After WEEKS of hard work writing it, I’m excited to announce my brand new first-of-its-kind 7 Week FREE Email Auto-responder Course for Farm CEOs and Those Aspiring (Based on my forthcoming same titled new book)
Title: Farm and Grow Rich™
Subtitle: 6 Zero Cost Steps to Boost Farm Income
Goes LIVE from Wednesday 7th October 2015
Below: Excerpts from first message that will be arrive instantly in your inbox once you register.
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FREE 7 Week Best Practice E-Course for Farm CEOsTayo Solagbade’s
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Earlier today, Strive Masiyawa posted the first of 5 stories (view here) in his promised series on CORRUPTION regarding his experiences launching Econet Wireless in Nigeria.
The revelations are shocking, yet instructive.
As an expert in your field, if you desire SIGNIFICANCE in success, YOU MUST resist corruption, like Masiyawa has done for decades.
But you don’t need to be rich like him to do it, and still progress in life. I explain based on unique successes I’ve achieved by THINKING up a way around it!
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“(Tayo Solagbade) is amazing and I think he is going to produce some impressive results online…” – click here to read full comment by Patrick Meninga (US based 6 figure income blogger who gained fame for building a $2,000 per month adsense website and selling it for $200,000). —————————– “Tayo, I honestly believe you are one of those who will succeed at anything he does. Your commitment and effort has been outstanding….Thanks for all your hard work since I’ve been here – you will be sorely missed. I don’t need to wish you good luck, you have the ability to make your own luck. – Andy”(R. Jones)* *Operations Manager, Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery, December 2001 (Handwritten comments in farewell/xmas cards sent to Tayo Solagbade following his resignation to start his own business). ———————– Click here to contact Tayo… |
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Tayo K. Solagbade* Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist *Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic) Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others. Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners). Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software. He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others. In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos. On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region. His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details). In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training & Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy Limited. When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African continent). You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook. Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity. ====
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[Photo] My 14 year old son shows off 6 big ripe tomatoes he and his 12 year old brother harvested yesterday (1st October 2015) from our small home garden. Another result of the real-world relevant confidence/competence building Personal Achievement Coaching (PAC) program he and his siblings are SIMULTANEOUSLY undergoing, in conjunction with controlled exposure to academics.
![[Photo] My 14 year old son shows off 6 big ripe tomatoes he and his 12 year old brother harvested yesterday (1st October 2015) from our small home garden. Another result of the real-world relevant confidence/competence building Personal Achievement Coaching (PAC) program he and his siblings are SIMULTANEOUSLY undergoing, in conjunction with controlled exposure to academics.](http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/fbsc-tomato-emeka.jpg)
Simply put, we must create an environment, physically, emotionally and intellectually that enables them learn all they need to succeed in adulthood.
The above implies the need for BALANCE in the education we give them.
Sadly, too many parents leave their kids to get a one-sided preparation for life…
This happens because they focus their efforts on giving them mainly – or ONLY – formal schooling.
Young products from schools across the three tiers of education unable to demonstrate real-world relevant awareness, and competence outside what their certificates say they studied.
In fact, today some young people even go around with certificates they cannot demonstrate academic competence to defend.
The way I see it, parents who want their kids to fare better than that CANNOT just throw money at their kids’ education. Formal schooling, no matter how advanced or expensive, is simply NOT enough to give children what is needed to succeed as adults in today’s fast changing world.
The mental attitude you adopt must be that of a professional coach who has a sound understanding of what his/her coachee (your child) is going to face in the real world.
You must be a coach who uses his/her insights about life to create learning experiences that prepare YOUR CHILD for life away from YOU!
That’s what I’m doing for my kids…
As part of their homeschooling, they watch specially selected educational videos on various subjects they need to master academically, as well as vocationally.
Then they are challenged to go out into the real world to put as much as possible of what they learn to use, as the opportunities present themselves.
To stimulate their minds, I subtly “put ideas into their heads”, about how they can make use of what they learn.
Then I wait to see what happens…and they rarely disappoint.
Basically, what excites them is when you teach them something they can immediately try their hands on in real life.
They love DOING – especially where they are allowed to apply their creativity without restriction. That’s the environment I have created for my kids and it’s yielding fruits (no pun intended).
It all began when I told them the garden space in the compound could be used to raise vegetables we could eat (i.e. putting ideas in their heads)
One day they got some bad tomato fruits their mother disposed, and asked me if the seeds would sprout. I told them it was likely, so they planted and began watering and tending them with great seriousness.
