Preface

The dream of every business man is to become successful in business. Failure is an eye sore, so no one wants to experience failure either temporarily or permanently in his endeavor. There is a saying that “failure is not failure, but failure to learn from failure is”.

Though some schools of thought believe that there is no magical key to business success, experience has revealed that it is pertinent that entrepreneurs work hard both on the organizational and intellectual levels of their businesses to attract success into their lives.

Simply put, successful entrepreneurs are those who overcome both subjective and objective hurdles.

Understanding that the world is rapidly changing, this special book guides you into business triumphant keys that can help you conquer and succeed in life and business.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Knowledge And Wisdom

Chapter 2: Meditation And Planning

• Chapter 3: Faith
• Chapter 4: Prayers
• Chapter 5: The Price Of Perseverance
• Chapter 6 – The anointing

Introduction

Business is any venture you engage in that earns you income. Whether you are in paid employment or self-employment or in big time business, we all are in business. I want you to see that job or a business and I will tell you why you got that job because you are suitably qualified for it. You have  your first degree, first leaving school certificate, WASSCE, National Diploma, National Certificate of Education, a Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, professional qualification etc. a lot of money have gone into it. The reason you don’t know is because a large part of it was done by your parents or benefactors and you got a lighter part of it wait till you have children, then you know a lot of money has gone into training your children. Please, note your children are your life investment, take it or leave it. So, parenting is big time business. Your capital in that job is your years of financial, behavioral, social and time investment in the acquisition of knowledge, skills and certification. So, you now see why you don’t joke on your job. When many people are jubilating that they got job they have not carved out a path to make the most of their investment on the job, that’s why many don’t get promoted on the job.

In Nigeria, take business as a second option when they are unable to land a job and you begin to wonder who created those jobs. Your guess is as right as mine, the government. We rely on the government for everything, in the west, the richest people are business people but in Africa the riches are politicians and corrupt government officials. That is why government jobs looks very lucrative and attractive. even the budget shows 70% recurrent and 30% capital meaning you will fund government expenses with 70% why won’t people drift into government jobs and even the 30% for business may not get into the hands of business people but imagine if the reverse is the case, then many public servants would have come into business. It is succinct to classify business

• self-employment: you and at most 2 people
• micro business : 1-10
• small: 11-100
• medium: 101-300
• large: 301 and above

Whatever is your level right now the aim of this book is to move you gradually from being self-employed, micro, small, medium into a large business. I will release 12 keys of business growth into your and these may not be Harvard business school model but they are keys that will work if all you learnt in Harvard, Yale, Caltech, UI, Ife or ABU failed. These principles are rugged; they can breakthrough any obstacle, they are also applicable by people of different tribes or religion. These are:

• Knowledge And Wisdom
• Meditation And Planning
• Purity
• Faith
• Hope
• Prayers
• Speaking In Tongues
• Perseverance
• Giving
• The Anointing
• Confession

Fulfilling your purpose and destiny in life can be very challenging most times. However, taking the following steps can make you achieve your goals faster.

The 10 easy steps to Fulfill Your Purpose and Destiny are:

1. Begin your day with pray

Prayer is essential for faith believing person. Commit your way to the Lord every morning and believe that od will answer you.

2. Journalize your Vision

Make your vision very clear that others can key into it.

3. Let your vision be plain

Consider when, how, why, where, and what to do to set in motion your vision. Think about your goals, your probable time to realize your life changes that will contact your future. Look for ways you can maintain your expected result.

4. Think about obstacles

Think about the whole thing that may happen or become a situation, and that may thwart your vision from coming forth.

5. Overcome obstacles

Hindrances and Limitations may be seen along the way, but you can always keep away from them by preparing for them. Remember that you can conquer each obstacle.

6. Create Goals

Set up some specific and quality goals with the timeframes that you are sure you can be achieved. Detail your goals for easy actualization.

7. Create A Time Schedule

Schedule the steps you will take to accomplish each task.

8. Evaluate Your Goals

Monitor the steps you are engaging toward your goals. Each time you finish part of your goal, put on a smile and consider it a well done achievement toward accomplishing your vision.

9. Keep On Going Forward

Keep a good focus, and do not let disturbance hinder your way.

10. Take a rest and sit back, while relaxing, watch the fruit of your labor

Do this repeatedly until all of your life visions are fulfilled. Be persistent.

