Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts
Another year has just
begun and this is usually the best time to take stock of achievements in
the previous year, while mapping out new goals for the future. One can
give some thought to side hustles for augmenting his/her normal monthly
income this year. As needs keep piling up and cost of living keeps
escalating, creating multiple streams of income is one sure way to
overcome the twin problems of lack and poverty in Nigeria.We will be going through a list of 10 side hustles (small businesses one can do alongside normal jobs) and you can decide which of them will be suitable for implementation depending on your passion or funds available.
Manage social media platforms
Startup capital: N150,000
Payback period: 8-12 months
Estimated Income: N20k/Month
Market – Blogs, Small Businesses, Entertainers
The internet world has become a veritable marketing tool and more individuals are using social media to create a steady stream of income. Celebrities, companies and businesses are using these social media platforms to create profitable brands for themselves. All you need to do is study how these platforms work. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube are just a few social media platforms you can manage on behalf of clients which would make you earn serious money this year.
Online Tutor
Startup capital: N80,000 – N100,000
Payback period: 6 months
Estimated Income – N15k/Month
Market – Students, White Collar Workers, Job Seekers
By using Skype and other online platforms, one can become an online tutor and start making some serious cash regularly. People desire knowledge and information in some specific fields and are ready to pay for the information. For example, the current business in demand in Nigeria is the cryptocurrency business and lots of guys are still not aware of how it works. If you are knowledgeable about it, this is an opportunity to earn some money by teaching others who are interested in making profit from cryptocurrencies, at a fixed rate or fee.
Lesson Teacher
Startup Capital: None
Payback Period – Immediately
Likely Income – N100k/Month
Market – Students (Primary, Secondary, Professional)
The demand for specialised lesson teachers is on the increase. Parents increasingly want their children to excel in subjects such as Math, English and Science as they prepare for their common entrance or JAMB exams (or even ICAN exams). If you have a skill in any of these subjects, you can join a freelance tutoring ring, where you can be called upon to teach children an anyone looking to write an exam. You can also start on your own by teaching children in your estate or street.
Create an online course
Startup capital: N70,000
Payback period: 4 months
Estimated Income – N10k/Month
Market – Job Seekers, Students
This is another internet related side hustle that won’t disrupt the normal 8-5 job you do on week days. It is convenient, easy and hugely profitable. Create a blog or website and upload a specific course around a field you are an expert in. It can be an online course on creating income streams from fish farming, poultry farming or agro allied products. You can even create an online course on mastering Mathematics for students. The possibilities are endless. After uploading the course outline, you set your rate, then those who are interested will subscribe and start the course.
Write and sell profitable eBooks online
Startup capital: N20,000
Payback period: 7-8 months
Estimated Income – N30k monthly
Market – Students, Job seekers, Career Seekers, Entrepreneurs
An eBook is simply an electronic book. The world is diverging from paperback to electronic books and more people are keying into the eBook niche market. All you need to do is package information that people are willing to pay for and convert it into an eBook using free Microsoft Word to PDF converter online. Ensure that you are packaging very profitable information. Some years ago, I saw an eBook titled, “How to immigrate to Canada without spending a dime”. It was being sold for N5, 000 and feedback from buyers showed that it sold out.
Become an affiliate marketer
Startup capital: N50,000
Payback period: 5-6 months
Estimated Income – N15K/month
Market – Forex trading websites, Cryptocurrency websites, fashion sites, merchants etc.
There are thousands of companies online that are willing to pay you a commission for promoting their products and services; it’s called affiliate marketing. All you have to do is register free of charge on the affiliate site and get affiliate links which you can add to your website or blog, thereby pushing traffic to the sites. These sites have cookies installed that can track your affiliate links and record your sales. Once your affiliate sales get to a $100 threshold, you get paid.
Computer repair services
Startup capital: N30,000
Payback period: 4 months
Estimated Income – N10k/month
Market – Neighbours, Colleagues, Church Members, Friends and Family
Virtually everyone is becoming computer literate in Nigeria. The need for computer repairs is more in demand as computer users encounter one challenge or the other during the course of using their laptop or desktop systems. The computer repair person basically helps to restore faulty computer systems to their normal status, by using simple diagnostic equipment. It is a specialised skill that can add extra income to an individual’s pocket.
