SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM THE 95!

                                  SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM THE 95!

I will like to open this article with a very short story. While I was growing up, I stayed with an uncle, in a sub-up in Wilmer area of Lagos State, before I left them. Before then, we had stayed in a city called Okokomaiko in Lagos state too, there at Okokomaiko  in 1999, I was privilege to have a chat with my Aunt, (name kept) as the chatting was going on, she narrated her story as a young girl how her father’s brothers maltreated them, simply because her father will not join them in serving their fetish ‘gods’, so they refused to help them in time of need and they suffer a great deal before making the ‘big breakthrough’ by God’s grace.

To cut the long story short, after so many years had passed and looking back, even when I taught my aunt and her lovely husband, my sweet uncle were sufficient enough with what I could see at that time, my aunt still vowed that she must separate herself from the ’95 and join the 5’, so I begin to wonder what she meant by that, later, I then discovered why. This is why I have decided to write on this topic,

First of all, who are the ninety-five “95”?

I will like to go straight, without wanting to make your mind wonder about. Simply put, the ‘95’, are; The poor, procrastinators, dream killers, fearful, people with no vision, people who cannot dare, people who are pessimist, people who are comfortable with their present position, people who relinquish their comfort zone, people who are not creative, who are not proactive, people who do not have self confidence, people with low self-esteem, people who are not motivated by anything, people who do not see anything good in others, people who would always castigate you when you are moving up, people who built empires with their mouth, whose ideas remain in their head and mind but are too afraid to try, people who don’t grow, people who gamble on opinions, people who are not decisive, and the list goes on and on…………………………………………!

Well, the five on the other hand, are the reverse of the above mentioned traits. But findings have shown that it is only a few that can get in to this ‘famous five’, a unique position that so many yearn for, long for and wish to be amongst, but it will take the brave, who are ready to stake all odds to be part of this group, the builders of our world. But the good news is that you are not left apart, you can join the group. The only criteria, is “ARE YOU WILLING”? If you answered yes, to the above question, I say WELCOME! You may read on.

YOU MUST FIRST BE WILLING!

Willingness of the heart is the first thing that a person’s needs; you need to be willing to separate yourself from your old man. You cannot say you want to be rich and you still do things the old way it is not just possible for riches to come that way! It is like pouring new wine into an old jar, the wine will definitely get sour right! Yeah!

Now willingness of the heart should come natural, nobody should force you to change, it should come from within you, it’s your mind, the you that is in you, yourself made being, you must change the way it thinks, react to its immediate environment, to how it reacts to setbacks, it’s emotions, you must purge it from negativity, it must be able to guide you to choosing your right friends, friends that would impact positive things in you, the heart must me desirous to change, yes that is the willingness to come out of the 95 and join the 5! God has deposited in every man the ability to make these changes, i.e. making the heart willing enough to desire good things!

THE MIND

As a very strong tool, the mind is divided into two parts the conscious and the subconscious mind.

THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND: This part of the mind is what carries information whether constructive or destructive as the case may be into your conscious mind. It is very volatile that it can make or mar a person’s success in life. The intents of the hearts are stored here and it is from here that the conscious mind will now act upon to the physical world. This is your store house you must use it well in other to join the 5!

THE CONSCIOUS MIND: The conscious part of the mind is that part that executes or carries out the actions or taught stored in the subconscious part of the mind. It is very vulnerable to its environment, one must be very careful as to what one allows into the mind: if you store negative things that are not productive to the mind, it will dish out negative results, so watch out what goes in there!

HOW TO JOIN THE FIVE?

There are some things one must do to join the five and these are

1.   Change your taught: The first thing is you have to change the way you think about yourself, the way you think about life, the way you think about your education/careers, the way you think about investment, the way you think about being a wage slave (employee or salary earner), the friends you pull out with, the way you search for information that could better your future, the way you go about developing yourself professionally etc.

2.   Think investment: Do you consider investing in your future as a tool that could help you get into the 5? If not, start thinking investment! Invest in books, in information, in buying futures, bonds, shares, policies, stocks, in oil & gas, in education, in professional skills, in real estate, in fixed deposit and many more to secure a great future for you and your family.

