Category Archives: Self-Development

[HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!] People are posting an 8-ball emoji on Facebook – here’s what it means

Facebook users are posting an emoji of an eight-ball – and it’s all part of a viral campaign to raise awareness about prostate cancer.

The black eight-ball emoji is popping up due to a viral message which is spreading via Facebook Messenger – urging men to post the image on Facebook.

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The message says, ‘Hi mate,

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http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/08/people-are-posting-an-8-ball-emoji-on-facebook-heres-what-it-means-6496846/

PII 066: There’ll be No Need to Force Kids to “Finish” School If They See MORE Formally Schooled People Doing Well Financially [Hint: 9 Questions That Indicate How Conventional Schooling Shortchanges Learners]

This week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter features 9 key questions I strongly recommend every parent ponder seriously over, to accurately discern how well the schooling his/her kids get will prepare them to function as vocationally competent and financially independent adults in society.

Here are some signs and symptoms apparent in today’s society that convince me most of our conventional schooling systems are NOT equipping learners to function as described above.

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Monday 15th May 2017

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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 066: There’ll be No Need to Force Kids to “Finish” School If They See MORE Formally Schooled People Doing Well Financially [Hint: 9 Questions That Indicate How Conventional Schooling Shortchanges Learners]

This week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter features nine (9) key questions I strongly recommend every parent ponder seriously over, to accurately discern how well the schooling his/her kids get will prepare them to function as vocationally competent and financially independent adults in society.

The cartoon below, quotes Einstein, in illustrating the FACT that our kids (and us adults) ARE NOT not all wired to learn or achieve in the same way!

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Here are some signs and symptoms apparent in today’s society that convince me most of our conventional schooling systems are NOT equipping learners to function as described above.

Young people who actively seek ways to get money off you without doing any work or adding any value to you. Adults who constantly scheme and plot to do the same thing.

Personnel in banks who manipulate the computerized systems in their workplaces to skim money off your bank balance, or apply illegal transaction charges to your account.

Telecom companies operatives who subscribe your mobile number to silly services you have no interest in, and/or deduct airtime from your phone for phantom services. These are a few examples of the kind of activities happening with ever increasing frequency in the Nigerian society.

Most of those people involved in doing the above naughty things are SCHOOLED people, often with at least University level education.

Yet they find it necessary to engage in crooked activities to make money for their companies and themselves.

Like I’ve said in a past article, schooled people who steal are manifestations of a cruel paradox.

I say this because we all know that we are told that if we want to end up well in life, all we need to do is go to school, get good grades and then get good jobs.

Sadly, what we see in society proves that many well schooled people who find good jobs with good companies, still go on to steal and cheat at work and in life.

That’s why they get sacked and sometimes sentenced to prison. It is why many of them demand and accept bribes where they work. Many MANY examples abound in the past and present history of Nigeria – as I am sure you, the reader, know!

But why do they do it? Why do well schooled people steal?

I’ve answered that question in an earlier article.

[See [Podcast] Real Reason Why Well Schooled People Commit Fraud (Tayo Solagbade’s “Difference Between Schooling & Education” Series)]

It’s because they do NOT know how to make money, or more money and they are AFRAID that the money that have is not (or will not be) enough.

You see, the schools did not teach them how to make money. Only how to work for money – as employees, trading time for money.

And that limits how much they can get. So when they want more, not knowing any better way, they often settle for crooked ways to get it.

Simply put therefore, conventional schooling shortchanges learners – but many do not know it!

The questions outlined below highlight glaring contradictions between what we are told “schooling” WILL deliver to learners, and the realities the learners end up facing upon graduation. Parents who truly love their kids will carefully study these questions and use the insights they gain to better guide their kids’ education.

  1. Why is it that girls willing to dance seductively and/or half-naked in TV musicals today in Nigeria can end up earning a better living – income wise especially – than those who choose to find jobs based on their school qualifications, or even those who become entrepreneurs? This happens not because the latter career options don’t work, but because Nigerian society the ladies have to operate in gives LESS reward for such “work” compared to the former.
  1. Why is it that some of the world’s most celebrated sports achievers are from dirt poor homes that saw sports as an outlet to escape poverty, compared to formal schooling?
  1. Why is it OKAY (and not child abuse) for people who lose their parents in their formative years or who were born orphans, to work in their free time – as “kids”  and young adults – to pay their way through school? I know persons who did that right here in Nigeria. I schooled with them!
  1. Why do schools not give financial education to kids when the teachers know that understanding how to make money in and out of paid employment is often a determinant of how well people do in adulthood? Especially when money and how much of it they have will tend to be the primary criterion on which they will be rated – regardless of any other positive qualities they possess?
  1. Why don’t schools teach selling/self marketing skills when the ability to sell and sell one’s self will be crucial to the ability of the student to achieve desired progress in or out of paid employment AFTER s/he completes schooling?
  1. If the products of Nigeria’s formal schooling systems were doing so well in the large numbers they are being turned out, then why do we have armies of them roaming the streets with certificates in hand, looking for non-existent jobs, while being described by potential employers as unemployable? Also, why do so few of those who do well in our schools ever get to be voted to make good things happen for us in public office, with their brilliance?
  1. If the products of our conventional schools were doing so well in the real world, we would not have such growing number of kids unwilling to do the hard work of studying to pass exams without cheating – Or would we?
  1. Why do we have kids who want the benefits that can accrue from having a qualification, but do not want to go through the required process of “working/studying” to earn it? Why do they so eagerly “game” the system, in connivance with parents, teachers and examiners – the latter being the supposed custodian of the educational system being so raped?
  1. Have you noticed that the entertainment industry does NOT need laws or adverts to make adults of all ages eager to learn what it takes to partake and succeed in it? Does it occur to anyone that youths with all kinds of academic qualifications enroll and succeed in Project Fame and other reality shows etc? In other words, their academic schooling rarely matters to their ability to excel in this area – so why don’t we just find those who thrive best at it, and train them as early as possible in their lives?

