tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40071652497077015922024-03-21T17:13:35.908-07:00TRIBECONOMICSThought Provoking Ideas That Challenges The Status-Quo.... Learn How To Spread Your Ideas Effectively And Become A Better Writer Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-24531855569480919642015-10-07T02:57:00.000-07:002015-10-07T02:57:20.494-07:00What do you do when you are doing what you are meant to do and and it is killing you? <div>
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HT: <a href="http://alearningaday.com/2015/10/extenuating-circumstances/">Rohan</a></div>
Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-82438168868706267092015-09-10T02:26:00.001-07:002015-09-10T02:26:27.896-07:00Life Is Not A Popularity Contest<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">... Make real connections <b>(create a TRIBE)</b>.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Connections with people that have done what you intend doing. With people that will motivate you and encourage you to unleash your creativity. With people that will push you to do more.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The fact that the world is big doesn't mean we need everybody to be on our side. We don't need a crowd, what we need is a <b>TRIBE.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What the crowd does is deceive us into believing we are leading a tribe (when we are not). The Crowd bites our dreams and vision each day till we have nothing left. They are cynics that will tell you it is not possible to do what you intend doing (because they have never seen anyone do it).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">If you have over a million people following you across social media platforms and you can only influence the decision of a little over a thousand then you are surrounded by a very big <b>CROWD</b>.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It is difficult filtering out the most important people <b>(a TRIBE)</b> from the <b>CROWD</b>. And it is more difficult cutting the connections we have with them (the crowd), especially when they are our close friends and families.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">But it is the sacrifice we must make if we want to create work that matters in the world that we live in.</span><br />
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<a href="mailto:sadiqdaniel@gmail.com" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;">Sadiq Daniel</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"> is a </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><u>Serial Entrepreneur and</u></span></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"><u><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Teens Coach</span></u></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"> that blogs on business, Self- development, Life lessons and Ideas that challenges the status quo... You can pursue him for a speaking engagements on </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Twitter:</span></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span></b></span></a><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/sadiqspeaks" style="color: #7d181e; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;">@sadiqspeaks</a><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"> <span style="color: red;">LinkedIn:</span> </span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;">Sadiq Daniel and</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"> Email:</span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;">Sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</span></b></span>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-47851929468274102232015-09-10T02:10:00.000-07:002015-09-10T02:10:17.238-07:00Build Friendship With Your Clients First #AllanPollett<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Four days ago, I interviewed <a href="http://allanpollett.com/">Allan Pollett</a> on my show <b>#AskingWHY</b> via <b><a href="http://www.wigradio.com/">WIGRadio</a></b> on how to leverage the internet as a connection tool. In the course of the interview, I asked him how someone can go from <i><b>0 to 8</b></i> in a world where no body really gives a sh*t about you, a world where you need to earn people's trust before they can do business with you <i>(How can you earn the trust of someone that barely knows you)?</i></span><i><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /></i><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>What He Said</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Be transparent, honest and generous. Don't try to pitch to your prospective clients first, it doesn't work that way. Be ready to help, be ready to give your all first...."</span></i></span></blockquote>
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Let Me Break The Whole Thing Down</span></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">•---------></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This is YOU</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">•----------------></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This is your market.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In the connection economy <i>(that we are now),</i> your goal is to <u>bring your market to you or go closer to your market</u> I.e you and your market has to be on the same page.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Fine, you have a great product <i>(say you are an artist and you can even paint the whole universe in a minute or better still a writer that is pregnant with great ideas)</i> - you believe you are that awesome. And you have taken time out to do your research and identified your target market <i><u>(Identifying your target market is very important</u></i>).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Now the challenge is getting your target market to know you. Because there is no way in the world you will sell to someone that doesn't trust you or your product <i>( believe that your product can do what you claim it can do)</i>.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>CHALLENGE:</b> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>You Need To Earn Their Trust!</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>WHAT MOST PEOPLE DO:</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Most people feel the best way to earn the trust of their target market is through ads. <i>"Let's pump money into some TV ads dammit!"</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Let me tell you the hard truth about TV Ads (Ads generally); Advertisement will give you that awareness you need for your product. It will make noise about your product in places where you did not even imagine, but it can't earn you the trust of your target market. And they are f**king expensive too. (especially for a startup)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Ads cannot be your <i>get-out-of-jail-free</i> card when it comes to earning people's trust. <u>Ads only works effectively when (after) you have built that trust</u>.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>So How Do We Earn The Trust Of Our Clients</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Friendship!</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">You don't just walk up to a lady <i>(that you like)</i> at the mall and say <i>"hey baby, I am awesomely intelligent and cool.... Let's go to my house and have <strike>sex</strike> mad fun."</i> You'd be very lucky if she doesn't slap you.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">That is what we do when we go for ads first <i>(when we pitch our idea to our clients)</i> without building friendship.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Because they don't know you from anywhere, you have to be generous- you need to let them have a bit of you first. And you have to do it from the bottom of your heart.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">You are a great writer <i>(you know you are</i>) that has this amazing book idea, you don't just go ahead and write hoping that your target market will buy. They won't buy because they don't know you neither do they know if you are worth getting advice from.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So instead of writing that book and forcing people to buy through book launches <i>(yeah people still do book launches. Crazy right?)</i> or Ads, Teach people for free first. Start a blog that shares some of those ideas that you have. Help people get more from their lives the way you can. Gradually with consistency, you will build friendship and earn the trust of your market.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">You will earn their trust because they now know how credible and awesome you are and they'd be sure to buy whatever you sell to them <i>(and even tell their friends too because they know what you are capable of</i>).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b><span style="color: red;">Bonus Point:</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> When you earn trust through friendship and not Ads, your clients will stay with you even in times of troubles. They'd defend you anywhere. Ads (no matter how expensive) can never do that for you.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>PS:</b> <b>#AskingWHY</b> is a radio show that inspires people to challenge the status-quo and unleash their creativity in respect to creating work that matters and getting more out of life. It goes on air every Monday 10.30am (GMT+1:00 West Central Africa time) on <a href="http://www.wigradio.com/">WIGRadio</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In my mind I was like <i>"this is sealed... I should make publicity for this interview already."</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">At first I was disappointed. But after a couple of hours, I realized that I had messed up big time. And here are few things you could learn from my story.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I scream </span></span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">"follow up this... follow up that"</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> in most of my articles, yet I am the biggest culprit </span></span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">*where are the handcuffs? Someone needs to be jailed!"</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">. Okay Jokes apart, I <a href="http://www.sadiqspeaks.com/2012/12/spotlight-on-susan-payton-author.html">interviewed Susan Payton</a> three years ago (yes I have been writing for that long) on this blog and I didn't follow up after the interview. I stopped tracking her, I seldom read her articles (like I used to). I stopped sending her tweets on twitter, yet I was expecting a big hug/ a peck on the cheek. Who does that?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Remember the <a href="http://www.sadiqspeaks.com/2015/07/that-aso-ebi-story-that-everyone.html">"Aso-Ebi" story</a> I wrote, my story is the exact replicate. (how sad!)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Connecting with people when it comes to creating work that matters is great but it doesn't stop at that. We should undermine the importance of follow-up. There are zillions of people on the internet connecting with each other so it is very easy to forget someone (even the ones that did something very important for you). So the best way to keep a connection alive is by following up.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Maybe when we start seeing the connections we make on the internet as real connections (because they really are) we would treat them like real connections too.</span><br />