Later on they got seeds and stems from other crops and planted them.
Over time I noticed a dense layer of Water Leaf vegetables and told them to pluck some for making vegetable stew. I pointed out the fact that the quantities we harvested were equivalent to those sold for N50 in the market: which meant we were saving money.
I noted in passing that they could plough back into the soil, stems left behind after the leaves were plucked, to replenish the nutrients to helping the plant grow new leaves.
They began doing that immediately: Like I said, kids are eager learners, and doers, once their interest is triggered!
It might interest you to know that they actually planted and harvested a yam tuber (small though – but they cooked and ate it) in that narrow stretch of soil in our compound.
Later on they told me the tomatoes were producing fruits. I was surprised, not having been aware they’d planted tomatoes.
Seeing signs suggestive of the presence of disease causing microbes on some leaf edges, I told them to get charcoal ash and spread generously over the leaves of the plants. They asked me why, and I explained that ash has anti-microbial characteristics which help to stop onset of common diseases on the plant.
As the weeks passed we watched the fruits grow bigger. Just a few days ago, we were discussing how they were gradually turning red.
I asked the kids if they knew how much those plucked tomatoes would go for in the market. Not surprisingly (because I’d asked then similar question in the past), they’d already asked around, and had been told they would cost about N200 ($1 USD) or more.
The looks on their faces told me they knew what I was thinking.
Having a backyard garden can help many homes cut down costs on purchase of certain items used regularly. The small amounts spent to buy them really adds up over one week to a month.
Yet it just takes making a little effort to setup the needed space and taking a little time, every now and then to nurture the plants/crops.
If one wants, even mini-livestock like poultry, rabbits, fish could also be kept in a small backyard area.
Many such homes have kids who do not have a clue how foods they eat come about e.g How they are grown, processed, stored or even cooked.
Long ago, I resolved that my male and female kids would be coached to know, and be able to do all that.
The 2 oldest go to the market to buy foodstuff and prepare meals for their siblings(thanks to their mother’s coaching).
We as parents don’t need to be there to make this happen.
They’ve also learnt to plant crops and make their own drinks/cake products using fruit peels – which they’ve been able to package, sell, and also give out as gifts. We’ll be doing a lot more of this when we get to Benin Republic.
In essence, I’m saying it’s great that your kids already attend school. But that’s not all they need.
Coaching them to plant some of their own food, or even run their own micro-farm business (e.g rearing/breeding rabbits for sale, along with growing useful crops like Tomatoes etc), can equip them to live and eat well, at a lower cost – by making the best use of space in their homes.
They would thus spend less to buy food (and possibly sell some of what they grow) – boosting their chances of KEEPING more of the money they earn, to build real, lasting wealth: unlike others who, not knowing how(despite attending school), will have to ALWAYS buy all they eat!
This Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC)™ – tentative layout plan below – was first conceived in 2000 by Tayo Solagbade, to function as a creative Research/Extension Advisory Services provider. Its purpose is to continuously investigate, document and publish Best Practice ways of rearing livestock (especially poultry, fish, and rabbits) and growing crops, as well as marketing BOTH crops and livestock, for higher yields and profits, using locally sourced materials and indigenous knowledge/skills.
Central to the FBSC™‘s mode of operation will be elaborate development of custom Excel-Visual Basic driven software for data recording, analysis and report generation in carrying out the above activities. The low cost, easy-to-use apps tested in real life situations, will then be made available for use by farm businesses (as done with Tayo’s Ration Formulator, and Poultry Farm Manager), to boost performance measurement for timely decision making.
If you don’t know what that means, I can tell you right here and NOW that you are MISSING out on a whole lot of powerful (and FREE) knowledge as well as insights that can empower you to achieve your FULL God-given potentials on earth.
Take it from me: The SOGR is a tried and tested foundation on which superlative human achievement can be built.
It is a proven path through which you connect to your inner God-like self and begin to manifest what others consider IMPOSSIBLE, yet make it look EASY.
You will be seen as a person who encounters (what they consider) the most devastatingly daunting kinds of adversity in your personal and work live YET gets back up time and time again to overcome it, and achieve at even greater heights.
Simply put, the practice of SOGR involves being able to LIVE inside your head and SEE only that which you want to see for yourself, about yourself, in terms of what is possible for you to accomplish.
And you will do that relentlessly, REGARDLESS of whatever may be around you physically, and not minding what ANYBODY outside of you says!
To achieve it, you MUST keep a CMI of the what you desire (a house, a car, money, a victory etc) as you go about your daily affairs.