What is happening with all these contradictions they see in society today, is that our kids are being “taught” that being the most academically brilliant with the best grades does NOT matter as much as being willing to cut corners to get what you want.

They see what we do – and refuse to listen to what we say, because they know the latter is NOT true.

Evidence of this is seen in the fact that our TV/Radio and newspapers give superior coverage to news about celebrities in various fields that are often drop outs or poorly schooled.

Out kids also see politicians accused of fraud walking free despite countless visits to courts – and even those who serve jail sentences for stealing being rewarded on their return with heroic welcomes!

While that is happening, they encounter honest and hardworking adults daily – including their own teachers – who never get rich or famous, despite being well schooled! And they also see those who chose to follow their own paths in life, rather than go the conventional schooling route, doing a whole lot better than schooled persons.

It is the mix of all the above that makes schooling so unattractive for kids over time, especially as they grow older – and that is why some choose to drop out.

If truth be told, would one need to force kids to study hard or attend school, like we did in our time, if they saw formally schooled people doing well in large numbers in society?

Case study: Shina Peter told his mum at age 8, that he no longer wished to attend school, choosing instead to live with and apprentice under Ebenezer Obey, so as to pursue his passion of learning to play the Guitar/music.

In a recent (2015) interview, Shina Peters was asked if he regretted not getting a formal education. He replied saying he had no regrets and that he had achieved so much success professionally and financially pursuing his dream as a self-taught musician that he employed well schooled persons, including PhD holders.

Now, THAT is a happy and fulfilled man speaking his mind right there. I believe BEING HAPPY AND FULFILLED is what matters most in life, and each of us as parents need to guide our kids to achieve that end.

Shina is NOT alone. There are  many like him. Their examples prove schooling is NOT an end in itself. It is a means to an end – the end being each person’s definition of happiness and fulfillment.

A person’s creative genius is a crucial ingredient needed to achieve that optimal state of being.

Any schooling system that does NOT enhance the learner’s ability to put that genius to use in achieving that state is NOT healthy for the child.

You have an obligation as a parent to challenge your society to do that for your child. If it does not, then you have a duty to find a way to fill in the gap created and if any damage is being done to your kid’s creativity, you must take steps to stop it.

This is what I have been doing for my kids, and I will continue to do it for them, showing them what matters, until I am sure they can carry on by themselves, taking necessary protective measures to preserve their creative genius.

RELATED ARTICLE: [Workshop for Kids – by a Kid] Build Your Own Battery Powered Toy Bike!

What is your child’s genius? Do you know?

Many parents do NOT know that schooling is a means to an end, and NOT an end in itself.

That’s why they focus so much on “schooling” their kids, and pay little or no attention to EDUCATING their kids in readiness for real world relevant success outside school.

This is why we have so many people who leave school with brilliant grades and go on to struggle to make impact in life.

It is why (as Robert Kiyosaki notes in his book) we see C students becoming more successful and employing A students after they all leave school.

It is also why we see UNSCHOOLED persons or school drop outs doing far better in the real world than their schooled counterparts.

I argue, as a Best Practice Parenting Advocate, that a parent’s NUMBER ONE role in giving his/her child an education is NOT to pay school fees, uniforms, textbooks etc. Neither is it to pay for access to summer school and exams.

[Workshop for Kids – by a Kid] Build Your Own Battery Powered Toy Bike!

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RELATED ARTICLE: Education is not ‘for’ anything – it is an end in itself –  by Dennis Hayes of Independent.co.uk | Thursday 4 October 2012 15:58

The knowledge and understanding of subjects has no moral purpose. It may lead to discontent.

Education is not about ‘preparation for life’. Nor is testing about ‘preparation for the tests of life’.  Education is not ‘about’ anything except education. Debates, lectures and discussions with the title ‘What is education for?’ are popular, but they embody an instrumental mistake about the nature of education: education is not for anything. It is an end in itself. If all the problems of economic and social life were solved and people did not even have to work, we would still seek knowledge. This is encapsulated in Socrates’ vision of eternal life as an endless series of conversations and debates with the greatest thinkers.

Read full article: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/our-voices/battle-of-ideas/education-is-not-for-anything-it-is-an-end-in-itself-8198029.html

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

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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.

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Do You Want to Make Your Spreadsheet Application Do Everything You want and Nothing You Don’t?

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*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)

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 (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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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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Do You Want to Make Your Spreadsheet Application Do Everything You want and Nothing You Don’t?

[This article is based on the contents of a one page flyer I used to promote the pavement pounding version of my Excel-VB Solutions Development service in my startup years back in 2005 = see photo below!]

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I’ve tweaked it a little to include details relevant to the 100% web based operation I run today.

What do you currently do with spreadsheets that you wish you could do FASTER, MORE ACCURATELY and with LESS EFFORT than you currently do?

My name is Tayo Solagbade – Creator of the Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

I work with individuals and businesses/organizations to develop Custom, Pre-programmed Excel-Visual Basic Applications with Graphical User Interfaces that make using Excel to do what you do less cumbersome.

If you would like me to work with you, to make that spreadsheet or workbook easier to use and more accurate in the output it returns, click here to contact me today.

