Manager, Payslip Generator etc.

Adults Learn Best By Doing…

That’s why I offer Experiential Coaching/Learning Events – like the personalized home study video/workbook tutorials I offer, as well as my 4 day coaching workshop.

But one thing to note here that is that getting the results you want WILL be plenty of hard work – and ONLY YOU will determine how fast and well you learn.

In other words, you must demonstrate the commitment to learn by doing the numerous exercises you will be assigned.

You will be required to manage your learning i.e. do the exercises you are given and spend as much time as prescribed (or more) practicing what you learn.

If you do, you will end up with the ability to do everything you learn just as well as your learning facilitator (me) if not better.

Let me reiterate: It’s Experiential Learning, so you need to DO the exercises you will be given, in order to gain practical experience which will in turn facilitate your learning comprehension.

If you diligently apply yourself in doing the above, I can assure you that your resultant proficiency will amaze you, and those you work with.

Final Words: What I Offer Can Serve Individuals As Well as Organizations Equally Well

So, if you’re a decision maker for an organization, you can deliberately expose your employees to the two main types of learning events on offer here i.e. the home study tutorials and/or the coaching workshop.

Such employees can then be challenged to develop in-house solutions that effectively address the business’ peculiar data analysis /report-generation needs as they arise.

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3 Things You Must Do to Succeed in ANY Area of Life (Advice from Thomas Edison)

July 30, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile in life are first, hard work, second stick-to-itiveness, and third, common sense” – Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931), Inventor

Many people will read Edison’s words above, and readily claim they understand the quote. In fact, some will even recite those words in a bid to teach or mentor others.

However, my experiences and observations of hundred of people – in different societies – over 2 decades in and out of paid employment, convince me that VERY few people actually APPLY the wisdom of Edison’s quoted words in their daily lives.

How do I know?

I know because I am a student of human behavior, with regard to personal success achievement.

One thing that remains of never ending interest to me is why people SEE the truth about what they need to do to succeed, and yet continue doing things that are bound to deny them the success they claim to seek.

Look around at those you know, who have told you the valued goals they want to achieve in life.

Study them carefully, in terms of their daily actions and habits.

How many of them are applying anything close to the 3 simple rules spelt out by Edison in his quote?

If my experiences are anything to go by, you will not need more than a few days to a week to come to a reasonably accurate conclusion about any individual you choose to scrutinize in the manner I propose here.

Now, having seen others for who they are, in terms of their demonstrated commitment to personal success achievement, HOW DO YOU assess or rate yourself in terms of your adherence to EACH of Edison’s 3 rules?

Like I said at the start of this piece, I have noticed that a large majority of people in society are guilty of NOT adhering to those simple rules. Even those who have read the rules or at least heard about them.

People who have read the amazing stories about Edison’s achievements as an inventor despite what should have been the limitation of ONLY 3 months of elementary schooling!

These people, who often possess superior academic qualifications compared to what Edison had, still fail to follow the simple rules he shared as the secret for personal success achievement!

The above explains why today people who achieve exceptional success are in the tiny minority across the world, while those who live average, ordinary lives, unworthy of special mention are in the large majority.

The question to ask then is: what group do YOU want to belong to?

One could argue that there’s nothing wrong with being average. However, being average equates to being mediocre, because in EACH of us exists the potential to be EXCEPTIONAL.

EXCEPTIONAL people are those who take action towards, and ultimately achieve outcomes that the “average” majority do not – resulting in the former being the object of admiration (sometimes envy) bythe latter!

That is how the Creator made every single one of us: To be like Him. And He is exceptional…like no other. We can therefore NOT be anything less, if we are to truly glorify him through our presence on this planet.

The truth is that we cannot actualize our God-given potential by sleeping in worship houses, praying round the clock, without going out into the real world to ACT along the lines we have prayed to Him about.

No matter how religious you are, no matter how many affirmations you recite, YOU cannot become exceptional, if you fail to TAKE PERSONAL ACTION to get what you want

You MUST take action to get what you say you want. And you must do so with diligent persistence, making intelligent modifications to your efforts as you continue.

This is where some of the average majority, who fail to fulfill their God-given potentials (despite being religious) are missing the point.

I recommend you start today taking personal action to achieve your goals, by adhering to Edison’s 3 rules as follows:

a. work hard (in my case I work hard to create passive income generating assets once and reap the rewards forever e.g. my Ration Formulator software, my Feed Formulation Handbook, my Audio DVD on Passive Income Generation etc)

b. stick-to-it (i.e. persevere till you make it),

c. common sense (make intelligent changes to a. and b. as/when needed)

If you do, it will ONLY be a matter of time before your EXCEPTIONAL achievements cause others to recognize and celebrate YOU!

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The Kind of Parent You Need to Be, to Keep Your Child From Going Astray

July 29, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Photo: My 16 year old son and I stand outside a GT Bank branch in Lagos, after I showed him how to use the Fast Track service (with an ATM card issued by the bank), to by pass long queues and quickly withdraw cash in the banking hall.

Like I always say, I LIVE for my kids. Every day of my life is spent THINKING of how I can share with them, ALL that I know about how to function competently in EVERY aspect of life.

In the case of my son, for instance, I know he will interact with his peers, when I’m away. So I pay diligent attention to the kinds of friends he keeps (I request to meet them). We have had HARD sessions in which I got him to stop seeing certain friends who were a bad influence.

I do this because I know kids in their teens can be easily misled. The many mistakes I made when I passed through that phase remain vivid in my mind – and I’ve told my kids about them.

In spite of all my experiences however, I was shocked to my bones by the news story I read this morning, about the teenage boy (same age as my son!) who killed a 4-year-old boy In Lagos, removing his kidney and intestine”…

It was shared on Facebook by my friend Chima Ejiofor…

I was still trying to process that bit of news when another friend emailed me this link (click) to a news report from Ogun state titled “Baby stolen at naming ceremony”. This second story had a wicked twist to it because as the baby was being looked for, freshly cut human body parts were discovered in the compound next to the venue of the naming ceremony!

If truth be told, this kind of macabre news has become commonplace across Nigeria for several years and it’s only getting worse as the offenders are getting younger!

Even in Benin Republic, where I live amongst people who are 80% animists and therefore do not attend church or mosque, I have NEVER once heard of anything remotely resembling this – talk less of it happening with the frequency it does in Nigeria!!!

The above is what drives me to maintain a firm parenting hold on my kids, and to empower them with real world relevant knowledge, attitudes and skills.

Painful memories of the VERY humiliating experiences I had in the initial stages of my career as an entrepreneur, as well as the progressive societal decay mentioned above convince me I MUST do this for them.

