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[Recommended] A Tried & Tested Six Figure World Class Internet Marketing Success Coach
[Recommended] A Tried & Tested Six Figure World Class Internet Marketing Success Coach
If you’re keen to learn how to cost-effectively achieve Long Term World Class Quality Internet Marketing success, you may want to stop what you’re doing and read what follows below about a rare expert, who’s done (and helped others do) it for decades!
This is a short post I’ve written to introduce a Warrior Forum discussion page where knowledgeable Internet Marketing pros responded to an enquirer’s request for guidance on whether or not solutions offered by the Internet Marketing Coach mentioned below, were worth investing in.
I refer to…
[Recommended] A Tried & Tested Six Figure World Class Internet Marketing Success Coach
Terry Dean…
NB: Neither the forum members nor Terry Dean have asked me to do this, or are even aware I’ve done it. in other words I get no rewards for writing this, and only do it, because I want to.
Click here to read the request.
if you’re asking who Terry Dean is, the rest of this post offers details and links to useful resources you can study.
I’ve followed Terry Dean since 2001, my last year in paid employment, when I used to read his reports about making a living online.
Yep.
Like the guys in the Warror Forum noted, he’s been around for quite a while – and is still going strong!
What’s more, the fact that he still continues to command top ratings among those in the upper echelons of Internet Marketing worldwide, proves that he truly knows what it takes.
But what I’ve found most attractive about Mr. Dean over the years is the fact that he always keeps his coaching and business simple.
You won’t catch him using complex SEO jargon or going overboard in use of web based technology. His email newsletters and webpages remain as simple and basic as ever in terms of how they are presented, and what they communicate.
And yet this man is well known in the markets he serves for not only developing systems that earn him millions, but also for helping thousands of clients to do the same.
This is the kind of expert virtually anyone can learn from. You won’t need to be a tech guru to work with him.
This is why I’m linking to the review page below about him, which he probably does not know about!
It is also why I offer you the URL below to view a Google results page with links to learn more about him.
Most importantly I showcase this man because he embodies what I call “Silent Success”.
For instance, the last thing you can associate with him is HYPE – so people looking for quick fixes or free rides in fancy cars may not “like” him. See his Facebook business page here.
If truth be told, most business owners – especially in my part of the world – engaged in learning or practising Internet Marketing, have probably never heard of Terry Dean.
I’ve found that my primary target audience in Africa, due to their different mental attitudes online, need a finetuned adaptation of ideas proven to work in developed societies. That’s what I try to do for those who hire me.
Yet if you move amongst the communities, online and off the web, in which the very best experts in this field interact (e.g the Internet Marketing
Superconference held in USA), you’re certain to discover he’s reverred. Some call him a legend.
I’ll end by saying the least you can do, especially if you’re from my part of the world, is to signup to join Terry’s free email newsletter mailing to tap from some of his experience based wisdom.
What are the things he feels matter the most for Internet Marketing success achievement?
What does he think you should focus your time and energy on?
How does he do his own marketing?
What does he think about many of the wonderful promises being made by a lot of Internet Marketing coaches?
Does he make use of Social Media marketing, and how much does he depend on – or recommend it – for achievement of Internet Marketing success.
Why does he NOT like being called a “Guru”?
You’ll be surprised by what you learn. And you’ll be the wiser for it, I assure you.
I say this based on smart insights I’ve gained from reading and adapting ideas from this man.
Click here to learn more about Terry Dean.
Good luck!
Build & Sell Your Own Excel Software: FREE Workshop Introduction to Excel-VB Automation [For ICAN/ATS Tuition Centres and Other Business Users] – Tayo Solagbade’s Excel Heaven Visual Basic Club
Last Wednesday (25th May 2016), I had a 1 hour meeting with the CEO and other team members of an ICAN/ATS tuition centre in Ojodu-Lagos, and they indicated interest in having me facilitate 2 runs of my workshop for their students.
The title is to be: Build & Sell Your Own Excel Software [Introduction to Excel-VB Automation]
They asked about the fees and I explained that the centre simply needs to pay the $65 USD annual membership fee and that will entitle all students enrolled with them to access my online tutorials and workshops FREE (but once a student is no longer enrolled in the centre s/he will not be allowed access and wiil have to join the club by making payment independently, if s/he wishes to continue).
