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What You Need is NOT Size, But “Fight” to Outsmart Bigger Competition!

May 16, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Dwight Eisenhower

The Yoruba’s have a proverb that expresses a similar sentiment. It goes thus:

“Kekere ni abere nkere. Ki nse gbi gbe mi fun adiye.”

Translation: “Don’t be fooled by the smallness of the needle. It cannot be swallowed by a chicken!”

That’s why I LOVE the David-vs-Goliath philosophy advocated by Virgin founder, Richard Branson. It’s also why I LOVE Strive Masiyawa’s true life story of winning an unlikely battle against his country’s government, when they tried to stop him from launching his telecom company.

Aaaand…it’s ALSO WHY I never fear going in a direction that my HEART leads me, even when I’m told I will have to confront “bigger” or “more powerful” or “more popular” or “more successful” people.

Several years ago, I paid about 3 targeted visits to the Lagos, Ikeja office of fairly well known real estate company (with branches in major cities across Nigeria).

NB: This was when I still used to do lots of pavement pounding.

I was offering to develop a Web Marketing System for them. Each time I went there however, I never got to see the CEO. Instead it was the secretary/PA, who gently hinted me that some IT companies had sent “teams” with bulky proposals, to do presentations to the MD and key officers.

She wondered how I, coming as an individual (not even wearing a tie) thought I stood a chance.

Don’t get me wrong. She did not exactly say it…but she insinuated it as we chatted. I always confidently smiled and told her I was sure if I got a few minutes with someone in a decision making position, even if s/he was NOT the MD, that they would want to hear more from me.

Note that all this while they already have a website, but it was not doing them any real service, and had not been updated for over 3 years.

The problem was the guy who built it for them was no longer on good terms with the MD, and had reportedly even stopped taking their calls.

As we talked on my 3rd visit, I challenged the lady to get anyone she knew was most senior amongst the staff present, to speak with me. I said to her: “Tell him I said I DO NOT build websites. Instead I make websites do the work they are meant for, which is to generate sales leads and enquiries.”

She stopped when I said that. I think it was also the way I said it, while looking directly as her, smiling all the while, that got her.

She told me to give her a minute and walked into the large hall to the other end, where a bespectacled gentleman in tie was seated in a corner (In this company, they had spaces with desks. No closed doors, except for the MD’s).

As they spoke, she pointed in my direction and they spoke a little more. Then she walked back to me and said (not her exact words):

“Please go and speak with that man. He is the closest to the MD and is actually the one that liaises with all those companies that have been coming to offer us this solution. If he sees value in what you say, I can assure you the MD will want to meet you.“

Less than 30 minutes later, I and the gentleman were chatting like old friends…

Among other things he told me what struck him as soon as I started speaking was the fact that he could UNDERSTAND what I was saying, without being an IT person. According to him, all the other people – the teams – who had visited had come with beautifully packaged presentation folders, in colour, filled with detailed notes, and lots of technical terminologies.

Since he and the MD were not very IT savvy, they often hoped the in-person meetings would give them an opportunity to better understand what the offers really meant. What the solution offered entailed. The tangible value it would add either by helping them sell more, or saving them money, or both.

Unfortunately, most times those IT experts came down and still used a lot of the IT jargon without really breaking it down in lay man’s terms.

They failed to realize they were not communicating what they could do well enough for their prospective client to confidently decide to choose them!

He said that was what made me different:

“You apparently know the IT jargon too, but you take the pains to speak about what you do in simple language that a non-technical person can understand!” he added.

I got an appointment to come in an meet the MD the very next day.

And that meeting went so well, that less than 48 hours later I’d cashed a cheque for 100% advance payment to reinvent their online presence based on my proposal to develop for them a Web Marketing System.

It might interest you to know that my fee was actually higher than that offered by most of the others being considered by the estate agency. Indeed, the MD would later ask me – after we’d agreed on working together – if I knew how many “big” companies has made them offers.

I told him I’d been informed, and that my experiences and achievements had proven over the years that SIZE does not equate to COMPETENCE. I went on to give him a practical analogy (that I have used with success for years) to show him that NOT choosing me would be a mistake.

After hearing me say what I said, I could see from his body language that he was ready…

The rest as they say is history.