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<a href="mailto:sadiqdaniel@gmail.com" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;">Sadiq Daniel</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"> is a </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><u>Serial Entrepreneur and</u></span></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"><u><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Teens Coach</span></u></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"> that blogs on business, Self- development, Life lessons and Ideas that challenges the status quo... You can pursue him for a speaking engagements on </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: red;">Twitter:</span></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span></b></span></a><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/sadiqspeaks" style="color: #7d181e; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;">@sadiqspeaks</a><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"> <span style="color: red;">LinkedIn:</span> </span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;">Sadiq Daniel and</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;"> Email:</span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2px;">Sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</span></b></span>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-69347352633107276242015-09-02T04:32:00.001-07:002015-09-02T04:32:53.514-07:00My Beef With The Stereotypical Life<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">•-----------></span></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">This [dot] is where I am.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The second [dot] below is where everyone else is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><------------•</span></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">You can see that we are [the same DOT but] moving in different directions.... That is what happens when you challenge the status-quo. You tend to see things differently and move in the opposite direction.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>The Stereotypical Life (Best Case Scenario):</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Go to school for years (so you can get a degree), Apply for great jobs, Get a great job. Go back to school for higher qualification (so you can get a better job or promotion where you work). Get married to a beautiful wife/handsome husband and make beautiful kids. Go on Vacation twice every year. Get a house on mortgage. Invest in 401k investment plans and retire when you turn 70. Live for a couple more years and die.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">My beef is that the stereotypical life has been around for centuries and it is the reason why many people feel it is the [perfect] way to live. So when someone, especially a young black man like me tells you that the stereotypical life is BS, they'd tag you as crazy (some will even fight you and call you names).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I just feel [know] there is more to life than living the stereotypical life. We can do more and use our unique gifts to create excellent work that will make the world better than it already is.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Call me crazy or Odd... Maybe I am. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">My mission on earth is to be odd and not to fit in</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">. And if it takes challenging the status-quo to do that, so be it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="color: #222222;">So you have that great idea- that will be the next google... That will make the world stand attention. You draft out a business plan and model, source for investors- Venture capitalists, crowd funding, </span><strike><span style="color: red;">money rituals</span></strike><span style="color: #222222;"> family and friends just to make the idea a reality.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">You start working on the idea- it became a start-up and eventually a fortune 500 company after ten years. The business is all you've got and a couple of years after that, Boom! It crashed. You lost everything.... You develop an heart attack and died. And the basest thing is that only your family members graced your funeral.</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">OK maybe that wasn't a real story <i>(or I went too far)</i> but that is what happens when you put all your eggs in one goddamn basket (<i>no matter how expensive or beautiful that basket is)</i>.</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><i>We all need to have a side-chick (a plan B) in whatever we do - especially if you are an entrepreneur.</i></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">No idea is the <i>"bestest." </i>No matter how convinced you are about anything, no matter how much you trust a strategy or model, have a goddamn plan B.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I was 5 chapters into an awesomely controversial book I was writing before my laptop crashed. It crashed without any warning. I trusted the laptop so much that I didn't have a back up.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">It hurts when you don't have a back up plan- I have been there, it really hurts. Even the military have backup plans (side chicks).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Having a backup plan is very important. It saves us from embarrassment. Imagine that you have a very important speaking engagement and everything you need (Power point slides, jottings) is on your IPad. And when you mount the podium to speak, it refuses to come on. How would you feel?</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Having a backup plan doesn't mean you do not believe in your dreams, you might not even make use the plan B at the end of the day but it is goddamn important you have one.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>PS:</b> I am not in any way encouraging/promoting promiscuity. You are completely on your own when you have a side-chick in a relationship.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">When the idea to write this article came, I was very angry. And like I used to do when I get ideas, I wanted to put it to writing at that instant.But I somehow chilled. i don't know how, but i did.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Last month, two business blogs sent me couple of emails on how they want me to contribute on their blog... For <b>FREE</b>. I replied to tell them I wasn't interested in the offer.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Two weeks ago, another one(blog) contacted me, still on the same terms and conditions... <i><b>"Write for FREE"</b></i>. They even still had the guts to tell me that my content has to be exclusive to their blog.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I know I am not making sense yet with this article, just chill <i>(like I did)</i> and read on.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">If I got those emails three years ago, I would scream for joy! In 2012 I was literally rolling on the floor, begging blogs to write for free and many declined my request. I needed to write for free so I could get people (traffic) on my blog and improve on my writing skills.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I wrote for a few and my style of writing has improved. In fact, I created my own style of writing </span></span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><i>*scratch that*</i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> and now have a tribe I lead </span></span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><i>*adjusts crown*</i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I am not <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/">Seth Godin</a> or<a href="http://fourhourworkweek.com/blog/"> Tim Ferris</a>, but I can not write for free for any blog if it is not on my terms. I am not looking to increase my (or my blog's) popularity neither am I looking for avenues to increase my writing skills.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Here Is My </span><strike><span style="color: red;">fucking</span></strike></span></b><b style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Reason</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I may not be as popular as <b>Robert Kiyosaki</b> or <b>Seth Godin</b> <i>(I have mentioned Seth's name twice. He is that awesome)</i> but I know my self worth. I know how much I am worth. I am already writing for free on my own blog <i>(which is very hard especially when you are sharing quality content)</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I have a lot of projects I am working on- my radio show, my book, speaking engagements, my blog, 3 start-ups. If I would have to write for even the New York times, I'd definitely have to make certain sacrifices. So writing for free is out of it<i> (except if it has to be on my own terms).</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Letting people know your self worth doesn't portray arrogance or pride. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">It is just a way of letting people know the level of shit you can take.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">How long are you going to keep working for <b>FREE</b> all in the name of self development? There is no standard for self development. We learn and grow everyday.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Set high standards for yourself and don't sell yourself cheap.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">How much are you worth? If you don't have the answer to that question <i>(or if your answer is I'm always available... For <b>FREE</b>) </i>then you need serious help.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>PS:</b> If you need marketing ideas for your startup or small business (how to get more and reach more people), I am offering FREE consultation for the first 15 people that sends me an email: </span><a href="mailto:sadiqdaniel@gmail.com" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</a><br />