This afternoon I sent them the PDF invoice, since the CEO had told me they would like it to hold in the first 2 or 3 weekends in June.
If/when they pay the club membership, I’ll send invitations to all my existing club members, to attend, if they’re interested.
But you don’t have to be an accountant or a student in an ICAN/ATS Tuition Centre to access my ExcelVB club or workshop
Of course you don’t. And that’s why I’m writing this blog announcement.
The truth is every serious minded user of MS Excel who wishes to maximise his/her productivity NEEDS to learn how to use ExcelVB programming to automate most of what s/he does in MS Excel.
Now, there’s a wrong mindset many business users seem to adopt when they hear me say “MS Excel Programming”.
Quite often they conclude they will need some kind of serious formal IT certification level training as a prerequsite for automating their work in MS Excel.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
You see VIsual Basic for Application is a programming language developed mainly for use by USERS who want to intelligently use automation to boost their output to the next level of productivity.
In essence ExcelVB is a coding language you and I (I.e ANY motivated user) can learn to use to get Excel to do what we want and how we want it.
As with most other things in life, ExcelVB programming cannot be mastered overnight.
But it is fairly intuitive, and with diligent persistence any user can develop proficiency in it, to extent that s/he can build and sell branded, robust custom software for clients at various levels.
How can I be so sure?
Well that’s because I’ve been building commercial quality spreadsheet software for over 2 decades for business users in various fields, and industries.
I did it for over 5 of the 7 years I worked in Guinness Nigeria, where at a point I learned through the corporate grapevine that I was being called “Super Brewer” by colleagues.
This was probably due to the fact that they knew:
1. the apps I developed were formally adopted for brewery level reporting, having replaced manual reporting systems in the departments I worked.
2. I did all that work in my spare time, when I was off duty from shifts or after close of work (after I got promoted to 9 to 5 senior positions)
3. I did not have any IT training or background in programming or software development. All I hold till this day is a 2nd Class Upper Division Honours B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services
As you can see from the above, I began just like any other person who knew nothing about IT, but had a data handling and report generating PROBLEM that badly needed solving!
If I could develop myself through self-study to the point that I now sell my apps to international buyers, then so can you.
And that’s why I launched my ExcelVB club and offer membership to you, including free weekly tutorials (downloadable videos/PDFs) and monthly LIVE workshops.
Interested? Click here to send me a message?
If you run a tuition centre, do your students a favour and signup your centre so they can all get FREE access.
Indeed you will be able to attract more student enrollments by informing them that they’ll gain FREE access to the club tutorial through your centre!
Call me on +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136 for details.
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Become a SUPER Accountant, Engineer, Marketer, Insurance Broker or Spreadsheet Business User: FREE Workshop Introduction to Excel-VB Automation – Tayo Solagbade’s Excel Heaven Visual Basic Club
Do you routinely use MS Excel spreadsheets to get your work done, but sometimes wish you could do so FASTER, with LESS effort and in LESS time?
If YES, what I have tell you below has to do with an opportunity that can change your life forever – and I mean that literally!
Over the past 13 years, I have worked closely with seasoned Chartered Accountants/Auditors especially and in some cases Quantity Surveyors, to develop applications for their companies using MS Excel.
What I noticed was that many of these professionals were good with MS Excel, but they lacked my ability to program Excel
I believe that by helping these kinds of professionals learn to program MS Excel for their purposes, they will spawn a new brred of skilled professionals that will expand the market I have created for spreadsheet solutions out here.
Are you an Accountant/Auditor, Engineer/Quantity Surveyor, Marketer or Insurance Broker, who uses MS Excel spreadsheets for routine data handling and report generation?
Or let me ask: Does your work require you to carry out elaborate data collection and analysis for formal report generation purposes.
Do you routinely use MS Excel spreadsheets to get your work done, but sometimes wish you could do so FASTER, with LESS effort and in LESS time?
Your spreadsheet needs to be laid out according to certain rules, to make preparation of reports and subsequent automation effective and efficient. There are so many powerful ways to setup/use spreadsheets to make your work easier – even without VBA code driven automation.
If you belong to any of the groups I have described above, you are very likely to be at least an average or intermediate level user of MS Excel.