Roadmap to fulfilling destiny

In your quest to fulfill destiny you must have:

• A vision/dream

It is a picture of your future. Some are waiting for revelation, imagination can also do it. It is not a night dream. It is you seeing yourself in your ultimate goal how you would look like 10, 20, and 50 even 100 years from now. Be engrossed in it. Think about it all the time until you begin to dream then even at night. Also there is a strong correlation between your thinking and events around you as your thinking becomes engrafted in your dreams, your experience will begin to reflect the same.

• Write your vision down: write on a paper, your phone, and better if on screensaver, you may also make a portrait and place in your bedroom. Look at it everyday itemize and picture it every day. If you imagine it you can picture it.
• Makeup a plan: if you fail to plan you have planned to fail. Have a detailed plan of what you want to achieve, how you want to achieve it, what method you want to employ. Part of planning is to have action plan and several alternatives actions to achieving all your target. These targets are called goals. When you crystallize dreams into goals then it becomes achievable. You can break it down into 5 years, annual, monthly, weekly, even daily goals congruent with your dreams because your dreams is our long-term goals. If you spend a while doing this its worth it. Also subject it to periodic review maybe every week.
• Action: you must act. Take daily action in conjunction with our ultimate goals. Table consistent actions because in most cases, your action will be expectant maybe at variance but you must insist on obtaining your result. You must possess also the never give up attitude. Your motto should be I won’t stop, I won’t give up till my change comes”. You must understand that everyday is an examination culminating into a lifetime.
• Locate a mentor: a mentor is s a catalyst of the star in you if you must become and remain a star you require a mentor .there is no new thing under the sun. Whatever you want to achieve look for someone already doing the same, also study men who excelled in same thing before, then connect with such men. They will make your adventure easier and faster. You will need mentor for marriage, career, business, education, life etc.

Useful tips on your journey

• choose and abide by gods plan for your life
• engage in active personal preparation
• beware of procrastination
• be diligent
• apply wisdom in all dealing
• utilize the tool of prayers
• utilize the power of fellowship with likeminded people
• dare something everyday
• be disciplined in all tings
• determine the sacrifice you want to pay and be on your way paying it
• be dynamic in your approach
• live everyday at its best
• let where you are going determine your choice of marriage
• decision making is very important to all for living right
• have a mentor and follow committedly
• beware of enemies but much more your friends
  • does and don’t

In the journey of life there are does and don’t. You hit the does you obtain the desired result, you hit the don’t, so, you get a contrary one. I will tactically enumerate the dos and don’ts as much as it is in my power.

The dos

• recognize the supremacy of God
• recognize the place of family
• recognize the need for team work
• Bear a learner attitude. -there is a senses in every nonsense
• think differently from the crowd
• know and develop the right attitude to money, its your tool don’t let it control you
• give only what you can forego, alloy of people have bad payback habit
• choose a vocation that gives you competitive advantage to excel
• as much as possible be committed to continuous learning, its different from education
• you need a supportive spouse because there is high correlation between marriage and individual net wroth
• because someone labeled you inferior should be the reason you should work hard to obtain result
• acknowledgement that hard work is more important than high intellect.

Everyone has talent what counts is ability, ability is developed through practice- Michael Jordan

• be an expert time manager
• hype your social skills it goes a long way
• be investment conscious
• tap the gift of god in you
• be honest with people
• never try to do another man job
• cultivate the ability to sell your ideas, products etc to others
• good luck is about hard work
• be courageous, don’t take no for an answer
• do good to all men
• make sure you have done your best everyday you lose your eyes

The don’ts

• Hope can be very dynamic so give allowances
• do not compare yourself to anyone, you are the best of yourself
• don’t despise the gift of God in you
• beware of close associates

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There are certain ingredients of success that can propel a man into exploits. You want to succeed in life, fine but these pillars are needed to make the journey very easy.

1. Attitude: Attitude is everything. You need a good attitude or simply put a positive attitude to

• work
• life
• business
• family
• religion

The fundamental attitude of stars is the learner’s attitude which is a product of meekness. It is attitude that determines your altitude. If you remain true as a learner you remain ever rising. In the field of life, you never come across a star without a coach.

