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

Monday 9th January 2017

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 048: To Make Success a Habit, You Need to Habitually Study Successful People

[This write-up is based on a text transcript version of my first Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) Audio Podcast for 2017. Click here to request download link to the audio file]

“Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.” – Anthony Robbins

One of the most important things you need to do, if you want to achieve success in any area of endeavour, is to study people who have succeeded in that field.

And when I say study, I mean you should make it a habit, a way of life – the activity in which you take a close look, analytically at what those who have succeeded in the field you wish to venture into have done to get where they are.

If you form a habit of doing that, over time you are going to be able to identify some common characteristics, attributes, or features that those individuals had.

What they did and how they did it, to enable them succeed.

Having said all of that, not all of us are equally gifted in this area.

We don’t all have the strength, or gift, of being able to extract useful learning from what we observe.

And as a result sometimes you will need to go a step further and also read about and talk with other people – those people you see succeeding or who have succeeded. In doing that, you would try to find out what the grey areas or missing aspects of what you’re supposed to learn are.

Long story short, what I’m trying to tell say here is that you will need to understand what it takes to succeed in any particular field or vocation you want to venture into, before you can actually have some sense of direction in terms of succeeding, or trying to work towards achieving success in that field

A haphazard approach will not benefit you – because adopting one, in which you go about using a trial and error method not guided by intelligent feedback, means you’re going to go through needless and avoidable repetition of processes…and end up reinventing the wheel in terms of trying to succeed.

So you’re going to be making avoidable mistakes. You’re going to be going through needless prolonged delays.

In the 21st century, that’s not a smart way to go.

Indeed, there was never a time when it was a smart way to go (i.e. doing trial and error)…except in cases when you do not have persons who have gone that route before!

In other words, you’re trying to do something that no one else has done before.

But even when you’re trying to do that (i.e something not done before), there are still principles of success or guiding philosophies you can follow, that will enable you make an intelligent go at it.

And so in essence what I’m trying to say here is that you need to become a student of success.

You need to form the habit of analyzing both failures and successes that you experience, as well as those that you see others undergo,

Now if you form that habit, what will happen is that over time you will become smarter about how to go about the business of succeeding.

It doesn’t matter what field you may be in interested in.

The important thing will be for you to learn how to prepare yourself and how to handle yourself in the face of what is very likely to be a lot of adversity, uncertainty, and sometimes discouragement.

So if you get it right, you will find out that there is no goal you set for yourself, that you will be unable to achieve.

You will constantly be able to achieve your purpose and also be able to overcome any obstacles you encounter in the process.

Now those who are uninitiated – those who have not learned to operate the way you do – may end up coming around and saying you seem to have some kind of magic wand you wave to make things happen the way you want.

What they won’t know is that you’ve taken your time to learn the essential things you need to do to achieve that state of being, in which you are able to conceive a line of action for yourself and intelligently pursue it until you achieve it, and make it look so easy in the process.

In the next clip I’m going to explain why, when you have achieved the above  (i.e. when you’ve become somebody that is able to set his/her sights on a particular goal and pursue it until s/he achieves it) you will need to take a step further to learn how to pass that ability to other people around you.

Not just for people that are close to you, but also those who have to work or interact with you.

Most importantly, I will explain how doing so can actually make you EVEN MORE capable of succeeding authentically, in whatever area of endeavour you may be engaged in.

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SDN Blog™

New posts from last week*

Monday:

[Wednesday]:

[Thursday]:

[Friday]:

If You Don’t Understand Feed Formulation, You Cannot Formulate Feed Correctly [Hint: Answers to a Farm CEO’s Whatsapp Queries About Feed Formulation]

[Saturday]:

Useful Example of How True Stories Can be Used for Business Marketing [Case Study: Lemonade Sets New World Record for payment of insurance claims – LinkedIn Pulse Article by Daniel Schreiber – CEO & Co-Founder at Lemonade Inc.]

[Sunday]:

Make MORE Money: Convert Your Custom Spreadsheets to Mobile Phone Apps [Hint: My New Spreadsheet to Mobile Phone App Conversion Service – See “Agricultural Field Inspection App” in test mode]

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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