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You Get What You Give

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay, “Compensation,” wrote that each person is compensated in like manner for that which he or she has contributed. The Law of Compensation is another restatement of the Law of Sowing and Reaping. It says that you will always be compensated for your efforts and for your contribution, whatever it is, however much or however little.

Increase Your Value

This Law of Compensation also says that you can never be compensated in the long term for more than you put in. The income you earn today is your compensation for what you have done in the past. If you want to increase your compensation, you must increase the value of your contribution.

Fill Your Mind With Success

Your mental attitude, your feelings of happiness and satisfaction, are also the result of the things that you have put into your own mind. If you fill your own mind with thoughts, visions and ideas of success, happiness and optimism, you will be compensated by those positive experiences in your daily activities.

Do More Than You’re Paid For

Another corollary of the Law of Sowing and Reaping is what is sometimes called the, “Law of Overcompensation.” This law says that great success comes from those who always make it a habit to put in more than they take out. They do more than they are paid for. They are always looking for opportunities to exceed expectations. And because they are always overcompensating, they are always being over rewarded with the esteem of their employers and customers and with the financial rewards that go along with their personal success.

Provide the Causes, Enjoy The Effects

One of your main responsibilities in life is to align yourself and your activities with Law of Cause and Effect (and its corollaries), accepting that it is an inexorable law that always works, whether anyone is looking or not. Your job is to institute the causes that are consistent with the effects that you want to enjoy in your life. When you do, you will realize and enjoy the rewards you desire.

Action Exercises

Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, remind yourself regularly that your rewards will always be in direct proportion to your service to others. How could you increase the value of your services to your customers today?

Second, look for ways to go the extra mile, to use the Law of Overcompensation in everything you do. This is the great secret of success.

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Dedicated to Your Success & Mine

Richard Onebamoi
Success Facilitator, Success Empowerment Network^TM

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Being R.E.A.L is a rarity today. This coined acronym, R.E.A.L stands for Relationships, Equipping, Attitude and Leadership. You could do with all of these components to achieve success in any endeavor. By now I’m persuaded that you understand that you cannot achieve success just by yourself. Your success either personal or professional requires the following components:

Relationships: Theodore Roosevelt said, “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” One of the single skills considered necessary for success is the ability to get along with other people. It embodies and influences every aspect of a person’s life. Your relationships make you or they break you.

Equipping: One of the most significant lessons to be learnt in life is that your association will determine the level of your success. If your dreams are great, you will achieve them only with the help of people in the past or present.

Attitude: People’s attitudes determine how they approach life from day to day. Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude. Here is a quote that puts attitude in proper perspective, “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.” Charles R. Swindoll

Leadership: Stephen R. Covey remarked, “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” Everything rises and falls on leadership. If you desire to take the limitation of your personal and professional effectiveness, the only way to do it is to hone and increase your leadership skills.

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Richard Onebamoi
Success Facilitator, Success Empowerment Network^TM

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“If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”
Bill Clinton

Developing a Never Quit Attitude (NQA) is a priceless success power point and it is critical to any endeavor. The unfortunate thing is that most of us have had to learn the hard way one of the most important success power points of all times. It is very important to understand that in any enterprise one must develop a Never Quit Attitude because there will be times in your pursuit that things will not necessarily work your way or meet your expectations. There will be temporary detours in your personal and professionally advancement plus the uncertainty that abounds in our world. Thus, there is a need to develop a Never Quit Attitude so as to find answers and solutions to prevailing circumstance rather than quitting anytime and every time you are confronted with difficult challenges.

My friends, a Never Quit Attitude is not just blind optimism but it is having a sense of confidence that every thing will work out for your good. It is the willingness to seek answers and solutions in moments of despair and disappointments. It is the courage to try one more time when the naysayer says it is impossible. Success is not about never failing but it’s about never quitting. Stay consistent to your goals and objectives no matter how slow things may appear. This is one of the keys to success that great achievers have used to achieve extraordinary results in their field of interest.

It is important to develop a Never Quit Attitude (NQA) as you aspire to fulfill your dreams and goals. Before considering moving from one project to another because of temporary detours, this of course will only create a series of unfulfilled projects that can have a negative effect on you in the final analysis. Napoleon Hill remarked, “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” That is well articulated, the rewards of your efforts is not fully released and enjoyed when you quit, examine what works and what does not work and move on.

Winners never quit and Quitters never win. I hope this post will help and inspire you to never give up on your dreams and aspirations

Dedicated to Your Success & Mine

Richard Onebamoi
Success Facilitator, Success Empowerment Network^TM

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When you put a recipe together to prepare a bolognaise sauce for your spaghetti for instance, it is not one ingredient that determines the final outcome and the end of your preparation. It is a combination of different ingredients mixed together in the right proportion that will produce a sauce that is palatable. In the same token to be successful in any enterprise there are ingredients that must be mixed together in other to ensure success in that endeavour either personal or professional. Now it is your responsibility and mine to identify these ingredients and mix them in the right proportion to produce an extraordinary success.

