“Analysis of physicist Albert Einstein’s brain revealed that his was slightly smaller than the average human brain. Quote this bit of trivia the next time some macho guy brags about the male brain being bigger than the female one. Look where Einstein’s “small” brain got him!” – National Geographic
This quote is self-explanatory, but in this piece, I “extend” its message to include a tendency in most people across societies the world over, to use physical attributes to draw conclusions about what a person can or cannot do.
This habit stems from a belief many of us grow up to accept from what we see and hear around us, about our capabilities and those of others.
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Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement IDEAS
(PI Squared) NewsletterMonday 22nd January 2018
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.************
PII 102: You Need Big Ideas – NOT a Big Brain!
“Analysis of physicist Albert Einstein’s brain revealed that his was slightly smaller than the average human brain. Quote this bit of trivia the next time some macho guy brags about the male brain being bigger than the female one. Look where Einstein’s “small” brain got him!” – National Geographic
This quote is self-explanatory, but in this piece, I “extend” its message to include a tendency in most people across societies the world over, to use physical attributes to draw conclusions about what a person can or cannot do.
This habit stems from a belief many of us grow up to accept from what we see and hear around us, about our capabilities and those of others.
For instance, the bigger girl is expected to run faster than the smaller statured one. The bigger girl is expected to be able to jump higher on the basketball court than a smaller sized team mate.
Then there are the silly gender based generalizations.
Men are expected to be braver than women. Males are expected to deal with worry and stress better than females. They are expected to perform better in sports, even business than women.
So, the person with what is considered a “weaker” attitude by society’s majority will often find him/herself not being given a fair and impartial opportunity or consideration to pursue success.
This happens all the time, in various areas of endeavour, all over the world – but in some societies, systems have been put in place to give more balanced access to opportunities to members.
But the truth remains that those biases persist, and people will continue to make unfounded assumptions about other people’s potential for a long time to come.
They WILL do the same to you, and to others you know or care about – including your kids.
This is why you MUST as a matter of urgent necessity, prepare yourself to deal with such potentially limiting generalizations, whenever they may be directed towards you.
I tell my two (11 and 8 year) old daughters this all the time i.e. that they must never let anyone tell them there is something they cannot do.
This is why I started them early in the business of personal development and achievement by way of income-earning vocational skills acquisition (Read: PII 007: Parenting Is NOT A Democracy [Hint: The Need to Assert Yourself to Get Results That Matter – Lesson from True Story of a Girl Who Made Pizza Without An Oven])
The article linked below explains how I got them to attend a 2 week intensive training course organized by the Lagos State Ministry of Youth Development.
It is noteworthy to mention here that the organizers initially expressed doubts that my girls, being so young, would be able to follow the lessons, talk less of being able to actually DO what the instructors would teach.
But on the final (graduation) day, the 8 year old was the centre of attention, with guests coming to record videos of her making up her “client”.
When she was called out to receiving her certificate, the special guest from Alausa, who was doing the presentation looked surprised when he saw her walking up to him.
The presenter, quickly assured him she was the one the certificate was meant for, noting that “she was the youngest participant”. (All the others were females in their mid twenties to over 50 years old)
I told my girls during those 2 weeks that they could do what was being taught as well as any of the other adults, as .long as they BELIEVED they could.
And I made sure to personally take them down and stay with them all through each day’s training session for the duration of the course.
A week later, I’d arranged for them to resume weekly training lessons in hair styling with a lady we’d met at the graduation ceremony.
They began about 7 months ago, but today are developing what is increasingly closer to “unconscious competence” in plaiting various styles (Didi, Ghana Weaving, Senegalese Twist, Patewo and Base, Shut up etc).
The key word n the above last sentence is UNCONSCIOUS COMPETENCE!
When one has repeatedly carried out an activity to the point that s/he can do it PROFICIENTLY without needing to focus one’s attention exclusively on it, then one can be said to have achieved UNCONSCIOUS COMPETENCE at it.
People who excel at what they do, in ways that are superior to the average person’s ability to deliver, are often those who possess UNCONSCIOUS COMPETENCE.
What I have done for YEARS is to actively challenge my kids to hone their gifts, talents and skills to the point of UNCONSCIOUS COMPETENCE when they use them.
I do this because I have reaped the benefit that comes from possessing that ability. It has enabled me deliver superior performances in every area of endeavour I have ventured over the last 3 decades of my life – right from my days in school, through my time in paid employment and especially over the last decade of my life as an entrepreneur.
My passion for what I do, which is based on areas I’m gifted /talented had made it easy for me to devote thousands of hours for years, without losing enthusiasm.
This is why I succeed in spite of adversity – continually baffling nay-saying others, to bounce back from setback after setback, outlasting delay after delay after delay, overcoming disappointment after disappointment, to advance in pursuit of the BIG DREAMS I have.