Your CMI (along with the right thoughts and actions you take) will help you kick-start forces setup in nature by the creator that will ATTRACT what you desire to you.
The layout plan you see on this page, is based on the CMI I have kept for YEARS, of my Proposed Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC) ™ that I NOW wish to setup in Benin Republic.
I first conceived it in 2000 (2 years before my start-up year), and had ambitious plans to get funding to launch it in either Ibadan or Lagos, Nigeria.
He got me to devote more than a month, of time, effort and money, to write a VERY comprehensive business plan using all the farm business contacts and information I had access to.
He did this was under the pretext of helping me submit my entry for a facility offered farm startups by the bank, that I’d come to enquire about. In fact I did all the writing based on the printed guidelines issue by the bank, which he gave me a copy of !
Sadly, the day I handed over the CDROM and printouts to him was the LAST day he ever picked my call. And when I visited the bank, I got turned back repeatedly at the security post, despite mentioning his name!
However, nothing came of that effort either. I will not bother to dwell on the fact that I saw a lot of “arrangee” (i.e. cheating) in the award of the funding prizes to so-called eventual winners.
The point I’m making here is that my experiences made me decide to look inwards for ideas of how to fund the start-up of my dream centre.
That’s why THIS layout plan, and my unconventional crowd funding announcement to my network of clients/past buyers and subscribers are now LIVE.
If you’re interested in learning more about what this centre will be doing for farm businesses, you can call me on +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136 to speak with me.
I will also be writing short posts as time goes on, explaining what each of the layout plan’s featured “elements” will entail.
For now, click here to read more about my plans to use this centre to help farmers achieve increased outputs and profits, with LESS effort.
Tayo Solagbade’s SDAc is a multipreneurial mobile creative outfit specialized in combining low operational overheads, highly skilled manpower, intelligent use of technology and fluid partnerships/collaborations – as the need arises – with competent professionals to deliver premium quality services at affordable rates.
The SDAc’s vision is to be the foremost provider of products and services relevant to Self-Development, Workplace Performance Enhancement, Custom IT Solutions and Best Practice Systems Development in Africa – and one of the best in the world.
To achieve this, we’ve evolved a unique variant of a low-cost business model we found on the net. This model allows Tayo Solagbade to be the only full time employee of the SDA. We promote this model for adoption by persons wishing to successfully launch similar businesses but who lack access to “adequate” capital. Contact us to help you.
1. Why I Relocated from Nigeria to Benin Republic (Hint: A “Poor” Country Where Even Poor People Live Well!) | SD Nuggets™
2. COMING SOON: Best Practice Farm Business Support Centre for Farm CEOs – Benin Republic | SD Nuggets™
3. Visit TayoSolagbade.com | Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas :This mini site was launched in 2006 as a precursor of the Proposed Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC)™r – which Tayo Solagbade has written about above.
5. The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper
1. You were at work & had no time?
2. Your connection was slow or subscription expired?
3. You tried to watch later but forgot the URL?
CONTINUE READING:
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[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ]
Preview (Issue No. 17):
*This week’s theme is Best Practice Farm Business Marketing. I Apart from THIS page’s feature, written by me, the rest 4 are from other authors – YET they ALL echo the same sentiments I’ve continually expressed in my past articles on this subject/theme. ***
Feature Article: I recently stumbled on a facebook page run by a Farm CEO, that offered an interesting perspective in a piece about recent Human (yes HUMAN!) Salmonella outbreaks and their link to backyard poultry practice which is becoming quite common.
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Here are the headlines, reviews – and links – for this week’s featured news items:
[URL] How to Attract Farm Customers Online (Case Study: A Farm CEO’s Interesting Facebook Post on Human Salmonella from Backyard Poultry) P.1
[URL] The Hot 50 Small Farm Marketing Tips P.2
[URL] 11 Steps to Successful Farm Marketing P.2
[URL] Online Marketing Tips from the Farmer’s Market P.3
[URL] 5 Farmer’s Market Marketing Ideas P.3
1) Useful feed formulation/other findings from trusted sources
2) Cost-saving ideas from farm visits as I travel across West Africa.
3) Ads by farm providers/suppliers of all genres.
4). Special promo price offers of my Software and Book products
Full details at http://tinyurl.com/TheFarmCEO
1 year’s subscription = 48 issues.
