I always think that if all you have is a head, you can make a head way in whatever you do. May be you didn’t get that so I will say it in another way. All you need to be the head in whatever you do is your head. If you still don’t get it then I will let you know what I used to do. When people asked me where my office was at the time I had just started public speaking I would think and say to myself that for now my head is my head office and my cell phone is my branch office. Come to think of it. Don’t you have a head office if you have a head!

A lot of people wake up in the morning and they say that they need money and they need connections to be able to get things done. They keep looking for the Mr. Right who will be their God-sent saviour in the establishing of the dreams they have always had. They sometimes think about what they are trying to do and they end up thinking about the people who seem to be more privileged than they are. Sometimes they have imagined that God is so partial to have put some people in rich homes and some others in poor homes but it remains and imagination they cannot voice out. If you have been thinking that God is partial because some were born in rich homes and you were not then let me ask you if God was partial by giving everyone just one head?

This is the way I have come to think about this issue. When a professional table tennis player was to play when we were in high school, he would tell the amateur he is playing with that they were going as far as 21 and he wants to assume that the amateur is having 10 to hi credit in the game. Why would the professional player give away 10 points before the commencement of the game? He knows his ability and he knows that he will catch up with the points given away. In a number of cases he also knows that he will still win. This is what I mean. If someone was born in a richer home than I was born in, since God chose my parents and he knew the resources they had before sending me to them, then I presume that God knows I have the ability to make up for the difference in my family’s wealth and the other family’s wealth. It simply means that in some cases I can survive in a more severe condition than that other child who was born in a richer home because I could not God would have sent me to a better place where they have all I need to survive until I can use my head.

People always forget or simply do not know that the most important capital that anyone needs is a head and thank God everyone has a head. The only reason I believe you cannot make a head way in life is if you do not have a head. If you have a head you can move ahead against all odds to be the head. If you have a head and you have no money, use your head to think about what other people can pay for. You will not forge ahead if you use your head to think about what you do not have. That is a different programming of your head. Your head was designed and built to help provide what you need at every cross road you get to. There is nothing you need that your head cannot provide. If you will make your head realize you are not joking, your head will swing into action and definitely put you ahead.

If you have a head you can be the head. If you have a head you can go ahead. If you have a head you have the needed edge.

www.foladaniel .wordpress.com,            tok2daniel@yahoo.com

+234 805 247 2448,   +234 703 790 7851

If life is beautiful
Guess what made it beautiful!
If life is ugly
Guess what made it ugly!
If life is boring
Guess what made it boring!
If life is a challenge
Guess what made it a challenge!
If life is awful
Guess what made it awful!
It’s your action and inaction

I was told to write on dare to dream but I beg to write on dare to achieve because I am really tired of several dreamers who roam the streets with the fantasies of their dreams without any action I place. We have millions of dreamers but we can barely count people who are achievers so the real question I should ask you is about what you are doing with those dreams that you keep talking about.

Let me say a few things using very simple words.
1.) Do you know what to do with yourself?
2.) If you do not know what to do with yourself how can you be relevant to the society?
3.) Do you know what you are good at?
4.) If you do not know what you are good at what will you be paid for?
5.) Those who do not know what they are good at end up in the closets of those who know what to do with them and pay for their time.
6.) What do you want to be remembered for when you are dead?

If you can answer all these questions successfully then I can say that you are on your way to getting things done but here are some of the things that can help you dare to achieve:

1.) To achieve you must keep a vision in focus.
2.) Keep researching about your vision.
3.) Continually expand your capacity – through training – for the vision.
4.) When you achieve what you have in focus, expand the vision.
5.) What matters about your dream is not about who does not believe it.
6.) God needs only your faith, not your friend’s faith, to help you achieve.
7.) Achievers are not found everywhere because they are preparing to succeed.
8.) Never let your passion run dry.
9.) Surround yourself with people who carry high frequency passion
10.) Don’t always stay with people who have nothing to teach you.
11.) Get “legitimately desperate” about touching a life.
12.) Celebrate yourself rather than get intimidated by what people say.
13.) Never respond to everything you hear – it is your proof of maturity.
14.) Achievers don’t have time to fight, they have important things to do.
15.) To achieve the right thing, keep talking to the master planner, God.
16.) Be flexible enough to admit that you may be wrong and adjust.
17.) Keep talking about your vision engaging the power of words.
18.) Find out the best way to start small and grow consistently.
19.) Don’t EVER get cocky (Pride repels the people you need, it destroys)
20.) Be grateful for every level to access the next level.

