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It Pays to Keep Truth-Based Relationships (Lesson from True Story by Beyoncé)

June 14, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

What Kinds Of Friends Do YOU Want – And Keep?

I want to surround myself with TRUTH all the time. I do not want to keep diplomatic and “anchorless Social Chameleons” (as Daniel Goleman described them in his book on Emotional Intelligence) in my social circle.

Does not matter if they are relatives or friends. I want people around me who will say what they mean and mean what they say – NO MATTER whose Ox is gored in the process, even if it’s mine! I want these things because I know they will bring out the best in me and those I relate with. What about YOU?

A Lesson About Truth-Based Relationships From A Celebrity

I was watching an interview of the highly successful female singer – Beyoncé- some time ago in which her gutsy venture into production of a solo album in secrecy and (as the reporter put it) without the luxury of a “safety net” to fall on (in event of failure) was discussed.

When asked how she felt about people making up stories about her life and commenting on her as a celebrity, she (among other things) said she felt lucky to belong to a family where people (unlike what obtains for some other stars) don’t tell her everything she says or does is “cute”. She added that as a result, she has always been surrounded “by truth” which has helped her remain herself.

Adults In Society And The Challenge Of Keeping Truth-Based Relationships

Listening to Beyoncé and reflecting on what she has achieved as a member of the immensely successful group – “Destiny’s Child” – and in her subsequent solo career, makes me certain that my belief that “surrounding oneself with truth in order to succeed with integrity” is valid.

Too often in society, especially amongst adults, duplicity, denial and outright dishonesty/insincerity feature prominently in relationships. It is so much so that I sometimes feel it would take only a blind person NOT to see it!

The truth is that inside each of us is a sixth sense, which equips us (if we develop it) to be able to “detect” insincerity in others – to some extent. Unfortunately, vanity, selfish interests and the need for ego gratification, make many people close their eyes to these obvious signs of insincerity when they see them.

I once read the following quote : “We ask for criticism, even though what we actually want to hear is praise”. I’ll take it further and say “…As a result, when we get the criticism we ask for, we take offense against the person(s) who is/are sincere enough to tell us the TRUTH”.

What Kinds Of Friends Do YOU Want – And Keep?

I think I like the “Beyoncé” kind of surrounding a lot. I want to surround myself with TRUTH all the time. I do not want to keep diplomatic and “anchor less Social Chameleons” (as Daniel Goleman described them in his book on Emotional Intelligence) in my social circle.

Does not matter if they are relatives or friends. I want people around me who will say what they mean and mean what they say – NO MATTER whose Ox is gored in the process, even if it’s mine! I want people around me who will tell me what they think of my words and actions to my face and not smile that I’m OK and then go behind my back to complain to others!

I want people who will give me (and/or anyone who needs it) the help or support I need UNCONDITIONALLY and without complaining or murmuring, and who will be decent enough to let me know when it is NOT convenient enough for them to help/support anymore – instead of continuing to help GRUDGINGLY. I want these things because I know they will bring out the best in me and those I relate with.

And if I cannot find people who fit the foregoing descriptions to be around, I would prefer to be on my own/keep to myself!

Is It The Number Of Friends You Have That Matters – Or The QUALITY of EACH ONE?

Incidentally, the attributes outlined above are those I have always striven to exhibit in my relationships with others. They are powerful qualities that I encourage YOU to also develop (if you do not already possess them), because you will make yourself EXTREMELY valuable and useful in the lives of others as a result.

Let me end with this question, which will be followed by what I consider a VERY powerful quote:

Question: What would be the point of your claiming to have many friends/associates/relatives etc for instance, when most (or all?) of them are not true to you?(i.e. say one thing to your face and another when you’re not around OR they say one thing and do another etc).

Blaise Pascal probably had the above in mind when he reportedly said the following words:

“I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be 4 friends in the world”.

What do you think?

NB: This article was first published online on 31st October 2007

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Teaching People To Make Money Helps Them Better Than Always Giving Them Money

June 12, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

I believe, from years of careful observation, that: People Who Always Get Helped Without Being “Taught” Seldom Stop Needing Help. The following quote explains why…

“The more is given, the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work, the more their poverty is increased” – Leo Tolstoi (1892)

For some reason, people who get “help” READILY handed out to them in an atmosphere that does not CHALLENGE them to LEARN how to take control of their situation so as to eventually become self-sufficient, SELDOM (if at all ever) stop needing help.