As you can see from this story, it’s YOU who can really determine how others see you. Even when they have preconceived ideas or biases against choosing you, it is up to YOU – it will ALWAYS be up to YOU – to influence how they see you to what YOU WANT. Doing that however starts with first believing unflinchingly in yourself and your ability to deliver what you promise.

Then you have to LEARN how to communicate the value you offer in a manner that will make most who need what you offer find it hard to resist you. That’s what I did with that MD and his team.

It’s what I do with most people who buy from me today, and that even though I no longer do door to door marketing or sales of ANY of my products or services.

Today, people come to me via my Web Marketing System, and after a few interactions they make payment and I deliver the promised solution.. That’s how well this works. You can adopt a similar approach. If you need help, let me know.

In case you wonder what exactly I said to the real estate company’s MD to make him choose me over the bigger providers who had previously approached him, click here to contact me.

You see, what to say, and how to say it, in order to CONVINCE people to PAY YOU MONEY for what you offer, is a crucial skill every business owner who wishes to market, negotiate and sell successfully needs to LEARN.

I can show you how to do same. Get in touch and I’ll respond by telling you exactly what I said to the MD of that company to win him over the way I did.

Final Words: NEVER discount yourself on account of what you think you lack, be it in size, possession etc

Not even if you lack money, connections or power…

Never ever think you do NOT have what it takes to get what you want – in business or life – from ANYONE.

I say this because so MANY MANY people with (seemingly NOTHING of advantage) have achieved greatness despite going up against others who had so much more than them.

How do I know? I’ve read about them!

Several years back, one would have needed to buy books to reach such true stories about such great achievers.

However, today, the web makes it possible to read all you want about such people for next to nothing. I therefore urge you NOT to waste that opportunity: Go online and use Google to find those stories start reading today, to get the INSPIRATION you need to go out there and succeed!

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To Succeed, Treat People Right!

May 14, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

“The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people” – Thomas J. Peters

I have major difficulty doing the OGA or BIG MAN thing. In paid employment it was so. As an entrepreneur, this “affliction” of mine has gotten worse. Owning things (which some use to SHOW they are OGA), also bores me. I guess I’m some kind of incurable minimalist!

But I LIKE being the way I am – because I find it helps me to stay grounded. To keep my head from getting swollen, so I can stay focussed on what really matters.

That’s why I WALK so often, and LOVE travelling by road….LOL!

And no where will you see me refer to myself as MD or CEO of anything. Plus, I plan to NEVER EVER have employees (cause I don’t want the hassle), but I WILL continue to encourage and empower people to start their own businesses (In fact, I’m working with my own kids towards launching a home based farm based business in Benin Republic).

It’s also why I dress simply and informally, often African style outfits sometimes mixed with Western elements.

No suits, blazers, ties etc for me. I did “them” a lot, back in those days in Guinness Nigeria: but not anymore. If you’re planning to invite me to give a talk, please keep this in mind

As Ben Bruce said, “I want to be free.”

So I adhere to no one’s rules, and I do not try to force others to fit any particular mould.

And I absolutely refuse to go on EGO trips of any sort: No airs of superiority for me in relating with others.

Make no mistake however, that’s not to say that I suffer from an inferiority complex either. Indeed, I do NOT suffer fools gladly!

But I love to be myself, and to relate in a manner that does NOT depend on weighing people’s importance according to their status or wealth.

Example 1: Even while functioning as a Senior Manager during my time in Guinness Nigeria, Benin Brewery, Nigeria, and I NEVER owned a car and often took a N10 bus or walked to work, from my Ikpoba Hill home to the brewery.

It was only after I got attacked and robbed at 11p.m one night I was returning home on foot while acting as Production Manager that I agreed to let the driver take me home.

That night I got about 6 stitches (at Edi Ale hospital) on my wrist, where I’d been stabbed with a broken Malta Guinness bottle by 3 young men who wanted the laptop bag I was carrying.

I tried to explain that there was no laptop in it, and only company papers, but they would not listen and got impatient, when I kept trying to convince them. One then cut me with the bottle and I dropped the bag, which they then ran off with.

It might interest you to know I still did not buy a car despite that nasty experience in 2001!

