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Choosing The Right Role Models for Success Achievement – What to Look For [Case Study: 21 year old Ibadan-based Nigerian freelance writer/blogger, who earns thousands of dollars writing for international clients AND also makes money from a Catfish Farm Business he started 1 year ago!]

October 22, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

Quick Take Away

As far as I’m concerned, due to the TRULY international dimension of the success he enjoys as a freelance writer/blogger, earning steady income in thousands of dollars by CREATING 100% original value adding content for high profile and discerning international clients, coupled with his successful investment of his earnings to start-up an offline cash-flow generating catfish farming business) 21 year old Ibadan based Bamidele Onibalusi is Nigeria’s NUMBER 1 blogger

That’s why he is the blogging role model I will continue to recommend to my kids, ahead of ANY others. Period.

In case you don’t know him, here are some of the grass to grace achievements already earned between the ages of 16 to 21, by this (fatherless-former-teen-startup) blogger who gained Internet fame for his prolific Guest Blogging:

1. Featured in publications on and off the web:Forbes.com, Digital Journal, Millionaire Magazine Italy, Huffingtonpost.com, The Nations Newspaper, Nigerian Tribune and The Guardian Newspaper.

2. Contributed to top websites like: Business Insider, ReadWrite, Under30CEO, Naij.com.

3. Featured in and/or contributed to internationally published books like: The Writers Market 2014, Engagement from Scratch (2011), 2 Billion Under 20.

4. Took a one year break from writing to invest some of the money from his freelance writing into owning an offline (Catfish Farming) business – and now publishes educational articles (and videos) on Catfish Farming for others in the business and those aspiring.

5. Runs a blog to help writers, that is visited daily by thousands of SERIOUS minded writers/bloggers from across the world (and also publishes a newsletter received by over 10,000 subscribers (including yours truly) – in addition to providing PAID writing coaching for aspiring writers/blogging).

Those were the highlights….:-)

Now read the rest of my argument/thoughts below…

Apart from article marketing which attracts buyers for my Custom Excel-VB Farm Business Support software and books, I also get paid to ghost-write for clients (I currently have 2 such projects in hand). That’s something I’m now coaching my older kids to do based on their talents and passions.

In this regard, I’m looking for role models – beyond myself – for my kids.

By this I mean AUTHENTIC achievers whose successes are not only EXPLAINABLE and VERIFIABLE, but also REPEATABLE and REPRODUCIBLE by anyone who follows guidance they (such achievers) offer.

These are successful people who readily offer information, education, ideas, tips and even coaching/training on HOW to do what they have done – and possibly do better.

The challenge in identifying role models like the above, is that so much “noise” is out here about “blogging”, “bloggers” and those “making it” amongst them – especially in the Nigerian space!!!

For the uninitiated, the “noise” can make it difficult to choose right.

Thankfully, for me, no such problem exists: I know exactly what to look for, to choose right!

In the rest of this article, I offer ideas to help interested persons accurately identify the right role models.

My (never ending) search for such role models to complement my efforts towards coaching my kids, has led me to VARIOUS places locally…and internationally, offline as well as on the web.

Regarding the international aspect, where I have since recorded the greatest successes in my searches, it’s all thanks to the Internet:

I struggled to find AUTHENTIC role models that could be reliably emulated locally. So I turned my attention to the web and voila: I found more than I’d dreamed possible!

The best part was that virtually all of those I found online had useful resources (often in form of write-ups and books) that I could have at no cost. That wonderful opportunity was one that I embraced and it helped me grow my business in various ways.

I’ve since paid tribute to some of those mentors in this article titled: Paying Tribute To 5 Experts Who Made Me and more recently in this article about Patrick Meninga, whose blogging strategy I adopted to find success: 10 Valuable Lessons I Learnt About Blogging for Passive Income, from Yaro Starak’s 60 Minute Podcast Interview with Patrick Meninga.

It is instructive to note however, that since most of my adopted role models were in foreign countries (mostly the USA, Canada etc), I was not able to directly transplant what I learned from them for use locally…

I tried to do that several times, but failed woefully each time.

Eventually, the hardships I faced as a result of my failures FORCED me to do more creative thinking in the use of what I’d learned, till I successfully developed adaptations based on a BLEND of all I’d learned, to meet my unique needs.

The above process enabled me begin to build my success to what I now enjoy today. And that experience is what’s guiding me now in the choice of role models to point my kids to!

Today, I’m giving my kids Personal Achievement Coaching to identify and choose role models whose success stories they can VERIFY. In other words, they are being taught how to identify achievers with traceable roots…and NOT overnight successes whose only testimony is what THEY say…!

I seek for my kids authentic successes through whom they can learn how to succeed with honesty and integrity. These would be potential mentors who also LIVE their lives – publicly and more importantly privately – in a manner that reflects the values they publicly claim to uphold.

In addition, I want my kids to look for role models that enjoy the HEALTHY respect and recognition of their peers or counterparts INTERNATIONALLY – evidence of which would be seen by way of MENTIONS they get in relevant high profile circles!

That is what I seek for my kids, and I’ve told them NEVER to settle for anything less.

Every day, I strive to make myself FIT the above description of role models they are to seek…

At the risk of sounding immodest, I’d say I’m not doing badly on that front, for a guy who’d had to climb back up from repeated setbacks and failure in business for YEARS while carrying the load of a wife and kids.

Having lived with me all their lives, during the times when I struggled to provide for them (to the point that relatives had to bail me out repeatedly), they KNOW I’ve overcome countless odds to establish my brand.

[Hint: Most people fail to realize it’s easier – MUCH easier(!) – to deal with failure, and grow your success, when you’re single/unmarried and especially if you have few or no dependents to feed or spend the income you earn on. I intend to write a book on that!]

Today, my children are aware that I enjoy growing high profile international recognition within and outside Africa for what I do. We often talk about how I am increasingly getting opportunities to rub shoulders with some of the best known minds in my fields of professional occupation and interest.

But it’s not just recognition….

On a progressive basis, my work now earns me income in multiple currencies, without my needing to travel. Indeed over 80% of income I earn today is via passive channels for products I create(d) and sell online to buyers within and outside Africa.

I’m now preparing my kids to learn how to do – but with special focus on discovering THEIR own natural God-given talents, passions and abilities.

The objective is for them to leverage those strengths to become competent to function independently in society while still in school-age.

Why make them start earning income that early?

Because today’s world requires kids to be better prepared to meet the challenges it presents.

