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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 organisations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners). Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™, the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook, and developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator - as well as the increasingly popular Monthly Poultry Farm Manager app. On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, writes and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, in the French Speaking Benin Republic on the first lap of his slow travels 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). 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 previews of paid issues of The Farm CEO™ Newspaper (www.thefarmceo.net), in addition to his FREE Weekly Public Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter - which he uses to promote Burt Dubin's Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts across the African continent. Visit Tayo's Flagship Performance Improvement website to download over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity. Join Tayo's international community of fans on his Flagship MS Excel Heaven Facebook page (click here). You can also connect with him via Twitter (@tksola).

Two of Tayo Solagbade’s Farm Business Ideas Club Members Are Now Licensed to Resell my Products and Keep ALL of the Money They Make [See Formal Notification Letter Inside, & ALSO LEARN WHY YOU NEED TO BUILD A MAILING LIST IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR WEBSITE].

A few weeks ago, I sent emails to members of my Farm Business Ideas club offering a 100% affiliate partnership license allowing to sell 3 of my products and keep ANY money they make.

The offer is now ended. Two Farm CEOs signed up for payment in installments , and have now completed it (see notification letter shown below – names removed for privacy)

From today, I begin supporting them to deliver the 3 products to ANY buyers they find in their respective states. 

But why would I give them a license to sell my products and keep ALL the money they make, even as I provide ALL the support to their buyers, you may wonder?

Well, that’s because I KNOW the value that will accrue to me in the long term from doing that.

That is in addition to the multidimensional income generating benefits I’ve already obtained from interacting with this group of clients.

You see, I KNOW for a fact that they are the reason I have been able to grow my brand, as a Location Independent Multipreneur, to what it is today – and NOT the casual visitor who passes by my site every now and then!

These CEOs on my mailing list – especially those who have PAID me for at least one of the solutions I offer, are the reason I succeed.

I’ve been saying it for years in my writing, and I’ll say it here again:

If you want to succeed in using the Internet to generate sales leads you can convert, you NEED TO BUILD A MAILING LIST.

A smart US based expert once wrote in an article I read over 10 years ago: THE MONEY IS IN THE LIST.

He knew what he was talking about, My experiences and achievements as one who earns income online confirm it!

Don’t put your hope or faith in Google or other search engine driven traffic.

If you do, you’re likely to end up with twisted insides as you try to make quick enough adjustments to your online marketing, to deal with fluctuations in traffic coming to you, as Google change their algorithms every now and then!

You’ll simply find yourself wondering why visits suddenly drop sharply, even though you’re still doing the same thing you’ve always done.

Meanwhile, when that happens, if you have a sales system that depends on the volume of traffic you get from that channel, the likely implication is that the income that accrues to you will also drop.

Sometimes that little change from the search engine end could result in a multiplier effect that affects you in other COSTLY ways you may not immediately anticipate.

This is why it’s always so much safer, smarter and ultimately more profitable, to invest your quality time, effort and money in converting as much of the traffic as may come to you at any point in time, into sales leads or what is called Prequalified Prospects.

People who indicate by reaching out to you (e.g. by subscribing or send a web form message), that they are INTERESTED in what you offer.

Once you have them in your database, and so long as you keep creating response generating web content to make more people WILLINGLY add themselves to your database (some do this by calling me up and ultimately texting me their full details lol!), no amount on search engine traffic fluctuations will be enough to bother you.

I say the above, of course, on the assumption that you know what to do with a mailing list database to make money.

Ever heard of Mailing List Database Mining?

That kind of “mining” is what you CAN do to make money even if your website is down, like mine (TayoSolagbade.com) was for about 40 hours earlier this week. It’s why I never really fret about looking for traffic, like some people do.

I aim instead to increase my Website Conversion Ratio (WCR).

If you do not know about mailing list database mining, then you’re WASTING your money online!

If you do not know why monitoring and working to INCREASE your WCR is more important than fretting over so called “traffic” to your site, especially when you do NOT sell “popular” or conventional products, or worse, you are a custom service provider, then you really need help.

Believe me when I say that I make more money from “mining” my mailing list database than I do from sales coming as a result of search engine driven traffic. I am able to do this by driving up my WCR to bring the right kinds of people in contact with me.

Click here to let me know you’d like to learn more about how to do the above, to make money from your website with peace of mind and confidence!

For now, below is a screenshot of the notification letter I sent to two long term clients, who as members of my Farm Business Ideas club have INVESTED so much in various solutions I offer, that I decided to come up with an income generating system to reward them.

Dear (Farm CEO name removed)

SUBJECT:Congratulations – You are a 100% Affiliate Partner of my Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC)™

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This is one of the ways I’m giving back to those who helped me get where I am today. If they had doubted me, I would not have been able to grow like I have done.

I think we need more people like them in Nigeria/Africa i.e. those who will not wait to see you do it all before they decide to put money where their mouths are, to invest in what you tell them is possible!

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Nigerian Banks Need to Put Customers First and Stop Thinking Money Only [Hint – TayoSolagbade.com is BACK Online: After being let down BADLY by my bank, an individual Referred to me by a TRUSTED Farm CEO client, uses his Dollar Card to enable me pay for my website’s hosting renewal!]

TayoSolagbade.com is back online! [In case you didn’t know it went offline, read the story at the bottom of this piece]

As the late Nigerian Yoruba musician Orlando Owo once sang “What has happened has happened”, I accept this latest experience of my website suffering avoidable downtime of about 40 hours, as yet another lesson to guide me in deciding who to trust, when and for what.

The WHO could be a person, or group of people or organisation. In this case, it was an organisation. But I’m done talking about it (see text of Facebook update I did yesterday about it).

What I will say here though is that it was VERY inconsiderate of the bank to NOT go out of their way to alert – repeatedly too! – ALL their card users who they could see (from their records) routinely use the Naira cards that got roundly declined by Paypal.

Instead they quielty left us to discover it individually – even when it meant potentiallt serious damage to perception of our brands.

I think a Farm CEO client of mine who called me today, and got to know about it, got it right when he said:

“They probably chose not to broadcast the news about  Paypal discontinuing use of their cards, because they felt it would be a dent  on their image!”

My response was:

“So they were more concerned about protecting their image than they were about protectingn their customers’ brands, that PAY for them to maintain that so called image?!”

That’s a typically Nigerian warped attitude to customer service.

Now don’t get me wrong.

Nobody is asking them to commit brand suicide by announcing a setback that makes them look bad, compared to rivals.

