Olakunle Michael Oladoyin – Assessments – International Institute for Global Leadership

As a Man Thinketh

Assessment by Olakunle Michael Oladoyin (Nigeria)

1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?

The Main Idea of this book that the author is saying is that our thought is powerful and the mind, our mind and thought is just like a seed planted beside in a river bank that as all the supply and the nutrient that it needs. So our thought is very important to our body, soul, purpose, and characters.

2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why? List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you. Use personal examples from your own life.

i. Dreamers Are Savor of the World

No matter how bizarre my dreams are, I have learned to hold on to it, be true to it and one day, it shall come to reality. The first day I stepped my feet on the soil of Lagos State Polytechnic Ikorodu in Lagos, Nigeria and also to be a professional farmer in the future , I vouched within myself that I must learn whatever I need to learn and to a master in my own flied. Today, that vision came to pass have One year certificate of completion in Leventis Foundation Agricultural Training School, Ilesa Osun State, Nigeria.

ii. He Who Has Conquered Doubt and Fear Has Conquered Failure

Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself ate every step. When I decided to follow my passion and turn it to skill, I apply for One year training in Agricultural training school friends try to discourage me that I’m leaving city to a Village to learn. But thank God today I have completed the training and also establish my company which is Anu Agro Farms Limited where we focused on agricultural product which is a medium for sustainable development through Crop production, Live- stock production, Poultry production, Honey production, Food, Meat & Fruits Processing, fisheries, Trainings, consultancy and off farm activities for the development of her community and the nation at large in most affordable prices.

“To put away aimlessness and weakness and to begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong one who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.”

iii. No Success Without Scarifies

The Thought-Factor in Achievement taught me more about success and achievements. This is very important to me. Let’s take a look at the stories of some successful people today.

“I didn’t even complete my university education;” said Bill Gates.

“I struggled academically throughout elementary school,” stated Dr. Ben Carson.

“I used to sleep on the floor in friends’ rooms, returning Coke bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple; ” shared by Steve Jobs.

“I was in prison for 27 years and still became president;” said Nelson Mandela.

iv. Man is made or unmade by himself

Therefore, choosing your thoughts can influence your circumstances. It will influence the choice of your friends, places you visit and information you sought. After my high school, the penchant for university education controlled my daily activities and circumstances but no money. I decided to learn Photocopy Engineering after my school WASSCE Exam because no money to further my education. But I have passion to further my education in the future. So after learning work for a well, I got the technique of the job, make money open my first bank account, rewrite my WASSCE and enroll for National Diploma Part-Time Study in Lagos State Polytechnic, In Lagos Nigeria Study Computer Science. Internal thoughts were in my control. Eventually, I made it. Anyone that has become successful with anything has taken control of their thoughts and created what they now have.

v. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are

Flowing from my decision, that is, taking charge of my thought and consequently, my destiny, I was naturally attracted to tertiary institutions and working. Often, I paid “unnecessary” visits to the nearest tertiary institution, attend several lesson but later run I end up in part-time program, where I graduated from in the long run. Many of my friends saw it as an obsession but, I never say anything wrong in it. Definitely, by focusing on the positive, you attract more positive in your life. Otherwise, focusing on the negative, you attract the negative. In fact, everything about “Who I Am” today is made up of my thoughts. Just like a would-be cleric will stick to the church or mosque.

vi. Our circumstances are us

Each set of circumstances, however bad, offers a unique opportunity for growth. If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people, then humanity would never have progressed. In actuality, circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us, and if we make the decision that we have been ‘wronged’ then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation. It all seems too hopeless. But as any biographer knows, a person’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual. Gold does not emerge from jewelers’ shops but from mud and rock.
One self-help author influenced by Allen is Wayne Dyer. Dyer observed that ‘…being broke is a temporary state of affairs that afflicts almost everyone at one time or another, but being poor is an attitude, a set of beliefs that gets reinforced when we shift to blaming life circumstances for the condition of our poverty’. The tragedy of poverty is that children born into it begin to accept it as part of their culture. Allen talks about those who feel that it is all right to do shoddy work because they are being paid so little. Yet this attitude – superficially justifiable – keeps them in the very situation they despise.

vii. Dream Lofty Dreams, And As You Dream, So Shall You Become

Allen writes “Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.” Success starts with a dream. That dream, however, has to be more than simply wanting or wishing for something, Allen said that success must be earned. It is created by having the right thoughts and taking the right actions. A case in point, when departmental elections were approaching, my plan was to be the Public Relation Officer (PRO) in my department. With the help of God and support from my team we won convincingly. The overarching theme is that any goal is attainable with a well-structured thought process and a strong work ethic. So, I agree with Allen when he said thus “Dreams are the seedlings of realities. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.”

3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?

By using the entire lesson I have learnt in the book and apply it to my practical daily routing and activities.

4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.

“A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, and serene.”

“The thoughtless, the ignorant, and indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of law, of fortune, and chance. Seeing a man grow rich, they say, How lucky is!”

Observing another become intellectual they exclaim, “How highly favored he is!” And noting the saintly character and wide influence of another, they remark, “How chance aids him at every turn! They don’t see the trials and failures and the struggles which these men have voluntarily encountered in order to gain their experience; have no knowledge of the sacrifices they have made, of the undaunted efforts they have put forth, of the faith they have exercised, that they might overcome the apparently insurmountable, and realize the vision of their heart. They do not know the darkness and the heart aches; they only see the light and the Joy, and they call it luck; do not see the longing arduous journey, but only behold the pleasant goal, and call it good fortune; do not understand the process, but only perceive the result, and call it chance.”

5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?

No.

6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?

Yes.

7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.

As a Man Thinketh is a book that talk the whole of a man being, but is so comprehensive as reach out of every condition and circumstance of life. As a man Thinketh, a man is a growth by Law and not a creation by artifice, and cause and effect are as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in world of visible and materials things. We see, that man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. In a man’s thought, there is a lot he fashions which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of Joy, strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the divine perfection, while by the abuse and wrong application of thought he descends below the level of the wicked.

