15 Skills You Need To Be A Great Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurial Skills Can be Developed! Entrepreneurship is a discipline that requires the mastery of some skills.

 Becoming an entrepreneur is not accomplished simply by attending a course, learning a particular tool (e.g., like programming) or preparing a business plan; these are very small parts of a much larger set of activities, about which no one is being clear.

Every successful entrepreneur had to learn how to be a great manager, be innovative, Manage uncertainty, Respond to, reduce or re-engineer risk, Access and utilize resources, along the line. These are the attributes that will earn you the chance to become management genius.

If you're not deemed management gurus, you never get your shot at the big-time Period. You never get the chance to learn or hone those skills that will enable you to someday start your own business.

 Even big-time entrepreneurs like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg had to learn how to be effective managers. If not, the companies they founded, the Google and Facebook of the world, never would have gone anywhere. So if you must be the next great entrepreneur these special skill is a must mastered.

Remember, Skill is the ability to habitually perform a particular action or task at a high level of performance to consistently achieve a desired outcome.

Here are the skills and attributes that executives and business leaders look for in up-and-comers. If you've got some of them or can fake it well enough to convince the powers that be to give you a chance, you might be management genius.

 1.    Seeing the big picture. When I meet someone who understands markets, how companies operate, how business gets done--who gets it--I think that guy's got potential. If, on the other hand, all you know and are interested in is your own little domain, that's all you're likely to see in your career. You can see far! Entrepreneurs need to know whether their company has the correct resources.

2.    Ability to Plan: Entrepreneurs must be able to develop business plans to meet goals in a variety of areas, including finance, marketing, production, sales and personnel. Communication Skills: Entrepreneurs should be able to explain, discuss, sell and market their goods or service.

 "A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now," Bushnell said. "Not tomorrow. Not next week. But, today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."

 3.    Hunger to achieve. If you live to accomplish things, to make things happen so you can look back and say I did that or I was part of that, managers and recruiters will see it. They look for that sort of thing in up-and-comers. It helps, of course, to have the capability to deliver, but it's a great starting point. There must be a genuine hunger in you to succeed.

 4.    Courage. The rule is “as a man thinketh in his heart so he is”. If your believe is wrong, your expectation will be wrong. As you see yourself so other will see you. Build greater self-confidence.
 Very few of us actually possess any meaningful amount of self-confidence when we're young for the simple reason that we haven't had enough experience, enough successes and failures, to develop confidence yet. But if you have the guts to at least act like you do, that's enough to get folks to believe in you and give you a shot. Have a healthy self-esteem!

 5.    Mental Development.  Intelligence! Develop yourself mentally. Read. Read value to your beauty. Without a sitting to study there cannot be rising to flight. ‘How well you sit determine how high you rise’. Watch creative program that will develop you. Ask question, “he who has a why to live can manage anyhow”. Read about things, it will help your conversation. Observe, you will learn from observation. What people are doing, how they are doing it. These will help you to come up with new ideals.

6.    Functional competence. Whatever it is you're going to be running, if people don't think you've got the expertise to do it effectively, forget it. These days, managers are expected to be the best at what they manage. The best engineers are usually tapped to run teams. 

The brightest finance minds become controllers. That's how it works. Do something, learn how to do something to solve problem. Learn what you have not learn, develop critical skills that make you to separate problem from opportunities. Be good at what you do!

 7.    Prioritization and tradeoffs. The real world isn't like what they teach you in school. Nothing is ever black and white or cut and dried. That's why so much of management competence is your ability to effectively prioritize and make tradeoffs. Make versus buy decisions. Zero based budgeting. Knowing what's critical and what to bump. Every management interview will have questions along those lines. Now you know why.

 8.    Interpersonal Skills: The ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with customers and clients, employees, financial lenders, investors, lawyers and accountants, among others, is crucial to the success of the entrepreneur’s business venture

 9.    A motivator of people. Someone who make things happen. They have good communication skill. Some folks just have this ability to get people moving in unison to accomplish a goal. They can explain things in ways that people understand, that resonate with them, that get them excited. 

You'd jump through hoops of fire for them. Well, maybe not that, but you get the point. They have executive presence. We say they're born leaders, but in reality, they're just skills we develop along the way.

 10.    Decision-making. If you ask different people what decision-making is all about, you'll get different answers. Mostly you'll get vague notions about decisiveness and leadership. Decision-making isn't just about being decisive. 