Fewer job opportunities are a reality more and more school leavers will face. Kids who get the kind of preparation I refer to – especially one based on identifying and emulating the right role models – will stand a much better chance of succeeding – and excelling.

For my kids, the ethos in their “coaching” program is therefore self-employment…

Seeking long term or career paid employment will simply NOT be a priority for them, and will only be considered as a temporary stepping stone to owning their own businesses.

Today, countless opportunities exist for young people to own their own businesses without giving up formal schooling. Especially when PC and Internet technology is involved.

Regarding the above, about 4 years ago, I found a wonderful young Nigerian making waves internationally as a Freelance Writer/Blogger that I told my kids is a worthy role model for them.

I actually discovered him while on a blog owned by an American Writing Coach familiar with his work. My attention was piqued when his credentials were being raved about this group of high profile freelance writing experts.

Especially because they said he was a Nigerian living in Nigeria and just 17years old but already earning over $5,000 USD monthly, serving international clients in Asia, America etc!

Today, he is 21 years old…and now owns a large catfish farm, which he personally runs with hired hands. He started it by taking a one year break from writing to learn about, and invest some of the money from his freelance writing business into owning a Catfish Farming business.

Imagine that?

Such a wise head on his young shoulders.

Robert Kiyosaki advises making your money work for you – and he stresses that Cash Flow Generating Assets (e.g. businesses) are a proven means to achieving that.

This chap learned enough to know that it was better to sink the money from his online writing business, into a lucrative offline venture like catfish farming, to boost his cash flow generation – rather than spending directly from his writing business’ earnings.

But that’s not all he’s done. Remember I said that authentic achievers always display a readiness to share what they know with others?

Well, just as he has done for years, writing educational articles for other writers to learn from, this young man is already writing articles with a similar focus, for other farm business owners and those aspiring, to learn from!

Apart from articles, he’s also creating video tutorials freely available on his Youtube channel.

See what I mean when I say he’s an authentic role model?

In case you wonder how he began, get this: He is not the only one who knows or tells his story.

I have read articles about him written by others within and outside Nigeria/Africa (some are top names in international blogging!) which provide details about how he began in his early teens – after losing his Dad, and having to drop out of school.

Google the name “Bamidele Onibalusi” and begin reading to discover the authentic success story of a Nigerian living in Nigeria’s Ibadan City, who over 5 years ago made himself a globally recognized authority in Freelance Writing and Blogging – without any money or connections of any sort.

This young man is an excellent example of the kinds of people we should encourage our kids to adopt as role models – especially towards achieving financial success using just PC and Internet Technology.

In case you missed it. Oni (as most people call him online) built his brand to what it is today, from his early teens, by working thousands of hours in those formative years, under harsh living conditions with a mother struggling to feed him and 4 other siblings.

Today he’s pursuing university education without stress – but ONLY because he used the web to find financial success to return to school. At his age (21), I was in my 4th years, and got money for my undergraduate studies from my parents, since I had NEVER worked for a single day’s pay in my life!

The Yoruba’s have a saying: Ki a ro idi mo aso, tabi ki a ro aso mo idi. Ki idi sa ma pa ofo”

Literal Translation: It does not matter if you tie your bottom around your wrapper or tie your wrapper around your bottom – as long as your bottom is not exposed”

Contextual Translation: Whether you complete your formal education early on in life, or you do so a little later, what matters is that you find a way (income-wise) to get it done.

The moral: Since one needs money on a regular basis to pursue formal education in most societies, you’ll get kicked out of school anyway if you want to continue schooling but cannot pay your fees.

That’s why it sometimes makes practical sense (or circumstances could force you, like the passing away of Oni’s rich dad did) to take a break from school to develop the needed income earning competence to enable you meet the requirements for completing any formal schooling you want.

The above is why I advocate that Personal Achievement Education is a better way to go compared to conventional/formal education.

Wonder what the difference is? Watch out for my new book on due to be published soon.

But briefly, Personal Achievement Education (PAE) is what Oni literally empowered himself with. And countless others who rose from grass to grace did the same thing in different parts of the world, to achieve their successes.

PAE is superior because it incorporates Academic Education while exposing learners to information, ideas, opportunities, and experiences designed to enable them identify and develop their real world relevant income-earning talents/abilities/passions to support themselves through life.

PAE is what I’m giving my kids now, and like I’ve told those who’ve raised issues with my approach, especially relatives, the results they get will demonstrate to MANY parents that it’s the BEST way to go, in this 21st century and beyond.

A WORD OF ADVICE: No matter how old you think you are, or how much you think you know about Freelance Writing or Blogging, stay open to LEARNING from others…even if they are DECADES younger than you are!!

In my case, within days of discovering Oni’s YoungPrePro.com (now www.writersincharge.com) a few years back, I wasted no time in subscribing to his newsletter (using an email forwarder I setup via my tksola dot com domain to my GMAIL box for my first son), so as to see possible learnings I could pick up, to boost my efforts to win freelance writing clients, and also to coach my kids.

By way of interest, I knew I was 20 years older than him, but my attitude to life has always been to learn from even a 1 year old…if it helps me. Many Africans struggle to scale this mental hurdle and it hurts them!

Accepting to learn from a younger person does not mean you’re inferior to him/her. It simply means you have enough self-esteem to NOT feel inadequate acknowledging that others may know things in certain areas, that you need to learn!

I soon began sharing Oni’s emails with my first son (who had not long before that time just completed a 6 month weekend practical manual typewriting course).

Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, I was unsuccessful in using most of the ideas I got from reading Oni’s blog to get hired to write.

Try as I could, I was unable to get even one Guest Posting opportunity (maybe I did not try hard/long enough)…

But I knew that was not Oni’s fault. I knew it was not that Oni’s tips were not useful.

Instead, my analytical thinking helped me discern what the likely problem was…

My primary target market (farm business) and audience (farm CEOs), coupled with my multidisciplinary profile makes me a fairly unusual case…and that’s why a more flexible approach to blogging (like the one I learnt by studying Patrick Meninga’s model) was eventually what helped me achieve my goals in blogging.

In line with Patrick’s advice, I focused on writing on this blog DAILY, and to use multiple content syndication tools to propagate it to as many channels as possible, to boost my marketing reach and impact.

That strategy has since worked perfectly for me – leading to more sales leads (for my custom f software, information products and ghost-writing services) being generated via Google’s results pages and other channels.