And that brings me to the core message I want to pass across this week.
You see, my drive to develop UNCONSCIOUS COMPETENCE actually comes from my relentless dedication to achieving BIG IDEAS and DREAMS I come up with.
In other words, thinking big is the FUEL that motivates me to develop UNCONSCIOUS COMPETENCE, which in turn equips me to develop and implement my BIG ideas, to achieve my BIG dreams.
I’m coaching my kids to develop the same mental attitude I have of THINKING BIG like I do, and never accepting there is anything they are too small or young to do.
This is why I am constantly coming up with ideas to brainstorm with them, about how they can use the different skills they’ve picked up, to go to the next level – which is to make money.
It’s not been easy for the girls in particular. They’ve often hesitated to take this next step – and I know it’s mainly because they do not see their peers doing any such thing.
But their male (teenage) siblings are already setting the pace in this regard, and I know it’s only a matter of time before they also catch the bug.
One thing is certain – by the time my girls arrive their teens, it’s unlikely that they will be letting anyone tell them being female and having smaller brains means they cannot achieve as much as their male counterparts.
As parents we should aim to help kids understand that they have the ability to achieve anything they set their minds to.
And as individuals, we owe ourselves a duty to BELIEVE that about ourselves too!
Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator
1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc
2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.
Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.
EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE
Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.
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Tayo K. Solagbade*
Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur
*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition
Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.
Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/ web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).
Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.
He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.
In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.
On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.
His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).
In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.
In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.
Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).
When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.
You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.
Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.
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[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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PII 101: To Attract Larger Numbers of Serious Buyers, Use Smart Public Speaking [Invite Me to Deliver My FREE 1 Hour Talk Titled “Spend Less Money & Time to Make Customers Find & Contact You, Even While You Sleep!”]
Last November,I began making targeted follow up visits to CEOs and key decision makers of certain organized bodies of people, who I identified to fit the defined target audience profile for my Custom Web Marketing Systems (WMS) Development Support Service.
During the meeting, I make them an offer of my FREE 1 Hour Talk Titled “Spend Less Money & Time to Make Customers Find & Contact You, Even While You Sleep!“(click to read)
I Will Deliver The Talk for FREE – ANYWHERE You Want It
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Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter
Monday 15th January 2018
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
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PII 101: To Attract Larger Numbers of Serious Buyers, Use Smart Public Speaking [Invite Me to Deliver My FREE 1 Hour Talk Titled “Spend Less Money & Time to Make Customers Find & Contact You, Even While You Sleep!”]
Last November,I began making targeted follow up visits to CEOs and key decision makers of certain organized bodies of people, who I identified to fit the defined target audience profile for my Custom Web Marketing Systems (WMS) Development Support Service.
During the meeting, I make them an offer of my FREE 1 Hour Talk Titled “Spend Less Money & Time to Make Customers Find & Contact You, Even While You Sleep!“(click to read)
I Will Deliver The Talk for FREE – ANYWHERE You Want It
Like I told a decision maker who asked me how much it would cost to have me deliver the talk to their group’s CEO members, in different locations across the country (this was our second meeting), it’s 100% FREE.
All you have to do is meet my terms – which include covering ANY expenses (e.g transport, feeding, accommodation etc) from start till end.
The purpose of this initiative is to recruit new members into my Web Marketing for CEOs club.
It involves giving a FREE one-hour to these groups of people, informing and educating them about how they they can use Web Marketing at zero cost,to generate quality sales leads on a repeatable basis.
By employing a no-strings-attached approach to delivering what is obviously useful ready-to-use knowledge to them, the audience feels less like they are being sold to, and will therefore tend to be more positively disposed to connecting further with me.
I’ve done the above described countless times, with considerable success, over the past 10 years.
During that period,I’ve refined my implementation of this strategy, to improve the impact I achieve,with great results to show – anytime I have used it.
A good example was when I gave my 1 hour talk to a group of CEOs at Sherryville Arcade,Ojodu-Berger in Nigeria’s Lagos.
An entrepreneurial couple in the audience invited me to their office in the arcade,to discuss their needs,and 2 days later hired me (for N300k) to develop a WMS for their tiles importation and marketing business.
The use of a Public Speaking for Business Marketing System (PSBM) is the 9th key component (click here to see the mind map) I recommend for adoption in the implementation of the WMS I develop for clients.
I coach clients on what to do, and how to do it,to make it work.