3.   Reduce depts. And safe more: One vital reason why people hardly save is depts. Once you can reduce the number of depts. In a month, you will be able to save more for that month. Again, try to but things in bulk at the end of a month that will carry you throughout that month, rather than buying things bit-by-bit, there by spending even more than the rich. Try not to window shop pay for what you buy and avoid carry over to the next month!

4.   Buy assets not Liability: Avoid buying what you don’t need but buy only what you need. Do not stock your house with liability only what is necessary is what should be in your house. If you don’t need a car yet, don’t buy it because you want to impress your friends at work that you are capable of buying a car. Same goes for other things too if you do, it will save you a great deal. In one sentence, avoid the temptation!

5.   Buy Land: Land is a natural asset that cannot depreciate in value but instead it appreciates. If you can get lands at areas that is still experiencing development then you can get it cheap. Areas like Agbara, Oko-Afon, Mowe, Epe, Badagry, and Ikotun and so on. All these areas and more are in Lagos/Ogun States do your research for more areas. Lands at Oko-Afon go for N200, 000-up which I think is reasonable for someone to invest in now!

6.   Think Business: Yes, you have to think business there is no job security and even if you are receiving a very good wage, you still need to think business to compliment your existing job. Today, people think of “MSI” Which stands for (Multiple Streams of Income) i.e. creating multiple businesses that will be bringing income regularly into your bank account. Businesses like building an office space for lease, or rent, please, don’t sell your land lease or rent it out for some period of time, business like building a school and give to expert to manage, supermarket, grocery shop, food stuff, business center etc we can go on and on. All these businesses in no small time will gradually get you into the fraction 5!

WHAT WILL IT DO FOR YOU?

The benefits of the afore mentioned things and many more, is that

1.   It will create an enabling future for you.

2.   It will make you to be financially free.

3.   It will make you achieve your dreams.

4.   It will give you the freedom of being your own boss.

5.   It will give you time to be with your family whenever.

6.   It will give you sense of belonging.

7.   It will make you to expand into new ventures

8.   You will be able to give your family that dream vacation etc.

BE MOTIVATED: Lastly, you must be motivated, you must have drive, you must have self determination, you must have perspiration and be persistent in what you do, you must have passion for that future that you have always dreamt of, you must be courageous, and you must have the eagle eye to soar on eagles wings. Choose friends that will take you to that lofty height, friends that sees as you see, risk taking friends who sees possibility in impossibility. Once you can do these and develop yourself in almost all these areas and do the above, you will be on your way to joining the famous 5 per cent that are controlling the riches of this world. The ball is in your court, act now!

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DEVELOP YOURSELF PROFESSIONALLY

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS PAY

Hello friends, I was about to write on something else, when while I was on my way to a friends place, I met my aunty's daughter at home smiled to me from teeth-to-teeth, with great passion because it has been long we saw. So I asked her, how she was faring and what she was doing at the moment since she had completed her HIGH SCHOOL EXAMS, she answered, "nothing" at the moment, so I was curious and I asked why?, then she replied thus "I am waiting to take my UTME next year", next year I exclaimed! That is too long a time for me, and for a girl I think, it will not be fair to see her waste at home almost six-months or there about. So I asked her why she would not go and use the time to learn something, she said 'I want to but mummy', why I asked, she couldn't profer me with an answer, lucky as it were, my aunt came out and we discussed, and she said that my neice, is a good hair stylist, hair stylist? Wow!, and that led me to write on this issue.

WHAT ARE PROFESSIONAL SKILLS?

Professional skills are those skills, which you learn and they become part of you like you yourself. These are the skills we all know as "hand-work", because they are practical in nature and are skills you can do, even if you were woken up from sleep. These skills are highly technical, and highly sort-after! The pride of it is that, it enables you to at a point in time be your own boss and run your show, and also to become the employer of labour.