Don’t be too much on a hurry. The trust person will become the strongest and richest person on the long run. You have to make the right decisions. That comes down to probing, listening, reasoning, and knowing when to trust your gut. Doing that well is the most important aspect of management, hands down.

 11.    Leadership Skills: The ability to develop a vision for the company and to inspire employees to pursue it is imperative for success. You must be ready, available and fitted. Don’t make a mistake of demanding trust from other people when building trust but demand it from yourself. Remember, leaders are also a server.

12.    Adaptability. We live and work in a fast-paced world. Managers have to be flexible, capable of adapting on the fly to changing conditions. If you can't adapt, you'll never last. You won't be able to face the obstacles that competitive markets throw at you and, not just persevere, but come out on top. And you won't be effective working with a diverse group of peers and executives, either.

 13.    Initiative. I became a supervisor in my teens, a manager in my twenties, and a senior executive of a midsized public company in my thirties. How did that happen? Mostly, it was initiative. I literally went out looking for the toughest and highest visibility tasks, stuck my neck out, and went for it. Senior executives love that sort of thing.

 14.    Top-down management style. Command and control style management isn't popular these days. Whatever. Call it what you want, getting things done is all about setting the right goals, determining how best to achieve them, and getting everyone executing like their lives depend on it. that is ‘top-down management’. 

When you're young, we want to see you move heaven and earth and make things happen. There will be plenty of time to smooth out your rough edges later.

 15.    The Entrepreneurial Mind: What makes an entrepreneur? While every entrepreneur and startup success story is unique in its own right, there are a few characteristics and qualities that span the entrepreneurial mind. 

Take a look at some common traits and the entrepreneurs who have embodied them throughout the years. Perseverance, Conviction, Hope, Optimistic, Passion, Drive, Conquer procrastination. Remember, Procrastination is a lazy apology.

While the goal is always success, accomplished entrepreneurs must be prepared to move on to the next venture should one not work out.

"I have not failed," Thomas Edison once said. "I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

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 Entrepreneurship is an alternative solution to unemployment

65 inspiring Sentences that can change the way you think

The power of a single sentence is tremendous. A single sentence can either make your day or in the same time ruin somebody’s day. It can change your mood. 

Just a few words put together, yet they make such big impact. But there are few sentences that can inspire us to change our life for the better. And make your world a better place.

1. "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
2. "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
3. "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
4. "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
5. "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
6. "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
7. "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
8. "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
9. "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
10. "God is subtle but he is not malicious."
11. "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
12. "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
13. "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
14. "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
15. "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
16. "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
17. "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
18. "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
19. "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
20. "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
21. "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
22. "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
23. "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
24. "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
25. "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
26. "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
27. "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
28. "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
29. "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
30. "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
32. "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
33. "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
34. "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
35. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
36. "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
37. "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
38. "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
39. "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
40. "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
41. "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
42. "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
43. "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
44. "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
45. "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
46. "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
47. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
48. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
49. "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
50. "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
51. "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
52. "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
53. "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
54. "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
55. "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
56. "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
57. "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
58. Climb mountain not so the world can see you, but so you can  see the world.
59. You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.
60. The most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
61. Go where you are celebrated, not where you are tolerated.
62. The person that you will spend the most time with in your life is yourself, so you better try to make yourself as interesting as possible.
63.   Comfort is the enemy of achievement. 
64. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
65. Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Related: 52 Happiness quote that that will change your whole life.

Your turn now…
What is the one sentence that you have heard or read and has made great impact on your life?  For example mine was an advice my father gave me when I was young – “If you are unemployed and you are not looking for a job 8 hours per day, you don’t want to work.”

Entrepreneurship is an alternative solution to unemployment

Definition
    The capacity and willingness to develop, organize and

manage a business venture along with any of its risks in order to make

a profit. The most obvious example of entrepreneurship is the starting

of new businesses.
    In economics, entrepreneurship combined with land, labor,

natural resources and capital can produce profit. Entrepreneurial spirit

is characterized by innovation and risk-taking, and is an essential part

of a nation's ability to succeed in an ever changing and increasingly

competitive global marketplace.
    At its core, entrepreneurship is starting a business from scratch, which includes everything from idea conception to managing the company for the long term.
    Nolan Bushnell, who founded Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's,

believes the key to becoming an entrepreneur is as simple as doing

something.
    The turnout for the just concluded NIS recruitment exercise

that left scores injured and about 21 people dead has underscored a

very chilling point: unemployment is still very much an issue that

threatens the economic survival of the people and that of the nation.
Unemployment rate in Nigeria increased to 23.90 per cent in 2011 from

