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Become A Habitual Peak Performer – Learn How To Get Into Flow Or – The Zone More Frequently

December 23, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

[This article was first published online on March 08, 2007 – on spontaneousdevelopment.com (now defunct) and Ezinearticles.com]

This Is NOT An Expert Paper On Getting Into “Flow”.

It is not a technical article on the psychology of sports and how the brain functions when a person is engaged in competition. I am not a zone coach or psychologist, neither do I pretend to have conducted any experiments or studies on people who have exhibited the traits of persons who could be said to have been in “flow” at any point in time.

What I aim to do in this article is to share my considerable experience in delivering exceptional performances in virtually every area of endeavour I have chosen to apply diligent and committed effort. Most of my achievements have been made possible by my self-taught ability to almost willfully get myself into “Flow”(an unconscious state of mind that facilitates seemingly effortless achievement of optimal learning and/or performance) whenever I felt the need to do so, in order to achieve a set goal(s).

Because I have experienced what it feels like to get into “Flow” or “The Zone” on many occasions(and I provide graphic details of some of those instances in this article), I am able to share THAT experience with the reader, and explain how s/he can achieve the same result, frequently and repeatedly, if s/he so desires.

As I have stated earlier, I make no claims to being an authority on getting into “Flow” or “The Zone”. However going by my personal experiences(which I need NO PhD degree qualifications to write or speak about), I strongly believe different individuals will find need to develop different levels of proficiency in their ability to get into AND STAY – for as long as may be necessary/desired – in “The Zone”. Improvement in mastery of this skill will depend on how well each person applies him/herself.

The challenge is therefore for you to use the ideas offered in this write up to build up YOUR OWN ability to get into – and stay in – “The Zone” in a way that enables you meet YOUR needs to achieve.

What Exactly Does It Mean To Get Into “Flow” Or “The Zone”?(My Handball Semi-Final Match Case Study)

Before I make references to what others have said, I will describe this experience in my own words by narrating what happened to me during the 1992 finals of the University Of Ibadan’s Inter-Halls Handball Competition. That year, I was captain of both the university team and the Independence Hall team. The latter had qualified – for the first time in their history – for the semi-finals of the inter-halls competition, and we were up against Nnamdi Azikiwe Hall, our arch rivals.

The match commenced around 1.00pm when the sun was overhead and the heat was scorching. It was a very intense and closely fought battle. As one side scored a goal the other side replied almost immediately on the next attack. At half time my team led, by a single point. Although I had scored a number of goals en route to the finals, that first half had not witnessed a single goal by me.

However, because we had anticipated that some of our key players would be marked out by the opposition, our team had worked out an alternative plan that made it possible to create scoring chances for other players. This worked well, and we stayed ahead – but only just!

At a point, all I could think of was the single point lead on the score board and the voice in my head screaming that we needed to score another goal to avoid a tie. Each time I turned to receive or make a pass, I found I did not really see faces clearly. I saw the jersey colors and numbers, but the detailed features of each person seemed to be something of a blur…faded. Yet I could still tell my team mates from the opposition at any point in time.

Suddenly, for no obvious reason, the guy marking me out let me get COMPLETELY past him(for the first time since the match began) as a pass came to me from the left. In that split second, as I caught the ball, I saw a little space between the left foot of the goal keeper and the bottom left of the goal post. On reflex, I threw a hip shot with my right hand, and watched almost as if on TV, the ball fly into into the keeper’s far left corner of the goal post. All this while I had stopped hearing most of the noise from the spectators who had completely surrounded the handball court and were cheering wildly.

Then I felt someone grab me, screaming delightedly, while another team mate patted me on the back. I looked to the sidelines and saw the University team coach – Mr. Nwosu – raise his hands in the air shouting ‘Iyo”(a slang in my language Yoruba, meaning “Super!” even though – ironically – he was Ibo). That was when it clicked – at least enough for me to manage to raise my right hand in the air and jog back to the nine metre line of my team’s half. I realised I had scored a good goal, but I could not explain how – it had been done on instinct, and I could not even recall “thinking about doing” or “planning” it.

Not long after, the referee blew the final whistle, and we won. That year, someone using the pen name “Dancing Pen” wrote an article on me (which I still have a copy of in my files) which was pasted on the notice board in the hall titled “Tayo Solagbade – Steroid Man”*, in which the writer described the goal I scored as (to use his exact words): “the Fastest, Most Spectacular and Shocking Goal”. He also quoted the University coach as having said “Indy (i.e. Independence Hall), played the match of their lives, and Tayo was at his best”.

*(“Steroid Man” was a nickname given to me by colleagues in the University team, because I never seemed to get tired in a match, even when we were losing badly).

How Does This Relate To Getting Into Flow/The Zone?

Well the truth is every time I got on to the handball court, I made a point of forgetting EVERYTHING else. For those who took note, minutes to the start of the match, I would become a bit pensive, and withdrawn. During this period, I tended to re-run in my mind specific moves I had practiced during the training sessions leading up to the match, which I hoped to use. Even as I exchanged greetings with other players, I would keep my mind firmly fixed on this mental pre-match “ritual”.

Evidence that my achievements were recognised would come at the end of my final year in the University when I received merit awards from the university Sports Council and the Independence hall – in addition to graduating top of my class in my department. Not many active sports persons in the institution got to have the best of both worlds the way I did – and THAT was what caught the attention of the institution’s sports administrators. Looking back I realise that my “intense focus” enabled me get into “flow”(though I did not know the word/concept then) quite frequently while pursuing both my academic and sporting interests on campus, so that I achieve the “balanced” success I eventually recorded.

Peak Performing As An Entrepreneur

Today, I build spreadsheet software and websites(among others) for a living – activities which require PC/Internet access AND electricity. Unfortunately, in order to make tangible profits, I have to DAILY explore ways to COST-EFFECTIVELY progress paying clients’ projects IN SPITE OF extremely erratic power supply from my country’s power generation company. Sometimes I do not have light for more than four(4) hours in a day – and even that iS often a case of ON…then OFF…then ON again, and not a continuous stretch.(FACT)

Despite these challenges, my client profiles have risen, and my fees quadrupled since the start of the new year! This has happened because I successfully transferred my ability to “peak-perform” by getting into flow, from my past life in school, sports, and paid employment into my present life as an entrepreneur. It did not happen overnight(took quite some practice/persistence because I had to LEARN all over again till I began to master my NEW vocation), but then nothing that has sustainable value ever does.

Getting Into “Flow/The Zone” Is NOT About Being(Or Becoming) Absent Minded!

In the process of pushing myself to achieve peak performance, I sometimes found myself being accused – especially by those I lived with(my wife being number one) of being absent minded – or even uncaring. Over time they however came to discover that it was not deliberate.

Being in “flow” is about getting into a state of mind that enhances your ability to perform at your best…your peak. Not everyone knows – or cares to call it – “flow” or “The Zone”. But many who have seen someone under its influence (or experienced it) often mention the same “signs” when describing it. I once read that William H. Carrier(inventor of the Air Conditioner) was said to have been “absent minded” to the point that he once boarded a train and completely forgot his destination, while thinking about a solution to a problem! THAT is the “intensity” of focus or concentration on a SPECIFIC activity that can get ANYONE into “flow”. No wonder James Cook referred to Carrier as belonging to the elite group of “Super Entrepreneurs”.

Thomas Edison was also reputed to have been rather “forgetful”. What I think many “critics” of these people failed to note however is the fact that these men – and others like them – were seldom, if at all EVER forgetful about their favoured vocations or interests! I am not aware for instance that Edison at any point in his life was unable to answer questions posed to him regarding his work because he “forgot”. Instead it was the daily routine stuff that had little to do with the work he had a passion for, that he “chose to forget”.

Many achievement-oriented people who feel the need to be at their productive best even do something that I like to call “Deliberate Forgetting“. In fact I recall reading about a teenage girl who became an excellent violinist saying that she achieved her proficiency through what she called ‘Planned Neglect”. She explained this term by saying that each day she would put off cleaning her room (or other chores) UNTIL she had put in what she considered ENOUGH practice into playing the violin.

Before adopting this approach she had been unable to find enough time/energy to practice, and as a result was not making the progress she wanted. This happened because she often started each day doing her various chores, using up a lot of energy/time. By the time she eventually began practice there would not be much time left – and she would tire easily from all the previous exertion. So she decided some things had to enjoy less of her attention in order for her to FOCUS on those things or THAT ONE thing she most desired to do – and do WELL.

Getting Into “Flow” During Intellectual Activity Results In “Mental Ecstasy”

When you get into flow while doing something intellectual(e.g. writing), from my experience what you feel is what I believe can be called “Mental Ecstasy”. You would feel “great pleasure” every time you are able to achieve that state of mind – even though the activity you are engaged in might require great effort or skill that would task other persons to the limits of their abilities! And that’s why it can get a bit addictive, leading to a person acting seemingly “uncaring” or “distant”.

To a considerable extent, getting into and STAYING in “Flow” requires that your mental attitude be almost the exact opposite of that required to be a caring, thoughtful and responsive partner to a mate or parent to a child etc. In my opinion however if a person can take the pains to learn how to control the process of deliberately going in and out of flow, s/he would live a more successful life.

You need to be able to strike a balance – delicate it might be, between being in flow and being human. Else what could happen is you end your sojourn on earth as having been one of the most exceptional performers in your chosen vocation in the history of mankind, but with the reputation of having been incapable of keeping a relationship or family together.

Daniel Goleman in his book on “Emotional Intelligence” explained that improving your ability to enter into flow is to become more emotionally intelligent. According to him getting into flow is the ultimate means of making use of one’s emotions in the pursuit of performance and learning. To put it simply, a person who KNOWS how to get him or herself into “Flow” or “The Zone” deliberately and repeatedly as the need arises demonstrates a high level of Emotional Intelligence. This is because being able to do so requires a level of self-mastery that is seldom achievable without the ability to harness one’s emotions effectively.