Below is a verbatim text transcript version- and a screenshot image – of the Cover Letter I send,along with my Speaker One Sheet, introducing my FREE 1 Hour Talk Offer titled “Spend Less Money & Time to Make Customers Find & Contact You, Even While You Sleep!“
=====STARTS====The Chairman
…….. Shopping Arcade
……………………….Dear Sir,FREE 1 Hour Talk Offer on “Business Marketing” for CEOsAttached is a Speaker ONE Sheet document that announces a 1 hour talk I offer to give – at zero cost – to interested CEOs, about how they can use what I call a customizable Web Marketing System (WMS) to boost their business marketing reach and impact.Title: Spend Less Money & Time to Make Customers Find & Contact You, Even While You Sleep!Duration: 1 hour (Question/Answer session follows)Date/Time: To Be Agreed | Venue: Your premises [See details of the attached Speaker ONE sheet document]Potential Benefits:Attendees can expect to learn, during my talk, true stories based examples/case studies of how I use this technique to achieve low to zero cost name/brand recognition and potential client/buyer recruitment.I will also explain how they can apply the ideas I share to improve their own businesses in a way that help them reduce marketing/sales expenses, and/or boost sales.In addition to the increased goodwill that you will earn from members, who will appreciate your gesture of arranging this event to inform and educate them, the improved ability of attendees to generate sales leads is likely to make them better able – and willing – to RENEW their “tenancy” (or “membership”) as and when due.The above are the key reasons I’m optimistic that a good number of them will urge you to invite me to give this talk.I therefore look forward to discussing and agreeing final details for holding this event at your invitation.With kindest regards,Tayo K. Solagbade*
*Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist & Multipreneur
Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
INVITE ME to Deliver The Talk for FREE to members of your group, team or organisation – ANYWHERE You Want It
All you have to do is meet my terms – which include covering ANY expenses (e.g transport, feeding, accommodation etc) from start till end.
Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator
1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc
2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.
Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.
EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE
Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.
Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.
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Tayo K. Solagbade*
Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur
*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition
Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.
Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/ web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).
Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.
He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.
In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.
On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.
His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).
In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.
In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.
Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).
When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.
You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.
Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.
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[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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PII 100: What Are You Willing to Do to Succeed? [Hint: I Slept on the Streets of Benin Republic’s Cotonou & Porto Novo!]
How badly you want to succeed in any area of endeavour you embark upon, will often determine how well you eventually succeed, in the long run.
And since succeeding has been defined a “never ending journey of striving perpetually for excellence“, THAT means you need to (like I explained in the 10th Way described in my Self-Development Bible) BE HUNGRY & STAY HUNGRY…for success, if you want to excel at what you do!
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Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter
Monday 8th January 2018
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
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PII 100: What Are You Willing to Do to Succeed? [Hint: I Slept on the Streets of Benin Republic’s Cotonou & Porto Novo!]
How badly you want to succeed in any area of endeavour you embark upon, will often determine how well you eventually succeed, in the long run.
And since succeeding has been defined a “never ending journey of striving perpetually for excellence“, THAT means you need to (like I explained in the 10th Way described in my Self-Development Bible) BE HUNGRY & STAY HUNGRY…for success, if you want to excel at what you do!
So what are YOU willing to do to achieve the success you say you desire?
Hopefully you are not one of those increasingly larger numbers of people who engage in the self-delusion of empty affirmations NOT backed by diligent and intelligent ACTION TAKING.
I refer especially to those who hide behind pretentious religious dispositions they display, to try winging their way to success.
Like I’ve said in past articles, and will continue to say, there are no reliable, worthwhile shortcuts to lasting, authentic success.
Majority of the exceptional achievers many lazy minded people regard with a mixture of admiration and envy today, often have a string of past failures that they had to relentlessly ignore, and overcome with hard work and persistence, in spite of adversity, to arrive at the success they enjoy today.
You most likely have read a variant of the above before. You most probably know the true stories of success achieved despite suffering and setbacks, about some famous persons.
Most people I meet know all of these things. But it always amazes me to find that despite reading and hearing about how those they idolize in success had to sweat, struggle and strain to reach the top, MOST of these same people express a shameless (and nauseating) tendency to want the same REWARDS dropped in their laps, with little or no exertion required from them to get it!
But then again, that attitude, often displayed by many of the new generation of youths and young adults I meet, out here, is a direct fallout of the instant gratification culture promoted by PC and Internet technology driven conveniences we enjoy in today’s modern world.
At the click of a mouse, one is able today to get things she would not even imagine possible about 2 to 3 decades ago.
It is for this reason, that today’s parents have their work cut out for them. Especially those who have to care for teenagers or preteens.
The teenage years are the most crucial determinant, of how kids will arrive adulthood.
If not well managed during this period, especially in terms of helping them to mould their CHARACTER, in addition to knowledge and skills they develop, teenagers can grow into adults who need outpatient care from their parents, because they lack the competence to function as independent adults when they leave home.
Strength of Character, is the ultimate key to lasting success in life.
Without it, most people would not be able to deal with delays, disappointments, setbacks, failures and anything else that goes wrong in their lives.
Such an inability to deal with adversity will make them more prone to experience what can be called PERMANENT DEFEAT – to paraphrase Napoleon Hill, from Think & Grow Rich, in which he described FAILURE as TEMPORARY DEFEAT.