Alternatively…

You can watch my FREE Home Study tutorial videos and Screenshot demonstration user guide videos for some of my commercial quality spreadsheet applications at www.excelheaven.tayosolagbade.com or www.excelheaven.biz

You will notice from doing so that I how I put use intelligent and creative coding to and design, to put smart customization and POWER at the user’s mouse tips, in the solutions I develop.

Don’t Be Quick to Assume You’ve Seen This Before!

For the first 2 to 4 years after I started out in 2002, when the market for solutions of this kind were practically non-existent in Nigeria, 99% of the time, those I introduced to my work often readily assumed they knew what I was talking about i.e. especially when they heard the word “automation”

That is UNTIL they saw a demo of one of the real life software I offered for sale, and a video of an elaborate home study tutorial I’d created for an advanced learner I’d coached

That was why my VERY first client in 2004 paid me N100k (about $600 USD) at the time, to have me develop a custom Excel-VB driven application branded with his company’s logo and other details, for a high profile client – and Oil Exploration company.

My client was so convinced of my ability to deliver, that he paid the entire amount (i.e. 100%) upfront.

And I DID deliver – within the agreed TEN (10) days of starting the job.

Since then, I’ve gone on to do even bigger jobs for clients in various markets that paid more than twice that amount.

Today, I build and scll custom apps to meet the needs of clients -and get paid for doing so by clients within and outside Africa – especially Farm Business Owners. One of my most popular ready-to-use products for Farm CEOs earns me about the same amount I used to get paid to BUILD apps for clients when I first started out.

I CAN HELP YOU SAVE MONEY, TIME AND EFFORT!

I have a vision to help individuals and businesses get maximum returns from using Microsoft Excel in their work.

With my help, you/your organization might just be able to save money your spend to the tune of many thousands, tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands, that you could otherwise spend on an EXPENSIVE commercial off-the-shelf application that could end up not meeting all the peculiar needs of your team members/business.

Why not contact me and see if I can WORK WITH YOU via my remote web based service, to develop an application that does all the things you would like to do – at an affordable price.

Incidentally, I also support train and coach in Advanced Excel and ExcelVB Programming.

In fact, I run an Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Coaching club which caters for business users and kids.

PII 065: You Cannot Vote on Science/Life. Only Truth Matters. One Person Can be Right – and It Could be YOU! [THOUGHT PROVOKING VIDEO DEBATE]

“Some people make the mistake of equating consensus with truth. That you, and others who think like you, agree among yourselves that a centipede is a millipede wearing a metal coat, will not make the centipede become a millipede.” – Tayo Solagbade

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” – Anatole France

The 4 plus minute video clip linked below features a presenter engaged in a debate of sorts with an audience member, who expressed disagreement with some things she (the presenter) had said about Global Warming.

 

I share the transcript excerpts below, because I believe MANY of us make the mistake she (I’ll call her “Logic-Lady”) points out here, when we want to drive home our points. And we need to know we are NOT proved right by it!

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Tayo Solagbade's Performance Improvement IDEAS(PI Squared) Newsletter

Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement
IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 8th May 2017

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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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View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

PII 065: You Cannot Vote on Science/Life. Only Truth Matters. One Person Can be Right – and It Could be YOU! [THOUGHT PROVOKING VIDEO DEBATE]

“Some people make the mistake of equating consensus with truth. That you, and others who think like you, agree among yourselves that a centipede is a millipede wearing a metal coat, will not make the centipede become a millipede.” – Tayo Solagbade

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” – Anatole France

The 4 plus minute video clip linked below features a presenter engaged in a debate of sorts with an audience member, who expressed disagreement with some things she (the presenter) had said about Global Warming.

logic-debate

In making her point, the audience member argued saying 98% of scientists held a particular view she supported, on the issue.

That led the presenter to embark on what I consider a most illuminating exposition on how logic works, and why the use of expressions like 98% cannot be done without basis.

I share the transcript excerpts below, because I believe MANY of us make the mistake she (I’ll call her “Logic-Lady”) points out here, when we want to drive home our points. And we need to know we are NOT proved right by it!

But let’s just look at what she said…it’s really worthwhile.

So she said that 98% of scientists agree that global warming is a major problem

Everyone in this room has gone to college, so you’re gonna like the logic of this.

If we say 98% of something, there must be a 100%. So somewhere there must be a list. There must be a list of all the scientists that exist.

My first challenge to this lady is to give me the list of all the scientists that exists in America, in the world, because if they do, that is how you can use the word 98 percent.

If there isn’t a definitive list, there is no such thing as 98 percent

Number 1 – logic!

Number 2: Science does not proceed by consensus. Science is not democratic!

At one time in history, it was the consensus that the earth was flat. Everyone believed in that. Everyone agreed on that. One man said that THAT was not true.

Anybody who says to you “The majority agree with it so it’s true, is not a scientist.”

I don’t know what they are, but they are not a scientist!

The laws of gravity do not get agreed by a consensus, by a vote, by a democracy.

Science is not democratic. Science is about truth.

One person can be correct

The person who quotes 98% of scientists is someone who knows you’re already losing.

So they are sung “illogic”.

98% of all scientists – unless you have an index of all scientists.

It doesn’t really matter how big the list is – it doesn’t  matter!

Because the truth is the truth. It’s not done by majority.

We can’t all vote in this room about the laws of physics and then make it right.

Click HERE to download the full video and listen to the rest of the debate they had, which ended with the logic-lady “educating” her counterpart about how the American experiment compared to the European experiment.

How can we use what she has taught us here?

I say that each of us in our field must realize that since science is based on truth, and ONE person can be right, then IT COULD BE US, as individuals in our respective fields of specialization.

In my case, I can relate to this in several ways.