Indeed it is possible you are widely considered an “expert” by those you work or relate with, because very often, you solve other people’s problems using your spreadsheet skills.
That’s why my offer of personal, confidential coaching in MS Excel Automation using Visual Basic is likely to be a NATURAL progression to the NEXT HIGHER level of competence that will appeal to you.
Believe me when I tell you that what I can TEACH you to do with MS Excel is nothing like anything you may have done in the area of using MS Excel, or indeed in automating it.
GET STARTED: Fill and submit this form on my website to request details of how to get started
Remember that acquiring this new competence can effectively help you earn more recognition, respect and INCOME from others.
With my help that seeming dream become a reailty for you, IF you let me help you.
Fill and submit this form (click now) on my website to request details of how to get started.
Call me on +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136 for details.
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2. Visit the page below to watch a video introduction to my ExcelVB club
Protected: One Danger of Using Shortcut Keys for Your Excel-VB Macros, and How to Guard Against It [Coding Tip for Tayo Solagbade’s Excel VB Automation Club Members]
RECOMMENDED: The Third Most Important Skill in Business (Part 2) – Presentation is Extremely Important [Strive Masiyawa’s Latest World Class “Business School Quality” Lesson]
I still do NOT understand why this wonderful man’s Facebook powered teachings, superior to what business schools offer in terms of real world relevance, are not SYNDICATED by media houses across Africa.
Strive Masiyawa dishes out weekly world class entrepreneurship wisdom to African entrepreneurs, and those aspiring, at zero cost – yet I cannot remember ever seeing or hearing him get quoted.
This man is a real life Digital Entrepreneurship International Success Story made 100% in Africa, yet most Africans I mention his name to do NOT recognize it(or so they say).
But mention Bill Gates and Richard Branson (both of who KNOW Masiyawa) and the same Africans will readily tell you who they are and what they do:
What is it with us Africans, that makes most of us so unwilling/unable to acknowledge promote our own to the rest of the world?!
Whatever it is, I refuse to let it hold ME back from doing what the spirit of the Creator within me has ALWAYS guided me to do.
Even if a person does not know me, for what I do, if I see that telling others about him/her will result in useful benefits, I will do it, as often as necessary, without needing anything from him/her.
It is with the above mindset that I share the following preview and link to Strive Masiyawa’s latest “World Class “Business School Quality” Lesson:
Title: “The third most important skill in business (Part 2).
__Presentation is extremely important.”
In July 1997 I learned about a public tender for a GSM cellular license taking place in the southern African country of Botswana. I decided that we must submit a bid, even though I knew the competition would be fierce.
Having purchased the bid documents, I sat down with my team and carefully went through each page, line by line. We must have spent three days, working over 20 hours a day, reviewing this document which was not more than 50 pages long.
Continue reading:
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Why Schools Need to Teach Emotional Intelligence [Hint: Your Success In Life – Academic Ability Matters LESS Than Your Emotional Intelligence]
Do you want to excel at what you do in life? If YES, it might interest you to know that your academic prowess and credentials pale in significance when compared to the Emotional Intelligence you possess.
I recently read <a href=”http://www.success.com/article/why-you-need-emotional-intelligence-to-succeed”>Why You Need Emotional Intelligence to Succeed</a> (click to read) by Travis Bradberry on Success.com, and the contents resonated greatly with me based on my own knowledge and experiences on the subject over the past decade.
In this article I share some tips based on my study and application of this concept, since my mother gave me a copy of Daniel Goleman’s groundbreaking bestseller omn the subject as a birthday gift in 2005.
1. EI is not set at birth (unlike academic intelligence’s IQ), and as such can be improved via conscious effort.
In other words, EI can be taught and learned – but mostly, in my experience, by doing – not in the classroom.
2. EI has several dimensions, and people who demonstrate the greatest degree of EI are often those able to achieve mastery in majority of those dimensions.
I discuss two of those dimensions that I consider most critical in the rest of this article.
<h3>A. Delayed gratification</h3>
The ability tp put off or delay satisfying certain secondary needs in order to dedicate one’s time, efforts and resources to achieve a valued goal(s) is often a pointer to a person’s degree of EI.
