FIVE STEPS TO BECOMING TOP EMPLOYERS' TARGET (Funny Video Inside)

At the back of our minds, we are all conscious of the fact that achievement and success has always been, is and will always be a process, at least this side of heaven. That is why most of us, and all of us really should always be figuring out our 'next level'. 

I have come to realize that growth is made in any area of our lives through levels. I have also come to realize that it is very easy to become satisfied with one level and stay there. The only problem with that is that life does not wait for you. 

Can you imagine if you were comfortable with your first Motorolla phone that looked like a roll-on anti-perspiration (Motorollon)?

Can you imagine if you were comfortable with crawling and stayed at that level?

Can you imagine if you were OK with your level of formal education and stopped learning? (By far, this is one areas that kills many people. Either people graduate and stop learning, or are dropped along the way by the system and consider themselves dumb!)

So, here are the several steps to use that will guarantee you a seat at your most coveted next level.

1.     Be there Now: This is a simple principle that says that the body does not go where the mind has not been! I recently trained a team of men and women that would help me in a project that I am running. After showing them the organizational heirarchy, I told them to start seeing themselves as if they were on the level above them now. You know that works, It worked for me. You are doing yourself a great disservice if you always think of yourself right now as who you are instead of whom you can be.

2.     Decide to be massively excellent where you are: This has been a major motto for me in life. Literally everywhere I have been since I got into active employment, I have left an indelible mark. You do not deserve the next level if you have not mastered the current one. This is one of the biggest life principles that people forget.  Most people unfortunately are trashing their current positions as they look forward for new ones. The only result is a delay in ascending to the next level!

3.     ‘Race’ against yourself: Highly successful people who will ascend to the next level faster than others have mastered this habit. They daily and consistently put their life on the line as they play it all out…there are no crowds to cheer them, there is no medal to be won…but they ‘race’ ruthlessly against themselves. They beat their own deadlines without instructions from a boss. They track their progress. They re-evaluate their situation again and again. They constantly set the bar high and always seek to beat it. They put time frames in accomplishing their goals. Sooner or later, the world takes notice of such visionaries. Don’t wait to be told. Be reflective and proactive. The next level beckons. This is what Jim Rohn's mentor told him: "If you want to be wealthy and happy, learn this lesson well: Learn to work harder on yourself than on your job"

4.     Understand the Difference between Relief and Comfort: Is there a human being (or even an animal) in the whole wide world that doesn't love comfort? We all love comfort. However, comfort never takes you to the next level. Comfort is the reward for mastering your current level. Relief on the other hand is the temporary reward for a purpose-filled task being completed. It is the prize you get immediately after enduring the pressure to finish a task. If you really want to get to the next level faster, you need to experience relief at very short intervals. That means you are taking massive action. That means you are growing.

5.     Build Reserve Energy: The winning athlete in this short video understood the importance of finishing strong. You cannot do that without lots of reserve energy. Reserve energy comes through persistent and consistent training. Finishing a ‘race’ is the most important thing. Sometimes, the need to experience relief from the current pressure can really work against you, so you drop out of the race prematurely…like helping a butterfly in its pupa stage, like getting the cake out of the oven minutes before, like digging up a bean seed that you planted few days ago, like actually walking down the finish line instead of running. When your strength to propel you to a finish is greater than the relief you get when you finish, you have mastered your current race and are now ready for the next level!

 If you will do these things, your ascendancy to the next level will be reversed: Instead of hunting for the next assignment, you will be head hunted! It works!

THE WORLD'S NO.1 EXCEPTIONAL INGREDIENT TO MAKING IT IN LIFE

"Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn" ~ Robert T Kiyosaki.

You might not like this, but it is the one and only powerful ingredient of its kind for success. Have you noticed how a child who is learning to walk is so celebrated when they fall in the process? At the back of our minds, we always know that soon enough, they will be standing on their feet, walking and eventually, running. Why do they fail? Because they got started! Getting started is the guarantee of attracting failure! Yet getting started alone is not the ingredient for success.

Have you noticed that people give themselves lots of benefit of the doubt when they are 'trying out'

something? They know that either they will fail, or may be they will make it. The atmosphere is relaxed, an atmosphere to learn.

When you are training let's say your body by doing push ups and your goal is for 50 per day, you most definitely know that it will be a process. That is why sometimes you do just one (especially when you are starting), you stay down and laugh at yourself silly. It happens!

But here is the thing...you normally accept that 'temporary failure' with the comfort that you are not superman...and that you need more time, more trials to make it to 50. So what happens then? Two weeks, three weeks or one month down the line, 50 push ups they are!!!

Failure (I really do wish it was given a different and positive name) is a very powerful and valuable friend. Failure is the bridge between our goal and our success! The period of failure should be called training. 

Here is the thing: Failure and flukes are never compartmentalized from the process....you cannot count a fluke out of the process. 

• It is that fluke that gives you a different idea, 
• It is that fluke that gives you a better idea.
• It is that fluke that give you a break to regain some strength.
• It is that fluke that give you the chance to re-evaluate the distance between where you started and where yo are going.

