I am grateful for the different textures life offers us.
There is always a smooth and a rough edge to every surface, these all form a major part of the surface on which we have chosen to move.
Movement is never carried out without hitting the surface running except you are flying, even at that, air movement is done within the air surface medium and it is still a body within a medium of air.
Texture and the appreciation of texture becomes real on the occasion of touch or contact, just like in the case of movement.
Looking on to a deeper outlook of life, relationship with people and just as the matters of the heart has the smooth and rough sides of it.
A good part of texture is that rather than it bringing about friction which opposes motion, if it is well applied it channelled will provide stability.
On another plane, the texture of a unique work of art or beautiful painting helps us appreciate its quality and uniqueness.
Today I have chosen to be thankful and grateful for texture across all surface or media.
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It's a great day!I am pleased to share in the lesson series, some Wisdom keys by Dr. Mike Murdock, he is one of my wonderful mentors.
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365 WISDOM KEYS FROM MIKE MURDOCK
1. Every problem is always a wisdom problem.
2. When your heart decides the destination, your mind will design the map to reach it.
3. What you respect, you will attract.
4. The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
5. Your rewards in life are determined by the kinds of problems you are willing to solve for others.
6. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you. Eph 6:8 NKJ
7. An uncommon seed always creates and uncommon harvest.
8. The word of God is the wisdom of God.
9. The clearer your goals, the greater your faith.
10. Your focus decides your feelings.
11. Your self-portrait determines your self-conduct.
12. Your respect for time is a prediction of your financial future.
13. Your decisions decide your wealth.
14. The instruction you follow determines the future you create.
15. God’s only pain is to be doubted; God’s only pleasure is to be believed.
16. Your goals choose your mentors.
17. Your success is decided by what you are willing to ignore.
18. The atmosphere you create determines the product you produce.
19. The size of your enemy determines the size of your rewards.
20. Your assignment is always the problem God has designed you to solve for others.
21. What you are willing to walk away from determines what God will bring to you.
22. Your future is decided by who you choose to believe.
23. Changes in your life will always be proportionate to your knowledge.
24. The reward of pain is the willingness to change.
25. Anything permitted increases.
26. Anything that keeps your attention has become your master.
27. Your life is whatever you choose to remember.
28. When you want something you have never had, you must do something you have never done.
29. What you repeatedly hear, you eventually believe.
30. All men fall, the great ones get back up.
31. You cannon correct what you are unwilling to confront.
32. You will only be remembered in life for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.
33. God never consults your past to decide your future.
34. Any movement towards order creates pleasure.
35. If you insist on taking something God did not give you, He will take back something He gave you.
36. The evidence of God’s presence far outweighs the proof of his absence.
37. Never complain about what you permit.
38. Go where you are celebrated instead of where you are tolerated.
39. One day of favor is worth a thousand days of labor.
40. Warfare always surrounds the birth of a miracle.
41. The broken become masters at mending.
42. Prosperity is simply having enough of God’s provision to complete his assignment in your life.
43. One hour in the presence of Gods will reveal the flaws of your most carefully laid plans.
44. Anger is the birthplace for solutions.
45. The willingness to reach births the ability to change.
46. Never give more time to a critic than you would give to a friend.
47. Access is first a gift, then a test, then a reward.
48. The magnetism of your kindness will outlast the memory of your genius.
49. When you let go of what is in your hand, God let’s go of what is in his hand.
50. Never rewrite your theology to accommodate a tragedy.
51. Crisis always occurs at the curve of change.
52. You never outgrow warfare; you must simply learn to fight.
53. Memory is more enslaving than any injustice.
54. Your significance is not in your similarity to another, but in your point of difference from another.
55. What you can tolerate, you cannot change.
56. The seasons of your life will change every time you use your faith.
57. When you ask God for a miracle, he will always give you an instruction.
58. Whatever is missing in your life is something you have not truly valued.
59. Your reaction to greatness reveals your humility.
60. Honor is the seed for longevity, of life or friendship.
61. Your words are the seeds for feelings.
62. Friends create comfort, enemies create change.
63. Something in your hand can create anything you want in your future.
64. Your unwillingness to trust the right person will create more losses than your mistake of trusting the wrong person.
65. Anything good is hated by everything evil.
66. An uncommon dream will require an uncommon mentor.
67. What saddens you is a clue to what God has assigned you to heal.
68. Every environment requires a code of conduct for entering or remaining in it.
69. Greatness is not the absence of a flaw – but the willingness to overcome it.
