Life is like a POOL

Life is like a pool of water
Life is like a pool of water. And until you drop a piece of pebble into it, you will not generate any ripple. It may remain still for years. The pebble you drop into the pool is your action, no matter how small an action is, it is better than no action at all.
Little pebble will generate waves that the generator may not even know the end of such action. So also the little positive action you are going to take this month of august will lead to success that you cannot even imagine.
I am going to be working with thirty people this month that will be willing to take little action every day to take our life to the next level.
If you are willing to be one of us, send a mail and register today.
Action- the secret of Success

The truth is, not much separates the great, successful people from the ordinary.

Rarely are the most successful people that we admire significantly smarter
or more talented than the next person.

However, without exception, highly successful people know how to take action
on their initiatives and they constantly learn how to improve.

What could you achieve if you made the decision to do those two things,
every day, from now on?

I think you could achieve anything you want, I really do.

I'd like to introduce you to an incredibly valuable tool that you can use,
right now, to completely change your approach to the way you take action in
your life.

If there's room for improvement in your level of personal success as a
Leader, Entrepreneur, or Professional, then it is time for you to take action.

Do something today that you have not done for a very long time like put on your knickers and do the dish, wash the car or weed your garden. Hmmmn!

I know you have people who do those things for you, but do them and write to me after
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure."

Sven Goran Eriksson

Using Failure to Ensure Success

In his book "Failing forward," John C. Maxwell tells the
story of Samuel Langley, the man who should have invented the airplane.

Langley was Director of the Smithsonian Institution and a respected former
professor of mathematics and astronomy. Decades before the Wright brothers successfully flew their plane, the government had given a $50,000 check to Dr. Langley. The purpose? To convert what he had learned by experimenting with large models into the first manned airplane.

On Oct. 8, 1903, Langley expected his years of work to come to fruition. As
journalists and curious onlookers watched, Charles Manley (Langley's engineer), wearing a cork-lined jacket, strode across the deck of a modified houseboat and climbed into the pilot's seat of a motorized biplane called the Great Aerodrome.
The craft was perched atop a specially built catapult designed to initiate its
flight into the air. But when the launch was attempted, part of the Aerodrome got caught. It was flung into 16 feet of water a mere 50 yards away.

Criticism of "Langley's Folly" was brutal. But he was undaunted. He tried a
second flight eight weeks later. This time, the pilot was almost killed.

This second failure was too much for the respected scientist. Defeated and
demoralized, he abandoned his pursuit of flight.
On Dec. 17, just a few months later, Orville and Wilber Wright, uneducated, unknown, and unfunded, flew their plane over the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk.


The moral of this story is obvious: If you want to accomplish great things in
your life, you have to be willing to fail. Again and again. You must no quit trying. Keep on dropping pebble into the POOL

At Tropical Entrepreneurship Development centre (TEDC), this is a concept we teach to all new employees and the company we consult for.
But we take it one step further. We tell them that since we want to accelerate their success, they have to be willing to accelerate their failures.

How do we do that? By pushing them carefully.

TEDC is an unusual company. There is almost no resistance to upward mobility.
If you get hired to work as a clerk but get an idea for a new
product or advertising scheme, you will be welcomed to present it. If your idea is any good, it will be tested. And if it works, you will be promoted.

Given this freedom, TEDC's employees are coming up with new ideas all the time.
New employees usually come up with not-so-good ideas. It's not because they are not smart. It's just that they lack experience.

But we don't discourage them. We encourage them. And if we think their idea has even half a chance, we let them try it. We do that because we believe that the only way to grow is by making your own mistakes.
You can't shape the character of a quality person by telling him what he can't do. All you can do is give him feedback and let him learn on his own.

Our rule is: Test your idea as quickly and as inexpensively as possible. If it works, great. If it doesn't work, start working on your next idea.


This philosophy of "accelerated failure" may be helpful in your organization. It has been instrumental in TEDC's growth and overcoming many business challenges and even coming back from failure in the past 10 years.

In his book, Maxwell provides this formula for "making friends with failure":

1. Recognize that a willingness to fail is the chief difference between
successful people and average people.

In Maxwell's opinion, success has little to do with wealth, family, background, morals, or opportunity. "When it comes right down to it," he says, "I know of only one factor that separates those who consistently shine from those who don't: their perception of and response to failure."

2. Redefine failure.

Maxwell says that people are too quick to judge isolated situations and label
them as failures. A successful person sees a setback as temporary and beneficial - something to learn from.
As basketball coach Rick Pitino once said, "Failure
is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned
from making mistakes."

3. Disconnect yourself from your mistakes.

The trick to overcoming the fear of failure is to disassociate yourself from it.
To understand that, as Maxwell says, "your failure does not make you a failure."
Instead of beating yourself when you make a mistake, tell yourself, "I am not a failure. I failed at doing this."

Keep in mind that every successful person has experienced failure. Mozart, a
musical genius, was told by Emperor Ferdinand that “The Marriage of Figaro” was "far too noisy" and contained "far too many notes." Thomas Edison, the most prolific inventor in history, was considered unteachable as a youngster. And Albert Einstein, the greatest thinker of modern times, was told by a Munich schoolmaster that he would never amount to much.

4. Take action to remove fear.

Recognize that your fear of failure is based not on logic but on experience. To
get rid of that paralyzing fear, you must take action. "If you can take action
and keep making mistakes," says Maxwell, "you gain experience.
That experience eventually brings competence, and you make fewer mistakes. As a result of making fewer mistakes, your fear becomes less paralyzing. But the whole cycle-breaking process starts with action. You must act your way into feeling, not wait for positive emotions to carry you forward."

5. Change the way you respond to failure.

Some people get angry when they fail. Others, unwilling to accept
responsibility, look for scapegoats. Some people, stubborn people, ignore their negative results and continue to repeat their unsuccessful actions. Still others simply give up.
"There's really only one solution to the gridlock on the failure freeway," Maxwell says, "and that's to wake up and find the exit." In other words, to accept responsibility for the actions that contributed to your
failure and to change your behaviour accordingly.

The title that Maxwell chose for his book - "Failing Forward" - sums up this
philosophy nicely: If you march long enough, you will stumble. Whether you
stumble forward or stumble backward or stop marching completely is entirely up
to you.

The challenges of business world today is not lack of what to do, But to know how to do what you do efficiently, effectively and profitably.

Contact us today to join the league of several companies that we have turned their failures to SUCCESS story.

YOUR SUCCESS IS OUR BUSINESS

Engr. Tony Egba (CeO)
TEDC
+234-0803-803-764