21.10 per cent in 2010, according to the National Bureau of Statistics

(NBS) and it has expressed worry that it may rise by an additional two

per cent before the year ends. Given the NIS recruitment turnout, many

people are wondering if the figure had not been doctored.
Since the exercise, however, an outcry has been raised against the

state of unemployment in Nigeria and several alternatives have

emerged to unemployment in the country. One is entrepreneurship. The

question, however, is can entrepreneurship solve the youth

unemployment crisis? A group of entrepreneurs, especially young

entrepreneurs believe that, yes, entrepreneurship can indeed solve the

youth unemployment crisis, and then called on all stakeholders,

especially the government, to ensure entrepreneurship development in

Nigeria.
    A group of researchers, in their “Entrepreneurship

Development: A Panacea for Unemployment Reduction in Nigeria”,

published in the Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and

Management Sciences, agreed that it was imperative to “increase

entrepreneurial activities to reduce high rate of unemployment” in

Nigeria. 
    Entrepreneurship development, they said, “has led to employment generation, growth of the economy and sustainable development,” adding that entrepreneurship plays an important role in

bringing down unemployment in the country.
Just last year, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor reported that

entrepreneurs in Africa help boost employment and GDP rates.

Countries like Nigeria, Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi,

Namibia, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia were listed.
“The entrepreneurial landscape in sub-Saharan Africa is changing

rapidly and the region is now becoming a Mecca for business

development and growth,” remarked Mike Herrington, lead author of the

report and GEM Executive Director and Professor at University of Cape

Town, South Africa, on GEM’s website adding that “opportunities

abound and a positive spirit is emerging amongst the population of

these countries.”
    The United Nations (UN), has also observed that global

development is entering a phase where “entrepreneurship will

increasingly play a more important role.” The body cited three major

reasons for this observation. In the West, it said, the managed economy

of the 1970s-2000s was characterized by reliance on big business and

mass production and thus, gave way to “a so-called entrepreneurial

economy.” It observed that in this age and time, knowledge-driven goods and services have become more flexibly provided by smaller firms, forcing the emergence of a creative class to require less interference, but more facilitating state.
Second, in the emerging countries, it said, especially – Brazil, Russia,

India and China, “impressive growth has been driven by a veritable

entrepreneurial revolution. The need in these economies to sustain

growth through sustainable access to resources, knowledge, markets,

and low-carbon industrialization puts a premium on innovative

entrepreneurship.”
More so, in the least developed countries, where aid dependency is

high, donors have been shifting the emphasis in development

cooperation towards private sector development, the UN said, adding

that “promoting youth entrepreneurship here has become a vital policy

objective of many development organizations and donors.”

Roles of entrepreneurs in national economic development

    In discussing the roles entrepreneurship plays in bringing

down unemployment in the country, it is pertinent to seek out the role

of entrepreneurs in economic development. As someone succinctly put

it, an entrepreneur plays a pivotal role not only in the development of

industrial sector of a country but also in the development of farm and

service sector.
    Young entrepreneurs in Nigeria are also saying that with the

new upsurge in entrepreneurship in the country, they are introducing

new ideas into a fledgling economy that can help the country grow.
These entrepreneurs believe that entrepreneurship is one of the most

important input in the economic development of a country, while noting

that as entrepreneurs, they act as a trigger head to give spark to

economic activities by their entrepreneurial decisions.
    The role of the government in promoting entrepreneurship
The UN, in its “Entrepreneurs and economic development” report,

observed that “for entrepreneurs to play an appropriate role, the role of the state remains important, if not more so than before. Strong states, as regulators and gatekeepers, play a particularly vital role. In the

absence of appropriate ‘rules of the game’, entrepreneurship may result

in undesirable social outcomes, including corruption, crime, speculation

and financial crises, and may worsen the vulnerabilities of people

during natural disasters.”
    While entrepreneurs and bodies like the CEI have constantly

advocated for friendly policies to encourage the SMEs and startup

entrepreneurs in the country, the Nigerian government has insisted that

they are making sure that the Nigerian entrepreneurs are giving level

playing grounds to do business.
    For instance, the Federal Government, in collaboration with