A survey done of a group of kids in school required them to choose between getting a gift instantl for carrying out an assigned task, and waiting several weeks to get a bigger but unspecified reward.
Most of the kids chose to “cash in” immediately. Years later when all the kids had left school, and become working adults, the researcher found that those who had chosen to wait longer to get rewarded were doing siginificantly better in life than those who had not.
Historical evidence confirms the accuracy of the above findings, as we often hear successful people recount how they had to deny themselves certain pleasures and also sacrifice many wants and needs, until they reached their goals.
<h3>B. Persistence</h3>
The ability to commit oneself to long term pursuit of a valued goal in the face of discouragement and deprivation is another strong indicator of a person’s degree of EI.
I happen to believe too many people that many people lack this particular quality, and most who do often also lack the earlier mentioned ability to delay gratification.
In other words, they are inter related.
The ability to persist involves carrying on with the chosen task(s) in pursuit of one’s set goal(s), regardless of the difficulties one may encounter in doing so.
<b>What I find often happens with most people is that they assume – often unconsciously – that they have a say in how long they will need to persist before they succeed. </b>
Most will not admit it when asked, but they betray the fact that they think so in the way they react to prolonged adversity.
<b>The truth is that it is NOT up to any of us to decide how long it should take, or how hard or difficult it will be to arrive at success.</b>
There are universal laws guiding achievement and they are applied impartially, but in consonance with the abilities/capacity of each person. As a result no one ever gets tested beyond his/her inborn ability to cope with the challenge visited on him/her.
<i>Therefore if you find yourself confronted with adversity in any form, no matter how intimidating, KNOW that the Creator allowed it to reach you because He KNOWS that He has put in you what it takes to beat it.</i>
Be inspired by that knowledge – and take action based on it to defeat any adversity that comes your way.
<h3>Anyone can LEARN to develop and use these abiliities, on his/her own, or with the help of a competent other e.g teacher, coach or mentor.</h3>
What’s more, the learning can happen at any age, and during any phase of life.
The implication therefore is that a child can be helped to develop these abilities (and others making up EI) so that s/he arrives adulthood adequately equipped to deal with the inevitable facets of adversity s/he will pass through, such as delays, disappointments, setback and outright failures (aka temporary defeat).
Daniel Goleman in his book “Emotional Imtelligence” recommended that educational institiutions incorporate teachings desinged to inculcate the various dimensions of this meta ability into learners, so they can enter the real world better rounded, and more capable of succeeding in life an any area of endeavour they choose to venture.
I agree 100%
<h3>The 2 abilities discussed above have helped many otherwise ordinary, relatively ungifted persons achieve truly extraordinary feats in various areas of endeavour. </h3>
<I>So many unschooled or poorly schooled persons have climbed to unprecedented heights of achievement by making use of them.</i>
Well known examples include Thomas Alva Edison and Henry Ford.
But if you look around in your own society I’m sure you will find more familiar examples. In my country Nigeria for example, the case of Shina Peters the Afro Juju music maestro comes to mind.
At age 8 he quit school and followed his passion for playing music by working as a house boy for Chief Ebenezer Obey – among other difficult roles, just to achieve his dream.
Today he is recognized as the inventor of his own genre of music and posesses wealth that enables him provide gainful employment to many who are much better schooied than he is!
Many other examples abound. Any persons who take the pains to learn and appy EI in their daily lives will end up as role models or examples for others to emulate or refer to.
<h3>Related Articles</h3>
1. <a href=”http://ezinearticles.com/?What-Being-Emotionally-Intelligent-Does-Not-Mean&id=864816″>What Being Emotionally Intelligent Does Not Mean</a>
2. <a href=”http://excelheaven.tayosolagbade.com/?p=269″>Become A Habitual Peak Performer – Learn How To Get Into Flow …</a>
3. <a href=”http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/are-you-a-social-chameleon-read-this-to-find-out/”>Are You A Social Chameleon? (Read This To Find Out </a>
PII 013: Sometimes When Your World Feels Like it’s Falling Apart, It May Actually be Evolving to a New Level of Success [Hint: Why Burning One’s Bridges Works Better In Pursuit of Success]
Recently, I read a write-up by a coach advising against taking risks in starting a business, without having a safety net in place first.