But to help your child acquire an ability of this kind, you must have it, and your child must SEE you display/use it, if your message to him/her is to fully hit home with him/her.
So, do YOU have strength of character?
Can you deal with things going wrong, as if a storm is brewing in your life, for long periods, without giving up?
Have you had any experiences that have tested your faith in yourself? To the point that you (like people in my part of the world so often do) began to “believe” some enemy in your village or home town was using “juju” or “black magic” to make you fail or struggle perpetually?
If YES, then take it as a sign that YOU NEED to work on developing GREATER strength of character than you currently have. THAT is the only sure, time tested ANTIDOTE to permanent defeat and frustration. Once you have strength of character, NOTHING – and I do mean NOTHING can stop you.
But guess what the best part is?
When you have it, especially in the generous amounts that I have found it possible to develop it, you become VERY attractive to others who seek INCREASE in their lives.
You become a source of inspiration for them – they will see you and what you continue to do DESPITE the hardships you go through, and they will draw massive inspiration to pursue their own valued goals.
Take it from me. Like I always say: I practice what I preach. In other words, I LIVE this stuff! Below, I narrate a true story to illustrate
Back in April 2013, during my first month in Cotonou, after I relocated from Nigeria’s Lagos, I found myself in the very uncomfortable situation, by the end of my first week of stay (in the small and cheap Hotel Petit Pere, located in the center of the city), of insufficient cash to continue paying for a room.
This happened due to my arriving with limited funds and not being conversant with the exchange rate between the Naira and the CFA.
Typical of my entrepreneurial self, viewing the world through rose coloured glasses of optimism, I’d assumed i would easily find rented accommodation within the first week.
What I did not know was the real estate agents I kept going to would be so naughty as to repeatedly ask me to pay 2,500 FCFA to go see one supposedly “good” apartment after another.
They kept coming to pick me up from the hotel to go on visits to different properties to let, until I noticed a trend in which they took me to houses that were not even fixed up with electricity or water access!
When I queried them, they readily assured me those would be sorted soon as I paid up.
But a closer look at the properties, and a chance conversation with residents in the neighbourhood, soon revealed some of the houses were not even up for rent.
The agents had seen my desperation to escape from paying the hotel fees, and exploited it.
For those looking to rent accommodation, in Cotonou or elsewhere, this above mentioned potential risk is noteworthy.
You’re advised to find a trustworthy local to move around with you, especially as you explore offers on ground – and in particular when you discuss/negotiate terms with agents and property owners.
It goes without saying that you need to ensure you read, understand and agree with anything you are asked to sign e.g tenancy agreement (which in a place like Cotonou, is often written in French, for instance).
A nifty little book on the above theme (see cover below), written and published for sale to a global audience by Dr. Nana Arnold Kouayep, offers useful time tested experience based wisdom from his deep repertoire as a bilingual Jurist.
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Too low on funds to stay in the hotel, I moved out and began visiting different properties with “A Louer” (To Let) signs in desperation, but unable to find anyone willing to accept my crazy proposal that I be allowed to move in and pay by Monday, when funds I expected would arrive
Soon it was nightfall, and I still had not found a solution to the problem of a place to rest/sleep. Carrying my travel bag and backpack, I kept walking from street to street, through areas around the Etoile Rouge roundabout.
On a particular street, I noticed a church building for what seemed to be an Anglican style church. The lights were on. So I went in, and seeing an elderly man around 65 years old, explained that I needed a place to stay for the night, having run out of cash to continue in the hotel.
Speaking kindly and acting concerned, he asked me a few questions, and I replied.
Then he asked what country I was from, noting that my spoken French lacked the common Beninese “flavour”. “Gabon?” he suggested. I told him, NO – and added “Nigeria”.
That would be my first experience of what I found to be a common negative attitude of some locals towards people from my country – “Nigeria“. His countenance changed almost imperceptibly,
But I did not miss it.
His next words were along the lines of: “Sorry, but I can’t help you. I think you should try finding your way, possibly to places where other Nigerians live, so they can take you in.”
I asked him where that would be, but he replied that he had no idea. However, I got the distinct impression that he simply could not WAIT for me to leave LOL!
That discouraging scenario would replay itsself at about 3 other places, until I got to a private residence around midnight.
There I saw a plump looking young man sitting on one of the fancy Cotonou motor bikes while chatting with a friend at the gate. I greeted them and explained that I needed help.
The same question and answer session as occurred in the previous places took place.
I was already thinking nothing good would come of it yet again, when he suddenly asked me to show him my passport, so he could be sure I’d come in with correct papers.
When I did that, and he’d satisfied himself they were in order, he said he knew a place I could stay.