As is common knowledge today, your Emotional Intelligence and NOT your academic intelligence is MORE likely to determine your success in school and especially your adult life. Therefore to increase your chances of succeeding in life, you will want to learn how to get into “flow” more frequently, so as to boost your Emotional Intelligence.

Steps You Can Follow To Get Yourself Into Flow/The Zone Deliberately & More Frequently

1. Carefully think about and set SPECIFIC goals you want to achieve(in SPECIFIC areas of your vocation or interest) by getting into “Flow”.

2. Identify the TASKS you will need to execute or implement in order to achieve those goals.

3. Develop your proficiency in the task(s) you wish to achieve peak performance in to the point that you can do it(or them) with practiced ease. Some people would say “with your eyes closed”. I have watched labelling machine operators on a manned 45,000 bottles per hour bottling line feed labels into it almost without error continuously for over six(6) consecutive hours on a night shift. It takes plenty of PRACTICE to get to that level of competence.

And it is only after you have attained such a level of proficiency that you can reasonably expect to be able to deliberately/competently get in and out of “Flow”, while engaged in your preferred activity.

4. Actively work to find and/or create the kind of environment(physical and psychological) that you KNOW will enhance your ability to get into and STAY in The Zone. For instance, you will need to master the art of focussing intensely or concentrating HARD on your subject of interest such that you “force” yourself into “The Zone”. I often use this approach (especially) when I need to give a speech.

5*. Avoid the things/habits that keep you from getting into The Zone(e.g. undisciplined expenditure of sexual energy; worrying etc) and do more of those which boost your ability to “Zone Out”(e.g. staying fit through regular physical exercise, meditation etc).*

6. Engage as much as possible ONLY in tasks or vocations that you naturally ENJOY doing – else getting into flow and/or staying there will be VERY difficult. Your performance as a result will be erratic.

Knowing How To Get Into The Zone Will Help You Deliver Desired Results Under Pressure

As you may be aware, some people thrive under, and respond positively TO pressure – often delivering their BEST performances when exposed to it. I happen to be one of such people. It is my considered opinion, based on my personal experiences and successes in school, sports, paid and now self-employment, that if you truly want to be a peak performer, you MUST master how to deliver optimal performances in your preferred vocation or activity EVEN when(especially when!) you are under pressure.

Fail to do this and your transformation will be INCOMPLETE. You would be like a potential Michael Jordan who fails to achieve his/her full potential on the court during game time. What’s that you ask? I mean everyone loved Jordan because he was a player who delivered when it mattered most(a “big match” player) – in the important games and at the MOST important time…scoring a match winning basket just a few seconds before the buzzer sounded. It takes an ability to DEAL with psychological pressure to do that. You CAN develop the ability to do it. If you learn how to get into “flow”, as suggested here, you WILL end up with the ability to do it unconsciously – AGAIN and AGAIN!(The key word there being “UNCONSCIOUSLY“)

Final Words: A Person In Flow/The Zone Will Make Doing What S/he Does Look Easier Than It Really Is

And THAT is something YOU can use as a measure of how well you have learnt to get into and STAY in the zone while doing what you do i.e when people start expressing surprise or even amazement about how well you do what you do, with some asking you “what is your secret?”.

Another way to measure your progress, will be unsolicited testimonials people will give about your abilities. Below, I offer two examples of unsolicited written testimonials about me from former colleagues:

“Tayo, I honestly believe you are one of those who will succeed at anything he does… I don’t need to wish you good luck. You have the ability to make your own luck..“.

Read my article titled “Should You Quit Your Job Or Start Your Business Part-Time?” to read the full text of that handwritten message to me in December 2001 by the overall head(Operations Manager) of the brewery I worked in.

I once helped out a Utilities Manager colleague by automating his Engineering Services usage monitoring charts preparation using my skills in spreadsheet programming. This was done in respone to his request, after he saw what I had done in my spare time for my department. Well, here’s what he wrote (in part) to me via email from the new company – a multinational Oil Service company – he had resumed working for, some months after my departure:

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To:olufelatks@xxxxxx.com

Subject:WANT US TO MEET

Date:Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:59:16 +0100

Hi Tayo,…my main reasons for my search for you are… to involve you in my new task of computerizing my departmental reports….I believe you have the competence to transform our reports having seen your Midas touches in Guinness. The report will be in Excel spreadsheet, segmented into sheets but to be viewed and accessed by macro buttons. The report should be able to auto print and shows graphs. Presently, we have two mains Computerized Maintenance Systems from which some data need to be downloaded. The report must be able to give quick predetermined checks for immediate management decisions. In pursuit of this goal, I want us to discuss and agree on the execution modalities and other things. I am proposing to be in Lagos this weekend and wish to see you…Shola”

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What made him so sure that I could help him? The answer is obvious: I had shown that I could deliver the kind of results he wanted in the past and he had witnessed it.

Learn how to deliver peak performances routinely and repeatedly by getting into flow often, and you WILL earn similar testimonials from others around you.

Useful References

1. Article: “Curse of the Succubus” by Andrew Corsello. A humour tinged but seriously educative article about a one time Tennis world No. 1 – Pete Sampras – who KNEW how to deliver peak performances by getting into and STAYING in The Zone. It was written in “GQ Magazine October 2002 – IN THE ZONE” and subtitled >>Why has Pete Sampras fallen so fast, so hard, so…willingly? Clearly the man who perfected the Zone has lost his formidable powers…2. Book: “Emotional Intelligence” by Dr. Daniel Goldman. In this excellent ground breaking book subtitled “Why It(i.e. “Emotional Intelligence”) can matter more than IQ”, Goleman explains, with useful anecdotes about(and testimonials from) real-life high performing individuals, backed by research findings, why the ability to get into flow in the pursuit of learning and performance is Emotional Intelligence at its best.

3. Resource: “The Internet” by Any Search Engine. I must NOT forget this one :-). Do a search on the net and you should discover additional/useful learning resources.

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No. 224: To Write Productively, Develop the Ability to Do Your Best Writing At Will [Hint: I’m back on LinkedIn.com]

December 21, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

If you struggle to do as much writing as you want (or need) to, the ideas I share in this article can help you banish that problem for EVER.

I’ll start by debunking a myth:

“The idea of finding the right time (and even place) to write is over-rated.” – Tayo K. Solagbade

I’m living proof of it, as demonstrated by my ability to produce quality writing content for clients. and myself ANYTIME I identify a need to do so.

The hard truth is that finding the right time/place for getting into the “mood” is a luxury a writer cannot afford, if s/he is to be productive – or better still, excel!

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If you struggle to do as much writing as you want (or need) to, the ideas I share in this article can help you banish that problem for EVER.

I’ll start by debunking a myth:

“The idea of finding the right time (and even place) to write is over-rated.” – Tayo K. Solagbade

I’m living proof of it, as demonstrated by my ability to produce quality writing content for clients. and myself ANYTIME I identify a need to do so.

The hard truth is that finding the right time/place for getting into the “mood” is a luxury a writer cannot afford, if s/he is to be productive – or better still, excel!

I say this as one working in a socioeconomic environment, where a myriad of annoyances routinely connive to scuttle a writer (or creative person)’s efforts to secure a conducive psychological atmosphere.

In other words, noise (in various forms) is a constant reality from which little chance of escape exists out here. Yet, some of us still produce results matching those of our contemporaries in less hostile climes.

We are able to do this, by drawing on the passion we have for what we do.

For most of us, it’s a passion so compelling, that we do NOT mind exerting huge amounts of EXTRA effort to nurture.

Some of our contemporaries in developed societies are not unaware of the harsh conditions under which we have to turn out the desired work quality and volume.

Especially those who have had the opportunity to visit us, and/or who were also born and raised here. Most of the latter relocated abroad to earn a living in more conductive socioeconomic environments (e.g. Europe, America, Asia etc)

Knowing what it’s like here, some openly express amazement at our ability to not just cope, but actually thrive, in the midst of such extreme negatives!

One Example: A few weeks ago, I had a international phone conversation with an African born expert-who-speaks, who lives and works outside Africa

At a point he asked me how – in spite of the constant loud chatter of generator noise – I was able to churn out the relentless stream of creative new content in form of write-ups, audios and videos for clients (like him) – and for my website.

He noted that years of being based abroad had made him quite needful of a controlled environment i.e. one devoid of noise and other extraneous influences that could disturb his concentration.

My response was that I had TRAINED myself to deliver needed results, in spite of the environment, knowing that I had NO viable alternative to being here.

I further added that if he had been in this part of the world, his passion would have PUSHED him to also ADAPT to the environment, and learn to turn out his best work in spite of any distractions around him.

And that’s the truth: Human beings can be extremely adaptable when driven by desire and passion!

When the human being is convinced that a course of action is necessary, s/he has the innate capability to creatively adapt his/her talents to carry it out, no matter the obstacles s/he may face.

This is why we were able to find ways to travel into space, where existing conditions did not permit our survival normally.

It is for this reason that I say the idea of finding the right time (and even place) to write is a luxury few writers can afford, if they really want to excel.

Forgive me for saying this, if you’re based outside Africa – especially for those of you living and working in places like Europe, America, UAE and Asia.

But the truth is that in most cases, your socioeconomic environments are often like HEAVEN compared to what obtains in my part of the world.

I won’t bother giving many examples.

You watch enough TV to be aware of a few.

For instance, the lack of access to regular power supply plaguing Nigeria, makes perpetual use of noisy generators inevitable. Experts engaged in creative thinking tasks like writing and software development tend to feel the pains the most.

To make matters worse, there is little or no regulation of noise pollution in this part of the world,

That makes it easy for just about anyone to mount massive loud speakers right on your street, in front of his/her shop blaring loud music, in what is a crude yet popular strategy for attracting the attention of potential buyers.

In developed societies, few people would dare do that, because they have been trained to realize they cannot impose on others in that manner.

What’s more, the law enforcement agents would take swift action to correct such a person.

Out here, your protests are unlikely to go anywhere. If anything the culprit would accuse you of being jealous.