In contrast, those who get help that includes being TAUGHT HOW TO develop/empower themselves and others like them, to overcome the limitations of their circumstances, quite often end up become self-dependent and highly motivated.

It is a common fact of life that certain persons will sometimes need “help” to achieve progress they seek in some areas of their lives.

Over the years, I have taken time to carefully study – as the opportunities presented themselves – how such people over time fared.

One thing came out quite clearly: For some reason, people who got “help” READILY handed out to them in an atmosphere that did not CHALLENGE them to LEARN how to take control of their situation so as to eventually become self-sufficient, SELDOM stopped needing help!

In contrast, those who got help that included being TAUGHT HOW TO develop/empower themselves, to overcome the limitations of their circumstances, quite often ended up becoming self-dependent and highly motivated.

Why does this happen? I personally believe it is due to the fact that when people get used to being given things to cope with the difficulties or limitations they face, they become CONDITIONED to expecting help to come in that manner.

With the exception of a few individuals who may have “spirits” that make them reject being dependent on others for long, many people tend to be quite content to wait till they are given rather than wanting to LEARN how they can on their own find/get what they need.

In my country, there is a very common practice of “helping” less fortunate relatives, friends etc by giving them cash gifts.

A successful person out here will often find him/herself besieged with demands for money for schooling, feeding etc from various members of extended families – and even beyond. If s/he happens to experience any setback that negatively affects his/her income source, there is a rippling multiplier effect down through the chain of dependency that’s been formed.

The irony is that few if any of those who had been receiving money regularly from him/her would at this point be able to turn around to offer help in return. This is because in most cases they often spend it all and begin preparing to come back for more!

Incidentally the point being made here is one that I strongly believe can help many charities/donor agencies MODIFY their approach in providing “help” to their respective target groups, so they can record MORE sustainable successes.

In the next section I explain my perspective on this issue, and what I believe can be done to help those dependants we care about from falling into this kind of trap.

Gradually Teaching Your Dependants To Make Money, Helps Them Better Than Giving Them Money ALL The Time!

I believe VERY strongly that my peace of mind is MUCH more important than the “opportunity” to feel important by having those who need something from me KEEP coming back to me.

I don’t want to have anyone chasing me around for money. I would rather quickly show him/her how to make the money s/he sees me making so s/he can get out of my hair.

I would NOT want anyone harassing me every now and then to help him/her type a letter on the PC. Instead I will ask him/her to commit to a programme to learn from me – FREE if necessary – how to do it.

If s/he fails to honour the commitment, I would be justified to refuse to type any documents for him/her in the future. Same applies to the guy who every week wants me to use MS Excel to help him prepare a weekly report he sends to members of his cooperative.

Same applies to…YOU get my drift by now I’m sure.

I love helping people, BUT I prefer showing people HOW TO help themselves, because by so doing, I help them EVEN MORE – and in the process I HELP MYSELF too!

Think about it. Not only will those YOU “help” in this manner be grateful to YOU for a long time, they will also tell others about what YOU did for them.

Most importantly for me however, I would have my FREEDOM from worrying about when next she, he (or indeed THEY!) will be coming back to ask for more help, in whatever form or shape!

If more people in a society form the habit of coaching and influencing others around them in order to make such persons MORE self-sufficient and independent, THAT society will over time achieve major progress.

PS: Manny NGOs that habitually dole out so called “aid” (to non-disaster victims) will need to give the argument presented above some serious consideration, if they really want to achieve useful IMPACT for the long term!

PPS: This article is based on a piece that was first published online on 17th May 2007

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“Do Not Ally Yourself With Power Against The Powerless!” – Chinua Achebe

June 11, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Sometimes people need to be rebuked for trying to protect their vested interests, at the expense of others.

Chinua Achebe once said: “there is a moral obligation “not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.” (See [The Boston Globe] Achebe: Fighting corruption with fame – The Boston Globe)

As a leader in a developed society – EVERYTHING you say, and do, is noted by the press, and the citizens, and it WILL be used for or against you in future. We need to become like that in Nigeria, to progress.

The question is how many of us are prepared to do that? Does it occur to us that by FAILING to speak out against errand boys of selfish leaders in power, who are “planted” among us (e.g. on Facebook) to keep us in line, we “ally ourselves with power against the powerless”??

Considering how many times he has tried and failed at getting elected into office (note that I have never voted for him), Pat Utomi, could justifiably sit back and say I tried but they gave me no support.

