If sacrificing your personnel resources, your time and money to carry out a community project were easy, then everyone will be doing it.
It is not important if it were easy. People want to be part of a project that they find important.
People who are not loyal to the work will no longer find it interesting when challenges come up. We should welcome challenges.
Doing the hard work is what makes leaders stand out.
We can be good and popular or either. They are two different things but one is better.
If we must choose one of them, pick being good.
We can dare to be both but the core must be preserved. The core should be good.
A dumb idea that comes to your mind but you just brushed it off. A few months or years later, someone has executed it.
Now that business is worth a few hundred million dollars or even a billion. Yet, we’ve had many of those ideas.
Who would have thought of sharing a house with a stranger? As dumb as that might sound, Airbnb was worth over $38 billion before COVID.
Is it online dating or an electric car? For sure, the time for an idea to become successful may not have come in your current location.
In 2008, I developed an e-commerce site in University. However, in 2012 Jumia was founded.
That dumb idea in our head can be the next breakthrough. Execute.
The most crucial lesson we’ll learn in business is to “ignore sunk costs”.
We may have invested blood and sweat in the project. Conversely, if it has obviously become an economic drain, or if it is tearing apart our heart and relationships, then it is time to quit.
Certainly, you’ll experience some trustworthy investors who have put their hope and fate in your potential to deliver the project. At the same time, your partners have told you how lucrative the business is. As a young entrepreneur, you are confident that you have some experience and you are itching to get going.
As the project moves forward, you start to learn about the true skills and actual values of your partners. You discover that this is different from what they have preached to you.
Coupled with dealing with your partners, you encounter demanding community stakeholders and opportunist local government officers. Additionally, your suppliers’ consistently fail to deliver on their promises.
There is so much to learn from these scenarios. For every entrepreneur, artist, politician or designer, yesterday is forever gone and tomorrow is worth a million.
A few years ago, I experienced all this. What was the alternative? Ignore sunk costs, learn from the experience, quit, carve a new path, or go back to the drawing board.
Your ability to bounce back is certainly one of the key skills required to succeed.
We all want our children to grow physically, mentally and in all facets of their lives.
As a parent, to teach a child a lesson, pick a time where your child is in a good state of mind if you have an area of improvement for that youngster. Ask the kid to propose how a situation can be improved.
For example, if a kid breaks a glass cup, ask the child how this can be avoided in the future. The child may suggest that they’ll use a plastic cup next time. The idea is to help the young one develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
It is worth noting that the age of a child is vital to what metal capability the kid can display. This will also determine what lesson that youngster can assimilate. At the same time, take into consideration the child’s temperament when you are implementing disciplinary measure.
Remember, to discipline is to teach and not to punish.
Before libraries, paper books were expensive as owning a house until mass printing was invented by Gutenberg, a German inventor.
Right now, we have ebooks and audiobooks. You can include videobooks to be a little bit techier. The creation of digital media has made access to information easier and faster. The time saving from this invention is enormous. This means that some people are using the gained time to become smarter by reading more.
Patrick Bet-David, an American Entrepreneur advocates that an all-the-time entrepreneur should be reading eight books a month. I use to think I read a lot until now. However, this is possible and it requires plenty of sacrifices. Forget about leisure.
The way I do it is using audiobooks. At this instant, some books are not available in audio and other books just have to be read on paper, especially reference books covering subjects like physics.
To compete intellectually in the global village, you need to be a lot smarter than before. It has become more imperative to educate our people here in Nigeria because the world is moving on faster than we think, while we fall behind the more.
The choices we make are a huge step towards our goals or lead us far astray. When we make a decision, it can be with outmost confidence or in another situation, with not enough information.
It is all right if it was a good decision, but we learn what didn’t work if it was the wrong one.
Some of the worse choices ever made are as a result of the following:
All hope is not lost, we can get better at our decision making and to do this, use the WRAP process:
Do not over-invest time thinking about people and events. Instead, be and ideas person. Powerful ideas influences and they attract people.
A man must stand erect and not be kept erect by others. Strive to be independent.
All acts should be executed with purpose. Nothing comes and returns to nothing.
Tranquillity is a good ordering of the mind. Give yourself some retreat to energize.
Notice how everything and everyone is forgotten quickly? Thus, in your own territory do not distract yourself.
The universe is transformational, align with it.
That which is truly beautiful does not need anything, it does not need to be praised. It already is.
Rise in the morning with enthusiasm to do the work of a human being. Ants, Bees are already working for the universe. Do your part.
Go on to do another good act after another without calling people to give you glory.
On one hand, smart work is seeking creative ways to complete tasks quicker. For example, using accounting software to manage the business income and expense accounts.
A spreadsheet can do the same task. However, using accounting software saves time as tasks and reports are already automated. Using a spreadsheet to do the same job is tedious work.
There are opportunities to save time in all professions including law, politics, engineering and software development.
Consequently, what do we do with the gained time? We must achieve more. Hard work is achieving improved results with gained time. We can certainly do more in our hospitals, our schools and our government ministries and departments.
You should be proud of doing hard work. That’s how change happens.
Do you know your “personal brand”? What impression do people have about you?
We know Microsoft as a company that wants to empower people, while Apple is dedicated to the improvement of man.
Ultimately, building your brand requires that you work on your Performance, your Image, and your Exposure. Think of this as your PIE.
The question is: how big is your PIE? The bigger your pie, the bigger your brand.