He argued that it would be wiser to hold on to some safety net (like a job) until your new venture takes off fully and you’re certain it will stay up, giving examples of well known individuals, who in his assessment made use of such safety nets to secure their successes.
Now, I do not disagree that it pays to take precautions and setup plans to fall back on in case things go south in the venture you embark on.
That’s just common sense!
What I simply did not agree with was the manner he presented the idea of following one’s dream by burning one’s bridges.
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PII 013: Sometimes When Your World Feels Like it’s Falling Apart, It May Actually be Evolving to a New Level of Success [Hint: Why Burning One’s Bridges Works Better In Pursuit of Success]
Recently, I read a write-up by a coach advising against taking risks in starting a business, without having a safety net in place first.
He argued that it would be wiser to hold on to some safety net (like a job) until your new venture takes off fully and you’re certain it will stay up, giving examples of well known individuals, who in his assessment made use of such safety nets to secure their successes.
Now, I do not disagree that it pays to take precautions and setup plans to fall back on in case things go south in the venture you embark on.
That’s just common sense!
What I simply did not agree with was the manner he presented the idea of following one’s dream by burning one’s bridges.
He made it look like there was often more to be lost than one could ever hope to gain.
It is however my considered opinion that nothing could be further from the truth. I say this from 14 solid years of building a business from scratch, while struggling BADLY to support my wife and kids – after burning all my bridges to achieve the growing success I enjoy today.
I argue below, that that those who go for their dreams without assurance of a safety net, often emerge better rounded and more competent, than those who lean on safety nets to get to the top.
This is because they get forced to dig deeper than others who operate in the secure knowledge that they have a safety net to fall back on. As a result, they end up having more staying power to remain at the top for the long term. In contrast, persons who use safety nets tend to lack the “steely” quality needed to deal with and overcome inevitable setbacks – hence they tend to stay small and play safe.
History attests the veracity of the above statement. Those who had to pursue success under swim-or-sink circumstances are the ones noted for exceptional accomplishments that most others find hard to imagine themselves doing.
I happen to have met and worked closely with people belonging to both groups. Guess what? Those who get there without safety nets often have better quality advice to share!
Exposure to suffering happens in degrees, and the ability of each person to persist in pursuit of his/her goals despite the suffering, ultimately determines how successful s/he becomes.
This is why we have entrepreneurs who are able to bounce back to higher levels of success no matter how many times they encounter setbacks or failure. Those who muster the courage to go after what they want even when they have nothing to fall back on are often those who develop such resilience.
Not just that, they are also often those who help society to take badly needed quantum leaps in terms of development or advancement, using the solutions they discover in the process of battling to find ways to escape the prolonged suffering they find themselves confronted with.
Take it from me as one who has been there many times.
If I had had anything to fall back on during a major part of the past 14 years of building my brand as a provider of custom Excel-VB software in a market that it did not previously exist, I would NEVER have gained the insights I used at this stage where I get buyers from different part of the world PERSISTING in reaching out to me.
The thousands of lonely hours I spent thinking (and thinking and thinking!) of how to build Excel apps that people would buy, and how to do my marketing to the right people with as little money as possible, are what led me to develop apps that today earn me income from within and outside Africa.
Is it possible for a soldier to go through training in the military academy without being made to face and learn to deal with pain, hardship, deprivation and even some form of suffering?
How would such a soldier fare in the battle field over weeks and months as happens during real time war?
What about an athlete who wants to win a medal at the Olympics?
Will taking it easy when s/he feels the pain is getting too much really get him/her to the point where s/he can really stand a chance of winning?
The answers to the above are obvious!
“Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit”
Napoleon Hill made the above statement in his book, noting that it is often up to the person undergoing the adversity to search for, find and take possession of that benefit.
Let me tell you this dear reader. I do not know how you came to discover this website or how long you’ve been reading my stuff, but what you see here is a product of YEARS of undiluted and unwavering persistence in the face of great suffering and major deprivation.
Like I said in a past article, even though I now enjoy growing success and recognition for what I do today, I continue to work on my brand as if nothing has changed.
I still write original articles virtually everyday on this blog – and that is despite doing same for clients who have hired me too ghostwrite for them.
Not just that, I have several groups of clients that I write and publish learning resources for every week.