I recall one colleague pestered me so much saying I was miserly, since I could afford it. For him, the car was a status statement of what one was: a GUINESS manager. For me, it was an encumbrance. If I had it, I had to worry about where to park it, and what would happen to it etc.

It was only few months to my leaving the company, just before I put in my resignation (in line with an exit plan I’d been working for 2 years), that I applied for a car loan – the bulk of which was then deducted from the money I was paid by the company when I left.

Back then I was simply too driven, too focused to readily allow anything to get in the way of the attention I wanted to give the work I was doing in the brewery.

As I have said in past articles, I often spent as much as 14 to 18 hours in the brewery most days.

Indeed, while still a shift brewer, I would stay back after closing morning or afternoon shifts to work on a PC in the laboratory department, building custom apps to solve data handling and reporting problems I identified.

Yes, I did it all in my free time!

No one asked me to do it, and I never got paid for it. But eventually, with the adoption of several solutions I developed, the recognition and rewards later came.

Example 2: Another thing I did a lot was to spend quality time getting to know my subordinates…

You see, I was a VERY high flyer in Guinness Nigeria (click here to read my resume). At a point, due to my exploits developing custom spreadsheet software adopted for formal reporting by the company, I heard through the grapevine that I was being called “Super Brewer”.

Apart from developing apps in my spare time, I also came up with creative solutions for improving operations e.g. an Operator Training Assessment module I developed as a Best Practice Facilitator, which got adopted by the Training Department for use in Operator Competency Assessment towards formal Certification.

My reputation got me noticed and I eventually got rapid career advancement opportunities – secondments, followed by promotion and then more secondments.

But despite rubbing shoulders, attending meetings with the brewery top brass, and even HQ big boys and girls, I never failed to find time to stop over at the process areas to chat and crack jokes with the junior staff/operatives.

Some were twice my age and had introduced me to their own kids who were as old as I was!

Yet these men had humbly trained me, when I was a newly recruited management trainee, sharing with me the wisdom from their MANY years of hard won experience, doing the toughest most physically demanding jobs in the brewery.

They did this knowing that I would eventually move on to assume my position as Brewer, when they would report to me as their boss.

For me, that was something that triggered a deep sense of reflection that I refused to ignore. I realized that the advantage I had of a higher education was what had given me the edge over most of them. Otherwise, their years on the job would NEVER have put them where they were.

So I resolved to ALWAYS treat them with the utmost respect and consideration and to find ways to make the feel good about working with me, my colleagues and for the company.

That led me to begin spending a lot of my time with process hands across the company.

Wherever I met them on site or off the premises, I made a point of relating with them as equals. Never did I talk down to them, and rarely did I find need to scold them.

Not because they did not make mistakes or were not sometimes rude, but because I discovered most readily acknowledged when they were wrong and they valued their relationship with me.

When I was wrong, I never hesitated to apologize and that endeared me to them even more.

As a result, when – during my shift – problems or breakdowns occurred, these men would come to reassure me that they would do everything possible to get the plant up and running. I mean both the production and engineering hands. They were my pals, but they also never failed to acknowledge my authority.

In the end my shift duty performance frequently reflected the fact that I had a good rapport with the men.

No matter which group of staff I worked with while on duty, I often got the best out of them without having to shout or exchange harsh words with them.

My expatriate boss, during one of my acting assignments, noted as much in a form he filled for me, when I was considering pursuing a Masters Degree in USA’s Pepperdine University (I later changed my mind and never submitted the forms).

But my habit of being “friendly” with the junior staff did not go down well with a few of my colleagues.

Some accused me of “reducing myself to the level of junior staff”. Others went further to say I was embarrassing other managers by being so close and chummy with shop floor operatives.

I never let what they said bother me however…

Since leaving paid employment, I have continued with the same attitude.

And it has earned me ready acceptance in the various communities I have lived in Nigeria’s Lagos, as well as in Benin Republic’s Cotonou and Calavi (so far).

In Ben Murray Bruce’s wonderful speech about change needed in Nigeria, which seems to be trending at the moment, he said we MUST pay attention to the needs of those not as fortunate as we are.

That we must look out for their interests.

I believe the first step towards doing that is to befriend them. That will help us get familiar enough with them to know what their true situation is.