70. Each act of obedience shortens the distance to any miracle you are pursuing.
71. Your reaction to the word of God is a picture of your respect for God.
72. The problem that infuriates you the most is the problem God has assigned you to solve.
73. False accusation is the last stage before supernatural promotion.
74. Miracles happen as quickly as tragedies.
75. The difference between significance and insignificance is an adversary.
76. When wrong people leave your life, wrong things stop happening.
77. Seed-faith is sowing something you have been given for something else you have been promised.
78. Disobedience is always more costly than obedience.
79. An uncommon enemy will require uncommon wisdom.
80. What you say is not as important as what others remember.
81. Never discuss your problem with something incapable of solving it.
82. Joy is the divine reward for discerning the divine purpose of the immediate moment.
83. God never responds to pain, but he always responds to pursuit.
84. When you get involved with God’s dream, he will get involved with your dream.
85. The true function of wisdom is order.
86. Confrontation is the attempt to preserve a relationship.
87. The wise never discuss what they want others to forget.
88. The proof of loves is the passion to pleasure.
89. Pain is the proof of disorder.
90. Debt is the proof of greed.
91. Giving is the only proof you have conquered greed.
92. If time heals, God is unnecessary.
93. Loneliness is the not the absence of affection, but the absence of direction.
94. Money is merely a reward for solving problems.
95. Access becomes a continuous test.
96. When fatigue walks in, faith walks out.
97. Patience is the weapon that forces deception to reveal itself.
98. Any step toward self-sufficiency is a step away from God.
99. Ignorance is the only weapon Satan can effectively use against you.
100. A tired mind rarely makes good decisions.
101. An uncommon dream requires uncommon patience.
102. Anything you do not have is stored in someone near you, and love is the secret map to the treasure.
103. The proof of mediocrity is the resentment of excellence.
104. Conduct permitted is conduct taught.
105. A seed of nothing always creates a season of nothing.
106. Mentorship is wisdom without the pain.
107. An unconquered weakness always births a tragedy.
108. Anger is simply passion requiring an appropriate focus.
109. Bitterness is deadlier than betrayal.
110. An uncommon assignment attracts an uncommon adversary.
111. Gifts reveal the character of those who receive them.
112. Giving is emptying your present to fill up your future.
113. Obedience is the only thing God has ever required of man.
114. Business is simply solving a problem for an agreed reward.
115. Currents of favor begin to flow the moment you solve a problem for someone.
116. Champions are willing to walk away from something they desire to protect something else they love.
117. An uncontested enemy will flourish.
118. God creates seasons; discoveries schedule them.
119. God had a son but he wanted a family; he sowed his son to create his family.
120. God sent his son, but he left his book.
121. Champions are willing to do things they hate to create something else they love.
122. Everything God created is a solution to a problem.
123. Every friendship nurtures a strength or a weakness.
124. Bad times bring good people together.
125. One day of doubt will create 365 days of pain.
126. God will never ask for something you don’t have; he will always ask for something you want to keep.
127. Order is God’s only obsession.
128. Creativity is the search for options; focus is the elimination of them.
129. If you don’t know where you belong, you will adapt to where you are.
130. Give another what you cannot find anywhere else and he will keep returning.
131. Endurance demoralizes your adversary.
132. Miracles do not go where they are needed; they go where they are expected.
133. If what you hold in your hand is not enough to be your harvest, it must be your seed.
134. Access creates demands; demands create expectations; expectations create distraction; distraction creates failure.
135. Debt is emptying your future to fill up your present.
136. Provision is only guaranteed at the place of you assignment.
137. God disguises his greatest gifts in the most flawed vessels so only the most passionate qualify to receive them.
138. Losers focus on what they are going through; champions focus on what they are going to.
139. Silence cannot be misquoted.
140. Money does not change you; it magnifies what you already are.
141. The Holy Spirit is the only person capable of being completely satisfied with you.
142. Diligence is immediate attention to an assigned task.
143. Restlessness is your future whimpering at your feet begging for instructions.
144. God will never authorize a man to marry a woman who refuses to follow; nor a woman to marry a man who refuses to lead.
145. Men do not drown by falling in the water; they drown by staying there.
146. The purpose of memory is to revisit places of pleasure.
147. Nothing leaves Heaven until something leaves Earth.
148. The Holy Spirit is the only person you are required to obey.
149. Failure is not an event, but merely an opinion.
150. Stop looking at where you have been and start looking at where you can be.
151. What you say determines what God is willing to do for you.
152. Pain is not your enemy – merely the proof that you have one.
153. Flattery is speaking good words for wrong reasons.
154. Only a fool negotiates with a giver.
155. The person of Jesus creates your peace; the principles of Jesus create your prosperity.
156. Fame will birth pursuit; pursuit will birth demands; demands will birth distractions; distractions will birth failure.