One way has to do with my decision to commence offering custom spreadsheet software development services in the Nigerian/African market.

I had no role models o emulate, and no one I approached, in computer or business schools, saw any value in what I was trying to do. Business owners initially asked “Who is going to pay you for that?”.

I also got routinely mocked by those who knew what I was trying to do, during the times when I was still struggling to create my niche market in Nigeria.

Today, I enjoy name/brand recognition as a trusted provider of unique custom Excel-VB driven software to buyers in and out of Africa.

Those who told me it could only work in America, and who kept telling me to go do something else know better today.

So, I was right, but I had to act with faith and determination, coupled with relentless persistence to SHOW that I was. And in so doing, I proved that the many pointed opinions voiced by individuals and groups, to me, about the workability of my idea of selling automated workbooks to people in Nigeria, were wrong.

One needs to remember the words of this lady, and the quotes I started this piece with, which are reproduced below, if/when we find ourselves having to consider going a route no one else seems willing to go.

Anatole France, the shipping magnate once said:

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”

Several years ago, I coined the following quote on the same theme:

“Some people make the mistake of equating consensus with truth. That you, and others who think like you, agree among yourselves that a centipede is a millipede wearing a metal coat, will not make the centipede become a millipede.” – Tayo Solagbade

Many people have difficulty being objective in their views about issues, so they struggle to employ logic. This is because a biased mind cannot produce logical reasoning!

The Logic-Lady’s above stated explanations about science as it relates to logical reasoning is VERY relevant to our realities as individuals in society.

Today, there are too many people unwilling to apply critical thinking and logic in their daily interactions. As a result, they depend on group-thinking, whereby they force their narrow views down other people’s throats by using the power of numbers and consensus e.g those who share similar views gang up and overshadow others who may actually have better ideas to offer.

What you know or the experience based insights you have could be telling you something that others may not easily see or hear.

You owe yourself, and the rest of society to NOT let yourself be intimidated into silence or inaction by consensus wielding individuals or groups.

That’s what the man who showed us all that the earth was not flat did. He spoke out, and stuck to his argument, even though he was the only one.

You can do the same!

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Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

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 watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

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To Build a Society of Discerning Adults, Whose Leaders Cannot Fool. We MUST Teach Our Kids Critical Thinking and Logic [A List of Websites That Can Help Willing Parents]

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*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)

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 (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
==================

View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

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[VIDEO & Mind Map] How Tayo Solagbade’s Customizable Zero Cost Web Marketing System Generates Zero Cost Sales Leads for YOU

Earlier today, I sent the 2 emails reproduced below to several CEOs whose marketing or business promotion materials/resources I came in contact with during a recent event.
My purpose was simply to offer suggestions I felt would benefit them in getting more marketing mileage for their brands. 
What I did was to call each person up, mention how I got his/her materials and then ask a few questions about how s/he currently did his/her marketing.
After getting what I felt were enough insights from the responses provided, I would then offer an introduction regarding the use of a WMS, and propose sending the explanatory no-strings-attached email followup, with his/her permission.
Each CEO said YES – and so I sent him/her the promised emails.

Below, I share excerpts from the emails I sent them, in the hope that others in need of ideas may find them of some benefit. If you need more details or specific help, click here send me a message.

Hi,

Our phone conversation earlier today refers.

Like I said, I’m NOT selling anything. 

Instead, I feel led to offer some suggestions to you (and some others) whose marketing materials I picked up, from their stands at the recently concluded event.

There’s a lot of other stuff I’ve written about how a Web Marketing System can be used to achieve timeless marketing based name/brand recognition and zero cost sales leads generation. {Hint: Google “tayosolagbade.com: web marketing system” – or just click preceding link)

My approach is to use MY NAME as a basis for promoting my brand, That’s why I noted that you could make people who Google your name discover your brand that way.
However, using an “alias” also works as well, – especially if your day jobs makes it imperative that you avoid openly linking your name, or yourself with income earning activity outside that with your employer.
Ok…on to my “suggestion”: 
 
You may find it useful to view this mindmap and watch the video explanation (click here to request download access) for what I NOW believe will best suit your needs.
wms-video
I call it a Zero Cost Web Marketing System (WMS) or an Effective Online Presence (EOP)

Below is a generic message I use to explain what it is all about:A. Find attached a mindmap image (see it here) that shows key components of what I call a customizable Web Marketing System (WMS).

A WMS, setup right, can be used to boost your business marketing reach/impact, measurable over time in terms of:1. time, effort and money you WILL save

2. Quality sales leads/enquiries you will generateB. Find attached a zipped folder containing a video (click here to request download access) for you to watch offline, in which I explain what the WMS components are about and how they benefit businesses that use them.

To watch the video, REMOVE or EXTRACT the 2 files in the zipped folder, and place them in the same location on your PC.

Then use either Option A or Option B to playback the video:

Option A: Double click on the web page file (the one with the browser icon) among the two, to watch the video in your browser. If you get a prompt to activate “Adobe Flash Player” click on the prompt to activate it by following the instructions that appear. This method typically applies to PCs with older versions of Windows Operating System.

Option B: In newer versions of Windows, and/or on PCs with VLC players, ignore the web page file and simply double click the much larger SWF file – the video should start playing immediately.