We cannot stand aloof or adopt snobbish superior postures towards them. If we do, we will ignite their resentment not just against ourselves, but also against those who are ours (our families) and all that which is ours (our businesses, properties etc).

One day, when the opportunity presents itself, those of them who are most bitter about the way we treat them will act it out either by attacking what belongs to us, or REFUSING to help us protect what is ours, when others attack us.

Think about it. People you snub or mistreat can simply choose to stand by, instead of helping to call the police if they see you getting robbed after you had a flat tyre in the middle of the night, at the Estate gate!!!

That’s why I recommend that you slow down, and learn to treat others right, from today, so they can also treat you right, now or anytime in the future.

“Treat people as what they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they’re capable of being” – Johann Von Goethe

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No. 192: (a) Don’t Fret Over Fleeting or Fleeing Opportunities (Hint: Why I Rarely Hurry Over Anything – Especially In Business) (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! – [MP3]!

May 11, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Many people are truly GIFTED at ANALYZING what it takes to succeed …or why failure happens. What most seem to LACK, in my experience based opinion it the WILLINGNESS (and NOT the ability) to unflinchingly persist in APPLYING the insights they possess to achieve their (supposedly) valued goals.

This is why so many people ONLY TALK about succeeding in spite of adversity, but few EVER do it…

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Title: (a) Don’t Fret Over Fleeting or Fleeing Opportunities (Hint: Why I Rarely Hurry Over Anything – Especially In Business) (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! – [MP3]!

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – Don’t Fret Over Fleeting or Fleeing Opportunities (Hint: Why I Rarely Hurry Over Anything – Especially In Business)

This is why so many people ONLY TALK about succeeding in spite of adversity, but few EVER do it…

Very few people are ever willing to KEEP GOING after success in the face of adversity – regardless of how long it takes. Yet many profess faith in the same God, who the bible says “let” a faithful Job experience hardship, just to prove to Satan, that Job would not deny Him (God)!

Most people instead pursue success as if they gave God some kind of SILENT ULTIMATUM to make them succeed!

The attitude with which the carry on is as if they are saying the following to Him (in their minds):

“Chairman…abeg make sure I succeed in the next 5 years O, or before my start-up capital finish O. And by the way no forget to provide shock absorber for me O, so that in case my plans enter pothole, you go take am “bo mi ni ashiri” ….make people no go dey see me dey suffer. Ehen, a don tell you O Baba… If not, me I go comot for dat business find another thing do!“

For my non-Nigerian subscribers, who may be unfamiliar with Nigerian pidgin (broken) English, here’s a (“funkified” but otherwise literal) translation of the above:

“Hey Big guy, I need you to set things up really nicely for me to succeed within the next 5 years or at least before I run out of startup funds. Oh and don’t forget to cushion things for me in all the necessary areas. I don’t want any undue stress, and I certainly would appreciate your protecting me from any embarrassing experiences. Hear me now, Big Guy, or if things get too harsh, don’t blame me if I quit and move on to a different business!.”

Some phoney people in business who think along the above stated lines run around claiming to be “Serial Entrepreneurs”(SEs): But they are NOT authentic SEs!

A true Serial Entrepreneur will NOT leave a trail of DEAD businesses behind!

Most times, s/he would have failed quite a bit, but eventually arrived at a stage where s/he sells his/her businesses (or ideas/concepts/innovations) for profit – sometimes in order to move into a new line of interest.

In contrast, phony self-proclaimed SEs will rarely have ONE business from their past that they sold for profit or that has remained operational.

Rather, they are typically to be found – every few years – using a new business name, most likely in a new market, pursuing yet another big, fancy goal, with hefty profits to be made.

They are the typical hurry merchants always looking for fast breaks to success.

Unfortunately, the Creator (contrary to what some who claim to know and believe in him think) rarely interferes in how the “game of life” ends for EACH person.

He has set the stage, defined the rules (natural, spiritual). The rest is up to us. We have to do the work to get the results we want!

It’s just like sports e.g. weight lifting where the rule is: “No Pain, No Gain.”

You cannot lift heavy weights if you do NOT TRAIN to be able to do so. And your ability to do so will NOT improve overnight.

