“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale (NVP)

Life is not a bed of roses. Good fortune does not just fall into people’s laps.

As many who have succeeded authentically in this world will tell you, it takes work, often a lot of hard work, to make it in life.

It does not matter how talented, gifted, intelligent or connected you are. If you’re going to make a memorable impact in any area of endeavour you venture in life, you WILL have to push yourself to do more than the average person does or will do. That is what it takes to stand out and excel.

The above is why the kids of many rich and wealthy people do not always go on to be successful in their own right. Many end up squandering the wealth and resources, even the goodwill built by their parents over the years, once the latter pass on. I’m sure you can point to one or two examples you know in your society – or indeed your neighbourhood.

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Monday 20th June 2016

NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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PII 019: Success is NOT Hereditary – and There is NO Gene Associated With Poverty [Hint: That’s Why This Former Street Hawker Turned International Business Coach Is Launching an Academy to Help Others Succeed!]

 

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale (NVP)

Life is not a bed of roses. Good fortune does not just fall into people’s laps.

As many who have succeeded authentically in this world will tell you, it takes work, often a lot of hard work, to make it in life.

It does not matter how talented, gifted, intelligent or connected you are. If you’re going to make a memorable impact in any area of endeavour you venture in life, you WILL have to push yourself to do more than the average person does or will do. That is what it takes to stand out and excel.

The above is why the kids of many rich and wealthy people do not always go on to be successful in their own right. Many end up squandering the wealth and resources, even the goodwill built by their parents over the years, once the latter pass on. I’m sure you can point to one or two examples you know in your society – or indeed your neighbourhood.

So, success is not hereditary. We cannot pass it from parent to offspring. In the same way, there is no scientific evidence to indicate that there is a gene associated with poverty.

This explains why some people become stupendously rich in their adult lives, despite having been raised in conditions of near crippling poverty.

In essence therefore, what I am saying is that success is not something that can be predetermined or prevented for any person. The individual determines whether or not s/he will succeed. To paraphrase the famous saying: S/he is the master of her fate – the captain of her soul.

Whatever you become in life will be the result of the efforts you were willing to make to achieve your God-given potential. Nothing outside of you can stop you from manifesting your fullest potential and accomplishing any goals you set for yourself.

The key to leveraging the foregoing truths is however your ability to THINK the right way to attract the success you seek, and to BELIEVE that you can bring your thoughts to manifest the reality you desire.

That was what NVP meant in his quote that I began this piece with.

So, if you want to succeed in spite of any obstacles you may ever encounter in life, there are 2 main things you must do at all time:

• Don’t Have/Keep an Empty Head

This means you need to be a thinker. The book “Think and Grow Rich” has been read by many millions and counting. It has made most who applied what they read in it, to achieve success beyond their wildest dreams. The testimonials cut across societies, cultures, and races.

You need to know how to take control of your thoughts and channel them in a way that attracts what you want to you, while repelling what you do not want from you.

Get that book and read it. I read it over 20 times from cover to cover, until I internalised most parts of it to the point that I could recall them as needed for inspiration. The result was that I developed the ability to progress no matter what. Read that book. You will thank me later!

• Don’t Have an Empty Heart

Having an empty heart means lacking passion. When you do not do what you love, you will not be able to put what we call your “heart and soul” into it. When you cannot do that, it will often be difficult to continue doing that activity that you are engaged in.

This is the nature of the human being. We need passion to be able to persevere in doing something – especially during the inevitable difficult times!

So, if you want success, you must invest quality thinking time to identify what your heart tells you is your PASSION. That will be something that you enjoy and WILL enjoy doing, no matter how bad things may ever get for you. No matter what you lack, or what you lose, you will REMAIN ever so passionate about doing it.

Only this way will you be sure of keeping yourself HUNGRY to succeed in any area of endeavour you choose to venture.

No matter how badly life treats you, doing the 2 things mentioned above CAN – and WILL – help you turn your fortunes around for the better, IF you do them right.

There are so many successful people who have told their life stories that confirm the accuracy of the above statement.

You can come up with a few names yourself I’m sure. Both in your country and out of it. It goes without saying that I know a good number myself, and have studied many of them to build my own success despite the severe visitations of prolonged adversity I encountered, especially over the past 14 years in self-employment.

However, every now and then I come across a true story of someone who applied the above steps to succeed, and the details of the experience he had really impress me.

One such person is UK based Business Coach, Professional Speaker and Marketing Consultant – Efe Ohwofasa.

Efe is a client whose work I’m promoting, because I believe in his brand.

We’ve never met in the flesh since he reached out to me in 2013. I’ve now worked remotely with him now for about 8 months on 2 projects.

His amazing rag to riches success story has really touched me, and when he told me about his project to give back in Africa, I decided to go the extra mile to do my bit to help out.

Below is a message I’ve been sending out.

If you can spare the time from your busy schedule – help spread the word if you know any persons or groups/associations/­organisations in the Benin – Delta area that may be interested.

There are plans to roll out in Lagos, Abuja and other cities. So we’ve been trying to connect with partners.

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If you’re In Nigeria’s Delta State or Environs, DO NOT Miss This Life Changing Learning Event (on Sat 25th June 2016) Hosted by Efe Ohwofasa – Who Once Hawked Garri, Yams and Plantain On the Streets of Sapele, to Pay His School Fees, But is Today a Respected International Business Coach Serving CEOs in the UK and beyond!

Get full details, including a downloadable press release at www.efeohwofasa.com/lsb [Even if you can’t go, tell others who can!]

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