For instance, I currently have 2 Ghost-writing projects in hand (one for a UK based client, and the other for an Abuja based Farm CEO client) – both came from clients I have NEVER met in the flesh.

And that’s apart from passive income I regularly earn from sales of my products – to online buyers..

No matter how you look at it, even if it did not get me hired in the conventional way, my exposure to Oni’s work at least indirectly benefited me…and I know a lot more about blogging as a result…!

As you can imagine, I’m determined to make sure my kids learn from him as well.

Sadly, so many older persons in this part of the world let their egos and concerns about being “older” than another person (e.g they’ll think and even say “s/he is a small boy or girl”) stop them from learning from – or at least being positively influenced by – those who can help them…

My advice: If you want to get ahead in life, DROP that retrogressive mind set, or you’ll have yourself to blame!

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The Missing Element Needed to Equip More School Leavers/Graduates to Excel In Life

October 20, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

“A society’s competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic table, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.” –Einstein to Vivienne Anderson, May 12, 1953, AEA 60-716.

If you are a parent to school age kids, mark my words:

You need to get yourself firmly into the driving seat in terms of “educating” them.

Exposure to formal academics, especially via conventional schooling is only one part of what is required to equip young people for the real world.

There is another important but often ignored factor.

To illustrate what I mean, have you ever stopped to ask yourself what happened to the classmates of geniuses like Einstein, Achebe, Soyinka, Chimamanda Adichie etc?

How many of them are famous for being exceptional today?

Few if at all any.

The difference is in an intangible non-academic element identified by Edison in his quote above: “imagination and creativity.”

But money cannot be used to buy it. You have to DEVELOP that aspect of yourself. For your kids, you have to support them to develop it too.

Their teachers will rarely be able – talk less willing – to do it.

That’s why it’s up to you to make it happen, if you want your child’s true genius to be unleashed so her full God given potential can be actualized.

The following quote by Einstein provides a fitting end to this write-up by further underscoring the points made here:

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. ” – Albert Einstein

I recommend you take a cue from Einstein.

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[RECOMMENDED READING] An adventure to discover the best teacher in Nigeria. Drama Galore…lol!

October 15, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

I never re-publish other people’s writings on my blog, but I do link to those I find compelling. This piece by Olusegun Adeniyi titled “An adventure to discover the best teacher in Nigeria. Drama Galore…lol!” – published in THISDAY Newspaper perfectly fits that description: it is a truly compelling, and at the same time “painful” read, that confirms the serious ROT Nigeria’s educational system in in!

Read on…and see if you disagree…

PREVIEW: Why are you in the teaching profession? Ordinarily, you would expect a teacher who was in the final rounds of an interview for a life-changing national award to be prepared for such a question. But after a momentary hesitation, the respondent said she chose teaching because it is a profession that “offers me opportunities to do other things by the side.”

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Spend Less Money to Eat Well, by Growing Foods (Hint: True Story With Photos of my Kids Growing Tomatoes, Beans, Pineapples at Home)!

October 2, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

[Photo] My 14 year old son shows off 6 big ripe tomatoes he and his 12 year old brother harvested yesterday (1st October 2015) from our small home garden. Another result of the real-world relevant confidence/competence building Personal Achievement Coaching (PAC) program he and his siblings are SIMULTANEOUSLY undergoing, in conjunction with controlled exposure to academics.

As parents, our primary role is to COACH (and not just verbally lecture) our kids, to prepare them to be competent, financially independent adults in life. To succeed in playing that role, we must do what a professional coach in any other area of life would do.

Simply put, we must create an environment, physically, emotionally and intellectually that enables them learn all they need to succeed in adulthood.

The above implies the need for BALANCE in the education we give them.

Sadly, too many parents leave their kids to get a one-sided preparation for life…

This happens because they focus their efforts on giving them mainly – or ONLY – formal schooling.

Very little in terms of character forming and vocational skills building education is provided. The result is what we see a lot in today’s society.

Young products from schools across the three tiers of education unable to demonstrate real-world relevant awareness, and competence outside what their certificates say they studied.

In fact, today some young people even go around with certificates they cannot demonstrate academic competence to defend.

The way I see it, parents who want their kids to fare better than that CANNOT just throw money at their kids’ education. Formal schooling, no matter how advanced or expensive, is simply NOT enough to give children what is needed to succeed as adults in today’s fast changing world.

You must be in the driving seat of your child’s education as the NUMBER ONE COACH – and NOT his/her teacher(s)!

The mental attitude you adopt must be that of a professional coach who has a sound understanding of what his/her coachee (your child) is going to face in the real world.

You must be a coach who uses his/her insights about life to create learning experiences that prepare YOUR CHILD for life away from YOU!

That’s what I’m doing for my kids…

Incidentally, I’ve done it for other people’s kids BEFORE I had mine – so I’m really PUMPED up about THIS run!!

As part of their homeschooling, they watch specially selected educational videos on various subjects they need to master academically, as well as vocationally.

Then they are challenged to go out into the real world to put as much as possible of what they learn to use, as the opportunities present themselves.

To stimulate their minds, I subtly “put ideas into their heads”, about how they can make use of what they learn.

Then I wait to see what happens…and they rarely disappoint.

Kids are amazing: Once you succeed in winning their interest, getting them to learn becomes so easy.

Basically, what excites them is when you teach them something they can immediately try their hands on in real life.

They love DOING – especially where they are allowed to apply their creativity without restriction. That’s the environment I have created for my kids and it’s yielding fruits (no pun intended).

What you see in photos below are other trial crops the boys planted…

A. More tomatoes

B: Pineapple head cut from a Cotonou variety planted by the kids has taken root (not sure if the soil will let it do well though…!)

C. Beans pod maturing

It all began when I told them the garden space in the compound could be used to raise vegetables we could eat (i.e. putting ideas in their heads)

One day they got some bad tomato fruits their mother disposed, and asked me if the seeds would sprout. I told them it was likely, so they planted and began watering and tending them with great seriousness.

Later on they got seeds and stems from other crops and planted them.

Over time I noticed a dense layer of Water Leaf vegetables and told them to pluck some for making vegetable stew. I pointed out the fact that the quantities we harvested were equivalent to those sold for N50 in the market: which meant we were saving money.

I noted in passing that they could plough back into the soil, stems left behind after the leaves were plucked, to replenish the nutrients to helping the plant grow new leaves.

They began doing that immediately: Like I said, kids are eager learners, and doers, once their interest is triggered!