Man is always the master, even in the weakest and most abandoned state. But in his weakness and degradation he is foolish master who misgovern his household. A man’s thought as effect and circumstances which like a man mind can be sample as a garden, which maybe intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild, but whether cultivated or neglected, it must and will bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind. We should know that what we conceive or thought in our mind matters a lot because whether it be good or bad, our thought bring us out the result of the thought we plant. Every man is where he is by the law of his being, the thought which he has built into his character have brought him there and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of harmony with their surroundings as of those who are contented with them.

Also our thought has effect on our health and body because the body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, weather they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. We also know that disease and health like circumstances are rooted in thought. A man thought has power over his purpose, until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. A man who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey worries, fear, troubles and self-pity, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned Sins. A man’s thought as factors in his achievement, all that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thought. a strong cannot help a weaker man unless that weaker is willing to helped. A weaker man must become strong of himself. He must by his own efforts develop the strength which he admires in another. Before a man can achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must lift his thoughts above slavish animal indulgence. He may not, in order to succeed, give up all amorality and selfishness, necessarily, but a portion or it must, at least, be sacrificed, the thought brings visions and ideals, we see that a dreamers are the savior of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trails and sins and sordid vocations are nourished by the beautiful vision of their solitary dreamers. We all know that humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know. He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in heart will one day realize it. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought evolved being. A calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others. The strong, calm man is always loved and revered; he is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm.

As a Man Thinketh, is an eye opener and thought revealing book that everybody should read. It contain everything that man Thinketh is his heart, such as thought and character, effect of thought on circumstances, on health and body thought of purpose etc. I learned that every thought is a seed weather the seed is good or bad it will surely bring out the fruit of the seed.

Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.

A. How interesting was it to read? 8
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 8
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 9

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Assessment by Olakunle Michael Oladoyin (Nigeria)

1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?

We play it safe because often those who take the road less traveled are ostracized. No one likes to be the odd one out, so we try to be a part of the herd. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach is a story about following your dreams even when they go against the grain. It’s about making the most of the life you have been given.

In the story, Richard Bach uses the metaphor of seagulls flying to demonstrate that if we follow our dreams and achieve our dream goals, we too can soar. The book gives us permission to step into our greatness.

i. The idea of passion

Passion is what matter a lot in achieving purpose in life, when there is passion in anything you are doing; there will be a great success. For my own experiences, I have passion in farming, but I don’t have technical and practically knowledge on how to start the venture. I sacrifice a whole year to learn the techniques of farming, and know I’m a master of it.

ii. Failure does not end success

Though Jonathan failed many times, got discouraged and tried to conform, the passion, fire in his belly, and the drive to be better, forced him to try harder. Being a very introspective gull, he would deconstruct to determine what he did and make improvements. One day he went too far, so thought the Council Gathering who summoned him to stand to Center for Shame. Jonathan was banished from the colony.

“All alone he kept on learning, What he had hoped for the Flock, he now gained for himself alone; he learned to fly, and was not sorry for the price that he had paid. Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reason that a gull’s life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.” Personally I remember when I was an apprentices in photocopy Engineering company, I failed many times when I was learn but the passion that I have for the work keep me going. I have this mindset that if my boss can know it, I can know it more than him.

iii. Know and Master yourself

Know what you can and cannot do, and work to push beyond your limits one step at- a- time. When I discover what I can do very well, I followed it by learning, getting more new skill in that filed I have chosen.

iv. Never stop learning and practicing and striving to understand more of the perfect, invincible principle of all life.

When I discover where I want to operate from i.e. discover my passion, I keep on learning, attending seminar, conferences and through my pursue to learn a new skill I discover Internal Institute for Global Leadership (IIGL) because I want to keep learning.

v. Seeing the Real Person

You have to practice to see the real person, the good in everyone, and to help them see it in themselves. That’s love. It’s fun, when you get the knack of it.

vi.The fundamentals in your field

Master the fundamentals in your field and then build on that.

vii. Understanding

Look with understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.

3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?

By using the entire lesson I have learnt in the book and apply it to my practical daily routing and activities

4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.

“You’re never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”

“You must begin by knowing that have already arrived. You true nature lives as perfect an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time.”

5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?

No.

6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?

Yes.

7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there’s a reason to life! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly! In individual’s life it’s good to learn a new skill whenever we have opportunity.

The Elder’s words sounded in a voice of highest ceremony. Stand to Center meant only great shame or great honor. Stand to Center for Honor was the way the gulls’ foremost leaders were marked. Listing to our leader is most important because they know more than what we know.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed. Its applicable to individual to be successful in life, there’s a price to be pay because the road to success is rough.

In the school of learning, we have stage by stage of learn, each stage is important.

Each level of success, there is a new sights, new thoughts, new questions, work, responsibility and little time to work. So in every area of our level of success we must prepare before getting there.

In life, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which we must love to do.

In life until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth.

When we are doing a project and it seems we are failing, we should not give up rather continue because success lie on the way. Still, it was easier for them to practice high performance than it was to understand the reason behind it. “Each of us is in truth an idea of the Great Gull, an unlimited idea of freedom.”

Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.

A. How interesting was it to read? 5
B. How helpful were the contents? 7
C. How easy was it to understand? 5
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 7

PsychoCybernetics
Assessment by Olakunle Michael Oladoyin (Nigeria)

1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?

The Main Idea of this book is a mechanical perspective of someone brain and body’s activity to create a new system of thinking and behaving and also is a cornerstone of the self-help genre and is chock-full of big ideas that can empower me to create a happier, more successful life that I want.

i. The Importance of Imagination

“For imagination sets the goal “picture” which our automatic mechanism works on. We act or fail to act, not because of “will,” as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.” Your thoughts and actions are based on what you imagine as truth. Hypnosis is an excellent example of this in action. “Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you think or imagine to be true.”