Instead, you MUST expend major time and effort to progressively build the muscle mass needed to progress.

“Very little of the authentic success you desire will happen without some PAIN, and possibly “suffering” of some kind (typically in form of repeated, sometimes prolonged delays, disappointments and setbacks) being experienced by you, and those around you. How you DEAL with those unpleasant experiences that occur as you work towards your desired goal is what will determine if you ultimately quality for success or not.” – Tayo K. Solagbade

Few people ever get to the point that they realize the above stated truth…

Even fewer ever get to the point that they ACCEPT that it applies to them!

Yet, many of the most phenomenal success achievers this PLANET has ever hosted – and who MOST OFUS ADMIRE – have repeatedly shared sentiments consistent with this stated TRUTH!

For instance, here’s what one of them, who happened to overcome being born deaf and mute, to achieve worldwide fame and recognition said:

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller

REMEMBER THIS: In order to develop the character needed to achieve lasting, authentic success, YOU SIMPLY CANNOT BE IN A HURRY. ..

Indeed, I have learned the hard way, from YEARS of hard won experience, that HURRYING is rarely a beneficial way to go about pursuing anything, least of all authentic success.

Know that whatever is to be yours cannot be taken from you. That’s a law set by the Creator.

What you should therefore focus on is building yourself, preparing yourself, to make the most of EVERY opportunity that may come your way.

Once you do that, the forces setup by the Creator (God to some), will cooperate with you, to attract what you want to YOU, at the right time, and in the right place.

You can NOT force – or worse chase – success to happen. Your success will happen when the RIGHT conditions for it to do so are CREATED in your life.

So Stop Fretting Over Fleeting or Fleeing Opportunities

Nothing that is yours can be lost or taken by anyone else. Therefore dispense with hurrying.

Instead be patient and LEARN what you need to know to get that which you want. During this period, you may experience delays, and some pain/suffering.

But take heart, because – as Jim Rohn noted – such adversity often forces the human spirit to GROW…and you need that!

This is so because the GROWTH you achieve will better equip you to intelligently pursue the goal(s) you want to achieve.

If you diligently persist in doing the above, with honesty, and integrity, AND FAITH in your Creator, you WILL achieve what is called UNCOMMON SUCCESS that makes others marvel.

What I have said above will work for you no matter what area of endeavor you are engaged in life.

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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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SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 191: (a) How to Keep Your Confidence Up When Your Fortunes Are (Seemingly) Down (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! – [MP3]!
[Tuesday]:	You Can Market Your (Farm) Products On TV/Radio/Print Media At Zero Cost
[Wednesday]:	Why You Need to Seriously Consider Taking Self Defence Lessons (True Story)
[Thursday]:	[2 Part Video] Tayo Solagbade’s Excel-VB Elections Results Compiler & Reports/Charts Generator – Based on INEC Nigeria’s Summary of Results for the March 28th, 2015 Presidential Elections
[Friday]:	The Secret to Winning Unsolicited Sponsors for Your Event or Project (Case Study: Global Konsult Group’s UMB Pageant in Cotonou)
[Saturday]:	Get Excel-VB Home Study Tutorials Created Specifically for YOU!
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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)

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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No. 191: (a) How to Keep Your Confidence Up When Your Fortunes Are (Seemingly) Down (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! – [MP3]!

May 4, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

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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Date: Monday 4th May 2015

No:191

Title: (a) How to Keep Your Confidence Up When Your Fortunes Are (Seemingly) Down (b) To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and Politics! – [MP3]!

Author & Publisher: Tayo K. Solagbade [Tel: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic) ]

Blog URL: http://www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets

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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 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.

NB: This pod cast is the feature for my Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter of Monday 4th May 2015.

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.

If you’d like to listen to part 1 of my 2 part pod cast on “How to Keep Your Confidence Up When Your Fortunes Are (Seemingly) Down“, simply click fill/submit this form to let me know.

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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

It’s FREE for all my Web Marketing/farm business clients, and ALL members of my Inner Circle as well as for ALL subscribers to THIS newsletter.

If you are not yet ANY of the above, just send me a message here to let me know.

If you want me to send you the full MP3 recording, just say so in your message.

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