Refuse disposal service
Startup capital: N1million
Payback period: 7-9 months
Estimated Income – N120k/month
Market – State/LGA, Private Estates, Offices
Side Hustles You Can Try Out In 2018
According
to psychology, self deception is one of the popular escapement methods that
people use to prevent themselves from feeling guilty while in the same time
allowing themselves to escape from something that they don't want to face.
Of
course people don't deceive themselves on intention but it’s their subconscious
minds that come up with such tricks in order to protect their psychological
well being.
If
a student lacks self esteem when it comes to exams and if he is afraid to get
bad grades he might find himself unable to concentrate whenever he tries to
study without knowing why.
In
such a case the student's subconscious mind came up with this brilliant self
deception plan to prevent him from testing his self worth in the exam without
feeling guilty!! The self deception part here can be noticed easily because the
student will blame his lack of ability to concentrate whenever he gets poor
grades and thus protect his self esteem.
According
to individual psychology each self deception attempt has a very important goal
behind it and the only way to prevent self deception is to help the person
attain that goal in a different way.
For
example, if a man was unsure of his skills and was afraid to test them in work
he might turn into an alcoholic without knowing why. Using that self deception
method that person can blame his alcoholism for his poor performance without
realizing that its all a scenario set up by his mind to allow him to escape.
The only way to help that man stop deceiving himself is to allow him to feel
worthy.
Even
stuttering can be a sign of self deception, one theory that was proposed about
the psychology of stuttering claimed that its a self deception method that
helps a person avoid social contact in order to prevent others from discovering
that he is less worthy than them.
As
you just saw it’s not easy for someone who used to deceive himself for years to
suddenly admit that he was escaping or deceiving himself.
In
fact it takes a lot of courage to find out the self deception plans your
subconscious mind is coming up with because they are usually set up to hide
something that you don't want to admit.
I
still remember that man who had no social skills at all and who deceived
himself by becoming a workaholic and thus blaming his tight schedule for his
poor social relations.
Certainly
reading more about psychology can help you get over your self deception
attempts because one study found that most people tend to believe the
information they read. If a friend or a psychologist told you that you are
deceiving yourself you might not believe him but if this fact came to you
through a book or an article such as this one then you might be able to believe
in it with less resistance.
Psychology Of Self Deception
Lots of people keep fighting bad habits for prolonged periods without succeeding in breaking them. They sometimes manage to break the bad habit for few days, weeks or even months but in the end they return back to them again. The question is, why does this happen??
Its
because those people never tackle the root of the problem behind their bad
habit!!
Sam
is a heavy smoker since more than 10 years. He tried many times to stop smoking
and he even succeeded in breaking this habit for six months but he didn’t
manage to continue to the end and he returned back to smoking.
Sam
wasn’t a social person. whenever he had to sit with a group of people that he
doesn't know well he felt irritated and uncomfortable. when he finds himself
that irritated he usually grabs out one of the cigarettes and starts smoking.
When
understanding Sam's mind you won't wonder why he can't quit smoking.
The root cause behind his smoking habit is feeling uneasy while being with strangers. Its his poor social skills that are responsible for his smoking habit.
The root cause behind his smoking habit is feeling uneasy while being with strangers. Its his poor social skills that are responsible for his smoking habit.
Many
people like Sam smoke when they feel uncomfortable, uneasy or irritated while
believing that they suffer from nicotine addiction and that's why they fail to
quit smoking!
Sarah’s
story is no different than Sam’s story. She has been struggling with the habit
of over eating without being able to stop it. Sarah managed to break the habit
for sometime but eventually returned back to it.
Sarah
Had almost no friends so her main hobby was watching television and of course
her favorite show wont be that amusing unless it's accompanied by delicious
food.
Although
Sara adored food still this wasn’t the main reason behind overeating but the
main reason was not finding someone to hang out with!!