157. The only reason men fail is broken focus.
158. Jealousy is believing another received what you deserved.
159. The waves of yesterday’s disobedience will splash on the shores of tomorrow for a season.
160. The quality of a nation is revealed by the quality of the leader God permits to govern them.
161. Something you already have can create anything else you will ever want.
162. The presence of God is the only place where your weakness will die.
163. Focus creates blindness.
164. The pain of your past will decide your passion for the future.
165. Nobody is ever as they first appear.
166. Satan always attacks those next in line for a promotion.
167. The quickest cure for ingratitude is loss.
168. The anointing you respect is the anointing that increases in your life.
169. The price God was willing to pay reveals the worth of the product he saw.
170. Anything unrecognized becomes unrewarded; anything unrewarded…will exit.
171. The problem closest to you is your door out of trouble.
172. Parasites view your weakness as a reason to leave; protégés view your weakness as a reason to stay.
173. Satan’s favorite entry point into your life is always through someone close to you.
174. The ungodly give gifts to influence decisions; the Godly give gifts to prove love.
175. The difference between seasons is simply an instruction.
176. The price of God’s presence is time.
177. Information births confidence.
178. The problem you are willing to solve determines who pursues you.
179. Parasites want what you have earned – protégés want what you have learned.
180. Struggle is the proof that you have not yet been conquered.
181. Those without your memories cannot feel your pain.
182. Your seed will expose the character of the soil.
183. The three rewards for Christ and forgiveness, a friend and a future.
184. Integrity cannot be proven, only discerned.
185. The problems you solve determine the rewards you receive.
186. People don’t always remember what you say; they always remember how they felt when you said it.
187. The goal of an enemy is to change your self-portrait.
188. Time will expose what interrogation cannot.
189. The quality of the soil determines the future of the seed.
190. The will of God is an attitude, not a place.
191. Make your future so big yesterday disappears.
192. The quality of your questions will determine the quality of your discoveries.
193. Popularity is when people like you; happiness is when you like you.
194. True friends have the same enemies.
195. To love something is to find it desirable; to respect something is to find it valuable.
196. The quality of your seed determines the quality of your harvest.
197. The workings of God are never proportionate to your need of him, but proportionate to your knowledge of him.
198. May you never have anything God is unwilling to give.
199. The season for research is not the season for marketing.
200. Someone in trouble is always your door out of trouble.
201. Warfare is the proof your enemy has discerned your future.
202. What you hear determines what you become willing to change.
203. The seed that leaves your hand never leaves your life; it enters your future where it multiplies.
204. There are two ways to increase wisdom: mistakes and mentors.
205. Tired eyes rarely see a good future.
206. Those comfortable with your weakness may be adversarial toward your assignment.
207. Someone is always observing you who is capable of greatly blessing you.
208. What you cannot hate – you cannot conquer.
209. Whatever you are attempting to live without is something you do not yet truly value.
210. Tithe is not the payment of a debt – but the acknowledgement of it.
211. Uncommon obedience unleashes uncommon favor.
212. Never complain about your present if you tolerate it.
213. Those who ask the questions determine the quality of the conversation.
214. Submission cannot begin until agreement ends.
215. When Satan wants to destroy you, he puts a person in your life.
216. When you can manage a day, you can manage your life.
217. Tithe is the proof of your obedience; offering is proof of your generosity.
218. What enters you determines what exits you.
219. Nothing is ever as bad as it first appears.
220. Those who impart knowledge are also capable of imparting error.
221. That which becomes familiar becomes hidden.
222. When you ask God for a promotion, he will schedule an adversary.
223. When you replay the past, you poison the present.
224. What you do first determines what God does second.
225. What happens in your mind usually happens in time.
226. Nothing will ever dominate your life unless it happens daily.
227. Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you have been assigned.
