BUSINESS AND LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY - PART 2

Initiative: Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise. Without leader, administrator, or ruler, it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food during harvest

I have always wondered what on earth is the difference between a rich man and a poor one, and my discovery after a long while revealed to me is in their taking initiative and daring to do the impossible. They don’t wait for their ship to sail to them rather they swim to meet up their ship. 

Dear friends, the only way to grow and succeed in the 21^st century is to constantly develop the ability on daily basis to act out and do that thing you ought to do even when it isn’t sure that you will succeed.

A dreamer is someone who sees the opportunities around and makes the most of them by taking action. He or she does today what others are not doing in order to have what others will not have tomorrow. That’s why I agree with the wise words of Dwight Roosevelt which says that “Do what you can with what you have right where you are”.

Everyone has what it takes to start something, no matter how small; therefore, don’t hesitate to start with what you have now. Start doing something with what you have because until you take steps nothing takes shape. The Chinese proverbs says, “Don’t be afraid of doing slowly but only be afraid of standing still.” A great life and business can’t be realized without making things happen.

Creativity: One great thing that will differentiate your life and business to attract favour, influence, resources and great relationships that will pace you is creativity. A lot of people today are drab, mediocre and live average lives all because the lack creativity.

“One good idea is all you need to start a fortune. Business breakthrough come from finding faster, cheaper, better and easier ways to perform a task. “Brian Tracy

We need on a daily basis to be original, make new discoveries, work out new concepts, and possess the idea of doing common things in uncommon ways. I dare you today to do things differently in your life and business approach. Take out time to do the analysis of your present reality and work out a new course of action as to what you need to do to become a phenomenal success and a role model to others, it’s time for us to start thinking outside the box and unleash the power of our imagination and move out of the things we are used to as we stretch ourselves to new boundaries of possibilities and opportunities Even the sky is not your limit as you dare to be creative in the way you live and do business.

Excellence: one great quality that is lacking today in our world is the capacity to do things in an unusual way. In order to survive in today’s world we need to develop the passion for unlimited quality in every sphere of our influence. Excellence is the habit of doing the best with best resources to achieve the best. As someone said,” Those who always deliver on quality never go unnoticed.” The habit of excellence prevents you from being an apostle of mediocrity who does things shabbily but it makes you do things better today than you did yesterday. It is true that little things make for excellence, but excellent is not a little thing. See thou a man diligent in his ways, such man will stand before kings and not with mere men. My submission to you is to go and do beyond your current efforts in your quest to live a full life in this 21^st century.

Aristotle said, we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore isn’t an act but a habit. In a nutshell you need to daily place a demand on yourself to find ways of doing things in a different manner so as to attract more opportunities in to your life and business.

I leave you with this African proverb that never seizes to inspire me,”  “Every morning in Africa, a GAZELLE wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest LION or it will be killed. Every morning a LION wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest GAZELLE or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a LION or a GAZELLE . . . When the sun comes up, you’d better be running.” 

Haastrup Steven is a Global Guest Writer on Personal Finance for Under30CEO.com in the USA (Forbes Inc. associate)

He is by CORE an Idea Strategist, Empower-Trainer and Business Communicator.

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BUSINESS AND LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY - PART 1

We live in a world that is characterized with “Three C’s namely Competition, Change and Complexities. If any one of us must live and do businesses in today’s world must be ready to embrace and tactfully understand these powerful 3C’s to achieve unlimited success.

Amazingly we all dread and detest change but you will agree with this wise saying that “One cannot keep doing the same thing and expect different results. If you want to experience a full life full of possibilities and opportunities, then you must be ready to attempt and do the unusual as this is what is required to stay on top in today’s world. Look at our world today, science and technology as impacted almost every aspect of our personal and business life. The introduction of the personal computer and the internet is no doubt transforming the way we go about life today and guess what you must not be left out of the enormous opportunity to be live your best life now.

It’s indeed a big world out there, a big world full of enormous opportunities and possibilities to be your unlimited best in every aspect of life and business. Think about this, How easy it is to be “average”. The ranks of the mediocre are crowded with status-quo thinkers and predictable workers. How rare are those who live differently!

Now, indeed you can be productive, relevant, secured and wealthy in today’s world, all that is required is to develop some certain personal qualities that make up the traits of leadership and vigorously apply timeless principles that would bring about the desired change you want to see in your life. It’s so sad that many people go through life hoping for the best, however you need more than a hope to live successfully today, you need a plan and a right course of action to maximize every opportunities that life will present to you. 