Incidentally, this societal decay did not happen overnight. It’s been incubating for about 2 decades…

I don’t know about you, but I saw the signs…over 15 years ago. Others saw them too, but most of us ignored them since we were not involved. We failed to appreciate the negative impact it would later have on the society at large.

Today, the decay that began many years ago has turned Nigeria into a hell on earth for most people who would be considered NORMAL in other sane societies.

In my case, up till the time I chose to leave paid employment, I’d been able to leverage my formal schooling related abilities to excel. The environment in the corporate multinational I worked in particular was quite well managed to ensure that most times the MOST competent and deserving employees moved UPWARDS in the company’s hierarchy of positions.

Before then, during my time in the university, and before that time as well, I’d also experienced a reasonably normal society where lecturers rarely misbehaved (and if they did they got called to order accordingly) and one could be reasonably sure of the quality of learning to be had.

Then I went for my National Youth Service Corps assignment in Niger state…

There I found myself getting mocked by SS3 students for saying I would NOT come to tell them the answers during the exams proper.

When I got back to Lagos and raved about the fact that I saw the head teacher of the school I served actually standing in the middle of the hall reading out answers to the students (just like they’d told me he would).

My sister who I told laughed in my face and told me Lagos had even more graphic examples (she had just taken the exams herself at the time), and that it was “normal”.

But I still refused to believe it was that bad: this was way back in 1993!

Well if I was shocked by what I saw back then, what I see today, in 2015 simply leaves me numb – every time.

Just when I think I’ve seen or heard the worst story of social decay, someone hits me with news of yet another one on a higher scale.

If you’re a Nigerian living in Nigeria, I am sure you know what I mean by the above.

When I got into trouble between the ages of 10 and 16, adults who did not even know me or my parents were the ones who disciplined me and notified my parents I was keeping bad company.

Today, I am a positive change agent because those (mostly nameless) Nigerian elders/adults chose to set me right, when my own parents were not there.

In contrast to what obtained back then however, today it’s difficult to find adults with the strength of character to set young people on the right path, when they stray…

If anything what we tend to see at an alarming rate, are adults who CORRUPT innocent youths by engaging them to do all sorts of wrong things.

It’s happening at all levels of Nigerian society too!

What most people fail to realize is that many who were corrupted by BAD adults, 10 or more years ago as kids, are TODAY now parents to their own kids!

As you can imagine, most of them cannot but teach their kids the BAD things they learnt from those corrupt adults. In many cases, it’s often all they know how to do. Indeed many of them would have used those BAD habits to get to their current stations in life.

That’s why today we see people in various positions in public and private sectors of Nigeria misbehaving in unspeakable ways.

The LOVE of money is ONE major reason why this mess is happening!

Our collective unwillingness as a people to look beyond material possessions, and carefully scrutinize the moral character of every member of our society, has led us to this DARK place.

The worst part, for me, is however the fact that the few among us who still retain our sanity now find ourselves to be an endangered species.

Those who do the rubbish that’s killing our society see those of us who do NOT conform as a threat, and they instantly make us a target to be dealt with at the slightest opportunity.

I have experienced such discrimination and attacks VERY many times…

In my earlier years as an entrepreneur, I suffered major harassment and abuse at the hands of certain clients in the mould of the idiots I mentioned above. It took me great courage and determination to fight back and free myself from their clutches.

Those experiences, which I vowed I would never expose myself to again made me POUR my heart and soul into building a Web Marketing System that – today – enables me earn 80% of my income online, without having to work on client premises or meet face to face with most of them.

The above is what makes me determined to equip my kids with knowledge, skills and abilities that will make it UNNECESSARY for them to ever have to work for anyone.

Yes.

That is my goal. It is the best protection I can give them against the MADNESS I see taking place daily in the Nigerian society that they have had to grow up in.

It’s also why I am resolved to ensure they relocate with me to Benin Republic so they can experience a contrasting socio-cultural environment to Nigeria’s insane version.

Since many of their peers in Nigeria have already been sucked into that MAD culture (note that it begins with the THINKING HABITS they adopt), I know my kids need something to enable them RESIST the pull.

That “something” is a healthy level of self esteem based on sound awareness of their spiritual connection with God for guidance.

That “something” also includes the experience based confidence and ability I will help them develop to get whatever they need by themselves, without cutting corners.

The key to successfully coaching a child to succeed in life, is to SHOW him/her – via practical involvement – as often as possible, and as early as possible in life – how to do EVERYTHING s/he will need to do in adulthood.

Smart parents of today teach their kids as much as possible about life early on in their lives.

Let them SEE the world through your eyes, and let them LEARN through you how to DEAL effectively with pressures that will be imposed on them as they grow up and relate with peers.

You will periodically NEED to PUSH them HARD (e.g. scolding even punishing: my son and I have boxed and wrestled!) at various stages, when they display character FLAWS you know can be exploited.

You will need to do the above so as to toughen them up. When they leave home, that is ALL they will have to draw upon. And if nothing is there to draw upon, they WILL go astray!

Stop thinking they have to finish school before you tell them about people asking for and giving bribes at job recruitment centres, examination venues or police check points.

Don’t wait till they finish school (NOT even primary school!) before you start teaching them about money and what they can do to earn it…especially outside salaried employment.

In other words, waste no time in helping them develop entrepreneurship abilities.

Why? Because the MADNESS we see today in Nigeria is mostly due to people desperate to make money by any means!

You see, if you coach your child to develop his/her talents and abilities to MAKE money – especially outside paid employment – s/he will feel no pressure to use crooked ways to get it!

Only parents who do this hard work when it matters most, during the formative years of their kids, can look forward to having reasonable peace of mind when their kids grow up.

They are the ones who will be reasonably confident that their kids will do the right thing, even when others do the wrong thing. They will be confident that their child is telling the truth (and therefore support him/her) when s/he says “I did not do it” if/when falsely accused by others.

That is the kind of parent I want to be: I want to CLONE myself in each of my kids so that they can go into the world and function as positive change agents in every society they venture…like I DO or even better than me!

If more Nigerian parents were to adopt a similar philosophy, ALL this madness that we see around us – like the 2 news stories mentioned above – WILL die out in no time!

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THE FARM CEO (Issue 08): 24 Ways to Make Money from Your Farm, Using Cassava Products in Pig Feeding, Insects As a Sustainable Feed Ingredient in Pig & Poultry Diets – A Feasibility Study, Small Farms Finding New Ways to Stay Successful (CEO Interview), Common Terms Used in Animal Feeding and Nutrition

July 28, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

This eighth (8th) issue of THE FARM CEO newspaper features my reviews of, and links to:

[URL] 24 Ways to Make Money from Your Farm P.1

[PDF] Using Cassava Products in Pig Feeding P.2

[PDF] Insects As a Sustainable Feed Ingredient in Pig & Poultry Diets – A Feasibility Study P.2

[URL] Small Farms Finding New Ways to Stay Successful (CEO Interview) P.3

[URL] Common Terms Used in Animal Feeding and Nutrition P.3

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No. 203: To Succeed, Speak to Solve Problems!

