How confident would you be if your plans were failing so badly that everyone around you knew it? What if you had a business setback, and someone who had warned you against going into THAT business made of point of stopping over to say: “I told you so”?
How confident would you feel subsequently, about DOING IT, compared to when everything was going smoothly and everyone admired you for your success?
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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING: How to Keep Your Confidence Up When Your Fortunes Are (Seemingly) Down
How confident would you be if your plans were failing so badly that everyone around you knew it? What if you had a business setback, and someone who had warned you against going into THAT business made of point of stopping over to say: “I told you so”?
How confident would you feel subsequently, about DOING IT, compared to when everything was going smoothly and everyone admired you for your success?
Most people may NEVER know the answer to that question until failure has hit them: and the unpleasantness of it’s presence has dawned on them e.g via loss of friends, lack of money etc
Failure does NOT attract friends or admirers. Most people draw self-confidence/esteem from being sought out by others. But when a person is failing, few people readlly want to stick around him/her!
That reality however never hits most of us until failure happens!
Many people never recover from that shocking experience afterwards. That’s why we are told many businesses fail in their first few years. The truth is that many of those business owners, did NOT fail. They just LOST confidence in their ability to succeed.
You see, the terrifying experience of seeing all that previously worked for them, no longer working, even after they’d thought they KNEW how to make it work, can be traumatizing.
Only few people are able to climb back up to success after experiencing serious failure.
Those who bounce back from such failure to succeed, and who often do so at a HIGHER level than they were when failure struck, tend to have ONE thing in common.
What they have in common is however NOT related to attributes most people often employ in assessing potential e.g. IQ, educational level, social status etc
It’s the simple attribute of unshakeable SELF-CONFIDENCE i.e. the belief in one’s self, regardless of how badly on falls or fails in the pursuit of authentic success.
Isn’t it funny? Just confidence?
That’s something you need not go to school to learn!
You don’t need money to acquire it either!!
And yet it’s presence or absence can determine the success or failure of ANY human being in the world – sports champions, and even world leaders!!!
Those who are able to CONTINUE being confident – no matter the severity of failure they encounter – ALWAYS defeat failure!
But how does one do that (i.e. STAY confident), when one’s world is (seemingly) falling apart all around him/her?
How do you stay confident, when it feels like you are in a storm that just won’t subside?
How do you stay confident, when setback after setback, bad news after bad news seem to come your way…as if you are a magnet for it? (Especially when you have been previously “blessed” with a run of good luck that’s made you the envy of many?!)
How do you stay confident, when despite your best efforts everything you try doing to turn the tide around simply fails to work…like it used to???
I offer you tested experience based answers in my 2 part MP3 Pod cast series titled “How to Keep Your Confidence Up When Your Fortunes Are Down“.
The first part is available to anyone who requests it (request it here).
The 2nd part is available ONLY to members of my Inner Circle.
I’m reinventing my Web Marketing System. So, unlike in past issues, when I simply put out my stuff for direct and immediate access on my website/this blog, I’ll be periodically changing the delivery format and terms of access in which I make them available.
Why change the format and terms of access periodically?
That’s because I’m a results focused person: I believe in performance measurement for continuous improvement. That’s why I have a habit of checking to see what’s working and what’s not, and then narrowing down to doing MORE of the latter and LESS of the former.
Since 2005, I’ve used mainly WORDS/TEXT for my web marketing, only employing multimedia (videos/audio) sparingly. Most of it has always been directly accessible.
Now, with over a decade of hard won experience under my belt, during which time I’ve achieve reproducible and repeatable web marketing success that now affords me name recognition on an increasing scale, I’ve decided to shake things up…and like James Brown used to say: Put a spin on it!
That’s why the rest of today’s issue is available ONLY as a 2 part MP3 downloads series.
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This newsletter (which I use to promote Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Products/Services) serves experts-who-speak. Starting – Monday 13th April 2015 – it has MORPHED in name and content served, to a 2 part Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, to better serve them. You just read the “Public Speaking IDEAS” part above. What follows below is the “Web Marketing IDEAS” part.
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2 of 2: WEB MARKETING: To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! [FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD]
“If you want to achieve sustainable success in business (especially in a volatile market place like Nigeria), it’s in your best interest to develop interest in current affairs and politics, because those are the two key ingredients that really keep this country from having a stable socio-political climate.
And for as long as that stable socio-political climate does not exist, every person running a business will probably have to sleep with one eye open.” – Tayo K. Solagbade
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Burt helps those he mentors (experts-who-speak) to Position, Package, Promote, and Present* themselves successfully to clients (*He calls them the 4Ps). That’s why it’s no surprise that on Burt’s website, considerable space capital is devoted to useful business marketing articles as well as products.
It might also interest you to know that MANY years back, Burt established himself as one of the best marketing minds in the world. To really put this FACT in proper perspective, I’ll provide more specific details in form of an example.
A few years ago, Burt contributed an article to a powerful publication titled “The Most Effective Articles Ever – By The World’s Top Marketers“. That 574 page ebook features timeless marketing advice from 71 of the world’s top marketers – including Jack Trout, Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver…and Burt Dubin.
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Full Disclosure: I represent Burt as Sole Agent for his products/services, which means if YOU buy from him, I get paid.
But that’s NOT the main reason I represent and recommend him. I have benefited in many ways by learning from Burt. Through his writing, his audio recordings, and from directly relating with him.
Before we teamed up in 2011, I’d been studying his work and adapting it to succeed in my work from way back in 2002. It does not matter what part of the world you’re in. If you know how to adapt them to suit your peculiar local needs, Burt’s ideas and strategies WILL work for you. I am living proof of it!
That’s why I never tire of CONFIDENTLY recommending him to others.
If you need help putting the ideas shared above to use, let me know HERE.
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“(Tayo 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).
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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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