My argument is that:

1. they could, at the least, have discretely sent us email or SMS messages WARNING us that the NAIRA cards no longer worked, and advising us on new platforms to switch to.

2. Even if they did not want to use email or SMS, they could have gotten our individual account managers to check our profiles and call us up to brief us on this development which had such serious implications for our business lives.

I say this as one who lives a 100% digital lifestyle.

Virtually everything I do is based on the web, so I depend HEAVILY on the use of my card.

What I did not know was that the fact that the card still worked locally, did not mean it still worked everywhere else, especially internationally.

After 5 years of depending on my NAIRA card, and having it work perfectly for me both on and off the web, just as the bank had assured in various promotional messages, how could I imagine such an extreme reversal of functionalities could occur?!

Least of all to me – someone with so many people I serve using my ability to make payments for solutions they benefit through me!!

I am deeply disappointed that GT bank could let this kind of experience happen to ANY of her customers.

They need to do better in future.

They MUST learn to think and act with MAJOR Emotional Intelligence in handing the affairs of their clients – especially those vulnerable to mishaps of this nature, due to Nigeria’s shaky Naira exchange regimen.

In other words, they need to put themselves in the shoes of their customers – and TRY hard to feel what their customers feel, so they know what matters to EACH one and then act to help them on the basis of insights gained.

When you do that, your customers are more likely to do better, and YOU will ultimately benefit!

For now, I’ve taken a cue from what has happened, and I will henceforth control my bragging about what can or cannot go wrong with their web based solutions. Sorry.

1. My Excel Heaven Spreadsheet Automation Website located at excelheaven.tayosolagbade.com – BACK ONLINE

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2. My Flagship Performance Improvement Website located at TayoSolagbade.com – BACK ONLINE

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3. My Multidisciplinary Self-Development Nuggets (SDNuggets) Blog located at tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets – BACK ONLINE

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4. My Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas and Farm CEO Newspaper Website located at iff.tayosolagbade.com – BACK ONLINE

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5. Screenshot of auto-notifications confirming payment completion for both TayoSolagbade.com and Tksola.com rc-dave-5-done

 

Below: Screenshot of what visitors who visited TayoSolagbade.com or any of its subdomains would have seen from about post-midnight yesterday (Tuesday 9th May 2017 till about 12:30p.m today, Wednesday 10th May 2017)

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Below: Text of Facebook status update I published yesterday, on my wall, after I’d established the cause of my inability to make renewal payment for hosting of my domains…

Choi!

See as GT just fall my hand online today. Na wa O. No wonder they say never put your trust in any man – or in my case: in any BANK lol!

Come see as yours truly begin dey do investigative phone calling to find another way to make payment for web hosting renewal.

After many failed phone conversations – I’ve finally found someone (referred by a client) who has a Dollar card and is willing to help me fund my reseller account online.

But the price is steep. To transfer the $34 I need to my reseller account, I have to pay a total of $45 USD.

I don’t mind that however.

Instead what really irks me is that I NEVER got email or SMS from GT alerting me to the fact that Paypal no longer recognised their Naira Mastercard. They left me to discover it at the point of renewal!

As a result, TayoSolagbade.com is now currently offline – due to my inability to fund my hosting account to renew it for another year.

Even worse is the fact that a client’s website may also go down by Midnight today – as the alternative payment option I’ve found is not likely to be active before tomorrow.

This is so not cool, as the Americans would say. Over here we say: Dis wan na yawa O!

But here’s the irony:

As I type these words a GT bank SMS has already popped into my message inbox alerting me to the multiple benefits of getting myself a GT bank Dollar Mastercard that has no lirc-dave-fbk-shotmits!

Isn’t it funny how they so readily thought to send that, but never thought it necessary to warn me that the Naira card I was depending on would no longer work for most purposes I’d gotten used to using it for?

This is a reflection of the quality of minds manning the areas where the above are handled in GT.

I know some great GT bank personnel. Very diligent about doing their work.

But I believe there are many more who do not put their hearts into the work they do.

They do not care how their lack of proactiveness hurts the client or his/her business. They only care about themselves and looking good on the job!

A sad shame.

Anway, work continues for me. I’ve been down this website downtime road more times than I care to remember. No be today. Each time I simply focus on finding a viable solution and putting it to use.

That’s what matters most: Kicking adversity out of the way so as to move forward to newer and better things!

 

PII 065: You Cannot Vote on Science/Life. Only Truth Matters. One Person Can be Right – and It Could be YOU! [THOUGHT PROVOKING VIDEO DEBATE]

“Some people make the mistake of equating consensus with truth. That you, and others who think like you, agree among yourselves that a centipede is a millipede wearing a metal coat, will not make the centipede become a millipede.” – Tayo Solagbade

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” – Anatole France

The 4 plus minute video clip linked below features a presenter engaged in a debate of sorts with an audience member, who expressed disagreement with some things she (the presenter) had said about Global Warming.

 

I share the transcript excerpts below, because I believe MANY of us make the mistake she (I’ll call her “Logic-Lady”) points out here, when we want to drive home our points. And we need to know we are NOT proved right by it!

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PII 065: You Cannot Vote on Science/Life. Only Truth Matters. One Person Can be Right – and It Could be YOU! [THOUGHT PROVOKING VIDEO DEBATE]

“Some people make the mistake of equating consensus with truth. That you, and others who think like you, agree among yourselves that a centipede is a millipede wearing a metal coat, will not make the centipede become a millipede.” – Tayo Solagbade

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” – Anatole France

The 4 plus minute video clip linked below features a presenter engaged in a debate of sorts with an audience member, who expressed disagreement with some things she (the presenter) had said about Global Warming.

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In making her point, the audience member argued saying 98% of scientists held a particular view she supported, on the issue.

That led the presenter to embark on what I consider a most illuminating exposition on how logic works, and why the use of expressions like 98% cannot be done without basis.

I share the transcript excerpts below, because I believe MANY of us make the mistake she (I’ll call her “Logic-Lady”) points out here, when we want to drive home our points. And we need to know we are NOT proved right by it!

But let’s just look at what she said…it’s really worthwhile.

So she said that 98% of scientists agree that global warming is a major problem

Everyone in this room has gone to college, so you’re gonna like the logic of this.

If we say 98% of something, there must be a 100%. So somewhere there must be a list. There must be a list of all the scientists that exist.

My first challenge to this lady is to give me the list of all the scientists that exists in America, in the world, because if they do, that is how you can use the word 98 percent.

If there isn’t a definitive list, there is no such thing as 98 percent

Number 1 – logic!

Number 2: Science does not proceed by consensus. Science is not democratic!