Failure and flukes should be embraced. I read about how Roberk Kiyosaki's wife embraced this process when he says the following about her efforts in financial education:

"Her real-life financial education was a long-term process of classes, seminars, study, reading, successes, failures, good times,bad times, crooks, con men, liars, cheats, mentors, bad partners, and great partners"

Notice the obedience to the process...

• In my first major public speaking engagement, I walked there will passion and a stack of papers that I constantly referred to. I get so embarrassed watching that DVD. In fact, I just watched it once and felt so bad. I had failed.
• My first sales call was bizarre, so much so that I did not sell for another quarter. What if I had taken it lightly by giving myself the benefit of doubt? I would have learnt and had fun and moved on.
• My first chairing a spiritual mastermind group was mechanical to say the least. 
  
• My first time on radio had some listeners texting to say I should move away from the microphone...and stop shouting.
• I was so embarrassed the first time I attended a prayer meeting. I didn't know how to pray out loud...and when I did, I was embarrassed that my 'neighbor' heard me. You should hear me pray today.
• My first blog post was...three paragraphs, you can read it here:

My point is that we might never nail it the first time we attempt. So we need to give ourselves the benefit of doubt and not be so hard on ourselves. Take some time and rest. Re-evaluate. Thank yourself for giving it an attempt. Gather the feedback. Where did you go wrong? How could you have done it? Ask those who have gone before...find out why you must do this in the first place...then give it another try...and then another...and then another.

Your growth is in the next try! And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the world's number one exceptional ingredient to making it in life!

ONE OBVIOUS REASON FOR REPEATED FAILURE, FOUR LESSONS TO LEARN

I loved music and singing...but when I got to school, someone whispered to me that Music as a subject was for Sissies! I do not remember who that was, but that human being owes me an apology for having me believe them in toto!

My Wife Performing one of her Jams

In music, we are taught how harmony creates beautiful music. When the instruments being played and the singers singing are in perfect sync, it inspires.

Music can be used to change the mood in an instant...Music can be used to blend inspiration, enhance learning and relax the mind. One thing that molds music is harmony.

The very first lesson in learning to play guitar as a music instrument is to learn how to tune the guitar strings. You do not just pick the guitar and start strumming and expect inspiration.

That makes you wonder...how come most people in life just move through un-tuned? If I was in church, I would ask you to "turn to your neighbor and ask them, 'Are you tuned-up'?" (By the way, that is one part of church I do not like...turning to my 'neighbor' every minute and telling them something!!!)

So I went to the gym the other day...and this body builder insisted on having his music play in the intercom. I knew that the lyrics were not edifying me at all. Something was missing...or something was awfully wrong. Here I am jogging while being backed up by background music that was spitting out expletives!

My face was a frown. My mental strength to ignore the background music was under a big stretch of stress! So this is what I did. I decided that the very next day I will step into that Gym, I gonna arm myself with my very own Wifey's jams...and that is exactly what I did.

Can you imagine working out while being inspired by your own wife's songs? And am not just saying that because she is my wife...no, actually, that gal can sing! The woman is gifted! 

But I digress!

The biggest reason as to why most people fail and fail and fail and never learn to succeed is because they are  out of tune even before they get started! There is lacking harmony in their lives. Something is discordant in the whole make up. There is no harmony! So there you have it, we largely fail because we do not have harmony  That is why we need training. Training is nothing but harmonizing!

People fail because...

1. Either, they are discordant about their Audience: We all have been wired to serve a specific audience. We cannot please everyone! We do not have all the talents and gifting and preparations to do everything to everyone and call it a purpose! Jack Bauer is a fiction! He exists not in real life! Who is your audience? Stop saying the whole world...because the whole world doesn't know you....even Bill Gates doesn't serve the whole world! In my village, someone of this nature is referred to be 'playing the guitar to a goat'. Ain't dancing happenin' there!
2. Either, they are discordant about their Purpose: The sorriest thing I see every day is a job seeker who knows not why they are existing in life. We cannot be successful if we are not purposeful...for life...not for job seeking or money making. Ask yourself..well, after the job, then what? After the house, then what? After the car, then what? After the marriage, then what? After the kids and vacations, then what? At the point of death...what really matters?
3. Either, they are discordant about the Process: Most people hate processes...that is why they would want to circumnavigate them. I tried this.I actually thought that I was working 'smart'. Ha! Working smart will never ever ever replace working hard! The result is that I lost two years and ended up in police cells! Follow the due process!
4. Either, they are discordant about Themselves: In-congruency is the chief cause for struggle in life. People either do not know what matters to them, or they blatantly ignore these in pursuit for happiness. There can never be happiness if you knew that you achieved it in-congruently ..that's just it! At the very core of our being, we want to be productive. It is reported that most people die two years after retirement. I have seen that happen, and now that Dad wants to retire...he will be hiring me as a life coach, I kid you not! But here is the thing, our happiness is not just linked to being productive, but also being productive in a fair way. Fairness comes from what is right internally with us merged with what is morally right and acceptable externally in society.

So there we have it. To be honest, I am still in the process. I always will be in the process. That is why sometimes I might experience some set back..but like a butterfly on its path, my progress to success is herky jerky...but I sure do know where I am going. Do you?