In the school of life and business in the 21^st century, you need four innate, personal tools that will consistently guarantee immense success and significance that you seek passionately. The deployment of these four innate tools have been used by great business thinkers like Bill gates who is the richest man in the world today, Albert Einstein, Barrack Obama, Aliko Dangote, Helen Keller who was blind and deaf but became an Elder state woman, writer and a lecturer in her time. These four innate tools are:

1 Dream

2 Initiative

3 Creativity

4 Excellence

Dream: Friends you need to realize that all things in this life are created twice, their is first the mental creation before the physical creation. That is why the scripture says that “ Where there is no vision the people perish” if you really want to be super successful and be productive in all aspect of your life then the starting point is you need to develop the capacity to see beyond the realities of your life. Your circumstances are not the conclusions of your life. Eyes that look are many but eyes that see are few. Celebrated men and women in our world today have learnt to go inside of themselves to draw inspiration and deep revelation from their rich resources of their mind. The starting point to dreaming is to first of all on a daily basis change and upgrade your thoughts to world-class regularly. Change your thoughts and you change your world. 

“One philosopher states that the purpose of our life on earth is to learn that our thoughts have power. William James wrote that the greatest discovery of this century is that by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives. We are constantly thinking, and every thought is filled with creative power. We are constantly creating, but more of it is done unconsciously. The purpose of a dream is to get us in to conscious creating.

A dream is not the images you experience when you sleep but it is an “ IDEA, A PLAN, AN AGENDA, A GOAL “ which you have deliberately determined to pursue in other to make your life and business a phenomenal success.

A whack on the side of the head is a book on how to break the inertia and unlock your mind for innovative thinking. By adopting a creative outlook, as Roger von Oech, the author of the book, points out, we open ourselves to new possibilities and change. But that requires thinking outside the prisons of common boundaries. It requires a Dream.

Friends my submission to you today is that on a regular basis, take out time to unleash your imagination and see the great things you want to have, experience in your lifetime and stop seeing and focusing on your present circumstances because “imagination is everything,” wrote Albert Einstein. When you are dreaming, think about a world where, “With God, anything is possible.”

Color outside the lines. Look at people who are having, being, doing, and creating what you want to create as role models. The illustration is simply this, You Think – You Do – You Become

”Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination”

WINGSEDGE.COM GLOBAL QUEST - WE ARE MOVING FORWARD... Steven. H

A couple of months back, we set out to further promote our dream of establishing a better structured (purposeful, exciting and value impressive) Platform "Wingsedge.com" through sourcing for fund on a Global Fundraising Platform "Kickstarter.com" in order to overcome certain constraints peculiar to this part of our World and also to bring in more Professionals and Skilled Personnel into the concluding but most vital part of our development.

We submitted our request for the fund raise that will see our project through to its final lunch to Kickstarter.com after carefully studying and following the laid down guideline. see; http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/883763424/1123730338?token=2a208c05

After much optimism, we got a response from the Kickstarter team that our request could not be granted stating that SOCIAL NETWORKS have been listed amongst projects that will NOT be promoted for fund raise on their Platform.

PLEASE NOTE: this was not initially itemized on the list of projects not to be considered for fund raise.

The question that comes to mind is: could this be a function of us being from Lagos, Nigeria or " not being Americans"?

Whatever the reason is, this to us is yet another hurdle we must cross as we believe that great achievements come with a lot of challenges that should be faced and overcome.

This challenge to us is in fact a stepping stone as it has further increased the traffic of people monitoring our developmental stages from across the world through our blog site: http://wingsflair.blogspot.com/

We are even more determined to see this through to success and are very grateful to the fact that you our followers are right with us giving us your support while patiently waiting for us to finally lunch.

ALSO NOTE: the Decline of our request to raise fund through Kickstarter does not in any way suggest an end to our dream as development is still very much in progress.

Funds, when made available in sufficient amount would only make developmental processes faster than its present pace.

FINAL NOTE: we are not in a hurry to lunch as we need to take our time to give you the very best we initially promised you our potential users/subscribers.

OUR DREAM QUEST: We are also working on the development of another website that will serve as a fund raising platform for Nigerians and Africans at large who have developmental projects and ideas that is being constrained by lack of funds.

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Thanks for your dedicated support.