At one time in history, it was the consensus that the earth was flat. Everyone believed in that. Everyone agreed on that. One man said that THAT was not true.

Anybody who says to you “The majority agree with it so it’s true, is not a scientist.”

I don’t know what they are, but they are not a scientist!

The laws of gravity do not get agreed by a consensus, by a vote, by a democracy.

Science is not democratic. Science is about truth.

One person can be correct

The person who quotes 98% of scientists is someone who knows you’re already losing.

So they are sung “illogic”.

98% of all scientists – unless you have an index of all scientists.

It doesn’t really matter how big the list is – it doesn’t  matter!

Because the truth is the truth. It’s not done by majority.

We can’t all vote in this room about the laws of physics and then make it right.

Click HERE to download the full video and listen to the rest of the debate they had, which ended with the logic-lady “educating” her counterpart about how the American experiment compared to the European experiment.

How can we use what she has taught us here?

I say that each of us in our field must realize that since science is based on truth, and ONE person can be right, then IT COULD BE US, as individuals in our respective fields of specialization.

In my case, I can relate to this in several ways.

One way has to do with my decision to commence offering custom spreadsheet software development services in the Nigerian/African market.

I had no role models o emulate, and no one I approached, in computer or business schools, saw any value in what I was trying to do. Business owners initially asked “Who is going to pay you for that?”.

I also got routinely mocked by those who knew what I was trying to do, during the times when I was still struggling to create my niche market in Nigeria.

Today, I enjoy name/brand recognition as a trusted provider of unique custom Excel-VB driven software to buyers in and out of Africa.

Those who told me it could only work in America, and who kept telling me to go do something else know better today.

So, I was right, but I had to act with faith and determination, coupled with relentless persistence to SHOW that I was. And in so doing, I proved that the many pointed opinions voiced by individuals and groups, to me, about the workability of my idea of selling automated workbooks to people in Nigeria, were wrong.

One needs to remember the words of this lady, and the quotes I started this piece with, which are reproduced below, if/when we find ourselves having to consider going a route no one else seems willing to go.

Anatole France, the shipping magnate once said:

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”

Several years ago, I coined the following quote on the same theme:

“Some people make the mistake of equating consensus with truth. That you, and others who think like you, agree among yourselves that a centipede is a millipede wearing a metal coat, will not make the centipede become a millipede.” – Tayo Solagbade

Many people have difficulty being objective in their views about issues, so they struggle to employ logic. This is because a biased mind cannot produce logical reasoning!

The Logic-Lady’s above stated explanations about science as it relates to logical reasoning is VERY relevant to our realities as individuals in society.

Today, there are too many people unwilling to apply critical thinking and logic in their daily interactions. As a result, they depend on group-thinking, whereby they force their narrow views down other people’s throats by using the power of numbers and consensus e.g those who share similar views gang up and overshadow others who may actually have better ideas to offer.

What you know or the experience based insights you have could be telling you something that others may not easily see or hear.

You owe yourself, and the rest of society to NOT let yourself be intimidated into silence or inaction by consensus wielding individuals or groups.

That’s what the man who showed us all that the earth was not flat did. He spoke out, and stuck to his argument, even though he was the only one.

You can do the same!

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To Build a Society of Discerning Adults, Whose Leaders Cannot Fool. We MUST Teach Our Kids Critical Thinking and Logic [A List of Websites That Can Help Willing Parents]

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

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 (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. 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 (SDAc).

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 The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

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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To Build a Society of Discerning Adults, Whose Leaders Cannot Fool. We MUST Teach Our Kids Critical Thinking and Logic [A List of Websites That Can Help Willing Parents]

Nigeria today struggles to get itself out of poor leadership and corruption driven rot, because  too much poor quality thinking, and reasoning is allowed to prevail in most (NOT ALL) of the decision making levels of her leadership, as well as amongst the larger majority of the followership.

I’ve said the foregoing countless times in speaking and in my writing.

Ours is a nation that has produced MANY great minds who today have made their marks as achievers in their professional fields internationally, but who chose to use their success to play (often informal) leadership roles aimed at moving the nation in the direction of sustainable progress and advancement.

I know most of us can readily recall more than a few, but I have certain role models in mind like Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Gani Fawehinmi (and others like them).

These achievers established themselves as shrewdly analytical thinkers with a knack for refusing to be hoodwinked by anyone – least of all poor thinking political leaders!

The last thing you could dream of catching them doing would be playing the psycophancy, tribalism or nepotism game. You also could certainly not depend on them to adopt illogical reasoning or depend on sentiments in coming up with their views of a way forward on any matter.

Indeed they were unrepentantly diligent at dishing out unapologetically blunt and truthful opinions on any subject. And this endeared them to the larger majority.

But most endearing was their willingness to walk their talk!

Sadly, today in everyday Nigeria, intelligent people who try to think critically and act based on intelligent logical tend to be an endangered species, and often get attacked or verbally pounded into silence by “group-thinking” mobs of often insecure others.

This is perhaps why we have much fewer people willing to step out into the limelight to play similar roles to the above mentioned heroes. Most Nigerians who fit that mould – rightly – fear that they stand to lose more than there is to gain, in today’s Nigeria, than was the case in Achebe and Soyinka’s Nigeria!

This is a major reason why we have such a paradoxical society, filled with mind boggling contradictions of human behavior.

It is is why “illogic” seems to sit so well here!

Those willing to adopt the position of logical thinkers are few. Too few. And many would rather not be known publicly.

As a result, poor thinkers have taken centre stage in Nigeria – and they use their growing influence to allow ONLY others like themselves to get through.

They know that is the only way to keep those who can expose their ineptitude OUT.

But societies that experience sustained and progressive advancement, NEVER allow people with poor reasoning capacities to LEAD her!

And they certainly do NOT permit the voting population to grow into a mass of illogical thinkers who let bias and sentiments get the better of their judgment.

If our fortunes as a nation are to change for the better, we will need to start building “a Society of Discerning Adults, Whose Leaders Cannot Fool. We MUST Teach Our Kids Critical Thinking and Logic”.

I offer below a list of websites I recently compiled, that offer guidance for parents and other adults willing to do what it needed for their kids – and even themselves as well!

1.Teaching critical thinking: An evidence-based guide

© 2009-2012 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved

– See more at: http://www.parentingscience.com/teaching-critical-thinking.html#sthash.rkhGbxxl.dpuf

Teaching critical thinking? You might wonder if kids will work it out for themselves.