WHAT ARE THESE SKILLS?

the list is enless, as they are very many, but I will mention a few. These includes
1.Hair Dressing
2.Fashion Designing
3.Tailoring
4.Make-up expert
5.Hair Barbing
6.Shoe-cubbler
6.Auto-mechanics
7.Bead-making (i.e necklace, bag, earrings,slippers,rings pendants, etc)
8.Welder
9.Caterer
10.Gen-set, plants, repairer
11.Rewinder
12.Furniturer
13.Carpentering
14.Engineers (i.e GSM,Desktop, Laptop, Pamtop,notebook repairs and maintainers)
15.Electronics engineers (i.e TV, Radio, DVD, VCD,Video, Mixers, Speakers, repairers etc)
16.Sound Engineers (i.e Sound producers for muscians)
17.Digital Photographing/producer of Movie and Musics, and Directors and editing etc
18.painter
19.Body-fillers (i.e Car Body-fillers)
20.Panel-beaters;Also, of cars that was damage through accidents.
21.CCNA,CCNP,CCIE Expert i.e. (Cisco Certified Networking Administrator)(Cisco certified Networking Professional)(Cisco Certified Internet Expert) etc
22.Programmers
23.Networking
24.Java
25.Oracle. And the list goes on and on without ending.

WHY PROFESSIONAL SKILLS?

I must say, that this is a challenging question, but I will try to answer the question in two phase
1.Professional skills in the corporate world
2.Professional skills in the entreprenueral world.

PROFESIONAL SKILLS IN THE CORPORATE WORLD

It, is no more news that there are no job security this days, but what will make some people stands out, when a company want to do some downsizing of staff strenght, will depend on the efficiency of a staff. This include a staff professional credentials. What do I mean? I must let you know that it is not enough this days to be an OND, HND, B.Sc, P.hd etc holder. Today, companies are not looking at what you have but WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH WHAT YOU HAVE. Now, this is a hard truth you must realise now; to your good credentials you must try to match it with professionalism on either your career by learning practically wide, upgrading yourself outside the school domain.
You must know the in and out of your professional skills, latest ideas, technologies,software,material, and how to better and sharpen your skills the more, for you to be able to compete even with your professional skills, because there are competitors out there. One more thing I must let you know is that no professional body will give you a professional certificate without critical scrutinizing of your ability to see whether you merit to be awarded a professional certificate.

WHAT WILL IT DO FOR YOU?

In just some few words, it will make you more efficient and an essential comodity to the industry that will need your service, better still put you ahead of your co-workers. Yes your co-workers I say, because I must let you know, it is not everybody that will be entreprenuers, or company owners, many will be company managers in various key positions, some will succeed as staff of a company with thier indepth skills and professionality in something that will stand them out, so if you fall in this category go and sharpen your skills for bigger challenges to EARN BIG!

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AS AN ENTREPRENEUR

To be at the top of your game, you need to be an expertise in your field, nobody will patronise your services, products, etc, if you are not good. If you seek to be an entrepreneur, or a company owner,in any or one or two of the above listed skills, you will need more than your school certificates you might have gathered from school, as being a professional skill personel in the above list doesn't require education, but interest, passion, determination, drive,commitment of both time and energy, both in research findings,practical learning and implementation to make all the difference to be able to be on top of your game.
One good thing is that making money, do not need your education, because your certificates will not give you money, but what you do with the skills you have, this will put money in your bank account. Today, people with administrative skills have now make a U-turn to learning other professional practical hand work, against the unknown that could happen, there by learning from their predesessors. Don't be a spectator while learning, learn to know, not to cram, because this is not your conventional school, your hands and brains must know something very well I think that is plain enough!
For your interest, you can visit http://www.cityandguilds.com  to get a proper perspective of some of the above skills as a help guides.
Till I come your way again to expantiate more on some of the items above, I say, go write your script on the wall of fame for the world is waiting for you to explode!

TURN YOUR MISERY TO SUCCESS, THE STORY OF COSCHARIS GROUP LIMITED

TURN MISERY TO GREATNESS!!!