About 30 minutes later, he’d dropped me off at an area around the Stade De L’amitie (the national stadium), where he introduced me to some private security guards, and explained my situation to them
Long story short, they agreed to let me sleep on the tiled outside floor of the shops they were guarding from that night right through the weekend, into Monday morning, when funds arrived at the bank, for me, from Nigeria.
I exchanged numbers with my new friend and he left for home waving backwards to me. “An angel sent by God” I said to myself LOL!
During that 4 day period over the weekend, the guards would let me use their shower to bathe and clean up, including wash my clothes (before daylight).
Then once it was dawn, I would go walking around the stadium to watch people do different sports till nightfall. But lacking money, I could buy no food to eat.
Yep, I mean it. From that Friday night till Monday a.m of April 2013, I only drank water – as I had NO CASH to buy ANY food to eat!
I knew no one in the country at the time, and I had made no friends I could reach out to. It was far from being a funny experience.
Yet each day, I would write and publish a new article on my blog – click here to check my April 2013 archives: I did not miss a single publishing day. That was how driven I was. The hunger pangs I felt did not stop me from staying motivated to do what I LOVED!
NB: Those close to me – my kids and relatives – have heard this story from me before now. But THIS is the first time I’m sharing it publicly. And it’s NOT even half told yet LOL!
I’ll be telling the rest of it during my talks as I travel (click here to request an audio version of the full story).
For now, I’ll end by noting that on Sunday night, the hunger I felt was so great that around 10p.m, I approached a lady selling pineapples in front of the stadium for a pineapple.
She told me “C’est cent francs” i.e. it’s 100 French CFA (about N33 Naira at the time).
I replied that I knew, but that I had no money. She looked me over in disgust and told me to leave. I quietly did so while consoling myself that I’d at least tried and thay the rejection I earned was the worst that could have happened.
Retiring to a corner bench outside a closed shop, I lay down with my head on my backpack, while my travel bag was beside me. (This experience really opened my eyes to what it meant to be homeless, I tell you!)
As I looked up into the sky, praying that time would run fast into morning so I could go to the bank to receive the UBA Africash transfer I was expecting, I heard the old lady call out to me: “Monsieur!”
Sitting up, I saw her motion for me to come over. Getting to her table, she handed me a pineapple and told her son to peel it for me.
I thanked her profusely, and watched, with my stomach growling, as the little boy peeled the fruit and sliced it up into a nylon bag that he handed me,
Thanking them both, I retuned to my corner and proceeded to eat the fruit, prolonging each bite as long as I could, to savour the flavour.
Never had pineapple tasted so great in my mouth before!
That night I slept much better than I had on the previous nights – for obvious reasons. Food is good my dear reader! No matter how tough you are, lack of food for prolonged periods WILL get you down sooner or later.
The next morning, by around 9a.m, I had collected cash from the UBA branch in front of the stadium
Life was good again…or so I thought – until few weeks later, I once again ran out of funds and had to sleep on the streets of Porto Novo, when I made my very first visit to the famous Songhai Integrated Farming Centre.
Details of that and other trials I passed through in my first few weeks in Benin Republic will be in the audio podcast I will soon publish for members of DiscoverCotonou.com to freely access.
I’ll end this piece by saying that my willingness to endure any form of hardship to achieve any goals I set for myself is why I AM the unstoppable force of nature that others find me to be.
The articles linked below offer true stories of my achievements by the end of that first year (2013) in Benin, despite my rocky start – such as:
On another occasion, I had to write a blog post due for publishing on my blog, while inside the chauffeur driven jeep of a Cotonou based Nigerian diplomat client, at 11.30p.m. We were stuck in a traffic jam on the way back to Seme border, after a visit to his farm in South West Nigeria. Read more
2. getting paid 2,500 Euros by a European Union funded NGO based on Holland, to write a 4,000 word case study paper about the use of my Excel-VB Ration Formulator by farmers in/out of Africa
By the time the year 2013 ended, I wrote a post (so far viewed over 25,000 times) featuring highlights of various other aspects of progress I’d made since my initial sputtering start…
FINAL WORDS: If you want to achieve your own goals, no matter what, you MUST (MUST, MUST!!!) be willing to face and overcome ANY adversity that comes your way
If you need help learning how to do that, signup for my Master of Adversity (MA) coaching program
Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator
1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc
2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.
Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.
EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE
Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.
Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.
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Tayo K. Solagbade*
Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur
*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition
Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.
Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/ web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).
Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.
He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.
In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.
On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.
His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).
In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.
In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.
Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).
When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.
You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.
Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.
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[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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Join http://discovercotonou.com & Get French Speaking Coaching Audios/PDF Weekly for 1 Year [Bonus: FREE access to my 8 Week KPI Computation and Interpretation BOPMS™ COACHING PROGRAM (save N50k)
Simply pay N13k to join http://www.discovercotonou.com – my new members only service website for 1 year.