After all, lots of smart people have managed to think logically without formal instruction in logic. Moreover, studies show that kids become better learners when they are forced to explain how they solve problems. So maybe kids will discover principles of logic spontaneously, as they discuss their ideas with others.

But research hints at something else, too.

– See more at: http://www.parentingscience.com/teaching-critical-thinking.html#sthash.rkhGbxxl.dpuf

2. Critical Thinking: How to Grow Your Child’s Mind

What kind of thinker is your child?  Does he believe everything on TV?  Does she always figure out how to get what she wants? 

Does he ask questions?  Does she go along with what her friends suggest?  You can help develop your child’s critical thinking skills by learning a few key guidelines!

Whether your child is just starting summer vacation or in the midst of the school year, parents can help keep minds active in fun ways. Critical thinking skills don’t fully develop until adolescence, but the foundations for good thinking develop in younger children.

http://www.rootsofaction.com/critical-thinking-ways-to-improve-your-childs-mind-this-summer/

3, Teach Your Kids Logic With An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

In our homeschooling, I teach Logic as a separate, stand-alone subject, in addition to working it into other topics whenever possible. But even if your kids go to conventional schools, it’s important (and great fun!) to teach Logic at home. Teaching our kids to think critically about what they see, hear, and read is key to guiding them into becoming adults who think for themselves.

Image: JasperCollins Publishers

https://geekdad.com/2013/09/teach-kids-logic-illustrated-book-bad-arguments/

4. Teaching Logic & Critical Thinking to Your Kids

Critical thinking skills are skills that children (and adults) need to learn to be able to solve problems. This includes analyzing and evaluating information that is provided, whether that information is through observation, experience or communication. The core of critical thinking is being responsive to information and not just accepting it. Questioning is the most important part of critical thinking. It is a part of scientific, mathematical, historical, economic and philosophical thinking, all of which are necessary for the future development of our society. Here are a few ways to teach critical thinking that can be used whether you are a teacher or a parent.

5. Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth

As a child of Puritan parents, it is not surprising that Isaac Watts was greatly concerned about people s ability to think clearly. Whether a man was studying for the ministry or any other of the sciences, the ability to reason rightly was of utmost importance. Watts s work on logic and reason became a standard textbook for nearly 200 years, being used in such schools as Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale. In Logic, Watts address proper thinking under the four basic functions of the human mind: perception, judgment, reasoning, and disposition. In part one,

6. PROBLEM SOLVING ACTIVITIES: HOW TO DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN KIDS

Learning to think critically may be one of the most important skills that today’s children will need for the future. Ellen Galinsky, author of Mind in the Making, includes critical thinking on her list of the seven essential life skills needed by every child. In today’s global and rapidly changing world, children need to be able to do much more than repeat a list of facts; they need to be critical thinkers who can make sense of information, analyze, compare, contrast, make inferences, and generate higher order thinking skills.
Exercises to Improve Your Child’s Critical Thinking Skills

7. How to teach all students to think critically

All first year students at the University of Technology Sydney could soon be required to take a compulsory maths course in an attempt to give them some numerical thinking skills.

The new course would be an elective next year and mandatory in 2016 with the university’s deputy vice-chancellor for education and students Shirley Alexander saying the aim is to give students some maths “critical thinking” skills.

This is a worthwhile goal, but what about critical thinking in general?

8, Critical Thinking Activities for Kids

Kids are open and willing to learn new fundamental skills as long as they are taught in a fun and entertaining manner. JumpStart’s critical thinking activities are therefore a great way to engage students and encourage critical thinking and logical reasoning skills in them!

9. 10 Tips for Teaching Kids to Be Awesome Critical Thinkers

This article is adapted from Mentoring Minds’ Critical Thinking Strategies Guide—a flip chart packed with question stems and lesson ideas to help teach kids to become better critical and creative thinkers. This is the first blog in a blog series […]

[RECOMMENDED] FAO: ‘Promising’ cassava flour can drastically cut costs for bakers

Since late last year, I’ve been developing and implementing a custom Web Marketing System for a Farm Business Support Professional (a Professor in one of the nation’s leading universities) who travels locally and internationally to support Farm Businesses and Stakeholder groups by facilitating learning events.

Apart from capacity building, one of the key areas of focus this real world focused academic offers valuable support to players in the farm business sector across Africa, is Agribusiness Vocational Skills development training. 

In that regard, this gentleman continues to impress me with his demonstrated hands-on proficiency in very practical vocations. A good example is the use of agricultural food products in making snacks.

But one particular area I’ve been most excited to see his work has been that relating to the use of High Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF) as a replacement for more expensive conventional wheat flour in baking of bread, and snacks like doughnuts, pies and chin-chin.

For those who do not know it, HQCF is costs about 50% less than wheat flour. Yet, continuing research and trials are showing that it has the potential to deliver similar benefits in the baking and snacks foods production chain that wheat flour currently deliver. 

More people need to be made aware of what HQCF can do. We grow Cassava all over this continent. If more of us embrace the production of HQCF from Cassava that we grow, and we make use of it in larger amounts in place of Wheat, the implication for savings of scarce Forex resources are huge. 

Reports have it that Ghana has long established itself as a leader in pursuit of this goal and is doing quite well.

I share the report from the FAO below, in the first of many efforts I will be making to create more awareness about this opportunity, out here, for more of us to follow up.

This is why I’m supporting my client with various promotional resources, so he can get increased marketing exposure for the training workshop on use of HQCF for snacks production that he offers.

FAO: ‘Promising’ cassava flour can drastically cut costs for bakers

By Kacey Culliney , 31-May-2013

Flour made from cassava can be up to half the price of regular wheat flour, holding great promise for bakers amid commodity volatility, says the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

fao

[VIDEO & Mind Map] How Tayo Solagbade’s Customizable Zero Cost Web Marketing System Generates Zero Cost Sales Leads for YOU

Earlier today, I sent the 2 emails reproduced below to several CEOs whose marketing or business promotion materials/resources I came in contact with during a recent event.
My purpose was simply to offer suggestions I felt would benefit them in getting more marketing mileage for their brands. 
What I did was to call each person up, mention how I got his/her materials and then ask a few questions about how s/he currently did his/her marketing.
After getting what I felt were enough insights from the responses provided, I would then offer an introduction regarding the use of a WMS, and propose sending the explanatory no-strings-attached email followup, with his/her permission.
Each CEO said YES – and so I sent him/her the promised emails.

Below, I share excerpts from the emails I sent them, in the hope that others in need of ideas may find them of some benefit. If you need more details or specific help, click here send me a message.

Hi,

Our phone conversation earlier today refers.

