DO YOU WANT EASY?

The Easy life is actually easy

The Information age has made money making much easier for those who can adapt to change. Your ability to adapt to change and maximize the growing potentials of the world around you will determine how far you can strive in success.

It doesn't take money to make money, it takes knowledge to make money - Times have changed, the rules have changed

Hard work is great for stress, Smart work is great for success

You must have heard the saying,'You break your health to get wealth and then, spend your wealth to get health'

This is so for most people. The more painful thing is that in the end, many people don't even have enough of the wealth to revive their health. Sadly, most people die of Money sickness. Money sickness could be in form of cancer, arthritis, hypertension, stroke, HBP etc. I call it money sickness because most people acquire this sicknesses in their pursuit for money.

Money is not the most important thing in life, but money does affect everything that is important :richdad

Many people, when asked the last time they went for a check up, comfortably ate 3 square meals in a day, rested for a whole day or even took a vacation; you hear the most silly excuse, 'I don't have the time'. But the time is created when the body breaks down.
Let's compare our body to a generator set. The generator worsks itself to power other electrical alliances, just as we work ourselves to meet all our needs. If the fuel or engine oil isn't enough in the gen, it goes off or doesn't work properly. Likewise, If the gen is left working for too long without servicing, it develops fault. Many of us don't service our bodies by going to the doctor, many of us don't refill our bodies by eating the right things at the right time and by resting.

We all want wealth, but we dont want to get the wealth and be given a time frame to spend it. God forbid after the wealth comes, the doctor also comes up with a terminal sickness or a food menu of what we can eat and cannot eat. If you ask me that's the worst, because I like food.

If your current job isn't allowing you take care of yourself, my dear, find an alternative for your own good. God forbid anything happens to you, in less than a month, your boss will find someone else. If you're an entrepreneur, God forbid anything happens to you, your next of kin takes over all the dividends of your years of destroying your body,. It gets worse if your next of kin can't handle the business and ruins it. For some of us who are probably thinking of quitting our job, I recommend the book,'Before you quit your job' by Robert Kiyosaki & Sharon L.Letcher.

For those of us who are entrepreneurs, I recommend you go back to your drawing board and work out a plan to bring experts on board who can lessen the burden on you. When you work smart, you achieve more. Warren Buffet, Bill gates, Mike Adenuga all have employees who work hard to increase the value of their businesses. Stop decieving youself with the notion that no one else can handle your business better than you. You will definitely find better professionals who will lessen the burden on you, provided your business has the right framework, both legal and financial.
Think ahead of your now, what's the value of money if you loose the freedom to spend it as you please.

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COMMUNICATION FOR BUSINESS GROWTH

Communication is the most important skill of any entrepreneur.

In my previous post, I wrote about getting your dream job. If you haven't read that post, click here.
However I personally prefer entrepreneurship, maybe because I'm an entrepreneur and I understand the dividends as compared to a 9-5 job. This week, I'll exposing the secret to great leadership and entrepreneurship.
This secret is effective communication.

As an entrepreneur, you must possess these two types of communication skills, and not just possess, but master them.

1- Interpersonal communication - This is simply self control. Business can be very challenging. When the going gets tough, only the tough get...............
Times of business challenges are when the true character of the entrepreneur is revealed. As an entrepreneur, you must possess strength of character. You character should never change due to challenges in business. For instance, some entrepreneurs go into hiding when they can't pay bad debts or some may device means to rip off customers to make extra-profit, some entrepreneurs would make mistakes and blame employees. As an entrepreneur, you must take responsibility for everything in the business, even when its the employee that makes the mistake. Focus on integrity and master your internal self.
When you face challenges, stick to your core mission and don't give up. Challenges would only make you stronger and smarter. If you break in the face of challenges, you're no better than you were yesterday, you've not grown, you're not smarter than you were yesterday. No matter how long it may last, you ability to face the problem and solve it is what makes you a true entrepreneur.

2- Interpersonal communication- is the ability of the entrepreneur to manage people effectively.

                                               Business is easy, managing people is hard. 

Its the job of the entrepreneur to gather different individuals and forge them into a team who would give their best to achieve the goal of the entrepreneur. Subsequently, its also the job of the entrepreneur to convince investors that his business is the best business they can put their money into and to make them trust him. The entrepreneur has to explain to customers why they can't do without his/her product or service and let them understand that his/her brand is the best that's available in the market. If you're not good at working with people, entrepreneurship is not for you.