Subscription Fee = $36 USD (approx) N6.8k [You get my $82 USD Feed Formulation Handbook FREE, as well as FREE Bi-weekly ads for YOUR biz]
ARCHIVES: Click here to view previews of ALL past issues of the newspapers
I recently stumbled on a facebook page run by a Farm CEO, that offered an interesting perspective in a piece about recent Human (yes HUMAN!) Salmonella outbreaks and their link to backyard poultry practice which is becoming quite common.
I excitedly clicked to read the rest of the piece. Suffice to say that I was NOT disappointed.
It turned out to be a nice piece: both informative and educative. The kind of useful content I would readily recommend to others I identify may need it.
Click here to request the link to the above mentioned Farm CEO’s article on Human Salmonella outbreaks, as it relates to backyard poultry practice.
What I’ve found over the years is that many of them are yet to understand why I keep telling them they need to use the web for marketing by creating original content like this Farm CEO is doing on his Facebook page!
That was why I was quite pleased to read the article he’d written.
It showed that he was thinking along the lines I’d been advocating i.e. about using information and education to SERVE his/her target audience.
I instantly knew he would be a useful model to showcase towards challenging other Farm CEOs, so they SEE how to do it, and the benefits of doing it.
They believe it’s better to be DIRECT and relentless in telling potential customers to buy. They have little or no interest in serving useful information and education to potential buyers.
Yet doing the latter is a proven, reliable means of winning trust that ultimately converts strangers from prospects or potential buyers, to loyal customers/clients.
The “pushy” sales person (this-is-what-I-sell-buy-now) approach fails to build trust easily in the mind of prospects. Indeed, most potential buyers exposed to it tend to feel harassed by your messages – denying you an opportunity to really get to know what they want.
But I saw something he needed to do differently. So I sent him a message.
Basically, I loved everything he’d written.
Except the way he’d ended: specifically the final sentence which read thus:
“You can learn more about the signs, symptoms, and treatment of Salmonella infection online.”
By ending that way, he’d short-changed himself in terms of generating potential sales leads.
I share them here in the hope that others may find them useful:
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Hi,
Just read your piece on Salmonella and found it quite interesting.
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I however have an issue with your final sentence.
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You can learn more about the signs, symptoms, and treatment of Salmonella infection online.
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No, don’t do that.
Don’t send your reader away to learn more elsewhere.
You can offer specific links to 3rd party resources, but not too often, and not this early.
It’s better to build credibility in the minds of your readers so as to develop what is called Expert Authority Status.
You started the good job of educating and informing him/her on this subject/theme.
It’s an interesting perspective that most people rarely consider. My thought is that you can continue it as a special educational series. Doing so would make people come back for the latest one!
That process inspires trust that can lead readers to decide to LIKE your page, visit it often, share your content to their networks/tell others and at some point possibly buy from you, and even refer others to do same!
I recommend that rather than tell readers to “learn more online”(which could be anywhere AWAY from you!), your business marketing goal should make you setup your brand so you can end your articles by saying something like:
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Learn more by visiting our website or blog at www.xyzfarms.com to read other articles – and don’t forget to signup for our weekly newsletter before you leave.
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That will help you build a growing base of followers and a mailing list of potential buyers.
The foregoing (I.e. generating sales leads) should be your ultimate goal for posting useful write-ups like this, as a profit focused Farm CEO!
Cheers,
Tayo
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In writing to the owner of the featured page, I mentioned that I would use what I saw him doing on his page as a case study in a new article on how to offer useful content to connect with potential buyers.
That is what I have now done above.
I hope you find it useful.
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2. Smart Web Marketing Wins Profitable Farm Business Buyers
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The year is drawing to a close. For experts serious about growing their businesses, ideas about how to (a) end it on a high and (b) hit the ground running in the New Year, will be appealing.
I describe an unconventional but potentially useful low cost business promotion strategy you can consider.
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“(Tayo Solagbade) is amazing and I think he is going to produce some impressive results online…” – click here to read full comment by Patrick Meninga (US based 6 figure income blogger who gained fame for building a $2,000 per month adsense website and selling it for $200,000). —————————– “Tayo, I honestly believe you are one of those who will succeed at anything he does. Your commitment and effort has been outstanding….Thanks for all your hard work since I’ve been here – you will be sorely missed. I don’t need to wish you good luck, you have the ability to make your own luck. – Andy”(R. Jones)* *Operations Manager, Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery, December 2001 (Handwritten comments in farewell/xmas cards sent to Tayo Solagbade following his resignation to start his own business). ———————– Click here to contact Tayo… |
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Tayo K. Solagbade* Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist *Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic) Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others. Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners). Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software. He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others. In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos. On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region. His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details). In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training & Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy Limited. When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African continent). You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook. Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity. ====
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When you lack money, common sense dictates you get enough before traveling to another country doesn’t it. Of course it does.