People
keep trying to break certain habits for years without succeeding as a result of
not being able to spot the root causes behind them. Sarah and Sam were two
examples of those people.
Just
as you saw in the previous stories things that might appear unrelated to your
bad habit might in fact be the main reason behind it!! Whether it was feeling
anxious while being with strangers like Sam or whether it was having no friends
like Sarah this root cause is what you should seek in order to be able to quit
your bad habit.
Don’t
fool yourself by thinking that addiction or having no strong will is the reason
that is hindering you from breaking the habit. If one of these reasons was
behind your bad habit then you wouldn't have been able to stop it even for one
week!! In short, If you managed to break a habit for a short while then
returned back to it again then know that you didn’t tackle the root cause
Find
this root cause, eliminate it and you will be free from your bad habit, wish
you good luck
How To Break Bad & Unwanted Habits
One day all the employees reached the office and they saw a big advice on the door on which it was written: “Yesterday the person who has been hindering your growth in this company passed away. We invite you to join the funeral in the room that has been prepared in the gym”.
In
the beginning, they all got sad for the death of one of their colleagues, but
after a while they started getting curious to know who was that man who
hindered the growth of his colleagues and the company itself.
The
excitement in the gym was such that security agents were ordered to control the
crowd within the room. The more people reached the coffin, the more the
excitement heated up. Everyone thought: “Who is this guy who was hindering my
progress? Well, at least he died!”
One
by one the thrilled employees got closer to the coffin, and when they looked
inside it they suddenly became speechless. They stood nearby the coffin,
shocked and in silence, as if someone had touched the deepest part of their
soul. There was a mirror inside the coffin: everyone who looked inside it could
see himself.
There
was also a sign next to the mirror that said: “There is only one person who is
capable to set limits to your growth: it is YOU.” You are the only person who
can revolutionize your life.
You
are the only person who can influence your happiness, your realization and your
success. You are the only person who can help yourself. Your life does not
change when your boss changes, when your friends change, when your partner
changes, when your company changes. Your life changes when you change, when you
go beyond your limiting beliefs, when you realize that you are the only one
responsible for your life. “The most important relationship you can have is the
one you have with yourself”.
Moral:
The world is like a mirror: It gives back to anyone the reflection of the
thoughts in which one has strongly believed. The world and your reality are
like mirrors lying in a coffin, which show to any individual the death of his
divine capability to imagine and create his happiness and his success. It’s the
way you face life that makes the difference.
Your Life Changes When Your Thoughts Change
A doctor quickly entered the hospital after being called in for an urgent
surgery. He changed his clothes and went directly to the surgery block. He saw
the boy’s father walking back and forth in the hall waiting for the doctor.
Once seeing the doctor, the dad yelled: “Why did you take all this time to come? Don’t you know that my son’s life is in danger? Don’t you have the sense of responsibility?”
The doctor smiled and said: “I am sorry, I wasn’t in the hospital and I came the fastest I could… now, I wish you’d calm down so that I can do my work.”
“Calm down?! What if your son was in this room right now, would you calm down? If your own son dies now what will you do?” said the father angrily.
The doctor smiled again and replied: “I will say what is said in the Holy Bible ‘From dust we came and to dust we return, blessed be the name of God.’ Doctors cannot prolong lives. Go and intercede for your son, we will do our best by God’s grace.”
“Giving advice when we’re not concerned is so easy” murmured the father.
The surgery took some hours after which the doctor went out happy, “Thank God! Your son is saved!”
And without waiting for the father’s reply he carried on his way running. “If you have any question, ask the nurse.”
“Why is he so arrogant? He couldn’t wait some minutes so that I ask about my son’s state?” commented the father when seeing the nurse minutes after the doctor left.
The nurse answered: “His son died yesterday in a road accident, he was in the burial when we called him for your son’s surgery.”
Moral- Stay calm in all situations so you can make decisions the best you can, be it in life or business… and thank you doctors for the excellence works you do.
Stay Calm in All Situations
Why life is unfair?
Because you believe that it’s unfair.
Do you know what depression really is? Depression is a feeling that
results from giving up when dealing with an external stressful event by
becoming indifferent to it.
