CHANGE

                  Change

                                                       8 steps to successful change

Many of us at some point in our lives try to evaluate the way we have been living our lives and then we are not pleased, satisfied, or we just noticed things are not working as they should therefore we see a need for change.

But the next big lie we tell ourselves is that change is not easy I don’t think I can stop this and that, I don’t think I can change, but you know everybody can change no matter what its left to you  

     Well while this post may look like it is meant for firms, organizations, industries and not for individuals, but you can as well apply it to your lives if you really want to change

These 8 steps are subdivided into 4 groups

­-set the stage

*create a sense of urgency

*pull together a driving team

-decide what to do

*develop the change vision and strategy

-make it happen

*communicate the vision

*empower others to act

*produce a short term win

*don’t let up

-make it stick

*create a new culture

 

Create a sense of urgency; once you have realize that there is a need for change, then you don’t have/need to wait any longer make it an urgent matter a hot cake that shouldn’t get cold because the longer we wait the weaker the zeal and passion to change becomes.

Put together a guiding team; talk to a few people about it, relate it with your friends, get feedbacks use them as guidelines, as individuals and as firms or groups or what have you as the leader of a person with a sense of responsibility, just pull a small team maybe your board of directors and relate the urgency or the need for change to them.

Develop a vision and strategy; after admitting the urgency for the need of change then the next big task of what to do appears, you now have to consider what made you feel the urgency for change, and then you can picture your vision and put necessary strategies in place.

Communicate the vision; now as a Boss, Chairman or C.E.O after generating a vision shear it with your small team and make them catch it and see it the way you have seen it to create a easy flow, and as individual, the place of having a mentor or someone we look up to comes in. you shear the vision with them make them understand why it is necessary and urgent for you to change, they can even give you clearer views  and better advice on how it will be easy for you to change.

Empower others to act; after relating your vision to your small team then you can now shear it with the whole company or with your staffs or to your workers as the case may be, and make them feel or see the urgency to act. And as individuals you challenge yourself to act towards this new vision you want to catch

Produce a short term win; once we set out and start to implement this change and it starts to work out, celebrate it as a victory no matter how little it may seem the more you celebrate these little victories the more encouraged you are and the greater chance it is for you to have bigger wins.

Not being complacent and letting up; don’t let up, don’t give up, it may not work as a quick fire or like a rocket being lunched, so you have to be determined because many a time we get frustrated but our passion keeps us and then we get our desired result.

Create a new culture; no matter how addicted we are to that past scheme, curriculum, attitude or way of life once we set out to start the new way never consider the old way again, ensure that the change would not be overcome by our stubborn hard to die traditions, i.e. the old attitude we want to change.

The role of thinking and feeling

*thinking differently can help change behavior and lead to better result.

*collect and analyze data

*logical presentation to change people’s thinking

*changed thinking can change behavior

*feeling differently can help change behavior more and lead to even better result

*create surprising ,compiling and visual experiences

*experiences changes how people feel about situations

*change in feeling lead to change in behavior

Partly extracted from our iceberg is melting by (John Kotter & Holger Rathgerber)

KNOWLEDGE

 

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To excel in life you need knowledge, and just as everyone is a drum of knowledge only those who open up get filled (Promise Isaac)

 

Everything we face in life whether good or bad, the more knowledge we have the better and safer it is for us,

As insignificant as something’s may look only knowledge makes it easy for us, ignorance is a very bad disease, when you don’t know something and you have no idea of how to go about it you would understand what I mean.

Picture a villager who has never seen a car before in his/her own entire life standing in front of a car or being sent to go get a file from the car, what do you think will happen? The fellow can just pick up something probably a stick or a stone to hit the car in a bid to open it Or imagine someone who has never taken the elevator before and then follows someone and they both take the elevator you can imagine how their first reactions would be like that is what ignorance can do.

Knowledge is a necessity in life, you can’t make it to the top if you have little or no knowledge, it’s not enough to say I want to become a physics teacher and all you try to do is get knowledge or better understanding in physics and physics alone…………no knowledge is like an ocean and no matter how much we may think we know about something it is nothing more than a drop of water.

