Looking for your wings?

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Where are the wings?

One of the main peculiarities with today's world is its busyness. At times, you may have an idea of who you think can 'coach' you to become the kind of person you want to be, but like most great coaches, they are not 'affordable'.

What should you do then?

- Look out for materials they have produced over time. This may be books, audio or video materials, etc and 'devour' every content.

- Follow up on their activities, and try to go to places you know they will be also

- Attend their organized trainings or seminars

- If they have a coaching program, subscribe for it

- Find out people who love to have him as a coach too, and build your relationship with them. The more you guys rub minds, the more your chances of meeting your 'coach'

- Book an appointment to see him. But make sure you've done your homework very well. Ask only intelligent questions.

- Start coaching others you're better than. If your influence grows big enough, it may eventually get the attention of your desired coach.

Keep getting better.

I believe in you!

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Where is your wing?

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Do you have wings?

When an athlete or a team performs poorly consistently, who gets the blame? Why do great talents like Kobi Bryant, Usain Bolt, The Serenas, Lionel Messi...need 'instructors'?

You see, we all need coaches. A coach helps you to see your blindspots and weaknesses. She helps to study your opponents' strategies, and prepares you to outsmart them. She helps you to discover special abilities you possess but are unaware of. She helps you to believe in yourself in times of discouragement. She provides you with resources that will help you get better. In short, she provides you with wings to soar.

Sometime ago, a friend of mine who had little knowledge of a particular business he is considering went to see a coach. As they rounded off their almost two hours discussion, the coach told him, "If you lack experience, don't lack guidance."

No wonder Solomon said: "to win, you need a lot of good counsel."

Go for wings.

I believe in you!

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Eating May Not Be Healthy

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When Eating Becomes Dangerous

Food is an essential commodity. An organism that doesn't eat will surely die. Therefore, God created us to eat - thriving on what others have 'prepared'.

Now, it is not only food that people prepare. The nurses and doctors that delivered you were prepared before you came. In other words, they were 'cooked'. So also were the drugs, vaccines, clothing, the car that moved your mother about, the house in which you were born, the school that you attended and the teachers that taught you...

In reality, you were created an 'eater'.

Now that's fine. But the challenge God has is that many people are just content being that way. They want to keep 'eating' and getting from others, without finding out what they are good at 'cooking' themselves, and going to the 'kitchen' of life to actually prepare their own food, so that others also can feed from them.

God provides seed for the farmer and bread to eat. This means that if the farmer doesn't sow and cultivate his seed, there will be no bread for him and others to eat.

Here is my charge to you: Don't remain and die an eater. Find your unique 'seeds' and cultivate them. Remember, you can stand under the shades of a tree today because someone planted it 20 years ago. You can be proud of that company today because someone started it many years ago.

Sow that talent. Sow that idea. Sow that business.

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Serving the Right Customers Right

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Yesterday's or Tomorrow's Customer?

Back to our discussion on posterity organizations. One common trait in the leadership is Innovation. They ensure they are always abreast of developments in the market. They keep going a step ahead, outdoing themselves to remain on top of their game. They organize themselves to meet the needs of today's customers, while repositioning themselves to meet the needs of tomorrow's customers.

Yesterday's customer (YC) loves to come to your office; tomorrow's customer (TC) prefers you coming to their office. YC are low in choices; TC loves varieties. YC loves certificates; TC prefers capacity. YC are happy being on the move; TC are more satisfied being on the go. YC is ok with 'hards'; TC prefers it being 'soft'. YC is suppressive and submissive;  TC is expressive and exploratory. YC wants to serve; TC wants to be served. YC doesnot mind waiting; TC wants it immediately. YC loves and thrives in community; TC loves independence and individuality.

In recognizing these changing times, Paul Tissot, an ex-director of the Tissot Company (branch of Swatch Group) said: "We need to make serious effort to reorganize, to bring in new ideas more attuned to the new situation."

Posterity organizations are also keen on innovation. You must keep getting better or you prepare to go under. And like Paul M. Romer said, "Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas...Possibilities do not add up. They multiply."

Multiply your possibilities by constant innovation and renovation.

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Surviving across Generations

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"How does a brand survive across the generations?"

This was the curious question that drove me last weekend to devouring a book of over 300 pages in one day. It was a publication of the Swatch Group when they marked their 150th anniversary in 2003.

I am yet to see an African-founded organization that has lasted more than 100 years. We see cycles of prosperity, the founder dies, and in a couple of years, the organization dies, or moribund.

One quality I've found that resonates in the hearts of the directors of these 'posterity' organizations is LOVE- deep-seated love for what they do and the people they serve. Nicolas G. Hayek, President/CEO, has this to say:

"The Swatch Group has a very emotional culture. We produce beauty, sensuality, emotionality in watches - and we also produce high-tech on your wrists. Both emotionality or poetry and high-tech, are part of what we feel towards our customers. We love them genuinely. We want them to be happy - we want YOU to be happy!"

You can't build a posterity organization or lifestyle if all you're concerned about are 'the Benjamins'. You must have genuine love for your work, and especially the people you serve and the people that serve you. This love will drive you to continually seek creative and innovative ways by which you can serve your people better.

If you have love, your people will be loyal to you. And when you're gone, they will preserve the culture you created. And it is this culture that becomes passed down from generation to generation.

Love is the pathway from prosperity to posterity.

Love your work. Love your workers. Love your customers.

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Make the Right Comparison

There is an unfortunate cast system into which we all are born: it is the Shape-Up-Or-Ship-Out system. This system makes us see life as a competition. And this has been buttressed by many theories like the theory of natural selection which says that life favours only the fittest.

Right from pre-school, the pupils with a high 'IQ' are given more attention and preferential treatments at the expense of others. And this makes the 'average' students to naturally dislike the 'good' ones. They wish some evil happens to them so they can become the 'centre of attraction'. This even continues into adulthood as people are seen to just want to be ahead of others. This has got so bad that even a mini power generating set is named I-better-pass-my-neighbor.

Competition has its own benefits, as its the main drive for innovation and civilization. The challenge with it, however, is when it is aimed at other humans. While it may give you a sense of superiority, in reality, it sets you up for mediocrity and frustration.

When you look around you and you seem to be the best, you want to walk tall, with your shoulders raised. You may even tell yourself, "I'm not that bad!" But if you are sincere with yourself, in comparison with your potentials, is this all that you can be? You're married with kids, you have cars, a house, a business or job that provides for your family - thank God for your life. But is that all there is to life?

I challenge you this day to take a careful audit of your abilities, attributes, assignment, and your actions and achievements. Is this all that your life can produce? Is this all there is to you?

Therefore, make the right comparisons. Judge yourself not in comparison with what others have, but in comparison with what you can be, do and have.

You are more than this.

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