In other words, creatives out here are often people who have trained themselves to do what they love without letting their unfavorable environment negatively affect their output.

Most of us out here think nothing of it, but being able to block out “noise” to get our work done, is a powerful ability that ensures we can achieve desired outcomes under literally any conditions.

Imagine therefore, what would happen if we suddenly gained access to developed societies devoid of most such limitations we contend with? Our productivity would simply go through the roof!

Bamidele Onibalusi, now 21 years old (having launched a successful professional freelance writing career as a teenager, from Nigeria’s ancient city of Ibadan) is one of such creative persons, who gets work done for international clients, in spite of Nigeria’s harsh conditions.

My ability to do what I do – as a multidisciplinary solutions provider to international clients – at this level, is also proof that it is possible.

Having said that, even out here, we STILL differ in terms of the DEGREE to which we can thrive under hardship…

Some of us have to face more difficult challenges than others, in the course of doing our writing.

For instance, a number of us – like me – have to deal with an additional layer of “distractions” in form of kids we have to parent.

A writer who has no child and/or is unmarried will have LESS potential distractions to deal with, apart from the noise from his/her generators.

But not so for the writer who is a parent to kids yet to leave home.

From settling perpetual quarrels between teenage siblings, to giving a toddler the attention s/he needs (and other parenting tasks in between), the life of a writer with family responsibilities can be so much MORE difficult!

I say this as one who has had to live this VERY complicated life, for YEARS, to the extent that I have to get my writing done under crazy – and I do mean CRAZY – conditions.

I once had work on a client’s due blog article in a General Hospital in Lagos, while waiting for blood test results for my son who had suddenly taken ill.

You should have seen odd looks I got from other parents sitting seated near me. I had to “relocate” myself into the car, to finish it off and send to the client.

It goes without saying that I could have called the client to say my kid took ill. However, my assessment of the situation convinced me I could still get it done – especially since we were only waiting for the results.

Having agreed that the final article would be sent to the client for review that Friday, towards the Monday launch, I wanted to do what I could to avoid derailing the set plans.

Luckily, my efforts paid off. My son got the right diagnosis and treatment, and the site launch took off as planned on Monday. I never told the client the circumstances under which I sent him that piece. What mattered was that things went according to plan.

On another occasion, I had to write a blog post due for publishing on my blog, while inside the chauffeur driven jeep of a Cotonou based Nigerian diplomat client, at 11.30p.m. We were stuck in a traffic jam on the way back to Seme border, after a visit to his farm in South West Nigeria.

In each instance, described above, the prevailing conditions mattered little to me. All I just needed was enough space to open the laptop and begin to do my writing.

Once the article was completed, I copied it to my smart phone and used the latter’s browser to upload it to this blog.

Interestingly, that same night, while still in the car, I was forced to prepare a PDF invoice I’d promised to send another client, and email it as an attachment using my Blackberry, just to avoid failing to get it to him before the next day, as I’d promised.

As you can imagine most of the clients never knew (and possibly would have cared less), how I got what they wanted done for them.

Clients will expect you to do what it takes – no matter what challenges you may come up against.

No excuses. No complaints. Just get it done.

That’s the attitude that wins the respect (and admiration), as well as the CONFIDENCE of clients.

That attitude convinces them that hiring you was not (and will not) be a mistake, because they know you will go the extra mile as often as necessary to deliver what you promise.

And once clients are convinced, you can be sure they’ll reward you with repeat business, and or testimonials/referrals.

The above implies that to deliver desired results consistently, you must become able to do your BEST writing, at will.

The question then is HOW DO YOU DO THAT?

My answer is simple:

By learning how to get yourself into flow or the zone.

First of all you need to come to the firm understanding that, if you let it, your mind can – and WILL – play tricks on you, about your ability or readiness to write.

Most times when we feel we’re not in the “mood” to write, it’s our mind that’s telling us we’re not.

In reality, all it takes to get started with writing at WILL, is to do just that: GET STARTED!

You CAN put yourself in the perfect mood to write, simply by STARTING and sticking with it.

By the time you’ve been at it a while, you’ll suddenly discover you’re getting along with much less effort than when you began.

Most productive writers anywhere in the world will confirm this: Stephen King, renowned for his prolific writing, says its true!

At the point when you find yourself achieving this kind of breakthrough, it would often mean you are in flow, or the zone.

Take it from me. I’ve done this for over a decade, and I can tell you that’s what happens.

NB: Only a person who lacks relevant knowledge, and.or experience of the subject, from which to do the writing effectively, will be unable to do this.

It so happens that I have a widely syndicated article that explains how to do just that (i.e. get into flow).

It has even been referenced in research papers.

The article is titled “Become A Habitual Peak Performer – Learn How To Get Into Flow Or – The Zone More Frequently“

In it I describe what I do to produce the writing results that continually impress my clients.

To record similar – or better – writing success, I recommend you diligently apply what you learn from reading that article.

A more recent article I wrote on the same theme is titled “To Effortlessly Do More, Get Into Flow (Or The Zone)!“

Yet another resource that can help you is my FREE PDF report titled “Proven Techniques/Strategies You Can Use to Start & Finish Writing ANYTHING“.

To get a copy emailed to you, click here to send me a request.

PS: By way of interest, and as indicated in the title of this issue, I’m back on LinkedIn.com

I’m using my new webmail – tayo at tayosolagbade dot com – for this new LinkedIn account.

This move is part of my efforts to reinvent myself towards providing Response Generating Writing & Web Marketing Solutions to a global paying target audience.

I’ve sent out invitations using my GMAIL contacts database. If you’ve not gotten one, send me an invitation to connect.

NB: For those not aware of the history about why I quit using LinkedIn.com in 2013, click here to read a blog post I published back then, with details. At the time I was using the webmail address attached to my old domain name i.e tayo at spontaneousdevelopment dot com. I believe I’m less prone to getting accused of “suspicious” activity, with the brand I now have, especially under this new account.

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SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 223: Dealing With Adversity Requires The Right Mental Attitude [Hint: Crappy TV Content Damages Character]
[Tuesday]:	CEO Spotlight Interview VIDEO [Parts 1 to 4 ]: With Burt Dubin, Creator of the Speaking Success System and Veteran Mentor to Some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers
[Wednesday]:	The Hood Does Not Make the Monk. School Uniforms Don’t Guarantee Learning!
[Thursday]:	Are You a CEO/Expert With Practical, Experience Based Knowledge & Insights to Share? [Hint: CEO Spotlight Interview Invitation]
[Friday]:	Automate Your Records Keeping & Accounting For Profitable Farm Planning
[Saturday]:	THE FARM CEO (Issue 28): Are You a CEO/Expert With Useful Insights to Share? [Hint: CEO Spotlight Interview Invitation], Automate Your Records Keeping & Accounting For Profitable Farm Planning, Every Farm Business, No Matter How Small, Needs PC-Based Record Keeping & Accounts Automation, 14 Key Issues To Consider In Order To Choose (& Successfully Startup) The Right Farm Business Send Me 14 Photos, and I’ll Use Them to Create a Branded PDF Calendar/Meeting Planner for YOU (Hint: But DO THIS FIRST!)
Want me to write for you? Click here to send me a message

Tayo K. Solagbade*

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*Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

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Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

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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

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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 DevelopmentManager, 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 computerise 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.

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes his Weekly Public Speaking IDEAS

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continent).

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

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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:

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Send Me 14 Photos, and I’ll Use Them to Create a Branded PDF Calendar/Meeting Planner for YOU (Hint: But DO THIS FIRST!)

December 19, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

2 days ago I sent out an email offering to create a FREE branded PDF calendar/meeting planner for EACH of my clients, using photos/images they send me(click here to download my 2016 FREE Calendar).

If you’re a client, and plan to take up my offer, then as you read the reproduced email message excerpts below, imagine that I’m “speaking” to YOU.

Once you’ve done that, take steps to ensure the images you send to me, are optimized using any of the options I’ve outlined in my message.

If you don’t do that, I’ll have to reply saying I cannot create the promised PDF for you.

This post spells out requirements any client interested in taking up my offer to create branded PDF calendar/meeting planner using images s/he supplies MUST conform with.

I realized I should have put up this information BEFORE sending out my offer, after having difficulty downloading images sent to me by one of those who responded.

This happened due to their rather large sizes, and the unfortunate development of erratic connectivity around the same time I began trying to access them. We’ve since gotten the PDF done, but I’m publishing this post, for others to read, so they know how their images need to reach me.

What follows below is based on the verbatim email message I sent to the client whose images I had the problem with.

Like I always tell my readers, I sometimes deliberately write my email messages to clients in “explanatory mode”, if I feel what I’m telling them would be useful to share with others. That way, when I dispatch the email, I can later return to use it as the “body” for a blog post to share with others I anticipate may find the information useful

Hi Taiye,

About 3 of the images gave me download problems due to their rather large sizes.

I (made) repeated attempts to download, but what I ended up with were versions in which the images were only partially displayed.

I tried improvising by combining 2 to make 1 image (see page 4 – February), and also cropping out the bad sections in others.

Unfortunately, 2 pages STILL remain without images I can use i.e. December 2016 and January 2017.

So I think it’s best you find a way to get them to me at reduced sizes).

They were in the email titled “3rd Batch 4 Pictures, which you sent via tayo at tayosolagbade dot com

The filenames are:

1. 20150819_105844.jpg (7.5 MiB)

2. 20150526_133145.jpg (5.4 MiB)

3. _DSC0246.JPG (7 MiB)

There’s something I neglected to mention yesterday, that could have prevented this from happening.

Attached are 2 examples of BEFORE and AFTER versions (named “taiwo…”.jpg) of images you sent me.

You’ll notice they are many times smaller than the ones I downloaded from your email.

The article linked below is one that I wrote several years (on September 03, 2007) back…

It’s meant to guide persons intending to email images or photos on how to reduce the sizes of the images, to make it easyfor the SENDER to attach and send them, and also for the RECEPIENT to download them.

