The powerful 4 letter word - PLAN.
Have A Plan
A plan is a map, a guide, a target, a focus, a route, a signpost, a direction, a path or a strategy.
It says that you are going to go somewhere, do something, be somewhere by a certain time. Having a plan gives your life structure and shape, gravitas and power. If you allow life to turn up any old thing you'll be floating downstream as quick as possible. So not all plans work out, not all maps leads to the treasure, but at least you're in with a better chance if you have a map and a shovel than if you just dig at random or like most people don't dig at all.
So what happens if you don't have a plan?
Well, you reinforce to yourself, your sense of being 'not in control'. Once you have a plan everything else falls into place. Once you have a plan the logical steps to achieve that plan also become available, accessible.
A plan isn't a dream - it's something you intend doing rather than something you want to do. And having a plan means you've thought through how you're going to do it.
Of course, just because you have a plan doesn't mean you have to stick to it, to follow it, to obey it to the letter come hell or high water. The plan is always up for review, for improvement, for change as and when you need to. The plan shouldn't be rigid. Circumstances change, you change, your plan changes. The details of the plan don't matter, having one does.
A plan indicates you've had a bit of a think about your life and aren't just waiting for something to turn up or again like most people, not even thinking about it but going through life perpetually surprised by what happens.
Work out what it is you want to do, plan it, work out the steps to take to achieve your goal and get on with it. If you don't plan your plan, it will remain a dream.
In conclusion, having a plan gives you a fall-back position. When life gets hectic it is easy to forget what we are here for. Having a plan means that when the dust settles you can remember, 'Now what was I doing? Oh yes, I remember my plan was to....' And off you go again, back on course.
Mystery of Life
We had similar dreams,
Passed through similar routes,
Bore similar pains,
But the life of inequality makes the difference.
We started the race,
at the same pace.
The difference was the grace.
Only the winner got the praise.
Born together,
Served together,
Fame locates one and leaves the other.
With our sleepless nights,
And joint cries,
Why can’t we both record success?
Life of imbalance!
While some long for maintenance
Others request for extras
And dogs reject remnants.
The poor get poorer,
And the rich, richer.
Satisfaction is far from humanity.
Everyone is gluttony.
Who cares about the hungry?
Life of uncertainty!
Life of inequality!
Life of disparity!
Stuck in time.
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Cognitive🎃
Do you know what Mindset is?
This is the way of thinking, an attitude or opinions of a person. This deals with people's mentality and emotions, the way they tend to relate with different circumstances in life which later leads to their achievements, happiness, failure, prosperity or success in life.
Why is it that some people seem to shine in any sphere in which they choose to exert themselves and others cannot manage even a glimmer despite obvious talent?
Research shows that it's the way that they think about their ability that really counts.
Having a growth mindset is the key to success. The belief that you are in control of your own ability and can learn to improve. Hardwork, effort and persistence are all important but not as important as having that belief that you are in control of your own destiny.
In an extensive 3 year study, we distilled the basis for happiness and success into '7 mindsets'. These are actions or attitude that can literally change the course of a persons life.
The seven mindset are👇👇
✅ Everything is possible - Dream big, embrace creativity and expect great results.
✅ Passion first - Pursue your authentic talents and deepest interest.
✅ We are connected - Explore the synergies in all relationships and learn to empower one another.
✅ 100% Accountability - Choose to be responsible for your own happiness and success. Your future isn't predetermined and your life is what you choose it to be from this moment forward.
✅ Attitude of gratitude - Seek positivity from every experience and be thankful for all you have.
✅ Live to give - Inspire and serve others while maximizing your potential. To receive love, respect and financial security, one must first learn to give those things.
✅ The time is now - Harness the power of this moment, and take purposeful action today. All your power exist in the moment, you cannot change the past and your future hasn't happened so the only thing to do is take purposeful action now in order to create the ultimate life of your dreams.
Note: The way you think, your attitude and opinions will determine how successful you'll be in future. Do embrace a positive mindset.
Think!!!
Think For Yourself🤔
In order to think for yourself, you have to be pretty sure of who you are, and be clear in your thinking as well as doing it for yourself. There's no point in thinking for yourself if it's all muddled and woolly.
You'll think this one's so obvious and I do apologize if it seems simplistic or downright rude. I don't mean to offend or insult and I do appreciate that you do think for yourself.
This means that we need to be clear about our opinions, grounded in our own sense of identity and very assertive about being us so that we aren't easily swayed by what other people think of us.
Being original or creative or different can make us think we stand out too much and will get shunned but truly successful people aren't shunned, they instead become leaders because of their originality, their difference. If you are original in your thinking, you will be looked up to, admired and respected.
However, to think for yourself means you have to have something to think about and actually do the thinking. Look at a selection of people you know, if they are at one with their own life then they are doing both. If they are badly adjusted and generally struggling, then they're not doing either.