July 27, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

One proven way to succeed is to develop viable solutions to problems others will gladly reward you for. By implication, your success as an expert-who-speaks will be determined by how well your message empowers your audience to solve the problem(s) they face.

The reason: Human Beings dislike problems & often want to eliminate them QUICKLY!

As a result, people always welcome anyone who offers a speedy resolution.

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Date: Monday 27th July 2015

No:203

Title: To Succeed, Speak to Solve Problems!

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The reason: Human Beings dislike problems & often want to eliminate them QUICKLY!

As a result, people always welcome anyone who offers a speedy resolution.

That’s why it is said that if you want to get rich, find a solution to a real problem being experienced by people in your society or market.

In Nigeria for instance, lack of constant power supply creates a unique challenge not faced in most other countries…

So you’ll find, in Nigeria’s markets, all sorts of alternatives to public power supply – from generators to power banks, solar power generators, inverters etc – on sale/actively purchased.

For obvious reasons, the above solutions command much less attention from paying buyers in neighbouring Benin Republic, who ironically buy their electricity from Nigeria!

So, compared to their smaller/poorer Beninese neighbours Nigerians in Nigeria have to spend EXTRA money daily to buy and fuel generators to power their homes and offices.

That has multiple implications: The avoidable extra expense of buying, servicing and replacing generators, the noise and smoke pollution associated with using generators, and the LOSS of pure profit by way of the extra expense associated. These annoyances face the average Nigerian in business – and general society.

The inadvertent extra spending directly impacts on the bottom line for a business owner, or disposable income for a salary earner in Nigeria. Both consequently end up with LESS money than they should, in their pockets or bank accounts every single month.

As you can imagine, for people who are forced to incur EXTRA expenses generating power, ANY opportunity to cut down on spending in other areas would be welcome.

To achieve speaking success with your target audience, address them where they “hurt”!

Identify your client’s unique situation and challenges. Add whatever you find out, to whatever s/he tells you is/are the “goals”.

Then come up with workable ideas and strategies to us in solving the problems/achieving the goals.

a. For instance, in reaching out to individual or organizational clients with my speaking solutions, I typically offer to share ideas and strategies for getting more done, with less effort, in less time, and at less cost.

All of that translates to making them more productive, at increasingly lower cost.

The above is a key reason why over 80% of my Feed Formulation Handbook and Software sales are to Nigerian Farm Business Owners. Many of them tell me their main reason for buying is to learn how to make their own feed, and cut down the huge sums they spend on feeding their livestock.

b. Here’s another perspective: More members of my target audience are inquiring about and purchasing information products, talks and services I offer on passive income generation.

Most already make money doing what they do, but they WANT to make even MORE money, without necessarily having to do more work.

It goes without saying that people all over the world have the same preferences. Everybody wants that kind of benefit.

However, the Nigerians in Nigeria are under much greater pressure to find ways to earn more, without spending, because a chunk of the INCOME they earn is ROUTINELY spent in generating power that government should normally provide them…!

Since no viable short/medium term alternative exists for them to stop spending on power generation, the opportunity to earn MORE money without needing to run their generators for LONGER periods is one that appeals to them.

That’s why I always say the following to my target audience:

“No matter how much money you are making on your job, or in your business, creating passive income streams to COMPLEMENT your efforts WILL leave you better off!” – Tayo K. Solagbade

People LIKE that kind of message. You telling them they don’t need to keep spending time/effort/money in order to keep making money.

People LOVE anyone who can give them a solution to the challenge of not-enough-money.

In speaking to your target audience, you must give them workable ideas to use in solving:

(a) The problems they tell you they face

(b) The problems your own diligent research and investigations tell you they need to address.

In my case, I often go out of my way to find out where the shoe pinches EACH client/member of my target audience – especially those in Nigeria…

Basically, for most of them, their profit margins (in business) and disposable incomes (in paid employment) are LESS than they should be…

That knowledge guides me in speaking to them, so that I know what to say to MAKE THEM feel a need to take action and hire (or buy from) me!

I doing so, I share my tested and proven ideas for getting things done, and making MORE money in the process, without necessarily having to spend ANY money.

One example: Last week, I told the story about a 2 part audio DVD product I purchased, at what I called a criminally LOW price of N100 (half a dollar) per disk.

To make matters worse, I was told that 3rd parties were paid to prepare the audio recording in a studio, and to mass produce the branded labels and jackets used.

Unfortunately, after the heavy spending, sales barely trickled in for months. The sales shop had boxes of unsold disks and books (in thousands) stacked on the floor when I visited.

The staff explained many potential buyers kept asking them to LOWER the price, but despite dropping prices to as low as N100 (about $0.5 USD) per disk, nothing had changed!

I told them to tell their boss…

a. That they needed to take the price back up to something more respectable, noting that my lowest priced audio DVD product sells for N1,000.0…and that, despite the fact that I do NOT use a rented sales shop.

b. That they could have saved A LOT of money by doing some of their product development in-house (at least for starters)…

In this regard, I explained that ALL my branded DVD labels and book covers were designed by me, using Photoshop, on my laptop. I also noted that ALL my audio pod casts and video tutorials/demos are recorded on my laptop.

What’s more, I use my laptop’s DVD drive to burn the needed copies of ALL my products to CD/DVD, which I then label and put in sleeves or plastic casings etc.

Now, don’t get me wrong. In other climes, it could be smarter to give this out to some “provider”…

But when you are an individual or micro to small business in a market like Nigeria, where buyer attitudes make selling of products like this difficult, it’s best to minimize the expense overheads to give yourself the best possible chance of earning tangible profits per sale.

Then over time, as your brand becomes more established, nothing stops you from outsourcing any areas you want, so long as you’re sure you’ll remain profitable.

There’s also the relatively higher cost of doing it. For instance in Cotonou, I print ONE A4 page in black and white for N8, but in Lagos, it costs me N50…over 10 times more!

NB: In case you’re wondering “What if the numbers of disks to be duplicated are many?” the answer is simple: purchase a CD duplicator!

It will pay for itself many times over. I know this because of the results being enjoyed by a young Beninese friend in Cotonou, who I encouraged to revive his own CD duplicator, which he’d abandoned in his parents’ home for months.

Today, he uses it in a business centre he’s opened in that spare room in the family house!