You often react automatically to your environment. Seeing a bear will make you feel fear and run. It’s not something you need to think about first. You automatically react to the environment based on what your nervous system tells you, regardless of whether this information is true or not. It is what you believe to be true that causes the reaction. Numerous studies have shown that mental practice improves actual performance. The key is to practice the correct mental image of the actual action. For Instance when I was Leventis Foundation Agricultural training in Osun state, Nigeria towards the completion of my training, I set a goal that after my training I would organize a free empowerment training in my community to create awareness of importance of organic farming, that their little space in their compound can fetch them money. I picture it and it come to reality on the 20th January, 2018.
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ii. Change of Self-image and Success Mechanism.

“Whether we realize it or not, each of us carries about with us a mental blueprint or picture of ourselves…It has been built up from our own beliefs about ourselves. But most of these beliefs about ourselves have unconsciously been formed from our past experiences, our success and failures, our humiliations, our triumphs, and the way other people have reacted to us, especially in early childhood.”
Although we are not conscious of it, my self-image has developed as a result of my past experiences. I tend to believe this self-image, and live my life based on this belief of myself. This explains how some people seem to always be successful, and others constantly fail. Their subsequent experiences will support the self-image they have of themselves. Many people’s attempts at changing their self-image are external—as witnessed by Dr. Maltz in his plastic surgery practice. Some have tried positive thinking about the future, without actually addressing their beliefs about their self-image. This is where Dr. Maltz discovered the great potential for change—in directing activity at your self-image. He discovered that true happiness and satisfaction in life comes from “an adequate and realistic self-image that you can live with.”

iii. Rational Thinking And Relaxation

“Scientific experiments have shown that it is absolutely impossible to feel fear, anger, anxiety, or negative emotions of any kind while the muscles of the body are kept perfectly relaxed.”

Rational thinking works for changing beliefs and behaviors. You do not have to unbury every negative unconscious thought in order to change. Focusing on a mistake or guilty feelings can make the mistake the actual goal. Instead, remember that negative experiences helped you orient towards your goals, and then can be forgotten as you practice traveling in the right direction towards your goals.

It has been theorized that those who are successfully hypnotized to do amazing things have simply had negative memories purged so they could achieve greatness. It follows that you can consciously purge negative memories and unlock your own innate success. When you begin to feel negative, look for the cause, and dismiss this cause as absurd. Determine that the irrational will not control you. Repeat this practice whenever negative thoughts and memories start to surface. Look for new, rational, positive beliefs that resonate with you. Identify a belief about not being able to do something. Evaluate it using the following questions: 1. “Is there any rational reason for such a belief?” 2. “Could it be that I am mistaken in this belief?” 3. “Would I come to the same conclusion about some other person in a similar situation?” 4. “Why should I continue to act and feel as if this were true if there is no good reason to believe it?” Really evaluate your responses. Get mad about beliefs that have interfered with your success and happiness. Allow this anger to spur you on to new beliefs and great success.

iv. Making Happy Habits And Having A Successful View

“Happiness is not something that is earned or deserved. Happiness is not a moral issue, any more than the circulation of the blood is a moral issue…Happiness is simply a “state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.” If you wait until you deserve to think pleasant thoughts, you are likely to think unpleasant thoughts concerning your own unworthiness.”

Happiness is not selfish, wrong, or something to be earned. Being happy leads to unselfishness, creativity, and helpfulness – naturally. Unhappiness leads to terrible, even criminal behavior. Happiness is learned behavior and thoughts. It must be practiced in the present moment, and cannot “be made contingent upon solving some external problem.” Learning to be happy means being free from the habit of responding negatively to the external things around us. Part of being happy involves separating facts from opinions. Losing your savings in the stock market is a fact, being embarrassed and destroyed by it is an opinion—an unhelpful opinion that you, yourself choose to accept. Many things that are seen as impossible are opinions, not facts. The key here, is to recognize when to separate one from the other. In my personal life I have train myself to be happy even if am facing challenges. I have this definition for success:
S-ense of direction
U-nderstanding
C-ourage
C-harity
E-steem
S-elf-Confidence
S-elf-Acceptance

v. Unlock Your Real Personality.

Unlocking your real personality is about showing outwardly your “unique and creative self.” When people are inhibited they keep their real personality locked up. Often this is because they are over-experiencing negative feedback. Instead of using negative feedback to correct course, they over-correct, or cease taking any action at all. It can also occur when people are excessively careful. A solution is to practice relaxation. This enables you to be freer, less tense, and less inhibited. In my personal life I like people know who I am whenever I’m interacting with them.

vi. Finding the Good in Crisis And Feelings

“A crisis is a situation which can either make you or break you. If you react properly to the situation, a “crisis” can give you strength, power, wisdom you do not ordinarily possess.”

To learn to turn crisis into opportunity, you first need to practice reacting to challenges without the pressure of a crisis situation. This is similar to practicing fire drills before a fire. You learn the actions without stress so you can take those same actions when the pressure is on. You also carry over an attitude of calmness and competence. Learn to react to crisis with an active (rather than a passive) response. Finally, evaluate ‘crisis’ situations so you can identify the true ones from ones that are not true crises.
When you face a crisis, be confident and assertive. “This means maintaining an aggressive, a goal-directed attitude, rather than a defensive, evasive, negative one: “No matter what happens, I can handle it, or I can see it through,” rather than, “I hope nothing happens.”

There are times when your greatest challenge may be making a goal you can get excited about. Since your brain can’t tell the difference between real and vividly imagined experiences, your brain will coordinate negative feelings if you are focusing on the failures that might come of goal setting. Bring to mind feelings of success by focusing on positive things. These feelings lead to successful actions and outcomes. You can also take time to recall successes in your past. The imprinting in the brain is strong for these, and becomes stronger with recall. The winning feeling accompanying those past successes will carry over into your current goal seeking activity.

