It's a great day. I remembered an old poem and I love to share it this morning. I hope you Enjoy it.
AN OLD RAT'S TALE
He was a rat, and she was a rat,
And down in one hole they did dwell.
And each was as black as your Sunday hat,
And they loved one another well.
He had a tail, and she had a tail,
Both long and curling and fine.
And each said, "My love's tail is the finest tail
In the world, excepting mine!"
He smelt the cheese, and she smelt the cheese,
And they both pronounced it good;
And both remarked it would greatly add
To the charm of their daily food.
So he ventured out and she ventured out;
And I saw them go with pain.
But what them befell I never can tell,
For they never came back again.
—LAURA E. RICHARDS.
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Someone once opined that " Life is a battle field. Every champion is a fighter. if you want anything in life, you must be ready to fight" I believe in
the concept of abundance, yes, there is no scarcity however I also believe in the though shared however most times man is his own greatest enemy and
most battles will be against his own self; his self-doubts, fears, mental-laziness and inertia.
I also heard a man of God share recently that "WORTH is the thing that God placed inside everything. worth is intrinsic.
VALUE is my assessment of the worth of a thing or person. Price is what I am willing to pay for that assessment."
These are nice words with in-depth lessons when reflected on.
I just finished a great book (I am in the process of reviewing and sharing it here); it stresses the truth that everything is created from a Thought
Substance..
We therefore must Keep learning, sharing and keep tracking,thinking and reflecting without neglecting the need to take action and look out for the feed-backs that unfold.
Indeed "Same Principles!.." but perhaps different applications
Unleash Your Greatness!
Emmanuel Ayeni
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Rejoice and exult in hope; be steadfast and patient in suffering and tribulation; be constant in prayer.
– Romans 12:12
We're to live in hope. We're to rejoice. So, when Satan comes to steal your victory and tell you that God is not going to help you this time, you just think on the Word of God and start rejoicing. Rejoice that you're in Him. Rejoice that heaven is your home. Rejoice that greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. Rejoice. Brag on God today. The devil can't stand it!
"Be steadfast and patient in suffering and tribulation...." Tribulation means "being under pressure." When pressure comes, don't cave in. Don't faint. Instead, go to the throne of grace. Go boldly in the Name of Jesus and get the help you need.
Remember this: When things get hard isn't when you let go of the Word. That's when you double up on it. That's when you are "constant in prayer" so that you are unmovable.
Rejoice. Be patient under pressure. Be constant in prayer. The devil won't be able to steal one thing from you!
Scripture Reading: Romans 5:1-5
source: From Faith to Faith -- Daily Devotional November 9, 2014
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51 Ways Ordinary People Reached World-Class
By Robin Sharma
(#1 bestselling author of The Leader Who Had No Title)
Hope you’re in hot pursuit of excellence on this gift of a day (you’ll only get this day once in your entire lifetime so I encourage you to use it well).
The reality is the great achievers + game-changers just did DIFFERENT (and seemingly strange) things.
So in my ongoing devotion to help you create a life you adore and reach rare-air success, I’ve distilled the unusual things the best performers do into this quick list. Read it now:
THE 51 WAYS ORDINARY PEOPLE REACHED WORLD-CLASS
1. Know what you want. Clarity is power. And vague goals promote vague results.
2. Remember that every problem has a solution. Maybe you just can’t see it. Yet.
3. In this Age of Dramatic Distraction, the performer who focuses the best wins the most.
4. Before someone will help you, you need to help them.
5. Become the most passionate person you know. It’ll be contagious.
6. Know more about your craft/the work you do than anyone who has ever done the work you do…in the history of the world.
7. Join The 5 am Club. Your most valuable hours are 5am-8 am. They have the least interruptions.
8. Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day. Success belongs to the relentless learners. Because as you know more, you can achieve more.