228. The kindest word is an unkind word unsaid.
229. When you delay a battle, you delay your rewards.
230. Yesterday is in the tomb, tomorrow is in the womb – the only place you will ever be is today.
231. What you do is what you believe.
232. What you do daily determines what you become permanently.
233. Package yourself for where you are going instead of where you have been.
234. What grieves you is a clue is something you were assigned to heal.
235. The longevity of every relationship is decided by the willingness to forgive.
236. When you discover your assignment, you will discover your enemy.
237. You have no right to anything you have not pursued.
238. Whatever you have been given is enough to create anything else you have been promised.
239. What you hear determines what you feel.
240. People see what you are before they hear what you are.
241. What you hate reveals what you were created to correct.
242. The proof of humility is the willingness to reach.
243. Wrong people birth sad seasons.
244. Your chosen focus is the world you have created for yourself.
245. Whatever you sow is your seed; whatever you keep is your harvest.
246. The battle of life is for your mind; the battle of the mind is for focus.
247. Protocol will take you further than genius.
248. What you love the most is a clue to the gift you contain.
249. The proof of love is the desire to give.
250. Your assignment will always have an adversary.
251. What you hear determines what you pursue.
252. When God talks to you about a seed, he has a harvest on his mind.
253. When you ignore God, you schedule a tragedy.
254. Successful men do daily what unsuccessful men do occasionally.
255. You are never responsible for the pain of those who have ignored your counsel.
256. The proof of love is the obsession to protect.
257. Your goals force every adversary to express their opposition to you.
258. Fathers decided what daughters remember; mothers decide what sons believe.
259. When you ask God for a harvest, He will always ask you for a seed.
260. Mentorship creates success without the waiting.
261. The atmosphere you create determines the future of your weakness.
262. You will only remember something you teach.
263. The proof of love is the willingness to change.
264. Your self-portrait determines the kind of enemy you are willing to confront.
265. Where you are determines what dies within you.
266. When you open your hands, God will open his windows.
267. Where you are determines what grows within you – your weakness or your strength.
268. The first step toward success is the willingness to listen.
269. You cannot be what you are not, but you can become what you are not.
270. The proof of love is the willingness to correct.
271. The importance of your assignment is revealed by the intensity of your adversity.
272. The proof of love is the willingness to listen.
273. When you sow what you have been given, you will reap what you have been promised.
274. Where you are determines what you hear; what you hear determines what you believe.
275. The greatest success quality on earth is the willingness to become.
276. Your reactions reveal your character.
277. The proof of loyalty is the unwillingness to betray.
278. Your enemies decide your promotions.
279. Your attitude determines your access.
280. You can create with your seed what you cannot buy with your money.
281. The attitude of the servant decides the atmosphere of the palace.
282. The most dangerous person in your life is the one who feeds your doubts.
283. You will never be promoted until you become over-qualified for your present assignment.
284. The proof of order is the absence of strife.
285. Crisis is simply an invitation to a miracle.
286. Never gaze at something that does not belong in your future.
287. Your seed is a photograph of your faith.
288. Where you are determines who sees you.
289. The proof of desire is pursuit.
290. You will only have significant success with something that is an obsession.
291. The proofs of legitimate authority are provision, protection, and promotion.
292. Honor must become your seed before you reap it as a harvest.
293. Distrust destroys passion.
294. Your seed is anything that benefits another; your harvest is anything that benefits you.
295. Worship is the correction of focus.
296. The pursuit of the mentor reveals the passion of the protégé.
297. Your assignment is not your decision – but your discovery.
298. Exposure of incompetence usually births an adversary.
299. The right thing at the wrong time becomes the wrong thing.
300. Where you are matters as much as what you are.
301. Your seed is the only influence you have over your future.
302. Your understanding of God determines your message to men.
303. The proof of prosperity is the ability to lend; the proof of impatience is the willingness to borrow.
304. The reward of submission is equal to the reward of agreement.
305. God gives you a family to prepare you for an enemy.
306. What you are will outlast what men say you are.
307. The proof of respect is the investment of time.
308. Your tithe is the proof of your trust.
309. You cannot have a great life unless you have a pure life; you cannot have a pure life unless you have a pure mind; you cannot have a pure mind unless you wash it daily with the word of God.
310. Your belief system was chosen for comfort or change.
311. The secret to knowing a man is to know his memories.
312. Loss is the first step toward change.
313. Winners are simply ex-losers who got mad.
314. The reward of pain is the willingness to listen.
315. The anointing you sow into is the anointing you reap from.
316. Parasites want what is in your hand; protégés want what is in your heart.
317. Every miracle begins with a conversation.
318. The unthankful are always the unhappy.
319. The only thing you will ever need to know is what to do next.
320. Your future is decided by what you are willing to change.
321. Those pursuing greatness are worthy of pursuit.
322. You will only be remembered for your obsession.
323. The person of Jesus prepares you for eternity; the principles of Jesus prepare you for earth.
324. When you get involved with God’s family, He will get involved with your family.
325. Those who cannot increase you will inevitably decrease you.
326. Loss is the first step toward discovering God.
327. Your goals allow your friends to confirm their loyalty.
328. Those who habitually disagree with your decisions eventually become capable of disloyalty.
329. Your faith decided your miracles.
330. Greatness is simply fulfilling God’s expectations of you.
331. Those who disagree with your goals will usually disagree with your decisions.
332. Those who sin with you will eventually sin against you.
333. You are never as far from a miracle as it first appears.
334. Your self-portrait determines what you are willing to endure.
335. Intolerance of your present schedules your future.
336. Ecstasy to a giver is discovering something qualified to receive.
337. Order is simply the accurate arrangement of things.
338. An uncommon future requires an uncommon mentor.
339. What you love will eventually reward you.
340. You can only conquer something you hate.
341. The proof of impatience is debt.
342. Champions make decisions that create the future they desire; losers make decisions that create the present they desire.