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<a href="mailto:sadiqdaniel@gmail.com" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiq Daniel</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> is a </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><u>Serial Entrepreneur and</u></span></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><u><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Teens Coach</span></u></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> that blogs on business, Self- development, Life lessons and Ideas that challenges the status quo... You can pursue him for a speaking engagements on </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="color: red;">Twitter:</span></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span></b></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/sadiqspeaks" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #7d181e; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">@sadiqspeaks</a><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> <span style="color: red;">LinkedIn:</span> </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiq Daniel and</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: red; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> Email:</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</span></b></span>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-53173717138529901232015-08-31T04:18:00.001-07:002015-08-31T04:18:17.639-07:00#AbioyeSpeaks: BABA WAKEUP: IS SHE A BUILDER OR SPENDER? Pt1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>Proverbs 14:1</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Why not sit back, know the qualities before trekking the streets of Lagos in the name of <i>"whosoever findeth"</i>. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">What are the main qualities to look forward to in a woman?</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">We have to consider the issue of women or rather wives. On the contrary, I didn't have to move round Surulere to write this article. I just looked deep into the bible. You see that's the beautiful thing about the bible. It's so funny we have an encyclopedia of all life questions answered to detail, but we just toss it around and leave to a Sunday-Sunday affair whilst we listen to the opinion of men setting them as our standard.</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">She must be slim, curvy, have a British accent, natural hair, cook jollof well <i>(lool!)</i>...the list continues. I think this is the reason why so many ladies are seriously working out. But who would marry the fat ones?...that's a topic for another day.</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">You see, women differ and God designed them to be help mates. Therefore we could infer that God designed all women to be help mates...In short all to have a husband sort of. Therefore, there's surely more to a helper than the curves and jollof. This qualities are deep and to be cultivated.</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Looking at this scripture, it gives us the wisdom of caution in choosing and also helps us <i>(especially for those already courting)</i> to know whether you are with the right lady.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">If during dating/courtship, all she does is spend, spend, spend...from iPhone to BB classic to all sorts and she never for once talks about the future...Mehn rethink oooooo!</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">She never encourages you to dream big, instead she makes huge withdrawals; emotionally and financially. <b>Baba wakeup!!</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">You can easily infer two things concerning her attitude from today's scripture.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">1) She is not wise</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">2) Obviously she's foolish</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Let me add an unconscious third..Guy, the difference between you and an automated teller machine is slim..very slim..</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Someone would say, this is so basic, everyone knows this...Alright, how come many are still victims?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Get my point, I am not saying the physical qualities are bad; in fact that fosters attraction. My point is simple: </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>"MARRY A BALANCED LADY"</i></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The divorce rate is getting higher, together we can stop this by implementing simple steps starting from dating.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Someone would also say..how does a futuristic girlfriend (who spends reasonably) tie up with prudence?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The bible verse below</span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">answers your question</span><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">She can't be wise and not be prudent. Simply put, the symbol of wisdom is prudence. I mean with time, money,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">resources.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I'd pick it up from here next time..till then, THINK ooooo...before you enter and begin to say "<i>It's better for man to be alone".</i> Hereby, avoiding stories that touch! Run for your life!!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Abioye is a spirit filled christian writer and a mechanical engineer. He is skilled in writing articles pertaining to learning and the christian faith as revealed from the scriptures. He currently works at Oando Gas and Power and he can be reached via </span></span><a href="mailto:aabioye13@yahoo.com" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">aabioye13@yahoo.com</a><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">and +2348126317529 for speaking engagements.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">PS: If you are pregnant with ideas and you are interested in sharing them here, shoot me an email on </span><span style="color: red;">sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</span><span style="color: #222222;"> or DM on twitter </span><span style="color: red;">@SadiqSpeaks</span></span></span></span></b>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-51197031463558149622015-08-31T03:53:00.000-07:002015-08-31T03:53:28.072-07:00What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do [Setting Priorities]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">It is true that we can't manage time. We can only manage what we do in respect of time. So from the time management books we have read or classes we have attended, we have been told to filter our goals, do the right thing at the right time A.K.A <i><u>set priorities.</u></i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">It is very easy to filter the bad stuff from the good ones or the wrong stuff from the right ones. But the real problem is picking the most important stuff in the midst of very good stuff. Yes, that's the real problem we face when it comes to setting priorities.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">There are so many <i>"good"</i> opportunities (thanks to the advent of technology) flying around and they are so sexy that their sexiness confuses us- knowing that we can only pick some and leave the rest.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><i><b>We do not want to make the wrong choices but we don't know how to make the right ones.</b></i></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">A couple of months ago, a friend called me and told me about a great business idea he was working on and how he wants me to be part of it. He told me about the business, sent me the business plan and business model and it was something I really dig.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">But at the time, I had some other stuff I was working on- my blog, speaking engagements, my book and two other startups. I was confused!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">This idea might eventually turn out to be the next Google or Facebook and I don't want to have any regrets when that happens.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">In that confused state, I stumbled on <i><b>Ash Ambrige's</b></i> article on setting priorities. <i>(I really can't find the article. She recently did some sort of magic on her <a href="http://themiddlefingerproject.com/">blog</a> that makes it hard for me to search for the article)</i></span><i><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /></i><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The article made me understand certain things when it comes to setting priorities which I am going to share with you guys.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><u>The 10-Year Formula</u></span></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The first thing is to write down all those opportunities on a piece of paper <i>(very important)</i>. Then you'd look at each opportunity and ask yourself if you see yourself doing that thing in the next ten years. Close your eyes and try to imagine yourself doing it in the next ten years.