Like I said, I’m NOT selling anything. 

Instead, I feel led to offer some suggestions to you (and some others) whose marketing materials I picked up, from their stands at the recently concluded event.

There’s a lot of other stuff I’ve written about how a Web Marketing System can be used to achieve timeless marketing based name/brand recognition and zero cost sales leads generation. {Hint: Google “tayosolagbade.com: web marketing system” – or just click preceding link)

My approach is to use MY NAME as a basis for promoting my brand, That’s why I noted that you could make people who Google your name discover your brand that way.
However, using an “alias” also works as well, – especially if your day jobs makes it imperative that you avoid openly linking your name, or yourself with income earning activity outside that with your employer.
Ok…on to my “suggestion”: 
 
You may find it useful to view this mindmap and watch the video explanation (click here to request download access) for what I NOW believe will best suit your needs.
wms-video
I call it a Zero Cost Web Marketing System (WMS) or an Effective Online Presence (EOP)

Below is a generic message I use to explain what it is all about:A. Find attached a mindmap image (see it here) that shows key components of what I call a customizable Web Marketing System (WMS).

A WMS, setup right, can be used to boost your business marketing reach/impact, measurable over time in terms of:1. time, effort and money you WILL save

2. Quality sales leads/enquiries you will generateB. Find attached a zipped folder containing a video (click here to request download access) for you to watch offline, in which I explain what the WMS components are about and how they benefit businesses that use them.

To watch the video, REMOVE or EXTRACT the 2 files in the zipped folder, and place them in the same location on your PC.

Then use either Option A or Option B to playback the video:

Option A: Double click on the web page file (the one with the browser icon) among the two, to watch the video in your browser. If you get a prompt to activate “Adobe Flash Player” click on the prompt to activate it by following the instructions that appear. This method typically applies to PCs with older versions of Windows Operating System.

Option B: In newer versions of Windows, and/or on PCs with VLC players, ignore the web page file and simply double click the much larger SWF file – the video should start playing immediately.

Let me know if you need help/have questions or require clarification.
I hope you find it useful – and wish you more success with the creative work you’re doing!
With kindest regards,
Tayo K. Solagbade*
Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist & Multipreneur
*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas Club
*Custom Excel-VB Solutions Developer & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club & Competition
*Creator of the Zero Cost Web Marketing System and Founder of the Web Marketing for CEOs Club
Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
Email: tayo at tksola dot com or tayo at tayosolagbade dot com
http://www.tayosolagbade.com [Flagship Performance Improvement Website]
http://www.thefarmceo.net [The Farm CEO Newspaper]
http://www.excelheaven.biz [Custom Excel Visual Basic driven Software Development]
http://www.tksola.com [Response Generating Writing and Web Marketing Solutions]
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I followed the ABOVE email message with the one shown below, containing links to a complementary educational resource I felt would benefit the CEOs:

Hi again…

As a follow up to my preceding email suggestion that you adopt a custom Web Marketing System to promote your brand at zero cost…

I recommend you read this article linked below. I wrote it late last year.
Watch the video explanation I did on my Youtube channel:
Download and study the mind map I created as a basis for the article:
Understanding the ideas I share in the above resources will help you make more intelligent use of the WMS you develop and implement for your busines – especially in terms of how you make use of your time to find potential clients.
I wish you well.

Final Words: This is a Public Service of sorts…so do share this post to your networks if you know anyone who may benefit!

Every once in a while I come across persons in business with whom I feel led to share  ideas. Many times I readily LEARN from such persons, even though they may not have gone out of their way to try teaching (or sharing with) me.
That’s how I’m wired – constantly SEARCHING for ways and means to improve my ability to do what I LOVE doing. So, whether you like it or not, if I encounter you in person or online I CAN learn from you – and I WILL, if I see cause to.
But I’ve learnt that others may not be able to function like I do. Indeed very few are driven like I am to actively explore continuous improvement avenues to take what I do to the next level.
So, whenever I feel the need, I try to give of myself in a CSR kind of way. Just offering to give back by sharing what I feel can help the other person, with him/her in a no-strings-attached manner.
That’s what I’ve done via email with the CEOs mentioned – and in this post for possible others.
Good luck with your marketing!

PII 064: Life Will Not Always be Fair – The Secret to Having Your Way Anyway [Hint: Is Your Job Keeping You from Being a Better Parent?]

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

Today I and the kids of the Tayo Solagbade clan will be attending (and participating in) yet another event. This one we’ve actually been talking about and even “preparing towards” for weeks!

Yesterday, the second “littlest” among us spent most of the day “practicing” in readiness for a possible opportunity to showcase her skills, that we anticipate may present itself where we’re going.

I felt so proud seeing her take control of proceedings assertively, from consulting their Facebook page for details of steps to follow, to executing the actual steps required to complete the task.

There were times when things did not go as planned or the way she wanted. And she got readily upset about it. 

Those moments presented me valuable best practice parenting opportunities for me to explain that life will sometimes not give us what we want i.e. that LIFE WILL OFTEN NOT BE FAIR TO US!

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NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016.
I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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PII 064: Life Will Not Always be Fair – The Secret to Having Your Way Anyway [Hint: Is Your Job Keeping You from Being a Better Parent?]

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

Today is a special day for me and the rest of the Tayo Solagbade clan. We’ve been talking about the event we’ll be attending today, for weeks. Regular readers of this blog know I’m an advocate of REAL LIFE experience based learning to better prepare kids to succeed in society.

Yesterday, the second “littlest” among us (see her in the ATM queue in photo below) spent most of the day “practicing” in readiness for a possible opportunity to showcase her skills that we anticipate may be given to her where we’re going.

gtbkids4

I felt so proud seeing her take control of proceedings assertively, from consulting their Facebook page for details of steps to follow, to executing the actual steps required to complete the talk.

There were times when things did not go as planned or the way she wanted. And she got readily upset about it. 

Those moments presented me valuable best practice parenting opportunities to explain that life will sometimes not give us what we want i.e. that LIFE WILL OFTEN NOT BE FAIR TO US!

At least not immediately. Sometimes it will test our resolve and conviction. Our academic brilliance or natural genius will not matter.

Only our capacity for self-belief, blind faith, determination and persistence will matter.

They are the ultimate determinants of authentic success achievement.

Like the little child she was, she found this “unfair” treatment (in which she did not get to have her way) hard to swallow. But I made it clear there was no escaping it.

The above is a message I’ve also passed to her older siblings in many coaching conversations over the years – and especially since last year (2016).

We’re all getting up right now, so we can get early breakfast ready and hit the road to beat the traffic.