Let me know if you need help/have questions or require clarification.
I hope you find it useful – and wish you more success with the creative work you’re doing!
With kindest regards,
Tayo K. Solagbade*
Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist & Multipreneur
*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas Club
*Custom Excel-VB Solutions Developer & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club & Competition
*Creator of the Zero Cost Web Marketing System and Founder of the Web Marketing for CEOs Club
Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
Email: tayo at tksola dot com or tayo at tayosolagbade dot com
http://www.tayosolagbade.com [Flagship Performance Improvement Website]
http://www.thefarmceo.net [The Farm CEO Newspaper]
http://www.excelheaven.biz [Custom Excel Visual Basic driven Software Development]
http://www.tksola.com [Response Generating Writing and Web Marketing Solutions]
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I followed the ABOVE email message with the one shown below, containing links to a complementary educational resource I felt would benefit the CEOs:

Hi again…

As a follow up to my preceding email suggestion that you adopt a custom Web Marketing System to promote your brand at zero cost…

I recommend you read this article linked below. I wrote it late last year.
Watch the video explanation I did on my Youtube channel:
Download and study the mind map I created as a basis for the article:
Understanding the ideas I share in the above resources will help you make more intelligent use of the WMS you develop and implement for your busines – especially in terms of how you make use of your time to find potential clients.
I wish you well.

Final Words: This is a Public Service of sorts…so do share this post to your networks if you know anyone who may benefit!

Every once in a while I come across persons in business with whom I feel led to share  ideas. Many times I readily LEARN from such persons, even though they may not have gone out of their way to try teaching (or sharing with) me.
That’s how I’m wired – constantly SEARCHING for ways and means to improve my ability to do what I LOVE doing. So, whether you like it or not, if I encounter you in person or online I CAN learn from you – and I WILL, if I see cause to.
But I’ve learnt that others may not be able to function like I do. Indeed very few are driven like I am to actively explore continuous improvement avenues to take what I do to the next level.
So, whenever I feel the need, I try to give of myself in a CSR kind of way. Just offering to give back by sharing what I feel can help the other person, with him/her in a no-strings-attached manner.
That’s what I’ve done via email with the CEOs mentioned – and in this post for possible others.
Good luck with your marketing!

PII 064: Life Will Not Always be Fair – The Secret to Having Your Way Anyway [Hint: Is Your Job Keeping You from Being a Better Parent?]

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

Today I and the kids of the Tayo Solagbade clan will be attending (and participating in) yet another event. This one we’ve actually been talking about and even “preparing towards” for weeks!

Yesterday, the second “littlest” among us spent most of the day “practicing” in readiness for a possible opportunity to showcase her skills, that we anticipate may present itself where we’re going.

I felt so proud seeing her take control of proceedings assertively, from consulting their Facebook page for details of steps to follow, to executing the actual steps required to complete the task.

There were times when things did not go as planned or the way she wanted. And she got readily upset about it. 

Those moments presented me valuable best practice parenting opportunities for me to explain that life will sometimes not give us what we want i.e. that LIFE WILL OFTEN NOT BE FAIR TO US!

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Tayo Solagbade's Performance Improvement IDEAS(PI Squared) Newsletter

Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement
IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 1st May 2017

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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.

************

View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

PII 064: Life Will Not Always be Fair – The Secret to Having Your Way Anyway [Hint: Is Your Job Keeping You from Being a Better Parent?]

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

Today is a special day for me and the rest of the Tayo Solagbade clan. We’ve been talking about the event we’ll be attending today, for weeks. Regular readers of this blog know I’m an advocate of REAL LIFE experience based learning to better prepare kids to succeed in society.

Yesterday, the second “littlest” among us (see her in the ATM queue in photo below) spent most of the day “practicing” in readiness for a possible opportunity to showcase her skills that we anticipate may be given to her where we’re going.

gtbkids4

I felt so proud seeing her take control of proceedings assertively, from consulting their Facebook page for details of steps to follow, to executing the actual steps required to complete the talk.

There were times when things did not go as planned or the way she wanted. And she got readily upset about it. 

Those moments presented me valuable best practice parenting opportunities to explain that life will sometimes not give us what we want i.e. that LIFE WILL OFTEN NOT BE FAIR TO US!

At least not immediately. Sometimes it will test our resolve and conviction. Our academic brilliance or natural genius will not matter.

Only our capacity for self-belief, blind faith, determination and persistence will matter.

They are the ultimate determinants of authentic success achievement.

Like the little child she was, she found this “unfair” treatment (in which she did not get to have her way) hard to swallow. But I made it clear there was no escaping it.

The above is a message I’ve also passed to her older siblings in many coaching conversations over the years – and especially since last year (2016).

We’re all getting up right now, so we can get early breakfast ready and hit the road to beat the traffic.

I will be sharing news from this outing when we return.

Like I always do with any aspects of activities I engage in that I believe can help others get potentially useful ideas they can put to productive use in their lives, in this area of best practice parenting and others covered in my work as a Performance Improvement Specialist.

For now, I refer you to the article linked further down, in which I shared experience based insights, from over 2 decades of achieving my goals in spite of adversity. 

These ideas I seek to pass FIRST to my kids, and to any others willing to learn.

If you want to be a person who succeeds no matter what and no matter how long, you need to get used to the fact that people will often be telling you that you are trying to do the impossible, when you choose to pursue your genius.

Learn to think like I do, and like I advocate here, and you will NEVER be limited by whatever they think or say.

It’s NOT easy, and does not happen quickly.

But if you keep at it, you will succeed. Everything I say here is based on my verifiable accomplishments in spite of nay sayers.

E.g. They told me I could not make any decent money selling my custom automated spreadsheet workbooks for YEARS as I struggled to create a market for my Excel-VB Solutions Development service in Nigeria.

Today, I enjoy the undeniable international reputation as a trusted provider of custom Excel-VB software (and related solutions) to buyers within and outside Africa. One of my most popular products – the Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager, sells for what some people earn as monthly salary in Nigeria.