It might interest you to know that they actually planted and harvested a yam tuber (small though – but they cooked and ate it) in that narrow stretch of soil in our compound.

One day I came home and the 12 year old showed me a maize cob, he’d harvested. It was not well developed, but the boy was still excited that he’d grown maize and gotten the cob without spending money.

Later on they told me the tomatoes were producing fruits. I was surprised, not having been aware they’d planted tomatoes.

Seeing signs suggestive of the presence of disease causing microbes on some leaf edges, I told them to get charcoal ash and spread generously over the leaves of the plants. They asked me why, and I explained that ash has anti-microbial characteristics which help to stop onset of common diseases on the plant.

As the weeks passed we watched the fruits grow bigger. Just a few days ago, we were discussing how they were gradually turning red.

Yesterday I came home and saw that they’d plucked some ripe, fully red tomatoes, which their mum was planning to use for a meal. The other plants – as shown in the photos on this page – still have a decent number of fruits yet to ripen.

I asked the kids if they knew how much those plucked tomatoes would go for in the market. Not surprisingly (because I’d asked then similar question in the past), they’d already asked around, and had been told they would cost about N200 ($1 USD) or more.

The looks on their faces told me they knew what I was thinking.

Having a backyard garden can help many homes cut down costs on purchase of certain items used regularly. The small amounts spent to buy them really adds up over one week to a month.

Yet it just takes making a little effort to setup the needed space and taking a little time, every now and then to nurture the plants/crops.

If one wants, even mini-livestock like poultry, rabbits, fish could also be kept in a small backyard area.

Sadly, many homes today spend too much on simple food items they can easily grow themselves – especially in Nigeria, where most foods are so expensive!

Many such homes have kids who do not have a clue how foods they eat come about e.g How they are grown, processed, stored or even cooked.

Long ago, I resolved that my male and female kids would be coached to know, and be able to do all that.

The 2 oldest go to the market to buy foodstuff and prepare meals for their siblings(thanks to their mother’s coaching).

We as parents don’t need to be there to make this happen.

They’ve also learnt to plant crops and make their own drinks/cake products using fruit peels – which they’ve been able to package, sell, and also give out as gifts. We’ll be doing a lot more of this when we get to Benin Republic.

This varied mix of real-world relevant experiences, combined with formal schooling, gives kids a truly balanced education.

In essence, I’m saying it’s great that your kids already attend school. But that’s not all they need.

Coaching them to plant some of their own food, or even run their own micro-farm business (e.g rearing/breeding rabbits for sale, along with growing useful crops like Tomatoes etc), can equip them to live and eat well, at a lower cost – by making the best use of space in their homes.

They would thus spend less to buy food (and possibly sell some of what they grow) – boosting their chances of KEEPING more of the money they earn, to build real, lasting wealth: unlike others who, not knowing how(despite attending school), will have to ALWAYS buy all they eat!

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Your Child Needs Strength of Character to Successfully Resist Corruption

September 24, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

No matter how intelligent/well schooled, creative, competent, well spoken and nice a person may be, if s/he does not have strength of character, all those aforementioned qualities s/he possesses will not matter.

Why?

Because it takes having upright morals/values and strength of character to navigate the good and bad, as well as right and wrong in the real world. And how well you do that ultimately determines how authentically successful you become in life.

But no one is born with strength of character, or the right conception of morals and values.

It’s society that teaches each of us what they are. Right from childhood in our parents’ homes through school, till we arrive adulthood in larger society.

As a child I spent my early years (10 to 16) getting into – often spectacular! – trouble (causing my parents major embarrassment) because despite being given the right exposure at home, I repeatedly let peer pressure and influence push me to act contrary to what I’d been taught about doing right and wrong.

Luckily for me, the Nigerian society back then still practiced what I like to call “Societal Parenting” – in which a child that misbehaves away from home gets promptly corrected by other adults/parents/strangers.

They then report his/her misconduct to his/her parents who go on to reinforce the corrective feedback to the child.

I share 5 such true stories from my childhood, in my Best Practice Parenting book titled (Kukuru Danger).

The book is dedicated to all those uncompromising adults and parents who diligently pulled me back in line each time I derailed while I was away from my parents.

Without their efforts, I doubt I would ever have gotten the awakening that has since led me to reform myself into an uncompromising stickler for doing right at all times, no matter how hard it may be.

Doing the above requires a clear sense of right and wrong.

The moral upbringing given me by my parents and the larger society helped cement my character, which in adulthood now equips me to do right when it matters, regardless of the circumstances I may find myself.

For instance, my ability to overcome years of prolonged heartbreaking struggles as a start-up entrepreneur unwilling to do crooked business in a society where that prevailed, is due to that foundation of sound character that I established in my formative years.

Today I enjoy authentic non-corner cutting success providing my unique range of unconventional Excel-Visual Basic software (like my popular Ration Formulator and Poultry Farm Manager apps), Information Products (like the Feed Formulation Handbook), and services to a global paying audience.

To get where I am now however, I had to fight many attempts to make me compromise and do crooked business – especially during those years that I still focused my efforts exclusively on selling offline.

As a result, I suffered severely prolonged lack of money and humiliation as a result, to the extent that I could not fulfill my obligations to my wife and kids.

I’ve shared true stories in past articles about this, and how my siblings and parents had to bail me out time and time again.

If you’ve read some of them, you’ll know that I described myself as being the “Bambiala” (aka beggar) of my family during that phase.

I also noted how some friends and relatives repeatedly told me I could not make useful progress if I insisted on NOT doing things like over-invoicing to get assigned projects by decision makers in some (not all) companies. But I refused and kept looking for alternatives.

Eventually, through a process of trial and error in using the web, coupled with creative thinking in showcasing solutions I offered offline to an online audience of pre-qualified prospects, I’ve gradually built a passive income generating system that continues to evolve today(which I now teach others about)!

Using it has helped me limit exposure of myself to the offline annoyances I faced in the past, and I am better able to reap rewards for the work I do, without needing to compromise on my morals or values.

All this courtesy of the positive character moulding impact of Societal Parenting on me, from my childhood.

Sadly however, things have seriously deteriorated – on the Societal Parenting front, since I had my childhood experiences.

It’s so bad now that adults and parents today often openly engage in teaching kids to do wrong e.g. to tell lies, bear false witness, deceive, scheme, and to be lazy or detest hard honest work for reward etc.

And it shows in what we see daily around us.