Kindest regards
Ikhile Osaje- Director of Strategic Operations and Planning

PARTIAL DESCRIPTIONS AND ASSOCIATED BENEFITS

Product Feature(s) and Benefit(s)

§   WebOffice(s)

§   AlphaClique

§   Instant Messaging and Chatting

§   Open Integrated Advertisement

§   Niche

§   Tipshare

§   Peepshare

§   Share Category

NICHE

The Niche displays categorical contents to suit its model and purpose such as vision of the niche, mission of the niche, idea invest, affiliate offices/niches, target sectors/ interests, target reach, group library etc.

Benefits:

This page is modelled to helping individuals and groups lead an envisioned chase or have an online active group/association reflect on the internet. The model has been designed to be a very active page in that there are more than enough interaction stimulants to help different groups stay dominantly active.

SHARE CATEGORY

This feature is in a drop down format in terms of categorical definition of updates (INSPIRE, MOTIVATE, INFORM, STANCE, REACH OUT, LOVE, FUN BRIEF AND UNDEFINED) and a categorically default friend list of already distributed friends - EVERYONE, FAMILY, LOVED, RELIGION, WORKPLACE, SCHOOL, PALS AND ACQUAINTANCE.

Benefits:

This unique product ensures the privacy of members as they share contents and updates. It is a more precise strategy for sharing and getting better understood as it’s an easy to use tool to make members feel more secured and deliberate further making them responsible for their online privacy via wingsedge.com.

WEBOFFICE

The Weboffice will averagely contain notable features such as WebEdge release, information storage, affiliations, product brief, reactions and feedbacks, all-around profile view, free adverts creation and display, advert reflect and so much more.

Benefits:

This is a resourceful page that every wingsedge.com registered member has an access to own at no access charge. It is offered in terms of categories - INDIVIDUAL, CORPORATE ORGANIZATIONS AND POLITICAL INDIVIDUALS/ BODY. This various categories include designs and tabs but in a standard template form which is customized for the various categories offered.

This concept has been notably designed to help define profiles for individuals, firms, groups, associations etc as they define your office and to help drive advertisement relevance (open integrated ads). These offices can be networked in their categories and beyond (to Niches) in the network as their status can be flaunted as a result of office to office or niche affiliation through ‘PAGE NETWORKING’.

PEEPSHARE

This is a platform that is readily available to every registered user to share more defined form of contents in terms of stories and experiences with their peeps. It can also be used to sharing categorically with definite friends or everyone, also ensuring privacy with specified contents shared.

ALPHACLIQUE

This platform is to effectively ensure that any group of persons (between 3 and 30) can effectively communicate and interact, its features are easy to use and in display are listed as: Meeting Goal, Polls, Host control, Picture reflect, Attendee Meeting Stats, File/ Document share, Scroll of Instant Contributions etc.

Benefits:

The platform has a goal of ensuring better word exchange, file instant group share, quicker decisive consensus and an overall on the go effective meeting.

This is a platform that is also readily available to every registered wingsedge.com user. It’s a platform that allows users ranging from 3 to 30 to exchange information, ideas and deliberate on issues using alphabets and share technique (in terms of documents, files and folders) by clicking.

TIPSHARE

This is a customized message dropdown to sending short instant message to any individual or a category of friends on the network.

Benefits:

Its intention is to further reduce virtual stress and ensuring clarity and precision while making short instant communication. It was inspired by the study and upgrade of the POKE feature in the Facebook model.

OPEN INTEGRATED ADVERTISEMENT

This platform is integrated into the various WebOffices offered where adverts can be created and posted for free but for a fee beyond the WebOffice. This platform seeks to address the well-known glitch of the low click through rate experienced on social media sites.

Every advert relayed is by default linked to an existing WebOffice which is in ways associated with the product advertised. A feature in the WebOffice called the PEC BRIEF (Product, Event and Campaign Brief) will be used to describe the advert relayed at any length.

The Adverts can be targeted based on individuals Interests/sectors, sex and location

Benefits:

This advert concept is to provide every kind of individual, group and corporate organization a connecting Web Office to the advert placed on any page on the network. In this way a product can be much more emphasised by target giving an overview of the product and other information. The advert will also be effective as it is targeted and precise.

Every further advert enquiry beyond the advert information relayed will be sourced outside of the network.

INSTANT MESSAGING AND WEB CHATTING

This feature is for every registered member of the network helping communication and interaction on the network. This way of communication ensures intimate interaction between friends and associates that are socially networked.