2. Diligence: diligence means hard work but in the present day, it is called smart work. You need to put in a lot of efforts into your assignment. Diligence is a key factor in actualizing your destiny. There is an individual working 18 hours daily and you are working 8 hours and you expect same result?, never.
3. Discipline: Discipline is the scare of success. You must engage in strict discipline, time to study, active work durations a time for dedicated reasoning.
4. Dedication: Dedication is doggedness to a particular cause. Dedication is like planting a seed into the ground, it dies and germinates and there after produces fruits. Dedication means to be buried into ones assignment till you produce outstanding results. Like a business titan said he does not accept failure in his company- that company made 100m naira profit in 5 years!
5. Wisdom: If you score 10% each in the four aforementioned factors without wisdom you will still fail. Wisdom is simply knowing how to do what you need to do. Obtain great results in spite of prevailing circumstances. The raw material of wisdom is knowledge. You need adequate knowledge of relevant skills in your field because your continuous rising takes commitment to skill development.

Attitude

Attitude is the first thing most people notice in you after your physical appearance. It takes about one tenth of a second for a person to form their first impression concerning you. To put that into point of view, it takes someone about one third of a second to make a blink. That’s how small a time you have to make a first impression on someone, yes, less than a blink of the eye!

You have small control on how someone pre-judges you in such short space of time but the things you do have many control over is how you are judged in the time after such first blink. Your attitude describes the way you hold yourself, how you listen to someone when they speak, the way you speak of others, the respect you display to others, your disposition, your manner, your feelings and the way you expect people to respond to you.

Would you like people to be eager to be around you or would you rather wish they avoid you and take another way when they see you coming towards their direction? I doubt, you will prefer the latter!

By taking on a positive manner and training yourself to see good side in as many situations as possible then you become a much more happy person overall plus someone that others enjoy being around with. You don’t need to bother going around with silly grin on your face every day, it’s not about that really. It’s all about changing your feelings so that you change your attitude on life and attract many positive thinking people towards your life. No one loves to be around Negative Nelly and I know you certainly don’t want to be such person. o

Your attitude is not a thing that you can change overnight or a few minutes but by practicing a few steps repeatedly you will begin to see things in a really more positive illumination and for sure others will notice the changes in you too. Change is an excellent thing!

How To Develop A Positive Attitude

Find out what is making you to feel unhappy or negative

Find out why you are having negative opinions or thoughts. Your childhood training can have a big effect on how you developed your thoughts in adulthood. If you found of having negative thoughts or jumping into conclusions about something or someone, try to think of something positive concerning them instead. Always replace negative thought with positive thought whether big or small.

Look for a role model who can makes you feel good

Who do you usually look up to and wish you were much more like. This may be because they are good looking, rich or look like they have great thing going for them but the dissimilarity between you and them is very certainly your manner towards life.

Don’t look up to someone who remarks negatively about others or complains regarding their life. Such people are grateful for what they have gathered and have very worked hard for it. They are pleased about waking up all mornings and they have positive view on life in spite of of the troubles that confronts them. When you start thinking negatively about some things as yourself what do you think your role model will do and mimic their behavior? By practicing this, it will become natural for you to develop more positive behaviors and thoughts.

Be around positive people

Surround yourself with those people who have positive attitudes then you will begin to act surprisingly more like them and change your usual negative thoughts towards others and your life. You will then become what you think and also become the people you surround yourself with. You need to cut negative people away from your life if required.

Practice Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a mental state attained by concentrating on one’s awareness on the current moment, while calmly recognizing and accepting one’s thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations, put in place as therapeutic technique. You should be able to live in the current moment, pay much attention by purpose and be less judgmental about others feelings.

Compliment people daily

Be complimenting people with real genuine compliments and see the happiness it brings them. Paying people great compliments and good smile releases pleased endorphins into your blood stream and helps you feel good about yourself.

Stop judging others

Judging others is not beneficial and often than not result in negative thoughts and distorted behavior towards another person. Develop changes in your attitudes and thoughts towards others and your life. A bad attitude looks like a flat tire, it won’t get far until you change it.

You are in better position to change your attitude and such vibes you give off to our world – endeavor to make them positive vibes alone!

A Way To Discipline Yourself

In the heart of most successful persons, is self-discipline. Whether you see success in their individual lives or their professional lives, it must have started with an inherent ability for self-control of discipline – Your emotions, your thoughts. your behaviors or your habits. All of these must be kept under check.

