Oluwakemi Asefeso

Planning our daily activities is very essential as this helps us to be productive and get better results. He/she who fails to plan is planning to fail.

Planning Tools

• Google calendars

• Morning planner

• Computers

• Mobile Phones

• Diary or notebook and pen.

How to plan your daily activities

• Time budgeting

• Understand what you have to do

• Breaking down tasks

• Identify priority areas

• Bench marking success

Basic Tips

• Do one thing at a time than many things at once.

• Set realistic deadlines and stick to them.

• Add additional 25% more time for tasks.

• Review your schedule daily.

• Invest in a good day planner.

• Always leave time to deal with the unexpected.

NB: Parento principle

• 80% of effort counts for 20% result.

It means putting more effort and getting lesser result.

or

Urgent and important =Low result

• 20% of effort counts for 80% result.

It means putting little effort and getting better result

or

Important not urgent= planning and getting better result.

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Oluwakemi Asefeso

These are the reason why successful people do not consider the use of smart phones appropriate in meetings;

Lack of respect. When you use your smart phone during meetings, you are simply giving the impression that your phone is more important than the conversation at hand and those in front of you.

Lack of attention. Your attention is diverted and you might not be able to stay focused on task before you.

Lack of listening. When your attention is diverted, you might not be able to listen to all the details of the meeting which might sometimes affect your given task.

Lack of self-awareness. When you don’t respect and acknowledge other people’s presence, it means you don’t understand self and really don’t care how your behaviour affects others around you.

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Oluwakemi Asefeso

Business ideas come from the entrepreneur’s brain, however the best business ideas comes when creativity is involved. These are 10 solid ways you can increase your creativity in business for better productivity and achievements below;

1. Always have a diary or notebook with you: You certainly do not know where you might have some business because it can come anywhere and anytime. You need to have a diary or a notebook to write things down in order to remember it and work on it.

2. Emphasize the importance of creativity in business: Let your staff know that you are interested in hearing their ideas and innovation as this will help the business.

3. Make time for new ideas and act on it: Give time to thinking about different approaches to enhance your business like holding seminars, regular workshops, do team’s day out and allow Individuals to reflect privately on their work. Also provide time and resources to develop and implement those ideas that worth acting on as this is a way of encouraging your staff to keep being creative.

4. Train your staff: Do training sessions on various techniques like brainstorming, lateral thinking and mapping to enhance creative problem solving skills among staffs.

5. Reward Creativity: Do something like giving awards, promotions and extra bonuses to motivate individuals or team that has done well.

6. Networking: Meeting different people and exchanging different opinions and experiences with them brings or spark up new ideas. Use the internet and various social network to expand your network . You can turn your friends on your network to potential customers.

7. Use places that increase creativity: There are lot of places around you that can increase and enhance your creativity. For instance, driving alone in your car, showering in the bathroom, toilets, running etc.

8. Hire passionate employees: Hiring the best and most passionate people will boost the growth of the business.

9. Activate your observation skills: Observing things wherever you go is very key as this will help you to ask questions and profer solutions which will ignite the creativity in you.

10. Focus on employees above all: When employees are well cared for, they will in turn give you their best as this will increase the growth and development of the business.

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Oluwakemi Asefeso

1. Know yourself, your principles and live by them.

2. Groom yourself and get prepared for the tasks ahead of you.

3. Dress nicely.

4. Think and act positive by adopting a champion’s mindset.

5. Stand tall and focus on solutions.

6. Always Smile and be grateful.

7. Get active and stop procrastinating things.

8. Do exercise and go to places that inspire you.

9. Find a mentor who believes in you.

10. Get empowered with knowledge and increase your competency skill.

11. Volunteer to always help others.

12. Do more of listening than speaking.

Quote

Know yourself and you win all battles. Sun Tzu

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Oluwakemi Asefeso

We want everything, we want it our way, we want it now. We think that if we slow down, we will fall behind. Sometimes impatience is natural, but if it becomes a habit, it can make us ill that’s why “patience” is a key or vital virtue for all.

What then is Patience?

▪Patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems or suffering without being annoyed or anxious.

▪ Patience is the ability to endure difficult circumstances such as preservance in the face of delay; tolerance of provocation without responding in annoyance or anger.

We can’t talk about patience without relating with impatience.

Impatience is inability to wait for something or tolarate delay, problems and sufferings

Signs of Impatience

☆Anxiety

☆Dissatisfaction

☆Failure

☆Bad relationships with friends, partners, co – workers etc

☆Trouble

☆Stress

☆Anger

☆ Shallow breathing (short breaths)

☆Snap/quick decisions

☆Rushing

☆Muscle tension

☆Frustration

☆Hand clenching/tightening

How to develop patience

¤ Make yourself wait.

¤ Stop doing things that are not important.

¤ Be mindful of the things making you impatient.

¤ Take deep breath.

¤ Feel the peace you have taken with that deep breath.

¤ Be aware of your inner contentment.

¤ Always smile.

¤ Pratice active listening.

¤ Manage your anger.

Rewards of patience

▪ Patience creates confidence.

▪ Patience brings about a thoughtful outlook in life.

▪ Patience leads to wisdom and success.

Some quotes on patience

* Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. Ovid

* Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu

* Just keep going when it’s tough, just keep going when it’s long. Maxime Lagace

* A man who is a master of patience, is a master of everything else.

* Patience is not passive on the contrary, it is concentrated in strength. Bruce Lee

* You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for. Craig Bruce

* All human wisdom is summed up in two words, wait and hope.

* Slow and steady wins the race. Aesop

* There is something good in all seeming failures, you not to see that now, time will reveal. Be patient. Swananda Saraswati

* Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday. A.Milne

When you are patient, you will give up the struggle. Life has it’s own timing and flow, patience allows us to see and feel circumstances as they are evolving.