foreign bodies have been making capital available to SMEs. And experts

believe that the international organizations have, since mid-1980s,

continued to play vital roles in providing foreign capital to some SMEs in

Nigeria. World Bank, African Development Bank (ADB) and International

Finance Corporation (IFC), are among the said organizations. It could be

seen that entrepreneurship business was, hitherto, neglected in

Nigeria.
    Also, some of the agencies such as the Nigerian Export

Promotion Council (NEPC), National Economic Reconstruction Fund

(NERFUND), the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), among

others, have been established by government to aid entrepreneurship

development in Nigeria.
Entrepreneurship opportunities in Nigeria
    Tech-based businesses are currently revolutionizing the way

business is done in Nigeria. According to Mr Tomi Davies, the CEO of

TechnoVision, “technology has infinitely improved communication of

ideas through its making tools available for entrepreneurs to express

their visions... It is already changing the way we search for, buy and

even consume our food. From recipes to restaurants we are seeing the

incursion of technology.”
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VISION MAKE A LEADER

 

 “I have a dream” is a speech delivered by Martin Luther king Jnr. On 28th August, 1963. He was an American civil rights activist who had a dream about black Americans emancipation one day. That dream came to pass in the election of Barack Obama as first African American president.

Dreams are a sequence of scenes and feeling occurring in the mind during sleep. A dreamer is a person who dreams, a person with ideas or plans that do not seem practicable or realistic. Dreams can be buried in the subconscious mind for a long time. They can be forgotten.

Joseph was a dreamer. He did not hid his dream. He suffered for his dreams. He believed in his dreams. He did not bother himself with the “why” of the circumstances around him. His thoughts were “what should I do now?”

VOICE OUT YOUR DREAM
Joseph has a dream. He believed in the dream and it took him not less than 15 years to actualize the dream.
And Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it to his brothers and they hated him yet the more. Gen 37:5
What are your dreams? What are you able to visualize or imagine? Like Joseph, voice out your dreams. No matter what it takes, don’t let your dream die.

MEN WHO TRUE VISION SUBDUE KINGDOM
Everyone of us has the capacity to lead. (prov 29:18).
In 1774, a man by the named john Adam boldly declare a his vision for a new nation, he was in thirteen state that was together  become independent in the parliament in king of England at that time is like impossibility and in short year united state of American was born.

 Henry ford, founded the ford automotive, has a vision that every American should be able to drive a car, in a few year they were turning out million of dollars, they were producing 1000 car, and the workers said who is going to buy it? He said don’t worry. Few years later, their production raise to four thousand (4,000).

 I have also read about past American president John F Kennedy who declare in 1960, that in the next 10 years America will put a mark on the moon, at the time he said it he didn’t quit know how it will happen, nine (9) year it become a reality.

In 28 August 1963 Martin Luther King Jnr. stood on the step of Lincoln memorial, Washington D.C. and said I have dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judge by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. In a few years dawn the line his vision come to pass.

Sometimes in the early 1980, a preacher in Nigeria by name E.A Adeboye was praying in his rented apartment and said lord give me a house and the Lord said to him I will not only give you a house, I will give you a city, and today it come pass. The evidence is seen at kilometer 46 Lagos – Ibadan express way Nigeria. The headquarter of the Redeemed Christian church of God.

In October 1998, on the foundation lay ceremony of faith tabernacle, recognize by Guinness book of record as the largest church auditorium in the world.

Were David oyedepo bring out a shirt of paper and read out from the list of a meeting held in April 1982 in a city call offa in kwara state Nigeria, and he declare that the lord show me a vision, I saw wind and it was a wind of an aircraft preaching the gospel around the world, I saw also a tent at the base of this ministry that will sit fifty (50) thousand people. Seventeen and half years later the vision come to pass. September 1999 the foundation of the tent was laid were they are running two full services today.

THE POWER OF VISION
God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that will ask, what you ask for should be in line with what you are thinking. And the principle is as a man thinketh so he is, the picture in your imagination is what it print out in real life. Sometimes what people ask for does not march with their vision, thinking.

A vision is the most potent weapon for creativity. A vision is a mental picture of preferable future that comes with conviction and passion. Your vision is you future. What you see inside is what you see outside.  The dreams of your today are the reality of your tomorrow.