My decision to write it back then was due to a client’s staff sending me over 50 HUGE photos and images meant for a web design project, that could have been trimmed down, with NO loss of display quality using the techniques I mention in the article.

The steps I enumerate in it are those that I followed to create the smaller versions of the images attached to this email.

Click to read it on my Ezinearticles.com profile

In case you do not have ready access to Photoshop or Corel Draw, ask a friend you know to be familiar with graphic editing.

Alternatively, go to Google.com and search for “Free website to reduce the size of my photo” – or something along that line.

You should get a web link to a web based FREE service that will enable you create much smaller sized versions of the photos without damaging the quality.

Once you have those reduced images, just email them to me and I’ll generate the complete PDF calendar and email to you.

****Now, in case none of the above options is convenient for you, consider purchasing the editable MS Word template for $150 USD.

Once you make payment, I would email the template to you, with VIDEO instructions on how to insert your own photos, add quotable quotes etc.

The advantage of taking up this option is that you not only get to make multiple calendar versions for yourself, but you will also be able to create calendars for others.

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Are You a CEO/Expert With Practical, Experience Based Knowledge & Insights to Share? [Hint: CEO Spotlight Interview Invitation]

December 17, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

My name is Tayo Solagbade, and I am your host on the CEO Spotlight Interview (CSI) Series.

I believe that it is important to capture the knowledge, insights, and wisdom of people who have been able to excel in their chosen vocations or professions, so as to inform, educate and empower others who aspire to do the same, or better.

That is my ultimate purpose for conducting this CSI series.This is a public service, and I hope you will find it useful.

The CSI Will Feature ONLY Authentic Achievers Willing to Share Useful WISDOM to Empower Others

Now, if you are familiar with me, and what I do via www.tayosolagbade.com, you most likely know that I do my due diligent research and background checks before I choose to showcase anyone as a model of what is possible in terms of personal achievement in ANY area of endeavour.

For every guest, I will be asking twelve (12) questions. However, the questions, for the most part will be personalized for each person, based on his/her unique area of expertise, as well as experience, achievements etc.

In other words, the questions will be designed to help us extract useful learnings that can be had from his/her experiences and achievements in life.

Do You Have Unique Experience Based Insights That Can Help Others Excel, Like YOU?

If YES, then I’d like to interview YOU on the CSI platform.

This post is designed to be an open invitation to ANY interested CEOs or experts who may wish to feature on the CEO Spotlight Interview.

From what I’ve said above, and the content of the interviews already available here, the requirements are easy to discern.

You simply need to have useful information and education, based on YOUR personal experiences and achievements, to share.

Most importantly, I am always on the lookout for new, original or innovative ideas, methods, strategies and techniques discovered, developed or adapted by the CEO or expert to achieve perfromance improvement in his/her personal or work life.

Click here to fill and submit a web contact form, to send me your message.

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CEO Spotlight Interview VIDEO [Parts 1 to 4 ]: With Burt Dubin, Creator of the Speaking Success System and Veteran Mentor to Some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers

December 15, 2015 Tayo Solagbade

[UPDATE – Wednesday, 2nd December 2020: I am publishing, this morning, two digital flyers on Best Practice Schooling, as a follow up to my latest video titled “Why I Do Not Want My Kids to Have the Kind of Education I Got“. One of the Digital Flyers features a message Burt posted on my Facebook wall, last year on my 49th birthday (6th July 2019) which I found relevant to the theme of my the message in my flyers, You can view/download the digital flyers on Best Practice Schooling here (Click now).

For those who may not know be aware, Burt Dubin is now 96 years old(in 2020). He is a veteran mentor of some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers and Creator of the Highly Acclaimed Speaking Success System sold for decades to professional speakers across 5 continents. I was Burt’s Sole Agent promoting his solutions to Africa based experts for several years.

However, what makes his achievements most impressive and compelling is the fact that he dropped out of high school as a teen, to take up paid employment in order to support his mother and siblings. Then he returned to the SAME high school to graduate with a set of students who were 4 years behind him when he dropped out!

And THAT was all he needed to go on to mentor professionals across the world – some PhD holders! – to achieve the highest levels of success in their fields. Watch Video Part 1 of 4 of my interview with him (scroll down) to hear him respond to my question about how he found the courage to return to complete his High School education.

TIP: See some of Burt’s Audio Records and Testimonials on an archive of his blog at http://burtdubin-blog.com/tools/burtdubinrecordings.html]

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Watch parts 1 to 4 of this video version of the 2nd edition of Tayo Solagbade’s CEO Spotlight Interview Series below…

This 2nd edition of the CEO Spotlight Interview Series featured responses (with photos and audio excerpts) from Burt Dubin [www.speakingbizsuccess.com] renowned USA based Creator of the Speaking Success System, and veteran mentor of some of the world’s highest paid speakers.

Part 1 of 4

Part 2 of 4

Part 3 of 4

Part 4 of 4

Click here to download the full PDF version which contains the text based version of the interview.

In this issue No: 221 of my Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter…

NB: This CSI series is a public service to give CEOs, & those aspiring, ready-to-use experience-based information & education. The purpose is to promote experience-sharing amongst CEOs, about Indigenous Knowledge Systems.

Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) are tried and tested practical techniques/methods developed by active players in a venture to get improved results, often through application of creativity and innovation.

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No. 223: Dealing With Adversity Requires The Right Mental Attitude [Hint: Crappy TV Content Damages Character]

December 14, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

This week I discuss another of my pet peeves, in form of crappy Television content that teaches viewers to be weak/fickle-minded.

It is my considered opinion that most of us get served today, by what I consider an increasingly reckless army of TV content merchants, who allow their decision making to be driven so keenly by monetary profits as to be made at the expense of quality.

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This week I discuss another of my pet peeves, in form of crappy Television content that teaches viewers to be weak/fickle-minded.

This is not some attempt to preach at anyone.

In fact, considering the fact that I am not a religious person, and have not been for over 3 decades, the last thing I qualify to do is to “preach” about anything.

However, I AM a parent, as well as an expert-who-speaks, with a vision and passion to influence others (in my personal/work life) to make the most of themselves.

This is why I am always sensitive to the nature and content of audio visual stimulation I, and my target audience get exposed to at any point in time.

In the course of doing my work over the years, i have learnt that the information I expose myself to, be it in visual or audio form, can have a lasting impact on me psychologically and emotionally, depending on how long the period of exposure ts.

I’m sure that most conscious adults understand what I mean here. We’ve all experienced what it feels like to be exposed to various forms of visual and auditory stimulation by way of movies and music respectively, for instance.

That’s when we see self-employed professionals who never seem to be able to get client work done on time, or to the required standards, because they do NOT know how to control their craving for TV soap operas.

So they watch longer than they should, failing to devote enough time to get client projects done to the agreed deadline. This leads to strained relationships, client attrition etc.

But that is not so bad. With diligent effort, anyone can overcome such mild addiction.

What I’m writing about in this issue, regarding TV content is something that’s much more harmful…

It’s actually causing lingering psychological damage to viewers, to the extent that they adopt warped mental attitudes that limit their ability to excel when faced with adversity.

Today, I see some foreign soap operas and local movies which depict characters with WEAK personalities.

I refer specifically to those in which the story lines involve one or more characters shown to be passing through prolonged hardship or adversity of some sort, but who rarely emerge from it by demonstrating strength of character.

Don’t get me wrong here…

I agree that not everyone will have the mental toughness to deal with delays, disappointments, setbacks or outright disasters happening repeatedly to them.

However, the reality is that WINNING in ANY area of endeavor requires that WE LEARN TO BE TOUGH.

As the well known saying goes, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going“.

Anyone who wants to win in life must be prepared to do this.

That’s where my opinion about TV content quality becomes relevant:

Stories about how some disadvantaged person defied adversity and antagonists to succeed, have long inspired others to face hardships in their lives with more determination, till they achieved their breakthrough.

When such stories have been told via the TV medium, they have often been most impactful, due to the visual imagery delivered by TV.

This happens because the human brain responds best to visual stimulation. What we SEE tends to make the greatest impression on us, and lingers longest in our memories.

I have personally benefittted from being exposed to such inspiring stories via TV, and they gave me courage to NOT quit, during the darkest hours of my struggles.

I stayed mentally strong, and kept thinking and working hard till I achieved my goal.

Today, the knowledge of where I’ve been and what I did to get here further inspire me to do more – and to share my own stories with my kids, so they can learn like I did.

The problem I have with most of today’s TV content is that they lack quality and depth required to deliver the above mentioned useful benefits to viewers.

For instance, over the last weekend, I found myself reading the riot act to my kids about their habit of watching certain soap operas and local movies I frowned upon.

The programs typically had storylines in which some person(s) went through prolonged periods of hardship and suffering caused by some mean individual(s) who despised them.

What irked me most was that very rarely did the story lines involve the “victims” ever taking action to fight back or find a solution to their problems by themselves.

Instead they were always shown crying and lamenting about how life was so unfair to them. Some would cry “why do I have to suffer like this?” and others would wail “Oh, if only XYZ had not died. How long are we going to continue suffering this way?”

To make matters worse, especially in the local movies, very rarely did a resolution of the victim’s problems come through some intelligent creative effort on his/her, or any other character’s part.

Instead, some religious angle was often introduced e.g. a religious leader comes in to do some prayers and all of the victim’s problems and enemies suddenly magically disappear!

Viewers end up seeing lightning strike evil doers or the bad person simply “run mad” – while the victims “rejoice” and the movie ends!!

Just what kind of mental attitude does this encourage those who dutifully watch movies of this kind to have, in thinking about challenges they encounter in life???

I ask this question especially with kids in mind.

Apart from the few opportunities they will have for experiencing the real world in their formative years, quite often what they watch on TV is the only alternative avenue for learning about life’s ups and downs, that kids have.

If all they keep seeing happen is that people facing difficulties in life habitually sit down moaning and groaning till some magical powers/prayers make their problems go away, what is there to stop them from believing it’s the right way to go through life?