Through it, I (in liaison with trusted partners in Benin Republic) will offer support for interested persons to:
1.Tour (visit Songhai/other agro ventures & famous tourist sites. Get elaborate guides in PDF/Print)
*FREE accommodation for Tayo’s Cotonou Mobile Health & Fitness Club members
TIP: I’m 47, but have the body build & fitness of someone half my age. Last month when my 14 YEAR OLD son took ill, the doctor interviewing him to make a diagnosis, in a bid to record Next Of Kin details, turned to me and said“Who are you to him? The older brother?”When I replied that I was the boy’s father, the look on the doctor’s face said it all!
Through my CMHFC, I will share videos, audios & articles about the smart health and fitness techniques and strategies I’ve used for over 2 decades to keep myself looking like I do.
Above: Photo taken in 2013 – I was 43 at the time
Below: Photo taken in March 2017 – I was 46+ (will be 48 in 6 months from today i.e. July 2018)
2. Do Business (get support to safely explore startup/partnership opportunities)
3. Relocate – Temporarily or Permanently (get exhaustive reliable info to safely implement your plans.
4. Study (English/French Language)
I will organise one-on-one/group French or English language speaking conversations sessions and events both on and off the web – for ALL who joins http://www.discoverCotonou.com as a member.
Every week, I’lll share tips and practice with you via email audios/PDFs. You will also get special discount access to the different versions of my Quick & Dirty Guide to English/French Language as I create them – see http://tayosolagbade.com/qdg.html
Get the above and MORE (see below) when you pay N13k to join http://www.discovercotonou.com – my new members only service website for 1 year.
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BOPMS™ = Best Operating Process Management System
The BOPMS™ is a trademark of Tayo Solagbade’s Self-Development Academy
Program Details/Description:
ü This is an 8 week one-on-one ONLINE coaching program for Farm CEOs
ü It comes with MP3 Audio & MP4 Video Expositions on KPIs for EACH client’s Farm Enterprise e.g. Poultry Layers, Broilers, Pigs, Catfish, Dairy Cattle, Rabbitry, Snail etc
ü You also get PDF guides to aid you in calculating your specific Farm KPIs.
ü This will be in addition to one on one coaching via Facebook, Phone, Skype and/or E-mail in which I will use a questionnaire model to guide each Farm CEO to successfully track and interpret chosen KPIs on farm.
ü Signup fee = N50k
PII 099: You Need Reasoning Skills, NOT Memorization for Success! [www.discovercotonou.com – COMING SOON!]
All human beings are born with some kind of unique genius. We just need to narrow down to what it is for each person. Some of us discover it by ourselves. Others get it pointed out to them by those they interact with.
Sadly few people who pass through formal schooling are able to preserve their capacity for INDEPENDENT thinking and creative reasoning (which is a function of the above mentioned genius they arrive the world with)
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Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter
Monday 1st January 2018
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
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PII 099: You Need Reasoning Skills, NOT Memorization for Success! [www.discovercotonou.com – COMING SOON!]
All human beings are born with some kind of unique genius. We just need to narrow down to what it is for each person. Some of us discover it by ourselves. Others get it pointed out to them by those they interact with.
Sadly few people who pass through formal schooling are able to preserve their capacity for INDEPENDENT thinking and creative reasoning (which is a function of the above mentioned genius they arrive the world with).
By the time they emerge from that supposedly “educational” experience, they display an unhealthy preference for wanting to follow the crowd, to be like others, to NOT stand out, to belong to – and NOT stray away from – the pack or tribe.
And that’s what makes the few who refuse to let formal schooling “damage” them in that manner, seem so exceptional!
It’s what made Albert Einstein make such a formidable impact on the world with his ideas.
Little wonder that he consistently showed a contempt for formal education – having passed through it himself, and famously denouncing his teachers along the way.
Below is one of many quotes credited to him, in which he criticized the faulty system used in formal schools, whereby memorization of facts and figures was rewarded over and above reasoning skills:
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
And here is an excerpt from an excellent BBC report which notes the fact that Eisnten excelled by NOT adopting what formal education demanded i.e Rote Learning.
“Intriguingly, those who have more spindle events tend to have greater ‘fluid intelligence’ – the ability to solve new problems, use logic in new situations, and identify patterns – the kind Einstein had in spades. “They don’t seem related to other types of intelligence, such as the ability to memorise facts and figures, so it’s really specific to these reasoning skills,” says Fogel. This ties in nicely with Einstein’s disdain for formal education and advice to “never memorise anything which you can look up”.
Source: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170612-what-you-can-learn-from-einsteins-quirky-habits
I happen to be one of those few who managed to emerge from the formal schooling process without losing my Creative Genius.
And this despite the fact that I managed to do quite well in the academic system. In fact, I did so well that I got awards right till I left the university.
