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Article Writing Success Depends On Quality of Insights – Not Word Count!
I recently came across a blog post by a famous writer/thought leader that was MUCH less than 200 words – yet still communicated powerfully useful and life-changing insights.
By way of interest, the author is one who readily churns out write-ups over 2,000 words long, with deeply impactful messages. So it’s not like he has difficulty writing long pieces.
<b>That fact lends credence to the view I’ve always had, that one can make his/her own rules in any chosen vocation.
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You don’t have to stick with any particular format or formula all the time. Not even those recommended by experts or so called Gurus.
This is because YOU are a unique human being, and your thought processes are peculiar to you – different from what any other person is capable of.
As a result, when you diligently apply yourself to a thinking-dependent activity like writing, there will be times when your original thoughts come in a manner that demands they be penned “as is”. No padding or fluff. Just the raw -even if comparatively brief – form.
<blockquote>Here’s why you need not resist this impulse if/when it comes upon you…
You see sometimes it won’t be the number of words you write and publish that counts. Instead it will be the quality of insights contained in them!</blockquote>
My advice: don’t hold back, if you feel the urge to share – publish your new thoughts and ideas in your blog, and help more of your target audience find their way to success.
They’ll be grateful to you for it!
<B>Having said the above, it goes without saying that you need to apply due diligence in putting the ideas I’ve shared here to use.
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Deciding how brief (or wordy) any of your writeups should be, will ideally be influenced by YOUR sound understanding of your target audience, and your intended purpose.
Remember: even the rules can be broken by you, if need be, to achieve your goal.
PS: This article would NOT be complete, if I did not share the less than 200 word insightful article by the author I mentioned at the start of this piece. There is a lot you can learn from reading it. <a href=”http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/07/the-second-time-you-create-that-breakthrough.html” target=”blank”>So click here to do so now</a>.
I wish you well
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Spend Time With Your Family to Create Products You Can Serve to the World As a Team
Once again, I share insights from my Best Practice Parenting activities with my kids, in the hope that other parents will realize that they CAN make out time to coach their kids to acquire real world relevant knowledge, attitudes and skills.
Like I’ve said in past parenting articles, I consider vocational skills development of the utmost importance for kids. Evidence of the accuracy of this line of thinking is today apparent from the widespread practice in which many tertiary institutions today have Centres for Entrepreneurship Development on site – which some now even make compulsory for students to attend.
Beyond that, graduates who have to undergo the National Youth Service Corps year, now get exposed to vocational/entrepreneurship skills training.
Why?
Because those in charge KNOW that most of them are not going to find good jobs to support themselves easily. So regardless of their individual courses of study, products from today’s schools are being – rightly – encouraged to think of starting their own businesses well ahead of doing any job searches.
I discovered the above truths long ago, and the struggle I had to endure to establish myself as an entrepreneur, after leapving the relative security of paid employment convinced me of the need to give my kids BETTER preparation for what awaits them in the real world – post formal schooling.
It is for this reason that my home is today a school of sorts – but with major emphasis on vocational/entrepreneurship skills development.
I and my kids have come a long way with the Personal Achievement Coaching for Kids(PACK) program I’ve been taking them through.
You can read through the archives in the Parenting Articles category to for stories I’ve told of past projects.
It is instructive to note that I’ve chosen to coach them to be multipreneurial like I am, but with a major focus on achieving the vision I have of establishing a home based family restaurant business with them.
We will be creating our own unique range of products (food and drinks) based on original recipes we conceive. Already, we have our own Pineapple Peel based Drinks and Cakes, Cookies and Chin-Chin, African Style Pizza and most recently – our Specialty Soft and Fluffy Bread Loaves – all baked using our trademark No-Oven Charcoal Stove!
It is this last product – the specialty Soft and Fluffy Bread Loaves – which we finally got right today, with regard to the recipe we’ve been looking for.
And guess what? It happened quite by accident over a week ago.
My soon-to-be 15 year old son had used flour that was left over from preparation of Pizza for my 46th birthday (on 6th July 2016) to make dough for some loaves of bread. But he had NOT followed the recipe we’d borrowed from a YouTube video we originally watched about how to bake bread at home.
Instead he just fooled around a bit and followed his instinct, rather than stick with what we considered the rules. By the time the bread loaves emerged, they were perfect i.e. soft, fluffy and quite tasty.
When the kids came excitedly to show me the loaves, I promptly asked him what he’d done to get that result – which we’d tried unsuccessfully to do before, in that shape and form.
He replied that he could not recall the exact steps he followed. I refused to let him off that easily and instead drilled him with questions until I narrowed down to what he’d done differently, and made a mental note of it.