I believe the above situation explains why we have a majority in many societies today, especially in my part of the world, who do not believe they need to exert themselves much to get what they want.

What they see on TV happening to others, who get rewarded despite not having exerted themselves to a major degree, to get what they want, teaches them to be that way.

As a parent, you have a duty to encourage your kids to SEE beyond that lie told in such TV programmes, so they learn as early as possible in life to challenge themselves, to achieve the goals they want in life.

TV actors are also experts-who-speak. Yes they are.

For me, all those who have to speak in formal settings to individuals or groups in any social setting, are experts-who-speak.

This is why I routinely challenge any that I interact with, to act in a manner consistent with what public speaking professionals are known for.

Not only is doing this beneficial to the expert, but it also ensures that those s/he relates with ultimately reap the most positive experience possible in interaction with him/her.

I know actors and producers do what they do to earn a living. However, they need to pay more attention to the potentially negative impact their content may have on their viewers.

After all, it is the same TV medium, especially via dramas and movies that positive social reinforcement messages are passed.

Examples include movies about history of slavery, the dangers of HIV, the need to avoid discriminating against persons living with HIV, and so on.

Such TV programmes are deliberately produced to communicate desired positive ideals to viewers, even as they often offer entertainment at the same time.

Producers of main stream TV content can take a cue from the above examples to strike a more responsible balance in delivering their content to viewers.

Let me end this piece with the quote in the graphic below, from Burt Dubin, about using what he calls “Bulldog blood” to overcome adversity, and achieve your goal:

1. Why Have Bulldog Blood – by Burt Dubin

2. Your Future: Vision or Daydream – by Burt Dubin

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This newsletter (which I use to promote Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Products/Services) serves

experts-who-speak. Starting – Monday 13th April 2015 – it MORPHED in name and content served, to a 2 part Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, to better serve them.

You just read the “Public Speaking IDEAS” part above. What follows below is the “Web Marketing IDEAS” part.

*******

Burt Dubin works with people who want to be speakers, and with speakers who want to be masters. Click here to visit his website NOW and submit a contact form message telling him what challenges you’re facing, and how

you’d like him to help you. Tell him I sent you, and you’ll get a pleasant surprise offer from him.

Burt Dubin’s monthly Speaking Biz Strategies Letter

[Signup & get a 7-Part Email Course on “How To Succeed And Get Paid As A Professional

Speaker”]

Get Burt’s mentoring at any of the 3 levels below:

1. Top Shelf [Click

here]

2. Mid Range [Click here]

3. Budget Delight [Click here]

2 of 2: WEB MARKETING: To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and

Politics! [FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD]

“If you want to achieve sustainable success in business (especially in a volatile market place like Nigeria), it’s in your best interest to develop interest in

Solagbade

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

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

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

NB: If you’re already a client or subscriber, email me via tayo at tksola dot com and let me know you want it

Alternatively, click here to request the FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD.

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SPECIAL OFFER TO READERS OF THIS SPEAKING/WEB MARKETING IDEAS NEWSLETTER

Did you know that as an expert in your field you can make more money by speaking professionally? Or do you already speak-for-money, but want to know

how to do it better AND/OR how to make more money even when you do not speak?

If you said YES to any of the above, THIS offer is for you.

Burt Dubin can teach you to do ALL the above and more. You can learn from him via direct mentoring (regardless of distance) or using the many home study

packages he offers.

Get FREE Lifetime Membership of My Inner Circle (OVER $250 USD) when

you do 1 or more of the following:

1. Signup for Burt’s Speaker Mentoring Service (click here for details)…

2. Purchase Burt’s Speaker Mentoring Products up to $500 USD or more (click here to see a popular one)…

NB: Membership of my Inner Circle comes with a FREE product of your choice e.g. my custom Excel-VB software, Information

Products etc. (click here for full details of what my Inner Circle members get)…PLUS you get a LIFETIME 65% discount on ALL my

other existing/future products and services.

HERE’S AN ADDED BONUS YOU GET FROM ME, IF YOU BUY FROM BURT…

Click here to tell me which of Burt’s speaker mentoring products or services you are

interested in.

ALSO GET MY PERSONALIZED MS EXCEL-VB VIDEO TUTORIALS (N100K) WHEN YOU BUY FROM BURT…

Buying up to $500 USD or more from Burt will also qualify you to receive my personalized MS Excel VB home study tutorial workbooks/videos – over N100k

value.

Learn more on my Excel Heaven solutions website at www.excelheaven.biz

Click here to tell me which of Burt’s speaker mentoring products or services you are

interested in.

Question: But who is Burt Dubin, and why do I (Tayo K. Solagbade) think you should you learn from

him?

Answer: Burt is a 3 decade veteran in the professional speaking business. After achieving top level cross continental success as an

expert-speaker, he has established a reputation for mentoring some of the highest paid speakers in the world. He owns SpeakingBizSuccess.com, SpeakingSuccess.com and BurtDubin.com.

Burt helps those he mentors (experts-who-speak) to Position, Package, Promote, and Present* themselves successfully to clients (*He calls

them the 4Ps). That’s why it’s no surprise that on Burt’s website, considerable space capital is devoted to useful business marketing articles as well as products.

It might also interest you to know that MANY years back, Burt established himself as one of the best marketing minds in the world. To really put this FACT in

proper perspective, I’ll provide more specific details in form of an example.

Trout, Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver…and Burt Dubin.

That’s ample proof that (in addition to Public Speaking), Burt would be a great resource to learn business marketing from!

Full Disclosure: I represent Burt as Sole Agent for his products/services, which means if YOU buy from him, I get paid.

But that’s NOT the main reason I represent and recommend him. I have benefited in many ways by learning from Burt. Through his writing, his audio recordings,

and from directly relating with him.

Before we teamed up in 2011, I’d been studying his work and adapting it to succeed in my work from way back in 2002. It does not matter what part of the world

you’re in. If you know how to adapt them to suit your peculiar local needs, Burt’s ideas and strategies WILL work for you. I am living proof of it!

That’s why I never tire of CONFIDENTLY recommending him to others.

If you need help putting the ideas shared above to use, let me know HERE.

Click here to tell me which of Burt’s speaker mentoring products or services you are interested

in.

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

Learn about Burt Dubin’s speaker mentoring products (books, audios etc) below…

If you need help purchasing ANY of Burt’s products (like “Presentation

Magic”), call me on +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic, my base) or +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or email tayo@tksola.com

Have a great week :-))

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

SPECIAL PRODUCT FEATURE

“Inside Speaking Business Success Secrets”

In this offer, Burt Dubin promises to show you how to generate PASSIVE incomes streams WHETHER

YOU SPEAK OR NOT. Plus, you learn a proven shortcut to top level speaking business success across corporate markets.

So, with diligent persistent application of what you learn you’ll start (as Burt says)…”bringing home high speaking fees”…whether you speak or not…in

a matter of weeks….

Sooner than later you’ll find you’re ready to go for Burt’s mentoring at Diamond or

higher Inner Circle membership level.

The best part is: every cent of your fee to purchase this product counts toward your membership in Burt’s Inner Circle.

In other words, you effectively get to eat your cake and still have it!

CLICK HERE to get full details of what it takes to make yourself a true

speaking business champion in Burt’s Boot Camp V: Inside Speaking Business Success Secrets

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

Get Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring
for Africa Based Experts(PDF…Click!)

Useful Resources for Speakers

177 Wow! Wow!

Showmanship Stratagems

Discover these secrets of making your programs more interesting and valuable to your clients and audiences now.

more information

Burt’s Flagship Album

This is the product to own if you can own only one. Why? Because in it you discover principles of platform

mastership available to you nowhere else at any price.

You hear performance strategies you can emulate. You shorten your learning curve. You see ways to engage and

delight audiences with both content and stories . . . plus you experience a bit of fun.

With its Money back if not delighted Guarantee hardly any are returned.

Find out why

Presentation Magic

A live example, including a complete audio recording of a program Burt created from scratch–on a topic he knew nothing about and never, ever presented before!

See how you, guided by your personal Learning Guide, (Presentation Magic), can do this too and thrill audiences as often as you want.

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Discover how you can produce a precious memento of you and your program. Capture over 44 model pages you can easily adapt for your use. Engage proven

principles that add value to the experience of sitting at your feet and learning from you.

This is a reprise of the historic presentation that launched the Speaking Success System.

No copy of this 2 CD program and 50 page Learning Guide has ever been returned.

more information

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NEW: Speaking Ideas: 25 Articles and True Stories for Experts Who Speak and Those

Aspiring (Volume 1)

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About the Adventures – & Misadventures! – of a School Age Child Trying to Find Purpose in Life

Download above PDF

THEY WROTE…

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“Tayo, I honestly believe you are one of those who will succeed at anything he does. Your commitment and effort has been outstanding….Thanks for all your hard

work since I’ve been here – you will be sorely missed. I don’t need to wish you good luck, you have the ability to make your own luck. – Andy”(R. Jones)*

*Operations Manager, Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery, December 2001 (Handwritten comments in farewell/xmas cards sent to Tayo Solagbade following his resignation to

start his own business).

———————–

Click here to contact Tayo…


SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 222: Make Money When You Guest Blog on Tayosolagbade.com [Hint: Get Paid $50 USD]
[Tuesday]:	Coming Soon: Hope Agwulonu’s QUICK START GUIDE TO CATFISH FARMING [Hint: Includes Chapters on Processing & Marketing]
[Wednesday]:	Re: About My Offer to Pay $50 USD for Useful, 100% Original Guest Posts on TayoSolagbade.com [It is NO JOKE] – My Purpose
[Thursday]:	Write4SDN Blog: Get Paid $50 USD For Your Guest Post [GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION] THE FARM CEO (Issue 27): Farming is the new ‘it’! – Beauty Manake, Researchers develop Beans that cook in 15 minutes – Farming, Overview of pepper (Capsicum spp.) breeding in West Africa, Improved NEWEST Rice variety to African farmers, Nigeria releases improved cassava varieties to boost productivity P3
[Friday]:	[RECOMMENDED READING] The End Of An Assignment In Nigeria By Tim Newman
[Saturday]:	You Need a Domain Name for Your Business to Succeed (3 Tips)
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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to

Farm Businesses and others.

freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the

popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm

Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in

various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods

and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly

traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training

& Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’

competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy Limited.