When I started out in self-employment in 2002, (then Dr.) Utomi invited me on appointment to his office at LBS (as a result of a management research paper I sent to him, which I would later present at CMD). His parting words to me that day were “Remember…Tenacity! Tenacity!!”.

Looking back at the efforts he made, I give him kudos, for walking his talk for years in taking PERSONAL ACTION continually, to influence positive change in Nigeria.

Below is a post he once made to his facebook wall, that captures my feelings/sentiments about complacent Nigerian elites(See ):

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“Years ago in India I read that a candle loses nothing when it lights another candle. I wonder therefore that there is so much darkness in a land of many candles. As I see the failure of citizenship with many educated middle class people hugging their comfort zones I think how sad we can not see the masochist in us. How we hurt our own long term interests” – Pat Utomi (See original post here)

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I have always been VERY sensitive to the existence of extreme imbalances in society that leaves some shortchanged.

I feel the pain of people who suffer because the government/society’s leaders fail to do what is right. Because I ALSO bear part of that suffering, it becomes even more personal, for me.

And that’s why when I READ stuff written by a member of the “jeun soke” (“chop up”) elites, claiming NOTHING is wrong with the status quo, or the slow pace of promised reforms, or that the WHITE we all see the government doing is actually GREEN, I get really upset.

These days, ONLY people in BIG SALARY jobs (and those enjoying “arrangee” business, via connections of all sorts), are reasonably “insulated”, from the negative impact of the many wrong things happening in Nigeria, due to bad leadership.

Sadly, they also constitute majority of the “complacent elite”.

The status quo in Nigeria RIGHT NOW is very very bad. It often ensures perpetual socioeconomic oppression of the majority, regardless of merit or competence.

There is an extreme lack of a fair and impartial opportunity to succeed here in today’s Nigeria.

I do NOT like what I observe and experience in Nigeria daily today. So, when I see/hear any person BLINDLY justify or rationalise it, in a manner that indicates s/he is biased, I WILL rebuke him/her.

I WILL continue doing this, because years of deep thought and reflection have revealed to me that keeping quiet, or sighing and saying “Lef am for God”(i.e. leave it for God) , has never worked for Nigeria or Nigerians.

Those who do NOT like my approach should therefore simply avoid being associated with me. Period.

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June 10, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

This article is based on a letter dated 31st October 2005 written by Tayo K. Solagbade following a 2 week exploratory business visit to Accra-Ghana, during which time he met with the President of Pan African Writers Association(PAWA).

Tayo emailed the letter to Media Houses in Ghana (e.g. Graphic Ghana), Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa etc challenging them to do a story on how POD Publishing could enable African writers publish and sell international quality print books at ZERO COST.

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THE FARM CEO™Newspaper – Alternative Livestock Feed Ideas [FREE MAIDEN ISSUE – Monday 8th June 2015]

June 9, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

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No. 196: As an International Speaker, Manually Formatting Your MS Excel Invoice Values in Different Currencies Can Cost You [Hint: Watch this 2 Part Home Study ExcelVB Video Tutorial]

June 8, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

As an expert-who-speaks, you’ll periodically send out invoices. If you serve clients internationally (like I do), your invoices may sometimes have to be formatted in different currencies. For instance, I’ve had to deliver (by hand, but often email) invoices in Naira, FCFA, US Dollars, and Euros.

But doing it manually takes time and effort, and is prone to errors.

In the 2 part Home Study Video Tutorial linked below, I demonstrate how to use MS Excel VB automation to get it done.

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – As an International Speaker, Manually Formatting Your MS Excel Invoice Values in Different Currencies Can Cost You [Hint: Watch this 2 Part Home Study ExcelVB Video Tutorial]

But doing it manually takes time and effort, and is prone to errors.

In the 2 part Home Study Video Tutorial linked below, I demonstrate how to use MS Excel VB automation to get it done.

Beyond the actual act/art of speaking, you are ultimately in business, to make money – meaning you’ll have to send in invoices requesting payments of advance and/or balance fees in relating with clients.

Depending on how busy you are, and the nature of work, there may come a time when formatting your invoice monetary values to reflect a particular currency, can involve drudgery.

I once had a client say he was familiar with the Naira and US dollars exchange rates for his country’s currency (Benin Republic), but that he wanted me to serve him the invoice clearly showing the FCFA equivalent values for each item.

Now, this was NOT a problem for me.

All I had to do was manually format the range of cells (as I demonstrated in the video added below).

But I ended up sending him a “faulty” Invoice Grand Total, because I accidentally left the “Grand Total” formula cell formatted in a different currency!