On top of that, I provide one on one coaching as I travel, while responding to buyer requests for product information,; and providing support to users of my software.
So many times in my journey to success, while doing the above, I repeatedly experienced peaks and troughs i.e. progress and setbacks.
Quite often when the latter happened it felt like my entire world was falling apart. In the early stages I wanted to run into hiding from the resulting embarrassment.
But because I had no safety nets, there was never any place to run to, so I was forced every single time to confront my demons (figuratively speaking) and exorcise them.
Click here to read a PDF in which I shared examples of several painful experiences I had during those years of struggle. It was so bad I began to call myself the Bambiala of the Solagbade family.
The result of all that suffering, and my relentless persistence in refusing to give up, was that I developed new and better skills, got more competent, while learning to weather the storms of adversity whenever they occurred.
Today, I tell people all the time that it is virtually impossible for anyone to know if I have a problem, no matter how bad it is, if I do not tell them. That is how much control I have over myself.
The best part is that my exceptional proficiency now makes me get valued virtually everywhere I go, in a way that continues to help me make more money – AND SAVE lots of it too.
True Story: An example of the latter benefit i.e. saving money
Over the past 3 weeks I have been using the Internet here in Cotonou, in a cyber café whose owner was so impressed with my knowledge and skills in Web Marketing that he’s given me an unlimited 24 hour Internet browsing account, as part payment for my Web Marketing coaching.
Considering the fact that I spend over 10 to 18 hours per day most days in cyber cafes here at about 0.5 US dollars per hour, the savings I’m making are quite hefty!
Another True Story (Coming soon):
In a few months from now, I will share details of a true story of something that happened to me about 4 weeks ago, that should have ruined me completely, but which I have used as a stepping stone to open multiple doors of new opportunities in my business that I never even thought possible.
Up till now, I have told very few people, and even fewer know the full extent of the devastation visited upon me i:e I’ve deliberately not told “everything” to everyone.
So just stay tuned and I assure you that you WILL be inspired!
There were many times when I was making little or no sales, and frequently had to go borrowing to meet basic needs in providing for my family.
Yet that psychological situation challenged me to look deeper at what I was doing and how I was doing it, until I discovered unique insights to progress towards my goal.
Today, clients and other persons who encounter me often ask me how I got to be so proficient at many things I do, and I readily tell them it was my exposure to prolonged suffering in which I had no means of escape, that forced me to develop that level or rare competence.
The best part is that I have gotten so good at doing it all; and NOT failing to meet any client deadlines to satisfaction, while still creating quality time to give Best Practice Parenting for Personal Success Achievement to my kids.
Most recently, they began producing their own range of home baked cookies, chin-chin, bread and African Pizza, using our trademark no-oven charcoal stove baking system. Check out their Facebook page here.
I mention the above not to brag, but to illustrate how the lack of safety net I had to endure helped to mould me into a much more productive person than I could ever have become, if I had NOT followed that path.
So here’s a tip: When you know in your mind that you have something you can go back to if what you’re about to start fails, THAT awareness becomes your inevitable psychological Achilles heel. Once you get to a point in your venture or journey where you feel you can’t go on, the seductive thought of retreating to the comfort of your safety net will find a way to the surface.
And that will weaken your resolve to continue, keeping you from staying hungry enough to continue pushing to succeed. Just like it happens when one exercises the muscles, if you stop when you start feeling pain, you end up with no gain in muscle mass. Hence the popular saying: No pain, no gain.
“I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.” ― Muhammad Ali
It goes without saying that not everyone will be willing to go this zero safety net route, however I will point out that every single human being has within him/her the capability to do so. S/he only needs to be willing to do it.
But if you really want to achieve exceptional success, that will make you stand out in any area of endeavour, this route is likely your best bet.
Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich explains how to go about doing it.
NB: Bear in mind that some of the world’s most accomplished achievers attribute their success to following the advice contained in this little book!
Here are some excerpts you will find instructive…
Burn all your bridges behind you!
Stake your entire future on your ability to get what you want:
Leave yourself no possible way of retreat:
Cut all sources of retreat:
You have to win or perish:
Get a copy of this wonderful book, and read it as many times as it will take you to internalize all the wisdom it offers. That’s exactly what I did, and I’m better off for it!
