You Are Created For Creativity

Definition:

Creativity is not art, skill, or luck. Creativity is a problem solving technique that can be applied to anything. You just need a little insight and inspiration. You don't have to be artist to be creative. Whoever told you creativity is something you're born with, lied to you. 

Creativity is what you need to solve your biggest problems. Creativity is something that we are all born with, and I’m not talking about drawing, painting, writing, or any form of traditional art specifically. I am talking about problem solving abilities using your imagination. 

‘Imagination is more important than knowledge for knowledge is limited whereas imagination embraces the entire world, thereby stimulating progress and giving birth to evolution’ – Albert Einstein 

‘Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads’ – Erica Jong

Creativity is not a science. It is a problem solving tool.

This may be the most important letter you’ll ever read in your life, so you might want to pay attention to every single word from here on out.

If you are reading this, you possess what it takes to make your creative dreams come true, and I can help you get there.

It takes inspiration and a little insight to your own personality, then you can unlock your creative side. These 6 steps help you uncover your inspiration, as well as give you all the knowhow you need to unlock it. You are created for creativity!

1.     Find Your Passion: It Drives Memory and Creativity

“Passion is what drives memory. So we can now account for a more diverse array of information, and we can now have far more serendipitous encounters with knowledge and other people, that you probably get a net increase in creativity. But it is also true that if you want to have powerful creative leaps in the sense of going on a long walk and suddenly being hit by a bolt out of the blue, you have to deeply internalize knowledge. So it is incumbent upon the person who wants to be creative to really wrestle with the material they are thinking about. So you have to have those disconnected moments where you can think without being distracted. You also need to do more generation, such as writing about it, or writing it in front of other people. This is enormously powerful for encoding in our heads what we’re thinking about. 
The distraction stuff has made things harder, but the generation stuff has gotten easier.  Even arguing about things through email has powerful effects in getting things to sink into your head.  If we stopped lingering over the stuff that we cared about, you could argue that we are losing some creativity, but in practice I think when people are obsessed with something they do linger over it.  So really what you have is a cultural problem. I would like people to be obsessed with space exploration more, with politics more, which is the age old question of “How do we get people passionate about the things that are the big things?” That’s what you and I are trying to do.  We’re constantly trying to seduce people into thinking about science by posing it in a really delightful way. You attract more flies with honey.”

2.     Know When (And When Not) To Rely On “Outsourced Intelligence”

“If you automate skills that shouldn’t be automated you can degrade the quality of your performance and thought. So we have Google self-driving cars coming along. On the one hand this is great because humans are dreadful at driving.  We should not be driving.  We have terrible wandering minds and are too easily distracted. We are overly confident in our abilities and have a dreadful sensual appreciation for the kinetic power of a two ton object moving at sixty miles an hour.  So I would way rather have a robot controlling the car. The danger of this is when you have to suddenly hand the control back to a human. 

So I’m in the car and sleeping, playing a video game, or not paying attention, or reading a newspaper, and suddenly my self-driving car goes “Oh my God, something is happening that I can’t handle” and says “Here Clive, you drive.”  And maybe I haven’t actually driven the car for two years now. So I’m probably going to be a disastrously bad driver. So if you hand off to a machine or an algorithm, you can lose the habit of doing that task. This is a really interesting problem and I don’t know how they’re going to get around that with self-driving cars. The statistical answer is if I am handed back the car I likely will crash it, but the overall damage rate of handing off the control of cars to robots will still be so much lower so it’s worth it overall.

So how does this analogize to cognitive tasks that aren’t so life and death? One example is with calculators and learning math. The evidence seems to show that if you give a kid a calculator too early a stage in their learning they won’t learn it quite as well because they don’t get the chance to really wrestle with those procedures internally. It’s even bad to routinize or hand over to an algorithm the act of addition with carrying.  Add one number, carry it over, that’s an algorithm for adding. Studies show it prevents the kid from thinking about what the numbers mean…I see this in my kids learning, where teachers do teach the algorithm but they also teach different ways to think about the numbers… once you’ve grasped these basic math concepts, using a calculator is fine and this actually improves their ability to learn math, discover more playful combinations of numbers, and ratchet themselves ahead.”

3.     Be innovative, think creatively

Innovation is the product of creativity, and if you can just look around you right now and think about how those products around you are all just innovations combined. People who have creativity problems often forget there is no limit to creativity. Creativity isn’t art necessarily, it’s creation. This guide is for those people who need assistance in understanding themselves better in order to become a creator.

I am talking about mind blowing personal achievement that is powered by creative thinking. Unlocked using plain English, and not any highly technical psychological terms. I have no special degree of any kind. I am a regular dude who created this eBook, so other regular people can start to work with these ideas.

Feeling creative is something that we are sometimes shy to admit, but when we do feel it, it’s when we feel most comfortable in our own skin.

4.     knowing your purpose make you more creative.

Knowing your purpose simplifies your life. It defines what you do and what you don’t do. Your purpose become your standard you use to evaluate which activities are essential and which aren’t. We were made to be creative. This is why people make use of their imagination and make an invention.