Not only was I best graduating student, but I also scored the highest ever C.G.P.A (5.9) in the department I finished from. And on top of that, I got awards for sporting excellence as well.
On getting to the real world however, I discovered that being able to use the knowledge I had or read up, to “solve new problems, use logic in new situations, and identify patterns ” – was what the WORLD really valued in people.
So while in paid employment, I dug deep into that natural genius of mine, for doing THAT and it turned me into a high performing manager that set all kinds of workplace achievement records in 7-short years.
I did things that got me noticed early in my career and earned me rapid career advancement opportunities well ahead of those who were my supposed seniors.
Since starting my own business, my knack for using the knowledge I have or that I read up, to “solve new problems, use logic in new situations, and identify patterns” has helped me build a profitable business model, that enables me get paid by clients locally and internationally, without face to face meetings.
One recurring theme has always been that I tend to THINK of and SEE things that are likely to be needed well ahead of others.
When I take action based on those insights I have, most people initially just scoff at my efforts and even call me foolish or silly. But eventually, because I never let go, and diligently persist in trying to work those ideas, I eventually prove them valid and those who doubted become converts.
This has happened again and again. I’m used to it. Any person who wants to make the most of his/her genius MUST get used to it, and never let it stop him/her from taking action to do what s/he is convinced about.
Today, I’m acting on the above mentioned instinct, again, by launching a new website – www.discovercotonou.com – to meet a series of needs I’ve identified from 4 solid years of careful research based on enquiries from visitors to www.tayosolagbade.com.
Once again I’m seeing what others are NOT seeing. But soon, they will. And I’ll be waiting to reap the usual rewards.
The same thing is currently happening for me in the area of Best Practice Parenting and the message I’m preaching that parents avoid making the mistake of NOT exposing their kids of income earning vocational skills based education EARLY in life – ideally alongside formal schooling. More on THAT in a separate article to come soon.If you need help making it happen, click here to send me a message
For NOW, here’s my admonition to you.
You too can have the same experience of NOT letting formal schooling’s “IMPACT” limit your ability to manifest your genius.
If you need help making this happen, click here to send me a message
Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator
1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc
2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.
Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.
EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE
Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.
Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.
SDN Blog™
New posts from last week*
Monday:
PII 098: 6 Farming Similarities Between the UK and Africa – Farmer’s Weekly (Recommended)
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Tayo K. Solagbade*
Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur
*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition
Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.
Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/ web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).
Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.
He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.
In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.
On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.
His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).
In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.
In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.
Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).
When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.
You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.
Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.
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[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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There Is Nothing Wrong With A Humble Beginning- Achieve YOUR Success With Honour & Integrity By Tayo Solagbade [SYNDICATED VERSION]
My experience based achievements make me a competent expert authority on entrepreneurship and other areas of focus maintained in my writing – as reflected in the categories on this blog.
The article linked below is one that describes ideas I advocate for adoption, based on the BENEFITS that have accrued to me, and others I’ve studied, from APPLYING them
Here’s an excerpt, ending with a link to a full version of the piece, republished on a 3rd party website via syndication from my EzineArticles.com articles marketing account.
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There Is Nothing Wrong With A Humble Beginning- Achieve YOUR Success With Honour & Integrity
Identify The “Hurry Merchants” Around You, And Steer Clear Of Them!
I have met and in certain instances worked with (or studied closely) some business owners who call themselves entrepreneurs but display traits that suggest they are not.
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These individuals I noticed tended to measure their progress(and therefore that of anyone else they met), in terms of how quickly and easily they could make money and almost nothing else! They tended very often not do discriminate about how they made the money. That’s why people like them are often prepared to buy their way repeatedly to get awarded jobs.
http://andhimazhai.com/news/view/seo-title-4673.html
PII 097 [AUDIO]: Success Is NOT Your Birthright – Saying YOU BELIEVE Will NOT Be Enough!
Should a person who diligently professes (and practices) faith in the “All Knowing & All Powerful God” experience difficulties, delays, hardships, setbacks, failures or adversity in any form?
If YES, how long would be enough, and when would it be too much?
Does the fact that a person goes through hard times that seem prolonged and/or traumatizing mean that s/he has done something wrong for which s/he is being punished by “God”?
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Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter
Monday 18th December 2017
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
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PII 097 [AUDIO]: Success Is NOT Your Birthright: Saying YOU BELIEVE Will NOT Be Enough!
Should a person who diligently professes faith in the “All Knowing & All Powerful God” experience difficulties, delays, hardships, setbacks, failures or adversity in any form?
If YES, how long would be enough, and when would it be too much?
Does the fact that a person goes through hard times that seem prolonged and/or traumatizing mean that s/he has done something wrong for which s/he is being punished by “God”?
To put it another way: Is it possible for an honest and sincere believer to experience suffering in any way at all?
