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“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
Thomas A. Edison

When you think of Thomas Edison, most certainly you think of the invention of the electric bulb. This great scientist was also an inspiring and thought provoking leader. The quote above is one of the numerous motivational words on personal success. In it you have the three most important essential keys for personal success. For the most part these keys are some of the values that our parents or custodians have inculcated into us or to say to the least have tried. As these keys were potent in Mr. Edison’s time they are equally potent today. Your personal success requires the following components:

Hard-work: You probably must have heard or read, “Work smart and not hard.” However, the reality is working smart is hard work to be honest. Working smart is not indicative that work is going to be easy, without errors or smooth sailing but it implies your ability to leverage relevant information, adapt to new trends, acquire and update your skills to produce the expected results. This thus comes with hard work. Thomas Edison further observed, “There is no substitute for hard work.” Do not let people make you believe that working smart is sitting on a beach in Maui and enjoying all kinds of exotic locations. This also comes with working hard and smart. Ask any successful individual today what is the number one secret of their personal success the unequivocal answer will be hard work. As Mr. Edison remarked, to achieve anything worth while hard work is a prerequisite just as our parent thought us.

Stick-to-itiveness: Dictionary.com defines stick-to-itiveness as dogged perseverance; resolute tenacity. J. Robert Buchanan stated, “You’ve got to have reasonable goals and the stick-to-itiveness to get there” To achieve personal success you have to persevere through the process, be tenacious in your objectives and the action plans that are congruent with your desired objectives. There will be temporary detours and difficult moments on your personal success journey but you must negate any haphazard tendencies and not abandon the ship, throw in the towel and let your ideas go unfulfilled. Whatever insurmountable challenges that stands on your path to your personal and professional success you’ve got to have this stick-to-itiveness mentality to achieve your goals.

Common sense: The last but not the least of the three keys for personal success is common sense. As I research various quotes for common sense this particular one by C. E. Stowe which states “Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.” resonated. It can’t be plainer than that, the knack of seeing things as they are and doing what you are suppose to do to get the anticipated results. According to Mr. Edison, achieving anything worth while requires common sense. Go to work on yourself applying these three keys and your personal success is guaranteed.

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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In this post, I will look at five tips for great success. When a piece of instrument comes from the factory all its functionalities are set to the default position. But the ability to function according to design is built within it. It is your responsibility to adjust those functionalities for optimum performance. At this time, when that instrument does not function according to design it is said to have malfunctioned and its operation said to have failed because the purpose for its designed was not fulfilled. Conversely, when it functions according to designed it is said to function well and its operation termed successful. Therefore, great success is the ability to function according to design.

You are built and designed to succeed not to fail. Make a declaration that you are loaded with innate capacity, you are ordained to be a success, to operate by design, not by default and to have great success. You are loaded with potential, that’s the potential to be what you have not yet become, to do what you have not yet done, to go where you have not yet gone for you possess the potential for manifestation.

To have G.R.E.A.T success is to function according to design. Here is what the acronym G.R.E.A.T stands for:

G – Goal oriented: A goal is one of the most important ingredients in achieving a great success. If you must have a great success and contribute to the successes of others, then you cannot afford to live a sporadic and haphazard life. For that reason you must be goal-oriented.

R – Result oriented: To have great success you have to be result oriented. What this implies is that you can’t afford to be a wandering generality. You refuse to live by chance but choice. You expect to obtain results from all your endeavors from personal to professional. Hence, to be successful you must be result oriented.

E – Expectation oriented: The law of expectation states, “Whatever you expect with confidence, becomes your own self-fulfilling prophecy.” With that in mind, please understand that expectation is the act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event that is about to happen. To have great success you’ve got to have positive expectation.

A – Action oriented: Without taking action your goals will amount to nothing. The life you are going to live and the measure of success you will achieve are all being decided by the action you are taking right now. Consequently, in having a great success you’ve got to be action oriented.

T – Time oriented: To have great success you have to be time oriented. Set a time frame for the goal: for next week, in four months and set a time limit for your goal, allocating enough time to achieve the goal, while inadequate timing can frustrate the progress and execution of your goal.

You function by design when you are goal, result, expectation, action and time oriented. Having great success does come with a price and it is G.R.E.A.T (goal, results, expectation, action and time). You must have great success because you were designed for success. Go for you dreams and aspirations. Victoria Acerta!!!

