427. You Are A Life Coach As A Parent To Provide Clarity Of Purpose

Parents already do have the inherent knowledge about the giftedness, uniqueness and difference of their children. The saddest thing is that they do not follow through. They totally ignore these gifts because they are sending the children to school!

They leave the school system to sort that part out. Invariably, no school system is well equipped to Life Coach the children to their destiny. Schools are so busy from dawn to dusk to churn out great academic performances. But not all children are inclined to be good academically.

This is where the parent comes in, to speak into the purpose of the child and clarify it as they grow. Listen to this.

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426. The Importance of Becoming A Life Coach For Your Children

There is something that we as parents do and we have no clue we are doing it. It is called, "well-meaning abdication". Let me explain. We spend top dollar or at least we scurry around to make sure our children get an "education".

All the while, we have gone through the education system and we know that it doesn't work, it doesn't serve everyone, and at least it doesn't bring out the best of our children's gifts and talents.

But we send them there anyway, sit back and fold our hands and wait for report cards at the end of the term, wait to see which mighty high schools they will attend and so on.

Breaking News: That dog no longer hunts. We have to be life coaches to our children. Listen to this.

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425. How I was Proved Right For Hiring People With No Academic Papers

What's the case for academic papers in the current world? I will tell you something. They are no longer the silver bullet for success and career advancement. Not any more.

That used to work for my father and at least some percentage of my generation. What we ought to put in sharp focus is the next generation, our children and their children after them.

Guess what? Some huge organizations no longer require people to have degrees to be employed... I submit to us that there is another way. This way starts from the home, through Life Coaching our children. Listen to this.

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424. Curriculum Changes in Schools. Are They Enough. Are They The Answer

Raise your hand if you have never heard about changes in curriculums of our schools even at your youngest age. You would be lying.

Apparently, it has always been a clamour each year, that the curriculum being used is no longer working. We are talking about competency-based curriculum, emphasis on skills and what have you.

Where the rubber meets the road is where we need to get insight into what that education system ought to be. Before we can change it, what do we want to accomplish in the first place?

I dare say that before a child can hit the school, that child should have received some Life Coaching from the home. We can change it all we want, but if the children are not coached to be solution thinkers and providers, we have hit a miss...again! Listen to this.

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423. The Case For School Systems No Longer Holds. Here is the Answer

Are school systems serving the purpose that they are supposed to serve? I am talking about the insight into the education of our young people.

The moment you call it an "education system", your reference has already locked some people out. But still, even those that the "system" takes care of for about two and a half decades, is it serving them right?

Ultimately, is the education system bringing relevance to society through the products that it churns out each year? If you were the first to point a finger at it, you should have been the first to life coach your children. Listen to this.

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422. Why Every Parent Must Be A Life Coach

The world is always a-changing. Not that it was supposed to stand still. The metaphor that our earth revolves around the sun every single second should tell us that we should always expect changes.

In the job/career/vocation world, we have however held back to the past tenets so hard that we are failing to see that they are no longer working.

If the parent of this century is going to continue thinking that "education is the Key" for their children as it was for them, they will be in for a rude awakening.

I am suggesting a shift, something that is already happening with pockets of parents all over the world. Life Coaching our children. Listen to this.

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421. The 6 Things To Do In Order To Live A Full Life and Die Well

The way we exit this world (all of us shall) varies one person from another. And yet, there are only to major groups of people at the point of death.
There are those who are carefree. Unworried and unfettered by even death itself. And then there are those who are scared to death (pun not intended).
How we lived will determine how we die. I believe that if we do the following six things throughout our lives, we shall be among those who are fulfilled and carefree at death.

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420. To Die Well, Know Whom You Were Sent To Deliver

Death is an ominous subject the world over...but also a fact to all individuals. It is a given. We go through life resigned to the fact that we are prone to death every waking day.

The decision that is left to be made is the decision about how we shall live. How can we live our lives so well that death is just an event that ushers into the next dispensation?

Our lives are firmly connected to our deaths. How we die is determined by how we lived. There is one thing to do in order to die well--Know whom you have been called to deliver. Listen to this.

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419. How Critical Timing Is in Deploying Your Assignment

The fact is that one out of one dies. That can either be good news or bad news depending chiefly on what we did while alive. I have a firm belief that we were meant to live a spectacular life of productivity, impact and contribution.