Should such a DEVOTED, honest and sincere believer not live a life free from problems, or hassles, that will reflect the fact that s/he believes in a “God” that has the power to put the world at his/her feet?
In this latest audio podcast version of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I share some hard truths based on the theme of the above title and questions.
Quick take-Away: To believe that professing faith in “God” or the “Creator” will spare you from experiencing suffering, hardships, difficulties or adversity of any form in life is NAIVE. Indeed the fact that YOU have taken such a stand to BELIEVE puts you in a position where you become a VERY eligible candidate for MASSIVE visitations of adversity!
Listen to the full audio for my complete message – and learn why you need to EMBRACE adversity whenever it shows up in your life, IF you want to grow and succeed.Refuse to adopt the silly mentality that success will be yours simply because you claim it – by saying it. Nothing could be further from truth: YOU have to do the work!
Click here to listen to/download the full audio
Related Articles:
Is Your Level Of Self-Confidence Directly Proportional To The Size Of Your Bank Account?
Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator
1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc
2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.
Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.
EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE
Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.
Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.
SDN Blog™
New posts from last week*
Monday:
[Thursday]:
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[Friday]:
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[Saturday]:
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[Sunday]:
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Tayo K. Solagbade*
Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur
*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition
Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.
Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/ web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).
Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.
He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.
In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.
On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.
His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).
In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.
In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.
Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).
When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.
You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.
Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.
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[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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[RECOMMENDED] Is Your Child Learning For School Or For Life?
By Tayo Solagbade | Submitted On June 11, 2008
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write. They will be those who cannot learn, unlearn or re-learn.” – Alvin Toffler
Preamble
Many people today, who have undergone formal schooling, do not have life survival skills, having only acquired learning for school (i.e. academic education), which they do not KNOW how to apply usefully in the real world.
We already know from years of recent history that it is no longer necessarily those who do well in school that go on to achieve success in life. It used to be so, when paid employment was the primary destination for people who finished school/learning.
Continue reading…
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PII 096 [AUDIO]: Money Making Skills Cannot be Acquired by Reading a Book!
In this audio podcast version of my weekly Performance Improvement Ideas newsletter, I discuss the subject of money making, with regard to the deficiency of formal conventional schooling systems in giving learners the know-how to do IT.
Among other issues, I highlight the fact that conventional learning institutions in our societies continue to focus excessively on book based learning, so that learners arrive adulthood, and enter society, post schooling with little or no understanding of money and how to make it.
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NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
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PII 096 [AUDIO]: Money Making Skills Cannot be Acquired by Reading a Book!
In this audio podcast version of my weekly Performance Improvement Ideas newsletter, I discuss the subject of money making, with regard to the deficiency of formal conventional schooling systems in giving learners the know-how to do IT.
Among other issues, I highlight the fact that conventional learning institutions in our societies continue to focus excessively on book based learning, so that learners arrive adulthood, and enter society, post schooling with little or no understanding of money and how to make it.
Unfortunately, they inevitably discover, to their shock and dismay, that the world – more or less – revolves around money i.e. Money – as they say – makes the world go round.
No matter the academic credentials you acquire via schooling, if you lack money in enough volumes, to meet your needs (as an adult, post-schooling) so that you do not have to depend on others to “survive”, chances are good that you will NOT enjoy their respect – especially in Nigeria (ignore what they SAY & pay close attention, instead, to what they DO).
People will roll their eyes heaven wards when you speak; they will accuse you of “speaking too much English” or “blowing grammer”, when you voice opinion on issues. You will be used as the butt end of jokes to your face, and often behind your back. Money has a way of popping up in all areas of human life – so NOT having it, can make you look and feel bad quite often.
I say ALL this based on my painful personal experiences – which I’ve described in MANY of my past articles on this blog. A good example is this PDF report (in which I describe my experiences as a struggling startup of being the “Bambiala” of the Solagbade family) and this article, in which I noted that I used to steal N100 naira from the purse of my kids’ mother to purchase browsing time in the cybercafe, so as to do more marketing!
I did all that because I did not know how to make money in those early years. My brilliant academic abilities did NOT help me!
It took great effort and pain, to learn via trial and error, till I became competent. Today I make money without even needing to meet clients/buyers in person.
I therefore argue that parents who want the best for their kids need to ADD a vocational skills acquisition dimension to the “education” of their kids. Formal schooling on its own simply will NOT do anymore in today’s world.
This is why we have armies of unemployed certificate carrying graduates walking jobless on the streets. You can make YOUR child’s story different. I say this based on what I’m doing for my kids. Learn more from the audio – and follow the instructions at the end to find out how I can help you design a programme for your child.
Click here to listen to/download the full audio
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Tayo K. Solagbade*
Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur
*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition
Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.
Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/ web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).
Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.
He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.
In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.
On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.
His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).
In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.
In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.
Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).
When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.
You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.
Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.
====
[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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