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

Monday 7th November 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 039: To Succeed Exceptionally, LEARN Shamelessly AND Take ACTION Persistently!

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

Calvin Coolidge

Your ability to deal with repeat exposure to rejection and other forms of adversity in your personal or work life is more important than ANY academic credentials you may possess or plan to acquire.

Anyone who tells you anything different from what I have stated in the preceding paragraph would be deceiving you.

If you did not know that truth before, take it from me NOW – if you want to insure yourself against failure in life.

Historical records dating back many centuries show clearly that a person with marketable ideas who lacks money can often find – if s/he persists long enough – success in using those ideas to make money and/or find success in any area of endeavour.

This is why we have in history today, legends about great people who rose from grace to grass, starting with nothing and building massive success in various fields. I do not need to mention examples. Too many abound – and I’m sure that in YOUR own society there are a few that come readily to your mind.

What irks me however, and which makes me write on this subject in this week’s issue of my newsletter is the manner in which so many people, especially well schooled people, continue to think and act without learning from the MANY examples of people succeeding in spite of the seeming handicap of a lack of money, lack of formal schooling, lack of connections etc.

These otherwise intelligent well schooled people see themselves achieving average success levels in comparison to others who lack their level of formal education and exposure, yet they refuse to take the pains to study those others to find out what makes them succeed better.

One would have expected that their “education” would make them more willing to indulge in ANALYZING success to find out how to make it happen for themselves at higher levels and with more predictability.

Instead what I see A LOT, especially in my part of the world, is that most of these schooled people are continually in denial. They seem to have an ego investment in NOT acknowledging that what they have seems not to have prepared them well enough to excel better than those who lack it.

Quite often I see them try to explain away or rationalize the otherwise undeniably exceptional successes of those less schooled or less exposed others. They would say things like “he was just lucky; it’s God’s grace etc”

The questions I always ask them include:

1. WHY can’t you get lucky like him/her?

2. What stops you from benefiting from God’s grace in the same manner as him/her?

3. Don’t you think you need to take a closer look at him/her to really identify and understand what s/he is doing that you may need to adopt as well?

Most times I get nothing but a dismissal of my questions and suggestions.

Little wonder that most of those guilty of behaving in the above manner rarely ever go on to achieve any notable successes in their personal or work lives.

Guess what?

I am well schooled, and continue to explore as many avenues as possible to improve my knowledge and education. However, I have found myself able to succeed much faster by dispensing with any arrogant notions about who I can learn from or acknowledge as knowing more than I do.

This has made it VERY easy for me to get close to those who I identify to be doing better, so I can shamelessly learn as much as I can from them.

That mental attitude has made me completely blind to the need to check for a person’s social or financial status in deciding whether or not to relate with him/her.

In addition, I have used my extensive study of books written by authentic achievers in various fields, to build myself up in terms of how I see challenges that come my way when I try to put what I learn from others into use.

The greatest lesson I’ve learned in the above process has been that, those who achieved their success by starting with nothing (e.g. growing their wealth from the ground up) NEVER let repeated setbacks, delays or disappointments stop them.

They simply kept going – and always stayed open to LEARNING from any authentic person(s) regardless of status, until they made it.

This insight has been the key to my ability to bounce back to success and reckoning after myriad visitations of adversity in every area of Endeavour I have ever ventured in my life. As an entrepreneur, it is the main reason I remain completely unstoppable – no matter what happens to me.

That’s why I thrive in hard as well as good economic times. If you want to be able to get similar results, I recommend you form the habit of doing the things I’ve described above in your life as well.

You will be pleasantly surprised by the results you get!

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SDN Blog™

New posts from last week*

Monday:

[Tuesday]:

[Wednesday]:

[Thursday]:

[Friday]:

[FREE PDF DOWNLOAD] Screenshot PDF Userguide for Excel-VB Driven Monthly Poultry Farm Manager™ – Created by Tayo K. Solagbade

[Saturday]:

[Download Free PDF]: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

[Sunday]:

THE FARM CEO (Issue 64): Africa Agribusiness Insights Survey 2016 (PDF), We need more agribusiness in Africa, Agribusiness in Sub-Saharan Africa (PDF)

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

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

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

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

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.

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

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

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

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

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.

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[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:

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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