If you are keen to achieve those superior goals you set, understanding ways to discipline yourself is a great key ingredient to that success recipe. However, self-discipline is not something really new. Self-discipline has been a major topic of discussion even thousands of years, and it has been championed by many of the world’s most flourishing people.

What Successful people understand that discipline is the doorway to the accomplishment of their goals. Therefore, they learned very well how to use discipline in their respective lives to achieve their ideas. They optimized the art of self-discipline by producing a foundational set of great habits that helped them see things all the way through.

There are usually10 habits through which you can discipline yourself. If you are able to apply these 10 habits in life, you will be able to create a foundation for actualizing your goals. When you don’t have these habits, you find out that you will just be moving around in the dark.

Discipline Habits

The pathway to self-discipline becomes live when you are able to infuse the following peculiar habits into your life, then it becomes easier disciplining yourself. However, it is not an overnight thing. It takes a long time to form a habits or break.

1- Gratitude

A well developed habit of gratitude will helps move you away from continually desiring what you don’t have, also towards valuing what you do have.

Gratitude helps improve your mental health, your spirituality and your emotional wellbeing. Also, it can helps you move away from any state of lack and be attracted to a position of abundance.

2- Forgiveness

Spending large fraction of our days in a situation of regret, anger or guilt, create more of problems than solutions that can move our life forward. Anger and hate drains far more energy than forgiveness and love. When you forgive, you learn letting go of certain things.

Lacking the habits of forgiveness will not make you to achieve self-discipline. Most times, you tend to be too worried about how someone mistreated you than to focus on virtues such as discipline or achieving your goals.

3 – Meditation

Good meditation can help put your minds at ease. It can provide you with spiritual positioning that often acts as avenue for growth.

Meditation has big impact on our capacity to become self-disciplined. It clears the mind’s state, and sets appropriate tone for your day. Meditation helps to enhance your mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health at once, making you to gain some of the largest results for minimal time invested.

Meditations can something of 10 or 15 minutes. Stabilize your mind and don’t let it drift. When it starts to drift, roll it back.

Meditation is about aligning our spiritual or astral bodies with your physical bodies. When you align the two, you will be able to live more attentive life by refusing to worry about those common things that are capable of weighing you down. This will help you lighten your load indeed.

4 – Lively Goal Setting

Develop lively goals that are well written out. These are specific and measurable goals. You must engage in lively goal setting on daily basis, with this, it becomes very easier to achieve your dreams.

Lively goal setting brings about discipline because it gives you direction. It enables you to see daily activities clearly and plan your well.

5 – Sleep

Get enough sleep to be able to do things well.

It’s significant to get minimum of 6 hours sleep per night, no matter what.

7 – Exercise

Exercise is very paramount to your fitness and well being.

Doing enough and regular exercise can help you become more disciplined and improve your life in various ways. Regular exercise can reduces your levels of pain and stress.

8 – Organization

Be organized to enable you become self disciplined and accomplish your goals..

9 – Time Management

When you manage your time properly, you will have room for the things that matters. You will space for the actions that will enable you achieve your goals.

10 – Persistence

You need to be persistent and focused to be able to achieve your goals.

Persistence is that positive habit that makes you not to give up easily.

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This question is very critical, and it usually resonates and it is in daily discussions of individuals. It is a question of identity. Before you find out your assignment, you should know who you are and who you are supposed to be. In this question lies your assignment. Who are you? Is the question the world will ask you. You may not deliver on destiny, apologetically you must prove your worth. Who you are entails the following:

• Introduce yourself
• What is your makeup?
• What is your duty here?
• What makes you think you are needed here?
• Tell us about yourself

Now this question may give you access or not, it may grant you favor of not. There are people whose names open doors just by mentioning it. That’s why a good name is a priceless asset.

1.2 What are you born to become?

In question of your assignment, you are a solution not a question mark but that solution you carry is exhibited in the form of an assignment. Some are Lawyers, Doctors, Engineers, and Pastors. There are various assignments that individuals are endowed to deliver to their generation. To live outside your assignment is to live a wasted years because you can only shine in the place of your assignment. Your assignment is your mission, it is your purpose. That’s the reason for your coming into the earth. If you fulfill your purpose you have done well.