9. Remember that when you transform your fitness, you’ll transform your business.
10. Don’t check your mobile when you’re meeting with another person. It’s rude. And rude people don’t reach world-class.
11. Every time you do what scares you, you take back the power that you gave to the thing that scared you. And so you become more powerful.
12. A problem is only a problem if you make the choice to see it as a problem.
13. Stop being a victim. Your business and personal life was made by you. No one else is responsible. To make it better, make better choices. And new decisions.
14. You can lead without a title. Don’t wait to get a position to stand for excellence, peak quality and over delivery on every expectation.
15. Find your own style. Be an original. Every superstar differentiated themselves from The Herd. And marched to their own drumbeat.
16. Understand that when you play small with your success, you betray your potential. And the birthright you were born under.
17. Eat less food and you’ll get more done.
18. As you become more successful, stay really really hungry. Nothing fails like success. Because when you’re successful, it’s easy to stop out learning+ out Over Delivering +out thinking and out executing everyone around you. (Success is Beautiful. And dangerous).
19. If you’re not over prepared, you’re under prepared.
20. The only level of great manners to play at is “Exceedingly Polite”. In our world, this alone will make you a standout. And differentiate you in your marketplace.
21. Remember that the moment you think you’re a Master, you lose your Mastery. And the minute you think you know everything, you know nothing.
22. To double your results, double your level of execution.
23. Invest in your personal and professional development. All superstars do.
24. Get this year’s best Targets of Opportunity down onto a 1 Page Plan. Then review it every morning while the rest of the world sleeps.
25. You don’t get lucky. You create lucky.
26. When you push through a difficult project, you don’t get to the other side. You reach The Next Level.
27. Smile. And remember to inform your face.
28. Spend time in solitude every day. Your best ideas live there.
29. Debrief on how you lived out your day every night in a journal. This will not only record your personal history, it will make you uber-clear on what you’re doing right and what needs to be improved.
30. If you’re not being criticized a lot, you’re not doing very much. Ridicule is the price of ambition.
31. Develop a monomaniacal focus on just a few things. The secret to productivity is simplicity.
32. To get the results very few people have, be strong enough to do what very few people are willing to do.
33. Rest. Recover. It’ll make you stronger.
34. Buy a smaller TV and build a larger library.
35. Remember that the bigger the goal, the stronger a person you must become to achieve that goal. So goal-achieving is a superb practice for character-building.
36. Food fuels your body. Learning feeds your mind.
37. Don’t ask for respect. Earn it.
38. Finish what you start. And always end strong.
39. Breathe.
40. In business, don’t play to survive. Play to win.
41. Protect your good name. It’s your best asset.
42. Remember that words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.
43. Give more than you take. The marketplace rewards generosity.
44. Know that if it’s not messy, you’re not making progress.
45. Be a hero to a kid.
46. In business, aim for iconic. Go for legendary. Make history by how awesome you are at what you do.
47. Please don’t confuse activity with productivity. Many many people are simply busy being busy.
48. Your doubts are liars. Your fears are traitors. Stop buying the goods they are attempting to sell you.
49. The best anti-aging remedy in the world is working really hard.
50. World-Class performers have no plan B. Failure just isn’t an option.
51. You have the power to change the world–one brave act and one person at a time. Please use it.
The Lessons are from Robin Sharma.
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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.
Enjoy the lessons!
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 as always at EMMANDUS NETWORKS! I also believe it is a great day for you too. It's nice to be back after 7 days of silence on this blogging. I have gone virtually 'offline' and away. Sometimes you need got to get away to have a come-back.It wasn't easy not to blog after over 70days of blogging none stop, at times I felt out of place not blogging but I did a bit of writing and more of studying, conversations and observations especially with my self. In between, I did go on a short trip with more observation and reflection.
Within my 7 days away, I felt a loss of connection to my clan, my community and I am so glad to be back.I will continue from where I stopped and will continue on the lesson series daily. I have started to work more on my projects, my first book, my goals of 100 youtube videos, my 100 podcasts
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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