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African

continent).

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your

personal and work related productivity.

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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====

On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts

he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to

SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name

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Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring

for Africa Based Experts(PDF…Click!)

Career Development, Entrepreneurship, Excel-VB Solutions, My DN Travel News, Public Speaking, Self-Development, Writing/Blogging

No. 222: Make Money When You Guest Blog on Tayosolagbade.com [Hint: Get Paid $50 USD]

December 7, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Starting January 2016, I will begin paying $50 USD for guest posts/articles on this blog at www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets

Authors must be either:

(a). CEOs/Experts with new, innovative ideas, discoveries or experiences to share.

(b). Writers/bloggers with verifiable knowledge/expertise & a track record of writing useful content.

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Tayo K. Solagbade’s
Weekly Public Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS Newsletter

Date: Monday 7th December 2015

No: 222

Title: Make Money When You Guest Blog on Tayosolagbade.com [Hint: Get Paid $50 USD]

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

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

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WHEN YOU BUY BURT DUBIN’S SPEAKER MENTORING PRODUCTS/SERVICES – LEARN MORE HERE!

1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – Make Money When You Guest Blog on Tayosolagbade.com [Hint: Get Paid $50 USD]

Starting January 2016, I will begin paying $50 USD for guest posts/articles on this blog at www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets

Authors must be either:

(a). CEOs/Experts with new, innovative ideas, discoveries or experiences to share.

(b). Writers/bloggers with verifiable knowledge/expertise & a track record of writing useful content.

I get paid to write articles, reports, website content and books, by clients in various markets, in and out of Africa.

My vision is to challenge more of my target audience to use writing for experience sharing, business promotion & income generation.

Full details/WRITER GUIDELINES will be published this week.

To get notified by SMS when it goes LIVE, send email titled “YES GUEST POST” to tayo at tksola dot com

How a new partnership opportunity led me to launch this Paid Guest Posting offer

It’s interesting how potentially beneficial opportunities sometimes come from the least expected sources.

I’ve recently been doing some HARD re-thinking about how I want to hit the ground running in 2016.

This became necessary, after I got a new Joint Venture partnership offer from someone I admire and have learnt important lessons about blogging and web marketing from.

What he proposed was an opportunity that appealed to me.

However, I knew it would require putting in lots of time and effort to make it work, and I was not sure if I would be able to meet up my “quota”.

I was concerned about how to keep my own blog updated with useful new content, do client jobs, and still put in quality time and effort to play my agreed part new venture.

The process of thinking through the possibilities during the past week, was what made me decide to offer payment to Guest Bloggers.

Basically, I decided to begin paying for Guest Posts from January 2016, so as to buy me some free time I can channel into working with on the new venture. To implement this plan of paying for Guest Posts, I resolved to redirect some of my USD earnings.

It also occurred to me to give setup of traffic based monetization on the blog another try.

When I first tried it 3 years ago, my domain was still spontaneousdevelopment.com, and the content on it was NOTHING near what I have today on www.tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets.

As an advocate of best practice and continuous improvement, I am NOW launching a new initiative to take advantage of traffic I’m getting to boost my earnings further.

This involves monetizing this blog using adverts in various forms.

I don’t often mention it, but I get offers of all kinds through my daily SD Nuggets blog. Quite often it’s the guys offering me access to some high database of potential customers they assure me I can send bulk mails to and reap excellent responses from.

Sometimes it’s the guys who want to do a link exchange, or those suggesting that I include links to certain URLs on my Recommended Websites list.

At other times, I get an offer from some individual or company, to PAY me to place an ad on my blog.

This last one has been happening with more frequency over the past 2 months or so, and it got me thinking that it was time to try monetizing this blog by connecting with relevant online companies again.

Over this past weekend, I’ve been checking out various providers, installing plugins, adding code to templates and pages, and test running scripts. So far, I’ve not had the outright rejection I reported getting back in 2012, when I first tried it (this blog was VERY young then).

But 2 of the main providers I have my mind set on have told me “we are currently reviewing your website, and will get back to you in a few days”.

So, I’m waiting to hear from them. But I’m running with those I have activated – and waiting to see what happens earnings wise.

We’ll see if things will turn out better with the monetization of traffic.

One thing is certain for now: My offer of payment to authors of Guest Posts is VERY likely to attract attention (and traffic) to this blog, and good things can come from there!

I’ve now been able to take up the offer made by my new partner, and if all goes well, we should be able to make a formal announcement about our TEAMING UP soon.

If you do it right, your writing/blogging can generate multiple streams of income for you…AND you should reinvest some of your earnings to GROW your brand

My blogging has been instrumental to the success I have recorded in selling my custom Excel-VB Software and Information Products – especially the Ration Formulator and Poultry Farm Manager, as well as the Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook.

They have been my main sources of passive income, complemented periodically by royalty earnings from my other publication in my online store at Lulu.com.

Apart from selling my products (and services), I also earn income via a joint venture partnership, which involves using this blog (and my email newsletter) to promote a high profile range of products and services to a specific target audience.

Final Words

As you can see, this week’s issue of my newsletter has been an update of sorts about the strategies and plans I’m putting in place to ensure I can close 2015 on a HIGH and hit the ground running in 2016.

I hope this makes you decide to do something similar for yourself, before the New Year rolls in.

No matter what you think you’ve gone through – or are GOING through – in this closing year, it PAYS to take time to PLAN for the future you are about to encounter!

Good luck.

*******

This newsletter (which I use to promote Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Products/Services) serves

experts-who-speak. Starting – Monday 13th April 2015 – it MORPHED in name and content served, to a 2 part Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, to better serve them.

You just read the “Public Speaking IDEAS” part above. What follows below is the “Web Marketing IDEAS” part.

*******

Burt Dubin works with people who want to be speakers, and with speakers who want to be masters. Click here to visit his website NOW and submit a contact form message telling him what challenges you’re facing, and how

you’d like him to help you. Tell him I sent you, and you’ll get a pleasant surprise offer from him.

Burt Dubin’s monthly Speaking Biz Strategies Letter

[Signup & get a 7-Part Email Course on “How To Succeed And Get Paid As A Professional

Speaker”]

Get Burt’s mentoring at any of the 3 levels below:

1. Top Shelf [Click

here]

2. Mid Range [Click here]

3. Budget Delight [Click here]

2 of 2: WEB MARKETING: To Achieve Sustainable Success, Closely Monitor News About Current Affairs and

Politics! [FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD]

“If you want to achieve sustainable success in business (especially in a volatile market place like Nigeria), it’s in your best interest to develop interest in

Solagbade

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

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

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

NB: If you’re already a client or subscriber, email me via tayo at tksola dot com and let me know you want it

Alternatively, click here to request the FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD.

******

SPECIAL OFFER TO READERS OF THIS SPEAKING/WEB MARKETING IDEAS NEWSLETTER

Did you know that as an expert in your field you can make more money by speaking professionally? Or do you already speak-for-money, but want to know

how to do it better AND/OR how to make more money even when you do not speak?

If you said YES to any of the above, THIS offer is for you.

Burt Dubin can teach you to do ALL the above and more. You can learn from him via direct mentoring (regardless of distance) or using the many home study

packages he offers.

Get FREE Lifetime Membership of My Inner Circle (OVER $250 USD) when

you do 1 or more of the following:

1. Signup for Burt’s Speaker Mentoring Service (click here for details)…

2. Purchase Burt’s Speaker Mentoring Products up to $500 USD or more (click here to see a popular one)…

NB: Membership of my Inner Circle comes with a FREE product of your choice e.g. my custom Excel-VB software, Information

Products etc. (click here for full details of what my Inner Circle members get)…PLUS you get a LIFETIME 65% discount on ALL my

other existing/future products and services.

HERE’S AN ADDED BONUS YOU GET FROM ME, IF YOU BUY FROM BURT…

Click here to tell me which of Burt’s speaker mentoring products or services you are

interested in.

ALSO GET MY PERSONALIZED MS EXCEL-VB VIDEO TUTORIALS (N100K) WHEN YOU BUY FROM BURT…

Buying up to $500 USD or more from Burt will also qualify you to receive my personalized MS Excel VB home study tutorial workbooks/videos – over N100k

value.

Learn more on my Excel Heaven solutions website at www.excelheaven.biz

Click here to tell me which of Burt’s speaker mentoring products or services you are

interested in.

Question: But who is Burt Dubin, and why do I (Tayo K. Solagbade) think you should you learn from

him?

Answer: Burt is a 3 decade veteran in the professional speaking business. After achieving top level cross continental success as an

expert-speaker, he has established a reputation for mentoring some of the highest paid speakers in the world. He owns SpeakingBizSuccess.com, SpeakingSuccess.com and BurtDubin.com.

Burt helps those he mentors (experts-who-speak) to Position, Package, Promote, and Present* themselves successfully to clients (*He calls

them the 4Ps). That’s why it’s no surprise that on Burt’s website, considerable space capital is devoted to useful business marketing articles as well as products.

It might also interest you to know that MANY years back, Burt established himself as one of the best marketing minds in the world. To really put this FACT in

proper perspective, I’ll provide more specific details in form of an example.

Trout, Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver…and Burt Dubin.

That’s ample proof that (in addition to Public Speaking), Burt would be a great resource to learn business marketing from!

Full Disclosure: I represent Burt as Sole Agent for his products/services, which means if YOU buy from him, I get paid.

But that’s NOT the main reason I represent and recommend him. I have benefited in many ways by learning from Burt. Through his writing, his audio recordings,

and from directly relating with him.