1.3 Know-how

The know what is important as well as the know-how. Know what is knowledge and you know knowledge is powerful. If you know it shows but the knowhow is wisdom. In fulfilling your destiny, wisdom is a critical factor. Even the holy book said “wisdom is the principal thing” but wisdom is applied knowledge. When knowledge is correctly applied the result is inevitable.

Wisdom factor is always the missing link. Many know nothing, few seek knowledge and fewer more apply wisdom. The primary factor in fulfillment of your destiny is wisdom-the knowhow. Let’s be practical here, you must store up enough knowledge- read books, seek mentors, read biographies etc. so the equation is:

Knowledge + Insight = Wisdom

Insight is the same as light or revelation which is a product of meditation. So insight is the force that lights up knowledge and propels it into wisdom.

Benefits of Self-Knowledge

Below are some reasons why you may want to understand your own nature:

• Happiness. You will be better-off when you can articulate who you are in life. You must be able to expressing your desires. Developing ability to get what you want.
• Avoiding inner conflict.  Your outside actions should be in accordance with your inner feelings and values, so as to experience less inside conflict.
• Making Better decisions.  Knowing yourself will help you make better choices about all.
• Having Self-control. When you know who you are, you will know what motivates you to refuse to accept bad habits and develop very good ones. You’ll have the foreknowledge of which values and goals can activate your willpower.
• Ability to resist social pressure.  When you are well grounded in your preferences and values, your yes will become yes.
• Ability to tolerate and understand others.
• Having pleasure and vitality:  Knowing who you really are makes you feel more alive and makes your experiences in life richer and more exciting.

Understanding Building Blocks of Self

The building blocks of self are as below:

Values

Being ready to help others, being creative, living healthy and financially secured is guides to decision-making and encouragers for goals. Think and write about your values so that you can take healthy actions when it matters. To be self-motivated, know your values and worth

Interests

This has to do with your passions, hobbies, and whatsoever draws your interest over a substantial period of time. To know your interests, you ask yourself the following questions:  What do I pay attention to? What am I curious about?  What am I worried about?  When you are mentally focused on something it makes life more vivid and can give you a clue to your genuine passions.

So many people are able to build careers around profound interest in something.

Temperament  

Your temperamento has to do with your inborn preferences. Are you an introvert person (you restore your energy by being alone)? or extrovert person (by being with people)?  Are you a go-with-the-flow type of person or a planner?  Do you make your decisions more based on your feelings or thoughts and facts?  Do you prefer Big Ideas or details? Your appropriate answers to these temperament questions could help you move toward situations in which you will flourish and keep away from situations from which you could be hurt.

Around-the-Clock actions  

The “around-the- actions” type refers to when you appropriately like to do things. This is called your ‘biorhythms’. Are you a night person or a morning person, for example? When in the day does your energy reach peak? You need to schedule activities when you are at your best form, so as to respect your innate biology. In all areas, it’s more favorable to enjoy life when you don’t waste much energy pretending to be someone you aren’t meant to be.

Life Mission and Goals 

What have been memorable events in your life? You’ve got to frankly ask yourself this question.

This will give you clues to your hidden identity, to your divine work, career, and life satisfaction.

Strengths

Strengths has to do with abilities, skills, and talents, and character strengths including love of learning, loyalty, emotional intelligence, respect for others, fairness, and lots more. Understanding your strengths forms one of the foundations of self-confidence. Inability to acknowledge your own super strengths could put you on the path of low self-esteem.  Look out for skills in you that could be clues to your strengths. When people applaud your good side, it is an indication of your area of strength which you must pay attention to and develop the skill close to it. 

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Preface

Do you have a life vision? Are you having a good mental picture of what you want to become in life, set the right goals and how you can realize them? The first journey every man must embark on in life is the journey of discovering who he is and the assignment he is destined to do on earth. Pursuing this assignment with vigor will put him on the path of his life purpose, and connect him to life of significance, thereby becoming fulfilled in life, successful, wealthy  and healthy.

To understand your destiny path and be so articulated enough to fulfill your life purpose, there are certain ingredients you must carry along with you as you journey through life daily. This is why this book has been specially written to equip you in this direction to enable you optimize your potential and be a go-getter in life.

In this book you will be able to know who you are and align yourself to your life purpose, know the steps you can take to live out whom God created you to be, and triumph in life and business.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Understanding Yourself

Chapter Two: Ingredients Of Success

Chapter Three: Fulfill Your Purpose And Destiny