Without a clear purpose you have no foundation on which you base your decision, allocate your time, and use your resources creatively. You will tend to make choices base on circumstances, pressures, and your mood at that moment. People who don’t know their purpose try to do too much – and that causes stress, fatigue, and  conflict.
Knowing your purpose motivates your life. Purpose always produces passion. Nothing energizes like a clear purpose. On the other hand, passion dissipates when you lack a purpose.  Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what is the point? ‘focus on the goal’.

5.     Don’t just follow the ‘Elite’, Balance your life

‘Blessed are the balanced; they shall outlast everyone’. – Rick Warren
One of the events in the summer Olympics is the pentathlon. It is composed of five events: pistol shooting, fencing, horseback riding, running and swimming. The pent athlete’s  goal is to succeed in  the five areas,  not just one or two. Keeping these five purposes in balance is not easy. We all tend to over emphasize the purpose we feel most passionate about and neglect the others.  But  you can keep your life balance and on track by joining a small group for accountability, by regular evaluating your creative ability, by recording your  progress in personal journal and by passing on what you learn to others. These are four important activities  for creativity. If you are serious about staying on track, you will need to develop these habits.

      6.   Have a creative Mindset

You don’t have to have a "creative profession" to be a creative person, and whoever told you that is just dead wrong. . Creativity can be unlocked inside every single one of us, but you need to adopt a certain mindset. Your mindset most be visionary. You have to develop the desire to start that journey of chasing your creative dreams, no matter how big or small they are. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to be naturally gifted in any one area to be considered creative. Creativity is a problem solving tool.
develop a critical skill that make you separate problem from opportunities.

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20 Lessons I wish I had learned earlier

Now that I’m old and gray (but not quite in my rocker yet!) I look back on my life and think about things I wish I knew earlier.
 It would have made my life so much easier if I knew then what I know now.

Here’s my list of things I wish I could turn back the hands of time to tell my younger self. Maybe it’s not too late for you.


There is only one question to ask yourself: “What would you do if you were not afraid?”

It’s often hard to tell just how close you are to success.
   
The only mistake that can truly hurt you is choosing to do nothing simply because you’re too scared to make a mistake.

Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart.

You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.
   
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
   
Do what you love, not what you think you’re supposed to do.
   
Laughter is the best medicine for stress.  Laugh at yourself often.
   
If you want to feel rich, just count all the great things you have that money can’t buy.
   
Forgiving yourself is far more important than getting others to forgive you.

If you awake every morning with the thought that something

wonderful will happen in your life today, you’ll often find that you’re right.
Be nice to yourself. 
   
Don’t dwell on the past or worry about the future for too long.  Right now is life.  Live it.
   
No matter how cautiously you choose your words, someone will always twist them around and misinterpret what you say.  Just say what you need to say.
   
Not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of good luck.
   
If you are passionate about something, pursue it, no matter what anyone else thinks.  That’s how dreams are achieved.

There is only one question to ask yourself: “What would you do if you were not afraid?”
   
For the most part, it doesn’t matter what people think.  Follow your own truth.
   
As Henry Ford put it, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right.”
   
You have to accept that some things will never be yours, and learn to appreciate the things that are only yours.

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1. Osinbajo moves to reconcile Christians

TIMELY DISCOVERING FOR STRIKING

In the mercy of star time and season are very fundamental. In the rising of star time and season are very vital. For everything under the sun there is time and season, a season of every purpose under heaven. 

Time to plant and time for harvest. You need the understanding of time to really take command of your destiny. When you lack the understanding of time you will plant any how only to discover that you only invest you time wrongly. 

So timely discovering for striking accomplishment is very important in life. Not every runner end up a prize winner! Therefore so run that you may be a prize winner. An enlistment season once lost can never be recovered. 

Almost every celebrity in the raise of life know where they belong on time and stop there. We are in the generation of the youth, once you are seventy (17) years upward and still thinking that you are a child, you are “kidding and you may end up in the kidding”.

 It is so important to know that timely discovering is the only security of your destiny. John Dell of Dell corporation became president of that corporation at the age of 19 yrs and retire at the age of 40 years. Many legend has always rise on time. They are early riser!

That is why your packaging must be visionary. You must have a visionary packaging. We are in a raise, we are not in a front. The earlier you enlist in a raise, the greater the possibility of your life. Stop living wrong you don’t have a spare life.

 Normal Vincent peel became minister at the age of 18 years old. Every star in every generation are early riser. 

Life is a business! You are either making loss or making profit. Life without a right caring is a burden. Being an early riser will help you to know where you are going and keep going there. 

To be an early riser you must have a passion. What is the talent inherent in you?  It is your quality of your investment that determine you height of your accomplishment. 

The earlier you begin your investment, the richer your life will be. Between the commencement of dream and the actualization of dream in the life of Joseph was 13 years. 

Whatever you are doing trying to be there with full length and you will have a full scale. Be humble, because time and season that make star. You cannot know where you are going and not packaging yourself to getting there. 

When you have a vision, you must have endurance. And have discipline to maintain yourself to get there. Time is running out so wake up and make yourself count. 

Not what to for sell but about what to impact. What to give, and not what to take, what to add, not what to retain. You must have focus, you must have endurance in spite of all difficulties. Be a great riser and have a great courage to get there. 

Destiny is about fulfilling your mission. ‘It is your contribution that will anoint you, not your position or your title’. Stay long and stay strong!

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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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!