I deliberately listed so that you can cut and paste where you will see this daily. It will work if you work it!

Fola Daniel Adelesi
www.foladaniel.wordpress.com
tok2daniel@yahoo.com
0805 247 2448 0703 790 7851

Ethics & Professionalism: Prospective opportunities

Nigeria toady unlike most of the so called developed countries that it admires so much still has a lot of growing opportunities that can be tapped into but it has begun looking up to other people are wants to replicate feats that were done in hundreds of years overnight. It is not even wrong to look at those who have gone ahead and to learn from them but like Sam Adeyemi would say, “We are not saying you should not copy but make sure you copy right.”

Our Banking, Broadcasting, Print Journalism, Departmental Stores, Event Management, Publishing, Information & Data Management, Agricultural Development, Community Development, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, Tourism, Cultural Development and most importantly, Human Capacity Build plus so many other area of the country are of immense benefits for this country and any other developing nation of the world but the problem we have had so far is that everyone wants to head in one direction. In 2005 during Edible Pen’s “The Relevant People’s Conference held at Realm of The Word Assembly, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria, one of my guest speakers, Damola Adewole said, “everybody wants to move in the direction of what they say is reigning. If it is sachet water today, everybody goes in that direction. If it is oil today everybody goes in that direction. There is no creativity and ingenuity.” These are the problems that we have:

Expectation of constant change
Nigeria and every other developing nation need to know that the only thing that keeps the world moving is an expectation of constant change. The world wants to see what is knew so they developed nations keep searching but the underdeveloped keep celebrating the things they have discovered some decades ago and worse still, centuries ago.

Routine stereotype
Professionalism can be attained and prospective opportunities would only be maximized when we begin to do things in several unique ways rather than saying, “so it was in the beginning, so it is now, and so shall it continue to be, world without end.” Nothing kills progress faster refusal to try new things because of the things we have been used to. The way to discover new things is not to sit in the old places. You do not discover how to float by testing the water before stepping out.

Greed
The work place ethics of so many people in a lot of places today is the greed orientation so they only keep thinking about themselves. I read Robert Kiyosaki’s book (Retire young, Retire Rich) and one thing that I find interesting, though it is already known to very many of us, is the proposition that the only way to be rich is to keep serving people. The hit point was that what the rich people do is to create a product or do something and they continually think about how to make it available to several people. It is just one thing that has been done but they keep reproducing for several people at cheaper rates and they still keep making money so long as they are serving people. the poor do not understand this so they always want to keep to themselves what they have or know rather than trading it for the benefit of other people.

Immaturity
Following the greed discussed it is obvious that to an extent it is immaturity that will not allow us take maximum advantage of prospective opportunities in a world of limitless opportunities. Immaturity in this context has got nothing to do with age or with the number of years someone has spent trying to do something. It only has to do with the capacity of the person’s mind. When people’s minds are underdeveloped we should not expect too much from them because everyone is obviously limited by the capacity of his or her mind.

Short sightedness
It is in a way linked to immaturity but it is far beyond immaturity. We have simply refused to see the bigger picture in all that we are doing and that is why we are not getting any where. A lot o people are living an improvised life. Things happen to us before we begin to think about what to do rather than think about what t do before things begin to happen and that is why we cannot even talk about ethics in some cases because you only talk about ethics where you already have a set task and systems created in which they must be done.

Now that we have seen the vital things that are affecting us, let us make the necessary adjustments. Let us begin to see the bigger pictures. We need not guard the things that should be beneficial to everyone in the society. Don’t do things because that is what everyone is doing. Find your objectives for the things you intend to do before you begin to do them. Let us develop our minds. I have said in some other articles that there is no nation that has developed without first of all seeing the development in the mind but it is only a developed mind that can see an external development. We need to work on our interactive skills and let positive minds engage our minds for a great cause that will be to the advantage of our nation.