3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?

By using the entire lesson I have learnt in the book and apply it to my practical daily routing and activities

4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.

“The imagination, aimless, may provide pleasant entertainment. Applied purposefully, it can effectively program your self-image and, in turn, your Automatic Success Mechanism to realize whatever goals you choose.”

“You can give problem-solving or idea-getting tasks to your servo-mechanism, send it off on a search while you do other things, even while you sleep, and have it return with useful material you didn’t know you knew and might never have obtained through conscious thought or worry.”

“You act and feel not according to what things are really like, but according to the image your mind holds of what they are like. You have certain mental images of yourself, your world, and the people around you, and you behave as though these images were the truth, the reality, rather than the things they represent.”

5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?

No.

6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?

Yes.

7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.

No.

Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.

Success through a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)
Assessment by Olakunle Michael Oladoyin (Nigeria)

1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?

The main idea of PMA explains that the mind has an invisible talisman. On one side emblazoned the letters PMA (Positive Mental attitude) and on the other the letters NMA (Negative Mental Attitude). A positive attitude will rob you of all that makes life worth living. Success, Health, Happiness, and wealth depend on how you make up your mind.

i. Search for the Light

The story of S.B Fuller had a check for $10,000 in his pocket. Subsequently he obtained controlling interest not only in the cosmetic companies, a hosiery company a label company and a newspaper. When they asked him recently to explore with us the secret of his success, he answered in terms of his mother’s statement so many years before They are Poor not because of God. They are poor because father has never developed a desire to be rich.

ii. Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Like the story of “Tom Dempsey,” he develop the habit of recognizing, relating, assimilating and using universal principles and adopt them as his very own. Then he follows through with desirable action. I learn a key lesion in this man story that what-ever you want to achieve is possible when you have good positive mental attitude to be your future or goal. When I was in Agric school, I determine that if I cannot be overall best in the school, I will be best in one of the department and through the help of God and the hard working, I came out best in crop Department with a reward.
Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.
Man greatness power lies in the power of Prayer.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep on trying with PMA.

iii. You are born a champion

Have you ever thought about the battles you won before you were born? “Stop and think about yourself,” says Amram Scheinfeld, an expert on genetics. I actually relies that in this world there was never anyone else like me, and in all the infinity to time to come, there will never be another. Why? I am a very special person because many struggles took place that had to be successfully concluded in order to produce me. Since I have grown to know the right things to do, I have discovered that I am quickly created for a special assignment to be a source of courage and Inspiration to my generation.

iv. Identify yourself with a successful Image

Ben Cooper gave himself an identity when he fought the three bullies on the street that day. He was not fighting as frightened, under nourished. Identifying one’s self with successful image can help break the habits of self-doubt and defeat which years of NMA set up within a personality. In my life when I do away with Negative mental attitude of I will never make it life because of poor background, I then see the through picture of who I am. Also another important successful technique for changing my world is to identify myself with image that will inspire me to make right decisions. My slogan is “Mimo Ni Oluwa.”

v. Meet the most important Living Person

The day I recognized PMA for myself is the day that I meet the most important living person! Who is he? Why, because the most important living person is me as far my life is concerned. PMA is the right mental attitude. The most often comprised of plus characteristics symbolized by such words as Faith, hope.

vi. Everyone has many talents for surmounting his special problem

It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life’s hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet our problems. Our abilities vary of course as we are motivated to use them.

vii. The main idea of PMA explains that the mind has an invisible talisman. ]

On one side emblazoned the letters PMA (Positive Mental attitude) and on the other the letters NMA (Negative Mental Attitude). A positive attitude will rob you of all that makes life worth living.
1. Have a PMA,
2. Have accurate Thinking,
3. Have personal initiative,
4. Have strong team work,
5. Have maintaining sound physical and mental health,
6. Be self-discipline
7. Have a master mind
8. Going the extra mile
9. Always applied faith in whatever you are doing,
10. Have that vision in mind.

3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?

By using the entire lesson I have learned from the book and apply it to my practical daily routing and activities.

4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.

“When you have Positive Mental Attitude, the problems of your world lend to bow before You.

“If a man is right, his world will be right.”

Both of these quotes remind me to stay positive.

5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?

No.

6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?

No exercises were included.

7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.

Nothing else.

Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.

Keys to Success
Assessment by Olakunle Michael Oladoyin (Nigeria)

1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?

i. Experience is Important

To me, this is most important and inspiring chapter. In this chapter, the lessons in this chapter I promised myself to hold-on to it for the rest of my life. Allen writes “Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg.” Furthermore, he said “Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environments; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.” No matter how bizarre my dreams are, I have learned to hold on to it, be true to it and one day, it shall come to reality. The first day I stepped my feet on the soil of Lagos State Polytechnic Ikorodu in Lagos, Nigeria and also to be a professional farmer in the future, I vouched within myself that I must learn whatever I need to learn and to a master in my own flied. Today, that vision came to pass have One year certificate of completion in Leventis Foundation Agricultural Training School, Ilesa Osun State, Nigeria.

ii. He Who has Conquered Doubt and Fear has Conquered Failure

Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself ate every step. When I decided to follow my passion and turn it to skill, I apply for One year training in Agricultural training school friends try to discourage me that I’m leaving city to a Village to learn. But thank God today I have completed the training and also establish my company which is Anu Agro Farms Limited where we focused on agricultural product which is a medium for sustainable development through Crop production, Live- stock production, Poultry production, Honey production, Food, Meat and Fruits Processing, fisheries, Trainings, consultancy and off farm activities for the development of her community and the nation at large in most affordable prices. “To put away aimlessness and weakness and to begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong one who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.”
iii. No Success without Scarifies