"Satisfaction comes only when one truely achieve his set goals in life"
At every junture inlife there are ups and downs,challenges to conquer,mountains to climb, tasks;Adjustments and re-adjustment to old habbits,manner of life, ways of doing things, etc. These challenges are present to refined us, and make us a better challenger, dream achievers,dream fulfillers,record breakers, situation managers, advisers and what have you!

Just as the saying goes, in every nonsense, there is a sense; So too in every situation, there is a solution. Stories have been told of people who in their life time were classifies as a good for nothing fellow, but today have gone to become the ones that people, organizations, Governments, are running to for insight, advices,counsels and so on for solutions to their challenges. the portion of the Bible readily comes to mind that say " there are those who are first that will be last, and those who are last that will be first".Your situation might be one of such that people have written you off, saying that will any good thing come out from him/her? What will count most will not be these and other words, but what your reactions will be to those words. a man ones said that " I careless what people said about me, but what I say to myself" What an amazing revelation!

MR. COSMOS MADUKA AND THE COCHARIS GROUP THE UNTOLD STORY!

FIGHTING WITH FAILURE!

Mr. Cosmos maduka, trhe founder of the COSCHARIS GROUP OF COMPANIES, found himself in a messy and a sticky situation during his early life, one  that is enough to make a personrescind to accepting temporary defeat, and stay in their comfort zone. as a young man full of energy, drive and passion, he found himself in the other side of life! He came from an humble background, unable to go to school, ended up as a spare-part apprtentice under his then BOSS, selling spare parts of various brand of cars!  Cosmas lost his father at the age of 4 and as a result his education was cut short; at the age of 7 he became an automobile apprentice in his uncle’ automotive parts business in the Ebute-Metta area of Lagos. Mr. Maduka hate going to church, but prefer to stay at home Sundays, playing football, watching pornographic films, and doing all not what,films that corrupts the mind. He was always t the negative recieving end of his boss, for his not going to church to serve God, complainig of his negative mental attitude and habbits. He told of how he usually go to hotel to satisfy his sexual urge, and will always recieve scolding from his "enermy" turned friend, for his negative traits and habbits., for these, his boss hate him even much! He worked for his uncle for 7 years before starting his own business in 1975.  Cosmas’ uncle provided him with 200 naira in capital with which he used to start his own auto parts business in Nnewi. In the Nigerian automobile market, the name Coscharis is quite prominent. Coscharis motors specializes in the sale of BMW and Landrover; the company partnered with BMW of Germany. It was a dream come true for Maduka to be the sole representative of BMW in Nigeria because he personally has a penchant for BMW cars.


FACING TEMPORARY DEFEAT!
 

On one faithful day, after much disturbance from his " holier than thou" friend, he decided to follow to church, and that was when his troubles and freedom began. Sometimes, the worstest of events could be a way God wants to use to free you from your miseries! On returning from church, he met to his surprise a sharp and dangering question fro his boss " where are you coming from?", From church he replied with a gentle and frighthened voice of some one who saw a ghost, What church his boss questioned, so you abandoned my business for some stupid church? Who told you that God is looking for a person like you in the church, he mocked him! these and many other hurtful words he said to the young man, who for the first time in his life will go to church for to be transformed! Here again he was facing a challenge of defeat to throw in the towel, when he was yet to start! Do these not happen to some of us, when with great enthusiasm, start a new business,health program, relationship, job/career, education pursuit etc and we face these challenges of people wanting to make us feel like we are a whip! and can not achiee such lofty dreams? See people who were ones good advisers, now turning to be our mockers. Many will at this juncture turn back and say that is all there is, no need why continue? They arejust right I am a failure, but I say no, temporary must not control you, you must fight to take hold of your future! Immediately, he told Mr. Cosmos to stop going to church or face a stiffer penalty, but he will refused and went to church again and was finally thrown-out.