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">You should be able to filter out a few opportunities using this formula</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><u><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Will You Marry Me?</span></u></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Don't worry, I'm not proposing to you <i>(maybe I am lol)</i>. I have used the <i>"Will you marry me?"</i> Formula a lot of times and it has worked.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Before you get married to someone (or even propose), it means you trust the person and you believe in the person. He/she understands your dreams and vision.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">That's the same question you must ask those opportunities. <b><i>Do they mirror your goals and dreams? Will they bring you closer or draw you apart from the person you intend becoming in life? Will they connect you with the right people?</i></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><u><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Do It Now!</span></b></u></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">After filtering out the most important stuff, Do them first. Let them be the first thing you do every morning. Take them seriously, show them love and start working on them. Write that book now, Set up that meet with your clients now, Talk to that investor now. Just do it now!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">There is no point going through the stress of filtering out the most important stuff when you are not going to do it </span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiq Daniel</b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> is a </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><u>Serial Entrepreneur and</u></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><u><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Teens Coach</span></u></b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> that blogs on business, Self- development, Life lessons and Ideas that challenges the status quo... You can pursue him for a speaking engagements on </span><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="color: red;">Twitter:</span></b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/sadiqspeaks" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #7d181e; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">@sadiqspeaks</a><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> <span style="color: red;">LinkedIn:</span> </b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiq Daniel and</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: red; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> <b>Email</b>:</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</span>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-20188224903062859762015-08-20T15:56:00.000-07:002015-08-20T15:56:49.338-07:00The Day I Choked And Almost Sh*t In My PantMy first <i>(official)</i> public speaking engagement was at a secondary school in Lagos, to an audience of about 200 students. Prior to that day, I had crammed my speech, rehearsed in front of the mirror, prayed and fasted <i>(okay, I didn't fast... but i prayed)</i>.<br />
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I got to the school, ready to do magic even though I had never done any magic in public speaking before, safe for some impromptu speeches and debates <i>(e.g Boys are better than Girls)</i> I aced in secondary school.<br />
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So *clears throat* I was led to the school hall by the principal <i>(she had told her staffs how awesome I am...blah blah blah)</i> and the students were waiting patiently to devour me. There weren't smiling at all, but I wasn't going to let that shake me.<br />
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I mounted the podium, grabbed the mic and said <i>"Hi"</i> and that was it! I couldn't say any other word after that. I choked. I just wanted the ground to swallow me or Boko-Haram to bomb the place <i>(okay maybe not, but i just wanted something that will shift all attention away from me)</i>.<br />
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All the techniques I learnt in Dale Carnegie's book couldn't come to my rescue. I was supposed to talk for 45 mins and here I was, 15 mins into my supposed <i>"magical speech"</i> about to sh*t in my pants.<br />
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Flash forwards to this moment; I am not only the craziest man alive, I am also bold and can sell anything to anyone. I have delivered speeches in front of over 500 persons- I am not there yet I know, but I am going to brag about it anyways. I teach about 13-15 teenagers every weekend self-development and creativity. And I also have my own radio show I host every Monday (10.30am-11am) on <a href="http://wigradio.com/">WigRadio</a><br />
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I got from the person that almost sh*t in his pants to a guy that can stand in the midst of any audience (I am that sure of myself) to sell anything because I didn't quit on my dream to become the craziest public speaker that ever happened to Africa.<br />
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We all have that moment in our lives where everything seems not to go as planned. That moment when you doubt yourself and your talents. That moment when you just want to give up on your dreams. That moment where you just choke and almost shit in your pants.<br />
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But it is just a moment. A moment that will pass. A moment that we pass if we embrace our fears and remain persistent.<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;">Embrace your fears...Make mistakes...Learn from them and Make better ones.</span></blockquote>
It is just a phase you are going through- the choking phase. Your <i>choking phase</i> may be raising funds for your new business, it might be frustration from your boss at work, it might be writing a book when you have a family to cater for at the same time.<br />
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Whatever your<i> choking phase</i> may be, stay calm, remain persistent and keep creating work that matters. Do not give up on your dreams. I repeat, Do not give up on your dreams!<br />
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<b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiq Daniel</b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> is a </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><u>Serial Entrepreneur and</u></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><u><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Teens Coach</span></u></b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> that blogs on business, Self- development, Life lessons and Ideas that challenges the status quo... You can pursue him for a speaking engagements on </span><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="color: red;">Twitter:</span></b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/sadiqspeaks" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #7d181e; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">@sadiqspeaks</a><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> <span style="color: red;">LinkedIn:</span> </b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiq Daniel and</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: red; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> <b>Email</b>:</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</span>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-35988578626266015252015-08-20T01:27:00.000-07:002015-08-20T01:36:29.548-07:00#AbioyeSpeaks: SPEAKING WHEN IT MATTERS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">This is a guest post from a very good friend of mine.The article is a spiritual one that resonates with me and I'm sure you will resonate with it too.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>Proverbs 17:27-28</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">27 <i>"He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">28<i> "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding"</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><i>"Sometimes it's better to be quiet and be thought a fool, than to speak and clear all benefits of doubt"</i> - Seun A.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">This quote and the bible passage are in complete harmony. A man of understanding is characterized by two things;</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">1) Few words</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">2) Excellent spirit.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Zig Ziglar nailed the essence of this post in his quote "The funny thing about people who talk too much is that they have nothing upstairs". Few words and excellent spirit goes hand in hand. They follow a basic rule..."If you don't have anything important to say, shut up and observe...and seriously people would ask you of your opinion".</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">It just works. Infact you would be thought to be very wise and of an excellent spirit after u've spoken because you've virtually listened to all they've said and put it eloquently in a good summary, drawing out the basic conclusion.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Prov </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1776081399" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">15:23</span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> said <i>"A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: a word spoken in due season, how good is it!"</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">When you speak at the right moment; it becomes a good word. Speaking when it matters most also makes you feel good and smart. Even if you don't know anything about the subject being told; relax and listen to what all of them have to say..then draw a smart conclusion that gets their heads all nodding. Doesn't mean you are smarter than they are intellectually; but shows a your understanding on a basic biblical tool for the wise in heart!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>Action point:</b> Act on this quote I got from a friend: <i>"Become a detective of the right moment; sniff out the spirit of the times, the trends that will carry you to power."</i> Right moment speeches carry power!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This article was written by Abiodun Abioye.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Abioye is a spirit filled christian writer and a mechanical engineer. He is skilled in writing articles pertaining to learning and the christian faith as revealed from the scriptures. He currently works at Oando Gas and Power and he can be reached via </span></span><a href="mailto:aabioye13@yahoo.com" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">aabioye13@yahoo.com</a> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and +2348126317529 for speaking engagements.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">PS: If you are pregnant with ideas and you are interested in sharing them here, shoot me an email on </span><span style="color: red;">sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</span><span style="color: #222222;"> or DM on twitter </span><span style="color: red;">@SadiqSpeaks</span></span></span>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-32699129378684188892015-08-19T12:01:00.002-07:002015-08-19T12:01:42.423-07:00Mother-Son Relationship #365DaysGratitudeProjectSo this morning before I posted my mother's iPad story (you may check the article out here) I had some really nice time with my mother. We had fun, took a few pictures and laughed out loud couple of times.<br />
