Daily Insight – Discipline And Judgement Lead To Fortune or Failure

Daily Insight – Discipline And Judgement Lead To Fortune or Failure

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure is simply a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. It is the cumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgements that leads us to either fortune or failure."-Jim Rohn

Beloved, I want you to know that the difference between successful people and unsuccessful ones is in their disciple and judgement. Every human being can dream and plan but the execution of every plan or dream needs discipline and good judgement. For example, some people will plan to save certain amount of money every month but very few maintain that plan and that is where the difference lies. All the great men and women of our time didn’t have all the money they needed to start their booming business of today. Some started as petty traders and with good judgement and discipline, they rose to the highest level of their business or career.

What John Rohn posited in the above quotation are essence of discipline, good judgement, consistency and commitment. If you want to start a project, you have to maintain financial disciple with good judgement to enable you save enough money for the project. If you can’t save from the 1000 naira you receive monthly, you can’t save when you earn 10,000 Naira per month. Start today to discipline your appetite; your desires, your emotions and your passions. Don’t think there is a special day to start. That is the way to success and fortune. Lack of discipline and good judgement will earn you failure.

Probably you have committed some errors in the past that saw your attempt at starting that dream project crumble. You don’t need to repeat such again. Repeating such error(s) means that you haven’t learnt any lesson yet. Learn from your mistakes and build a perfect future.

-Tabugbo Uzoma

Daily Insight - Take Action And Be A Leader

Daily Insight - Take Action And Be A Leader 
"A leader is someone who is ahead of the pack. Even if it is only by one inch. They are doing, or have done, what they want or expect others to do. They are not watchers nor do they wait around. They take action...proper action....a lot of proper action! And they never give up!" -Jack M. Zufelt
Good day friends! It is a great pleasure sharing this with you. Our world needs leaders. Our world is in dire need of men and women who will take responsibilities and make a difference. Leadership is not a title but taking responsibility to make a difference and leaving impressions on the hearts of people. No wonder Robin Sharma wrote a book titled A LEADER WHO HAD NO TITLE. That book is worth reading.
What Jack M. Zulfet posited in the quotation above is that a leader takes action and has something to offer people. If you want to be a leader, you must be proactive and innovative. Offer people something different from what they have or have seen. You must be ahead of the people and not the people dictating for you what to do. Again, be an example for others. You have to be the light for others to see and the flavour that will add meaning to people's life. You should lead by taking responsibilities and actions. Don't be a watcher and don't wait around. Take the lead, offer solutions to problems and that will single you out as a true leader that the world will celebrate.
-Tabugbo Uzoma

Daily Insight - Live Out Your Dream And Stop Pleasing Everybody

Daily Insight - Live Your Dream And Stop Pleasing Everybody

Welcome to another week of great opportunities to make progress and make amends of last week's mistakes. You might have spent too many days and years trying to please other people and be what they wanted you to be. No more! There is a big difference between pleasing and serving. Service has a higher purpose. Pleasing is being in bondage & control of others. Live your dreams, not of others.
As you begin this week, be determined to live out your dream. Be determined not to please people who want you to live out their schedules and not yours. You must have your own schedule written so that it will guide you. I want you to understand that not pleasing people here shouldn't undermine your responsibility as a public or civil servant; your responsibility as an apprentice or as worker under a boss. You have your schedule of work as a public/civil servant, an apprentice or a staff of your establishment which you should work out but I am talking in terms of personal life and relationships with others. You have to make your personal life and beliefs count or else you will never live out your dream.
Think about this as you start a new working week. In your business, your workshop, your neighbourhood and other places you will be this week, you can never please all the people. Some will misunderstand you and oppose you. Nevermind their misconceptions about your beliefs. Do your best and you will be satisfied at the end of the day. Your satisfaction matters and not the joy of the world.
Tabugbo Uzoma
©2018

Daily Insight - You Are Unique

Daily Insight - You Are Unique
"No two human beings are the same. Everyone of 7.6 billion people living on earth today look and act different because nature doesn’t make copies. Each of us arrives as an original, totally unique. It’s up to us to figure out our uniqueness. Are you aware of what makes you unique?" - Billionaires Secrets

Greetings my friends and fans. I have come with a good news today to inform you that you are unique which should make you proud. When you find out your uniqueness and fan it, you will become a legend and an icon. Your uniqueness is what God expect you to use so as to become great in life. Lack of understanding of what is our uniqueness and poor use of it is the reason so many people have continued to live as mediocre and under-archievers.
Again, many people have left their uniqueness and have been admiring other people's uniqueness. That is the reason you see an artisan living well while a university graduate is wallowing in abject poverty. The greatest mistake we can make and the greatest undoing to ourselves, and God is to think that your uniqueness is irrelevant to your generation. Be you an artist, marketer, petty trader, footballer, teacher, priest, civil servant, engineer, nurse, etc, you can make name with it.
If you have not discovered what you uniqueness is, try as much as you can to find out. I can help you to do so if you don't know or you are still in doubt if you contact me. As you find out what makes you unique, and begin to develop and use it, you will definitely become a sought after in your neighbourhood. If it is to fry bean cake, be a mechanic, become a medical doctor or whatever may be your uniqueness, do it with zest and passion. Be proactive and innovative in it so that you will end up becoming a legend.