I will be sharing news from this outing when we return.

Like I always do with any aspects of activities I engage in that I believe can help others get potentially useful ideas they can put to productive use in their lives, in this area of best practice parenting and others covered in my work as a Performance Improvement Specialist.

For now, I refer you to the article linked further down, in which I shared experience based insights, from over 2 decades of achieving my goals in spite of adversity. 

These ideas I seek to pass FIRST to my kids, and to any others willing to learn.

If you want to be a person who succeeds no matter what and no matter how long, you need to get used to the fact that people will often be telling you that you are trying to do the impossible, when you choose to pursue your genius.

Learn to think like I do, and like I advocate here, and you will NEVER be limited by whatever they think or say.

It’s NOT easy, and does not happen quickly.

But if you keep at it, you will succeed. Everything I say here is based on my verifiable accomplishments in spite of nay sayers.

E.g. They told me I could not make any decent money selling my custom automated spreadsheet workbooks for YEARS as I struggled to create a market for my Excel-VB Solutions Development service in Nigeria.

Today, I enjoy the undeniable international reputation as a trusted provider of custom Excel-VB software (and related solutions) to buyers within and outside Africa. One of my most popular products – the Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager, sells for what some people earn as monthly salary in Nigeria.

This is why I SPEND SO MUCH TIME with them daily exposing them to mental stamina BUILDING experiences.

gtbkids5

I want my kids to have the kind of mental attitude I have – because I know it is the major factor responsible for my demonstrated ability to DEFEAT adversity and ADVANCE towards my goals regardless of what goes wrong at any point in my life.

gtbkids2

Mental Stamina is the best gift you can give your child. And if you lack it, I urge you to invest the time and effort to DEVELOP it!

On a final note, I must say this: 

Becoming a Location Independent Multipreneur was not easy for me to ACHIEVE, but today it gives me the freedom to give my kids the kind of intensive best practice parenting I know they need.

[Read: No. 119: How to Achieve Success in Any Field (True Story)]

gtbkids1

The choices I made to get here were tough, but I LOVED my kids too much to NOT be prepared to take them.

Those who don’t get it still persist in 10a.m to 10p.m jobs and think they’re “parenting” their kids by “paying” for stuff they should be DOING for their kids themselves. Sad.

If you really LOVE your kids, you need to find a way to WORK for a living, so as to better give them the parenting preparation they need!

Happy Workers’ Day!

.

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

SDN Blog™

New posts from last week*

Monday:

[Wednesday]:

[Thursday]:

Long Term Benefits of Empowerment Will Often Not be Immediately Obvious [Tips for Getting Your Kids to Make Profitable Use of Smartphone Technology]

[Friday]:

N/A

[Saturday]:

N/A

[Sunday]:

The FARM CEO (Issue 81): 2-in-1 Offer to Support Your Farm Business [FREE Customization of your Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager & One year Basic Web Marketing Support]

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

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 (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. 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 (SDAc).

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 The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

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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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====

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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Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement
IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 1st May 2017

Logo - Tayo Solagbade's Self-Development Academy


NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016.
I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

************

View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

PII 064: Life Will Not Always be Fair – The Secret to Having Your Way Anyway [Hint: Is Your Job Keeping You from Being a Better Parent?]

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

Today is a special day for me and the rest of the Tayo Solagbade clan. We’ve been talking about the event we’ll be attending today, for weeks. Regular readers of this blog know I’m an advocate of REAL LIFE experience based learning to better prepare kids to succeed in society.

Yesterday, the second “littlest” among us (see her in the ATM queue in photo below) spent most of the day “practicing” in readiness for a possible opportunity to showcase her skills that we anticipate may be given to her where we’re going.

 

gtbkids4

I felt so proud seeing her take control of proceedings assertively, from consulting their Facebook page for details of steps to follow, to executing the actual steps required to complete the talk.

There were times when things did not go as planned or the way she wanted. And she got readily upset about it. 

Those moments presented me valuable best practice parenting opportunities for me to explain that life will sometimes not give us what we want i.e. that LIFE WILL OFTEN NOT BE FAIR TO US!

At least not immediately. Sometimes it will test our resolve and conviction. Our academic brilliance or natural genius will not matter.

Only our capacity for self-belief, blind faith, determination and persistence will matter.

They are the ultimate determinants of authentic success achievement.

Like the little child she was, she found this “unfair” treatment (in which she did not get to have her way) hard to swallow. But I made it clear there was no escaping it.

The above is a message I’ve also passed to her older siblings in many coaching conversations over the years – and especially since last year (2016).

We’re all getting up right now, so we can get early breakfast ready and hit the road to beat the traffic.

I will be sharing news from this outing when we return.

Like I always do with any aspects of activities I engage in that I believe can help others get potentially useful ideas they can put to productive use in their lives, in this area of best practice parenting and others covered in my work as a Performance Improvement Specialist.

For now, I refer you to the article linked further down, in which I shared experience based insights, from over 2 decades of achieving my goals in spite of adversity. 

This ideas/ability I seek to pass FIRST to my kids, and to any others willing to learn.

If you want to be a person who succeeds no matter what and no matter how long, you need to get used to the fact that people will often be telling you that you are trying to do the impossible, when you choose to pursue your genius.

Learn to think like I do, and like I advocate here, and you will NEVER be limited by whatever they think or say. It’s NOT easy, and does not happen quickly.

But if you keep at it, you will succeed. Everything I say here is based on my verifiable accomplishments in spite of nay sayers.

E.g. They told me I could not make any decent money selling my custom automated spreadsheet workbooks for YEARS as I struggled to create a market for my Excel-VB Solutions Development service in Nigeria.

Today, I enjoy the undeniable international reputation as a trusted provider of custom Excel-VB software to buyers within and outside Africa. One of my most popular products – the Excel-VB Ration Formulator, sells for what some people earn as monthly salary.

This is why I SPEND SO MUCH TIME with them daily exposing them to mental stamina BUILDING experiences.

gtbkids5

I want my kids to have the kind of mental attitude I have – because I know it is the major factor responsible for my demonstrated ability to DEFEAT adversity and ADVANCE towards my goals regardless of what goes wrong at any point in my life.

gtbkids2

Mental Stamina is the best gift you can give your child. And if you lack it, I urge you to invest the time and effort to DEVELOP it!

On a final note, I must say this: 

Being a Location Independent Multipreneur was not easy to ACHIEVE, but today it gives me the freedom to give my kids the kind of intensive best practice parenting I know they need.