Moral: The fact that you have money does NOT mean you have to spend it to get MORE of the results you want.

Quite often, deep thinking and analysis of how you currently do what you do, can help you conceive superior ways to IMPROVE the results you get – at zero cost!

As you can see from the above, in speaking to my clients, I offer to share ideas and strategies, about how to earn MORE, and SPEND LESS money, time, and effort in doing what they do better.

In other words, I describe to them practical solutions to problems they face…and every now and then, that leads them to hire (or buy from) me.

If you adopt a similar problem solving focus in speaking to your clients(be it as individuals or in groups), you’ll dramatically boost the response generating impact of your sales/marketing messages on them!

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Question: But who is Burt Dubin, and why do I (Tayo K. Solagbade) think you should you learn from him?

Answer: Burt is a 3 decade veteran in the professional speaking business. After achieving top level cross continental success as an expert-speaker, he has established a reputation for mentoring some of the highest paid speakers in the world. He owns SpeakingBizSuccess.com, SpeakingSuccess.com and BurtDubin.com.

Burt helps those he mentors (experts-who-speak) to Position, Package, Promote, and Present* themselves successfully to clients (*He calls them the 4Ps). That’s why it’s no surprise that on Burt’s website, considerable space capital is devoted to useful business marketing articles as well as products.

It might also interest you to know that MANY years back, Burt established himself as one of the best marketing minds in the world. To really put this FACT in proper perspective, I’ll provide more specific details in form of an example.

A few years ago, Burt contributed an article to a powerful publication titled “The Most Effective Articles Ever – By The World’s Top Marketers“. That 574 page ebook features timeless marketing advice from 71 of the world’s top marketers – including Jack Trout, Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver…and Burt Dubin.

That’s ample proof that (in addition to Public Speaking), Burt would be a great resource to learn business marketing from!

Full Disclosure: I represent Burt as Sole Agent for his products/services, which means if YOU buy from him, I get paid.

But that’s NOT the main reason I represent and recommend him. I have benefited in many ways by learning from Burt. Through his writing, his audio recordings, and from directly relating with him.

Before we teamed up in 2011, I’d been studying his work and adapting it to succeed in my work from way back in 2002. It does not matter what part of the world you’re in. If you know how to adapt them to suit your peculiar local needs, Burt’s ideas and strategies WILL work for you. I am living proof of it!

That’s why I never tire of CONFIDENTLY recommending him to others.

If you need help putting the ideas shared above to use, let me know HERE.

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“Tayo, I honestly believe you are one of those who will succeed at anything he does. Your commitment and effort has been outstanding….Thanks for all your hard work since I’ve been here – you will be sorely missed. I don’t need to wish you good luck, you have the ability to make your own luck. – Andy”(R. Jones)*

*Operations Manager, Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery, December 2001 (Handwritten comments in farewell/xmas cards sent to Tayo Solagbade following his resignation to start his own business).

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SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 202: If People Write You Off ?
[Tuesday]:	THE FARM CEO (Issue 07): Formulating Farm Specific Swine Diets, Feeding L/stock During Feed Shortages, 7 Tips to Reduce Feed Waste and Save Money, Raising Meat Rabbits to Save The World, Farm Software & Worksheets
[Wednesday]:	Why You Are Not Making (Enough) Sales!
[Thursday]:	Your Response to Life’s Challenges Determines How Well You Succeed
[Friday]:	People Who Succeed Are Often Driven By A Compelling Need (True Story About My ExcelVB Income & Expense Manager – Get it for N1,000 instead of N5,000)
[Saturday]:	N/A
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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to

Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting,

freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods

and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training & Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy Limited.

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African continent).

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.

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On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts

he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix (TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name

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Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring

for Africa Based Experts(PDF…Click!)

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People Who Succeed Are Often Driven By A Compelling Need (True Story About My ExcelVB Income & Expense Manager – Get it for N1,000 instead of N5,000) – Offer Expires MNT Friday 31st July 2015

July 24, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

My Income & Expense Manager is a nifty little Excel-VB driven software. Runs trouble free on MS Excel versions 2000 to 2013. Sells for N5,000 (But if you want, you can fill the form below, to claim it for N1,000 – approx. $5 USD: Offer Expires MNT Friday 31st July 2015).

If this app could speak, it would tell you about a heartbreakingly prolonged, adversity filled period of my life during the last QUARTER of 2007(described in another article here – click)…

That was when I marketed that app, on a CDROM from door to door (via daily pavement pounding) in the Ogba-Ikeja area of Nigeria’s Lagos state.

I pushed myself so hard, that in November 2007, I sold over N41,000.00 (Forty One Thousand Naira) worth of it to micro, small and medium business owners in the above mentioned area. Funny thing is I NEVER thought about how much it was adding up to. I was just going out there each day, driven by a need to make money to meet the basic needs of myself and my dependents.

Below: Image version of printed flyer I used to market an earlier version of the Income & Expense Manager

What I learned during that phase serves me well today, as I sell to high profile buyers from home – using the web.

How is this possible you ask?

You see, if you pay careful attention, you CAN learn a LOT about yourself and the psychology of selling to HUMAN BEINGS in the process of struggling and suffering to make sales!

When you KNOW that you have NO MONEY in your pockets or bank account to buy fuel into your car, or buy food for your wife and kids to eat at home, YOUR RESOLVE to close sales is likely to HARDEN!

Human beings like leisure, pleasure, comfort, fun etc. We do NOT like stressing ourselves when alternatives exist to take things easy. We love EASE.

We therefore need to have something that we simply cannot ignore happen to use, to DENY that love of EASE.

This is why many who succeed as sales persons tend to be those who are DRIVEN by a need they have (e.g. lack of money, hunger, poverty) which they know that CLOSING sales can help them meet

A guy who needs to cough up N150k to complete his rent renewal, will be DRIVEN to try closing more sales of his Web Marketing service (priced at N100k).

He will do so, in order to fulfill his rent obligation, and have a little left over to live on.

What I just said above is what has happened personally to me: October to December 2007 was an extremely challenging period of my life!

But there were many others…

Those kinds of circumstances are what I routinely found myself faced with, and often with NO ONE to help (Especially since close relatives had already been lending me money I never managed to return)!

Those painful, prolonged experiences of struggle and suffering forced me to grow faster than I would have, if I had HAD alternatives to fall back on every time.

For instance, my negotiation skills rapidly improved because of the constant need I had to return home with at least ONE sale of my N2,500 software, so as to provide for my family’s needs for the next day. We were basically living from hand to mouth back then.

Yet, I persisted. Actually I had no choice. My bridges were burnt.