God bless Nigeria!

Fola Daniel Adelesi
+234 805 247 2448
+234 703 790 7851
ediblepen@yahoo.com

Ethics & Professionalism: Prospective opportunities

Nigeria toady unlike most of the so called developed countries that it admires so much still has a lot of growing opportunities that can be tapped into but it has begun looking up to other people are wants to replicate feats that were done in hundreds of years overnight. It is not even wrong to look at those who have gone ahead and to learn from them but like Sam Adeyemi would say, “We are not saying you should not copy but make sure you copy right.”

Our Banking, Broadcasting, Print Journalism, Departmental Stores, Event Management, Publishing, Information & Data Management, Agricultural Development, Community Development, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, Tourism, Cultural Development and most importantly, Human Capacity Build plus so many other area of the country are of immense benefits for this country and any other developing nation of the world but the problem we have had so far is that everyone wants to head in one direction. In 2005 during Edible Pen’s “The Relevant People’s Conference held at Realm of The Word Assembly, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria, one of my guest speakers, Damola Adewole said, “everybody wants to move in the direction of what they say is reigning. If it is sachet water today, everybody goes in that direction. If it is oil today everybody goes in that direction. There is no creativity and ingenuity.” These are the problems that we have:

Expectation of constant change
Nigeria and every other developing nation need to know that the only thing that keeps the world moving is an expectation of constant change. The world wants to see what is knew so they developed nations keep searching but the underdeveloped keep celebrating the things they have discovered some decades ago and worse still, centuries ago.

Routine stereotype
Professionalism can be attained and prospective opportunities would only be maximized when we begin to do things in several unique ways rather than saying, “so it was in the beginning, so it is now, and so shall it continue to be, world without end.” Nothing kills progress faster refusal to try new things because of the things we have been used to. The way to discover new things is not to sit in the old places. You do not discover how to float by testing the water before stepping out.

Greed
The work place ethics of so many people in a lot of places today is the greed orientation so they only keep thinking about themselves. I read Robert Kiyosaki’s book (Retire young, Retire Rich) and one thing that I find interesting, though it is already known to very many of us, is the proposition that the only way to be rich is to keep serving people. The hit point was that what the rich people do is to create a product or do something and they continually think about how to make it available to several people. It is just one thing that has been done but they keep reproducing for several people at cheaper rates and they still keep making money so long as they are serving people. the poor do not understand this so they always want to keep to themselves what they have or know rather than trading it for the benefit of other people.

Immaturity
Following the greed discussed it is obvious that to an extent it is immaturity that will not allow us take maximum advantage of prospective opportunities in a world of limitless opportunities. Immaturity in this context has got nothing to do with age or with the number of years someone has spent trying to do something. It only has to do with the capacity of the person’s mind. When people’s minds are underdeveloped we should not expect too much from them because everyone is obviously limited by the capacity of his or her mind.

Short sightedness
It is in a way linked to immaturity but it is far beyond immaturity. We have simply refused to see the bigger picture in all that we are doing and that is why we are not getting any where. A lot o people are living an improvised life. Things happen to us before we begin to think about what to do rather than think about what t do before things begin to happen and that is why we cannot even talk about ethics in some cases because you only talk about ethics where you already have a set task and systems created in which they must be done.

Now that we have seen the vital things that are affecting us, let us make the necessary adjustments. Let us begin to see the bigger pictures. We need not guard the things that should be beneficial to everyone in the society. Don’t do things because that is what everyone is doing. Find your objectives for the things you intend to do before you begin to do them. Let us develop our minds. I have said in some other articles that there is no nation that has developed without first of all seeing the development in the mind but it is only a developed mind that can see an external development. We need to work on our interactive skills and let positive minds engage our minds for a great cause that will be to the advantage of our nation.

God bless Nigeria!

Fola Daniel Adelesi
+234 805 247 2448
+234 703 790 7851
ediblepen@yahoo.com

The Revolution in our Education

After four long years (with the intermittent interruptions of almighty ASUU) within the university walls, I wrote my final papers and went back to my home base in the country. As you can trust by now, my restless self will not just sit in one place until I lay my hands on something tangible to do so I kept going to a couple of organizations to present some proposals and at the same time trying to get an insider information from those organizations regarding recruitment as a new staff.