You need great communication to convince people to give you their money for an idea that hasn't even become full reality yet. How do you get investors for business when you're not good at communicating your thoughts and ideas.
Communication in this regards goes beyond language. Its more of self expression and your ability to make people understand what you want them to. Its your ability to propel people to action to achieve a goal.

Let's take a deeper look at how communication can affect your affect your business.

Communication is necessary for success in all departments of the business.
These departments include - Mission, Team, Leadership, Cash-flow, Communication, Legal, Systems and Product :copied from Richdad's B-I Triangle.

The team won't properly understand the mission of the business if the entrepreneur doesn't communicate it well to them. Even the entrepreneur won't be able to come up with a realistic mission if he has a weak character.
The entrepreneur, who would initially lead the team, wont do it well without effective communication at all the levels.
Cash-flow is only consistent when communication at the sales and marketing level flows freely and effectively.
The Legal aspect is useless without effective communication, instead of company management, it becomes crisis management if communication at this level isn't effective.
The systems is basically how the different parts of the business works including production, staff structure etc. Imagine a company where all the departments don't work in unity or all the department heads are in disagreement; that's not a company, that's a mob.

Basically, as an entrepreneur, communication skills is what should first be developed. You don't need to be an expert in all the skills needed to run your business, but you need to be an expert to get people who have the skills required to run your business.

I doubt if Dangote knows how to mine limestone to produce Dangote Cement, nor does he know how to extract sugar for Dangote Sugar but these two products are the fastest selling in the Nigerian market today with over a thousand units produced daily.

Communication can either build or break you and your business. 

To gain effective communication skills, you will need to learn it. Read motivational books, read books on Leadership, read books on strategy; I would recommend, 'The ART of WAR' -SUN TZU : translated by Thomas Cleary, 'The Leader within you' - by Myles Munroe. Also read, 'Before you quit your Job'- by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon L Letcher.

As a true entrepreneur, communication would take you farther than talent can. Communication first with God, within yourself and with others. You're good to go. Adolph Hitler, Alexander the Great, Nelson Mandela and all other motivational speakers and Men of History all had great communication skills which is why they were effective leaders. You can't be a leader with bad communication skills.

Develop yourself, communicate well, build your team, build your business. Be a leader, Be great. I wish you success in your chosen field.

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HOW TO GET YOUR DREAM JOB - 4 MAJOR STEPS

  Lets get a job now

We can't all the entrepreneurs. If everyone is an entrepreneur, who would be the employees? besides, not everyone has what it takes to be an entrepreneur. Unlike most of my other posts, this post is for the great people who are more productive working in a corporate setting.

Just like every great achievement in life starts with a vision and a plan, so does getting that dream job. The principles you're about to learn are not principles for getting just any job, they are principles for getting your dream job.

We have probably heard of some professionals who switch jobs as often as they want because they have built an irresistible repetition. It all started from somewhere.

To get your dream job, you should ask yourself these questions;

• What company/companies do I want to work? 
• For how long would I work there?
• What position would I hold there?
• What legacy would I leave behind there? 

Upon answering these questions, you're ready to get your dream job.

When you determine your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice of company, you then go on company survey.

The purpose of this survey is to find the loop holes in the services the company offers and determine how you can add value to the company.
Having this properly figured out, build yourself into an arsenal that would help your dream company succeed.
This could be in form of learning skills, disciplining yourself to be able to do certain things you wouldn't do ordinarily, training yourself or even having others train you. It could also be in the form of getting additional certifications and qualifications and know how to effectively implement what you've learnt.

Now that you're that value adding arsenal your dream company cannot resist, compose your CV to feature those additional skills your dream company lacks or needs; you can also attach a write-up or document of your personal achievements or proposed solution to certain problems you feel the company is facing.
Of course, be careful not to give all your ideas, lest you shoot yourself in the leg.

Approach the company to summit your CV, whether or not they are hiring.
You can either do this by going to the company and submitting your CV to the HR officer or by booking a meeting with a top official in the company, AMD OR MD if possible, and sell yourself to them.
Remember you're there to offer value and not to negotiate price or sell yourself.