Before we teamed up in 2011, I’d been studying his work and adapting it to succeed in my work from way back in 2002. It does not matter what part of the world

you’re in. If you know how to adapt them to suit your peculiar local needs, Burt’s ideas and strategies WILL work for you. I am living proof of it!

That’s why I never tire of CONFIDENTLY recommending him to others.

If you need help putting the ideas shared above to use, let me know HERE.

Click here to tell me which of Burt’s speaker mentoring products or services you are interested

in.

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

Learn about Burt Dubin’s speaker mentoring products (books, audios etc) below…

If you need help purchasing ANY of Burt’s products (like “Presentation

Magic”), call me on +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic, my base) or +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or email tayo@tksola.com

Have a great week :-))

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

SPECIAL PRODUCT FEATURE

“Inside Speaking Business Success Secrets”

In this offer, Burt Dubin promises to show you how to generate PASSIVE incomes streams WHETHER

YOU SPEAK OR NOT. Plus, you learn a proven shortcut to top level speaking business success across corporate markets.

So, with diligent persistent application of what you learn you’ll start (as Burt says)…”bringing home high speaking fees”…whether you speak or not…in

a matter of weeks….

Sooner than later you’ll find you’re ready to go for Burt’s mentoring at Diamond or

higher Inner Circle membership level.

The best part is: every cent of your fee to purchase this product counts toward your membership in Burt’s Inner Circle.

In other words, you effectively get to eat your cake and still have it!

CLICK HERE to get full details of what it takes to make yourself a true

speaking business champion in Burt’s Boot Camp V: Inside Speaking Business Success Secrets

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

Get Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring
for Africa Based Experts(PDF…Click!)

Useful Resources for Speakers

177 Wow! Wow!

Showmanship Stratagems

Discover these secrets of making your programs more interesting and valuable to your clients and audiences now.

more information

Burt’s Flagship Album

This is the product to own if you can own only one. Why? Because in it you discover principles of platform

mastership available to you nowhere else at any price.

You hear performance strategies you can emulate. You shorten your learning curve. You see ways to engage and

delight audiences with both content and stories . . . plus you experience a bit of fun.

With its Money back if not delighted Guarantee hardly any are returned.

Find out why

Presentation Magic

A live example, including a complete audio recording of a program Burt created from scratch–on a topic he knew nothing about and never, ever presented before!

See how you, guided by your personal Learning Guide, (Presentation Magic), can do this too and thrill audiences as often as you want.

Presentation Magic Manual with new pages added plus 3 audio CDs.

more information

How To Create a Great Program Manual

Discover how you can produce a precious memento of you and your program. Capture over 44 model pages you can easily adapt for your use. Engage proven

principles that add value to the experience of sitting at your feet and learning from you.

This is a reprise of the historic presentation that launched the Speaking Success System.

No copy of this 2 CD program and 50 page Learning Guide has ever been returned.

more information

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NEW: Speaking Ideas: 25 Articles and True Stories for Experts Who Speak and Those

Aspiring (Volume 1)

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NEW: KUKURU DANGER™: 5 True Stories

About the Adventures – & Misadventures! – of a School Age Child Trying to Find Purpose in Life

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THEY WROTE…

—————————–

“Tayo, I honestly believe you are one of those who will succeed at anything he does. Your commitment and effort has been outstanding….Thanks for all your hard

work since I’ve been here – you will be sorely missed. I don’t need to wish you good luck, you have the ability to make your own luck. – Andy”(R. Jones)*

*Operations Manager, Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery, December 2001 (Handwritten comments in farewell/xmas cards sent to Tayo Solagbade following his resignation to

start his own business).

———————–

Click here to contact Tayo…


SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 221: CEO Spotlight Interview With Burt Dubin, USA Based 91 Year Old Creator of the Speaking Success System™, and Mentor to Some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers [FREE PDF & VIDEO]
[Tuesday]:	To Make More Money You Need to Study Your Buyers
[Wednesday]:	THE FARM CEO (Issue 26): Farm CEOs Lack of Sales and Marketing Savvy REMAINS a major problem, Products (e.g. Delicious Chin Chin) made from Cassava – Going beyond Fufu, Gari etc, Agro Nigeria: a 100% Nigerian magazine on Agriculture, 300 Ha Pineapple Plantation in Nigeria’s Calabar – Rivers State, Specialty Fats & Oils Made From Different Parts of the Palm Fruit [FREE Download – Complimentary: Special Issue. Agra Innovate Exhibition Visit Report]
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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to

Farm Businesses and others.

freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the

popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm

Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in

various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods

and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly

traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training

& Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’

competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy Limited.

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African

continent).

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your

personal and work related productivity.

====
[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

==================

Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring

for Africa Based Experts(PDF…Click!)

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No. 221: CEO Spotlight Interview With Burt Dubin, USA Based 91 Year Old Creator of the Speaking Success System™, and Mentor to Some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers [FREE PDF & VIDEO]

November 30, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

UPDATE (15TH DEC. 2015 @ 2100): Click here to watch the 4 part video version of this interview.

[STARTS]

Tayo: Hi Burt. Thank you for accepting to respond to questions on my CEO Spotlight Interview. I feel truly honoured. Can you give us an introduction of yourself?

Burt: Thank you for investing a few moments of your life with me. I am Burt Dubin, long-time student of the human condition. My special focus in the human mind and its potential. Brain-mind science is the name I coined for the object of my study.

Most people are ordinary mortals. They dwell in a shrouded world. They are unaware, and evidently do not want to know, the higher truths of human existence.

About 2400 years ago, Plato was the disciple of Socrates. He wrote the words and observations Socrates shared with him. His observations regarding the human condition are in the sixth book of his Magnum Opus, The Republic.

If you choose to Google Plato’s Cave, you can see for yourself dozens of views of the life of ordinary mortals as perceived by Socrates and related by Plato.

Tayo (Q 1a): Why did you write BUST LOOSE? Why now and not before?

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[STARTS]

Tayo: Hi Burt. Thank you for accepting to respond to questions on my CEO Spotlight Interview. I feel truly honoured. Can you give us an introduction of yourself?

Burt: Thank you for investing a few moments of your life with me. I am Burt Dubin, long-time student of the human condition. My special focus in the human mind and its potential. Brain-mind science is the name I coined for the object of my study.

Most people are ordinary mortals. They dwell in a shrouded world. They are unaware, and evidently do not want to know, the higher truths of human existence.

About 2400 years ago, Plato was the disciple of Socrates. He wrote the words and observations Socrates shared with him. His observations regarding the human condition are in the sixth book of his Magnum Opus, The Republic.

If you choose to google Plato’s Cave, you can see for yourself dozens of views of the life of ordinary mortals as perceived by Socrates and related by Plato.

Tayo (Q 1a): Why did you write BUST LOOSE? Why now and not before?

In this issue No: 221 of my Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, I publish my 2nd CEO Spotlight Interview, this time with Burt Dubin, Creator of the Speaking Success System™.

He shares inspiring insights from his wealth of wisdom, in response to my questions about success/personal achievement, dealing with adversity, his new book titled “Bust Loose”, as well as age/aging as it relates to living a purpose-driven life.

Click here to download the PDF and continue reading…

NB: A video trailer version of this interview, with Burt Dubin answering EACH question in his own voice is currently being put together.

Once it is ready, I will publish it in my Youtube channel, and post the update on my website, this blog and other channels (Facebook etc).

Click here to join my mailing list so as to get notified via email broadcast once it goes LIVE.

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This newsletter (which I use to promote Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Products/Services) serves

experts-who-speak. Starting – Monday 13th April 2015 – it MORPHED in name and content served, to a 2 part Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, to better serve them.

You just read the “Public Speaking IDEAS” part above. What follows below is the “Web Marketing IDEAS” part.

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Question: But who is Burt Dubin, and why do I (Tayo K. Solagbade) think you should you learn from

him?

Answer: Burt is a 3 decade veteran in the professional speaking business. After achieving top level cross continental success as an

expert-speaker, he has established a reputation for mentoring some of the highest paid speakers in the world. He owns SpeakingBizSuccess.com, SpeakingSuccess.com and BurtDubin.com.

Burt helps those he mentors (experts-who-speak) to Position, Package, Promote, and Present* themselves successfully to clients (*He calls

them the 4Ps). That’s why it’s no surprise that on Burt’s website, considerable space capital is devoted to useful business marketing articles as well as products.

It might also interest you to know that MANY years back, Burt established himself as one of the best marketing minds in the world. To really put this FACT in

proper perspective, I’ll provide more specific details in form of an example.

Trout, Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver…and Burt Dubin.

That’s ample proof that (in addition to Public Speaking), Burt would be a great resource to learn business marketing from!

Full Disclosure: I represent Burt as Sole Agent for his products/services, which means if YOU buy from him, I get paid.

But that’s NOT the main reason I represent and recommend him. I have benefited in many ways by learning from Burt. Through his writing, his audio recordings,

and from directly relating with him.

Before we teamed up in 2011, I’d been studying his work and adapting it to succeed in my work from way back in 2002. It does not matter what part of the world

you’re in. If you know how to adapt them to suit your peculiar local needs, Burt’s ideas and strategies WILL work for you. I am living proof of it!

That’s why I never tire of CONFIDENTLY recommending him to others.

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Have a great week :-))

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Discover how you can produce a precious memento of you and your program. Capture over 44 model pages you can easily adapt for your use. Engage proven

principles that add value to the experience of sitting at your feet and learning from you.

This is a reprise of the historic presentation that launched the Speaking Success System.

No copy of this 2 CD program and 50 page Learning Guide has ever been returned.

more information

*******

NEW: Speaking Ideas: 25 Articles and True Stories for Experts Who Speak and Those

Aspiring (Volume 1)

Download above PDF

******

NEW: KUKURU DANGER™: 5 True Stories

About the Adventures – & Misadventures! – of a School Age Child Trying to Find Purpose in Life

Download above PDF

THEY WROTE…

—————————–

“Tayo, I honestly believe you are one of those who will succeed at anything he does. Your commitment and effort has been outstanding….Thanks for all your hard

work since I’ve been here – you will be sorely missed. I don’t need to wish you good luck, you have the ability to make your own luck. – Andy”(R. Jones)*

*Operations Manager, Guinness Nigeria Plc Benin Brewery, December 2001 (Handwritten comments in farewell/xmas cards sent to Tayo Solagbade following his resignation to

start his own business).