Dedicated to Your Success & Mine

Richard Onebamoi
Success Facilitator, Success Empowerment Network^TM

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You are designed for optimum performance. You possess limitless capacity to demonstrate power and excellence in any sphere of life. Consequently personal development is the process by which you enhance and maximize your intellectual and spiritual abilities in order to enhance your self worth. It also enables you to maximize your potential and minimize your liabilities.

Personal development is a lifelong pursuit because life is a work in progress. There will never be a day when you will not require dedication, discipline, and a commitment to values, plans, and actions towards your desired objectives. You are capable of continually improving every aspect of your life, and each day and moment provides the opportunity to either advance or retreat in the pursuit of your destiny.

Here are some of the domino effects of personal development and in order for this to happen the process must have direction, purpose and its foundation must be predicated on your core values. You cannot afford to go off tangent on this endeavor.

Personal Development:

1. Gives you a positive self-image
2. Enhances your belief system
3. Helps create a positive self-awareness
4. Increases your participatory role in events and activities
5. Qualifies you for promotion and advancement
6. Optimizes your leadership capabilities
7. Develops your charismata (gifts
8. Enables you to accept and manage criticisms
9. Liberates you from cultural dogmatism
10. Develops personal confidence and confidence in others
11. Enables you to harness your potential(s)
12. It updates and upgrades your inner technologies.

John Mason in his book Imitation is Limitation stated, “The quality of your life will be in direct proportion to commitment to excellence, regardless of what you choose to do.” You but you are responsible and accountable for your personal development, that’s why you have to begin your personal development today and experience these twelve domino effects and many more.

Dedicated to Your Success & Mine

Richard Onebamoi
Success Facilitator, Success Empowerment Network^TM

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Motivation is often defined as the process of arousing, directing and maintaining behaviour toward a goal. You have declared your objective and set goals such as building a business, becoming a better public speaker, acquiring new skills or improving your health and so forth. One of the keys for success is to stay motivated. The difference between success and failure, misery and fun is usually motivation.  In one of my recent post on Five Ways to Motivate Yourself I indicated that staying motivated is significant to the achievement of whatever you set to achieve. The following motivational tips will help you to stay focused on your goals for success:

1.   Set priorities: Here is how to work effectively and stay motivated. Write down your task to be accomplished at the beginning of the day. Then, prioritize the activities in the order of importance. This will help you avoid clusters of unfinished work that can demotivate you and diminished your results.

2.   Use your goals: One of the advantages of goal setting is that it gives you short-term and long-term motivation and focus. Once you have planned your project and set your priorities, turn your attention to developing several goals that will enable you become successful.

3.   Surround yourself with positive people: You can leverage from the kind of people you associate and surround yourself with either positive or negative. Therefore, make a wise choice of associating and surrounding yourself with positive individuals at the same time stay away from the naysayers. This single factor will keep you motivated in no small measures.

4.    Clarify your intents: You are unlikely to succeed in any enterprise without clarifying your intents. One of the things that can keep you motivated is to clarify your intent, as unclear desires are hindrances to your motivation.

5.    Decide to follow through: From the onset you have to make a decision to follow through on your projects. For between you and the action to be taken is the decision to act and follow through on your action. Your decision will help keep you motivated in the face adverse circumstances.

6.   Create a clear plan of action: Someone said: “failing to plan is planning to fail.” It would be ridiculous to be halfway through building a house before taking into consideration the cost but only to discover the lack of resources. To save time, you must have an action plan to get your tasks done from start to finish.

7.   Acquire the needed skill or knowledge: Lack of knowledge or skill in any particular project can lead to lack of motivation. Consequently, before embarking on a project, evaluate what knowledge or skills you have, what skills you need to acquire and what others you need to improve.

8.    Create conducive atmosphere for development: Very often certain atmospheres are not conducive for development and growth. Thus hindering any meaningful progress. Lack of progress breeds lack of motivation 95% of the times. Hence, it is imperative to create an atmosphere conducive for development to stay motivated all the time and through the process of goal achievement.

Hey Champ, don’t lose your steam, stay focus and motivated and I’ll see you at the top.

To Your Success

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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