This is why I SPEND SO MUCH TIME with them daily exposing them to mental stamina BUILDING experiences.

gtbkids5

I want my kids to have the kind of mental attitude I have – because I know it is the major factor responsible for my demonstrated ability to DEFEAT adversity and ADVANCE towards my goals regardless of what goes wrong at any point in my life.

gtbkids2

Mental Stamina is the best gift you can give your child. And if you lack it, I urge you to invest the time and effort to DEVELOP it!

On a final note, I must say this: 

Becoming a Location Independent Multipreneur was not easy for me to ACHIEVE, but today it gives me the freedom to give my kids the kind of intensive best practice parenting I know they need.

[Read: No. 119: How to Achieve Success in Any Field (True Story)]

gtbkids1

The choices I made to get here were tough, but I LOVED my kids too much to NOT be prepared to take them.

Those who don’t get it still persist in 10a.m to 10p.m jobs and think they’re “parenting” their kids by “paying” for stuff they should be DOING for their kids themselves. Sad.

If you really LOVE your kids, you need to find a way to WORK for a living, so as to better give them the parenting preparation they need!

Happy Workers’ Day!

.

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

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 watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

SDN Blog™

New posts from last week*

Monday:

[Wednesday]:

[Thursday]:

Long Term Benefits of Empowerment Will Often Not be Immediately Obvious [Tips for Getting Your Kids to Make Profitable Use of Smartphone Technology]

[Friday]:

N/A

[Saturday]:

N/A

[Sunday]:

The FARM CEO (Issue 81): 2-in-1 Offer to Support Your Farm Business [FREE Customization of your Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager & One year Basic Web Marketing Support]

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*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)

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 (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
==================

View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

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Tayo Solagbade's Performance Improvement IDEAS(PI Squared) Newsletter

Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement
IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 1st May 2017

Logo - Tayo Solagbade's Self-Development Academy


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.

************

View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

PII 064: Life Will Not Always be Fair – The Secret to Having Your Way Anyway [Hint: Is Your Job Keeping You from Being a Better Parent?]

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

Today is a special day for me and the rest of the Tayo Solagbade clan. We’ve been talking about the event we’ll be attending today, for weeks. Regular readers of this blog know I’m an advocate of REAL LIFE experience based learning to better prepare kids to succeed in society.

Yesterday, the second “littlest” among us (see her in the ATM queue in photo below) spent most of the day “practicing” in readiness for a possible opportunity to showcase her skills that we anticipate may be given to her where we’re going.

 

gtbkids4

I felt so proud seeing her take control of proceedings assertively, from consulting their Facebook page for details of steps to follow, to executing the actual steps required to complete the talk.

There were times when things did not go as planned or the way she wanted. And she got readily upset about it. 

Those moments presented me valuable best practice parenting opportunities for me to explain that life will sometimes not give us what we want i.e. that LIFE WILL OFTEN NOT BE FAIR TO US!

At least not immediately. Sometimes it will test our resolve and conviction. Our academic brilliance or natural genius will not matter.

Only our capacity for self-belief, blind faith, determination and persistence will matter.

They are the ultimate determinants of authentic success achievement.

Like the little child she was, she found this “unfair” treatment (in which she did not get to have her way) hard to swallow. But I made it clear there was no escaping it.

The above is a message I’ve also passed to her older siblings in many coaching conversations over the years – and especially since last year (2016).

We’re all getting up right now, so we can get early breakfast ready and hit the road to beat the traffic.

I will be sharing news from this outing when we return.

Like I always do with any aspects of activities I engage in that I believe can help others get potentially useful ideas they can put to productive use in their lives, in this area of best practice parenting and others covered in my work as a Performance Improvement Specialist.

For now, I refer you to the article linked further down, in which I shared experience based insights, from over 2 decades of achieving my goals in spite of adversity. 

This ideas/ability I seek to pass FIRST to my kids, and to any others willing to learn.

If you want to be a person who succeeds no matter what and no matter how long, you need to get used to the fact that people will often be telling you that you are trying to do the impossible, when you choose to pursue your genius.

Learn to think like I do, and like I advocate here, and you will NEVER be limited by whatever they think or say. It’s NOT easy, and does not happen quickly.

But if you keep at it, you will succeed. Everything I say here is based on my verifiable accomplishments in spite of nay sayers.

E.g. They told me I could not make any decent money selling my custom automated spreadsheet workbooks for YEARS as I struggled to create a market for my Excel-VB Solutions Development service in Nigeria.

Today, I enjoy the undeniable international reputation as a trusted provider of custom Excel-VB software to buyers within and outside Africa. One of my most popular products – the Excel-VB Ration Formulator, sells for what some people earn as monthly salary.

This is why I SPEND SO MUCH TIME with them daily exposing them to mental stamina BUILDING experiences.

gtbkids5

I want my kids to have the kind of mental attitude I have – because I know it is the major factor responsible for my demonstrated ability to DEFEAT adversity and ADVANCE towards my goals regardless of what goes wrong at any point in my life.

gtbkids2

Mental Stamina is the best gift you can give your child. And if you lack it, I urge you to invest the time and effort to DEVELOP it!

On a final note, I must say this: 

Being a Location Independent Multipreneur was not easy to ACHIEVE, but today it gives me the freedom to give my kids the kind of intensive best practice parenting I know they need.

[Read: No. 119: How to Achieve Success in Any Field (True Story)]

gtbkids1

The choices I made to get here were tough, but I LOVED my kids too much to NOT be prepared to take them.

Those who don’t get it still persist in 10a.m to 10p.m jobs and think they’re “parenting” their kids by “paying” for stuff they should be DOING for their kids themselves. Sad.