Success in any enterprise is not the result of just a single ingredient at work in the process of achieving your goals and objectives but rather a combination of different ingredients working together to produce the kind of results anticipated. There are without doubt basic components that are foundational and relevant in the pursuit of success irrespective of areas such as personal, family and relationship, business and career, financial, physical and health that you seek to succeed in and I’d like to refer to these basic components as building blocks.

Here are a few building blocks for success in any aspect of your life:

• You have to know exactly what you want
• You have to be action oriented
• You’ve got to have the ability to stay focus
• You have to set goals
• You’ve got to have a positive mental attitude
• You’ve got to have success motivation
• You have to be persistent and
• You have to follow through on your objectives.

Please, don’t be astonished because of the simplicity of this list you can literally shatter barriers that would have otherwise hindered your success. You can begin your quest for success in any aspect of your life with these basic ingredients and add more to this list as you progress and aspire to take on more objectives or goals in your life. I would love to have your thoughts on this, please share your most important ingredient for success.

Dedicated to Your Success & Mine

Richard Onebamoi
Success Facilitator, Success Empowerment Network^TM

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The law of expectation states, “Whatever you expect with confidence becomes your own self fulfilling prophecy.” Expectation is what you are anticipating and looking forward to come to pass. We all have expectations in life either personal or professional, weather these expectations are achieved is another thing. What are your expectations in life? For most people their expectation holds too many uncertainties to say the least. With that said, if your expectation was not met you can do one of two things either you change that expectation or you allow the situation to frustrate you.

Unmet expectations or lack thereof have caused tremendous troubles for a lot of people. Most individuals have abandoned their dreams and aspirations because of unmet expectations. The road for success is not without you having expectations. Therefore, your capacity to change your expectation is crucial to your overall success motivation. Here are 7 ways to change your negative expectation to positive one.

Change your focus: What is your focus? Change your focus to change your expectation. If your outcome is not what you expected, you can alter that outcome by changing your focus to produce your desired expectation. It is important to understand that what you focus on is what you bring into your life. As a result it’s important to focus on what you really want and nothing else.

Develop a very clear vision: Most people never take the time to develop a vision of what they expect for their lives, on the contrary, most of the time life is treated like a dress rehearsal. It’s improbable to expect what you have not clearly defined. Consequently, to change your expectation you have to clearly define what you expect.

Disrupt the process: If you intend to change your expectation you have to simply disrupt the process that creates the patterns of your negative expectation. Processes such as negative thinking habits and self-talk. These kinds of practices can produce unwanted expectation. Take action to disrupt negative practices, develop and enhance the practices that will move you in the direction of your anticipated expectation.

Lear what to do: Learn what to do. It’s amazing how many people actually learn to do something about their situation. These individuals are willing to learn what to do that will move them to the right direction. You apply the same strategy that is not working or at its best its producing outcomes that are not in harmony with your expectations.

Enlist the help of a mentor: I can not stress this enough. The help of a mentor or coach is invaluable. Your relationship with this individual is no that of comrades but associates that will hold accountable to your actions. He will to help you to strategize a course that yields your expectation.

Change your attitudes: Attitude is everything. To change your expectation you have to change your attitude, for this will affect how you see things. With a negative attitude toward your project will produce negative results. A positive attitude is the key.

Finale

This list by no means is exhaustive. Create positive expectation of your intents by making legitimate decisions. Nurture your expectations by never settling for anything less than what you desire and that serves your best interest. Whenever you want to change your expectation take immediate action to apply these few tips to produce what you are expecting.

Dedicated to Your Success & Mine

Richard Onebamoi
Success Facilitator, Success Empowerment Network^TM

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Developing the mindset of a champion. What is the striking difference between champions and non-champions? The answer is simple. It is their mindset; the way champions think separates them from the rest. With the past and present programming of failure and defeat it has become apparent to deprogram and reprogram your mindset for success and extraordinary achievement. However, the mindset of a champion cannot be developed overnight. There are series of events that leads to that state of mind. Anyone can actually develop a champion’s mindset and become a champion in their personal and professional endeavors. This is not something reserved for the elite but for anyone that is determined to undergo the process and commit to the developments of a champion’s mindset.

Please, understand that you do not necessarily have to be an Olympian with a gold medal or a world renowned heavy weight boxing champion but you can become a champion nonetheless when you confront and dethrone the giants in your life that militate against your personal and professional success. When you set goals and embark on achieving them, when you are able to do what you do in the face of insumountable challenges, when you become what the naysayer think you are unlikely to become you are a CHAMPION. When defeat and discouragements were imminent but believed in what was possible you are a CHAMPION. You believe in your own abilities to make it happen and refuse to allow your prevailing reality determine your tomorrow you are a CHAMPION. In spite of the odds against you, you came out an outstanding success you are a CHAMPION.

So what is a mindset and how is a mindset developed? What makes you possess a mindset that produces amazing success every time you attempt something? Well, let us examine a number of things that comes to mind.

What is a mindset? The America Heritage® Dictionary defines mindset as “A fixed metal attitude or disposition that predetermines a person’s responses to and interpretations of situations. (2) An inclination or habit.