So I had to steel myself (hat tip to Burt Dubin) and fight to get back on my feet.

And it worked: I came face to face with my other self(as promised by Napoleon Hill in Think & Grow Rich) i.e. the one that KNOWS that conquering adversity is necessary step for success achievement.

I consequently gained LOTS of confidence and selling skills refinement from selling my N2,500 app. I also got a LOT of ideas about WHO I could sell to, WHAT I could sell to them, and HOW to make them buy.

It all began to pay off within the first 8 weeks of 2008…

I won high paying projects building apps much more elaborate and sophisticated than the N2,500 app. The client companies (a hotel, as well as a hospital) hired me to develop custom apps for them after I did my demonstration of the smaller app.

Basically, the decision maker asked “Can you build something that works like this app of yours, to do what we do here in MS Excel?”

And I simply replied: “Of course. Just tell and/or show me what you do, and how you do it, then tell me what you want the finished app to do. For best results, let me have someone to vet what I’m doing, to minimize rework, and you’ll have your app in the promised delivery duration. ”

By this time, my selling instincts from the painful periods of hardship had become keenly honed…

Among other things, I’d become adept at parrying any attempts to haggle about or beat down my fees unreasonably.

I was always clear in my mind about HOW MUCH I needed to get from each job, to ensure reasonable peace of mind for me and my family, until I got another project.

The result was that I got home with much more money in my pockets.

Today, I use what I learnt to close sales without even meeting clients face to face.

That’s how suffering helps you. When you have a NEED that you feel compelled to satisfy, and money is required, that NEED is likely to drive you to put in much more effort, than you normally would be willing to, in order to get the money that enables you meet it!

During the period when that need remains unmet, you may feel pain, stress or have to struggle. In other words, you may experience some suffering. But ultimely, if you persist, that NEED you feel is what will drive you to succeed.

That’s why I tell people all the time that suffering is good for us…like Jim Rohn said, “Adversity forces the human spirit to grow!”

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Click HERE, to buy it for N1,000 (approx. $5 USD) only…just tell me you want the Income & Expense Manager emailed to you for N1,000.0

Click here to read an article that describes the app’s features in elaborate detail: screenshot images, and links to video demos of it in use…

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Your Response to Life’s Challenges Determines How Well You Succeed

July 23, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

The Challenge-Response (C-R) Model

I learnt about this model in a course I took during my third year of undergraduate study in the University of Ibadan’s Agricultural Extension Services department.

As I recall it, the C-R model is based on the premise that people from some societies, which today are regarded as “developed”, in the early days on earth, were confronted by very harsh environmental conditions.

They had – among other things – extreme weather variations (e.g. Snow during which time most plants either died or hibernated, leaving little if any fruits and animals for humans to eat). Also phenomena like Hurricanes, Blizzards, and Earthquakes etc were repeatedly visited upon them and often claimed many lives.

The frightening possibility of extinction forced them to search for ways to “control” their environment.

Over many years, concerted efforts led to various inventions which progressively made it possible to control their environment better (Electricity, Air-conditioning, weather monitoring and control equipment etc). Man-made creations, designed to make life on earth safer and easier, were thus initially produced as a means to ensure survival.

However, in the process of responding to nature’s life-threatening challenges, they also discovered a previously unknown part of themselves. They had come to realise an inherent ability as humans to achieve practically anything they set their minds to.

So they began applying the learnings obtained from trying to survive, to making their existence even more pleasurable. In effect science and technology was born, and evolved over the years to meet their needs – and those of the rest of the world!

At about the same time, in the other groups of societies, which today are considered to be “developing” or “under-developed”/”third world” etc, however (i.e. during those early days), the C-R model posits that the environment was generally very conducive for human existence.

For instance in many places, trees with juicy, edible fruits were rarely ever in short supply -and when they did get limited in availability, the people simply moved on to other areas where things were still “rosy”!

Also, weather variations – in most parts – rarely approached the extremities recorded in the societies, which are today called “developed”.

So, the proponents of this sociological “theory” posit that the favourable environment – at that time – in the societies today regarded as “under-developed” made the people there adopt a relaxed – passive – attitude to life wherein they felt no pressing NEED to control their environment (at least not like those in the relatively “harsher” environments which today are considered “developed”.

Unfortunately, this absence of frighteningly challenging external stimuli (believed to have motivated the now developed societies (back then – and even today!) to actively seek to control their environment), is what the proponents of the C-R model believe led to the relative underdevelopment of those less developed today.

Analogy: Application of the C-R Model In Sports

Now, I have no interest in debating whether or not this model is correct. What I am interested in is the logic of the argument it presents. World Class athletes will tell you that when their rivals are not in a race with them, they often find it difficult to put in the extra effort needed to break old (or set) new records. It is not uncommon to hear a professional athlete say she needs someone to “pace” her.

Think back to competitions you have witnessed, and you will realise that records have often been set, as a result of two or more strong contenders for the first place in a race struggling to beat each other to the finish line. When an athlete knows she has outpaced the rest of the field, there is sometimes less motivation to keep going at maximum speed, since no physical evidence of a threat to clinching first place is apparent.

The foregoing shows that the logic of the C-R model could (and I do mean could!) be right. If we apply it to our individual lives, it implies that our difficult colleagues, bosses, and friends actually present us with challenges that we can CHOOSE to deliberately USE motivate ourselves to strive for continuous improvement in our personal and work lives.

So, every time they refuse to help, try to obstruct us, criticise (or ridicule) us, we should deliberately draw strength from the thought of eventually achieving our objective(s) DESPITE their efforts!

Generally, those who go through life too easily or comfortably are often ill prepared to deal with difficulties and disappointments – especially psychologically. As a result, they are typically incapable of withstanding adversity or recovering from (temporary) setbacks or failures.

On the other hand, people who have always had to struggle through life often emerge “toughened”, and demonstrate this by being resilient even in the face of difficulties, hardships, setbacks etc caused by difficult people or circumstances around them.

Summary: To be successful in life, one needs to develop an ability to accommodate and tolerate others who differ from – or disagree with – us in any number of ways.

In the same way, we need to be able to ADAPT to those inevitable periods when we will find ourselves in inconvenient, difficult, uncomfortable environments or circumstances that we are NOT so used to, or that we totally dislike. Our ability to ENDURE, and make the most of such “opportunities” will ultimately determine our success – or otherwise.

These are examples of REAL-LIFE challenges you will have to deal with daily. As I have said elsewhere, development of a positive mindset, mental stamina and visualisation are the three most CRUCIAL requirements for ANYONE to succeed in ANY area of endeavour in life.