343. Anything you do in an attempt to please God will not go unrewarded.
344. Your reaction to a man of God determines God’s reaction to you.
345. God will never advance your instructions beyond your last act of disobedience.
346. Those who lie for you will eventually lie against you.
347. When God wants to bless you, he brings a person into your life.
348. Your pain decides your goals.
349. Your memory replays your past; your imagination pre-plays your future.
350. If you must believe somebody, believe somebody good.
351. An uncommon future will require uncommon preparation.
352. Your reaction to an instruction determines the access you receive.
353. Those who do not respect your time will not respect your wisdom either.
354. When God wants to protect you, he removes a person from your life.
355. Your unwillingness to submit deprives God of the authorization to protect.
356. Those without your pain rarely understand your goals.
357. An uncommon dream requires uncommon faith.
358. What you celebrate – you will remember.
359. The most valuable person in your life is the one who feeds your faith.
360. Those who disrespect your assignment are unqualified for access.
361. When you agree with a rebel, you reap his consequences.
362. Your experiences decide your persuasions.
363. Your reaction to someone in trouble determines God’s reaction to you.
364. What you can walk away from you have mastered; what you cannot walk away from has mastered you.
365. Anything broken can be repaired; anything closed can be opened; anything lost can be recovered.
source: all quotes are by MIke Murdock
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It's a great day, in line with the Life lessons series, I will like to share a great post from around the web on lessons from Bill Gates.
Enjoy!
Top 10 Business Lessons from Bill Gates
By: Nick Scheidies
Table of Contents
#1 Get Lucky
#2 Make the Most of the Luck You’re Given
#3 Bite Off More than You Can Chew
#4 Quality Control is Crucial
#5 Revolutionary Ideas are Shown, Not Told
#6 Persevere
#7 Share Your Vision with Your Team
#8 Marketing is Simple
#9 Don’t Learn From Success
#10 Learn from Unhappy Customers
Looking Forward
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard in 1974.
In I975, he co-founded Microsoft – a computer software company that would eventually make Gates the world’s wealthiest man. He earned the money by masterfully guiding the world into the era of networked personal computers.
Today, Gates is no longer the world’s wealthiest, but he’s still worth a healthy US$ 59 billion.
He’s retired from his role as Microsoft’s CEO and instead devotes himself full-time to philanthropy through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Below, you’ll find 10 business lessons from the life of Bill Gates.
#1 Get Lucky
Bill Gates Mug Shot
Gates is a very smart man, but he’s benefitted from more than his fair share of dumb luck.
In 1968, Gates was an eighth grader, attending a private middle school in Seattle called Lakeside. That year, the school invested $3,000 in a state-of-the-art computer.
13-year-old Bill joined computer club and was instantly hooked. He and a handful of other enthusiastic students racked up hours and hours on the machine, learning how to program through trial and error. It was the beginning of a journey that would propel Gates to astronomical success.
Here’s where the dumb luck comes in: in the 1960s, very few colleges had computer labs and a middle school with a computer was unheard of. The chances of a 13-year-old having access to a computer were pretty much one-in-a-million.
If Lakeside hadn’t purchased a computer, then young Bill might never have discovered his love for computer programming and he never would have started Microsoft.
#2 Make the Most of the Luck You’re Given
Bill may have been ridiculously lucky, but all the computer time in the world wouldn’t have meant anything if he hadn’t dedicated himself so fully to master it.
Ultimately, it was the thousands of hours of focused labor that made Gates into the type of computer genius who could start a successful software company.
We don’t always recognize it, but each of us is uniquely lucky. Whether through our natural talents, our circumstances, or our relationships with others, we’re all fortunate to have many paths to success in front of us.
Take in your luck for a moment – and then capitalize on it.
#3 Bite Off More than You Can Chew
Altair Microcomputer
Microsoft’s big break came from Bill Gates telling a fib.
Gates called up a computer company called MITS and told them that they had developed a BASIC interpreter for their microcomputer, the Altair 8800.In 1975, Gates and his childhood programming buddy, Paul Allen, were looking for a way to turn their shared computer hobby into a career.
MITS was interested in seeing a demonstration of the software. This presented a problem, since the software Bill had promised didn’t actually exist.
Gates and Allen developed it in a hurry, presented it to MITS, and made the sale. They officially founded Microsoft one month later, in April 1975.
“An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
By always pushing yourself to deliver a little bit more than you’ve proven yourself capable of, you’ll go further, faster in your business ventures.
That said, I don’t recommend that you follow Bill’s lead and actually lie to your potential clients.
#4 Quality Control is Crucial
Microsoft's First Logo
As Microsoft grew, it began hiring more and more programmers.
Gates had taken on the role of CEO and his job didn’t call for any programming. But that didn’t stop him from reviewing – and often rewriting – every single line of code that the company released.
Bill’s keen eye for detail ensured that Microsoft always shipped quality software. It also made sure that he never lost track of his team and that he was always intimately familiar with Microsoft’s products.
As your business grows, you’ll likely have to hire a team of employees. It may be tempting to just let them work and trust that they’re doing a good job. But your company has a reputation to protect, so take a page from Gates’ book and keep a close watch on your team’s output.
#5 Revolutionary Ideas are Shown, Not Told
Computer screens once displayed just text.
In the early 80’s, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer would travel around the country delivering seminars about how graphic interfaces were the operating systems of the future – but nobody believed them.
Computer companies told the Microsoft boys that graphic interfaces would be too slow and that it would be difficult to write the software for them. They were less than enthusiastic when Microsoft announced in 1983 that it was developing Windows.