Tomorrow being his younger brother’s 13th birthday, it was a perfect time to try our hands at the new method for baking the cake. So, this morning they bought all the needed materials from the market, and this time around I led the baking process, stopping at every stage to discuss with them about what to do and how, based on what we’d learnt from last week’s experience.
The result is what you see in the photos below. Super soft and fluffy bread LOAVES baked using our No-Oven Charcoal Stove!!
We’ve since sent tasting samples out to their grandparents, and friends in the estate. Tomorrow they’ll bake more and send to their cousins. However we have a bigger plan, which is to package, promote and sell them in ready-to-eat format. We’re still thinking of what exactly the package will look like, but as you can see we’ve already begun sealing them in nylon packs using our impulse sealer.
The young man in some of the photos is the baby of the family(Tayo Solagbade Junior, who I call “T-Boy”) . He is our “Chief Taster” – none of the baked products escape him 
I hope our story will inspire you to spend more time together as a family to create your own products that you can serve to the world as a team.
But if that’s too much, I’m hoping at least, that you’ll try to push your kids to acquire such useful skills, so they can create the future they want!
PII 022: To Succeed, You Need to Ignore Detractors and RELENTLESSLY Speak/Act With Self-Belief!
Do you find yourself trying to stifle a (periodic) urge to speak/act with self-confidence regarding your abilities – possibly for fear of being called “arrogant” by some who may “dislike” you?
If YES, this article offers ideas you can use to LIBERATE yourself from THAT mental prison!
Let’s begin with this popular quote:
“…It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”
What would you do if anyone tries to put you down?
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Monday 11th July 2016
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 022: To Succeed, You Need to Ignore Detractors and RELENTLESSLY Speak/Act With Self-Belief!
Do you find yourself trying to stifle a (periodic) urge to speak/act with self-confidence regarding your abilities – possibly for fear of being called “arrogant” by some who may “dislike” you?
If YES, this article offers ideas you can use to LIBERATE yourself from THAT mental prison!
Let’s begin with this popular quote:
“…It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”
What would you do if anyone tries to put you down?
I’ll tell you one thing: that’s NOT the time to “try and get along”!
Instead you’ll need to ASSERT yourself – without being combative – by speaking/acting with self-belief, effectively resisting his/her attempt to belittle you, or your achievement(s).
Now, it’s possible that when you do the above, such persons could turn around and label you “arrogant”.
In reality however, the truth is only INSECURE personalities would interprete your display of self-belief as arrogance!
Study great achievers the world over, from all walks of life, and you will notice they exhibit(ed) self-belief without apology – even as they readily acknowledge others – even bitter rivals – who exhibit the same trait.
It is my considered opinion therefore, that if anyone accuses you of being arrogant, when all you did was act or speak based on honest conviction about your abilities, the likely reason is that s/he suffers from a LACK of self-belief, which makes him/her feel inadequate or threatened by those who do not have such difficulty.
Simply put, s/he needs help building his/her self-esteem, so as to make the most of him/herself!
Here’s a good example I’ve used in a similarly themed article in the past:
As a young boxer Muhammad Ali (then called Cassius Clay) was bold, and unapologetic in the way he spoke about what he could do, AND who he could/would do it to e.g he habitually predicted who he would knockout and what round he would do it in!
That attitude got him booed a lot by boxing spectators in the arena during his fights. Yep. Check the records. Ali used to get booed despite being good – and he got called names too for his “talkative” nature e.g The Louisville Lip”.
But Ali believed too much in himself to take any serious notice. Instead he proved he was right by winning.
Time and time again over the course of his career he got quoted using taunting, provocative language designed to “mess” with his opponents minds.
Most importantly, Muhammad Ali repeatedly, defiantly, relentlessly, loudly and unapologetically called himself “The Greatest” right from when he won Olympic Gold at the age of 18, until he retired.
What the whole world calls him today is what he began calling himself decades before I.e “The Greatest Of All Time”!
Some (indeed many) of those who began by calling him arrogant over time saw that Ali was simply speaking the truth about his abilities as he saw it – and his performances PROVED he was right: he WAS the best!
This truth illustrated in Ali’s story, applies to Nigeria’s Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
Fela’s uncompromising demonstration of unapologetic self-belief – as a musical inventor and rights activist – is what propelled him to international stardom and now earned him legendary status in the global music industry.
It goes without saying that this same truth applies to every single authentic ahiever anywhere in the world – including YOU(if you work for it)!
Self-belief will make you unafraid to announce your strengths and achievements to others
“People don’t realise what they had until it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.” – Muhammad Ali
That’s self-belief right there in that quote!
if you have it, you won’t hesitate to make statements of fact about yourself and your abilities/accomplishments.
