Take a leap: Use what you have

Taking a leap is important to achieving success and helping you become a winner, we all need to take a leap from where we are now so that we can advance forward. This edition of taking a leap is focused on making use of what you have to achieve success, especially in the area of business and job creation.

Below are ten tips on what you should do in other to take a leap.

1. Everyone has a resource that they can use. If you don’t have a job, or you don’t have cash and you’re wondering what resource you have got. You have TIME resource.

2.    While waiting don’t give up on yourself, maximize your time and learn something, be creative and be unique

3.     Don’t lose heart while waiting, perfect what you have been doing, until you become perfected in it.

4.  Every business, every idea has a takeoff point, don’t miss your takeoff point. Understand your resource ‘Time’.

5.  Your take off point doesn’t mean that you have all that you need, rather it means the point when your prepared to test the waters with all that you have learnt over time.

6.   Irrespective of the immediate result on the outside whether good or bad have a continual heart of thanksgiving.

7.     With an attitude of thanksgiving and persistence on the path to success you would surely become a success in what you do.

8.   Your profiting would appear unto all shortly, understand that the trial of your faith worketh patience. Be patient, don’t be in haste.

9.     Opportunities would be open unto you in different areas, make wise choices. Lessons from the previous steps would be key here.

10.   The attitude of a winner is that of continual thanksgiving, follow this path and your success would increase in leaps.

Finally, read through the ten steps again, and I believe that by God’s grace and through prayers, success would continually be yours.
Join me in the next edition which is titled “takeoff point”. Until then do well to leave a comment here or contact me on meetomotayo@gmail.com

THE 80:20 RULE

I wrote this post on the 27th of July 2009 and looking back now, I can boldly say that if you follow the advice of this post you would increase productivity in whatever you choose to do. It has worked for me and I hope it does for you too.

The 80:20 rule is a basic Time management rule. The ability to manage time would lead to high productivity; no wonder the equation below is very relevant in the business world and in the World at large. It’s a basic equation that helps you as an individual it is tested and trusted.

TIME MANAGEMENT SKILL = HIGH PRODUCTIVITY

As individuals we have a considerable number of events, people and situations that are competing for our time, the ability to manage our time and priorities well would in-turn increase our productivity. High productivity can be achieved by setting out goals and managing time to achieve goals, giving you a time bound. Every individual in the world has a universal time, we all have 24 hours there is nobody in the world that has an extra 1 second added to his/her 24 hours, however the difference between lots of this people is not the inability to set out goals rather it’s the inability to set time bounds, some people set time bound but never take actions to meet with the stipulated time. Every successful person that have come to know over a period of time achieved success because they set out goals, took action to achieve their goals but more than that, they learnt to manage their time judiciously.

Having said all of this I believe that it is very important for me to establish the 80:20 RULE which states:

• 80% of unfocused effort produces 20% results
• 20% of focused effort produces 80% results

A lot of young entrepreneurs, students and adults alike love doing things, partaking in activities; they do not concentrate their effort on achieving goals.

Lessons to learn from the 80:20 Rule

• Unfocused effort is definitely bound to lead to under productivity, doing less than what you can normally do if you focus your energy into doing.
• Longer time to achieve your goals
• Plan each day carefully, and set out time for your task, don’t just spend or while away time, invest your time.
• Activity supported with “time-tied” deliveries, will ultimately lead to productivity.
• Focus your efforts at achieving your goals, if 20 % of focused effort can yield 80% result, it therefore means that if you can increase your focus you can increase productivity
• Concentrate on more speed less work. If you channel your time well you would achieve a lot in little time, a lot of us concentrate on more work less speed at the end the result we get cannot measure with our works

           Thank you for reading this , i hope you would channel your time properly, “time is of the essence”.