DRAWING COURAGE IN THE WINDY STORM
Mr. cosmos went to meet his elder brother, narrated his situation to him, his brother went with him to his boss, to plead, but he'll refused, claiming that Cosmos usually stole his money, and for that reason, when he was to settle him, then gave him N200 as settlement, for a person who had served him for several years, to his greatest surprise! That's less than $2! It's a culture in eastern part of Nigeria that when a boy serve his master faithfully, after graduation of say 4-6years he'll be expecting nothing less tha N500,000-N1million, and other things to help him start off in his own business, now you get the idea right? But his was a paltery N200, that is not enough for breakfast!. It is always good to have a courageous adviser, who also is a visionier. With anger, his brother called and told him that they should leave everything in God's hands and not revenge; He obeyed his brother, who promised to help him achieve hids dream. His brother gather up some money and gave him and he started his business on a N200 settlement which he recieves from his boss.

WHEN GOD INTERVENE IN A NASTY YOUR NASTY SITUATION
Mr.Maduka would take market from people to sell and returned the money sold and the profit would be shared. This he was doing for some time, and was able to save some money from the venture, he later got help from his friends and his elder brother and went on to rent a shop; this he did for several years and established himself in the business, but he was still not there yet! Still struggling! But one good thing is, he knows his trade very well and was and still is very familiar with all brands as far as the car business is concern. This man is loved by people for his generosity, kind-heartedness, humility, care and such good triats that he later developed after knowing God and vow never to go back to his old ways again, because of the love of God in his life!In the midst of these, Mr. Cosmos met Charity and they fell in love, but Charity's parents' would not accept their relationship, because they believe that he was no match for their daugther, because of his anticident, as apoor man, unschooled, and with bad records so they taught, but this was a changed man little do they know. This ccharming lady loved him beyond doubt, and would do anything to have him, Why? Because she saw something special in him and also believed in his dreams and they both were sharing the same idealogy! For his choice of Charity he faced many critism from friends and families alike and was always bullied by even Charity's parents since they were rich, they felt he was a "gold digger". This is enough for someone to give up on ones dream and think small, but Cosmos was not detered by what he was passing through but stay focused. The ladder of success is so tough that you must equip yourself with determination, fith, believe, courage and a burning desire to succeed! Cosmos remain focused and pressing towards what he truely wants! He finds something special in Charity and wouldn't let go, he kept pressing, pressing and pressing harder and wouldn't buy their taught about him; Charity on the other hand also helpped, by trying to convince her parent of her choice, and that paved a way for them!

WHEN YOUR MORNING WILL COME, THE SUN WILL SHINE BRIGHTLY!
Finally, charity's request was granted by her parent after many trials and failures, but with a strong word to her, that she will come out of the marriage with "emptiness, shame and regret", for her decision. Every true man created in God's image, filled with all possibilities and ability to achieve greatness, encapsulated with big dreams well DEFINED, and with a focuse eye for success like that of the eagle, will always rise to fight when duty calls and when faced with an uuphill task to prove his critics wrong. This was the case with these two hearts, who found love so dearly, and with every possibility to make their marriage work and to be successful, by God's grace. Their marriage recieved little assistance,but they were never bothered. They worked together as one unit and with keen determination, tiredlessly, with great dedication to the union and to their business, until an empire was born.

THE BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE!
Mr. Cosmos continued with his importation of parts from abroad through his friends, but later grew to be traveling himself to do the importation. It was during one of his trips, that he came across BMW motors, who at that time were finding a way to penetrate the Nigeria Automobile market. They struck a bargain, and he helpped them to acquire a land at Kirikiri Industrial Estate in maza-maza, as a franchise business and named is venture "COSCHARIS MOTORS" which is a combination of 'COSMOS and CHARITY' and later went on to buy a big stake in the company that then make him a maor share holder, then later on owner.After  bringing BMW to Nigeria, COSCHARIS, had in recent years, brought in graet brands like honda, Toyota, mercedes Benz, Mitsubishi, etc into the Nigeria market, with all kinds of cars, trunks, trucks, etc that has attracted great patronage from consumers both in the private and public sectors. Started out as a JOINTVENTURE PARTNER JV/DEALER, to OWNER knowing the in-and-out of the automobile business, there by affording him the opportunity to expand into the Nigerian market as a major player.Today, COSCHARIS has ten SUBSIDIARIES, and also offering after sales service to their customers, with a state of the heart service center with a world class technology  to provide satisfaction to customers, and the entire COSCHARIS GROUP, worth well over $25million, about (N38.60Billion), and he's still thinking 'big'. also, their marriage his blest with four wonderful kids.So, you too can be a miracle, only if you seek God to intervene in your stuation and believe in his divine touch in your life, you are not an Island, you can make it! Today, I say, go write your script on the wall of fame, because you are special!