That is the Divine design for everyone. No one is exempt. The question we have to answer is this: How do we live such a life that at the time of our death, we are so happy and fulfilled, knowing that we deployed our absolute best?

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418. In Order To Die Well, Deal Daily Ruthlessly With Distractions

Every child born of a woman is a message and a messenger. He or she is a weapon in the hands of the creator. He or she is an agent of change and transformation. We all come on the earth with a mission, at least equipped to be on mission.

However, we live our lives filled with so many distractions that by the time we come to the end of our lives, there is so much that was meant to be done that was never done.

The death we experience is double jeopardy...double pain largely because we wasted our years in pursuit of distractions instead of fulfilling our assignments. Here is one more way to die better.

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417. Why Preparing For Your Assignment Is Important For Your Death

Someone said that some people tiptoe through life hoping that they can reach safely at death. I can understand the feeling. No one looks forward to dying.

However, there are those who do look forward to their death with enthusiasm. They know that they have lived their lives worthy of that death, and they also know that there is no finality in that death. It is rest, yes, but it is also transition.

Perhaps the most fulfilling thing about their death is that they lived a life full of impact. How did they do this? The first of all knew their assignment, and then they prepared themselves for it. Listen to this.

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416. The Most Critical Pillar of Life That Makes Death Fun

Amazingly, life and death are connected to the hip. We are mortal. However, we can live our lives to such an extent that our legacy is immortal. Several people have done that.

Looking at history, you can mention several names of visionaries who lived thousands or hundreds of years ago. Their names still impact our lives today because of how they lived.

That brings us to scrutinize how they lived their lives. All of them had just one thing in common. It is this pillar of their lives that made their death, however it might have been, something that they never regret. Listen to this.

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415. The Most Powerful Words To Speak While Dying

Every now and then, I give people assignments to do regarding the following: Writing their obituary and epitaph. It forces you to think about the impact that you left on the earth.

Invariably, people seldom want to do this assignment or complete it. It is tasking, involving and of course, ominous. However, thinking about your last day on the earth puts focus on how you will live your life.

On the cross, one of the last words that Jesus spoke were, "It is finished". Perhaps, those would be the most powerful words we can ever speak when our lives come to a close. Listen to this.

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414. How They Died Was Critically Impacted By How They Lived. Let's Learn From Them

So we are told that success leaves clues. I agree. Death does too, especially the death of the successful. If we listened to what they said at the time of their deaths.

If we learnt what they did before they died. If we learnt how they died, we would have a lot of information to glean. Our lives are impacted by the death of others...but if we could learn to stare at our own deaths, chances are that the way we live would drastically change.

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413. Why Life and Death are Connected at The Hip and What We Can Learn From Them

We live our lives at times for the moment. Thinking about our lunches and bills. We repeat this for years until we stare at death right in the face. We have been avoiding it all the while, ignoring it even. Now it becomes a reality.

That's when we discover the gems of life that have gone by. That's when we realize that our focus might not have been the right one. That's when the urgency of doing the right thing seems so overwhelming for us against the time that we have.

If we could only realize that life and death are connected, we would focus on both, and not just living each waking day. Listen to this.

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412. What We Can Learn From Our Deaths

Death has so much finality that we tiptoe through life trying to evade it. But when each one faces themselves on their death bed or when they have a brush with it, what comes to their mind is something pure, something deep and something worth listening to.

That is why we strive so much to listen to a dying man or woman. We know that what they are saying is not fake, it is the truth. As much as the subject of death is taboo in some quarters, we stand to learn so much from the grim reaper, especially by looking at those who have gone before us. Listen.

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411. The 3 Ways To Mirror A Major Brand or Personality To Improve Your Own

You can "mirror" a major brand that is doing what you want to do in the market, or that has opened your eyes to see how things can be done, how things could be better.

Not all the information you have is yours. Not all of us will be successful by deploying only our original ideas and information. We do need from time to time, ideas from elsewhere, especially from the people that are movers and shakers in the trade we are in.

Instead of copying and stealing trade secrets, there is something clean that you and I can do to learn from them, to benchmark and to develop. Listen to this.

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410. How Being A 'Positive Stalker' Can Help You Up Your Brand

How do you obtain information from a market leader that you can use to better your own brand? These are things that are done every day in business.

At times, people simply ask and get it. At times, some just look, study and research. When Apple launched the IOS operating system from smartphones, it wasn't long before Android technology was used to create a rivalling product that has helped millions if not billions of people that were unable to get the iPhone.