The Thought-Factor in Achievement taught me more about success and achievements. This is very important to me. Let’s take a look at the stories of some successful people today.
“I didn’t even complete my university education.”
“I struggled academically throughout elementary school.”
“I used to sleep on the floor in friends’ rooms, returning Coke bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple.”
“I was in prison for 27 years and still became president.”

iv. Man is made or unmade by himself

My first lesson from the book which led me to a deeper reflection is that if I take charge my thought, I will be 100 percent control of my destiny. Instructively, He (Allen) writes. “In the armor of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds himself for heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.” Therefore, choosing your thoughts can influence your circumstances. It will influence the choice of your friends, places you visit and information you sought. After my high school, the penchant for university education controlled my daily activities and circumstances but no money. I decided to learn Photocopy Engineering after my school WASSCE Exam because no money to further my education. But I have passion to further my education in the future. So after learning work for a well, I got the technique of the job, make money open my first bank account, rewrite my WASSCE and enroll for National Diploma Part-Time Study in Lagos State Polytechnic, In Lagos Nigeria Study Computer Science. Internal thoughts were in my control. Eventually, I made it. Anyone that has become successful with anything has taken control of their thoughts and created what they now have.

v. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are

vi. Our circumstances are us

Part of the fame of this book is its contention that “Circumstances do not make a person, they reveal him.” This seems an exceedingly heartless comment, a justification for neglect of those in need and a rationalization of exploitation and abuse; of the superiority of those at the top of the pile, and the inferiority of those at the bottom. This, however, would be a knee-jerk reaction to an argument of subtlety. While Allen does not deny that poverty can ‘happen’ to a person or a people, what he tries to make clear is that defensive actions like blaming the perpetrator will only further run the wheels into the rut. What measures us, what reveals us, is how we use those circumstances as an aid or spur to progress. A successful person or community, in short, is that which can process failure with the most efficiency. Each set of circumstances, however bad, offers a unique opportunity for growth. If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people, then humanity would never have progressed. In actuality, circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us, and if we make the decision that we have been ‘wronged’ then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation. It all seems too hopeless. But as any biographer knows, a person’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual. Gold does not emerge from jewelers’ shops but from mud and rock. One self-help author influenced by Allen is Wayne Dyer. Dyer observed that “being broke is a temporary state of affairs that afflicts almost everyone at one time or another, but being poor is an attitude, a set of beliefs that gets reinforced when we shift to blaming life circumstances for the condition of our poverty.” The tragedy of poverty is that children born into it begin to accept it as part of their culture. Allen talks about those who feel that it is all right to do shoddy work because they are being paid so little. Yet this attitude superficially justifiable keeps them in the very situation they despise.

vii. Dream Lofty Dreams, and as You Dream, So Shall You Become

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.” Success starts with a dream. That dream, however, has to be more than simply wanting or wishing for something, Allen said that success must be earned. It is created by having the right thoughts and taking the right actions. A case in point, when departmental elections were approaching, my plan was to be the Public Relation Officer (PRO) in my department. With the help of God and support from my team we won convincingly. The overarching theme is that any goal is attainable with a well-structured thought process and a strong work ethic. So, I agree with Allen when he said thus “Dreams are the seedlings of realities. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.”

3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?

By using the entire lesson I have learned in the book and apply it to my practical daily routing and activities

4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.

Observing another become intellectual they exclaim, “How highly favored he is!” And noting the saintly character and wide influence of another, they remark, “How chance aids him at every turn!” They don’t see the trials and failures and the struggles which these men have voluntarily encountered in order to gain their experience; have no knowledge of the sacrifices they have made, of the undaunted efforts they have put forth, of the faith they have exercised, that they might overcome the apparently insurmountable, and realize the vision of their heart. They do not know the darkness and the heart aches; they only see the light and the Joy, and they call it luck; do not see the longing arduous journey, but only behold the pleasant goal, and call it “good fortune”; do not understand the process, but only perceive the result, and call it “chance.”

5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?

No.

6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?

Yes.

7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.

No.

Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
Assessment by Olakunle Michael Oladoyin (Nigeria)

1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?

According to Carnegie, financial success is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to “the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people.” He teaches these skills in a very practical way through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated.

i. Give honest and sincere appreciation. In Sales:

The only way we can get a person to do anything is by giving them what they want. What do most people want? Apart from food, sleep, health and money people have a deep desire to feel important. When selling something to a person make sure to be aligned with that person’s goals and success metrics (e.g. if you are selling to a Head of Sales you have to help him achieve his quota). These remind when I was a sales representative; one of key of selling is smile and the way I relate with them like family.

ii. Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Henry Ford said that “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own. In Sales: Give people what they want, not what you want. Sell value and not features, try to understand the real problems of your customers and make them want your solution. Don’t criticize, condemn or complain. Criticism most of the time doesn’t work and merely puts people on the defensive. Instead try to understand why people do what they do. In Sales: If a prospect is using a competitor you should try to understand the reasons behind his decision instead of condemning his choice. Criticizing others doesn’t yield anything positive. I remember when I was marketing a certain food product for a group of people and some came up and said my products is fake. I allow that person to finish with is saying and I sat him down and explain in details to him and he discover that what am selling is absolute original.

iii. Become genuinely interested in other people.

Listen to other people and care about their problems and interests. In Sales: When someone is interested in your product but is not a good fit, point them to the right solution even if it’s not your company. People will appreciate the effort and will remember you in case they see the need for your product in the future.

iv. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

According to Carnegie, it’s impossible to win an argument. In case we lose the argument, we lose; if we win the argument, we have made the other person feel inferior and consequently made him resent us. In other words, we still lose. In Sales: You might be sometimes tempted to argue with others, especially when you are absolutely convinced that they should be paying for your product instead of your competitors’. However, 9 times out of 10, arguing just results in the other person even more firmly convinced that he is right. Instead try to make the prospect conclude by himself that your product is better – don’t tell that your competitor’s car is worse, instead show people what makes your car 10x better!

v. Smile.