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About 5 years ago or thereabout, it wasn't so, we were like Tom and Jerry. We argued almost all the time and.... let me just stop there.<br />
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I just want to show gratitude for the fact that I can now share stuffs with my ma comfortably. I am grateful for the new relationship- it feels awesome and great.<br />
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I am now grateful that I now fully understands that my ma truly loves me (I love her too). And I am happy we now understand each other better.<br />
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Here are some of the pictures we took together (we sure had fun *LOL*)<br />
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<br />Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-60394198814979165262015-08-19T10:22:00.000-07:002015-08-19T10:49:54.438-07:00How My Mother Became A Photographer Overnight And What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From It.<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">This was the conversation that ensued between I and my mother couple of years ago;</span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>Mum:</b> "I want to get that thing, what is that thing called?"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>Me:</b> "Oh that thing, it is called an iPad. What do you need it for ma?" I answered grudgingly as I continued chatting with my friend via BBM.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>Mum</b>: "I said I want it and you are asking what I need it for?" "Those that are using it, do they have two heads?" (She had already started raising her voice the way our Afrikan mothers do when they ask us to do something and we'd prefer to do it at our own time).</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I was perplexed. She already had an android phone which I even think she doesn't even need (she won't stop stalking me on facebook and whatsapp). The quest to get an iPad is like version 2.0 of what I don't even understand.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Or has my mother secretly learned to write programs or build websites that she desperately needs an iPad to help her work while she is on the move?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Flash forwards to 2015, my mother got an iPad. Yay!<i><b> *pops champagne*</b></i> and the iPad has been a "useful" tool to her.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Ever since my mother got an iPad, she hasn't stop taking pictures with it... She became a Photographer that covers weddings of families and friends (free of charge). She would even go as far as record videos (if she is excited).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">But the thing is, she (my mother) is not the only one that under utilizes the ipad this way. And nothing irks me more when I see people turn useful (and expensive) gadgets like these into devices used for taking pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">This article is not even about my mother because there is nothing in this world I'd tell my her about her under-utilization of the iPad that will change anything.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Instead this article is for entrepreneurs that will just launch their idea without a business model. So many SMEs and Entrepreneurs think that a business model is for only Mega and big businesses. This is soooo wrong! Apart from the fact the business model tracks your revenue and the channels it comes from, it helps you maximize the potential of your business.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">A business without a business model is like an iPad that is used as a camera - it will be under-utilized.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Without a business model, you won't know if you can actually get more cash flow and make more from your business.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Without a business model, you won't know the areas/department to strengthen.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Without a business model, you will find it very hard to get investors for your business.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I'd post an article (if I get up to 15 emails from people that want me to) on how to go about writing an awesome business model for your business.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">In the mean time, I highly recommend this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bag-Elephant-Steve-Kaplan/dp/0761145249">Steve Kaplan's book</a></span>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-16763671927777813302015-08-14T13:00:00.003-07:002015-08-14T13:00:59.147-07:00A Message From A Friend That Inspires The Shit Out Of Me #365DaysGratitudeProject So this evening while I was battling with cold, I stumbled on this fb post
that a friend sent to me on my birthday. How I missed this wonderful
post, I do not know. But I stumbled on it at the right time. Here goes
the fb post from my awesome friend <b>Onyeka Chigozie</b>:<br />
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<b><i>Shoutout to one of the most enterprising young minds, i have come across...</i><br /><i>
You are indeed a fighter, one of resolute character and at times... can also b a clown..Lol..!</i><br /><i>
Im glad i know you...</i><br /><i>
Im glad i met you...</i><br /><i>
I therefore pray, that everything that pertaineth to you be perfected.</i><br /><i>
May you continue to soar on the wings of eagles</i><br /><i>
May doors of opportunities be continually set before you, even as God
grants you eyes to see them and the strenght nd wisdom to take advantage
of them.</i><br /><i>
God bless you bro..</i><br /><i>
Love you so much!</i><br /><i>
HappyBirthday!</i></b></blockquote>
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Messages like this reminds me to keep doing what I do. It reminds me to
keep creating work that matters. It reminds me that you can impact lives
positively with what you do.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">CREATING WORK THAT MATTERS IS HARD BUT IT PAYS.</span></span></b></i><br />
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I want to show gratitude for having friends like this- that believes in
your dreams and won't stop encouraging you in this dog-eat-dog-world
where there is no support system for people creating work that matters.<br />
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<b>PS:</b> I won't forget those days when you fed me when I was hungry and even loaned me money when I was broke without a dime. I love you Onyeka. Remain awesome and keep creating work that matters. <br />
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Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-39433427358336142962015-08-14T12:56:00.001-07:002015-08-14T12:56:23.980-07:00The Nigerian Music Industry Is A Scam (Stop Killing Talents) The Nigerian entertainment industry (especially the music industry) is a
scam. My blog is all about challenging the status quo when it comes to
marketing, career development and life so I don't normally write about
music even though I am passionate about "good" music.<br />
<br />
A lot of BS has been going on in the music industry for quite some time
now, that I am sick of. So, I have decided to take a leap and write about
it. I'm not sure if this article will change anything or if the
"cartel" will get to read it but I'm writing it anyways.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>The Music Industry Is Killing Talents And Breeding Fools.</b></span></span><br />
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Let me make something clear here before I continue, the music industry is made up of;<br />
<br />
*The musical artistes, record labels and labels owners<br />
*Organizers of events and award ceremonies<br />
*Entertainment blogs and bloggers<br />
*OAPs and Djs<br />
AND (You and I) the AUDIENCE. So when I say the music industry, we are not exempted.<br />
<br />
If you want to hit it big as an upcoming artiste in Nigeria, you don't
need to be excellent (mediocrity is enough). These are the things you need to do;<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>1) Don't sing good music because "good" music don't sell in Nigeria<br />
<br />
2) Go to a fucking recording studio, work with a popular producer, he
would sure cook up some goddamn beat for you that will rock your shitty
music.<i> "The beat is more important that what you are singing"</i>.<br />
Note: Getting a popular producer to work on your song is expensive but
don't worry you will "blow." Borrow from your friends and family or
steal dammit!<br />
<br />
3) Get close to the "Cartel"- those that are ready to spend money on your
music. Don't worry it is not that hard to wine and dine with the
"cartel" if you did no3 (above) successfully.<br />
<br />
4) The "Cartel" will in turn do massive publicity on your shitty music.
It will be all over the social media - entertainment and music blogs.