Well, as described in a true 1999 story linked below, I did the opposite, with empty pockets, successfully.
How? Through Blind Faith (and I’m NOT talking religion): Blind Faith guides you to intelligently dispense with common-sense, doubt or fear, to pursue your goal (be it personal or business related), while BELIEVING that YOUR Creator will meet you at the EXACT point of YOUR need.
Note here that “intelligently dispensing with common-sense” in applying faith implies you will STOP “worrying/doubting/fretting” and LISTEN for insights – the tiny voice inside you – from the Creator on how to move forward in-spite of your handicap.
That often comes in form of subtle hints, suggestions, flashes of ideas: that’s Him ANSWERING your requests!
[NB: Here’s a warning: Unless you detect, and more importantly ACT on those insights He sends to you, you may find yourself unable to make useful progress, despite your best efforts: Not even when you get money!]
This is NOT textbook theory: I have experienced it countless times…
But it took doing it right, to begin to make sustainable progress in different endeavours.
I often try to explain – but most people fail to “get it”.
That’s why I write articles like this, every now and then, in the hope that some will come across it and LEARN!
Regular readers of my writing likely know it already. But in case you’re not one, I’ll tell you:
I am NOT religious – and have not been since 1989 (when I was 19 years old).
So this piece is NOT about religion.
My understanding continues to evolve till today, but the foundation was laid back then.
It happened when (having NO MONEY to pay my way after a 3 week stay), I embarked on a dangerous 12 hour overnight boat journey – under heavy rainfall – across the Atlantic ocean, in a desperate bid to return to Guinness Benin Brewery, in Nigeria’s Benin city, from Cameroon’s Douala.
[Full details of what happened/why are in my widely syndicated 2006 article – also published on Ezinearticles.com: Click to read.]
What I did that day by choosing to travel across the ocean under such risky conditions, even as I heard a radio report that some people had died when a boat capsized just few days before (!), would be called “foolhardy” or “crazy” by most people.
Yet doing so enabled me achieve my goal of resuming work from annual leave, on the very day and minutes to the time (2p.m) I was expected to resume as duty shift brewer!
After I arrived, my inner eyes opened, and I knew my life would never be the same again/
To put it another way: when faced with problems or difficulties, I often overcome them by taking calculated risks to do what MOST “right-thinking” persons would NEVER do.
The confidence – and conviction! – with which I keep doing the above, derives mainly from my experiences during THAT fateful journey across the ocean, when a guardian angel literally came out-of-nowhere to help me.
My understanding enables me achieve relentless advancement towards my goals, no matter the challenges, problems, setbacks or failures (aka temporary defeats) I encounter!
In other words, that “understanding” equips me to defy negativity in every shape and form it exists.
By implication, I defy evil and anything that goes against the will of the Creator for my life (because He never wishes us evil)!
Adopting such an internal state of mind attracts timely advancement opportunities, and insights for resolving inevitable challenges/adversity to you.
There are universal laws in nature, setup by the Creator, which make this possible.
If you abide by them, you simply CANNOT fail.
That does not mean you will not periodically struggle.
You will. As does every other human being.
But unless you do it wrong, your struggles will often be preparations for greater success held in store for you – IF you persist, and do not quit.
If you keep your PMA and continue having blind and unquestioning faith that the Creator will see you through, in-spite of any shortcomings you have, and because you NEVER do evil to others (which pleases HIM more than anything else)…YOUR success is inevitable!
It is impossible for ANY true child of God to BE otherwise!
This is why I continue to record progress towards greater successes in EVERYTHING I do.
It is also why I AM a spontaneous, fearless and bold DOER of what is good and right, AND challenger of wrong doing wherever I find myself – even at the borders I cross so often.
Some who have experienced me in this mould, have had cause to ask: “Are you a lawyer or journalist? Do you work with SSS?” etc.
When I answer in the negative, they look at me in unending puzzlement.
Concerned persons have warned me of the risk and dangers associated with doing the above – that I could get attacked, or even killed.
We forget that so often.
Our lack of faith makes us miss the point that if He does NOT permit it, even a loaded gun will fail to discharge its bullet load when pointed at YOU.
Isn’t that why we talk about “miracles”?
My life is full of miracles.
And I do it so well that I’m attracting an increasingly global paying audience, who send payment to me via various channels, without meeting me!