In Sales: Humans can differentiate vocal intonation between a smile and a non-smile. Also, according to several studies 84% of the message over a phone is your tone of voice, so make sure you put yourself in a happy mood before an important call as it increases the likelihood of success.

vi. Be a good listener and encourage others to talk about themselves.

A young boy once said to his mother, “Mom, I know you love me very much because whenever I talk to you about something you stop whatever you are doing and listen to me.” Wow, that hits home! In Sales: Listening is the ultimate act of caring. Good salespeople listen to customers and uncover their pains so they can provide a fitting solution.

vii. Make the other person feel important and do it sincerely.

William James said, “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” Help someone feel appreciated and how could they not like you? In Sales: When a customer calls you and complains about your product pay attention and make him feel important. Even if he has already agreed for a 2 year contract and he is the smallest of your 10.000 customers, they will appreciate your gesture and like you which has compounding effects in the future.

3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?

By using the entire lesson I have learnt in the book and apply it to my practical daily routing and activities

4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.
“Listening is the ultimate act of caring. Good salespeople listen to customers and uncover their pains so they can provide a fitting solution.”

“If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. Any fool can try to defend his mistakes, but it raises one above the herd to admit one’s mistakes.”

5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?

No.

6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?

7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.
According to Carnegie, financial success is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to “the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people.” He teaches these skills in a very practical way through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated.
1. Become genuinely interested in other people
2. Smile. In Sales:
3. Be a good listener and encourage others to talk about themselves.
4. Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to,
5. Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.
Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest. Always align what you want with what makes the other person happy while being sincere and thoughtful

Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.

A. How interesting was it to read? 10
B. How helpful were the contents? 10
C. How easy was it to understand? 10
D. Would you recommend it to others? 10
E. What is the overall rating you would give it? 10

Awaken the Giant Within
Assessment by Olakunle Michael Oladoyin (Nigeria)

1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?

Is the psychological blueprint someone can follow to wake up and start taking control of your life, starting in your mind, spreading through your body and then all the way through your relationships, work and finances until you’re the giant you were always meant to be.

i. Belief Systems

It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. Most of our beliefs are generalizations about our past, based on our interpretations of painful and pleasurable experiences. Most of us don’t consciously decide what we’re going to believe, and they’re often based on mister interpretation of past experiences. When we adopt a belief, we forget that it’s just an interpretation and we treat it as if it’s reality. Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. We need to realize that our beliefs the capacity to make us sick or make us healthy in a moment. They affect our immune systems. They give us resolve to take action, or they weaken and destroy our drive. Global beliefs are the giant beliefs we have about everything in life, such as identities, people, work, time, money, and life itself. Once accepted out beliefs become unquestioned commands to our nervous systems, and they have the power to expand or destroy the possibilities of our present and future.

ii. Change Can Happen In An Instant.

Tony read close to 700 books in just a few years about human development, psychology, influencer, and physiological development. Neuro-Linguistic Programming can literally create changes in minutes that used to take months, years or decades to achieve. All changes are created in a moment. It’s just that most us wait until certain things happen before we finally decide to make a shift. People think changes takes so long because most people have tried again and again through willpower to make changes and failed. Our culture also has a set of beliefs that prevents us from being able to utilize our own inherent abilities. Conditioning, not programming, because you have to take ownership of it. It’s not something that someone else can do to you. Once we effect a change, we should reinforce it immediately. Then we have to condition our nervous systems to succeed not just once, but consistently.
Neuro-Associative Conditioning – step by step process that can condition your nervous system to associate pleasure to those things you want to continuously move toward and pain to those things you need to avoid in order to succeed consistently in life without constant effort or willpower.
Each time we experience a significant amount of pain or pleasure, our brains search for the cause and record it in our nervous systems to enable us to make better decisions about what to do in the future. Stop indulging in a particular behavior or emotion long enough, interrupt your pattern of using that old pathway, and the neural connection will weaken and atrophy. When you experience significant amounts of pain or pleasure, your brain immediately searches for the cause and uses these criteria: looks for something that appears to be unique, looks for something that seems to be happening simultaneously, and then your brain looks for consistency.

iii. How to Get What You Really Want

People don’t always know what they want; they distract themselves with a variety of artificial mood alternates. Whatever you desire or crave, perhaps you should ask yourself, “Why do I want these things? What it all comes down to is that fact that you want these things or results because you see them as a means to achieving certain feelings, emotions, or states that you desire. The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment. Your behavior is not the result of your ability, but of the state that you’re in at this moment.

4. Creating a Compelling Future

Giant goals produce giant motivation. “You’re not lazy; you just have impotent goals.” Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible – the foundation for all success for life. All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment. The direction we’re going is more important than individual results. Ask yourself, what specific action could I take today that would lead me on that road to the destiny of my choice? To determine your goals, start by writing down everything you could imagine that you want to achieve in certain categories (career, finances, personal development, etc.). Then, give a time limit to each one, choose your top one and write a paragraph about why you’re committed to it.

v. Decisions Are the Way to Power

Ask yourself “How am I going to live the next ten years of my life? How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to? What am I going to stand for from now on?” If you don’t set a baseline stand for what you’ll accept in your life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitude or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve. If you truly decide to, you can do almost anything. You just have to commit. Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility. (It’s like taking over an island and then burning your boats so there’s no way to retreat.) The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. You must keep doing that, because repetition is the mother of skill.

The 3 decisions that control my destiny:
1. My decisions about what to focus on
2. My decisions about what things mean to me
3. My decisions about what to do to create the results I desire

vi. References: The Fabric of Life

Reference experiences shape your core beliefs and values.
The more experiences we have, the greater our potential level of choices-
The more we can effectively evaluate what things mean and what we can do.
The way we use our references determines how we feel, because whether something is good or bad is all based on what you’re comparing it to. Reading feeds your mind with new experiences.

3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?

By using the entire lesson I have learnt in the book and apply it to my practical daily routing and activities.