So why restrict yourself to certain views and options you can be an “engineer” and try to get more knowledge on “baking”, you can be a “footballer” and also have knowledge on “sowing” no matter how much we feel we know there is still more that we can learn than what we know

Genius use relatively 10% of their brain an average person barely use 5% so you should see that no matter how much you feel you have known there is still more for you to learn just be determined to know more it is not a crime knowledge is inevitable in our daily living from waking up from bed in the morning to going back to bed at night everything we do is a form of applying knowledge, cautiously and uncautiously lets try to get knowledge

“don’t forget ignorance is a disease, so as we go out and come in daily let us strive to know something new, lets always strive to gain knowledge, it doesn’t matter what knowledge we try to acquire it may look insignificant now but trust me it would definitely pay off someday”

 

GEAR UP

Gear up

No matter how bad our past may be, we shouldn’t allow them define us, don’t beat yourself up you have a key to the future you so much desire, open the lock, write a bright future and the past would be forgotten (Promise Isaac)

 

Many of us tend to beat up ourselves for what we cant do, and forget the fact that there are many other things we can do.

 

I know couple of would know Alfredo Nobel, that great man at least if we don’t know who or what he is we must have definitely heard of Alfredo Nobel’s Nobel prize and scholarship awards granted to students all around the world, sometimes ago Mr. Alfredo a simple scientist in a bid to make life easy he invented the grenade for the miners to ease them of the stress of using their whole energies to break rocks before they finally got what they where mining for, yes it worked out. Mission accomplished.

yet there was a bitter side of the story he was accomplished satisfied with his achievements but, during world war 2 this grenades were used as massive weapon of destruction it claimed many lives and properties as well, this was not the original intention of Mr. Alfredo but every fingers was pointed at him, he felt bad because all around his name was chanted as the bad man the mastermind behind thousands of people who lost their lives. Yes beat himself up for a while ducked his head in between his legs but he got over it with time he thought of what good he can do to change peoples view or perspective about him and yes the idea of the Nobel prize was conceived and today many people know Alfredo Nobel for his Nobel prize and not for the man who invented the grenade they used to kill thousands of people.
 

What is it that you have done in the past? What is that thing that seems as if it’s tying you down? And what is that thing that seems as if it is defining your future? What is that thing that you are not proud of?  Hey buddy GEAR UP stop beating up yourself, stop wasting your time thinking you would have done it better, it is done and you can’t change it. The best you can do for yourself is to think of what you can do better to replace and erase that old memory Mr. Alfredo was in your shoes too at one point in time but yes he took that bold step of trying to do something better and it paid off. You can do the same the more you dwell in that old state the weaker it becomes for you to progress

 

JUST TAKE THAT BOLD STEP WHAT IS IT THAT YOU HAVE TOUGHT OF AS A WAY TO FORFIET THAT PAST SITUATION, DON’T HESITATE DO IT AND IT WILL PAY OFF………………..GEAR UP

 

 

oh!! that smile that gives me hope

woke up in the garden,

saw this beautiful rose 

it stole my gaze uhnnn,

went so close to it and i was attacked

all i could was just to smile

oh!!! that smile that gives me hope

stepped out oh another world,

looked up and i saw that beautiful rose

up above than what so high,

set out to get the rose

got attacked by the stars and moon 

Oh!!! That smile that gives me hope

 Sat beside a spring of waterfall

Oh the rose just came to me

Oh the smile finally paid off

Oh the bears roared at me

But the rose so cool and cute, just sticked with me

Oh!!! That smile that gives me hope

 

 

 

 

 

knowledge

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

To excel in life you need knowledge, and just as everyone is a drum of knowledge only those who open up get filled (Promise Isaac)

 

Everything we face in life whether good or bad, the more knowledge we have the better and safer it is for us,

As insignificant as something’s may look only knowledge makes it easy for us, ignorance is a very bad disease, when you don’t know something and you have no idea of how to go about it you would understand what I mean.

Picture a villager who has never seen a car before in his/her own entire life standing in front of a car or being sent to go get a file from the car, what do you think will happen? The fellow can just pick up something probably a stick or a stone to hit the car in a bid to open it Or imagine someone who has never taken the elevator before and then follows someone and they both take the elevator you can imagine how their first reactions would be like that is what ignorance can do.

Knowledge is a necessity in life, you can’t make it to the top if you have little or no knowledge, it’s not enough to say I want to become a physics teacher and all you try to do is get knowledge or better understanding in physics and physics alone…………no knowledge is like an ocean and no matter how much we may think we know about something it is nothing more than a drop of water.