Today, I have wonderful friendships with many of my past buyers – and we still have not met.
It’s the philosophy I’ve shared here that makes it possible for me to do all this.
And I continue doing so even today.
That is to say, this kind of success did/does not come quickly, or easily.
Just the aspect o marketing my work by writing an article daily takes MAJOR effort, unless what you turn out is RUBBISH. To craft a compelling piece that commands the conscious attention and interest of others, on a regular basis requires having more than a passing interest.
This alone I have found most people unwilling to do – talk less of sticking with trying to create and sell custom MS Excel-VB driven software (like my Ration Formulator, Poultry Farm Manager, Payslip Generator etc) for N5k to N200k like I have now done many times – but which took me YEARS to get right!!!
It was FAITH in the Creator – the unflinchingly absolute and unquestioning kind.
It goes without saying that I believed in myself and my ideas.
But most of all, I had FAITH that the Creator would SHOW me how to use my abilities, to succeed with my ideas…
The results I get today show that he has since done so, and continues to do so.
Anyone willing to LIVE this way will record similar if not better results – be it in your personal or business life.
It’s that simple.
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I like to tell people that the highest qualification I have is an MA – but it is NOT the one we all know about.
This MA means Master of Adversity™ – and I earned it from my unpretentious studies in the University of Hard Knocks (aka Life or The Real World).
I recall being told in 2012, by a close relative who knew about the many ups and downs I’d suffered in business, that most as unmarried person would have gone crazy if they’d suffered half of what I’d been through.
Talk less of having to go through it like I had, with the added load of supporting (or being unable to support) my wife and kids as a result!
My MA “competence” is why nothing ever gets me down, no matter how difficult the circumstances I am faced with.
It is why I never ever gave up during the prolonged years of heartbreaking struggles I passed through, till I began to record sustainable success.
But I LEARNED to be this way when I discovered that doing so helped me achieve virtually ANY goal I set for myself – even if I am ALL ALONE with no one to help me.
What’s more, I have studied many other authentic achievers within and outside Africa, by reading their life stories, and found that most had to BE this way too, to achieve the success that made them.
That’s why I know that anyone who is willing can achieve similar results.
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I’ve recently noticed a gradual increase in the number of enquiries I’m getting from online prospects, about my Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager app.
Interestingly, more of them now ask if the app can work across an intranet. In other words, for those who have a network of interconnected offline PCs, or those who use apps that send and receive live updates via the web, the Farm CEOs ask me if my app offers similar functions.
Why would they do this?
Well I suspect it’s the same reason some of my past clients did so. Knowing that my app is built using MS Excel, which is NOT designed to be multi-tasking, they find it hard to imagine how ONE app like mine can possibly be used at the same time on multiple terminals across a network.
Rather than argue, I will simply tell the reader that I have done it more than once, and for GOOD pay too. Way back in paid employment I developed a Training Records Database application for use by departmental heads across the brewery via the intranet.
Each head was able to launch the app from where I’d placed it on the server, using the shortcut I’d placed on their PC desktops. They then quickly/easily generated training reports for individual employees in their departments, for printing.
If data entry needed to be made, that had to be done by posting into the app on the server, and then advising ALL users to close and re-launch the app to view the latest updates.
As you can imagine that option did not appeal to the CEO of a hotel I got invited to build a Hotel Records Management System (HRMS) for.
In his case he wanted the different sections of the hotel where data recording happened (e.g. Accounts, Reception, and Bar/Restaurant) to post their data as and when needed in a way that would promptly reflect in the report generation interface of the app, once it is REFRESHED.
In my usual way, I thoroughly investigated the possible options available online until I found a perfect solution described by an Excel-VB developer named Pierre LeClerc.
2 months later, I’d successfully trained the staff in the different hotel data entry sections, to use the app across the company’s intranet.
After overcoming the usual teething problems, they soon got up and running using the app. I still recall being asked by the CEO to call up the app on his laptop so he could view latest reports drawing from data being posted in the different sections.
It is the same method I used for the hotel that I would use as a guide for developing a network-able version of my Poultry Farm Manager app.
I cannot give details of how I would do it, but once completed, it would enable a Farm CEO readily access any latest posted data updates the staff may have done, from ANY terminal – including the web.
In my response, I will send you a one page annotated diagram that depicts the approach conceived by Pierre LeClerc, which I modified to develop the HRMS mentioned above.
Below is a small version of the diagram:
The larger version I will send to everyone who submits this web form, will come with boldly written explanatory notes, labels and generic information.