As a result, the upper values (meant to add up to the Grand Total) appeared in FCFA, while the Grand Total appeared in Naira!

You may argue that this is no big deal, of course. One would simply prepare a new one and send to the client in place of the old one – which was what I did, after the client pointed out the error to me.

However, leaving yourself open to making such avoidable errors can lead to shooting yourself in the foot professionally (even financially).

Consider two possibilities…

1. Sometimes the person you’re sending it to, may not bother checking and could forward it to a superior, who then discovers it…

The sender (who you sent it to) then looks bad before his/her boss, and even though s/he may not say it, s/he could silently blame you for it: you may lose his/her trust as a result.

We are all human of course, and prone to errors, but as professionals, our clients are DEPENDING on us to go the extra mile to serve them.

The decision maker hiring you is hoping you will make him/her good with your performance. Sending in an invoice that states money to be paid in conflicting currencies can result in the OPPOSITE happening!

2. Even worse, if you find yourself dealing with a particularly crafty (read: EXPLOITATIVE) client or decision maker.

For instance if the error you made is such that your grand total converts to LOWER than what it should actually be (e.g. summing US dollar denominated items to make the Grand Total, which you inadvertently leave formatted in Nigerian Naira!).

Such an individual could quietly accept it, and initiative payment processing for you, and then when you discover how much appears on your cheque s/he could claim “Well that’s what you stated as Grand Total on your invoice!”

Incidentally, the above could even happen with a decision maker who did NOT know better.

If the individual is a national of a different country, and not familiar with the considerable difference in value between the conflicting currencies on the invoice, s/he could innocently accept it, without realizing the need to call your attention to it.

NB: In case you wonder, I’ve actually had such an experience before – though not exactly as described above.

My point therefore is that it’s better to proactively invest some quality time to setup a system that enables you prepare your invoices with minimal errors.

What I do is what is demonstrated in the 2 part video tutorial linked in this issue of my newsletter.

Take a few minutes to study it and empower yourself, if you do not already know how to do it

In the video, I start by demonstrating how to do format currency manually. Then I show the automated version of the workbook, in use – with single click form controls (command buttons and a drop menu) changing between the USD, Naira, Euro, GBP and FCFA.

In the second part of the tutorial, I demonstrate step-by-step- how to use Excel VB automation to switch – at the click of a mouse – your invoice values to different currencies.

Note that this can be applied to ANY spreadsheet you’re working on...

In other words, even though I’ve used invoice preparation as an example here, there are many other scenarios that it is relevant to. One simply needs to apply the same thinking as appropriate.

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

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

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

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

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

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

Farm Businesses and others.

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

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

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

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

and others.

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

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

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

he’s published.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Home Study Tutorial: Create a Macro to Format ANY Currency You Want (Case Study: MS Excel Invoice Template) – NOW LIVE today Monday 8th June 2015!

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[Update: Tutorial video now LIVE…watch below] In this quick Home Study Video tutorial I will publish on Monday 8th June 2015, I demonstrate the manual (& also ExcelVB automated) steps for formatting invoice cash values in ANY currency – including those not available in Excel by default e.g. Nigerian Naira (N), French CFA (FCFA).

Click here to watch the above video on Youtube.

NB: If you’d like to download a LARGE screen version of this video that allows you to see EVERYTHING I’m doing close up, click here to send me a message.

After showing the manual way to do it, in a first clip, I demonstrate – in a second one – how to create single click buttons and drop menus like those shown above, to achieve the same results, more or less instantly, and with minimal effort.

If you use MS Excel to handle financial data recording, and report generation, then you’ll want to see this.

Members of my Excel Heaven VB Automation Club will get the Workbook containing the code FREE, in addition to the downloadable video that will be emailed to any one who requests it.

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[Update: Cover for Issue 02 added] On Monday 8th June 2015, I’ll publish the maiden issue of Self-Development Academy’s “THE FARM CEO:” a “small” niche digital newspaper (which will be available in PRINT to interested subscribers).

Below is a screenshot of a teaser preview.

I serve a growing base of mainly Farm Business CEOs. This newspaper aims to help them do what they do better.

Every week, it will serve them results from research and investigations I conduct into ideas and strategies/latest findings for farm business improvement.

To subscribe, EACH intending reader must provide satisfactory proof that s/he runs (or has plans to establish) a REAL life farm business.

It does not matter what part of the world you are based.

I have farm CEO clients from in and out of Africa – as far as North America and the UAE – and I guarantee they WILL also find this paper’s contents useful.