It’s not easy to do and you may not like it, but in my opinion nothing teaches greater discipline (and builds you UP better) than having to periodically struggle, and WORK hard to OVERCOME unexpected difficulties or challenges that confront you in your society and/or environment.

Master this skill, and you will be well on your way to becoming truly UNSTOPPABLE!

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Why You Are Not Making (Enough) Sales!

July 22, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Today I purchased an excellent 2 part audio DVD product (titled “Know Your Rights in Dealing With the Police/In Court”) at a microbusiness sales shop. But each disk cost me N100 (One Hundred Naira) – and to me, that price was criminally LOW! I told the sales lady so, noting that my audio DVD products sell for a minimum of N1,000 (most from N2,500), and I do NOT even pay for a rented outlet!!

Curious, I asked the lady, if the sales recorded covered the rental overheads and other expense they were incurring.

Not surprisingly, she told me her boss, the brilliant lawyer who had produced that 2 part audio series – and many other products lined up in boxes in the shop – had dispensed a lot of his personal funds trying to get buyers.

According to her, people keep telling them to bring down their price – yet, even at N100 for both the DVDs and the book versions, sales are only trickling in!

Figures.

Buyers in these parts are like that. Listening to them in deciding your pricing is equivalent to commiting business marketing suicide. A long time ago, I learned to IGNORE prospective buyers who are too fixated on my PRICE to the exclusion of other considerations.

Before leaving, I told the lady to tell her boss to give me a call.

If he calls I intend to give him a FREE consultation on what he is doing wrong, and why he needs to completely CHANGE the selling arrangement he currently has in place, if he wants to command SALES befitting the quality of product he offers.

I have listened to the first part of the DVD, and it’s obvious that it was professionally produced in a studio. What’s more, each DVD has a label, and a sleeve – all branded.

As you can imagine that must have cost quite a bit, to do.

Consider also that he has over 10 other products similarly produced all stacked in boxes in the retail shop.

The problem is – as I told the young lady – only people who PHYSICALLY come across the shop, and who can spare the time to stop over are most likely to make purchases.

Yet, the truth remains that MANY people would most likely be positively disposed to purchasing a product that offers RELIABLE information of YOUR RIGHTS in dealing with the police, and in court.

It’s a subject, especially in Nigeria, that is worth learning a bit about, given the erratic nature of Nigeria’s society.

I should add here that she mentioned they have a website, but their offline efforts are not in anyway complemented by what is online. As a result, little synergy is being achieved.

If my experiences are anything to go buy (and I KNOW from what I’ve done for other clients and myself that they are), waiting for people to discover you in a corner shop, where you have books and DVDs in boxes for sale, is unlikely to yield tangible, talk less sustainable results over time.

What you are selling is INFORMATION in various formats that people can buy. It is imperative, if you wish to be profitable, that you drastically cut down the costs you incur in FINDING or attracting potential buyers.

Indeed, I always recommend for people in this field, that they employ a system that makes people who need their products find and come to them. This is because that ensure the most serious of them come to have sales discussions with you.

This lawyer, I learnt, in a bid to make more sales at a point has even paid “marketers” to go out to the streets hawking the products.

Wrong move.

That will hurt you much more than it can help you – if at all!

Take it from me. I have seen so many people end up with zero results to show from using this strategy.

The minute you adopt that approach, you make yourself and what you offer look ORDINARY – and that will only attract the worst kinds of potential buyers: those looking for bargains at ANY cost. Those who do NOT appreciate quality or value.

If you want to make good profits in business, it is important to make up your mind to attract ONLY people who will be willing to pay what you ask (or something close) to get the QUALITY solution you offer.

That’s why you need to adopt a system that is repeatable, and reproducible, which will work for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and all round the year – even when you are sleeping – to make serious minded potential buyers discover and contact you!

This kind of system can however NOT be developed overnight.

You will need to invest quality time and effort, to get it up and running.

But the minute it’s in place and working well (and you keep WORKING it) you will be able to reap the SALES rewards as promised, with MINIMAL cost overheads.

Indeed, in the case of the lawyer, like I told his sales person, he would be abe to SHUT that rented shop permanently, and still be able to make MUCH more money selling ALL his products than he ever did BEFORE he adopted the system I propose here.

Simply put, this system is a timeless marketing weapon that will generate sales leads for you, making those who need your information products find and CONTACT by themselves, to get it.

The best part is most times they will come VERY prepared to part with the money you tell them to pay !

So, what is this system that ATTRACT profitable buyers at zero cost that I refer to – and how do I know it work?

It’s called a Web Marketing System.

And I know it works because I developed it myself using my experiences from over a decade of building my brand to generate passive income streams as a Location Independent Multipreneur.

I also help clients develop, implement, and maintain it for their different businesses.

Imagine NOT having to go out hunting for potential buyers with your products in hand anymore?

Imagine being able to get total strangers to send you money to buy products you make/store at home, without needing to spend crazy sums renting an office or shop?

Imagine being able to WORK LESS and earn more money?!

That’s what intelligent use of a Web Marketing System has been doing for me for YEARS.

That is also what it can do for you – if you know how.

If you’d like to learn more about a Web Marketing System, and how I can help you, click here to contact me.

Below: Photograph of my latest Audio DVD Information Product titled “Proven Ways to Generate Useful Passive Income” (sitting on my copy of Robert Kiyosaki’s “Why ‘A’ Students Work for ‘C’ Students, and ‘B’ Students Work for the Government”)

This was handed over – on Sunday 12th July 2015 p.m (when we met for a private session) – to a newsletter subscriber who paid for it on Monday 6th July 2015, but was unable to join us at Tantalizers Fast Foods Restaurant, along Ojodu-Berger Road, in Nigeria’s Lagos, on Wednesday, 8th July 2015, for the face to face coaching session I had with others on the subject.

Want a copy of the Audio DVD? Price is N5k. Click here to let me know.

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THE FARM CEO (Issue 07): Formulating Farm Specific Swine Diets, Feeding L/stock During Feed Shortages, 7 Tips to Reduce Feed Waste and Save Money, Raising Meat Rabbits to Save The World, Farm Software & Worksheets

July 21, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

This seventh (7th) issue of THE FARM CEO newspaper features my reviews of, and links to:

1. Formulating Farm Specific Swine Diets P.1

2. [URL] Feeding L/stock During Feed Shortages P.2

3. 7 Tips to Reduce Feed Waste and Save Money P.2

4. [URL] Raising Meat Rabbits to Save The World P.3

5. [URL] Farm Software & Worksheets P.3

Below: Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 07 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 20th July 2015)

Subscribe to THE FARM CEO, and get this new issue 06, as well as ALL back issues, in addition to your full subscription of 48 weekly issues.