NOTE: "We all have fears and concerns, we all want to be loved and accepted, we all want to blend in, be one of a crowd, be acknowledged. We all want to belong. The temptation is to say I'll be whatever you want me to be."
Book Title: The Rules Of Life
Author: Richard Templar
Factors That Triggers Sales
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If you can ace all these factors, then you've got no worries.
1. **Price**
Before you show up to us. You must have done series of assignments.
You must have checked and compared prices of your goods/product to that of your competitors.
Your price should be competitive if not affordable. All depends on the kind of goods you offer.
If your price is way beyond the normal and you can't back it up with a good brand. You would hardly make sales.
**Unique Selling Point (USP)**
After price, what would make people want to buy form you is your USP.
How do you advertise what you sell?
How do you prove to us that we can trust you?
How attractive do you make your product look?
How does your product meet our current needs and ultimately our satisfaction?
**Product Quality and Quantity**
Yes❕This is very crucial. If you stumble at this point, then there would be no continuity of sales for you. In fact you would run out of business. I hope this doesn't happen to any of you.
At first trial, if you are unable to convince your customers to keep patronizing then you won't be making sales.
You need to offer them the very best service. The best available product. If you don't have at that moment. It would be best for you to refer them to someone else, rather than ruin everything just for one shot.
Do speak nicely to your customers please.
The first impression thing really matters in business too.
**Brand**
This five-letter word is your Guardian angel in business.
It encompasses everything you need to run and stay in business.
Branding is wide, more like a world on it's own.
Your brand is your unique identity. Your brand is what differentiates you from other snippers within your range. Your brand is your vision, mission and goals. Your brand is the reason why you started your business📊 and many more.
**The Bond**
This is a sub section of branding. For your sake I must mention it. One last thing that would make me or any other person buy from you is the bond we share.
Well I'd consider friends and family first before stepping out.
Strangers are holding claw hammers while you the closer ones are holding sledge hammers.
Don't over do it❗ Build a strong bond❗Keep your circles intact and then you'd make sales. Aside sales there are other benefits you would derive from keeping a good bond.
Do try these 5 tips and kindly give me a feed back.
I am @The_primer and I am yours truly on this battle field.
Do have a productive week♠️
Gratitude
Gratitude
Gratitude comes from the Latin word 'gratus' which means thankful pleasing.
A psychology research shows that gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences and build strong relationship.
**Benefits Of Gratitude👇**
Gratitude improves self esteem.
Gratitude enhances empathy and reduces aggression.
Gratitude open the doors to more relationship and goodness.
To many, gratitude is simply the display of thanks. Giving thanks is important because it’s an act of service, a way of making others feel special, needed, and loved. As children, we’re taught that showing gratitude is part of being polite, well-mannered, and being vital. If we are to be well-liked and have strong friendships. This is all true.
Similarly, there is another deeper, more vital dimension to giving thanks.
The Bible overflows with instruction to bestow gratitude—especially on God. In Psalm 100, we’re instructed to “Enter into [God’s] gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name” (verse 4). To the congregation in Thessalonica, the Apostle Paul wrote, “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (1 Thessalonians 5:18).
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My heartfelt gratitude to @vamp04 for telling me about this platform. I'm not ungrateful boss.
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Time or Money which is more important?
Some friends and I are currently in a heated conversation on this topic.
I would be glad to hear your view on this interesting topic.
I choose time and I am firing in all cylinder because time is the least renewable resource in the universe.
Kindly drop your comments on this topic, so i and my friends can learn from you.
Thanks in advance.
Little magic
Sometimes in order to stand out we have to blend in else, we miss the magic.
Fidgeting
Fidgeting
I couldn't control myself. I felt my body shaking. uncomfortable. I paced the rcom. felt that thing inside me tear me up on the inside..I needed that calm badly but l didn't want to do it - i was being pushed and pressed against the wall
You cant control me. I screamed in my head "you cannot!"
Then I laughed No, not me that thing inside of me laughed. that sinister laughed, that proved dominion. Still I shook. stood. willing myself not to give in I searched for calmness in my speech- i created you and I can control you.
That laugh again even more sinister, then I ached. He made me eche so badly i croutched on the floor. hugging my knees.
You caanot do this. 'You cannot do this."
I repeatecl, rocking mysef but l ached the more I couldn't fight it as much as I tried so l resorted to begging. I pleaded because I accepted that it controlled me.
lronic because i had created it, fedit and gave it the power to grow so much that l allowed it over power me and now i was being forced to serve. I begged and pleacled then my little brother came home and into the room, just back from school.
As soon as I saw him that feeling embraced me, the ache worsened and I was tied up on the inside.