How do you get information from your industry leader that you can use to better your brand? Listen to this.

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409. How To Mirror Major Aspects of A Luminary's Brand To Improve Yours

It is instructive that when you mirror what a market leader is doing, you tend to grow your brand in return. There will always be someone doing something better than you are.

We have learnt that you do not have to plagiarise, copy and paste their work. At times we seek people doing this thinking that it is a short cut.

The side effect of copying and pasting is debilitating. But what if you cand do something better than copying and pasting? What if you can mirror them? What if you can obtain their structure, spirit, systems and so on that they are doing and apply your own uniqueness to it?

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408. The 3 Advantages of Mirroring A Market Leader to Up Your Brand

When you mirror a visionary in what they are doing, you are not necessarily copying word for word their content. You can mirror but not copy. Staying authentic and original to your essence is of utmost importance as you are growing your brand.

There are three major advantages that will come your way if you decide to mirror a brand in your niche that is already performing in a stellar fashion. That brand is where you would like to be one day.

Instead of re-inventing the wheel, you simply decide to mirror their structure, systems and process and all the while you keep your originality and essence intact. Here are the advantages of doing this.

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407. The Critical Thing About Mirroring Brand Greats to Improve Your Personal Brand

We can decide to reinvent the wheel and waste time and resources or we can decide to leverage what is already existing and move on quicker.

If you wanted to grow your brand, one of the most potent things you can do is to mirror an existing brand that is operating in your niche market.

There are several advantages that will accrue from this. Growing your brand doesn't have to be done as if you are gripping in the dark unless of course, you are the first person since Adam to do what you are doing. Listen to this.

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406. Why Mirroring is Critical in Improving Our Brands

After you have discovered what your purpose in life is, or what your vision is, or what you are passionate about, you quickly realize that there are many other folks that are doing generally what you have set to do.

This can either be intimidating or discouraging. I have dumped some ideas along the way because I saw people having done a semblance of them.

However, we can flip the coin and intend to learn from the very best in the niche we are in. This is the process we call mirroring. Listen to this.

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405. The 4 Aspects of The Philosophical Solution To Joblessness

Problems have different types of solutions. At the crux of solutions to problems, there could be a practical thing to do or a philosophical thought to embrace.

As such, knowledge, revelation and wisdom are important aspects. When we are talking about the joblessness scourge, there is no shortage of practical attempts to alleviate it.

However, it is my belief that if we changed the philosophy, we might see some progress, albeit not economically, but that would be progress nonetheless. Listen to this.

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404. How A Simple Shift In Time Management Can Help The 'Joblessness' Scourge

There are several reasons as to why I am insisting that part of the problems of joblessness is philosophical. I posit that if you changed the philosophy surrounding joblessness, you might see some light in the tunnel before you get out of it.

Our course, philosophical solutions do not necessarily guarantee you income--something that people in the jobless situation are desperately looking for. However, these solutions will make you go around the "in-between" moments much better and come out probably stronger than you went in.

One such a tweak that is needed in your life is how you handle your time daily. Listen to this.

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403. What To Focus On In The Philosophical Fight of 'Joblessness'

We are admonished that where focus goes, energy follows. If you are "jobless" or if you know who a "jobless" person is, one of the things that you can instruct them is about their focus.

As already shared in the previous episodes, there is an extent where joblessness is a philosophical problem. In solving this philosophical part of joblessness, knowing what to focus on can be a game-changer in the persons affected.

I posit that the joblessness scourge is biting hard because its victims have not learnt to focus the right way. Does focus pay you at the end of the month or week? Nope. But it takes you through the "in-between" time much better. Listen to this.

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402. How Change in Perspective Can Help Alleviate 'Joblessness'

Could it be that if we change our perspective in life we could to an extent solve the joblessness scourge? I believe so.

I think the very first thing you need to do is to exterminate that title. When you label yourself "jobless", something drastic happens in your psyche. For some reason, you unconsciously believe that you are useless, valueless and worthless up until someone give you a job and pays you.

In changing our perspective in life, we can easily generate options that we can use that will go a long way in helping us. Listen to this.

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401. The Philosophical Solution To The 'Joblessness' Scourge

I contend again that there is a large aspect of a philosophical problem when we are talking about joblessness. Consequently, if you wanted to solve the scourge you will to a large extent have to tackle it philosophically.