1) Useful feed formulation/other findings from trusted sources

2) Cost-saving ideas from farm visits as I travel across West Africa.

3) Ads by farm providers/suppliers of all genres.

4). Special promo price offers of my Software and Book products

Full details at http://tinyurl.com/TheFarmCEO

1 year’s subscription = 48 issues.

Subscription Fee = $36 USD (approx) N6.8k [You get my $82 USD Feed Formulation Handbook FREE, as well as FREE Bi-weekly ads for YOUR biz]

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No. 202: If People Write You Off ?

July 20, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Africans have many wise sayings. A good example in Yoruba (i.e. my) language is:

“Aropin ni ti eniyan. Ko da ise Oluwa duro!”

Translation: “Human beings have a tendency to readily write others off (e.g. when a person suffers failure or setback in business or life). But their doing so NEVER changes God’s plan for that person’s progress!“

The problem I keep seeing is that the same Africans who OWN these sayings are often guilty of NOT applying their wisdom in THEIR PERSONAL LIVES.

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Date: Monday 20th July 2015

No:202

Title: If People Write You Off?

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – If People Write You Off?

Africans have many wise sayings. A good example in Yoruba (i.e. my) language is:

“Aropin ni ti eniyan. Ko da ise Oluwa duro!”

Translation: “Human beings have a tendency to readily write others off (e.g. when a person suffers failure or setback in business or life). But their doing so NEVER changes God’s plan for that person’s progress!“

The problem I keep seeing is that the same Africans who OWN these sayings are often guilty of NOT applying their wisdom in THEIR PERSONAL LIVES.

It’s strange how many people know the above proverb for instance, and yet lack the capacity to see BEYOND the present or to think deeply about issues/to be better judges of character!

They generally prefer to LEAN on what OTHERS think and/or say, to decide what their own personal thoughts and actions should be at any point in time.

As a result, they readily write others – even themselves! – off.

I recall several people who pointedly stated – when I still struggled to establish my brand – that I could not achieve my goal of attracting paying clients for my products or services 80% of the time via online channels, while based in Nigeria/West Africa [NB: I do that regularly today, as a Location Independent Multipreneur]

They said “Look Tayo, this is Nigeria/Africa, and NOT America. All those your ideas are from Americans. You have to understand that over here things don’t work the same way!”

What they failed to realize, and which I tried without success to get them to understand was that IDEAS will often not work if used EXACTLY the same way they were used in another socio-cultural environment.

On the contrary – and history attests to this fact – most times YOU will have to take an idea you like and ADAPT (i.e. modify) it to suit the unique peculiarities extant in the society you wish to transplant and use it.

All over the world we see evidence of it.

Yet in Nigeria/Africa, especially those of us who travel little or not at all, there is this unwillingness to recognise this important requirement.

The Japanese are today considered leaders in car making with special emphasis on ergonomics, durability/longevity, and fuel economy, among other benefits.

But a look back in time will reveal that when they began, they basically studied and then copied what car makers in Europe and America were doing, making intelligent improvements, to suit the needs of their intended target audience, until they got it right, and over time won the market over.

As an expert in your field, your ability to “borrow” ideas from ANYWHERE, and creatively apply them to achieve your goals in the market you serve, will determine how much impact you make, and ultimately how successful you become.

I say this as one who has done – and continues to do – just that.

Everything you see me do offline, and on this website – www.tayosolagbade.com – is based on over 10 years of hard work studying highly successful experts from across the world, and incorporating ideas from what I saw them doing, to boost my own efforts.

From how I talk or write about what I do, to how I think about it, and who I choose to offer my solutions to, I have borrowed countless ideas from countless successful experts, and adapted to my own purposes.

One expert, whose work has most greatly influenced me is Burt Dubin. What’s most exciting for me is that today, he and I are business partners!

For those who may miss the significance of the foregoing point, it has to do with what Napoleon Hill called the Power of Association in his classic bestseller “Think and Grow Rich”.

You see, the QUALITY of minds you expose your mind to, will often greatly determine how much personal growth and success you are able to achieve in life.

If you spend your time rubbing minds with people of LOW QUALITY thinking (and I KNOW I do NOT need to give you examples of this!), you will not make much quality advancement towards any tangible success in your personal or work life.

But if you devote your quality time to INTERACTING purposefully with people of great MENTAL CAPACITY (and I do NOT mean “book worm” or academic types), you are likely to eventually begin to record exception successes consistent with what those great minds you associate with are known for.

Many people who tell me they’ve read Think and Grow Rich often express surprise when I tell them that THAT Henry Ford started out in life as a stark illiterate, working for Thomas Edison, before leaving to build his car-for-the-masses manufacturing empire!

Yet the story of how Ford began is told in a chapter in Think and Grow Rich (Which makes me wonder, as I’ve said in past articles, if they really read the book as they claim)!

That book explains the impact of the Power of Association with great minds (like Thomas Edison, Luther Burbank and others) on Henry Ford.

Since he was illiterate, it was not his IQ or academic abilities that led him to success. Instead, it was the QUALITY of great minds he was opportune to associate with that stimulated his creative insights till he conceived his own magnificent obsession and achieved it.

In the same way, YOU need to understand that what people say or think about where you are or how far you can go with your dream should NOT matter to you.

What you need to do is seek out people of GREAT MENTAL CAPACITY like those Ford courted in his start-up years, and it will only be a matter of time before you begin to manifest your full potential.

In my case I can confirm that years of reading works by Burt Dubin, Napoleon Hill, James R. Cook, Zig Ziglar, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Patrick Meninga, Jim Rohn, Michel Fortin and so many others, helped me in no small way BUILD myself into the relentless force of personality that I am today.

So, the above is one proven way of connecting with great minds and learning to succeed from them i.e. reading their works.

But if other opportunities present themselves, to get even closer, I recommend you SEIZE them with both hands (Two Examples/True Stories)!

For instance, about 4 or 5 years ago, I got the unique opportunity to partner with Burt Dubin and relate one-on-one via multiple channels with him.

That relationship continues to evolve in multiple dimensions today, and my growth has jumped up several notches in a manner that’s obvious to those who have watched my progress.

For instance: Burt generates income by monetizing his knowledge and expertise via home study resources (books, manuals, Audio CDs, Telephone Mentoring etc for experts-who-speak). As a result, he earns passive income, without having client projects in hand!

Today, I have grown my own range of branded products, to generate passive income via multiple channels – and continue to do so. Most of the ideas I’ve used to develop my brand came from studying what Burt does, and from relating with directly with him.

Another example: Patrick Meninga achieved celebrity status for his accomplishments in blogging few years ago. I went out of my way to study and apply his recommended blogging strategy, and not only am I enjoying great sales leads generating rewards for it, but my efforts have earned me Patrick’s friendship in the process, leading to more useful tips coming my way!