Tabugbo
© 2018

Make Right Choices To Shape Your Circumstances

Daily Insight - Make Right Choices To Shape Your Circumstances

"A person cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances." - As A Man Thinketh

In her outstanding book, Choose the Happiness Habit, Pam Golden writes about "the story of two brothers who are twins. One grows up to be an alcoholic bum. The other becomes an extremely successful businessman. When the alcoholic is asked why he became a drunk, he replies, "My father was a drunk." When the successful businessman is asked why he became successful, he says, "My father was a drunk." Same background. Same upbringing. Very different choices."

The brothers chose different thoughts about the identical experience. Those thoughts over the years shaped the circumstances they now find themselves in.

There was a time in my life when I chose to think about challenges and obstacles as just more of the "bad luck" I seemed to attract. Ever hear the expression "when it rains, it pours?" That was my constant mantra when others asked me how things were going. So what do you think I got more of? If you answered "RAIN," you’re correct!

Bob Proctor says "you’re either living in the problem or you’re living in the solution." Now, when I’m confronted with what I used to think was a negative situation, I use a different thought process. I force myself to replace those negative thoughts that creep in with positive thoughts about how I might solve the "problem." Sometimes I’ll take a notepad and just start jotting down ideas that might be a solution. At the same time, my thoughts are focused on the possible lessons I might learn from the situation so that I might profit from the experience in the future.

If you’ve guessed that it doesn’t "rain" as much in my life as it used to, you’re correct again. In fact, most days it’s a beautiful, cloudless and sunny day! Only occasionally now do I get any rain, and it’s good rain, the kind that makes living things grow.

Have a great day.

Tabugbo Uzoma

Daily Insight - Consistency: Key to Legendary Status

Daily Insight - Consistency: Key to Legendary Status

It is a well known saying that Rome wasn't built in a day... but those who built Rome were laying bricks every hour. Of course we know that there is nothing impressive about laying a brick. Nobody is going to applaud you for laying only a brick. But laying a brick every hour, every day, year after year - that's how you build an empire.
Beloved, does the above statement make any sense to you? The message in that paragraph is about consistency which is vital in achieving your goals in life. Don't think that the likes of Dangote, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc suddenly became billionaires. Dangote was once a sales boy under his uncle. He started his own business with borrowed money and his consistency paid off.
The message I have for you today is that you should be consistent and continue to lay the bricks of your business empire every hour; every day, every week, every month and year after year. What you are doing today may not impress people and certainly it will not. People may even call you names for laying one brick alone today. They will criticize and ridicule your efforts. They will misunderstand your goals and actions. Do not mind their criticism. Just be focused and with time they will come to congratulate you. With time you will make a name for yourself, become a brand name in many homes and a legend in your chosen career.
I wish you a great and fruitful day as you lay the bricks of today, building your Rome.

Tabugbo Uzoma
©2018

Daily Insight - Who Will Cry When You Die?

Daily Insight - Who Will Cry When You Die?
"When you where born, you cried while the whole world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice." - Ancient Sanskrit Saying

The above quotation changed my life; my world, my perception and my thinking about life. It brought about the transformation of my life and have placed me on a higher ground. If there is anything you can do to change your world, I suggest that you read books.
I first read about the above quotation in Robin Sharma's book, WHO WILL CRY WHEN YOU DIE. We must understand that we have a compelling duty to live our lives for the good of other people. At birth, we cried while people around were rejoicing and celebrating our arrival. Beloved, have you ever asked why do babies cry at birth? That is a discussion for another day.
When someone dies, two sets of people cry. They are the immediate family members and those that benefitted from the person's kindness. Kindness towards people should be the rent we pay for the mercies of God that we enjoy here on earth. In the scriptures, people cried when Dorcas died. Likewise so many great men and women that lived on this earth. People cried when they died.
When you die, who will cry? Is it only your immediate family? When you live for yourself or selfishly, your family alone will cry for you when you die but when you live selfless life and for the good of other people, the world will cry when you die. Therefore, begin to live well. Wipe away tears in people's eyes through your acts of charity and kindness. Show mercy to people. Empathize with the hurt, care for the needy, protect the widows, fight for the rights of the oppressed and ensure that you have a way of assisting the less privileged people around you. 
By doing so, you would have succeeded in not only immortalizing your name in the hearts of people but also securing for yourself peaceful exit from this earth which will make people (those who benefitted from your good deeds and those who heard your story) cry when you die. Think about this and begin in earnest to affect lives around you. 