Here are three critical ingredients to developing a champion’s mindset:

Commitment to the disciplines: If you are going to develop the mindset of a champion you’ve got to commit to the disciplines required to make it happen. For instance you have to learn the disciplines of staying focus, goal setting, passion, perseverance, self-motivation and taking action.

Exercise your mind by putting it to use: Champions are thinkers they put their minds to work. Stop allow other people or situations think for you. You will never strengthen the muscles of your mind this way. It is just like you going to the gym to exercise and build up your muscles just exactly what you should be doing to your mind by putting it to work. The more you use it the more it develops.

Associate with the champions: Another important factor in developing a champion’s mindset is to associate with other champions. And you will learn to partake of their breakfast. Their ways of thinking, their belief systems, habits, passions and actions start to rub off on you. When you fly with the eagles very soon you will learn to fly like them. In the same light if you hang with the turkeys they will rob on you. If you must develop a champion’s mindset associate with them

Finale

To succeed in any enterprise you’ve got to start thinking like a champion, staying focus like a champion, inspiring yourself from within like a champion, action oriented like a champion and finally not quitting like a champion because champions never quits and quitters never become champions. Remember you are the champion of your success. Go expand your horizon and I’ll see you at the top.

Dedicated to Your Success & Mine

Richard Onebamoi
Success Facilitator, Success Empowerment Network^TM

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Seven simple ways to begin your personal success journey. The journey for success begins with a step, just as the journey of a thousand miles. There is nothing like overnight success, it is an illusion to say the least. Success is not validated only by the results achieved but mostly by the process through which the results were attained. Therefore, if success is a journey and not a destination, it’s important to suggest that there are ways to begin your personal success journey. Most folks want to succeed but are unfamiliar with the ways that can lead to their personal success journey. For instance, in preparing for a journey there are ways you begin so as to move in the appropriate direction. Some of the ways that come to mind are to know exactly where you want to go, to get the itinerary for the journey, a map that will serve as a guide through the journey and so forth. Let us now examine seven simple ways to begin your personal success journey and your thoughts on how you began your personal success journey will be highly appreciated.

• Define Success for Yourself: There are a lot of definitions out there today partly because of our individual orientations and upbringing. Most of these definitions may not resonate or mean anything to you. As a result, defining success and its meaning to you is critical as you embark on your success journey. With that said, you can use some of the great definitions of success from great minds  as yardstick for formulating your own definition of success. For instance, Dr. John C. Maxwell’s definition of success states, “Success is… knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” It is easier to forge ahead on your personal success endeavours when you have clearly defined success for yourself.

• Decide to Succeed: Now you may say that is simple. Do you know over the six billion people on planet earth only a fraction of them have one time made a deliberate decision to succeed. Isn’t that staggering? This is one of the qualities that successful people exhibits, once they have decided to succeed, they will do what it takes to succeed. Wishing you were successful is not the same as deciding to be successful. Wishful thinking does not move people to take action and do what needs to be done. It is when you decide to do, be and have, that you will now begin the process that will lead you on that success journey. Irrespective of were you are in your life the one thing that is stopping you from the success you deserved is DECISION with a capital D. You got to tell yourself I am decided on succeeding in my personal and professional life. It crucial not to second guess your resolve, you have to be crystal clear and hold yourself accountable for the decision you have made.

• Declare what you want: Knowing exactly what you want is one of the single most important ways to begin your personal success journey. When you are nonchalant about what you want, the possibility of ever beginning your personal success journey and achieving meaningful results is going to remain a dream that never comes to fruition and fades into the ether. Declare what you want from the onset as you begin your personal success journey and you will be able to stay focus through the entire process without having to lose perspective in the face of temporary detours and challenges.

• Believability: Your asset is the ability to succeed but your greatest asset is to believe in your ability to succeed. You must believe that you are endowed with innate capacity by God and that you are wired to succeed. Yes, failure is inevitable in the process of your personal success journey but you are not a failure, while you may have failed in some things but please understand that failure was just  an event that occurred in pursuit of your personal success. If you are to succeed you must believe that you can succeed and you will with style.

• Create a plan: Creating a definite plan for carrying out your desire is invaluable on your personal success journey. For if you don’t plan, you plan to fail because you need plans to succeed in any endeavour. Hence creating plans that will get you from point A to B is of utmost importance as you progress through the journey.

• Pursuit: Your desire to succeed is in your pursuit. It is not enough to have a personal definition of success or deciding to succeed without pursuit. Pursuit is the relevant force that transforms your decision into success. In science, it is purported that every object assumes a state of inertia or uniform motion until an external force is applied to change its courses. Nothing works on its own, it must be made to work. Likewise without pursuing your intent to succeed, your decision to succeed will only be a figment of your imagination.

• Commitment: The last of the seven ways to begin your personal success journey but not the least is commitment. You must be exceptionally resolved that whatever happens you are going to stay committed to your personal success journey in spite of the insurmountable odds that may come your way. You will persevere and not abandon your post because of temporary detours. No matter what stay committed to your goals and objectives and I’ll see you at the top.

To Your Success

Richard Onebamoi
Success Facilitator, Success Empowerment Network^TM

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