WHEN DISABILITY FINDS STRENGHT TO DO MORE!

Disability may be a disorder that could make a person  miserable in life, but we have had stories of people who look over their problems and challenges and still reach the sky, defying all odds against them. I wonder, if people with disabilities can do extra ordinary things then those who are complete can in such a great way only if we believe!
Believe is one thing that can drive a persons passion to go above his limitations; this believes will now translate to faith, and when faith now grows, it will bring a resurgence, in the actualizing of great dreams that will then come to reality. What are your challenges today? What are does things you think you can not do simply because you are faced with what I will call "your challenge"? Let me share with you one of the world's most notable personality and see how she was able to go on and achieved greatness in her time. No wonder the good book"the Bible" said " If in time of adversity we stumble, it means that our faith is small, but it was the opposite for this brave and courageous woman, whom am about to introduce to you. please, read on !

   

Helen Keller - (1880 - 1968) - Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf/blind person to graduate from college. She was not born blind and deaf; it was not until nineteen months of age that she came down with an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which could have possibly been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind. Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities amid numerous other cause.

She was a prolific author, Keller was well-traveled, and was outspoken in her opposition to war. She was a member of the Socialist Party of America and the industrial workers of the world, known as “wobbliest” she campaigned for women's suffrage, workers rights, and socialism, as well as many other left-wing politics causes.

HER POLITICAL DYNASTY

Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, amid numerous other causes. She was a suffragist, a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson, a radical socialist and an American  birth control league supporter. In 1915 she and George Kessler founded the Helen Keller International (HKI) organization. This organization is devoted to research in vision, health and nutrition. In 1920 she helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Keller traveled to over 39 countries with Sullivan, making several trips to Japan and becoming a favorite of the Japanese people. Keller met every U.S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain. Keller and Mark Twain were both considered radicals at the beginning of the 20th century, and as a consequence, their political views have been forgotten or glossed over in popular perception. How amiable she is a person of passion for what she believes in, and a keen interest in seeing her dream come through! An old soldier, with a never say die spirit. When a person derives joy in that thing that he/she loves doing best it will become an all consuming desire that will be too hard to break, this was the case with Madam H. Keller.

HER DOGGEDNESS

Keller was a member of the Socialist Party and actively campaigned and wrote in support of the working class from 1909 to 1921. She supported Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs in each of his campaigns for the presidency. Newspaper columnists who had praised her courage and intelligence before she expressed her socialist views now called attention to her disabilities. The editor of the Brooklyn Eagle wrote that her "mistakes sprung out of the manifest limitations of her development." Keller responded to that editor, referring to having met him before he knew of her political views: As I round up this great article, I want to leave you with her heart touching responses!

"At that time the compliments he paid me were so generous that I blush to remember them. But now that I have come out for socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf and especially liable to error. I must have shrunk in intelligence during the years since I met him...Oh, ridiculous Brooklyn Eagle! Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system that is the cause of much of the physical blindness and deafness which we are trying to prevent."

"I was appointed on a commission to investigate the conditions of the blind. For the first time I, who had thought blindness a misfortune beyond human control, found that too much of it was traceable to wrong industrial conditions, often caused by the selfishness and greed of employers. And the social evil contributed its share. I found that poverty drove women to a life of shame that ended in blindness."

This was after she joined the Industrial Workers of the World, known then as IWW between 1916 and 1918.

Knowing your purpose in life is a great motivation, but i want to let you know that what ever you pass through in life, you are not alone, as God has deposited in you great substance and potentials to achieve great that not even, this like disability can stop you! Remember " No man, trying to achieve greatness and success, counting steps backward", you are made for the top!

Till i come your way again, remain bless, as you go and write your scripts on the wall of fame!