Since you might not have any relevant working experience, this might not work.
However, to prove to yourself and the company that you really want to add value and not after just the money, you can apply for internship and work yourself till your value is noticed and leveraged upon.
Internship might be without salary, don't be dismayed- You have a vision.

If you are really adding value to the company and they can't do without your services, its only logical for you to be offered a job.

You should not forget what legacy you plan to be known for.
In every office setting, take it or leave it, everyone is always known for something, be it gossip, farting, over eating, lateness, talkative etc.
Choose your legacy wisely as this would speak for you most especially in your absence or in your time of less productivity or challenge.
Your legacy could be Innovative genius, God fearing, hardworking, Early to work, etc.
Even as an intern who earns little or nothing, a legacy is expected of you, and you either form your legacy intentionally or unintentionally.

You should also know  when to ask for a salary raise and when to resign.
Except if your vision is to become the Managing Director, don't spend too much of your time in that company after you have achieved your goal there. You could begin to get redundant and loose value.

Expose yourself to challenges and always keep improving yourself, whether or not you're jobless.

The key is to keep yourself productive and busy, keep doing, don't stop doing. Also, don't let money be your primary target, money is good, but money can never bring you complete satisfaction.
Remember, when the value you add supersedes the amount you charge, you become invaluable.

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GREATNESS IS A CHOICE

Good is the enemy of great - Jim Collins

The word GREAT is a very big and diverse word.
In some dictionaries, it is defined as, 'Very big, Large Scale, Very good, Important' etc. From this definitions, it seems like all the interpretations of GREAT all mean the same right? Wrong!!!

Greatness is relevant, Greatness is diverse, Greatness comes in variety.

This means that what may seem great to me might not be seen as great to you and vice versa. Subsequently, my level of greatness may be bigger or smaller than yours, but its all a matter of perception. However, any form of greatness will have the following characteristics;

• It would bring joy
• It would bring satisfaction
• It would bring recognition

This three characteristics all come with greatness. If your definition of GREAT doesn't have these three features, its not yet GREAT.

The ability of a person to become great isn't hidden in luck or chance, its a CHOICE.

To become great, you have to make sacrifices. I don't think there's anyone who has ever being great who didn't have to make sacrifices.
To be great, you first have to decide that you want Greatness - No one can decide whether or not you will be great but you.

When you finally decide to become great, you have to start taking steps toward greatness. The first step is to discover yourself. Remember greatness brings joy and satisfaction, so if you're not doing something that would bring you happiness and rest of mind, no matter how big it is, from the definitions above, it isn't greatness. Discovering yourself often comes with finding your gift, what you're passionate about, what you can do for free no matter how long and what you're happy doing.

Self Discovery is the platform for greatness.

Its easier to become an expert when you love what you do.

We don't hear of great workers or great followers or great servants, you only hear of GREAT LEADERS.

You have to become a leader to be great.

When you discover yourself, you have found the leader in you. No one was born a leader; if you've ever hear the statement that people are born leaders, it is very wrong. Contrary to that, leaders are not born but developed. You have to develop the leader in you to be great.
Humans are like seeds, the more you nurture the seed, it can become a great tree tomorrow, so also, if you develop yourself, you can be a great leader tomorrow. It depends mostly on how you choose to nurture your seed.
Come to think of it, all so-called leaders had to go through some form of apprentice training/development before getting to where they are today.
Religious leaders started from being workers in church, political leaders started their training from very minor posts, Business leaders started from being average businessmen also.

When you're a leader in your field, you attract greatness.

You have to start from somewhere, Greatness doesn't come overnight.

Ever wondered why many success stories come with a lot of hardship? It's not really about suffering or torture, its just the development process. Just like gold which has to go through a  super hot furnace to be refined into a priceless metal, you have to overcome circumstances and challenges to become a leader and achieve greatness.

What makes you happy can make you great. 

Decide to be great, work towards it because your life depends on it. See challenges as tests you must pass to attain greatness. Just be great. Greatness requires a process, keep doing the right things and stay true to the process.

       "Don't overdo the do, don't overwork the work"- Chuck Bauer

Pastor E.A Adeboye, Pastor S.I Makinwa, Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela etc. all found greatness in their gift.
Serve your gift to the world and be great.

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