 The picture in your imagination is what God print out for you in reality. Vision is the capacity to see. All human being has two eyes, the inner eye and the physical eye. You can’t see the future without the inner eye. Vision is base on insight.

You must exercises the operation of your inner eye in the fulfillment of your destiny. Where there is no vision there are no leader. When you come across your vision, you will have the feeling of I was born for this, I was born for that.

Be the one who will create a new dimension in politics, the one who will create a new dimension in business, in education, in sport the people who will own sport complex. If there is new York meaning there is old one. etc.

SOURCE OF VISION
Vision comes true praying, reading scriptures, and reading this books of the bible. Vision come from hearing somebody story. Testimony can be powerful, because you will hear a voice telling you, you can do it.

Vision can come from direct encounter with God. True vision comes from God!
A vision of the product of human mind can be frustrated, stuck. But when a vision is of product of God mind, there is no voice can stop it from being realize. Because He don’t design His vision according to mans plan but He design His plan according to His resources.

Eyes have not seen, ear has not hear neither has it enter into the heart of any man the thing that God has purpose for those who love Him...  say it aloud I’m expectant!

LESSONS FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S LETTER TO HIS SON’S TEACHER

 

Several lessons have be learn from the words, life and time of America’s best president, Abraham Lincoln. There are yet more profound treasures of wisdom to be drawn from his letter to his son’s teacher. “He will have to learn, I know that all men are not just all men are not true, if he desire and decide to be.

“But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero; that for every selfish politician there is a dedicated leader”. 

Even in the mire of corruption, a couple of people still maintain there integrity. We should therefore learn to treat people as individuals and be ware of ruthless generalizations.

“Teach him that for every enemy there is a friend”. For every one that hate you terribly enough to kill you, there is someone that love you well enough that will die for you.

Teach him a dollar earned is of far more value than five dollar found. Diligence and hard work is of essence, not just to earn money but to gain personal value. 

“Teach him to learn to loose and also enjoy winning”. Taking responsibility for both your success and your failures breeds peace and fosters progress.

“Steer him from envy if you can”. Envy and jealousy is a sign of low esteem. If you value who you are and what you have, Envy and jealousy is a sign of low esteem. If you value who you are and what you have… you have no cause to be envious.

“Teach him the wonder of books; also give the quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hillside”. Meditation is an integral part of any life of meaning. Never miss your quiet time, the product of it shapes your life.

“Teach him the secret of quiet laughter”. To keep your intact and save your face from the ripples of aging, smile. It takes tens of muscles to frown but less than ten to smile.

‘In school teach him it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat”. Honesty and integrity is more manly than effrontery to cheat.
“Teach to have faith in his own ideas, even if every one tells him
 they wrong”. It takes only one person to kill your idea and that person has to be you. Your dreams remains immortal so long as you believe in it.  

“Teach him to be gentle with gentle people and tough with tough people”. But never forget, evil does not overcome evil, you to use good to over come evil.

“try to give him the strength not follow the crowd when everybody is getting on the bandwagon’s”. If you can’t beat them, don’t join them stand alone, stand out. As soon as they notice what stand you out, they will come filling up behind you.

“Teach him to listen to all men, but teach him also to filter all that he hears on a screen of truth and take only the good that comes through”. Practice selective listening and selective thinking. You can’t afford to give thought to every word you hear from every man. 

“Teach how to laugh when he is sad”. Encouragement for you is best generated by you. Don’t cry so badly because of the sorrow of the night that your vision become too impaired to see joy in the morning.

 Never let the distractions that attracts and the attraction that distracts steal your concentration. Never shy away responsibility of fighting a course you know not be just.

“Teach him there is no shame in tears”. Be sincere even with your emotions. “Unexpressed emotion could be an equivalent of time bomb. Tears is not a sign of weakness, it is a physical and emotional excreta.

“Teach him to close his ear to howling mob, and to stand and fight if he think he is right”. The incessant noise of flies does not hinder, the butcher is business. Never let the distractions that attracts and the attraction that distracts steal your concentration. Never shy away responsibility of fighting a course you know not be just.

“Teach him greatly, but do not cuddle him because only the test of fire makes fines steel”. Love without discipline is stupidity, discipline without love is brutality.

“Let him the courage to be impatient; let him have the patience to be brave”. Go for what you want on time, pursue it with confidence and never settle for the less.