Youths who prefer to cheat to pass exams (actively aided by parents in collaboration with invigilators), who enjoy living on the wrong side of the law doing email fraud. Young female students who engage in sex for money or marks, and male counterparts who become campus cult members and inflict bodily harm on peers or even kill them when they disagree.

That’s to mention just a few!

Simply put, today’s Nigeria is brimming with human beings the larger majority of whom have seriously warped morals and values. This distorts or clouds their view of what constitutes right and wrong, effectively making them unreliable where decision making to uphold the law in words or action is required.

Now, apart from the nuisance they cause, the presence of this majority also poses a danger of corrupting influence on the impressionable minds of kids.

Not just their own kids, but more importantly the kids of the minority who still uphold the right morals/values and who teach their kids to do the same.

I happen to belong to that minority, and my concern about the above makes me limit my kids’ interaction with their peers in the Nigerian society. To do this I have taken certain drastic steps that’s gotten close relatives worried that I’m being too extreme.

But engaging the kids in discussion about societal happenings has revealed very clearly that my concerns are NOT unfounded.

Let me share one true story to illustrate what I mean…

I recently asked my 16 year old son if he knew about special centers where exam mal-practices were openly carried out in the country.

This is something that’s earned Nigeria Number 1 ranking amongst ALL countries that enroll students in the West African Examinations Council exams. The media regularly reports it.

He replied that some of his friends had told him about such places and practices, but that he had not personally seen any instances where it happened.

I then asked him if he felt what he’d heard that people like parents and invigilators did there (telling students answers to exam questions), was right.

His answer confirmed my suspicions about how open occurrence of wrong doing can make young people who grow up in such an environment, come to accept them as normal.

He said (his exact words):

If it was not right, I don’t think they would do it so openly.

I could not believe my ears.

He had said it with an innocent look in his eyes which confirmed he actually did not know what was being done in those centers was wrong!

But I understood why he saw it that way. The impunity with which it was all done, and the fact that there was rarely any news that culprits were caught or punished made it appear to him that it was okay!

Unregulated exposure of impressionable minded children to unethical acts on a regular basis, can cause them to get so used to it that they think it’s normal.

That day, my determination to counter the corrupting influence of the society on them was renewed as a result of that incident.

I promptly called his siblings to join him and proceeded to explain to them why such practices were VERY wrong, and why it was important that they ALL never accept to see them as being otherwise.

To encourage them, I told them of the many instances I had suffered harassment in my personal and work life for refusing to do wrong that others did, and how staying firm that the Creator would open alternative doors for me to follow, yielded positive benefits for me, time and time again.

What could be worse than a brilliant child with wonderful God-given talents and abilities who grows up learning to see hard work as needless and corrupt enrichment as worthwhile?

I refuse to let it happen to my kids.

And I will continue to take every step I feel necessary to TEACH them why they must not be that way, and also shield them from such corrupting influences, UNTIL such a time that I am convinced that they have developed enough strength of character to RESIST it all.

I suggest you seriously consider doing the same – IF you want to have peace of mind regarding your child’s LONG after s/he leaves home.

Those who do it right will never be afraid of getting news that their adult children have been found engaging in unbecoming conduct.

They will confidently say: MY SON OR DAUGHTER would never do that, and stand by their child no matter what.

I want to be able to do that.

Do you?

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Sharing Your Culture and Traditions With Foreigners is REALLY Cool!

September 16, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

It’s strange, and sad – but true: Too many modern day Nigerians readily favour foreign cultures and traditions over theirs. Quite often they regard what is theirs as inferior to what obtains in developed societies.

NB: I happen to be a full blooded 45 year old Nigerian – born and raised in Nigeria. So I state the above based on VERY personal observation and experience, spanning over 3 decades.

Now, unlike us, the Asians have for decades often done the exact opposite.

For instance, people from across the world have embraced various versions of Martial Arts as taught in different parts of Asia, and readily adopt even the Asian language of the society in which they learn.

Same applies to Asian foods, traditional attire and alternative medical remedies and practices e.g. Acupuncture etc.

Here’s another thing: No matter where a Chinese national immigrates, anywhere in the world, it is VERY unlikely that s/he will go looking for paid employment

Instead what they are notorious for doing is STARTING their own businesses, no matter how small e.g. a noodles shop.

In contrast, the average Nigerian that immigrates to another country (especially Europe/America) is more likely to go in search of secure paid employment, and if successful, will try hard to hold on to it for as long as possible.

Having said the above, there are always exceptions to this trend – as it is with everything in life.

In the case of Nigerians, those of the Igbo stock are renowned for their trade and commerce acumen. Especially when they travel to other African countries. They have proven themselves to be especially gifted at establishing thriving buying and selling micro to small businesses.

One could argue that they act this way because most times those who follow this path lack the qualifications to seek and win well paying jobs. But that’s a subject for a separate discussion.

But back to the point I was trying to make about the Nigerian tendency to place more value on what is foreign over what comes uniquely from his/her society…

A person who is uninitiated could be tempted to think Nigeria/Nigerians act as described above, because they do NOT have anything original or unique to show off to the admiration of people from other nations.

I say this with regard to the way a South African, for instance, would give branded gifts from his/her country to a Nigerian, or American, regaling him/her with some historical anecdote relating to the item.

The recipient would excitedly show off the item to loved ones back home, and proudly recount the anecdote told to him/her by the South African. This happens all the time. We all love to own stuff that’s considered special, rare, unusual, unique, treasured etc.

The truth is however that Nigeria/Nigerians do have A LOT in our culture and tradition that can be proudly shown off to foreigners.

And those that visit us SAY SO all the time. I know because I interact with them.

The problem I see is that in today’s Nigeria, too many of us do NOT even know enough of anything about our cultures and traditions.

We have all sorts of wonderful arts and crafts that have beautiful histories behind their emergence. Those engaged in producing the Adire in Ogun state’s Abeokuta for instance have interesting tales to tell about how they have evolved, how they are made, what they are used for, who buys them etc.

A similar situation exists across the country.

But you’re unlikely to find many schooled Nigerians talking about them (if they know about them that is) as excitedly as they talk about the various famed Italian designer brand name clothes and shoes for instance.

Many of our modern artists know more about Western art sculptures than they do about our renowned Benin Bronze carvings.

When they visit us here, we try to impress them by showing off what often tend to be inferior versions of what we bought or copied FROM THEIR societies…rather than show them what we have here they are unlikely to find back home!!