The quotes below further underscore the importance of the points I’ve made in this piece:
“…we rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.” (Romans 5:3,4, NIV)
“The strongest steel is forged in the hottest fire. The strongest character is molded in the most difficult circumstances. Most of God’s greatest leaders endured long periods of suffering as they were shaped and honed for the work ahead. When the pressure mounts and the heat rises, keep your eyes on the prize. When the molding process is over, you may find that you can do more than you ever thought possible…and that God can do more with you than He has ever done before. “ ~ Mark Phillips
Final Words: I honestly believe some people who should not be coaching others are finding ways to get certified to do just that today.
Technology, especially mobile/PC and Internet technology, have made the business of training and accrediting coaches more and more a matter of dishing out electronic content; with minimal attention being paid to the personal attributes and experiences the prospective coaches possess.
The result is that we have some people offering coaching advice and counseling based on what is at best a shallow foundation of real world relevant insights and wisdom. Indeed, some coaches today betray their own lack of depth and self-belief through advice they give.
Ultimately, the best coaches will often be those who have qualitative life experiences and real world relevant research based knowledge and insights to share.
Unfortunately, in today’s digital world, it can be hard to tell such coaches apart (especially for the prospective coaches) from others!
I do not mean to cast aspersion on anyone, but the truth is that many of those guilty of what I’m saying here are unknowingly doing damage to those who trust them enough to learn from them.
New posts from last week*
Monday:
[Tuesday]:
[Wednesday]:
[Thursday]:
[Friday]:
Advertise Your Products and Services on Tayo Solagbade’s Buyers-Meet-Sellers Platform for Agro based businesses – and others!
[Saturday]:
Succeed More by Using the Web Creatively [Features True Story]
[Sunday]:
To Succeed in Spreadsheet Programming You Need Sound Understanding [Hint: Do You Know Where New Excel-VB Macros Are Stored?]
THE FARM CEO (Issue 46 – Exclusive Offer): Send in Your FREE Advert details for LIFETIME publishing on my Buyers-Meet-Sellers Platform for Farm Businesses & Others!
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Tayo K. Solagbade* Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist *Creator of the Mastering Adversity for Perpetual Success Achievement Coaching Program 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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Succeed More by Using the Web Creatively [Features True Story]
I posted a blog yesterday, featuring 3 adverts I have published on my buyers-meet-sellers platform using a plugin I found that does exactly what I want.
Like I explained in that post, the FREE advertising opportunity is for my paid clients who I have a vision to support in as many zero to low cost ways as I can.
Why?
Because my philosophy in business and in life has always been to continually find ways to make others better off from having contact with me. The Science of Getting Rich philosophy that I subscribe to advocates adoption of that philsophy, if one is to achieve authentic long lasting success in life.
The quote below captures the above sentiments perfectly:
“I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.” – Alan Greenspan
What follows below are verbatim excerpts of an response I wrote to an enquiry sent to me by a Nigerian gentlman who happened to see the adverts I posted on behalf of my clients.
As shown in the screenshot below, he wrote in as follows:
Good Morning Sir,
I am interested in the UPIB law program. Is this in English? Can I please have your phone number?
To be honest, I must admit that I was not expecting anyone to indicate interest in any of the adverts so quickly – at least not within 24 hours! So when I saw the enquiry I was not quite sure how to handle it, since I hadn’t even spoken with the client about what I’d done!
Long story short, I called up the client and told him about the enquiry, then asked his permission to give his mobile phone number to the enquirer.
See the text below for the details.
I share this post to prove that it pays to use the web in creative ways to attract potential buyers. I do it for myself and get great results continually. Same happens when I do it for clients as well – as shown in this example!
Hi Ola(name partially removed for provacy),
Thanks for your message.
Regarding the Law program, YES it is in English. Incidentally there have been updates posted by the course coordinator himself about the Law Week recently on Facebook.
For example this one: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1766500850236417&id=100006295578233
In order to give you a proper response, I first had to speak with Barrister (Dr.) Nana ARNOLD this morning, that you’re requesting details of the Law program, which he coordinates for the university as Head of Department.
