Category: Politics

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:

• Not enough information
• Poor Analysis
• Social Pressure
• Superstition
• Unevaluated biases
• Propaganda

All hope is not lost, we can get better at our decision making and to do this, use the WRAP process:

• Widen Your Options.
• Reality-Test Your Assumptions.
• Attain Distance Before Deciding.
• Prepare to Be Wrong.

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.

Hate, tribalism and bigotry should not stop you. Shake them off and pity the haters. They have so much to learn.

Settle your nerves, go for a walk, run, get a shrink, do whatever you need to do. Ignore all the negative voices.

Although, if there is one person you cannot ignore, that would be your spouse. Trust me on this one.

No one who played safe has ever made it big. Be clear to work harder and longer. This is a guarantee for crushing it.