“Teach him always to have sublime faith in his creator and faith in himself too, because then will he always have faith in mankind”. To trust God and not to trust yourself is to be strong and lazy. To trust your self without God is to be weak and useless.

“This is a big order, but please see what you can do. He is such a fine little fellow, my son! Give someone a cumbersome assignment, but make him fill he has a choice, he is very much likely to go the extra mile to get it done than when you stamp your authority on him and make him feel used.

These lessons are not only for, fine little Lincoln, but also for pretty old folks.

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52 happiness quotes that can change your whole life

 

Here are 52 happiness quotes gathered from all work of life Everyday Life Lessons, to brighten your day and move your mindset in a positive direction.

1.     Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.

2.     Life will never be perfect, no matter how hard you try.  Even if you pour your heart and soul into it, you will never have that perfection you seek.  There will always be broken hearts, there will always be days where nothing goes right.  But you must accept and learn that even the most imperfect things will always be made better with love and laughter.  (Read Stumbling on Happiness.)

3.     Satisfaction is not always the fulfillment of what you want; it is the realization of how blessed you are for what you have.

4.     Sometimes you just have to look back at your past and smile about how far you’ve come.

5.     Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.

6.     It’s not that everything will be easy or exactly as you had expected, but you must just choose to be grateful for all that you have, and happy that you got a chance to live this life, no matter how it turn out.

7.     When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing.  Sometimes you just need to relax, breathe, let go, and just live in the moment.

8.     Keep your heart open to dreams.  For as long as there’s a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.

9.     Even though you cannot control everything that happens, you can control your attitude toward what happens.  And in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

 10. Being kind to yourself in thoughts, words and actions is as        important as being kind to others.

11.   You are responsible for how you feel no matter what someone does to you. Remember, you are always in control of your thoughts so choose to feel confident and adequate rather than angry and insecure.

12.As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them.  Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

13. One of the greatest freedoms is truly not caring what everyone else thinks of you.

14.  Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes.  There is no need to explain or make sense of it.  Just trust what you feel.

15. You won’t always be punished FOR your anger, but you will always be punished BY your anger.

16. You will never fully believe in yourself if you keep comparing yourself to everyone else.  Instead, compare yourself to who you were yesterday.  (Read Authentic Happiness.)

17. You don’t need a lot of money to lead a rich life.  Good friends and a loving family are worth their weight in gold.

18.You look the best when you wear your smile.  There is no beauty like the one that comes from inside you.

19. The time spent on hating is the time lost for living a peaceful, happy life.  It is a habit that controls what you see, what you say, what you do, and ultimately what you become.

20. Sometimes you need to be alone to reflect on life.  Take time out to take care of yourself.  You deserve it.

21. If you want your life to change, your choices and actions must change.  Every day brings a chance to start over.

22. Good things don’t come to those who wait.  Good things come to those who pursue the goals and dreams they believe in.

23.When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and despair and cannot find your way out of the darkness, remember that this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings.

24.Knowing yourself is one thing, but truly believing and living as yourself is another.  With so much social conditioning in our society, we sometimes forget who we are.  Don’t lose yourself out there.

25.Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist.  Following your heart achieves a completed you.  (Read The Happiness Project.)

26.Good things don’t come to those who wait.  Good things come to those who pursue the goals and dreams they believe in.

27. Don’t make a decision based solely on popularity. Just because other people are doing it doesn’t mean it’s the best choice for you.

28. The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.

29. If you want your life to change, your choices and actions must change.  Every day brings a chance to start over.

30. Sometimes people throw away something good for something better, only to find out later that good was actually good enough and better never even came close.

31. Stop looking at what you have lost, so you can see what you have.

32.You can never change the past nor control the future, but you can change the mood of the day by touching someone’s heart with your smile.

33.The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

34.Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

35. It’s nice to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s also important to make sure you haven’t lost track of the things that money can’t buy.

36. Smile every chance you get.  Not because life has been easy, perfect, or exactly as you had anticipated, but because you choose to be happy and grateful for all the good things you do have and all the problems you know you don’t have.

37.Sometimes life gives you two options: losing yourself or losing someone else.  Regardless of the situation, don’t lose yourself.

38.  If you settle for just anything, you’ll never know what you’re truly worthy of.

39.  Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design into the present.

40.  Never let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.

41. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design into the present.

42.Tell the negativity committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.  (Read Learned Optimism.)