Let suppose you had a work related problem that you were unable to
solve for months. If you didn’t respond to it or if you felt helpless for a
prolonged period of time then sooner or later the stress resulting from the
problem will turn into depression. It’s as if depression is your mind’s way of
saying “I gave up” or “This problem is too big for me to handle, I lost hope”
But what does this has to do with fairness or unfairness of life?
It’s quite humiliating for your subconscious mind to accept the
fact that you weren’t competent enough to deal with your problems, that’s why
it doesn’t declare defeat directly but instead it searches for any possible
excuse to blame it instead.
But what kind of excuse can make someone feel good while having a
big personal conflict like this one? As you might have already guessed, a new
belief about life, people or the world that makes the person a victim instead
of making him incompetent.
“Life is unfair”, “No one can get everything he wanted to get” and
“You can’t succeed before you suffer” are common examples of false beliefs that
your mind might use as a decoy not to present you with the real fact.
So back to depression, when people give up in when dealing with
stress they become depressed and when people fail to deal with life problems
they develop false beliefs about it such as “Life is unfair”
Both are defense mechanisms but the false beliefs one is a very
intelligent method as it protects the person’s ego!
But life is really unfair.
If you tried once and failed then surely you will find that life is
unfair. Life was not designed for those who try once then give up but instead
it’s more suited for persistent people who keep trying until they get what they
want.
Ask any successful person, is life fair? He will tell you in the
beginning it wasn’t fair for him but he kept trying until it became fair. Life
will never be fair with those who don’t fight until it becomes fair.
Unless you keep trying until you create fairness life will always
be unfair to you.
Another thing is that a failure is a step to success, two failures
are two steps to success, and three failures are three steps to success and so
on. If you fail you will learn more. Keep in mind that you are not a failure if
you tried once but did not succeed rather try discover what made you fail in
the first place and make sure you avoid the mistake you noticed in the first
place that made you fail.
A popular quote states that “Aspire to acquire the desire you
admire. Do not retire when you fire and it backfired. Rather refire to acquire
the desire you admire in life.”
Only by so doing can you become a successful person and only
through this way can life be fair to you.
Why life is unfair?
Mr. Ahmed:
Who is your Role Model?
John:
My seat mate.
Mr. Ahmed:
Who is your Role Model? (Faces another student)
Adeniyi:
Chike Obi
Mr.
Ahmed: Clap that boy.
Class:
(claps)
 | |
| Chike Obi |
Mr.
Ahmed: Why did you choose him as your role model?
Adeniyi:
He’s a great Mathematician and I want to be like him in future.
Mr.
Ahmed: That’s great. Well, if you don’t know what Role model means, it simply means
“A successful person in one or more areas of life and has touched your heart
with his success and you wish to be like him”. (He told the story of Chike Obi).
After
the story he told, the whole class wanted to be like Chike Obi. I no longer want
to be any other thing more except A Great Mathematician. That’s when I know the
value of mentor.
“Back in my youth I was trying to convince a
very wise business man to mentor me and the price and risk suddenly became very
high.
You see, my rich dad was my first mentor. But
he wasn’t my only mentor.
Back in 1996, through a mutual friend, I met
Peter. He was a distinguished and articulate man who has had his own companies
listed on the American and New York Stock Exchanges and on the NASDAQ.
The problem was he was very private and did
not mentor.
How was I going to convince him to take me on
as an apprentice?
Over the course of several months I finally
got him to agree to a meeting to talk it over. I told him I would work for him
for free if he would teach me everything he knew.
Naturally, he was skeptical. But once he saw
that I was serious, he decided to take my offer on a trial basis.
There was a bankrupt gold mine in Peru he was
considering buying. He asked me to drop everything and fly to Peru at my own
expense, inspect the mine, meet with a bank and find out how much it wanted for
the mine, and then fly home and give him a report.
That caught me off guard!
At first I hesitated. I had appointments
scheduled for the week, it was expensive and moreover, I wasn’t sure I was up
to the challenge. But deep inside I knew this was a defining moment for me.