Apple Macintosh (1984)
Attitudes changed quickly in 1984, when Apple launched the Macintosh. It became the first commercially successful computer with a graphical user interface (GUI).
All of a sudden, it was obvious to everyone that the wave of the future involved windows, icons, menus, and a pointing device. Within a few years, the market was flooded with graphical OS software. Notable examples include Deskmate, Workbench, and – of course – Microsoft Windows.
Microsoft was able to release Windows 1.0 in 1985, just a year after the Mac’s success, because they had actually started developing the software two years earlier.
If you’ve got a revolutionary idea, don’t worry if other people don’t get it. Start developing it now so that you’ll be prepared when the time is right.
#6 Persevere
There is nothing that was overnight.
– Bill Gates
Microsoft Windows 3
income diary windows 3Windows 1.0 actually wasn’t much of a success.Windows 3
Microsoft released Windows 2.0 two years later, in 1987, but it didn’t fare much better. It found moderate success thanks to software – in particular, Excel, Word, and Aldus Pagemaker.
It wasn’t until 1990, when Microsoft launched Windows 3.0, that they found significant success with a graphical operating system. It was a big moneymaker for the company and it sold over 10 million units in just two years.
Microsoft had found the model that would transform them into a computer software giant.
#7 Share Your Vision with Your Team
Just as Gates has seen the advent of the graphical interface years in advance, he predicted the preeminence of the Internet long before the average Joe had a dial-up connection.
By May 1995, Gates was so convinced that the Internet was Microsoft’s future, that he felt compelled to write a very, very long memo to his company. It concluded:
“The Internet is a tidal wave. It changes the rules. It is an incredible opportunity as well as incredible challenge. I am looking forward to your input on how we can improve our strategy to continue our track record of incredible success.”
Gates took the time to write this memo because he recognized how important it was for his whole team to be on board with Microsoft’s mission. The result: Windows 95 came bundled with Internet Explorer.
#8 Marketing is Simple
People don’t buy a product because it’s got a great logo or a low price. They buy because they’ve got a problem and they’re convinced that the product will solve it.
The most difficult part about marketing, then, isn’t coming up with the right tagline. It’s providing a great solution to an actual problem. If you can do that and then demonstrate it, then marketing your solution is simple.
If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions, they will be moved to act.
– Bill Gates
#9 Don’t Learn From Success
It seems obvious that we should reflect on our successes and learn from them. If we can recognize the factors that contributed to that initial success, we should be able to repeat them and repeat our success.
But Gates has argued that success can actually cloud our vision, causing us to become over-confident and unprepared for the new challenges that the future holds.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
– Bill Gates
We shouldn’t ignore the patterns of our initial success. But neither should we cling blindly to particular actions or strategies simply because they’ve worked in the past.
#10 Learn from Unhappy Customers
Over the years, Bill Gates has made a ton of his customers unhappy.
Anyone who has stared at the “blue screen of death” understands why.
But as much as people love to complain about Windows, they continue to use it. Windows has been the world’s primary operating system since 1990 and it boasts a stout 82.5% market share as of August 2011.
The reason is simple: Microsoft continues to respond to customer feedback and improve their products. The attitude starts with Bill Gates, himself:
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
– Bill Gates
Looking Forward
Bill Gates Looking Forward
Bill Gates career has been marked by his incredible vision. Microsoft beat out the competition largely because they were always looking one step ahead, to the next revolutionary idea.
The lesson here: if you want to get ahead in business, think ahead.
Gates was still thinking ahead when he retired from Microsoft in 2008. He told PC Mag that he thought the Tablet PCs, Internet TV, and natural user interface would be thriving in the near future. History is proving him right.
So, if Gates knew what was coming next, why didn’t he stick around to make it happen? Surely, he could have added a few billion more to his bank accounts.
The answer is that, at some point while thinking about the future, Gates started giving more importance to health care, poverty, and education than he did to the next hi-tech gizmo. He’s making a bigger impact on the future through The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation than he would have made by continuing to run Microsoft.
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First I like to start this post with an apology. I broke the rule by failing to make this post, I gave way to fatigue and did slip and in turn giving way to sleep. I have no excuse whatsoever!. I AM SORRY about this and the penalty for this is certainly churning out two posts today.
So quickly I want to share lessons from my failure to make the post.
1. I am RESPONSIBLE for everything : If it is to be, it's up to me. There is no excuse. If it fails or it succeeds "it's me", I answer for it, I am the CAPTAIN of my ship. The nature of the ship might vary per time- a blog or website, a project team, my organization, or even a volunteer group. I am the captain of the ship, the nature of the ship or the turbulence of the winds doesn't change the fact, that I am responsible for setting the sail of the ship. It is my responsibility and I own up to it.
2. THE SUCCESS OF EVERYTHING LIES IN STICKING WITH THE PLAN. Life is planning and Planning is essential to Life. For success to be systemized, there must be a well though-outplan. When the plan is fool-proof it becomes more possible to be successfully executed. The first flaw here is we usually do not make our plans fail-proof if we have one or we just do not do what ever it takes to follow through.
