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