If you really LOVE your kids, you need to find a way to WORK for a living, so as to better give them the parenting preparation they need!

Happy Workers’ Day!

.

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

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 watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

SDN Blog™

New posts from last week*

Monday:

[Wednesday]:

[Thursday]:

Long Term Benefits of Empowerment Will Often Not be Immediately Obvious [Tips for Getting Your Kids to Make Profitable Use of Smartphone Technology]

[Friday]:

N/A

[Saturday]:

N/A

[Sunday]:

The FARM CEO (Issue 81): 2-in-1 Offer to Support Your Farm Business [FREE Customization of your Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager & One year Basic Web Marketing Support]

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*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)

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 (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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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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Long Term Benefits of Empowerment Will Often Not be Immediately Obvious [Tips for Getting Your Kids to Make Profitable Use of Smartphone Technology]

I consider it crucially important to quickly and unceremoniously get kids OVER the feeling of awe that tends to overtake many of them in our part of the world, when they gain initial access to what are now increasingly affordable and often fancy mobile devices and gadgets (e.g. smartphones, tablets, laptops and computers) abundant in marketplaces today.

I recommend (based on best practice parenting ideas I advocate and use) the following lines of action:

Make them understand that owning such tools should always be a means to an end for them, and never the end in itself.

Ask them: What can you do, or learn toi do with it, to better pursue/acheueve goals that matter to your personal/career advancement?

Ask them: What can you do with it to make money or more money?

Ask them what they can do with it to solve problems for others e.g do they know how to build apps others need.

Or do they just download apps created by others?

Point out the fact to them that many apps they see on their devices actually make money for their creators.

Let them know PC and Internet Technology makes it possible for them to also create their own original money making apps for download by other users!

Most importantly challenge them to do some kind of REAL “work” or chore(s) to earn money to buy such devices if they want to own them.

Avoid buying such things for them using your own funds, without meaningful exertion on their part

Make them sweat to acquire it e.g by way of household chores completed and/or make them learn to do stuff to earn income to keep using it.

They might complain or even protest that you’re asking too much. They could even compare you to other parents who don’t demand such.

My advice is that you remember that parenting is not a democracy.

The long term benefits of empowerment will often not be immediately obvious. That will not mean it’s not there.

So stay firm and stay strong and they will be better off for it in the long run – by which time they will thank you for it!

That’s a fact.

Below is a photo of Itel phone in my 11 year old daughter’s hand on the day of her “graduation” (along with her younger sister), from a 2 week Facial Makeup and Gele Tying workshop they attended.

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Most photos and videos of the various skills they were taught were recorded using this phone of hers.

Sadly, about a week later, she dropped this device into the bowl of soap water in which she was washing clothes, and the touch screen stopped working. We never got it fixed.

Today, I got her a Lenovo smartphone as replacement, mainly because they will need it to record what they are taught in the new hairdressing training they are to start.

However, I’ve made it clear she must resume her daily online business tasks execution, and ensure she hits the required DAILY points, if she wants to keep the phone and have the Internet browsing data subscription renewed.

If she does this for long enough, she will earn commissions from the online business, effectively paying for herself to continue using it. That’s the same approach I use with the 2 older brothers who have been told similar thing. So they know there is no free ride in a fancy car for them!

Your 2016 Excel-Visual Basic Automation Home Study Tutorial Archives DVD is READY!

This week I formally announce the availability of the 2016 Excel-Visual Basic Automation Club Home Study Tutorial Archives DVD. As I hinted in a previous post, this product is a compilation of ALL the text and video based tutorials I’ve sent out over the past year, since the launch of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation club.

The promise I made to members of the club was to share my expertise with them via the coaching tutorials I send out, not just with regard to Excel-VB coding, but also in the area of marketing one’s products and services as provider of custom Excel-VB Automation solutions.

Below is a screen shot from an email enquiry I received from a Farm CEO, who expressed interest in buying my 3 flagship products – the Feed Formulation Handbook, Poultry Farm Manager and Ration Formulator.

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That gentleman has since gone on to make payment for all 3 products (in addition to 2 others I offered at a discounted bonus) – and I’ve since delivered them via email to him.

TIP: In tomorrow’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas newsletter, I’ll share insights from my use of Video Marketing to attract profitable paying customers for my products, for years.

As we approach 1st May 2017, to begin a new year in the life of the club, I want members and those aspiring, to know that there is a LOT to be learned.

You can also become competent in Excel-VB coding and the marketing of what you do, in  a way that enables you make money like I do.

But it takes work – and a lot of dedication. You need to be willing to invest emotionally in this venture, if you want to succeed at it.

To make it easier for yourself to progress, you must embrace every opportunity to learn that comes your way. I recommend you start by purchasing a copy of this new DVD compilation. it offers you an opportunity to learn the basics I’ve presented via my Experiential Coaching based system.

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Click here to contact me for details of how to order your copy.

 

[DVAM] Women aren’t the only victims of domestic violence. Understand the signs of domestic violence against men, and know how to get help – MayoClinic.org

Prevailing stereotypes about Domestic Violence are making it so easy for cunning female offenders to get their male victims vilified as the abusers!

These manipulative women know how the system works, and they are “gaming” it to have their way at the expense of their intimate male partners.

Thankfully, we have females with integrity speaking out about this harmful trend (e.g Toyin Omoniyi, a female Nigerian Lawyer in her excellent piece titled Domestic Violence Against Men by Toyin Omoniyi (TyLegal))

And these fair minded females are demanding more recognition for DV Against Men.

Most are mothers to sons and siblings to brothers who they’ve seen suffer serious abuse at the hands of female partners.