What is important is that you contact me, indicating your interest in getting a copy.

Note that you will receive the first issue FREE – digitally. Subsequently, you will be required to subscribe at $3 USD per month, to continue receiving weekly issues.

If you wish, the PRINT copies will be mailed to you via post (terms apply).

CONTENT (WHAT TO EXPECT)

Subscribers to this newspaper will receive my reviews of news compiled from research and other industry sources, both on and off the web (including farm visits I do as I travel across West Africa).

In other words, you will get access to ready to use information and education from stakeholders across the world, delivered to you via this paper. This will give you smart ideas of what’s working and how to apply it to make your farm business succeed more. If you had to do this yourself, it would take you MUCH more time, effort & money!

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All my existing farm business support products including my popular Feed Formulation Handbook, Ration Formulator Software, Poultry Farm Manager Etc will be periodically offered at special discount prices.

THE VISION

This publication will run into at least 2 or more pages, per issue, depending on the volume of useful news to be served. Note that where relevant URLs to relevant sources for further reading will be provided.

My vision is to make this the No. 1 most reliable compilation for Farm CEOs.

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No. 195: (a) Being Likeable Can Cost You Success (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! – [MP3]!

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When defending his title for the first time, under his new name (Muhammad Ali), the crowd roundly booed Cassius Clay and cheered Sonny Liston. Yet Ali knocked out Liston in round 1. Some claim it was a phantom punch (but that’s a whole other issue) – MY point is that YOUNG Ali’s self-confident, and cocky attitude, bordering on what some called “arrogance”, earned him lots of criticism.

At some point, he was dubbed “The Louisville Lip”.

But Ali never let the negativity get to him. He remained defiant in the face of it all, and stayed true to himself, doing good BOXING and TALKING while doing it – thus giving MORE entertainment!

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – Being Likeable Can Cost You Success

At some point, he was dubbed “The Louisville Lip”.

But Ali never let the negativity get to him. He remained defiant in the face of it all, and stayed true to himself, doing good BOXING and TALKING while doing it – thus giving MORE entertainment!

That attitude of believing in himself, and NOT letting what others thought or said influence him to act contrary to his nature, led him on a confrontation path with the government, when they tried to draft him to fight in the Vietnam war.

Long story short, Ali was stripped of his title and banned from boxing. He spent some of his best years unable to compete instead giving public speeches on human rights and race etc – and that raised his profile beyond boxing, to national and even international levels.

He later won back his title and did so well that today, many decades on he is a LIVING legend LOVED the world over.

Funny isn’t it? The same guy who got booed as a “mouthy” young boxer is today hailed as the greatest boxer ever, with scores of his famous utterances quoted by people everywhere!

Ali refused to be cowed or intimidated into NOT speaking his mind. He refused to let others dictate what topic he spoke on.

He did it so consistently and so well, that some of his critics over time developed a grudging admiration for him, and eventually, most backed down!

Today, it’s hard to find any persons with anything but good to say about Muhammad Ali!

How does this apply to you as an expert-who-speaks?

Some time ago, I read a Facebook post by a trainer/speaker, that commenting on current affairs/politics was (for him) a taboo for public speakers, especially if they belonged to a particular body of speakers that I will leave unnamed here.

I DO NOT AGREE with that view at all!

It is in fact my considered opinion, that public speakers are actually best positioned to help society evolve to better heights by speaking intelligently on current affairs/politics!

Why?

Because the role they play, makes them function as thought/opinion leaders: which gives them potentially great power to INFLUENCE the thinking of MANY people at once!

Incidentally, if there is one issue that affects the well being of a public speaker’s target audience, it’s current affairs/politics.

A smart speaker will therefore want to arm him/herself with latest information regarding a society’s current affairs/politics, towards guiding the DELIVERY of his/her message there.

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not asking you to go to a client company’s Management Conference and begin making polarising statements to the audience in your keynote speech!

No. That’s NOT what I’m saying.

What I AM saying is that, using your skill as a speaker, you can tactfully incorporate, where relevant and possible, your own thinking about the state of affairs in society, as it relates to the PURPOSE of the gathering you have to address at any point in time.

And sometimes that may cause you to NOT be liked (by some people).

The truth is however that if you focus too often on NOT rocking boats, you may end up NOT making lasting impact in a way that will make your audience reckon with you!

This is a sensitive topic, I know…

However, I’ve learnt a LOT from studying people who used public speaking to achieve greatness, like Muhammad Ali, Mahathma Ghandhi, Abe Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. , Malcolm X etc.