And they will also bribe OAPs and Djs they know across various radio
stations to play your song.<br />
<br />
4b) If no 4 doesn't work, they'd create a controversial story around you
and your music - like you just signed with Jay-Z or Sony Entertainment
and it will damn sell because our shitty gossip blogs will accept it
before they even accept Jesus as their lord and savior. </b></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<b>Our gossip blogs
will kindly publish it (without confirming the news) because that's
what they do. If the Sony Entertainment gist doesn't work they might
pull the dumbest PR stunt ever - that you are fucking dead and then you
resurrected (God I love Nigeria).<br />
<br />
5) After they have successful forced themselves on us, they become
popular, they become brand ambassadors and graced shitty awards
ceremonies and they become super stars that are too busy to Retweet your
mentions on twitter or lecture you on how they worked their ass off to
get where they are.</b></blockquote>
<br />
That is the summary of the day-to-day shit that goes down in the
Nigerian music industry. And they have successfully brainwashed us with
this shit, that we actually think the shit is the real stuff.<br />
<br />
We need to come out of our slumber, wake up and challenge this shit.
This shit kills talents. Talents are now scared of going to the studio
to record good music because they feel good music no longer sells in
Nigeria.<br />
<br />
And even if they do, they'd never get airplays (because they do not have money to bribe OAPs and DJs).<br />
<br />
The award ceremonies are even worse. It is all part of the scam. You get
awards based on how popular your song is and not how good it is. It is
all about the money and how close you are to the "cartel."<br />
<br />
These guys have no regards for us and that is why you'd hear them say
<i>"omo naija people no dey hear good music, na wetin dem like be dis... Na
em dey sell".</i> They dictate what we listen to, instead of the other way
round.<br />
<br />
It is high time we put and end to this shit and re-build the music
industry. We have the power to dictate what we want to listen to (and
that is not mediocre music). You guys (OAPs and DJs) have the power to
create work that matters by promoting good music.<br />
<br />
And this is to the talents out there, the ones that are passionate about
what you do, keep creating work that matters. Keep doing good music and
don't stop connecting with people. There are still reasonable and
credible OAPs and DJs that are ready to help and you never can tell
until reach out.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Let us start breeding talents and stop breeding fools.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"></span><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiq Daniel</b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> is a </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><u>Serial Entrepreneur and</u></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><u><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Teens Coach</span></u></b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> that
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-30850911769104926462015-08-04T07:02:00.001-07:002015-08-04T07:02:41.717-07:00Growth Will Kill Your Business Before You Even Start #HomeJoy<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">When we eventually launch our startup, the first thing most entrepreneurs are worried about is how to go from small to big- how to take over the market and how the business will expand and reach more people.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">We know that before investors can take a look at our startup, they need to see some sort of traction and the ability for the business to grow.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">So we fall into this trap of worrying too much on expansion- <i>"oh we need to 2X our market share" "we need to reach those on the east coast and not forgetting the west coast".</i></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">We get so carried away be this type of growth (expansion) that we eventually run out of business the way <i><b>home joy</b></i> did.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Most businesses fail not because the idea wasn't awesome nor because it doesn't resonate with a lot of people, but because the business model is terrible.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>Home joy</b> got so carried away with growth that they invested in getting new customers and forgot about retention. They offered discounts, did a lot of promos to get customers. Not only did these promos cost them a lot of money, they weren't able to keep them.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Once a customer, uses their services, they never came back and that was how a startup that had crazy potentials crashed. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br /></span>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;"><i>Growth is not the most important thing in a business</i></span></span></blockquote>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b><span style="color: red;">SO WHAT SHOULD YOU WORRY ABOUT?</span></b></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Instead of worrying about going big (expansion) worry about staying small (retention), because, small is the new big. Carve out a niche for your startup, tell that niche (or tribe) a good story about your business (it might be the way you answer phone calls or the way you shake their hands or how clean your toilet seats are or anything awesome).</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Then the next thing to do is respect your tribe/niche/market. Take your customers seriously. Do all you can to make sure they come back. Focus more on keeping your current customers than pitching new ones. It is easier for you to convince old customers than new ones.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">The best kind of growth is RETENTION and not EXPANSION</span></i></span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">And you know another reason why Retention is better than expansion as a small biz owner or a startup is that when you tell a great story and you create a platform where people can easily share the story, your customers will tell their friends about you and those ones will in turn tell others until you eventually become big.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br /></span>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Small is the new BIG</span></i></span></span></blockquote>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>BEFORE YOU GO</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">You have an awesome idea> carve out your own niche > Tell them a great story that resonates with them > Earn their trust by respecting them > Make sure there is a platform where they can easily tell people about you and your story > They tell their friends> Friends tell other friends> Your startup becomes a BRAND</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Check out what Forbes said about HomeJoy </span></span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2015/07/23/what-really-killed-homejoy-it-couldnt-hold-onto-its-customers/" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">here</a></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiq Daniel</b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> is a </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><u>Serial Entrepreneur and</u></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><u><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Teens Coach</span></u></b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> that blogs on business, Self- development, Life lessons and Ideas that challenges the status quo... You can pursue him for a speaking engagements on </span><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="color: red;">Twitter:</span></b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/sadiqspeaks" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #7d181e; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">@sadiqspeaks</a><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> <span style="color: red;">LinkedIn:</span> </b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiq Daniel and</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: red; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> <b>Email</b>:</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</span>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-65704578337421692622015-08-02T06:41:00.001-07:002015-08-02T09:15:21.370-07:00I Hope Inconsistency Doesn't Kill Me #365DaysGratitudeProject #DayEleven<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">When I started this <b>#365DaysGratitudeProject</b> on the 11th of July, I thought it was another opportunity for me to me consistent with this blog.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I wanted to post something I am grateful for everyday. I write what I am grateful for each day on my draft but I have not been able to consistently publish those things on this blog.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">At some point, I felt like cancelling the whole project (maybe I wasn't ready). But waking up this morning I made up my mind to embrace my inconsistency (I really don't know if that's a good thing to do) and just publish these posts when I can.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I know I preach consistency, without consistency, we can't create work that matters. But the truth is that I have got a lot of projects I am working on and even the network hasn't been helpful of late.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">What I normally advise people to do in this kind of situation is to just quit that thing that they cannot be consistent with and focus on one thing at a time, but I don't think I can take that advice with this blog.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">This blog is about 5 years old now and it has really helped me connect with people and gave me hope when I was about "losing it" (regardless of how inconsistent I was with publishing articles)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>WHAT AM I GONNA DO NOW?</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">First of, I want to show gratitude for the passion I have for writing and for the fact that I was able to create a blog that can entertain and touch lives.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I am going to continue with the <b>#365DaysGratitudeProject</b> I may not publish a post per day but I'd make sure I reach the 365 days mark (even if will take me 10 years).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>SHORT PRAYER:</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Lord grant me the grace to respect this blog and its devoted readers and help me to be more consistent with my articles so I can be able to create more work that matters.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>MANY THANKS</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">To those that still believes in this blog regardless of its inconsistency. I respect and love you guys.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">You may check out Victory Anosike's<a href="http://anosmik.blogspot.com/"> blog</a>, the dude has been amazing!</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiq Daniel</b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> is a </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><u>Serial Entrepreneur and</u></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><u><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Teens Coach</span></u></b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> that blogs on business, Self- development, Life lessons and Ideas that challenges the status quo... You can pursue him for a speaking engagements on </span><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="color: red;">Twitter:</span></b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/sadiqspeaks" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #7d181e; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">@sadiqspeaks</a><b style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> <span style="color: red;">LinkedIn:</span> </b><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiq Daniel and</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: red; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> <b>Email</b>:</span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</span>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-44004423317371102352015-07-28T04:55:00.000-07:002015-07-28T04:55:06.653-07:00You Will Be Knocked Down No Matter How Hard You Try #FactRead all you want.<br />
