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1 of 2: PUBLIC SPEAKING – To Achieve Extraordinary Feats, Be Prepared to Overcome Extraordinary Trials! [Hint: That’s Why You Need Practical Guiding Philosophies to Pursue Success]

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny” – C.S (Clive Staples) Lewis, 20th century British novelist, poet, literary critic, theologian, broadcaster, lecturer (November 29, 1898 to November 22, 1963)

The above C.S. Lewis quote was shared by a Facebook friend, on her wall, with a question asking if her observation that most successful people have often “been through the absolute worst times” was correct.

Something about the way she made wrote it got me thinking, that not everyone aspiring to success will readily understand why they should accept severe trials, and hardships as necessary stepping stones to achieve their valued goals.

So I wrote THIS piece to explain…

In my case, I learnt that truth by studying books about authentic success achievement, during the darkest days of my struggles as a startup/struggling entrepreneur.

Without the insights I gained from doing that diligent self-education, and the understanding they helped me develop about the need to have a GUIDING PHILOSOPHY for pursuing the success I wanted, I am convinced I would NOT be succeeding the way I am today.

Over 12 years on, since I quit paid employment to start my own business, I am able to build on my successes with confidence and determination, regardless of delays, disappointments or setbacks I encounter.

Without the success philosophies I read and adapted to suit my needs, I would have fallen by the wayside a LONG time ago!

The harsh economic times we’re in are TESTING people to the limits of their confidence, patience and self-belief…

I draw from my personal experiences and studies/investigations, including references and quotes, to explain why, if you want great success, you will most likely, as a matter of necessity have to endure great adversity BEFORE you achieve whatever dreams you set your mind on.

I know this because I made out time to carefully investigate it from my early startup years as a novice entrepreneur.

Among other things, I did a lot of reading e.g. Napoleon Hill’s Think & Grow Rich, Cynthia Kersey’s bestseller “UNSTOPPABLE!” (which tell 45 amazing true stories of entrepreneurs who overcame great suffering to succeed) as well as James Cook’s New York Times Bestseller “The Startup Entrepreneur”.

What I learnt helped me learn how to deal with frequent and prolonged hard times I faced in my business till I gained mastery that enabled me succeed more often.

As time went on, I found, by reflecting on my own experiences, that the authors of those books were right.

In past writings, I’ve noted that James Cook stated in “The Startup Entrepreneur” findings from his personal experiences as an entrepreneur, as well as his research into the lives of over 500 successful entrepreneurs in America.

Among other insights, Cook found that there is a direct correlation between the degree of suffering an entrepreneur goes through and the height of success s/he eventually achieves.

According to him, the greater the suffering, the greatest the height of eventual success achievement.

Jim Rohn, in one of his book explained why the above happens by saying:

“Be grateful for adversity, for it forces the human spirit to grow…there cannot be achievement in the absence of adversity.” –
Jim Rohn

Anyone who wants to achieve sustainable long term success in any area of endeavour in life needs to understand, accept and apply these truths and philosophies in his/her life.

Those who do never feel a need to complain when the going gets tough, because the know it’s going to make them better equipped to succeed.

What I’ve found is that many people do NOT know this truth before they embark on their journey into tough, unpredictable world of business/entrepreneurship.

And that’s why most of the allow hard times they encounter to discourage and make them quit.

Napoleon Hill noted that it’s important to have a guiding philosophy you adhere to (like that outlined in his classic bestseller – Think and Grow Rich), in pursuit of your valued goal, especially to keep you going through adversity or failure which is also known as “Temporary Defeat”.

Below: Cover image for my recently published CEO Spotlight Interview with Efe Ohwofasa…

Efe’s amazing rags to riches life story perfectly illustrates the point I’ve made in this write up about the need for you to RESOLVE to overcome hardships in your life, till you succeed.

Click here, or below to read his story, and be inspired to defeat ANY trials you encounter!

[LEARN MORE] Read the articles linked below…

In some of them, I referred to excerpts from the books mentioned above.

1. To Succeed, Understand That Suffering Can Be Good for You!

2. No. 223: Dealing With Adversity Requires The Right Mental Attitude

3. Why You May Want to Rejoice When Others Mock You

4. Do You Know How To Deal With People Who Mock And Ridicule You?

5. How To DEFEAT Haters – Permanently!

6. Why You May Want To Rejoice When Others Mock You!

7. Practical Guiding Philosophies For Entrepreneurial Success

8. Handle Your Problems Without Drama!

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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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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 current affairs and politics, because those are the two key ingredients that really keep this country from having a stable sociopolitical climate.
And for as long as that stable sociopolitical climate does not exist, every person running a business will probably have to sleep with one eye open.” – Tayo K.

Solagbade

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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.

A few years ago, Burt contributed an article to a powerful publication titled “The Most Effective Articles Ever – By The World’s Top Marketers“. That 574 page ebook features timeless marketing advice from 71 of the world’s top marketers – including Jack

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!

Click here to read TONS of Burt’s useful articles on professional public speaking and business marketing.

While there, be sure to download his audio experiences (MP3) on the right. Most importantly, take a few moments to use the link provided on the top right, below the banner, to send Burt a message, about your needs and interest in his mentoring solutions.

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.

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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).

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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.

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 Public Speaking IDEAS

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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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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