I primarily flaunted my projects, though they are my priority, so a number of the people, even and especially the big wigs, were in love with the laudable projects as they often say after my 5 minute persuasive speech tingling in the hears of the listeners because of the power of oratory in the evident in the slightly deep baritone voice and with nearly all words carefully pronounced. Did I just blow my trumpet? Oh! Please if I don’t it will rust because my lineage is not really the music freak kind. After playing intelligently around some of the organizations I found out that there was an auditioning to be conducted in one of the organizations just two days before the d-day.

I scaled through the first stage and was called upon to go for the next stage almost immediately. By the way, the person who did the interview at the first level said, “you guys are good for you to have qualified for this stage.” There were just five of us in the second stage and I was the only guy among four other ladies. When we finished I found out that one of the ladies had the working experience for the new job she came to be tested for. The three others already had a professional training from a designated school. I was the only one who was fresh from school yet I was on the same platform with the specially trained and experienced

Immediately after the interview my mind went back to the kind of stuffs they taught me in school. Instantly I asked, “did they teach me this in school?” No the lecturers did not but I had worked on myself. At that point I understood what some people meant when they said that the university systems were churning out unemployable graduates. Though I still stand on the fact that this is not absolutely true but I have come to see some vital issues.

Why did the university teach me so much of what nobody in the market place will ask from me? Why are people complaining about the quality of graduates when they have deliberately closed their eyes on the quality of some lecturers? I have seen the depth of decadence from no other place than the institution that is expected to teach decorum and instill values. What do you expect from a system that operates by “you rob my back I rob your back?” (sexual demands from lecturers for good grades, sexual demand from students to students to impersonate during examination, students paid to impersonate, students paying others to write their final year long essays, lecturers showing up for classes two, three, four hours behind schedule and taking attendance in favour of the jobless students that waited for them, lecturers showing up in classes only three weeks to examination for the first time in the semester.)

All these and many more abound in our university system. I am not surprised because the lecturer is a product of the system and the students are the products of the lecturers. As much as it is important to note that not all lecturers are like this, we still would say that what the university has to offer through students can only compete favourably with the quality of lecturers in there. We all know the problems so what’s the way out?

Our first step to achieving the desired educational system is not to keep throwing out one minister for education or one vice-chancellor or principal but to check-mate mediocrity. Let’s throw them out if they need to be thrown out but like I said in the series I called “from personality to principles,” we need to begin a check on how things are done more importantly than who does those things.

I think we should not waste the lives of students teaching them what they do not need because the real educational system helps a child to discover his or her strength and focuses on that for the rest of the educational process.

Let’s have more technical colleges to churn out students that are practically relevant to the needs of the society because the society wants to pay for service and products, not raw information.

Our syllabuses should expand to accommodate sound leadership training because a lot of people have poor leadership mid set and still think that leadership is position. They also demand respect from those whose positions are supposedly inferior to theirs and they easily forget that old age is not automatic leadership.

There must be a power check – too many people are power drunk in the system and their greed increases when they realize that their tenures would expire and someone else has to come in. At this time they struggle to build loyalty so that they can still topple the administration of the incumbent.

When we check greed and avarice the lecturers have better lots so they do not need to transfer aggression to innocent students who usually become defensive in the process.

Our examination system is not going to help the kind of graduates we project for 2025 so we must adjust it to be more practical. The population is not an excuse not to prepare results or teach effectively. We have an idea of how many students are supposed to run practical classes then start in good time so as to finish at the expected time.

There is little or no test for the communication skills of our students and the truth is that effective communication is the weapon to fight against stagnation at some points in your life. If people know they can rise faster in life through communication, they will place a priority on communicating effectively.

Our educational system still ignorantly prides itself in the patronage of prospective students instead of the quality of students we produce. Once again, I am greatly looking forward to 2025 and we must put in all for such a time as this.

Fola Daniel Adelesi  tok2daniel@yahoo.com   +234 703 790 7851   +234 805 247 2448

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