Pray all you can.<br />
Fast all you can.<br />
Get all the advice in the world.<br />
Meet the most important people in the world.<br />
Study hard.<br />
Keep sleepless nights.<br />
Have sex with successful people.<br />
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Do all of these and much more, you will still get knocked down one way
or the other in as much as you are creating work that matters.<br />
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I have not met/seen/read about a successful entrepreneur who didn't get knocked down in the ring at least once or twice.<br />
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If you read all you want and get the best advice and coaching available,
you still will not learn the hard lessons that one has to learn to
become best in class at what you do.<br />
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You'd have to learn some things (especially when it comes to
entrepreneurship) the hard way- which involves getting knocked down
before you can learn them well.<br />
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But getting knocked down once or twice in the ring is not as important
as getting back up and winning the round. Because that is what we have
to do to be better in life and in our business.Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-68678635585689618472015-07-28T04:54:00.000-07:002015-07-28T04:54:06.806-07:00While I Was Gone #R.I.PHammed #365DaysGratitudeProject #DayTenI wasn't able to publish any post on the gratitude project because I was
down with fever. While I was gone, a lot of things happened.<br />
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But the one that pained me the most was a friend that passed on. I had
just started following his articles online before he passed yet I
resonate his style of writing. I didn't even follow him on twitter nor
for once comment on his articles or send "Hi" to me but we were close.<br />
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From the things I saw him do, how he did them and the way people respect him, I knew he was creating work that matters.<br />
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His story was a touching one; he lived, He loved, and he was loved. Even
when he had issues with his health, he still wanted to help people and
he kept creating work that matters.<br />
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Hammed was a warrior. He kept fighting regardless of the shapes and
sizes of each battle and challenges. I learnt a lot from Hammed's story.<br />
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I learnt that our life is not ours. Life is a gift (whether we believe
it or not) and the best way to live life is to show gratitude and
respect each moment.<br />
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We should take each second seriously. We shouldn't waste time doing something that won't create any value in our lives.<br />
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We can show gratitude for our lives by appreciating our loved ones,
showing them more love and being there when they need us the most.<br />
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We can show gratitude for our lives by living a healthy life. By avoiding toxic substances that are harmful to our health.<br />
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We can show gratitude for our lives by taking time out from work to rest<br />
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We can show gratitude for our lives by having fun, giving ourselves a treat, going on holidays.<br />
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This life is a gift with an expiry date, let's make the most out of it.<br />
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RIP Hammed Abioye A.K.A Ceaser a real #OG.Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-30757753283823699322015-07-19T12:56:00.000-07:002015-07-19T13:04:21.224-07:00#DayNine #365DaysGratitudeProject The Last 5 Years<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">The Last 5 Years for me have been the most... What's the word?...AWEsome? okay, lemme use 'AWEsome'. Awesome things have happened to me these years.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">But not just AWEsome things, Crazy, Stupid, Sad AND Happy things have happened too.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">5 years ago, I got admitted into one Nigerian University like that to study Medicine and Surgery.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">I went in as what I wanna call a 'dummy', I knew nothing of this NEW WORLD, except for the fact that it was a New World and I needed to Adapt...fast!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">I am the only son, first son and first child of my parents and adding to the fact that i knew no one that I could attach to for Survival. It was therefore up to me to adapt quickly to the new system.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">THE LAST 5 YEARs, I have gained so many things that i am grateful for and i have learnt so many things that i ought to be GRATEFUL for.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">I have learnt in the Last 5 Years:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">That Life is short, and that Life is a shot.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">That no one is responsible for YOU - but YOU.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">That GOD will provide for you, He does. but you must try to provide for yourself until He does.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">That people are looking up to you..and looking at you.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">To take NO One for granted.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">To take NO course for granted.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">To give people hugs and handshakes (except in cases of Ebola).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">To balance studies and fun.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">To talk to girls and relate with boys.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">To be controversial. If you're not, you are not being yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">To spend a little extra time with family and friends, because believe it or not, you will miss them.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">That when things are going well for you, Everyone will be your friend. But when things ain't going so well, only then are you gonna know your true friends.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">That a blessed soaked garri is better than a cursed fried rice and chicken.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">That sometimes in life, you just have to risk being Vulnerable.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">That if everyone is thinking alike, no one is thinking well enough.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">That not everybody likes you, treasure those who do.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">To never act like you know it all, even when you know that you know it all.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">That everyone you meet knows something you don't.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">To WRITE like it is your last, and READ like it is your first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PS: </b>This entry was submitted by an avid reader of this blog and a creatively crazy friend. You may check out his blog <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1414886220"></span>here<span id="goog_1414886221"></span></a> you may also pursue him <a href="http://twitter.com/iamanosike">twitter</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PPS: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">#365DaysGratitudeProject is a daily challenge (that I started July 11th) to show gratitude for something different for 365Days (Ends July 10th 2016). To be a part of this project, send me an email (</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4007165249707701592" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">) containing what you are grateful for and I'd be kind to share it with others</span></span>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-72220830602395943062015-07-18T14:11:00.001-07:002015-07-18T14:17:16.850-07:00#DayEight #365DayGratitudeProject Our Basis Of Standard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Most of the time, our ideals of judgment have usually being based on the worldly criteria and standard. This has made us valueless in our thoughts and actions.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">We have always wished to be like others and this has caused us to miss the opportunities to fulfill our purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Every human being has a reason of existence and our purpose differ from each other. By comparing our lives with that of others, we are simply devaluing ourselves and depreciating God's given purpose for our lives, instead of appreciating it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Making use of the worldly standard would only mar, depress, destroy and kill our God's given potentials.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">The following are the some of the ways we based our standard on the world:</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">1. Failure - that you failed yesterday, does not mean that you will fail tomorrow. Thus never use the performance of the past to judge your future.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">2. The use of other people's opinion.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">3. Success of your past achievement.