3. Keep moving Don't Stop: At times people need to sink so much that they hit the bottom and they just can't sink further. Then at times I have a weird feeling people just fail well enough and failure gets tired of them or they just run out of failure and success finally comes smiling and hugging them with both hands wrapped around them. So if you fall rise again, do not allow failure be your undertaker but rather your teacher.
11 Life Lessons from Albert Einstein
Productivity by Bobbi Klein
Albert Einstein offered us more than just the amazing theory of relativity and E=mc2. Through his persistence in his discoveries in science, Einstein shined a light on how each of us can do the impossible by hard work, experiencing failure, and valuing people. Even if you are not a scientist, you can apply these life lessons to your life today.
Simplicity
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.” – Albert Einstein
The more complicated you have to make something seem, the more you do not understand the inner workings of it. Think about the best teachers that you have had in your life. Did they make even the most complicated topics full of vocabulary that you did not understand or did they make it easier to understand by simplifying?
Creativity
“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” – Albert Einstein
Inspire others to do what they love. Use your creativity to create new works, and you never know what others will create. It’s time to let your mind create projects and ideas that will have a domino effect throughout the world.
Hard Work and Failure
“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.” – Albert Einstein
make mistakes
“You never fail until you stop trying.” -Albert Einstein
Einstein spent most of his life working on physics theories- some never worked out and others we know today. You never know which one will work out, but persistence is key. You have to keep working hard and keep trying to solve your problem. Failure doesn’t exist until you stop trying.
Live in the Present
“I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.” -Albert Einstein
You are only guaranteed the moment that you have right now, at this moment. You can try to get yourself worried about the future and make plans that may not work out according to plan. What matters most is living now, today. Do your best right now and do not worry about tomorrow.
Be Unconventional
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.” – Albert Einstein
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Everything great took a process of going outside of the box and doing something unconventional. If you continue to do the norm, then you are going to just produce normal, conventional results. Think differently, and you may find your answer.
Imagination
“Imagination is the highest form of research.” – Albert Einstein
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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
artist
Imagination is key. When you imagine something differently, you begin to share with others. People begin to see the world that you imagine. Together you can create and help each other. Take time today to daydream, imagine, and share your ideas with others.
Work Towards the Impossible
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.” – Albert Einstein
If it seems ridiculous to others and you are willing to take the risk, then you are able to achieve the impossible. When you go beyond what others think is reasonable, an amazing thing starts to happen. You complete what was once an obstacle.
Value People
“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.” – Albert Einstein
“Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.” – Albert Einstein
If you put people first, they will value you and look to you as a person who genuinely cares about others. Spend at least a few minutes out of your busy day being fully engaged with people without any distractions. Show them that you value them. Thank them and send compliments their way. It will not only make their day better, but they will appreciate it and remember what you have done for them.
Sharing
“Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.” – Albert Einstein
Share your ideas with others. You may light a spark that ignites someone to do what they have always wanted. If you just hold all of your ideas and knowledge to yourself, you are not helping others at all. What if you held the key that would solve someone’s problems, wouldn’t you want to share it?
Be Open to Learning
“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.” -Albert Einstein
It’s the journey as you learn and not just soaking up all of the information. It’s fully diving in and learning that some things work and others do not. Learning is not a one-size-fits-all path, but your own customized journey.
Do What is Right
“Always do what’s right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest.” – Albert Einstein
When you come to the fork in the road or if your consciousness is offering you a decision, always do what is right. You may feel that the other option will be easier or offer you more money, but when you know that the other option will allow you more opportunity in the future or is the right thing to do, then you have to do it. It’s not going out and choosing the easiest decision, but taking the time to follow your gut and do the right thing will keep you standing out from the crowd.
Bobbi Klein is the Chief Unconventionalist at Splendore, an au courant creative agency, a writer, photographer, marketer, and loves making the impossible possible. While not working, you can find her at your local coffee shop as she is an avid traveler and loves an adventure or two.
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Emmanuel Ayeni
Life-coach,Engineer and Entrepreneur
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About 30 days ago I took it on myself to begin a 30 day blogging challenge on this blog. I decided to blog and share every day , here are a couple of lessons I learnt from the experience. What more is there to do than to share the lessons and move on to another challenge- a 30 day gratitude challenge!
First, Enjoy the lessons!
1. The Universe loves consistency: Everything in nature has been designed to be consistent. We have always had nothing short of 12 calendar months. The seasons and even the elements are all consistent in their natural order. Therefore nature is consistent and it is naturally logical that anything consistent in its purpose wins, after all the deliberately consistent effort of a running brook wears out rocks.
2. Success is tied to Momentum: It is through motion that a body builds momentum. When you are already moving you have more tendency to gather speed and "SUCCESS LOVES SPEED!”. Whatever moves possesses energy, from laws of physics, kinetic energy is the energy a body has due to its motion. From the conscious effort of moving towards my goal, I can gather momentum, gain speed, generate more energy and in effect attract more success in the long run.