You see, most of them achieved greatness because they did NOT shy away from PUBLICLY stating HARD TRUTHS, even when they knew (powerful) others could be upset.

They did not go out of their way to be “LIKEABLE”, especially when they saw justifiable cause!

Be a Speaker With a Conscience…& It’s Okay to be Opinionated, If You Have Conviction!

The great achievers I mentioned earlier understood the above truth, and that’s why they went about their purpose without FEAR!

A truly authentic expert-who-speaks must have a CONSCIENCE that cannot be bought and that WILL NOT be compromised!

I’ll end by paraphrasing myself -below – from a chat message I recently shared with an American – lady – friend (who is also a subscriber to this newsletter):

“Some people tell me I am opinionated. I just tell them when I’m convinced about something, I do NOT see any reason why I have to let someone else brow beat me to see it their way. They never like that…but…that’s just me. I accept others for being themselves, and so long as I know I’m not being un-reasonable, then I expect them to accept me for being ME. But then even the issue of being “unreasonable” remains a matter of personal perspective. Which is why I LOVE this quote credited to George Bernard Shaw: ‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.’“ – Tayo K. Solagbade

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

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Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

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

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

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Farm Businesses and others.

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

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).

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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[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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for Africa Based Experts(PDF…Click!)

What Kinds Of Friends Do YOU Want – And Keep?

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What Kinds Of Friends Do YOU Want – And Keep?

Is It The Number Of Friends You Have That Matters – Or The QUALITY of EACH ONE?

Blaise Pascal probably had the above in mind when he reportedly said the following words:

For some reason, people who get “help” READILY handed out to them in an atmosphere that does not CHALLENGE them to LEARN how to take control of their situation so as to eventually become self-sufficient, SELDOM (if at all ever) stop needing help.

In contrast, those who got help that included being TAUGHT HOW TO develop/empower themselves, to overcome the limitations of their circumstances, quite often ended up becoming self-dependent and highly motivated.

In my country, there is a very common practice of “helping” less fortunate relatives, friends etc by giving them cash gifts.

Gradually Teaching Your Dependants To Make Money, Helps Them Better Than Giving Them Money ALL The Time!

I love helping people, BUT I prefer showing people HOW TO help themselves, because by so doing, I help them EVEN MORE – and in the process I HELP MYSELF too!

The question is how many of us are prepared to do that? Does it occur to us that by FAILING to speak out against errand boys of selfish leaders in power, who are “planted” among us (e.g. on Facebook) to keep us in line, we “ally ourselves with power against the powerless”??

I have always been VERY sensitive to the existence of extreme imbalances in society that leaves some shortchanged.

The status quo in Nigeria RIGHT NOW is very very bad. It often ensures perpetual socioeconomic oppression of the majority, regardless of merit or competence.

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – As an International Speaker, Manually Formatting Your MS Excel Invoice Values in Different Currencies Can Cost You [Hint: Watch this 2 Part Home Study ExcelVB Video Tutorial]

Beyond the actual act/art of speaking, you are ultimately in business, to make money – meaning you’ll have to send in invoices requesting payments of advance and/or balance fees in relating with clients.

But I ended up sending him a “faulty” Invoice Grand Total, because I accidentally left the “Grand Total” formula cell formatted in a different currency!

1. Sometimes the person you’re sending it to, may not bother checking and could forward it to a superior, who then discovers it…

2. Even worse, if you find yourself dealing with a particularly crafty (read: EXPLOITATIVE) client or decision maker.

What I do is what is demonstrated in the 2 part video tutorial linked in this issue of my newsletter.

In the second part of the tutorial, I demonstrate step-by-step- how to use Excel VB automation to switch – at the click of a mouse – your invoice values to different currencies.

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At some point, he was dubbed “The Louisville Lip”.

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – Being Likeable Can Cost You Success

At some point, he was dubbed “The Louisville Lip”.

Funny isn’t it? The same guy who got booed as a “mouthy” young boxer is today hailed as the greatest boxer ever, with scores of his famous utterances quoted by people everywhere!

How does this apply to you as an expert-who-speaks?

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not asking you to go to a client company’s Management Conference and begin making polarising statements to the audience in your keynote speech!

Be a Speaker With a Conscience…& It’s Okay to be Opinionated, If You Have Conviction!

I’ll end by paraphrasing myself -below – from a chat message I recently shared with an American – lady – friend (who is also a subscriber to this newsletter):

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