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">4. Opposition - take cognizance of the fact that no matter how glorious a person's potential is, there would surely be an opposition. If everyone agrees with your dream, it’s probably a nightmare.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">5. Discouragement - we shouldn’t let our circumstances weigh us down</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">The few things I mentioned above have destroyed the potentials of many.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">I have come across so many things that has held me back from fulfilling my God’s given potential but thanks be to Jesus Christ who restored me back to the track. So many have missed their destiny as result of "enemies" of potential and destiny.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Few years back, while I was in junior secondary, I had this passion for writing and visual arts. Knowing fully well that this was my God’s giving potential, I was able to come up with a story book idea. I wrote the book and I was filled with joy, but there was no support to get this book of mine published.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">N.B: Not until you use your gift or talent to create an impact in the lives of others, you have/are not fulfilled/fulfilling your purpose in life. Your potential, gift and talent is not only meant for only you but also for others to benefit from.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Since I couldn’t get sponsors to help publish my story book, I became discouraged and my urge to write more story books was a dash.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">But I still want to show gratitude to God for the knowledge I have and I believe everything is still on course.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;"><b>Isaiah Sadiq</b></span><br />
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<b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" />PPS: #365</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">DaysGratitudeProject is a daily challenge (that I started July 11th) to show gratitude for something different for 365Days (Ends July 10th 2016). To be a part of this project, send me an email (</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4007165249707701592" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">) containing what you are grateful for and I'd be kind to share it with others</span>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-86830297787066110712015-07-17T13:52:00.000-07:002015-07-17T13:52:29.549-07:00#DaySeven #365DayGratitudeProject Joyful Ride With Christ<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Life for me has been a joyful ride so far, since I found my identity in Christ. A lot of unanswered questions have been answered. I am in that place now where I am satisfied with my self. Knowing what God has planned for me which are certainly not evil but good. This humble knowledge of purpose and vision has given me a new sense of direction and a new kind of peace which emits not just happiness but peace and wisdom. The holy spirit has become an experience that sheds so much light to my self discovery and recovery. The healing of my heart from scars that I never thought could be healed. The liberation of my soul from habits and addictions that could have led me to an early grave. Now I'm alive in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For all these, I'm grateful to God for his grace and loving kindness.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">PS: #365DaysGratitudeProject is a daily challenge (that I started July 11th) to show gratitude for something different for 365Days (Ends July 10th 2016). To be a part of this project, send me an email (</span><a href="" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">) containing what you are grateful for and I'd be kind to share it with others.</span>Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-8666678599194524002015-07-16T01:04:00.000-07:002015-07-16T01:09:40.971-07:00FRUIT OF AFRICA: The Article By "Uncle K" That Made Me Think<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">So last month I stumbled on a blog and I didn't leave the blog until I read all the articles in it (Yes I can be that awesome).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">I love the way he arranged his thoughts and all the articles he wrote resonates with me. But of all the articles I read, this one below made more magic in my soul. It is deep and worth your time.</span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Can I take a minute to visit the minds of the kings and queens that,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Mr Luther King dreamed for?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">A few minutes to speak to the future that Mrs Rosa Parks held that front seat for?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">The same folk the Mr Malcolm X hoped he could use his fists to fight free for?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">They fought for us,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">And thought for us to be respected as a body of one people,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">We needed composure in the free fall, to unite as a body of equals.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Because we were cast as slaves, struck with the same stone.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">We were all niggers by the same right,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">So why do we behave like we ain't from the same home?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Ready to kill a young man because his post doesn't go to the same code,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Performing our own apartheid because our skins don't resemble the same tones.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">We are ebony kings and queens, born from great thrones.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">But we forget that we are royals,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">That we have the riches of a kingdom in our veins.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Crafted from the soils of a great land, we have the ancestry of sovereigns in our DNA.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">We are the sons and daughters of empires, but our minds have been tainted.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Where Parks, King and X fought for fruition in the black community,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">We've achieved mass division because we lack unity.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">We don't hear the lash and cracks of the whip, we didn't see that era in history,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">But we are still divided and conquered in our mindsets,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Because we still have silly debates such as dark chicks versus light chicks.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Like we are still blinded by the eyes of colonialism,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">And I'm a culprit but we still fuck around with these negative colloquialisms...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Are you listening... my niggers / niggas?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Don't get it twisted, I ain't saying follow my virtues,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">but before we can overcome collective grief, we need to overcome individual hurdles.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">We are the fruit of Africa.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Produce of the Horn.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Children of the tribes, stars plotted across the vast dark skies.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">We don't realise how much talent we harbour,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">The magnificent gifts and traits from our forefathers.</span></i><br />
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But when I woke up today, I saw time with another lens.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">I realize that time cannot really managed because no time is really enough. You can only manage yourself in respect to time. And you can only do that by appreciating time.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Appreciate time by doing the hard work first, Appreciate time by resting when you need to rest, Appreciate time by investing in work that is really important. Appreciate time by showing up on time.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">I want to show gratitude because time exists (whether it is enough or not). Without time, I won't be able to set goals. Without time, my life will not have any structure whatsoever. Without time, I won't be able to differentiate the people that matters in my life from those that doesn't.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Let's see time with another lens today. With a positive and happy lens.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">PS: #365DaysGratitudeProject is a daily challenge (that I started July 11th) to show gratitude for something different for 365Days (Ends July 10th 2016). To be a part of this project, send me an email (</span><a href="" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">sadiqdaniel@gmail.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">) containing what you are grateful for and I'd be kind to share it with others</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;" />Sadiq Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05120498675658192059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4007165249707701592.post-80035101038811455312015-07-14T23:45:00.000-07:002015-07-14T23:45:20.475-07:00What do you think about this idea?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">... Is a tricky question because it puts the person you are asking on the spot.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">It is also a wrong question to ask.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">It is a wrong question to ask because when you have this "big-crazy" idea, you are the only one that sees a future in that idea (until you implement it).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">And because people (especially our loved ones) don't understand or see what we see, no matter how hard we explain, they'd come up with reasons as to why the idea won't work.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">It is safer for them to tell you it can't work because you won't have to blame them if it doesn't work out eventually. And if you heed their advice, you won't know if it will work or not... So it is a WIN-WIN for them regardless of the outcome.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">So instead of asking a group of people if an idea of a car that runs on sand will work, ask them how they'd feel if is a car that runs on sand is available for sale... Ask them if they'd buy the car if you create it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">Asking the wrong questions such as "What do you think about this idea?" "Will this idea work?" Can kill dreams.</span><br />
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