4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.

“Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, and be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”

“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. Not see the longing arduous journey, but only behold the pleasant goal, and call it good fortune; do not understand the process, but only perceive the result, and call it chance.”

5. is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?

No.

6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?

Yes.

7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.

Each time we experience a significant amount of pain or pleasure, our brains search for the cause and record it in our nervous systems to enable us to make better decisions about what to do in the future. Stop indulging in a particular behavior or emotion long enough, interrupt your pattern of using that old pathway, and the neural connection will weaken and atrophy. When you experience significant amounts of pain or pleasure, your brain immediately searches for the cause and uses these criteria: looks for something that appears to be unique, looks for something that seems to be happening simultaneously, and then your brain looks for consistency.

How to change anything in your life
We must link unbearable and immediate sensations of pain to our old behavior, and incredible and immediate sensations of pleasure to a new one.
Step 1: Decide what you really want and what’s preventing you from having it now
Step 2: Get leverage – associate massive pain to not changing NOW and massive pleasure to the experience of changing now (change is almost always a question of motivation, not ability)
Step 3: Interrupt the limiting pattern (we can’t keep doing the same thing and running the same inappropriate patterns; do something crazy to interrupt those things. like eat as much chocolate as you can until you’re sick of it, or when you start to feel depressed jump up and yell in an idiotic tone “Hallelujah my feet don’t stink today!”
Step 4: Create a New Empowering Alternative (if you don’t have an alternative, your change will only be temporary)
Step 5: Condition the new pattern until it’s consistent (your brain can’t tell the difference between something you vividly imagine and something you actually experience)
Step 6: Test it.

How to Get What You Really Want
People don’t always know what they want; they distract themselves with a variety of artificial mood alternates. Whatever you desire or crave, perhaps you should ask yourself, “Why do I want these things? What it all comes down to is that fact that you want these things or results because you see them as a means to achieving certain feelings, emotions, or states that you desire. The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment. Your behavior is not the result of your ability, but of the state that you’re in at this moment.

Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.

Maximum Achievement
Assessment by Olakunle Michael Oladoyin (Nigeria)

1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?

There is a direct link between the quality of my thoughts and the quality of my life. In particular, my external circumstances and achievements are an accurate reflection of whatever I think about of the time. The way to be happy and successful (by any definition I set for myself) lies in finding the right combination of thoughts and action and then integrating those thoughts and actions and then integrating those thoughts and accomplishing those actions in my own life. When I can do this on consistent and regular basis, I will be happy and successful.

i. Peace of Mind

Peace of mind is the natural result of living of life which is closely aligned with those values and convictions I consider to be most important. When my actions are in total harmony with my inner beliefs, I will feel good about myself and my life’s labor and I will experience happiness and peace of mind.
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ii. Health and Energy.

The body has a natural bias towards good health and high levels of energy. In many cases, people simply need to stop doing those things that are detrimental and they will become healthy with no further efforts.

iii. The master skill

Tracy provides us with this potted biography to show how he moved from being a wanderer to a focused person. His varied work roles became his means to continue his real love: studying success itself.

As he came to synthesise everything he knew, he realized that there was a ‘master skill’ which could produce brilliant results across a person’s life: the ability to set goals and achieve them. When he discovered goal-setting at 23, for the first time Tracy felt he could have control over his future. Human beings, he learned, are teleological; we are shaped by our ambitions, adapting ourselves to meet the image of an imagined end state. Maxwell Maltz’s famous Psycho-cybernetics, told him that man is really a goal-setting machine, needing goals in order to fully live. Maltz compared a person to a self-guided missile, which constantly adjust its path so as to hit a target; in the same way, we could program ourselves to achieve our desires through constant self-feedback.The interesting thing about goals, Tracy found, is that they are value-neutral: whatever desires you set for yourself, you are likely to achieve them whether they are good or bad; therefore, why not take the time to create wonderful, life-enriching goals?

iv. Becoming an expert goal-setter

Less than 3 per cent of people have written goals, and fewer than 1 per cent regularly review them, Tracy notes. Yet most of us know that it is good to have goals, may even have been to seminars or read books on the matter. We spend a dozen years being schooled, but the most important contributor to success in life – how to concretize our wishes and ambitions – is rarely learned. So why are we not taking the step to set goals for ourselves? Tracy lists reasons, but one that stands out is that we aren’t willing to accept full responsibility for our lives. If we don’t set goals, then we don’t have to reach them. The more mundane reason is that goal-setting has never been part of our family or social background. As a result, we may end up mixing with people who have no clear idea where they are headed, becoming a person who “follows the followers.”

The payoff of goal-setting is that as we achieve each goal we feel in charge of our own destiny, with every moment taken up productively. Self-esteem increases, and it is easy to remain motivated. You suddenly see the meaning of the saying, “Nothing succeeds like success.”

Goals must be written down. Although this requires some discipline, there is something magic about ‘putting it on paper’ which increases the probability of a goal becoming fact. The more detail about the goal, the better, because the subconscious needs details to shape action: “You can’t hit a target you can’t see”, Tracy says. You don’t need to worry about the details of how the goal will be achieved, however; what is important is to be certain and exact about what you want. Without this you are leaving your life up to chance.

v.The goal of meaning

Any achievement, Tracy says, is worthless if it is not congruent with a sense of inner peace, so whatever your goals are they must revolved around a single meaningful purpose for your life. You are only successful to the extent that you can achieve your own happiness, so you must pursue goals that you are vitally interested in; only then can you really be of use to others.

vi. Loving relationships should feature highly in your goal-setting.

Only when these are going well, he reminds us, “can you turn your thoughts towards the self-expression and self-actualization that enable you to fulfil your potential.” Yet very few people have definite goals to improve the quality of their love life.

vii. Financial Freedom
One of Tracy’s other key ingredients for success is financial freedom. Money worries are the cause of around 80 per cent of relationship breakdowns, therefore you owe it to yourself and your partner to develop the skills and take the education to make yourself more valuable.