So why restrict yourself to certain views and options you can be an “engineer” and try to get more knowledge on “baking”, you can be a “footballer” and also have knowledge on “sowing” no matter how much we feel we know there is still more that we can learn than what we know

Genius use relatively 10% of their brain an average person barely use 5% so you should see that no matter how much you feel you have known there is still more for you to learn just be determined to know more it is not a crime knowledge is inevitable in our daily living from waking up from bed in the morning to going back to bed at night everything we do is a form of applying knowledge, cautiously and uncautiously lets try to get knowledge

“don’t forget ignorance is a disease, so as we go out and come in daily let us strive to know something new, lets always strive to gain knowledge, it doesn’t matter what knowledge we try to acquire it may look insignificant now but trust me it would definitely pay off someday”

 

Take 100% responsibility for your life

Take total responsibility for your life

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself (Jim Rohn)

 

In our world today the main believe is that we are entitled to a great life, that somehow someone somewhere [definitely not us] is responsible for filing our lives with continual happiness and joy, exciting career options, nurturing family time, and a wonderful personal relationship simply because we exist.

But the real truth, and one lesson to learn from this post is that there is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live “That person is you”

If you want to be successful, you must take total responsibility for everything that happens in your life, this include your level of achievements, the state of your relationship, your income, your state of health, your feelings and the likes…….

Many of you have yourself defaulted to the setting of blaming someone, or something outside of ourselves as the responsible factors for whatever the situation we face, it is easier to blame someone else than accepting the blame for whatever we have done, we are scared of taking responsibility for our failures, too timid to take responsibility for what we didn’t do right but happy to accept what we think is good or we have done right,.

But if we keep living our lives like that then we would definitely not be as successful as we want, one secret of successful people is that they take total responsibility for whatever situation they face it’s not a crime to fail in fact it’s a necessity for successful people and those who want to succeed so why are we afraid to take responsibility???

Take total responsibility for your life face every challenge, and then you get better and come out a giant ready to hit that success .

Take total responsibility for your life

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself (Jim Rohn)

 

In our world today the main believe is that we are entitled to a great life, that somehow someone somewhere [definitely not us] is responsible for filing our lives with continual happiness and joy, exciting career options, nurturing family time, and a wonderful personal relationship simply because we exist.

But the real truth, and one lesson to learn from this post is that there is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live “That person is you”

If you want to be successful, you must take total responsibility for everything that happens in your life, this include your level of achievements, the state of your relationship, your income, your state of health, your feelings and the likes…….

Many of you have yourself defaulted to the setting of blaming someone, or something outside of ourselves as the responsible factors for whatever the situation we face, it is easier to blame someone else than accepting the blame for whatever we have done, we are scared of taking responsibility for our failures, too timid to take responsibility for what we didn’t do right but happy to accept what we think is good or we have done right,.

But if we keep living our lives like that then we would definitely not be as successful as we want, one secret of successful people is that they take total responsibility for whatever situation they face it’s not a crime to fail in fact it’s a necessity for successful people and those who want to succeed so why are we afraid to take responsibility???

Take total responsibility for your life face every challenge, and then you get better and come out a giant ready to hit that success .

the real deal about friends

Hmm friends ………

As precious as diamond, as costly as gold

When you are lonely inside, they are around to make you smile

When you are bored the memories of them gives you hope

Imagine life without  friends………………….

Friends are the best and sometimes the worst thing to happen to us

Our friends make or unmake us, it’s a matter of choice

 

“Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are”

Many a times this saying seems funny and untrue looks like a lie

But trust me it means a lot, you are either influenced by them or you are influencing them,

So you can definitely be defined by the friends you walk with.

Trust your guts [instinct] make some friends, enjoy them while you still can,

Time will come when they would seem far no matter how close they are, but these memories remain

Friends betray us sometimes, don’t hold grudges they are only human, it’s not their fault they might not even do it at will, still love them, but be careful.

Cherish your friends, protect that relationship/friendship no matter what

You don’t know what the future holds but be wise in your choice of friend’s selection.

They make or unmake us……..#RPG

 

So guys don’t hold back because someone in the past in the name of a friend has hurt us, give others chance learn to forgive and move on Selah!!!

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