What’s more, you’d do it without worrying about what others might think or say.
Why?
Because you’d know it to be the truth!
Self-belief will also make you willing to take a stand on issues that matter
Muhammad Ali said he should be rememebered “As a man who never sold out his people. But if that’s too much, then just a good boxer”
Everyone knows how Ali famously refused to be drafted to fight in the Vietnam war, and how he later won a Supreme Court victory as a Religious Conscientious Objector.
After that he continued using his fame and fortune to challenge discrimination against black people.
He did not have to do all that, yet he did it – without bothering whose Ox was gored.
It takes tremendous self-belief to take a stand on serious issues in life
Ali had bucket loads of self-belief. So did Fela!
Little wonder that they lived the way they did – challenging the status quo. No wonder they are legends even in death today.
When next you worry about speaking your mind, about what you can do, remember Ali, Fela and others like them. They did not stifle the urge to speak truths they knew. Even when it cost them in terms of money, pain, loss of freedom etc – they kept speaking/acting with self-belief.
Follow their example and you will not go wrong.
And if fear grips your heart, read Marianne Williamson’s words (above) again, and be inspired!
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[Spontaneous Coaching™] Practical Strategies you need to Achieve Your Goals at Will: The Secret to Becoming Super Productive!
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Protected: Two Books You Need to Become a Highly Paid Professional Spreadsheet Software Developer
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Protected: THE FARM CEO (Issue 53): Chlorophyll Meters for Nitrogen Fertilizer Management, Satellite Driven Tractor That Downloads Soil/Crop Data, Sensors, Food, Automation & Engineering
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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) 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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[Spontaneous Coaching™] Practical Strategies you need to Achieve Your Goals at Will: The Secret to Becoming Super Productive!
[Hint: This on-demand coaching program will benefit business owners/CEOs, organizational decision makers, career persons, independent consultants etc]
Knowing what you want is only half of what you need to achieve your set goals. Developing the ability to take the necessary action, as and when required, to achieve your set goals is an even more important requirement for success.
Without this latter ability, all our visualizing and goals setting will likely to amount to nothing.
And THAT is what separates mere dreamers from real life achievers. The former are those who indulge in wishful thinking, instead of adopting repeatable and reproducible strategies that they diligently implement to achieve their ultimate purpose.
<h3>I enjoy the unique privilege of being exceptionally skilled in the art of getting things done like that, no matter how difficult the circumstances under which I have to operate.</h3>
My verifiable track record in this regard dates way back – over 3 decades – to my days in secondary school, when I did it all intuitively.
At that time, especially between the ages of 10 to 16, I would engage in prolonged periods of truancy with gang members, skipping classes and playing dangerous pranks, getting into trouble with school authorities, to the extent of being suspended etc.
Despite all that, I always scaled through in my classwork – including exams. I never failed and always kept my grades up. Going on to university, I channeled this ability positively into sports, so that I graduated top of my class while getting multiple awards from the university sports administration authorities.
During 7 subsequent years in paid employment I did the same thing, working in a multidisciplinary capacity adding value to co-workers by going way beyond the call of duty to develop solutions to help them work better, without letting my own job suffer.
That earned me <a href=”http://tayosolagbade.com/uploads/tayosolagbade.pdf” target=”blank”>wonderful career rewards and rave reviews when I chose to leave and start my own business</a>.
<h3>Since becoming self-employed about 14 years ago, I can confirm that this ability, which I have never stopped refining, has been instrumental to my success in serving clients in various industries as a Location Independent Multipreneur, without burning out!</h3>
In all the above situations, the results I’ve delivered have constantly made others (who today include clients in/out of Africa) express amazement at my demonstrated capacity for getting things done – especially considering the far-from-friendly socioeconomic environment I work in out here in Nigeria/Africa.
Many tell me they would love to be able to get things done the way I do.
To help such persons, I’ve written articles over the years – like the two linked at the bottom of this piece – sharing insights about what I do and how I do it.
However, I’ve now come to the realization that I can help most people better by providing a more personalized form of guidance and support.
Something like a personalized hand-holding coaching session to enable them develop basic mastery they can improve with time.
That’s why I now offer my On-Demand Spontaneous Coaching™ Program for persons interested in getting such personalized support to learn how to boost their personal productivity by getting things done at will, like I do.
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2. <a href=”http://ezinearticles.com/?Become-A-Habitual-Peak-Performer—Learn-How-To-Get-Into-Flow-Or—The-Zone-More-Frequently&id=481185″ target=”blank”>Become a Habitual Peak Performer: Learn How to Get Into “Flow”(Or…”The Zone”) More Frequently</a>