The power took over and l submitted. I stripped the thirteen year old child and made him lie on my bed till my lust was satisfied, till the spirit became calm l remained on top of him. Pleasure surged in me and I let out a little scream of relief which lasted just few seconds then guilt barged in.
I was ashamed. I let him go and locked myself in the room. I began to cry, that thing, that earlier feeling, that seemed to be tearing me up disappeared like it was never there, making me see that I could have controlled it if I wanted to but no instead I had molested a child 6 years younger than i.
I went, feeling ashamed of myself...
Learn from your mistakes
Do not feel embarrassed to learn from your mistakes, because that's still the best way to work on yourself and improve as a person.
New Era
I have become so lazy,
Writing a line is now toxic,
And venomous to my health.
This season isn't too cozy,
Outbreak of Covid-19 now a pandemic,
And dangerous to our health.
Buoyant medical practitioners,
Whose hands are infected,
Put their lives on the line,
To remain the Commandos on the Frontline.
Various organizations donating-
Partially half of their lifetime savings.
To help fight the virus,
So it won't destroy us.
Like an Ebola patient,
I could not scream.
This is the worst I've seen,
No cure and no vaccine.
Let's all stay home,
So we won't spread
The virus and scream.
To stop the spread
Of the killer-virus
Let's follow the trend.
That of personal hygiene.
To stay home and stay safe.
We can help each other.
But do not embrace one another.
And be our brothers keeper!
The Ultimate Rule.
We live in a world governed by rules, and without these rules it is almost impossible to live our lives to the fullest.
The Ultimate Rule is the simplest of all rules and it implies that you dictate all events that happens in your life. You are the owner of your world, you've earned it through birth, so you've got to rule it. Rule your world! Act, listen and deal with everything life throws at you by evaluating your decisions with the best of your knowledge.
Honestly there are too many rules in this world, and most times the rules complicate situations. The rules gives joy to a particular party and oppresses another. The rules are life givers and they are also life takers.
Hence, you need to make your own rules. Your decision matters everyday and everytime. You are the emperor of your own kingdom. So do well to live your life based on your own rules. Evaluate other rules and mould yours out of them.
The Ultimate Rule is no rule. It is about you. You are the Ultimate Ruler of Your Life!
Learn To Ask Questions
Lessons i derived from asking questions
⚠ When you are confused ask questions.
⚠When you don't understand something you're taught, you need to ask questions for more explanation.
⚠ It shows how composed you are.
⚠ Questions help people clarify their thoughts.
⚠ It helps in making the right decision.
⚠ It increases our knowledge.
⚠ It helps to reduce our level of assumption.
⚠ It helps in seeking information.
⚠ Asking questions gives us time to think and find out the truth.
⚠ It makes us respond logically, calmly and correctly.
PS: Questions help people clarify their thoughts.
Laments Of Pain
Laments Of Pain
I have known pain,
I have known pain to be an unpleasant sensation.
To inflict suffering with an unjust decision.
To create fear, discipline but suicide isn't an option.
I have known pain since the struggle at childbirth.
With tears like that of a stillbirth.
I have known pain for as long as I've lived,
For all that I have were bereaved.
I have known pain since my childhood days.
Where being poor is classified by feeding on grains.
I still hear the cry of the native berger,
Caused by distress insatiable wants and hunger.
I have known pain to be the darkened gaze of a widow.
Whose light has being seized by death through the window.
And all she had left is an old mirror -
For her to reflect and God to Him she call unto!
I have known pain to be the feeling of empathy.
To the deceased who are now at peace.
I have known pain to be the brutal killing of farmers-
In their fallow farmlands.
I have known pain to be the feeling of anxiety towards change.
In a country, where our leaders clamour for negative change.
Without them considering the future of this great nation.
So our economy won't be in jeopardy like toxical nature.
I have known pain to be the act of fraudulent activities-
In a country where her citizens are glued to cybercrime.
While the law enforcement agencies have abandoned her constitution-
And the youths are ready to kill in swift action.
I have known pain to be the lack of zeal for education.
In our country where academics is joined to vocation.
To create more opportunities and employment in our nation-
Where amalgamation has caused greed for power and destruction.
Power and revenge
If all you practice is power, opportunism and revenge. You're definitely going through the left gate.
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Time management
Time is the least available resource in the universe!
During this pandemic, our most mismanaged and unnoticed challenge has been time. Until recently I just realized that we've spent four months fighting COVID 19 and it doesn't seem like it would end soon. This has triggered me to write on time management, basically on how to categorize or group tasks for better effectiveness.
Our tasks could be divided into four groups:
Important and urgent group.
Important and not urgent group.
Unimportant and urgent group.
Unimportant and not urgent group.
Once we are able to group our daily tasks based on their urgency and importance, I believe we would be more effective in managing our time.