In those few seconds, I realized that if I chose
not to go to Peru I would lose this valuable potential mentor. Setting aside
self-doubt and swallowing all excuses, I decided to take a leap into the
unknown.
 |
| Robert T. Kiyosaki |
I flew to Peru and inspected the mine. It
turned out to be an unwise investment, and I recommended against his buying it.
He agreed with my findings and more
importantly, he agreed to teach me.
By shunning doubt and excuses, I gained the
courage needed to take the next step toward my financial goals.
I am telling you this story to illustrate how
important a mentor was to me and what I was willing to sacrifice to get a great
mentor. Mentors changed my life.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki.
What else do I still have to say about
mentor? With the little enlightenment above I hope I have been able to
enlighten you about MENTOR.
Watch out for… “How to Choose Mentor”
Stay Tuned…
The
Achievers Foundation Cares!
Importance of Mentors
"Learning cost"
The price you pay for learning sometimes seems high hence it is called learning cost. Be willing to pay for what you don't currently know. The least thing you pay as learning cost is money.
Most people feel that learning cost is only just money, well that is their model of the world and I respect it. Truth be told there are more learning cost than just money. Guess you have seen people who can afford the cost and still can't learn. Learning always costs hence we call it learning costs but many will rather not pay it's full price for reasons best known to them. In learning there are no short cuts, what you know you know, what you don't know you don't know.
There are several opportunities to learn but all comes at a cost of which money is the least cost. The weird thing about learning cost is that we all see money as the stumbling block or challenge when in reality it is not. For our coaching session, we always let our clients know the TERMS of learning costs before we embark on the journey. For us the terms have always and will be
The price you pay for learning sometimes seems high hence it is called learning cost. Be willing to pay for what you don't currently know. The least thing you pay as learning cost is money.
Most people feel that learning cost is only just money, well that is their model of the world and I respect it. Truth be told there are more learning cost than just money. Guess you have seen people who can afford the cost and still can't learn. Learning always costs hence we call it learning costs but many will rather not pay it's full price for reasons best known to them. In learning there are no short cuts, what you know you know, what you don't know you don't know.
There are several opportunities to learn but all comes at a cost of which money is the least cost. The weird thing about learning cost is that we all see money as the stumbling block or challenge when in reality it is not. For our coaching session, we always let our clients know the TERMS of learning costs before we embark on the journey. For us the terms have always and will be
T - time
E - energy
R - resources
M - money
S - sacrifice
Everything in life is learned. Learning will cost you hence terms and conditions apply.
Three reasons you must consider paying learning costs:
1) Great learning isn't cheap and cheap learning isn't great.
2) you will always pay for what you don't know.
3) "practice, practice, practice" becomes your new mantra
Be brutally honest, all that you have truly learned has cost you something. Many times people pay learning cost without realizing they are paying it.
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The interesting thing about learning cost is that if you pay it right once, you never have to pay it later twice.
Life offers you opportunity daily to learn, what stops us from gaining life's lessons are learning costs.
Whatever truly has worth has cost. When you don't pay learning cost you pay a high price for ignorance.
On the upgrade side of life, we have agreed to the terms and are paying learning cost.
Setbacks loses its effect when you see it from the perspective of learning cost.
E - energy
R - resources
M - money
S - sacrifice
Everything in life is learned. Learning will cost you hence terms and conditions apply.
Three reasons you must consider paying learning costs:
1) Great learning isn't cheap and cheap learning isn't great.
2) you will always pay for what you don't know.
3) "practice, practice, practice" becomes your new mantra
Be brutally honest, all that you have truly learned has cost you something. Many times people pay learning cost without realizing they are paying it.
.
.
The interesting thing about learning cost is that if you pay it right once, you never have to pay it later twice.
Life offers you opportunity daily to learn, what stops us from gaining life's lessons are learning costs.
Whatever truly has worth has cost. When you don't pay learning cost you pay a high price for ignorance.
On the upgrade side of life, we have agreed to the terms and are paying learning cost.
Setbacks loses its effect when you see it from the perspective of learning cost.
Learning Cost - The Achievers Foundation Blog
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