Even in our preference for music, this problem shows up. The lyrics of our songs reflect little or nothing of our African heritage. Instead we continue to ape (often unsuccessfully) the originators from Europe and America.

Only artistes like Beautiful Nubia, Lagbaja, Asa etc offer us anything qualitative on the music plane, based on our original culture and heritage.

Now, just in case you find my comparison of this Nigerian tendency with that of Asians and South Africans too far fetched…

Let me inform you that just next door to us, in Benin Republic, I’ve found from 3 years of living amongst the locals, a FIERCE and unpretentious demonstration of LOVE for their culture and traditions.

This includes both youths and adults of both genders, regardless of educational level and perceived social status.

Based on 3 months I spent on the national university campus in 2013, I believe this love of their culture and traditions is instilled in them from very early in life.

The people of Benin Republic are exposed – like us – to Western culture and traditions through the powerful and pervasive influence Western media and the web, BUT they have refused to let it erode the fabric of their own unique cultural heritage.

I know this because I have seen it play itself out again and again. The youths in Cotonou (the economic capital) are often quite familiar with local songs, practices and dances. And they never betray any embarrassment in revealing that they are.

In fact, it comes naturally to them, and they often want to get you to LEARN their local language over French, their official language.

In Nigeria, the opposite tends to be the case. Not many Nigerians can speak their local languages proficiently. Even adults. But most of us pride ourselves on our perceived mastery of the English language!

Same applies to our demonstrated love for, and knowledge about sporting events and games.

The level of awareness about, and interest in our local games, and sports is very low. We perceive them not to be as refined as those from the white man’s land. So, most of us settle for the latter.

In case you’re wondering, here’s the point I want to make with ALL I’ve said above…

I have long resolved to NEVER be guilty of treating or regarding my culture and traditions as inferior to any other persons’, no matter who they are or what they do. That’s why I embarked on a journey of learning and discovery regarding exploring my Yoruba culture, tradition and ancestry.

In addition, since my wife is Igbo, I am also working on ways to learn useful aspects of her people’s way of life as well.

But it’s not just for myself I do this…

Using what I’m learning, I am progressively exposing my kids to the beneficial parts, so they can arrive adulthood with a more rounded view of who they are, and be proud to show up to others that way, instead of trying to be like them!

Here are 2 recent examples of practical steps I’ve taken to implement my plans:

1. My 10 Storyfied Yoruba Proverbs Audio Book – which I created in collaboration with my kids. Click here to watch/listen to them recite proverbs in a preview version of the Audio Book on Youtube.

2. Below are photos showing my 2 daughters playing the ancient board game of Ayo (click here to learn more about the game – how to play it etc)

Ayo is played in societies across West Africa, bearing different names in each location.

The Yorubas call it Ayo. Other names given it are described in the article on this linked page (click).

I bought it on my way to the Seme border last week, and came home thinking I would be the one to teach my kids how to play it.

As it turned out, they already knew how to play it – having been taught by their mother. Within minutes of snatching it from me on the night I arrived, they were “playing away”!

Which brings me to a BIG confession I need to make:

Do you know the irony of this whole Ayo training that I had planned for them? It’s that I did NOT know how to play the game myself, and had NEVER once played it, in my entire life!

My plan had been to use the instructions I found via Google on a web page, about playing the game, to teach them. Instead I found myself listening to them TELL/SHOW me how to play it.

NB: Having said that, the little reading I’ve done tells me it’s meant to be a game of strategy. For now they play it rather mechanically, without putting much thought to it. So I’ll be taking out time to read up more of the fine details of how to play it, and then join them to see how we can make it more interesting.

I’m now confident my kids can play this traditional game: So if/when they have friends visiting from Europe or America, rather than playing a game of Chess or Ludo with them, they may choose to teach their friends to play AYO, so the latter can return home bragging about a new game they learnt.

Incidentally, the Ayo board is made of hand crafted wood, and one can get specially decorated versions suitable for use as gifts to such friends.

In our case, it so happens that we have long time family friends from Sheffield, visiting Nigeria for 2 weeks.

So, I and the kids have agreed that we’ll be presenting them an AYO board game as a gift, to take back with them. Every time they play it back home, we hope they’ll be reminded of their trip, and probably also teach their friends and relatives something new and interesting!

RELATED RESOURCES

1. Video showing Ayo being played

2. Ayo – Android Apps on Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.topsoft.ayofree&hl=en

3. Yoruba Games | Yoruba Cultural Institute

http://yorubaculturalinstitute.org/main/yoruba–games/

4. “Ayo olopon” games from south-western Nigeria in the twenty-first century

See more at: http://www.awale.info/los-juegos-ayo-olopon-en-nigeria-en-el-siglo-xxi/?lang=en#sthash.7ANN1U00.dpuf

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COMING SOON: Best Practice Farm Business Support Centre for Farm CEOs – Benin Republic

September 15, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

COMING SOON: Best Practice Farm Business Support Centre for Farm CEOs – Benin Republic. This centre will be based on a piece of land to be purchased in Benin Republic (tentatively in the Seme border town area).

It will…

1. Provide real world relevant findings from pilot scale performance improvement trials in least cost Feed Formulation using locally available, low cost alternative feed ingredients.

NB: A key aspect will be the use, and continual improvement of the popular Excel-VB Ration Formulator app – especially to cater for in-depth amino acid balancing in formulating cost-effective balanced rations.

2. Offer coaching for Farm CEOs on Best Practice Farm Business Operations Management & Marketing in Livestock and Crop Production

3. Operate rabbitry, poultry, and fish production enterprises on a micro to small scale to showcase the potentially useful findings recorded by the centre.

NB: The existing Poultry Farm Manager app will be used and continually improved, while similar apps will be built for rabbit and fish production – which over time will be offered to interested Farm CEOS

4. Run a farm-based restaurant and bar designed to showcase how farms can earn extra income by processing their farm produce into products for sale in farm shops.

5. Publish The Farm CEO™ newspaper to disseminate latest news about findings, innovations and potentially cost-saving ideas from work done at the centre, and those reviewed elsewhere.

6. Offer limited accommodation facilities to members who wish to sleep over for learning events or leisure.

7. Provide on-demand Internet access, as well as transportation, for interested members – including pick up from, or drop off at the airport or the border.

8. Take on custom software or information product development projects from members, if enough of them show interest, and make the finished product available to them at low to zero cost.