43.A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it.

44. In a world where you can be anything you want, BE YOURSELF.

45.The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them.

46. It’s important to make someone happy, and it’s important to start with yourself.

47.Saying goodbye is one of the most painful ways to solve a problem.  But sometimes it’s necessary.

48. If it is detrimental to you emotionally, physically and spiritually, what choice do you have but to let go and flourish with self-respect.

49. If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, you do have a pretty big problem.

50. Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
 51. Know your worth!  When you give yourself to someone who doesn’t respect you,    you surrender pieces of your soul that you’ll never get back.

52. If you want to get over a problem, stop mulling it over and talking about it.  Your mind affects your mouth, and your mouth affects your mind.  It’s nearly impossible to move beyond something when you’re obsessing over it.

Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better

“I will study and prepare myself and someday I know my chance will come”. – Abraham Lincoln.

  If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven't gotten yet? For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. New knowledge is the backbone of society's progress. Great thinkers such as Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, and others' quests for knowledge have led society to many of the marvels we are enjoying today. Your quest for knowledge doesn't have to be as Earth-changing as Einstein's, but it can be an important part of your life, leading to a new job, better pay, a new hobby, or simply knowledge for knowledge's sake — whatever is important to you as an end goal.

Life-changing knowledge does typically require advanced learning techniques. In fact, it's been said that the average adult only uses 10% of his/her brain. Imagine what we may be capable of with more advanced learning techniques. Here are tips related to knowledge and learning to help you on your quest. A few are specifically for students in traditional learning institutions the rest for self-starters, or those learning on their own.

Hints To Learn and Recall Effectively

Health: healthy life bring about healthyremembrance. To learn effectively and be able to recall all that you read, then you must learn to stay healthy. If you’re trying to be healthful, but are having a hard time navigating complicated diets, try this hack to simplify things. Limit yourself to non-packaged foods. Eat only seven things: fruits, veggies, whole grains, lean protein, lean calcium, beans, nuts, good fats.   

Eat breakfast. A lot of people skip breakfast, but creativity is often optimal in the early morning and it helps to have some protein in you to feed your brain. A lack of protein can actually cause headaches.

 Eat a light lunch. Heavy lunches have a tendency to make people drowsy. While you could turn this to your advantage by taking a "thinking nap". most people haven't learned how.

Shake a leg. Lack of blood flow is a common reason for lack of concentration. If you've been sitting in one place for awhile, bounce one of your legs for a minute or two. It gets your blood flowing and sharpens both concentration and recall.

Reduce stress and depression. Stress and depression may reduce the ability to recall information and thus inhibit learning. Sometimes, all you need to reduce depression is more white light and fewer refined foods. 

 Balance's

    Dr. Maxwell Maltzwrote about in his book Psycho-Cybernetics about a man who was paid good money to come up with ideas. He would lock his office door, close the blinds, turn off the lights. He'd focus on the problem at hand, then take a short nap on a couch. When he awoke, he usually had the problem solved. 

Take a break. Change physical or mental perspective to lighten the invisible stress that can sometimes occur when you sit in one place too long, focused on learning. Taking a 5-15 minute break every hour during study sessions is more beneficial than non-stop study. It gives your mind time to relax and absorb information. If you want to get really serious with breaks, try a 20 minute ultradian break as part of every 90 minute cycle. This includes a nap break, which is for a different purpose. 
Take a hike. Changing your perspective often relieves tension, thus freeing your creative mind. Taking a short walk around the neighborhood may help.

Change your focus. Sometimes there simply isn't enough time to take a long break. If so, change subject focus. Alternate between technical and non-technical subjects. 

 Perspective and Focus

Change your focus, There are three primary ways to learn: visual, kin esthetic, and auditory. If one isn't working for you, try another. 
Do walking meditation. If you're taking a hike, go one step further and learn walking meditation as a way to tap into your inner resources and you strengthen your ability to focus. Just make sure you're not walking inadvertently into traffic.

Focus and immerse yourself. Focus on whatever you're studying. Don't try to watch TV at the same time or worry yourself about other things or operating your phone why studying. Anxiety does not make for absorption of information and ideas.

Turn out the lights. This is a way to focus, if you are not into meditating. Sit in the dark, block out extraneous influences. This is ideal for learning kin-esthetically, such as guitar chord changes.