I am not in any way saying that the reality on the ground is all folly and illusionary. I am saying that to a large extent there are people that can be helped just by having their philosophy altered.

I do believe that when you label yourself as a 'jobless' person, you are messing up with your identity and psyche. Chances are that with a change in philosophy you will see options generated. Listen to this.

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400. This Is Why I am Willing To Contend That Joblessness is an Illusion...To some Extent

The world over, the term 'jobless' has caught the attention of individuals, families, governments, the World Bank and the UN, including many other organizations.

Maybe, there is no silver bullet to fight this scourge. It is therefore OK for all that are passionate about solving this problem to make a contribution of sorts. I always wondered who the first person to be "jobless" was.

In my estimation, there are some aspects of 'jobless' that are absolutely philosophical. In other words, to solve the problem, we need to change our philosophy. Listen to this.

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399. The 5 Critical Decisions That Will Help You Improve In Life

In order to improve your life one way or another, you will have to make a decision. There is no change happening to anyone without it being intentional, purposed and conscious. 

Tony Robbins said that it is in the moments of our decisions that our destiny is shaped. Therefore, we need to find out what decisions we can make in life in order to make improvements.

There could be very many decisions that we make that have an impact on our lives. This happens on a daily basis. However, I believe that there are five of those that would go a mighty long way in making us improve. Listen to this.

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398. Why Releasing Extra Baggage Affords You Strength To Improve In Life

Making a decision to improve in your life has to be intentional, conscious and active. There are some aspects of life that you can decide on that will have the greatest impact in terms of improvement.

Growth and development is not something that happens arbitrarily. Therefore, one of the major decisions that you can make that will facilitate improvement in your life will be something to deal with your baggage.

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397. How To Deal With Potential Chronic Issues in Life So as To Effect an Improvement

When you want to make a decision to improve in life, you have to be cognizant of the fact that there are several forces that are at play at any one point in life. If you are doing nothing, it doesn't mean that you are stagnant. If a ship is not sailing and it is on the water, without the anchor, it is drifting.

Therefore, one has to realize that there are several underlying forces beneath the surface of life, physically and spiritually that can curtail your progress. In order to make an improvement in life, you have to contend with these silent forces and deal with them.
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396. The Power of Reviews in Making Incredible Life Improvements

They say that numbers never lie. Some people dread numbers but those who love to grow, develop or improve, love them. Making an improvement of any nature in your life needs you to make decisions.

One of the major decisions you will make that will facilitate improvement in life is the decision to review your performance, your life, your relationships or your business. Without a review, there is no knowing what to do next, or there is no knowing whether you are on track or not.

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395. The No. 1 Decision Chiefly Responsible For Your Improvement in Life

Making an improvement in life is a given. However, it will have to be through making decisions. Improvements do not happen arbitrarily, by chance, fluke, accident or as a hiccup.

There has to be a conscious decision made for the improvement to materialize. There are different types of decisions that you can make in life. However, there are those few that are pointing directly to improvement. Those ones that make you increase, grow and be better. Here is one of them.

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394. The Most Potent Way To Make Improvements in Your Life

Life is structured in such a way that we can always be better. Over the centuries, mankind has always improved and developed. It is an inherent thing.

When it comes to our individual lives, one of the biggest psychological needs we have is growth and development. We always want to be better and we cannot escape that urge. The moment we lose that urge, we die.

The question that we need to answer today is this: What is that one potent thing that we can do in order to effect an improvement in our lives? How do we grow? Listen to this.

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393. The 6 Strategies To Bring Your Vision To Fruition

There is great excitement when an individual downloads their vision for life. It is a day like no other. Perhaps the easier part of the vision equation is to know what your personal vision in life is. And yet, people are still struggling with that part.

The second part is staying authentic to the vision, to who you are until that vision comes to fruition. In this episode, I summarize six things that you can do that are pillars in making sure that whatever personal vision you have is actualized. Listen to this.

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392. How To Handle Detours When Working With Your Vision

It is one thing to obtain a vision and quite another to serve that vision. Decisions to stay with the vision regardless of the reality on the ground will be tough to make.

Decisions to take a different angle with the vision even as it grows will be tempting. But once you have downloaded your vision in life, there will be an opportunity for you to be as flexible in decision making as possible in order to nurture your vision.
The first decision you will have to make will have to do with you, and how practical it can be to balance between the pursuit of life and staying faithful with the vision. The second decision will be about the vision itself...how willing you are to let it get a life of its own. Listen to this.