If we pay enough attention and quiet our minds, we may be able to see the past, present and future all in one moment. In this way, we have more information to act on and to make our decisions with patience. Patience leads to success.

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Oluwakemi Asefeso.

1. Takes personal interest in mentoring people.

2. Acts as a role model worthy of emulation and demonstrate positive attitude.

3. Exhibit willingness to share skills, knowledge and expertise.

4. Sets and achieve personal and professional goals.

5. Provides guidance and constructive feedbacks.

6. Values and repect the opinions and initiatives of others.

7. Values learning, growth and development.

8. Motivates and encourages growth and development in others.

9. Respected by colleagues and employees in all levels of organisation.

10.Exhibit enthusiasm in people.

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Oluwakemi Asefeso

Mentoring is essentially about helping others to develop more efficiently and effectively. It is a relationship designed to build confidence and support the mentee so that they are able to take control of their own development and work.

Benefits of Mentoring

1. It improves communication and personal skills.

2. It enhances your CV.

3. It helps you to develop leadership and management qualities and skills.

4. It brings personal growth, development and sense of fulfilment.

5. It increases your confidence and motivation.

6. It increases your circle of friends.

7. It reinforce your own study skills and knowledge of your career or business.

8. It helps you to gain recognition of your skills and experience.

9. It helps you to discover your hidden talents and how to use them well.

10. It helps you to engage in volunteering opportunity valued by employers.

Benefits of being a Mentee

1. You gain practical advice, encouragement and support.

2. You develop your communication, study and personal skills.

3. You learn from the experience of others.

4. You develop strategies to deal with issues of life.

5. You identify your goals and establish sense of direction.

6. You make new friends accross new groups.

7. You become more empowered to make decisions.

8. You increase your confidence level.

9. You gain valuable insight into the next stage of your career or business.

10. You have the opportunity to learn new skills and experience.

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Oluwakemi Asefeso

Leadership is an amazing experience that comes with a whole lot of responsibilities. It involves you building yourself, skills, experience and practice a lot.

Here are 10 powerful leadership traits you need to possess to be a good and great leader:

1. Vision Inclined and focused: Great leaders are vision inclined, having a clear picture of what they want to achieve and how to go about it. They focus and give their tasks and goals all the committment it needs.

2. Self Motivated: Great leaders have the ability to lead the way. They are self motivated to keep going in pursuit of their vision and not allow anything deter or stop their goals in life.

3. Demonstrating Decisiveness and Accountability: Great leaders have the ability to be able to make decision at any point in time even in tough times. They are responsible and accountable for any action taken, tasks and their result whether positive or negative.

4. Optimistic and positive: Great leaders have a positive mindset to be able to achieve success. They align themselves with positive people and positive goals to keep them going.

5. Constantly Seeking: Leaders are seekers. Great leaders constantly seek news, paths, ideas and solution by constantly and continually learning.

6. Self Management: Great leaders have self awareness ie they know their strengths and weaknesses. They are able to prioritize their goals and are responsible and accountable to achieve the goals.

7. Bravery and Transparency: Great leader are bold and demonstrate courage to lead the way and forge ahead even in tough times. They are honest about how they want to achieve their goals without shutting others out to earn the trust of their followers.

8. Humility and generosity: Great leader don’t use their power and affluence to abuse others and don’t think that they are better than anyone else. They give back to others in cash, intellect(Mentorship) and time.

9. Integrity: Great Leaders are true to their words. They don’t seperate character from success because for them is about standing for what is right or something bigger than self and setting good example.

10. Team building and fostering creativity: Great leaders sure know how to build a good team driven by purpose and knows how to motivate them. They are creative, innovative and can think out of the box which helps them to solve problem.

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Oluwakemi Asefeso

Irrespective of who you are, if you want to be a millionaire, you need to develop the right mindset.

How to develop a Millionaire mindset

Focus on what you want and take it: You need to know what you want and how to achieve it. Focus on it, claim it and do it.

Become goal oriented: You need to set firm and achievable goals to get there.

Think big: Even if you are starting small, you need to visualise the bigger picture by setting bigger goals and work towards achieving them.

Don’t spend your money, invest it: You need to let money work for you and not the other way round ie be your own boss. Instead of spending money anyhow, you should cultivate the habit of investing.

Never stop learning: Learning they say is continuous. Don’t ever stop learning new ideas, skills and innovations.

Enjoy attention: Attention attracts money. You need to keep promoting yourself or brand and enjoy the attention that comes with it.

Take calculated risks: You need to logically evaluate things around you and take certain risks.

Don’t be afraid of change: You need to be able to flow with changes, trends and innovations as they come your way. If you want to do something extra ordinary, step out of your comfort zone and strive hard.

Be positive and consistent in what you do: You need to remain positive even in adverse situations and be consistent towards your desired goal.

Don’t envy others: You need to be happy for other people’s success and keep focusing on your goal.

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Oluwakemi Asefeso

1. Write down your most important tasks.

2. Set some exciting achievable goals.

3. Tell other people about your goals which makes you accountable for those goals.

4. Rest well and get plenty of sleep.

5. Reflect on your productivity constantly.

6. Avoid distractions and focus your attention on result – oriented activities.

7. Find out your prime hour.

8. Set timers

9. Upgrade your skills and find a mentor.

10. Learn to say “NO” and take a break when necessary.

11. Give yourself a treat or reward yourself for completing a huge tasks.

12. Learn to delegate or outsource your work.

13. Have a note book and pen with you at hand always.

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Oluwakemi Asefeso