He has given his consent for me to send you his mobile phone number: (removed for privacy)
You can also send him a message via his contact page on the website at:
http://upib-eng.com/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/contact-component/single-contact
(See attached: I’ve taken a further step to send you a photo of his complimentary card that I have in my possession, if that would be of use)
By way of interest, the university – UPIB – is a client for whom I built and have hosted the website at www.upib-eng.com since 2014.
As part of my best practice vision, ALL my clients get to feature ONE free ad on my site – hence the one you saw, alongside those for 2 farm CEO clients in Nigeria.
Dr. Arnold Nana Kouayep (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006295578233&fref=ts)is the Founding Director of Administration and Admission for UPIB, who also happens to be a personal friend, with a private consulting firm I’ve developed various solutions for (see www.nanaarnold.com and www.globalkonsultgroup.com)
Hope this helps.
Let me know if you have any questions or require clarification. My mobile numbers here in Benin as well as Nigeria are listed in my signature below.
I hope the above story or case study excites you enough to consider investing in using the web to promote your business.
No matter what kind of business you are in, or where you are based, a well developed Web Marketing System can give help you cut your marketing costs, while generating more sales leads for you at very low to zero cost.
I LIVE this stuff – and my experiences/studies over the past decade tell me it will work for ANY business model in ANY market, if you know how to use it.
If you need help doing it, let me know!
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How Studying a Great African Achiever is Leading Me to Self-Actualization
“Va vers les gens, vit avec eux. Apprend d’eux. Aime-les. Commence avec ce qu’ils connaissent. Planifie avec eux. Construit sur ce qu’ils ont. Enseigne en montrant. Apprend en pratiquant. Ne te conforme pas, mais transforme. Ne soulage pas mais libère. Et quand avec les meilleurs leaders, le travail est fait, la tâche accomplie, les gens diront nous l’avons fait nous-mêmes”. Lao Tsu, Fondateur de la philosophie Tao, 600 av J.C.
English Translation:
“Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say ‘We have done this ourselves.” – Lao Tzu, founder of the Tao philosophy, 600 B.C
I discovered the above wise quote through reading a publication by a great African man here in Benin Republic, whose works have inspired me since I read about an award he received way back in 1987.
That was during my first undergraduate year as a student of Agricultural Extension Services in Nigeria’s University Of Ibadan.
I was 17 years old at the time. In another 2 months from today I will clock 46.
How time has flown – almost 30 years have passed – yet this man has continued to be a leading light and inspiration to many across the world, for his works.
I constantly drew inspiration from following his progress, and often visualised myself doing something similar in my chosen area of interest.
Over the past 10 years I’ve taken concrete steps closer to achieving my dream. And I resolved that I would find a way to meet and thank him for doing what he’s been doing.
Relocating to Benin Republic in 2013 made the possibility of that happening just a matter of time.
And now it has…
About 2 weeks ago I met and spoke with him for the first time ever. The next day I ran into him again and we had a short exchange.
In between those 2 meetings I had a good opportunity to observe him from a distance as he moved around and interacted with the people. It was obvious, to me, that there was deliberate purpose in his actipns and utterances.
Later that day I got handed a document published by his organization in which I read the quote reproduced above, and had my inner eyes opened to the secret of his success.
Click here to read the page on his organisation’s website, where the quote is reproduced.
Click below to view a page with the english version of the quote, along with several other quotes by the same Chinese philosopher.
This man does not know it, but he’s been mentoring me remotely as I followed his progress, over the past 2 and a half decades.
As soon as I read this quote, I instantly knew it was what I needed to adopt to achieve the new plans I’ve been working on.
Before now, I periodically sensed a need to do what it advised but resisted the impulse each time mainly because I was not sure how to proceed.
Luckily for me, this great man chose not to be miserly in sharing the sources of his own inspiration. As a result, the rest of us benefit.
How I wish there was a way I could add value to him the way he has done to me and many thousand others who continue to benefit from the enduring solutions provided by his organisation.
For now, one way I know I can thank him is by succeeding in using this quote’s wisdom to implement my own evolving plans to start a centre that help others with solutions I offer.
PS: By the way, in case you’ve not discovered it yet, from clicking the above mentioned link to his website, this man that I have spoken so highly of in this article, is Father Godfrey Nzamujo – the Founder of the world renowned Songhai Integrated Farming centre, headquarted here in Benin Republic’s Porto Novo. He makes me proud to be African!