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391. What To Do To Avoid Aborting Your Vision

A personal vision is as delicate as a baby. It needs nurturing, care and patience. Unfortunately, it is possible for the abortion of vision to happen. In fact, this does happen at an alarming rate around the world.
First, there are hordes of people that do not have the audacity to download their vision and get a revelation for it. As such, they have no data to work within life.
Then, we have those who already know what their vision in life is, but they are not keen enough to activate it and give it wings to fly. It ends up falling in the long run. Listen to this to avoid aborting vision.

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390. How To Activate Your Vision Through A Mastermind

Napoleon Hill taught us that no two or three people come together united for a common cause without thereby creating a third invisible force that can be likened to a mastermind.

After one has discovered what their vision in life is, they will soon realize that it is not possible to go it alone. You might try to do it alone but you will understand sooner or later that it is a daunting task. Why?

The simple reasons are that you are not superman, and you are not all-knowing. We all have blind sides that we need covering. We all need people to watch our backs. That's where the mastermind comes in. Listen to this.

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389. One More Potent Force of Activating Your Personal Vision

Once you have downloaded your vision, the most logical thing to do is to make it work. How you do that is important. At first, as already discussed in the previous episode, one needs to build a daily routine around it.

The vision will necessarily compel you and force you to have high standards as compared to the average person with no vision. That's why you have to be comfortable in the uncomfortable. You have to have grit, determination. You have to be comfortable in the pain of bringing it to pass.
You have to be comfortable in the awkwardness. The person that needs to be compelled more is the vision bearer and not the people that are watching you. That's why you need to have some rules for yourself, some laws. Listen to this.

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388. The Most Potent Way To Activate Your Personal Vision

There are two major things about vision. First, there is the downloading of the vision. This is a critical part. Few people do this. Few people have realized how they can get their vision from the invisible realm to the revelation realm of their lives.

What comes after the revelation is equally important. As such, the question that we need to answer is this: What next after I have downloaded my vision? The answer to this question will make or break that vision. That's why in this episode, we start discussing some of the practical ways of actualizing that vision. Stay tuned.

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387. The Three Dimensions of Your Personal Vision

Scriptures tell us that without a vision, people perish. People cast off restraint. There is no shortage of organizations whether governmental, non-governmental or religious that have a vision. Those are plenty.

Where there is a glaring problem is with the vision of the individual. The average person is coasting around life unconstrained with nothing in terms of a vision.

Your personal vision has three dimensions, and it is important for you to understand it. One of those dimensions is smack in the middle of your domain. Listen to this.

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386. It's Cliche, Yes, But This Is Why You Need A Personal Vision

You have probably heard about "vision" so much that you will be excused to think that it is cliche. The truth of the matter is that vision will always be a core part of productivity and success.

I am in fact, talking about personal vision. If you and I will have light shining into our lives, if we will have the joy of fulfilment and the beacon of direction in life, it will be because we have a personal vision.

It this therefore imperative that we start orchestrating ways in which we can clarify that vision as we move along in life. We are not insects, animals or plants. We are human beings. Without a vision, we perish. Listen to this.

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385. How Doing It Unafraid Increases Performance and Productivity

If you have ever been in the eye of the storm so to speak and come out alive, you certainly know that you can be stretched and perform. You know how it feels like to be afraid.

Will Smith talks about jumping out of a plane on his 50th birthday. Very inspirational. What that creates for you, that daring, what it does is to create an aura of being carefree. In so doing, you are highly focused to be as productive as you can, knowing what fear has and what it cannot do to you.

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384. Productivity Lessons We Can Learn from Superpowers

Fear is a debilitating force. Brutal regimes use it to scare people into submission and to force them to toe the line. As a result, people are not free to express themselves.

Their creativity and freedom are curtailed. On the same token, fear can keep you from doing what you were called to do, and it can keep you from being highly productive. If you wanted to perform at high levels, you and I will have to overcome the fear of all sorts.
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383. The 4 Traits of Highly Productive People

Work is a blessing for mankind. Not a curse. It is through work that we get part of our identity. It is through work that we find fulfilment in life.

It, therefore, follows that high performance is of great importance to us. We need to live our lives on the premise that high levels of productivity should be a daily thing, and not when our backs are against the wall.

In this episode, we summarise aspects of high productivity especially when your back is against the wall. Listen to this.

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