Self-Devpt. Nuggets™

Experience sharing is a powerful way to coach and influence. And it works quite well for people of all ages. I know this from years of using it successfully, both in and out of paid employment.

You most likely have had many experiences that would interest, entertain and at the same time educate your child, and other people around you – even adults.

However, if you do not offer to share them, people who can benefit will never know you offer such useful wisdom, and insights.

The world will be a better place if more of us deliberately tap into our wealth of past experiences, especially way back to our childhood years, to coach others.

The growing up period and process can be very confusing from most children.

Hearing stories from established adults about how they also struggled to find meaning, and eventually take their places/make their marks in the world, can be both encouraging, and inspiring to kids, and young people.

I believe we do not currently do enough “Experience Sharing”…

Through my parenting articles and books, as well as my Personal Success Achievement Coaching for Kids (PACK)™ program, I intend to do my bit.

Indeed, I’ve since begun doing it with my kids as the first coachees.

In the past, I’d done it informally. But in observing my kids, I recalled reading that Andrew Carnegie said teaching kids success principles (like those discussed in Hill’s “Think & Grow Rich”), can help them emerge better prepared to excel in life.

And that’s what made me decide to do it formally.

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You’re reading THIS because I’ve resolved to embrace my God-given gift for helping people in this manner.

Testimonials from those I’ve helped in the past (some reproduced below) previously used to strike me as rather exaggerated.

“…I really miss you sir, your words of encouragement, your pressures, your drive, your humor and everything about you. But in consolation, I try so hard to follow your footsteps, which I have been doing little by little, and I am sometimes amazed at the things I do…I look up to you, and really desire to someday dedicate a major success in my life to you, for the little while I spent with you has been a turning point in my life. I will always be grateful to you. “ – Obadiaru, Osawemwenze (2002 email excerpt. Served one year Internship when Tayo was Training & Technical Development Manager in Guinness Nigeria, Benin).

“…Through you I knew the difference between Schooling and Education and it’s also through you that I knew that mathematics as a subject can be answered in many ways. I am very grateful.” – Ifeanyi Okeke, SS3 Student, Volunteer Corps (VC) Tutoring Project: Handwritten comment in memoirs section of VC Year Book published in 2003.

“…you made me understand what the world speaks.” – Adepoju Samson, SS3 Student, Volunteer Corps (VC) Tutoring Project: Handwritten comment in 2013 VC Year Book.

“Mr Tayo Solagbade…he has educated me so that he had touched that thing in me that motivates me.” – , SS3 Student VC Tutoring Project: Handwritten comment in 2013 VC Year Book.

“The speaker, Mr Solagbade, is an authority in his field. (He is) an achiever who is able to carry his audience along with him in his message/speech” – Baker A.T, Confidential Secretary, Centre for Management Development(CMD), Lagos.

“There’s a lot more to learn (experience wise) from the speaker(Tayo Solagbade)…Honestly, he gave so much within a short time. I learnt a lot without writing much. It’s amazing!” – Management Trainee, Tantalisers (Fast Foods Restaurant), Festac Headquarters, Lagos. [Handwritten comment on speaker feedback form]

“The training was a new dimension to the act of personal effectiveness, was less of theory but of tested and proven principles. Keep it up!“- Oluwakemi, Management Trainee, Tantalisers (Fast Foods Restaurant), Festac Headquarters, Lagos.

“This is an academy that will go a long way in helping to develop the youths of this country. Keep up the good work.” – Alake Oluwayemisi, Management Trainee, Tantalisers

“(Tayo) is a very good speaker who was able to communicate his (ideas) effectively without boring me and wasting no time. Within the short time he spent, he gave loaded and relevant information/(ideas) which were superb.” – Management Trainee, Tantalizers.

“The presenter was superb. He dealt with the topic extensively, citing real life experiences that (were) personal to him.” – Management Trainee, Tantalisers.

“The facilitator (Tayo Solagbade) has done so well, and he has made me to feel that the sky is not my limit but the start, if I can apply all the personal effectiveness principles appropriately.” – Onifade Olajide, – Management Trainee, Tantalisers.

In truth, when I got most of the above outline testimonials, I often felt I’d done nothing special.

Back then I wondered why they had to make all the fuss, thanking me in person and sending emails to say even more.

As the years passed however, and I saw the difference my impact made in the lives of people I coached informally, their feedback began to make more sense to me.

Today, I want to help as many other young (and even those not so young!) people willing to walk what today is the least traveled – but surest – path to authentic success achievement in life!

The achievements I’ve recorded in life, since the troubled early years of my youth are based on corrective guidance received from my parents and other well meaning adults while I was growing up.

I built on the hard lessons of my past, and applied the principles and philosophies I learnt by studying books like Think & Grow Rich.

Those actions led me to subsequently record successes in virtually every area of endeavor I’ve ventured since then – with support from the Creator.

And every step of the way, my resolve to continue being a source of pride to my parents has never wavered.

My vision is to inspire others to adopt a similar mental attitude, so they can make the most of themselves, in a manner that causes their parents and the larger society to be proud of them.

That’s why I’m formally launching my confidential Spontaneous Coaching™ support service.

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