And that is the power of associating with great minds. It rubs off…IF you stay in contact long enough!

Incidentally, the opposite is also true: when you stay too long with mediocre minds, THEY also tend to rub off, till you begin to manifest mediocre outcomes like them as well!

Like I said at the start of this piece, Africans have so many wise sayings…

So, it is not surprising that Yoruba people (of which I am one) have a proverb that perfectly illustrates the above final point, providing a fitting end to this write-up:

“Ti ewe ba pe ni ara ose, o ma ndi ose ni.”

Translation: “When a leaf stays for a prolonged period in contact with soap, it will eventually become soap” (In Yoruba culture, traditional/locally made soaps are wrapped in leaves, which – as they age in storage – blend into the body of the soap, becoming one with it).

In my case, the longer I stay in contact with Burt Dubin, Patrick Meninga and other great minds, the more LIKE THEM I will become!

The Moral: Watch the kinds of minds you choose to have prolonged association with, as that will influence the kind of mind you BECOME, which WILL in turn determine your ability to achieve your God-given potential, especially when others have written you off!

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In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

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But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts

he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

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However, my experiences and observations of hundred of people – in different societies – over 2 decades in and out of paid employment, convince me that VERY few people actually APPLY the wisdom of Edison’s quoted words in their daily lives.

Look around at those you know, who have told you the valued goals they want to achieve in life.

Now, having seen others for who they are, in terms of their demonstrated commitment to personal success achievement, HOW DO YOU assess or rate yourself in terms of your adherence to EACH of Edison’s 3 rules?

The above explains why today people who achieve exceptional success are in the tiny minority across the world, while those who live average, ordinary lives, unworthy of special mention are in the large majority.

EXCEPTIONAL people are those who take action towards, and ultimately achieve outcomes that the “average” majority do not – resulting in the former being the object of admiration (sometimes envy) bythe latter!

No matter how religious you are, no matter how many affirmations you recite, YOU cannot become exceptional, if you fail to TAKE PERSONAL ACTION to get what you want

I recommend you start today taking personal action to achieve your goals, by adhering to Edison’s 3 rules as follows:

In spite of all my experiences however, I was shocked to my bones by the news story I read this morning, about the teenage boy (same age as my son!) who killed a 4-year-old boy In Lagos, removing his kidney and intestine”…

If truth be told, this kind of macabre news has become commonplace across Nigeria for several years and it’s only getting worse as the offenders are getting younger!

Today, the decay that began many years ago has turned Nigeria into a hell on earth for most people who would be considered NORMAL in other sane societies.

Then I went for my National Youth Service Corps assignment in Niger state…

But I still refused to believe it was that bad: this was way back in 1993!

In contrast to what obtained back then however, today it’s difficult to find adults with the strength of character to set young people on the right path, when they stray…

The LOVE of money is ONE major reason why this mess is happening!

I have experienced such discrimination and attacks VERY many times…

The above is what makes me determined to equip my kids with knowledge, skills and abilities that will make it UNNECESSARY for them to ever have to work for anyone.

Since many of their peers in Nigeria have already been sucked into that MAD culture (note that it begins with the THINKING HABITS they adopt), I know my kids need something to enable them RESIST the pull.

The key to successfully coaching a child to succeed in life, is to SHOW him/her – via practical involvement – as often as possible, and as early as possible in life – how to do EVERYTHING s/he will need to do in adulthood.

Stop thinking they have to finish school before you tell them about people asking for and giving bribes at job recruitment centres, examination venues or police check points.

Why? Because the MADNESS we see today in Nigeria is mostly due to people desperate to make money by any means!

That is the kind of parent I want to be: I want to CLONE myself in each of my kids so that they can go into the world and function as positive change agents in every society they venture…like I DO or even better than me!

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The reason: Human Beings dislike problems & often want to eliminate them QUICKLY!

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – To Succeed, Speak to Solve Problems!

The reason: Human Beings dislike problems & often want to eliminate them QUICKLY!

In Nigeria for instance, lack of constant power supply creates a unique challenge not faced in most other countries…

To achieve speaking success with your target audience, address them where they “hurt”!

However, the Nigerians in Nigeria are under much greater pressure to find ways to earn more, without spending, because a chunk of the INCOME they earn is ROUTINELY spent in generating power that government should normally provide them…!

In speaking to your target audience, you must give them workable ideas to use in solving:

In my case, I often go out of my way to find out where the shoe pinches EACH client/member of my target audience – especially those in Nigeria…

One example: Last week, I told the story about a 2 part audio DVD product I purchased, at what I called a criminally LOW price of N100 (half a dollar) per disk.

I told them to tell their boss…

Now, don’t get me wrong. In other climes, it could be smarter to give this out to some “provider”…

NB: In case you’re wondering “What if the numbers of disks to be duplicated are many?” the answer is simple: purchase a CD duplicator!

As you can see from the above, in speaking to my clients, I offer to share ideas and strategies, about how to earn MORE, and SPEND LESS money, time, and effort in doing what they do better.

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Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

If this app could speak, it would tell you about a heartbreakingly prolonged, adversity filled period of my life during the last QUARTER of 2007(described in another article here – click)…

Below: Image version of printed flyer I used to market an earlier version of the Income & Expense Manager

What I learned during that phase serves me well today, as I sell to high profile buyers from home – using the web.

You see, if you pay careful attention, you CAN learn a LOT about yourself and the psychology of selling to HUMAN BEINGS in the process of struggling and suffering to make sales!

This is why many who succeed as sales persons tend to be those who are DRIVEN by a need they have (e.g. lack of money, hunger, poverty) which they know that CLOSING sales can help them meet

Those kinds of circumstances are what I routinely found myself faced with, and often with NO ONE to help (Especially since close relatives had already been lending me money I never managed to return)!

And it worked: I came face to face with my other self(as promised by Napoleon Hill in Think & Grow Rich) i.e. the one that KNOWS that conquering adversity is necessary step for success achievement.

By this time, my selling instincts from the painful periods of hardship had become keenly honed…

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The frightening possibility of extinction forced them to search for ways to “control” their environment.

At about the same time, in the other groups of societies, which today are considered to be “developing” or “under-developed”/”third world” etc, however (i.e. during those early days), the C-R model posits that the environment was generally very conducive for human existence.

Analogy: Application of the C-R Model In Sports

Summary: To be successful in life, one needs to develop an ability to accommodate and tolerate others who differ from – or disagree with – us in any number of ways.

Curious, I asked the lady, if the sales recorded covered the rental overheads and other expense they were incurring.

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