9. Enable ALL members purchase the centre’s Farm Business Support Software (e.g. Excel-VB Ration Formulator, Poultry Farm Manager, Rabbitry Business Manager, Fish Farm Manager) and Information Products (e.g. Feed Formulation Handbook, Best Practice Farm Management 4 part E-books series, business plans etc)

10. Deliver on-demand practical coaching for Farm CEOs (including on-site technical support) on the development and implementation of a Best Operating Process Management System (BOPMS) for Farm Business Performance Improvement.

[Updated 1st Oct. 2015, 1.33p.m, from Lagos-Nigeria] Below: Layout Plan for the centre (still work-in-progress) – Now LIVE – read more here

I will be CROWDFUNDING this project, because it’s designed to be a Not-For-Profit initiative to make the products and services I offer more pocket-friendly and accessible by majority of my target audience.

That’s why YOU are getting notified about it – in case you (or your group/organization/association or club) would like to contribute/invest in it.

As a member of my Farm Business Ideas Club (which comprises persons who have purchased N20k or more worth of products from me) – you fit the target audience profile.

Why?

Because those interested enough in a provider’s products and services to PAY (or want to pay) money to access them, are the ones most likely to favour investing in its evolution or growth.

Here’s an apt quote that underscores the above point:

“The supporters of your crowd funding campaign are your customers. Crowd funding is basically a way to pre-order products before they are produced” – Elite Daily (See http://elitedaily.com/money/why-you-should-crowdfund-your-startup/)

Hundreds of past enquirers and buyers requests tell me this support centre is LONG OVERDUE…

I have received all sorts of requests from people within and outside Africa. since January 2006, when I launched my Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas Website – now at www.boostyourfarmprofits.biz or www.iff.tayosolagbade.com

Most of them were Farm CEOs – while others were students of agriculture, farm support experts(e.g extension professionals), lecturers, feed makers, NGO operators etc.

In several cases they wanted me to give them the product at hefty discounts or even FREE, but I was unable to oblige them much as I wanted to.

For instance, last year (2014), one Farm CEO from Mexico contacted me about building a custom Ration Formulator app for lactating cows in his Dairy Farm. When I eventually sent him the quote for developing the app, he NEVER got back to me, despite the animated phone conversation we’d had before he asked me to send it.

I knew the fee I’d given him was the likely deal breaker, yet it was the best offer I could make him.

With crowd funding of this Best Practice Support Centre for Farm CEOs, I’ll be able to give MORE of such people what they want, and also CREATE quality time to develop new solutions they tell me they want.

The implication is that I’ll be able to HELP a lot more people that need it, than I’m currently able to – including YOU.

If this opportunity interests you, click here to send me a message requesting for details of how to get involved, and specific ways you’d like to benefit (e.g what you want me to do for you).

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People With Skills and Entrepreneurial Savvy Achieve Financial Success Easier and Faster [ Recommended: Omowale Ola’s Foundation for Skills Development – FSD]

September 12, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

“It should be encouraging to know that practically all the great fortunes began in the form of compensation for personal services, or from the sale of ideas. What else, except ideas and personal services, would one not possessed of property have to give in return for riches?” – Napoleon Hill

People with USEFUL SKILLS, who also have entrepreneurial savvy or know-how, are often able to make money profitably, by using those skills to SERVE others.

It is instructive to note, that quite often such people need little or no capital to get started earning income in this manner. Instead they simply need to find someone who needs their SERVICES, then provide it and get paid.

This is why Skills Acquisition is a powerful way to empower ANYONE to achieve financial independence.

I say this as one who earns 100% of my income this way, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, shuttling between 2 countries (and planning to visit more), while SERVING an international audience both on and off the web.

My advice to you, is contained in the tag line I use to promote on-demand learning solutions I offer:

Acquire Self-Development Skills. Create The Future You Want™

That’s what I’ve been doing in my own personal and work life for over 2 decades. I excelled in paid employment for 7 years doing so, and I’m NOW excelling as an entrepreneur (defying visitations of failure and hardship) doing the exact same thing.

Anyone familiar with my past, and who is willing to be objective, will agree: I AM CREATING the future I want, for myself and my family!

You can do the same – and so can your kids incidentally, if you set them up to do so…

I’m doing that for mine already via a special Personal Achievement Coaching for Kids (PACK)™ program I’m taking them through.

For you, or your kids, a good place to acquire USEFUL real-world relevant skills (that command the paying attention of others), and which I PERSONALLY endorse, is Omowale Ola’s Foundation for Skills Development (FSD).

There may be others, but THIS is the one I know, and am sure of.

What makes FSD’s programs effective is that in addition to training their learners in specific vocations, they also give them entrepreneurship education.

This equips their trainees with the crucial understanding of how to use their newly acquired skills for profit making business purposes.

This latter aspect (i.e real world relevant entrepreneurship education) is often neglected by providers of most vocational skills programs.

That’s why graduates of such programs often go into the real world unable to find – and stay – on their feet financially, via money making, for the long term.

Less than 2 weeks ago, I saw the post shown below, from Omowale Ola on Facebook…announcing that registration is ON.

Go to www.fieldofskillsanddreams.com for details of courses on offer. They have a rich variety to serve people of different interests, needs, and talents.

Below: Photo of page 8 that I cut and kept, from Sunday Punch of 11th July 2010 – it’s a special report on Omowale Ola’s Foundation for Skills Development (http:// www.fieldofskillsanddreams. com/).

In my new book titled Defeating The Devil Inside (Subtitle: Travails of a Young Believer, and His Misguided Female Convert), I deliberately used FSD as a reference in the story line, for the main character (John)’s self-transformation: After losing his job, and suffering major hardship for a prolonged period, he eventually attended a 7 month “carpentry” program at FSD and launched his own business venture – employing workers of his own.

Click here to learn more about the book, and the real-life play script it is based on.

Click here to visit Foundation for Skills and Dreams

Full disclosure: In case you wonder, I have NEVER met Omowale Ola before, and she did NOT ask me to say all this (nor will I be getting – or asking for – anything for doing it) but I have seen, read, and heard enough over the last 10 years to know FSD is a good place to learn.

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Network Marketing is Globally Proven: Why I Won’t Do It In Nigeria

September 5, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

2 months ago (after highlighting it in my new audio DVD as a globally proven channel for Passive Income Generation), I began investigating various Network (or Multi-Level) Marketing opportunities in Nigeria’s Lagos, by attending meetings and interviewing individual members.