3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?

By using the entire lesson I have learnt in the book and apply it to my practical daily routing and activities.

4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.

“You can earn a university degree in our society… and never once receive an hour’s worth of instruction on goal setting, even though goal setting is more important to long-term happiness than any other single subject you could ever learn.”

“Whenever you find great achievement, you find an individual who is absolutely clear about what he or she wants to do, and who is willing to do whatever it takes, for however long it takes, to achieve it.”

“Here is a test for you: For one day, twenty-four hours, see if you can think and talk about only the things you want. Resolve to keep your conversation free of all negativity, doubt, fear, or criticism. Discipline yourself to speak cheerfully and optimistically about each person and each situation in the world around you.”

5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?

No.

6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?

Yes.

7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.

No.

Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10. Ten is good and one is poor.

Creating Your Path through Leadership
Assessment by Olakunle Michael Oladoyin (Nigeria)

1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?

“Creating Your Path through Leadership” is a veritable goldmine of resource materials for change makers, policymakers, diplomats, social entrepreneurs, management consultants, leadership coaches, personal development coaches, leadership experts, speakers, management consultants, nonprofit consultants, Business owners, students and young people around the world. It is composed of 23 exciting chapters with foreword and introduction, 25 contributors in 8 countries, sharing one global message. The book is spiced with interesting success stories, quotes, and personal experiences and impact of IIGL world class curriculum of leadership studies.

i. Self-Awareness

The Key to Leadership by IIGL graduate and Board Member, Charles Kabera from Rwanda. He shared how IIGL shaped his life, how he overcame procrastination, self-imposed limitations, and how he has been an asset to the human condition. Through personal success stories, he has shown how self-awareness can actually be a key to leadership development and excellence. Researchers, public servants, diplomats, and counselors will find this chapter highly resourceful.

ii. Never Allow Schooling to Interfere with Education:

To become an exceptional person in this ever changing world, one must always embrace personal development. Read good books on history, motivation, inspiration, leadership and literature. “Your mind should be constantly exposed to materials that grow the mind and not depreciate it.” This chapter is highly resourceful for emerging organic farmers, social visionaries, entrepreneurs and business owners.

iii. No Success without Scarifies

The Thought-Factor in Achievement taught me more about success and achievements. This is very important to me. Let’s take a look at the stories of some successful people today:.
“I didn’t even complete my university education.” Bill Gates
“I struggled academically throughout elementary school.” Dr. Ben Carson
“I used to sleep on the floor in friends’ rooms, returning Coke bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple.” Steve Jobs
“I was in prison for 27 years and still became president.” Nelson Mandela.

iv. True Happiness

A Journey of Inwardness and the Transformation of the Mind’ by an IIGL Graduate, Mark Maxwell Elisha-Mazadu from Nigeria. He took time to advance the thesis that the highest level of happiness comes from our level of inwardness. This chapter is highly resourceful for change makers, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, counselors and public speakers.

v. Conflict Resolution

The Role of Young Women and Men in Creating a Culture of Peace, by an IIGL graduate, Ratherford Mwaruta from Zimbabwe. He shared great ideas on strategies in conflict transformation, and seven steps for effective conflict resolution and relation building. Policymakers, conflict resolution facilitators, peace advocates, Human Rights activists, youth advocates for social change, peace makers etc will find the pages of this chapter highly resourceful.

vi. Welcome to Tomorrow – Welcome to the Future

“Living Ahead of Your Peers” by an IIGL graduate from Nigeria, and founder Christian Research Forum. He analyzed the power of imaginative mind in creating a revolution and making huge impact in the world: “If you must live ahead of your peers, you should learn to put to full use your imaginative mind; it is a tool that will give you the ticket to welcome your peers to tomorrow and to the future.” This chapter is highly resourceful for inspirational speakers, researchers, authors, executive trainers, and management consultants.

vii. Beyond Dreams and Wishes

Moving beyond Goals to Destiny, by an IIGL graduate, Hattie Opondo from Uganda. She shared how her encounter with IIGL studies has enhanced her personal growth and worth in seven key areas: education, health, family, career, relationship, material possessions, and travels. This chapter will be highly resourceful for those searching meaning in their lives.

3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?

By using the entire lesson I have learnt in the book and apply it to my practical daily routing and activities

4. Quotes: Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention? If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.

Sir Francis Bacon “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
“The thoughtless, the ignorant, and indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of law, of fortune, and chance. Seeing a man grow rich, they say, How lucky is! Observing another become intellectual they exclaim, How highly favored he is! And noting the saintly character and wide influence of another, they remark, How chance aids him at every turn! They don’t see the trials and failures and the struggles which these men have voluntarily encountered in order to gain their experience; have no knowledge of the sacrifices they have made, of the undaunted efforts they have put forth, of the faith they have exercised, that they might overcome the apparently insurmountable, and realize the vision of their heart. They do not know the darkness and the heart aches; they only see the light and the Joy, and they call it luck; do not see the longing arduous journey, but only behold the pleasant goal, and call it good fortune; do not understand the process, but only perceive the result, and call it chance.”

5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?

No.

6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete? If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?

7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions? If so, please comment.

“Creating Your Path through Leadership; written by graduates and Board members of our great institution which cut across contributors from USA, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Kenya, Nepal, and Zimbabwe. It is composed of 23 amazing chapters with Foreword and Introduction. I am particularly grateful to all the 25 contributors for being kind enough to share their interesting leadership lessons, skills, transformational stories and heart centered leadership which embodies IIGL’s mission. This is a book to be read, digested and chewed. It will remain a veritable goldmine of resource materials for speakers, community leaders, volunteers, nonprofits, social visionaries, change makers, and everyone desiring for change. The teamwork, collaboration and deep commitment IIGL community showed in this project is second to none.

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