Daily Insight – Always Be The Best You Can

Daily Insight – Always Be The Best You Can

“Don’t live in your past or else you will regret when you get to your future. Always be the best you can and you will be at the top at all times” – My Rise To Legendary Status

Don’t live in your past is a popular admonition. Many people have heard about this admonition. However, my concern is the preceding sentence from where I picked my topic of this daily insight. Living in the past denies us the opportunity of harnessing and maximizing the good opportunities in our today and in our future. It makes us lose focus and thus we are bereft of ideas on how best we can live a fulfilling life from the mistakes and lessons of the past.

Being the best we can demands self-disciplined and well planned life. It demands that we should forget about what we were yesterday; our achievements, our success stories, our setbacks, our failure and strive to gain new grounds. In being the best we can, we must be focused with daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and long term goals of what we intend to achieve in this life and in our endeavours. We should read the biographies of people who have risen to the top to gain insight on how they did it. We should constantly get the mentoring from them if we can get access to them. This will help to keep us on our toes and make us forget about our past. It will help us to aim higher and higher on daily basis. In your work today and always, aim to be the best you can and certainly it will take you to the top.

I wish you the best!

Tabugbo

Daily Insight – Shift From Ordinary To Extraordinary

Daily Insight – Shift From Ordinary To Extraordinary
Make your life matter in this generation. Be of use to yourself and humanity. Serve as many people as you can possibly serve. This is how each of us can shift from the ordinary into the extraordinary and walk amongst the best who ever lived.
The above is what can make you extraordinary in this your generation. Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther king, Florence Nightingale, Samuel Ajayi Crowther and so many other people that have lived and are still living did it. Our world lack Leaders who have diaconate spirit. Most people in leadership positions today are so selfish and self-centred that all that matters to them is what they can acquire for themselves and their posterity. They are not after the welfare of people they serve. For this reason, some of them want to remain in power for life.
Service to humanity is what distinguishes us as extraordinary. It makes us so humane and gives us a sense that what we are and what we have are gifts.
Beloved friend, as we begin another week, I want you to understand that your talents and gifts are inconsequential if they are not used for the good of humanity. Again, God expects you to account for it because it was given to you for a purpose.
God doesn’t make mistakes. He has placed you where you are today because there is someone there that should benefit from your gifts and talents. Look around and see the people in your neighbourhood; your office, the place you do your business and people that come to you. There is someone God wants you to serve with your gifts and talents. There are people around you in dire need of your gifts and talents. Serve them! Make your life count where people are. Serve them with your gifts; your money, your car, your talents and your wisdom. People want to come to you. Don’t scare them away. Rather, serve them and you would have succeeded in making your life count in your generation.

Tabugbo @ Asaba
©2018

Daily Insight: Welcome To The Month Of August 2018

Daily Insight - Welcome to the month of August 2018

“Great ideas means nothing without world-class willpower to get the big ideas done” – Robin Sharma.

If it is by ideas and thought alone, many of us today will be competing with Bill Gates, Amancio Ortega, Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim Helu, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Michael Bloomberg, Dangote, etc. These men and many others had ideas and also a corresponding world-class willpowser to get these ideas done.
Dreams and thought are free. You don't pay a dream or think of how to ride Lamborghini or build your castle in the moon. Many of us since this year have been thinking and dreaming how they will start a business; how they will save to build a house, buy a car or marry. Many of us have developed good masterplan for the business they have in mind.
If I may ask, how many of us who failed to accomplish our thoughts and dreams have actually asked why did I find it difficult to work out my dream. The answer is what Robin Sharma said in that quotation above.
Beloved, you need willpower to get your ideas work for you, not just willpower but world-class willpower. Don't allow that idea to die natural death. Start the action(s) needed to make it really happen. Remember that if your ideas doesn't frighten you initially, it will not meet world standard. Dream big dreams and start from somewhere. Until you begin to take one or more actions, you will never get that idea to become a reality which will make you a legend in your generation. Be determined and take action today. I hope you will catch up with me at the top.
God bless you and your new month. Welcome to the month of August, 2018

Your friend and fan,
Tabugbo
©2018