3. In the school of Goals, frequency trumps magnitude: Most times a little effort every day takes you closer to your goals than a huge inconsistent effort. Confucius made it clear that "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a step". So a few strokes of the brush on a regular pattern can create a masterpiece only capable of by the master stroke of a Picasso.
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See you in my next post on the 30 days of Gratitude.
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Emmanuel Ayeni
Life-coach,Engineer and Entrepreneur
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“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle
THE POWER OF CHOICE
Man is the greatest of all of God's creatures.He is so endowed and empowered.
Of the greatest of all the many blessings bestowed on us by God is our ability to alter the course of our lives though the power of choice.
I will consider this power of choice from the perspectives of BE-DO-HAVE Philosophy of personal development.
Man can choose to BE. To be is a state of being, this is a component of who you were in the past, who you are in the present and who you
want to be in the future! God has given man the power to influence this amongst all odds through the power of choice.
We can as well choose to do anything within your powers to do. Man can do anything! based on his present level of BEING! If he cannot do it
He just has not become it yet! We can choose to be and to become that which we desire.
Having been and done all within his powers man creates and avenue for himself to have all that comes with it.
So I opine that man can have all he chooses to have by being the kind of person and doing the related actions that are relevant
to him having the object of his desires.
The power of choice is a two-edged sword,which can be used to set about either a positive or negative result.
It is within your power to choose your outcome in every event and even when the outcome is not desirable it has been created by choice either consciously or consciously.
Choose Carefully; choose greatness!
Emmanuel Ayeni
Your billion-dollar friend
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Today’s post is a reflection of personal events and lessons learnt over the last couple of weeks.
Talk isn’t cheap anymore. I learnt how vital words are and much more, the information they convey.
Information is an invaluable asset in today’s economy. A relevant piece of information can change a man’s fortune forever. If it’s relevant, refined and packaged and it’s peculiar to an audience or it most likely solves a problem, there will be an exchange of value somewhere down the line. Someone is waiting to pay for it.
Consistency is key to the achievement of any goal. I learnt that not everybody who begins a journey finishes it, if it were there would have been no failed business; every business would have been a success. God’s grace and consistency are vital in the progress of any venture.
Focus is like a laser that cuts through metal when clearly harnessed. Focus is instrumental to the pursuit of any goal. It is said that broken focus is the reason men fail, however I observed a subtle definition of focus is that the focused eye may be blind to a hundred other things at a particular instant.
You either prepare to go all the way or you do not set out at all. If you choose to climb a mountain, until you have reached the summit you aimed for, you have not achieved the success you set out to achieve.
There is no such thing as Impossible, no mountain is insurmountable, if you fail to reach the peak the first time you just may not have gotten the stamina yet.
He who fails to plan obviously plans to fail. Proper planning is the simple antidote to the disappointment brought my poor performance. If you plan it well enough, you will leave no stone unturned and you will definitely uncover the precious pebbles that are way beyond the surface.
Stay in the moment, treasure it and move confidently into the future. Discard the burdens, pay attention to the lessons from the past with the goals of the present and the assurance that God’s greatness reside in you and you will stop at nothing to work it out.
Learning never ends....and success is only sure if you never ever give up!
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I's a great day! Today is the birthday of a great man. He is an excellent communicator, a unique personality, a wonderful
Leader and great patriarch.My
grandpa is 94 today! So I decided to dedicate this post to the blessed
wonderful 'young man' as I review 2 of the lessons he taught me
directly. While these are not new laws, they are worthy of note.
1. Order is heaven's first law: My granddad being a man of order, will always point out this to me during my vacations with him as an undergraduate.He
emphasized and practiced the orderly arrangement of things, from books, to shoes, clothes and what have you.
Order
indeed is heaven's first law. Imagine what kind of day it would be if
you woke up and the stars were still lighting up the skies and the moon forgot to be retired from the night. Everything in the universe, the seasons the elements all come out and
are seen in a particular order and pattern that is the work of God and
should be appreciated and emulated here in our processes.
The further
applicaton of this is the need for protocol in everything that should
be done, if it's worth doing, it might as well be worth doing well and
in the right order
2. Cleanliness is next to godliness.Grandpa's penchant for cleanliness and neatness is not only seen when he is dressed in his elitist way
but it can also be seen in the ambient neatness of his house.He
wouldn't mind to emphasize it in his words should there be a need. This
cleanliness he also complements with his love for prayer as a devoted
Anglican.
Cleanliness is also a state of purity of life and character of any one who aspires towards all that is good and godly. Integrity, a form of cleanliness is itself a necessary asset in any business.
This two lessons will suffice for reflection today. I appreciate God for his life and I wish granddad more of God's strength and grace in the years ahead.
Cheers!
Emmanuel Ayeni
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