Sadly, what I’ve so far seen is 80% discouraging…which by MY standards is BAD!

REASON: Heavy cynicism about MLM prevails in Nigerian society, mainly due to unethical practices by many MLM practitioners in the country!

As a result, despite my belief that MLM – when done right – offers valuable passive income generating benefits, I’ve concluded that as far as doing it in Nigeria goes, Network Marketing is simply NOT worth the hassle – for ME.

In other words, even though I discussed it in my DVD as one of the proven ways used worldwide to generate life long passive income, I will NOT invest in it.

At least NOT in Nigeria.

Yep. I mean that. Seriously. But don’t get me wrong…

I’m sure there are people who are getting on well in this business in Nigeria, in spite of the problems that make me unwilling to venture into it.

However, what I’ve seen convinces me the way Network Marketing is done in Nigeria makes it more of a hard sell than it needs to be (if at all it should be).

I say the above ESPECIALLY because my primary motivation for investigating the MLM business opportunity was to help EACH of my kids get started earning passive income.

A second reason I had for considering this passive income generation model, was to support members of my clients network who had reached out to me. I wanted to help them use Network Marketing to generate additional passive income streams to complement what they earned from their various vocations.

As things stand, I’ve told my kids I’m no longer willing to pursue building a Network Marketing business in Nigeria. In addition, a link to this article has also been sent to my clients and subscribers, so they are aware of my revised opinion.

There’s just too much NMA – Negative Mental Attitude – involved in the practice of Network Marketing in the country

That’s the problem I see.

Which is why, I’ve since reached an advanced stage in exploring a completely different line of business that offers similar passive income earning benefits, but without the negatives from MLM as obtains in Nigeria.

What is this new business opportunity you ask?

For those who have purchased my Audio DVD titled “Proven Ways to Generate Useful Passive Income”, I have recorded a NEW audio podcast that is available for download on request – at no charge.

In it, I first explain in elaborate details the facts I discovered about most Network Marketing operations as done in Nigeria, and why I’ve resolved NOT to invest in ANY of them, for myself, or my kids.

Then I go on to provide FULL details of the alternative business opportunity that I have now settled upon, and which I’m already training my kids to do. It offers superior returns compared to MLM, in a shorter time period.

Most importantly, it does not suffer from a persistent negative reputation due to naughty acts perpetrated by those engaged in it.

To show how convinced I am, I’ve commenced building an e-commerce website for promoting this new business opportunity (which can be started with low to zero capital) for my kids.

Their photos and contact details will appear on the website – NOT mine.

Also they will be the ones that will take orders, respond to enquiries, and fulfill orders placed.

Their mother will also be involved, because this is going to be a family business, with THEM at the steering wheel, LEARNING to relate with people to make money in the real world.

I will simply provide back end technical support and periodic coaching on marketing, sales, negotiation etc.

Today, rapid advancements in PC and Internet technology make it easier, quicker and much cheaper for ANYONE to start and successfully run a profitable business.

And that includes even persons with minimal schooling. Once you can read and write, you can get started doing something to make money, if you know how.

That’s why I keep telling parents NOT to wait for their kids to go through school, before they introduce them to income earning activities – at least via micro business start up. The earlier they start the better. It can only make them better equipped to make the most of formal schooling they are exposed to.

That’s what I’ve been doing with my kids – slowly but steadily – for several years now…and I’ll have you know it is NOT an easy or straight forward process.

If you’re smart, you will start doing the same for yours as soon as possible.

When done right, it can help your child arrive adulthood equipped to function as a competent adult, especially with regard to achieving financial independence..

Final Words: Get my new MP3 podcast in which I explain full details of the new business opportunity I’ve chosen in place of MLM – It’s FREE…

This offer is in line with the promise I made in the sales message for my Audio DVD on Passive Income Generation.

EVERY buyer will get this new podcast FREE.

So, if you have already bought it, simply send SMS to +234-803-302-1263 or +229-66-122-136 saying “Send me the new podcast“, along with your name and email address, and I will send you the download link.

If you have not purchased the Audio DVD, yet want the podcast, click here for details of how to purchase the DVD. Note that you can opt to have download links to the six (6) audio files on the DVD (totaling 2 hours approximately) emailed to you. Your email will also carry the download link to the NEW podcast in which I explain full details of the new business opportunity I’ve chosen in place of MLM, as a bonus.

Click here to send me a message.

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Achieving Financial Freedom – Why What You Learnt In School May NOT Be Enough…& What You Need to LEARN [Text Transcript Excerpts from Tayo Solagbade’s MP3 Podcast]

September 3, 2015 Tayo Solagbade Leave a comment

[Text Transcript Excerpts from Tayo Solagbade’s MP3 Podcast] Achieving Financial Freedom – Why What You Learnt In School May NOT Be Enough…& What You Need to LEARN

=== Starts===

“…How many teachers do you know that are millionaires? This is something I ask my kids all the time. I am not wasting any time at all. I’m taking my kids through this.

I’m not going to let them go through the pains of self-discovery that I had to go through, because of the wrong exposure to schooling that I had. Schooling that was not going to prepare me for life outside salaried employment.

And the truth of the matter is that salaried employment does not last for life.

You will eventually have to retire, or you get kicked out. And when that happens, then you have to earn income, because the money you get, whether it is a 401k, pension fund or whatever they call it, will rarely be enough to take you through the rest of your life, till you pass on.

So then it means you have to begin, after doing a job, maybe after getting to the age of 65, and then getting kicked out, resigning or retiring, you then begin to look for ways to earn income outside of paid employment.

It can be quite difficult to do that in a consistent way that enables you to maintain the lifestyle that you’re used to, when you had a job.

So, the thing is school does not teach you how to do that, and that’s a problem. I have a big problem with schools….”
===Ends===

Click here to request the download link to the full MP3 Podcast

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A Tried & Tested Strategy For Achieving Financial Freedom (Hint: Get My Audio DVD Information Product titled “Proven Ways to Generate Useful Passive Income”)

I recently shared a quote by Robert Kiyosaki on Facebook, stating – in part – that his Rich Dad often said “If going to school made you rich, then schoolteachers would be millionaires‘”. A friend – Ernest – later posted this question: “What is the way forward towards earning financial freedom? I don dey tire oooo“(see screen shot below).

Now, you could argue that my friend meant it as a joke, and that would be true. However, the truth is that MANY adults today actually WANT to know the answer to THAT question!!

Continue reading – click here…