Yearly Archives: 2018

Education

BECOMING A PERSON OF DISCOVERY

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Discovery is important for people that are on the road to intentional growth. It is accepting constructive criticism and applying a different perception that may help your condition. The world is changing so fast nowadays. There are a lot of discoveries in many aspects of life during a short time. The one who wants to gain more control over his life needs to be updated always.

The greatest among you must be like a child.

The key to learning is finding out more about what you don’t know and making a commitment daily to learn, grow, meet people and keep learning. Jesus Christ one day heard His disciples arguing among themselves about who was the greatest among them. Upon hearing them, he called them and said this to them, “The greatest among you must be like a child.”

By saying this, what He meant was not for one to possess the spirit of a child but gave us one of the key principles and advice you do not have to forget from today. To become a person of discovery, one must have the mindset of a child.

When you were a child, you honestly thought your dad was the richest man on earth. You believed that whatever you wanted, he would buy for you. Today I am a dad and I see the same thing in the eyes and mind of my children. Sometimes I do not have the means but when I see their level of confidence and belief in me, I try hard never to disappoint them.

The more that you know, the more that you know that you don’t know and the more that you know that you don’t know, the more that you know that you want to know.

This is the mindset we ought to have; to see opportunities and think without limits. One that seeks to discover and agrees that I don’t know it all but willing to learn and improve. It was John Maxwell that said, “The more that you know, the more that you know that you don’t know and the more that you know that you don’t know, the more that you know that you want to know.”

In other words, to influence others, you must become a person of discovery. Everything that makes or will make mankind great is covered. For anyone to ever dream of becoming great requires you to uncover what is covered. Greatness is not hidden from you but for you and it is only people of discovery who find it and move forward to maximise it.

Greatness is not hidden from you but for you and it is only people of discovery who find it and move forward to maximise it.

Make a choice today to become a person of discovery. Drink from good books, learn from others but don’t become them. Become who you are created to be because you are unique and special. No matter who you want to become today or in the future, it begins with this simple yet powerful principle; become a person of discovery.

Motivation/Inspiration

A TENACIOUS SPIRIT

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We live in a microwave society where people want things here and now. Because of this, they give up just before success. The only way you are going to succeed is by holding on. Too many people quit right before they get to become successful.

I call this failure at the edge of a breakthrough or success. They are people who give up just a little too soon. In both life and business, I have discovered that a lot of people start well but only a few people end well. Does this reflect your life? Are you in a current position that you need encouragement? Or just maybe you know someone who is at the edge of giving up? No matter your position or condition, this article is written to help you.

When a seed is sown, it usually takes time to harvest. This is life’s principle and principles don’t change no matter the season or the time and you need to understand that, it takes time to harvest. Good things don’t come quickly, it comes over time and just as it is wisely said, all is well that ends well. What matters most is in life and even in business not how you start but in how you finish.

To succeed, you need a tenacious spirit.

To succeed, you need a tenacious spirit. One that doesn’t let go or give up. The kind of spirit that keep pushing and pushing until something happen. It is being consistent and always having faith. It is having the determination to succeed at all cost.

A story of a widow in the Bible who needed help from an unjust judge is a great example of having the spirit of tenacity. It is recorded that, this widow came to this judge who neither feared God or man to help her get justice against her adversaries.

At first, he would not but when the woman kept on coming and bothering him, he changed his mind to help her get what she was looking for so that she would stop bothering her. Luke 18:1-8 (emphasis added). This poor widow is a great example of tenaciousness.

It was Mia Hamm, a gold medallist in the women’s football team who said, “I am building a fire and every day I train, add more fuel. At the right time, I light the match.” Such is another great example of tenaciousness.

It takes a tenacious spirit to continue in the sight of sceptics and bulldoze your way through a mountain of doubt into a testimony of victory.

Sometimes along the road, we know that we need to be where we need to be. However, we encounter test and trial when we are stopped by a huge mountain in the way. Options are that you turn back and choose a route that goes somewhere other than the original intention or you blast a hole in the mountain and make a way that takes you there.

It takes a tenacious spirit to continue in the sight of sceptics and bulldoze your way through a mountain of doubt into a testimony of victory. Always remember this, “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” 2 Corinthians 4:8-9.
This is the mindset of tenacious people.

Have a tenacious spirit.

Leadership

A LEADER’S GREATEST RESOURCE

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We don’t need more time; we need more energy as leaders. Now, I know many of you leaders out there may be wondering why energy and not time because for too long, we have been conditioned to think that time is our greatest resource.

Let’s face it! Whether your twenty-four hours is going to yield results or increase productivity will be more dependent on how much energy you can put it more than anything else. So energy is what makes the difference in your twenty-four hours. Without energy, you definitely are guaranteed time but not productivity or results as a leader.

Without energy, you definitely are guaranteed time but not productivity or results as a leader.

Energy is as a result of passion. It is one of the major assets a leader can have because a sense of energy and passion create the kind of purpose that drives performance. When passion and purpose come together, it gives birth to a winning plan for your day, week, month and certainly a fruitful year in the life and organisation of a leader.

Energy is measured by the rate of power in you. That is to say, to have more energy, you must have more passion for what you do. This is why you don’t need to work or lead in areas you are not passionate about.

“We can create energy, or we can sap energy out of our people and out of our organization.”

The law of energy says that it is neither created nor destroyed but it is transformed. In order words, a leader who has the energy or even the lack of it will over time transform the lives of those around him because it is contagious. In order words, it can be transferred to the people and organisation that one leads.

Nothing sucks than a leader who does not have passion in what he does. Not only may this be frustrating but it ends up weakening the people around such a leader. So you see how your passion and energy can make a whole lot of a difference in what you do.

Just like Noel M. Tichy said, “A leader is never ‘energy-neutral.’ You are either giving people energy or you are sapping it from them.” And Richard H. Lenny, the Chairman and CEO of Hershey Foods, affirms what Lenny says, “We can create energy, or we can sap energy out of our people and out of our organization.”

So it is worth asking, as a leader, are you creating energy or sapping the energy out of the people you are leading? If you may be sapping energy from your workers or people you lead, then check your level of passion. You can do this by integrating your legitimate needs, desires and talents.

You can’t get more time but you can get more energy.

Always know that as a leader, you can’t get more time but you can get more energy. Get more energy, fire and passion in your life and witness a drastic change in your organisation. It is time to unleash the energy factor in you.