Why People Are Confused About Purpose

The main reason most discourses on purpose usually leave people confused and unable to identify their purpose is because most teachers of the topic only premise their teachings on logical reasoning and principles.

They postulate passion as the best way to identify one’s purpose and fail to trace the origin of the various purposes of humankind to Jesus Christ, the consummate man, who had lived them all.

When You're Feeling Overwhelmed

If you are always feeling overwhelmed, your energy level may be low. You also might have saddled yourself with too much tasks than safety level.

The Difference between Success and Failure

It’s not goal setting in itself that makes the difference between success and failure.
True, there is some form of rigour involved in identifying what goals to set based on self-knowledge and future aspirations. But, the real decider is the DISCIPLINE to transmit those goals into action bits and the MENTAL FOCUS to stick to it in the face of several legitimate distractions and all forms of pressures to chill.
There lies the difference between the successful and those that merely came.

Native vs Emotional Intelligence

Native Intelligence (brilliance) can make you shine and earn you applause for brilliant displays. But Emotional Intelligence (a blend of disciplined and intuitive knowing) will make you excel in a solid, non-dramatic manner. Native Intelligence flashes and craves for audience: emotional intelligence glows and gives its best, seen or unseen. And where native intelligence falters, emotional intelligence stands.

Dig Deeper

Dig deeper; no one finds treasure on the surface. It takes several hours of concentrated drilling to hit precious stones and valuable resources, the same way you need to pour yourself deep into the mine of your choice to strike gold.

Office Gossip is a Terrible Thing

Office gossips made a terrible choice of calling in their respective organizations. They do not just draw themselves back; they also change the course of progression of their ardent listeners.

Beware of People with Little Regard for Your Employ

Whoever knows you work and draw your pay somewhere, with all the obligations attached to being part of an organisational workforce, and still approaches you to do professional services for them has little regard for your employ and will make greater demands in the future that will tell.

The Best Tutors of Moneymaking

Moneymaking cannot be taught in school because most of the tutors will either be unqualified to teach it or may be teaching what they do not live. Experience, they say, is the best teacher. No other phenomenon captures that truism better than wealth accumulation. The qualified tutors are about 2% of 7+billion people. If you remove those that stole the money they have from that percentage, the number of the eligible is further reduced. And one thing that is common to this elite clique is how they manage time. They prioritise more important things such that they have little time for other things, least of which is teaching arduous principles of wealth to a bunch of pupils who are looking for quick fixes.

Excellence Is a Product of Self-Awareness

Excellence is a product of self-awareness; it doesn't just happen. And it takes a studied coordination of the brain, the mind and the limbs in tandem to achieve self-awareness. Not an easy thing to do, and that is why excellence is not common.

-- Babatunde Oladele

How to Make Your Dream Work

It takes more than talent, skill and passion to make a dream come true. If those were enough, everyone possessing them would have been high flyers. But talented failures, frustrated experts and passionate poor abound all over the place. You must work to make your dream work.

 

Why Dreams Fail

One of the reasons dreams, businesses and projects fail is because the initiators plan so big, expect so much and get very little response. Many never recover from the resulting disappointment.

 

Vision and Possibilities

Vision is an indicator of the possibilities that are attainable. It is the difference between those that approach everyday life with energy and gusto as against those who go at it with trepidation and uncertainty. Vision separates the high-fliers from the also-rans.

Are You Operating Plan B or A?

To begin a new chapter, you must end an old chapter ... 9 times out of 10, failure is resorting to Plan B when Plan A gets too risky, too costly, or too difficult. That’s why most people are living their Plan B. They haven’t burned their bridges to the past.

- Word for Today

Easy to Idealise

It is easy to idealise about things that should be done or put in place when we are not the ones paying the bills. But when put in direct charge of coming up with the resources to procure those things, ideas stop flowing.

Go for Wealth, Not Money

Go for wealth, not just making money. You can be making money and not be wealthy, but you cannot be wealthy and not have money.

Finding Fulfilment

Fulfilment is found only in fitting into the slot where you belong. Although it may not be financially rewarding at the initial stage, the financial gains would certainly come the more you grow and develop in that niche.

You only need to be patient. You need to look at the big picture. Most people, especially the youth, consider the immediate picture and jump ships so frequently. Thus, they subject themselves to a life of frustration and unsettlement. You can only find peace and fulfilment by filling your own hole (in your career, business, marriage, ministry and so on) or answering your own calling.

God's Resources Are in the Possession of His Children

When God needs to do anything, the resources to complete it are usually in the possession of His children. It's just for them to release it in faith and trust His replenishing abilities. And He doesn’t owe anyone.

To Stand Out, Focus on the Big Picture

To stand out at work, do not get stuck in the rut of merely doing things or the usual rounds. Focus on the big picture and work with that consciousness in mind.

How to Avoid Giving Terrible Advice

When you advise someone with your own gain in mind, you will most likely give them terrible advice. The best advisers are those who offer counsel beneficial mainly, if not only, to their advisee.

-- Babatunde Oladele

The Significant Others

Most human failures are catalysed by the failings of the significant others. If you observe that someone is drifting away from the ideal, then it is time to intensify your compassion rather than resort to criticism. People struggling need friendship, not alienation; they need engagement, not isolation.

-Babatunde Oladele