[Read: No. 119: How to Achieve Success in Any Field (True Story)]

gtbkids1

The choices I made to get here were tough, but I LOVED my kids too much to NOT be prepared to take them.

Those who don’t get it still persist in 10a.m to 10p.m jobs and think they’re “parenting” their kids by “paying” for stuff they should be DOING for their kids themselves. Sad.

If you really LOVE your kids, you need to find a way to WORK for a living, so as to better give them the parenting preparation they need!

Happy Workers’ Day!

.

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

SDN Blog™

New posts from last week*

Monday:

[Wednesday]:

[Thursday]:

Long Term Benefits of Empowerment Will Often Not be Immediately Obvious [Tips for Getting Your Kids to Make Profitable Use of Smartphone Technology]

[Friday]:

N/A

[Saturday]:

N/A

[Sunday]:

The FARM CEO (Issue 81): 2-in-1 Offer to Support Your Farm Business [FREE Customization of your Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager & One year Basic Web Marketing Support]

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

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 (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. 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 (SDAc).

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 The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

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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The FARM CEO (Issue 81): 2-in-1 Offer to Support Your Farm Business [FREE Customization of your Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager & One year Basic Web Marketing Support]

In this issue of the Farm CEO newspaper, I announce a 2-in-1 promotional service offer that may interest members of my Farm Business Ideas club. See PDF and image Mind Map  attached to the email broadcast:
I actually sent a personalised version to one of 2 most recent Farm CEOs who purchased my farm business support products. The offer comes in 2 parts outlined below:

Dear All,

Our phone discussion regarding my farm business support products that you purchased refers.

I offer you the following 2-in-1 combination of specially discounted solutions to support you at this early startup phase of your farm business operation.

  1. Get FREE Customization of your Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager for ONE YEAR (Save over N150k)

Over the course of ONE full year, I will modify your Farm’s Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager to meet any additional needs we identify and agree on for your farm business.

This includes accommodating the various aspects of daily best practice operational needs you have.

This will ensure you and your team members have ready access to required documents, farm record forms and reports that will be auto generated for use from custom interfaces in the app.

  1. Get One year Basic Web Marketing Support to boost name/brand recognition and attract profitable paying bulk buyers for your Farm (Save Over N150k)

If you take up FREE customization above, (I,e offer 1), you will get items 1 to 4 of my Web Marketing System shown in the mind map image attached to this email (wms-pricing.jpg) – completely FREE for 1 full year (you purchase domain/hosting with me) – to boost your marketing reach and impact.

Click here to request the full PDF download.

 

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Long Term Benefits of Empowerment Will Often Not be Immediately Obvious [Tips for Getting Your Kids to Make Profitable Use of Smartphone Technology]

I consider it crucially important to quickly and unceremoniously get kids OVER the feeling of awe that tends to overtake many of them in our part of the world, when they gain initial access to what are now increasingly affordable and often fancy mobile devices and gadgets (e.g. smartphones, tablets, laptops and computers) abundant in marketplaces today.

I recommend (based on best practice parenting ideas I advocate and use) the following lines of action:

Make them understand that owning such tools should always be a means to an end for them, and never the end in itself.

Ask them: What can you do, or learn toi do with it, to better pursue/acheueve goals that matter to your personal/career advancement?

Ask them: What can you do with it to make money or more money?

Ask them what they can do with it to solve problems for others e.g do they know how to build apps others need.

Or do they just download apps created by others?

Point out the fact to them that many apps they see on their devices actually make money for their creators.

Let them know PC and Internet Technology makes it possible for them to also create their own original money making apps for download by other users!

Most importantly challenge them to do some kind of REAL “work” or chore(s) to earn money to buy such devices if they want to own them.

Avoid buying such things for them using your own funds, without meaningful exertion on their part

Make them sweat to acquire it e.g by way of household chores completed and/or make them learn to do stuff to earn income to keep using it.

They might complain or even protest that you’re asking too much. They could even compare you to other parents who don’t demand such.

My advice is that you remember that parenting is not a democracy.

The long term benefits of empowerment will often not be immediately obvious. That will not mean it’s not there.

So stay firm and stay strong and they will be better off for it in the long run – by which time they will thank you for it!

That’s a fact.

Below is a photo of Itel phone in my 11 year old daughter’s hand on the day of her “graduation” (along with her younger sister), from a 2 week Facial Makeup and Gele Tying workshop they attended.

smartphone-in-hand

Most photos and videos of the various skills they were taught were recorded using this phone of hers.

Sadly, about a week later, she dropped this device into the bowl of soap water in which she was washing clothes, and the touch screen stopped working. We never got it fixed.

Today, I got her a Lenovo smartphone as replacement, mainly because they will need it to record what they are taught in the new hairdressing training they are to start.

However, I’ve made it clear she must resume her daily online business tasks execution, and ensure she hits the required DAILY points, if she wants to keep the phone and have the Internet browsing data subscription renewed.

If she does this for long enough, she will earn commissions from the online business, effectively paying for herself to continue using it. That’s the same approach I use with the 2 older brothers who have been told similar thing. So they know there is no free ride in a fancy car for them!

Your Own Money Making Product Built by Me [Offer Expires MNT Thursday 27th April 2017]

[I began sending THIS promotional offer to clients last year (2016). This year, I’ve thrown in the bonus of a FREE 3 to 5 minute Business Marketing Trailer Video]

Would you like to build your own Digital Passive Income Generating Information Product in YOUR area of proven knowledge/competence/expertise, BUT worry that you may lack time/training to START, and FINISH it?

If you said YES to the Above, This Offer May Interest You

Here is an example of titles I proposed each client consider (based on what I’d seen of their individual brands and personalities):

Secrets for Successful Pig Farm Business Startup & Operation (True Story)

[NB: This offer expires MNT today 27th April 2017. ONLY 2 slots are available on a first-come, first-served basis. For payment details text (or call) me on +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136. Or email tayo at tksola dot com. Alternatively, click here to send me a message]

Let me do all the work for you as a Ghost-Writer (research, writing, recording, book cover design, book publishing, audio/video DVD Information Products creation etc) .

In other words, I will help you write, design and publish a PHYSICAL BOOK to MONETIZE your knowledge and expertise in your vocation or profession.

We can do it face to face or remotely. It won’t matter.

I will interview you (and record/transcribe what you say) on the topic, to get what you know in written form. Then I’ll use my wealth of experience to research the subject to add more to what you give me. I will then combine it all, creatively, to make a ready-to-sell Information Product in PDF format, with front and back book cover designs for a PRINT version – both will be put up for sale in an online store I will setup for you.