———————–

Click here to contact Tayo…


SD Nuggets Blog™	New posts from last week that may interest you! *
Public Speaking[Monday]:	No. 220: Successful Speakers are Voracious Readers [Hint: My Experience Based Tips on “What to Read”, as well as “How and When to Read”]
[Tuesday]:	Your 2016 Calendar/Meeting Planner Printed at Zero Cost [Hint: See Examples of Mine]
[Wednesday]:	THE FARM CEO (Issue 25): Feed Ingredients: Consideration of Alternatives When Facing Increased Price Volatility, More Bird Flu Found in Nigeria’s Rivers Area, Best Practice in the Breeder House: Preventing Floor Eggs, ThePoultrySite Recipe Section, Poultry farmers in a soup over higher input costs
[Thursday]:	[Highlights from 2015 Agra Innovate Exhibition] Farm CEOs Lack of Sales and Marketing Savvy REMAINS a major problem, Products made from Cassava – Going beyond fufu, gari and other basic food items, AgroNigeria – a 100% indigenous magazine on Agriculture…Details Coming Soon!
[Friday]:	How a Hilarious definition of “Black Friday” Made Me Offer THIS Black Friday Sale on TayoSolagbade.com [True Story \| Goodies Inside!]
[Saturday]:	[VIDEO] How To Get The URL for a FACEBOOK Post, status or comment
[Sunday]:	CEO Spotlight Interview with Burt Dubin, Renowned USA based 91 Year Old Mentor of Some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers [Coming Mon 30th November 2015]
Want me to write for you? Click here to send me a message

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Sole Agent For Burt Dubin’s Speaker Mentoring Service In Africa

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to

Farm Businesses and others.

freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the

popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm

Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in

various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods

and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly

traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars

and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer, to Training

& Technical Development Manager, and then later acted in senior management roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’

competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy Limited.

newsletter(which he uses to promote Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts working across the African

continent).

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your

personal and work related productivity.

====
[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

==================

Burt Dubin’s Public Speaking Mentoring

for Africa Based Experts(PDF…Click!)

Career Development, Entrepreneurship, Excel-VB Solutions, General, Interviews, My DN Travel News, Public Speaking, Self-Development, Writing/Blogging

CEO Spotlight Interview with Burt Dubin, Renowned USA based 91 Year Old Mentor of Some of the World’s Highest Paid Speakers [Coming Mon 30th November 2015]

November 29, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

When a 91 year old with over a half century track record of exceptional self-made success in sales, sales management, public speaking and international speaker mentoring, publishes a book on Personal Achievement, wise others pay serious attention!

Tomorrow Monday, 30th November 2015, in Issue No: 221 of my Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, I will publish the full unedited text of my 2nd CEO Spotlight Interview, this time with Burt Dubin, Creator of the Speaking Success System.

He shares inspiring insights from his wealth of wisdom, in response to my questions about success/personal achievement, dealing with adversity, his new book titled “Bust Loose”, as well as age/aging as it relates to living a purpose-driven life.

For now I leave you some background information and links to give you an idea of who Burt is:

1. Last year, to commemorate his 90th birthday, the Las Vegas chapter of the National Speakers Association in the USA, organized an event in his honor.

The link below features highlights from a humour based presentation made on that day by a good friend, and professional colleague of Burt Dubin.

http://www.humorpower.com/blog/2014/07/observational-humor-case-study-121/

2. Burt Dubin Quick Facts:

Author of the Speaking Success System, a 3 volume, 800+ page collection of tools, keys and techniques that yield success in the business of speaking.

Mentor, coach, consultant to hundreds of fellow professional speakers on 4 continents.

Burt Dubin works with people who want to be paid speakers and with speakers who want to be masters.

Those who know him consider him to be a master of the craft of speaking for money.

He is recognized as a master educator. His Speaking Success System, in use on 4 continents and in 2 island nations,is now the world standard against which all others are evaluated

Click here to read more quick facts on Burt on his SelfGrowth.com profile.

Visit Burt’s website:

http://www.SpeakingBizSuccess.com

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Full Disclosure

I must not fail to add, in the interest of full disclosure, that Burt Dubin is my mentor, and several years ago, we teamed up so I could promote his speaker mentoring solutions to experts-who-speak, and those aspiring.

PS: By way of interest, Burt Dubin is mentor to Efe Ohwofasa

Efe is a UK Based Nigerian born Professional Speaker, Business Growth Coach and Marketing Consultant with an amazing rags to riches story.

Just this past week, Efe hosted UK based CEOs and Independent Consultants to a business seminar sponsored by Bournemouth Chamber of Trade & Commerce (1st of its kind in its over 100 year history).

Efe will be my 3rd CEO Spotlight Interview Guest.

Click below to read a recent piece I did on Efe:

No. 218: Meet a Nigerian Expert Who Speaks to – and Coaches – British CEOs to Succeed

Excel-VB Solutions, General, My DN Travel News, Self-Development, Writing/Blogging

[VIDEO] How To Get The URL for a FACEBOOK Post, status or comment

November 28, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Sometimes you want to tell OTHERS about a certain Facebook post, that interested you.

The “Share” feature does NOT work in cases when you need to share the Post in a comment or outside Facebook(e.g. via email).

You NEED the URL of the Facebook post.

Do you know “How to get the URL or Link of a Facebook post or status”?

The video linked below, published via my Youtube channel on Dec 7, 2011, demonstrates the steps I described in the answer to my first FACEBOOK PRODUCTIVITY QUESTION (posted 4th December 2011) – reproduced above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w1RZyg4VOA

Many who have watched the video found it useful enough to take a few seconds to say so in the comments area.

That’s why I’m publishing it on this blog for others to benefit from.

Please share with others.

What Exactly Does It Mean To Get Into “Flow” Or “The Zone”?(My Handball Semi-Final Match Case Study)

How Does This Relate To Getting Into Flow/The Zone?

Peak Performing As An Entrepreneur

Getting Into “Flow/The Zone” Is NOT About Being(Or Becoming) Absent Minded!

Getting Into “Flow” During Intellectual Activity Results In “Mental Ecstasy”

Steps You Can Follow To Get Yourself Into Flow/The Zone Deliberately & More Frequently

Knowing How To Get Into The Zone Will Help You Deliver Desired Results Under Pressure

Final Words: A Person In Flow/The Zone Will Make Doing What S/he Does Look Easier Than It Really Is

Useful References

I’ll start by debunking a myth:

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – To Write Productively, Develop the Ability to Do Your Best Writing At Will

I’ll start by debunking a myth:

In other words, noise (in various forms) is a constant reality from which little chance of escape exists out here. Yet, some of us still produce results matching those of our contemporaries in less hostile climes.

One Example: A few weeks ago, I had a international phone conversation with an African born expert-who-speaks, who lives and works outside Africa

And that’s the truth: Human beings can be extremely adaptable when driven by desire and passion!

It is for this reason that I say the idea of finding the right time (and even place) to write is a luxury few writers can afford, if they really want to excel.

To make matters worse, there is little or no regulation of noise pollution in this part of the world,

Most of us out here think nothing of it, but being able to block out “noise” to get our work done, is a powerful ability that ensures we can achieve desired outcomes under literally any conditions.

Having said that, even out here, we STILL differ in terms of the DEGREE to which we can thrive under hardship…

I say this as one who has had to live this VERY complicated life, for YEARS, to the extent that I have to get my writing done under crazy – and I do mean CRAZY – conditions.

In each instance, described above, the prevailing conditions mattered little to me. All I just needed was enough space to open the laptop and begin to do my writing.

Clients will expect you to do what it takes – no matter what challenges you may come up against.

The above implies that to deliver desired results consistently, you must become able to do your BEST writing, at will.

In reality, all it takes to get started with writing at WILL, is to do just that: GET STARTED!

It so happens that I have a widely syndicated article that explains how to do just that (i.e. get into flow).

A more recent article I wrote on the same theme is titled “To Effortlessly Do More, Get Into Flow (Or The Zone)!“

PS: By way of interest, and as indicated in the title of this issue, I’m back on LinkedIn.com

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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:

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:

This post spells out requirements any client interested in taking up my offer to create branded PDF calendar/meeting planner using images s/he supplies MUST conform with.

What follows below is based on the verbatim email message I sent to the client whose images I had the problem with.

The article linked below is one that I wrote several years (on September 03, 2007) back…

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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – Dealing With Adversity Requires The Right Mental Attitude [Hint: Crappy TV Content Damages Character]

However, I AM a parent, as well as an expert-who-speaks, with a vision and passion to influence others (in my personal/work life) to make the most of themselves.

What I’m writing about in this issue, regarding TV content is something that’s much more harmful…

However, the reality is that WINNING in ANY area of endeavor requires that WE LEARN TO BE TOUGH.

I have personally benefittted from being exposed to such inspiring stories via TV, and they gave me courage to NOT quit, during the darkest hours of my struggles.

What irked me most was that very rarely did the story lines involve the “victims” ever taking action to fight back or find a solution to their problems by themselves.

Just what kind of mental attitude does this encourage those who dutifully watch movies of this kind to have, in thinking about challenges they encounter in life???

As a parent, you have a duty to encourage your kids to SEE beyond that lie told in such TV programmes, so they learn as early as possible in life to challenge themselves, to achieve the goals they want in life.

I know actors and producers do what they do to earn a living. However, they need to pay more attention to the potentially negative impact their content may have on their viewers.

Let me end this piece with the quote in the graphic below, from Burt Dubin, about using what he calls “Bulldog blood” to overcome adversity, and achieve your goal:

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