Many are joining the movement to inform and educate, as are the men in their lives.

The information in the truly excellent (!) article published by the famous Mayo clinic (MayoClinic.org) – which is previewed/linked below – can help you get started learning what you need to know, to identify and stop DVAM

So I say this to you now…

If you’re male, lookout for the signs for YOUR own sake…

If you’re parent to someone who is male, and you really care for him lookout for the signs for HIS sake…,

If you’re uncle/aunt/brother/sister or relative to someone who is male, lookout for these signs for HIS sake…,…

Domestic violence against men: Know the signs – Mayo Clinic

Domestic violence against men isn’t always easy to identify, but it can be a serious threat. Know how to recognize if you’re being abused — and how to get help.

By Mayo Clinic Staff

Women aren’t the only victims of domestic violence. Understand the signs of domestic violence against men, and know how to get help.

Recognize domestic violence against men

Domestic violence — also known as intimate partner violence — occurs between people in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence against men can take many forms, including emotional, sexual and physical abuse and threats of abuse. It can happen in heterosexual or same-sex relationships.

Continue reading…

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in-depth/domestic-violence-against-men/art-20045149

 

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A new generation of shrewdly manipulative and cunningly abusive women are using protective systems put in place by society to exploit males that are their intimate partners.

In other words, they are gaming the system and by so doing are making a mockery of the eFforts to stop domestic violence by exploiting stereotypes about males being the only perpetrators, to abuse their partners at will while readily adopting the accepted posture of “victim in self-defence” when their actions come under scrutiny.

What they do, they teach other women and their own daughters, who rarely know better.

We need to fight and stop this trend. Our sons, brothers, fathers, uncles and other loved ones who beloing to the male gender, remain at grave risk if we don’t.

That’s why I’ve launched the page described below…

Page Name:

Domestic Violence Against Men – Ideas for Identifying & Stopping It

Page Description:

This page is dedicated to empowering men who find themselves, by some accident of fate on the receiving end of abuse from an intimate female partner.

Page URL:

https://facebook.com/stopdvambytks/

SPREADSHEET AUTOMATION WORKSHOP INVITATION: Anatomy of N200k Excel-VB Cash Book Spreadsheet Software [Secrets to Build Yours Successfully]

To formally close the maiden year (May 2016 to May 2017) in the life of my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation club, I’ve decided to conduct a LIVE hands-on workshop titled “SPREADSHEET AUTOMATION WORKSHOP INVITATION: Anatomy of N200k Excel-VB Cash Book Spreadsheet Software [Secrets to Build Yours Successfully]“.

Duration: 11a.m to 5p.m

Location: Sherryville Arcade, Ojodu-Berger Bus Stop, Opposite First Bank Plc, Ikeja – Lagos

Date: Sat 29th May 2017

The commercial quality Excel-VB software application to be reviewed is one that I built for a large Specialist Hospital based in Ogudu, Lagos in 2007, for approximately $1000 USD equivalent at the time (Back then $1 USD = N200)

Name: Excel-VB Driven General Accounts Manager [GAM]

Watch the YouTube demonstration video on my YouTube channel at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUl4_RAja-g

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Below are its key features and details of the app:

Description: This is a highly sophisticated Automated Cash Book with a Powerful Modeless Dynamic Data Entry Form & Menu Driven Reports Summaries Generator.

  1. Allows user to post cash office receipt using in-house format register (cash, cheque. value card etc) and payment (expense) amounts using custom automated floating modeless data entry forms.
  2. Automatically generates – using drop menus – Weekly, Monthly/Annual Income & Expense Reports on one A4 page.
  3. The reports are integrated with charts/graphs of EACH heading value

During the workshop, I will show attendees the various interfaces in the app, and demonstrate how they were built from scratch, using a blank workbook template.

In other words, by the time we are done, a simplistic version of the app would have been built – though not with all the bells and whistles I added to the real app, for obvious reasons that they would take more time to incorporate.

Attendees will be able to ask questions and try their hands at doing what I show them.

My learning events are always EXPERIENTIAL i.e. designed to give learners what they need to know, in a way that builds on what they already know, and what they already do in their work/on their jobs.

This event is designed to be a way of saying THANK YOU to members of my Excel Heaven club over the past maiden year (May 2016 to May 2017)

From 1st May 2017, ALL members will be required to renew their membership for another year, to continue receiving the weekly email tutorials I send out.

All those who attend the event will get FREE copies of a home study video tutorial version of the workshop that I will create AHEAD of the event.

The reason is to ensure that they are able to study and understand anything we are unable to cover in the event using the DVD version.

Question: So, what’s the FEE for attending this Workshop Event “Anatomy of an Excel-VB Driven Commercial Automated Cash Book Spreadsheet Software [Including Tips of How to Build It from Scratch]”?

Answer: Simply pay the ONE year membership fee of $65 USD @ N200 per dollar i.e. N13, 000.0

The above payment requirement is however for non-members.

Payment gets you the DVD FREE, PLUS ONE full year of club membership (May 2017 to May 2018).

IMPORTANT NOTE TO CURRENT EXCEL HEAVEN VISUAL BASIC AUTOMATION CLUB MEMBERS:

All current club members should recall that their membership entitles them to a 50% discount, for life, to buy my products/services.

That therefore means they only have to pay N6,500.0 to attend this event, and also get the double benefit of the FREE Tutorial DVD and renewed membership from May 2017 to May 2018.

Click here contact me if you have need further details or require clarification.

Visit my Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Solutions Development website to learn more about what I offer (while there you can watch videos of other app demos and tutorials).

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