NB: You will be the author, and you will own the content and copyright. I would literally NOT exist …except to YOU.

What Do You Get When I’m Done?

NB: If you’re already a member of my Inner Circle, you ONLY need to pay 35% of the N50k promo offer fee (as per your lifetime 65% discount membership benefit).

1. A complete Information Product published in both DIGITAL and PRINT/PHYSICAL formats, with your name as Author, ready-for-sale to a global audience in Print-On-Demand Publishing Online Store (See an example of such a product that I created for a Cotonou based client at http://tayosolagbade.com/pod-letter.html)

My standard fee for ghost-writing/publishing a book as above is N150k. But for this offer, I will do it FREE for ALL 4 of those who take up this offer within the deadline.

Below: Photo of Cotonou based Dr. Arnold Nana Kouayep, holding a physical copy of his book (ghostwritten by me in 2015) – after 10 copies I ordered from his online store were delivered by UPS to hi office. 

Barr. Arnold Nana Kouayep - A Cotonou based client (President of Cotonou based Global Konsult Group) holds a copy of his book delivered to him from USA by Lulu.com - Click to learn more

Below: Book Cover Announcement of Hope Agwulonu’s Quick Start Guide to Catfish Farm Business Which Was Published Via My Book Ghost-Writing Print On Demand Publishing Service in 2016.

Click the link below to read more about this project with Hope.

http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/now-live-quick-start-guide-to-catfish-farming-business-by-hope-agwulonu-ceo-of-progidence-farms-limited-abuja-nigeria

quick-start-guide-BIG-new

You can visit her online store to see the book on sale at www.lulu.com/spotlight/hopeagwulonu [She also has the MS Word manuscript and a read-for-use PDF version which she can email to buyers who pay directly to her bank.

2. One-on-One Coaching by me on how to:

a. take the product I develop for you, and promote it to attract potential buyers for it, both online and offline

b. create other DCFGAs by yourself – including detailed instructions of where to go to download FREE tools/resources for creating your own branded range of digital products, like I do.

My standard fee for One-on-One Coaching is N50k. But for this offer, I will do it FREE for ALL 4 of those who take up this offer within the deadline.

The above means that instead of paying N200k, I will do 1 and 2 for you, at ZERO COST!

All you have to do is join my Inner Circle by paying N50k (approx. $250 USD)  at N200 to $1 USD

[NB: My Inner Circle membership is currently priced at $500 USD: See http://tayosolagbade.com/uploads/InnerCircle.pdf]

Doing so gets you FULL benefits of membership of my Inner Circle, in addition to my FREE offer outlined in 1 and 2 above…

Note that you DO NOT need to pay the full fee at once to take up this offer

Instead, you can TIE DOWN the offer by paying at least N10k BEFORE the deadline expires…at MNT today Thur 27th April 2017

Subsequently, you will pay at least N10k every month, until the full N50k fee is paid up.

[NB: If you pay N20k before Midnight today Thursday 27th April 2017, you WILL get a further N10k discount i.e. instead of paying a total of N30k balance, you ONLY pay N20k balance, meaning you’ll end up paying ONLY N40k in total, instead of N50k to take up this offer.]

On my part, as a gesture of goodwill, once you pay up to N30k, I will formally commence work with you as per the FREE offer in 1 and 2 above.

Regarding your membership benefits, once your N50k fee is fully paid up, I will send you the promised FREE product of your choice from my Inner Circle members library (e.g. my Livestock Ration Formulator softwarePoultry Farm Manger software or my Payslip Generator software or any of my Information Products that you choose) as well as other gifts that members are eligible to receive.

You also get your 65% lifetime discount to buy ALL my other products and services.

So, to summarize, here are the key features of this offer to you:

To get Your Own Digital Cash Flow Generating Asset (DCFGA) Built by Me….

1. Simply join my Inner Circle by paying N50k (approx $250 USD) instead of N100k (approx. $500 USD) – at N200 to $1 USD

2. You can pay the N50k offer fee at once, or tie down the offer by paying at least N10k BEFORE the deadline expires, then paying monthly instalments of at least N10k till the full N50k fee is paid up.

3. When your payments reach N30k, I’ll start working with you to write and publish your Information Product based on 1 and 2 above

4. When your payments are completed at N50k, I’ll send you ANY FREE product you want, and activate your 65% discount to purchase ANY of my other products and services, as a member of my Inner Circle.

5. This entire offer expires at Midnight today Thursday 27th April 2017 – and ONLY 2 slots are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Important Notes

a. If you pay N20k before Midnight today Thursday 27th April 2017, you WILL get a further N10k discount i.e. instead of paying a total of N30k balance, you ONLY pay N20k balance, meaning you’ll end up paying ONLY N40k in total, instead of N50k to take up this offer.

b. If you’re already a member of my Inner Cirle, you ONLY need to pay 35% of the N50k promo offer fee (as per your lifetime 65% discount membership benefit).

c. If you’ve attended my talk (and/or purchased my Audio DVD) on Passive Income generation, and you’re interested in this offer, email or send me an SMS and I’ll hold a slot for you to take up on or before the deadline..

6. For payment details text (or call) me on +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136. Or email me via tayo at tksola dot com. Alternatively, click here to send me a message

Bonus Offer: Get a Branded 3 to 5 Minute Trailer Video to Promote Your New Product On Youtube Once It’s Ready!

Pay the full N50k fee at once, for me to build your new information product, and I’ll create a branded Trailer Video (N50k value) to be published on your own branded Youtube channel, to promote the product online

Why Am I Making This Kind of Offer?

Simple.

I am on a mission to SHOW others that they can also achieve the kind of success I enjoy via Passive Income Streams generation using my branded Digital Cash Flow Generating Assets.

To achieve my purpose, I want to have 2 persons (who take up this offer) to serve as MODELS of what is possible…

If YOU begin earning passive income using the cash flow/passive income generating asset I build for you, others will BELIEVE it is possible.

Then they will be motivated to take PERSONAL ACTION to do what you’re doing, thereby empowering themselves to be financially independent.

When YOU, and others who are so impacted succeed, I WILL naturally succeed as well, because you would provide REAL LIFE testimonial case studies for me to point out to MORE potential clients!

For payment details text (or call) me on +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136. Or email me via tayo at tksola dot com. Alternatively, click here to send me a message

Below: Photograph of my 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”)

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.

You can invite me to deliver my FREE 1 hour talk  on this subject members of your group, team, company/organization. Click here to view the flyer for the maiden talk held on Sunday 5th July 2015. Click here to invite me.