 Recall Techniques

Listen to music. Researchers have long shown that certain types of musicare a great "key" for recalling memories. Information learned while listening to a particular song or collection can often be recalled simply by "playing" the songs mentally. 
 Speed read. Some people believe that speed reading causes you to miss vital information. The fact remains that efficient speed reading results in filtering out irrelevant information. If necessary, you can always read and re-read at slower speeds. Slow reading actually hinders the ability to absorb general ideas. (Although technical subjects often require slower reading.) If you're reading online, you can try the free SpreederWeb-based application.

Use acronyms and other mnemonic devices. Mnemonicsare essentially tricks for remembering information. Some tricks are so effective that proper application will let you recall loads of mundane information years later. 
 

 Visual Aids

Every picture tells a story. Draw or sketch whatever it is you are trying to achieve. Having a concrete goal in mind helps you progress towards that goal.Brain map it. Need to plan something? Brain maps, or mind maps, offer a compact way to get both an overview of a project as well as easily add details. With mind maps, you can see the relationships between disparate ideas and they can also act as a receptacle for a brainstorming session.

Learn symbolism and semiotics. Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols. Having an understanding of the symbols of a particular discipline aids in learning, and also allows you to record information more efficiently.

Use information design. When you record information that has an inherent structure, applying information design helps convey that information more clearly. A great resource is Information Aesthetics, which gives examples of information design and links to their sources.

 Verbal and Auditory Techniques

Brainstorm. This is a time-honored technique that combines verbal activity, writing, and collaboration. (One person can brainstorm, but it's more effective in a group.) It's fruitful if you remember some simple rules: Firstly, don't shut anyone's idea out. Secondly, don't "edit" in progress; just record all ideas first, then dissect them later. Participating in brainstorming helps assess what you already know about something, and what you didn't know.  

Kin esthetic Techniques

Write, don't type. While typing your notes into the computer is great for posterity, writing by hand stimulates ideas. The simple act of holding and using a pen or pencil massages acupuncture points in the hand, which in turn stimulates ideas.Carry a quality notebook at all times. Samuel Taylor Coleridge dreamed the words of the poem "In Xanadu (did Kubla Khan)...". Upon awakening, he wrote down what he could recall, but was distracted by a visitor and promptly forgot the rest of the poem. Forever. If you've been doing "walking meditation" or any kind of meditation or productive napping, ideas may suddenly come to you. Record them immediately.Organize. Use sticky colored tabs to divide up a notebook or journal. They are a great way to partition ideas for easy referral.Use post-it notes. Post-it notes provide a helpful way to record your thoughts about passages in books without defacing them with ink or pencil marks. 

Self-Motivation Techniques

Give yourself credit. Ideas are actually a dime a dozen. If you learn to focus your mind on what results you want to achieve, you'll recognize the good ideas. Your mind will become a filter for them, which will motivate you to learn more.Motivate yourself. Why do you want to learn something? What do want to achieve through learning? If you don't know why you want to learn, then distractions will be far more enticing.Set a goal. W. Clement Stone once said "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve." It's an amazing phenomenon in goal achievement. Prepare yourself by whatever means necessary, and hurdles will seem surmountable. Anyone who has experienced this phenomenon understands its validity.Think positive. There's no point in setting learning goals for yourself if you don't have any faith in your ability to learn.Every skill is learned. With the exception of bodily functions, everyskill in life is learned. Generally speaking, if one person can learn something, so can you. It may take you more effort, but if you've set a believable goal, it's likely an achievable goal. Prepare yourself for learning. Thinking positive isn't sufficient for successfully achieving goals. This is especially important if you are an adult, as you'll probably have many distractions surrounding your daily life. Implement ways to reduce distractions, at least for a few hours at a time, else learning will become a frustrating experience.Human nature is such that not everyone in your life will be a well-wisher in your self-improvement and learning plans. They may intentionally or subconsciously distract you from your goal. If you have classes to attend after work, make sure that work colleagues know this, that you are unable to work late. Diplomacy works best if you think your boss is intentionally giving you work on the days he/she knows you have to leave. Reschedule lectures to a later time slot if possible/ necessary.Constrain yourself. Most people need structure in their lives. Freedom is sometimes a scary thing. It's like chaos. But even chaos has order within. By constraining yourself — say giving yourself deadlines, limiting your time on an idea in some manner, or limiting the tools you are working with — you can often accomplish more in less time