Orchid Flower
Orchids are the most highly coveted of ornamental plants, the delicate, exotic and graceful orchid represents love, luxury, beauty and strength. In ancient Greece, orchids were associated with virility.
It is the national flower of Costa Rica and Honduras, as well as other states around the world.
Orchids are one of the most sought-after plants in the pharmaceutical and fragrance industries. They are called the "pandas of the plant world".
The Chinese continues to use orchids for medicinal purposes until today, most commonly in the form of medicinal tea. It is said to possess medicinal properties that can help treat cancer, strengthen the immune system, and improve eyesight.
Marigold Worth More Than Gold
Marigold Worth More Than Gold
I know it's not an easy thing to fall in love
As I write with tears in my eyes.
And to the one I love,
You are one in a million my Iris.
Come rain, come sunshine.
At night, your beauty radiates light.
And your fragnance is as sweet as wine.
For your love I'll trade my might.
Loving you is what I'll do forever,
Because you're my rainbow of possibilities.
Even if it takes a lifetime to be with you however.
Like a Lord, I'll provide for your amenities.
You are my world, My Marigold,
I'll cherish you than a Ton of Gold.
Education in Nigeria
Right now I am in shambles. Earlier this week, the ministry of education agreed to allow graduating students particularly those writing the WEST AFRICAN SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (WASSCE) to resume their studies on the 5th of August.
Last night the action was reversed, schools won't be reopening till further notice( probably next year). Students like myself are really going through a hard time. There are no provisions to engage us in online classes. The universities lacks a proper plan for online lectures. In my school for instance, nothing is going on. We tried having lectures online in April but since then it has stopped.
I fear I'd have to repeat my current class alongside my course mates due to a lack of insight and thoughtfulness of the ministry of education in my country. The pandemic is no joke but we have to adjust to it, we have to keep moving, we need to sustain ourselves in order to better our lives and the life of others in the globe.
Structured education should be fundamental in every country.
My little sister's birthday
On a bright Tuesday morning in the month of July, 2010. Everyone in my house were jubilating, the joy of a new born baby filled the atmosphere. A few days ago my sister clocked 10. It was a an amazing experience. Due to the lockdown we couldn't have an elaborate party, but we baked her cake, and took cool pictures which would be framed 😍 soon.
Life!Life!!Life!!!
I'm not a philosopher but I'll speak like Aristotle today😹
In one of my previous post I said "The world we live in isnt a playground but a battlefield". Please do well to read that line over again, now ask yourself, search within your mind for answers, Is it true or false? I can give account on various events I've witnessed as my proof to backup that line but I know you don't want me to bore you with those stories.
Life is of two sides, I mean it's like a double edged sword. Its now left for you to choose the way you'll wield it either to attack and oppress others or to defend and protect them.
In this life, we have 'day and night', 'good and bad', 'success and failure', 'black and white', amidst others.
In life, it is expected to be spiritually strong, your connection with God our creator should be faster than 4G LTE network.
Yes, you need to share a bond with Him, a personal relationship where you can call on Him anytime, anywhere, whatever the kind of situation you're in, He'll surely listen, and answer your silent prayers too.
Look I'm been candid here, I'm not an astronomer, cleric, pastor, onifa or alawo. In this life, you're expected to win or lose, fail or succeed, rise or fall. It's not a joke, you need to work more on yourself to get into any of the above category. Go out there and make research if only they'll tell you the bitter truth. Oh what a pity! Whatever material thing we are all after now, be it gold, wealth or position, they won't last long except the grace of God. So why not seek him and watch how you'll be blessed.
My fellow comrade, if you will ever lose anything please don't lose the hands of God, hold onto Him firmly because He is the giver of life, the source of peace, the most merciful and the oft-forgiving.
You're expected to hold onto the hands of God firmly so you will be able to live a life full of comfort and satisfaction.
Its never too late to turn a new leaf, take that opportunity, attend that tutorial, take that decision now, just do something profitable and productive because in the end you'll be left alone. It will be just you and your awful shadow.
Dose From A Book I Read
Topic: Be part of the solution, not the problem.
Lessons derived:
⚠ We should be hardworking so we can take necessary actions.
⚠ We should endeavor to make good use of our youthful age.
⚠We should at all time seek knowledge so we can find solutions to all or major problems in life.
⚠ We should be just in our dealings and doing without any form of compromise.
⚠ We should 'get involved' be it tutorials, online courses, business etc. Don't be idle, be productive!
⚠ We should do the right thing at the right time. To be successful, we need to take action, to contribute, to share ideas and to communicate with each other.
⚠ We should reinvest in life for things to get better.
PS: "Look, if we don't take some action in this world, this fabulous planet of ours is going to hell in a handcart."
Book Title: The Rules Of Life.
Author: Richard Templar.
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