Tuesday, August 31, 2021

As August Ends

 

As August Ends

 


It's the 31st day of August 2021.

The last day of the eight month of the year.

 

It's a day to take inventory

a day to do a kind of assessment

 

How did the month go?

Were you able to achieve all that you set out to achieve in this month?

If you did, what contributed to the success?
Can it be doubled down on in the coming month?

 

If you did not,

what led to the poor performance?
Can it be improved upon?

 

A review of how the month went is a necessity for moving forward because we must know where we are coming from as that is a pedestal to help us see where we are heading to.

 

If you have not done that review

Do it now

Don't wait another second

As we say Goodbye August.  

Prepare to welcome the first ember month of the year 2021 - SEPTEMBER

 

Remain blessed

 

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Success with Dr. Jerry - the First Blog is owned by Topitup Media And Communication Nigeria whose Team Head is Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie: JP

At Success with Dr. Jerry - the First Blog, we believe that life is a continuous process of learning, that successful people are continuous learners and that your success is completely dependent on you

About Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie: JP

Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie is a Physician, an Author, a Writer, Thinker, Founder, Convener and Success Coaching addict. He is passionate about helping people become the best versions of themselves through coaching, mentoring, teaching, enlightening and enhancing their self worth. And the Platform he uses to reach out to people is his Ministry of Encouragement  (MoE). He has deep interests in Personal Development including mindset reset and habit change, Personal Finance, Wealth Creation, Health and Fitness. He believes that financial knowledge (literacy) combined with self - discipline is the key to achieving financial  freedom.

He is the author of ThePractical Steps To Total Financial Freedom

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Monday, August 23, 2021

Don't Die Before Your Actual Death

 

Don't Die Before Your Actual Death

 


Do you know that right now, there are more than 6.5 billion people in the World who are envious of the life you are presently living, who are coveting the things you own now and which you are taking for granted?

Do you know that we die in bits and pieces and that every second takes us closer to the grave and that no one actually knows when or where or how it will happen?

Do you know that last night more than 3 million people all over the World went to bed but could not wake up this morning?

Why am I bringing these stats to you?

Because I want you to be conscious of the fact that the life you are living is a priviledge and not necessarily a right because it actually is not yours. When the Owner of the breath of life in you calls it back, you cannot say no. No matter how much Medical Science wants to prolong the life through artificial means, one day it shall just give up on you and give you up.

So

Celebrate your life

Live it

DON'T DIE BEFORE YOUR ACTUAL DEATH

You have been given a routine to live - go to school, pass with good grades, graduate with high degree, get a job, get married, have children and then start marking time waiting to die, that is a very monotonous routine, there is no life in it.

If you are still searching for why you were brought into this World by your Maker, if you still don't know your purpose on this Planet Earth, then you are yet to begin living.

You work hard, you make money by trading your time for money and you say you are making a living, be careful that you are not making a dying because when you are closeted on and in yourself, you are not making a living, you are actually making a dying.

Living is when you make money, spend the ones you can spend, save the ones you can save, invest the ones you can invest to make more money and then go out there and pick someone who desperately needs your help and is not in a position to ever pay you back and invest in him or her.

Living is when you become a sponge to absorb all the negativities in life for some people and in turn become the source of beautiful positive vibes to those persons

Living is when you have taken someone by hand  and led him up from the gutter to the highest height he can attain, thus you realize you have changed his life and because of you he did not give up on life

That day, you realize that you have actually lived the life you were brought here to live.

In this life, remember that the process of living is a game of many rules, learn all the rules and then  break them all. Do not be a conformist, be very uncomfortable with being comfortable, the man who is comfortable is 6 feet underground. For as long as you are alive, do the unexpected, go to where you are asked not to go, get that experience which no one else has gotten, visit the uncharted territory, blaze a trail - that way you would live a legacy that would outlive and outlast you.

Remember that you came into this world with nothing and you ain't going anywhere with anything. The day you take your last breath, all the acquisitions and material things will become a source of litigation by the living but the legacies you leave behind in people and places will be there to remind them that YOU PASSED BY THIS WAY

A life lived for self is worth much

A life lived for others is worth much more.

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Success with Dr. Jerry - the First Blog is owned by Topitup Media And Communication Nigeria whose Team Head is Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie: JP

At Success with Dr. Jerry - the First Blog, we believe that life is a continuous process of learning, that successful people are continuous learners and that your success is completely dependent on you

About Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie: JP

Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie is a Physician, an Author, a Writer, Thinker, Founder, Convener and Success Coaching addict. He is passionate about helping people become the best versions of themselves through coaching, mentoring, teaching, enlightening and enhancing their self worth. And the Platform he uses to reach out to people is his Ministry of Encouragement  (MoE). He has deep interests in Personal Development including mindset reset and habit change, Personal Finance, Wealth Creation, Health and Fitness. He believes that financial knowledge (literacy) combined with self - discipline is the key to achieving financial  freedom.

He is the author of ThePractical Steps To Total Financial Freedom

 

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Sunday, August 22, 2021

Monday Morning Motivation - Gratitude Is The Greatest Attitude

 

Gratitude Is The Greatest Attitude

 




Growing up, my Father taught me that gratitude is the best route to getting anything one wanted out of life. It was not a lesson taught by words but one taught by actions. Because I noticed that whenever he did something for me and I forgot to thank him, the next time I ask, he would delay so much that I ended up forgetting what it was I even asked for in the first place but whenever he did something for me and I immediately thanked and appreciated him, the next time I ask, he would do it without delay. That was how I learnt that lesson and it has taken me to places and gotten me things I ordinarily may not have had easily.

I have learnt to be grateful for what I have and I have always ended up having more.

I have always refused to hunger for the little things I don't have because focusing on them takes me away from the realm of being grateful to my Maker for all the multitude of the things He has bestowed on me which money alone cannot buy.

Sometimes we are too busy thinking about all the things we don't have or all the opportunities we have missed and lost that we forget to actually live in the present appreciating what is in our lives especially the most important single factor that we are still ALIVE and BREATHING, And that only the living can have hope of a tomorrow and make plans for such a tomorrow.

An Igbo proverb has it that "ekele onye akidi, ya agwota ozo" meaning when "you appreciate the one who prepared the bean salad, she would bend over backwards and bring some more"

The time has come and is actually now when men should learn to live in the present and stop being worried about yesterday or concerned about tomorrow - both of which they have no control over.

Live in the present.

Live your life to the fullest

Learn how to appreciate the little things of life, they are the things that bring the most joy and happiness.

Be kind to yourself

No matter your expectations, don't beat up yourself when you don't meet them

There is no man alive who has all his expectations met

In this game of life, you win some and you lose some but life continues.

Life is not a bed of red roses

It will be hard

There will be trials of your faith

There will be turmoil

There will be landslide disappointments

You shall be betrayed by friends and family

But being grateful for the life you have

shall place you a pedestal ahead of all your detractors put together

Gratitude is the greatest attitude to attain your highest altitude

Real happiness is not found in money or things or fame or possessions no matter how costly or expensive, not even when you have achieved a particular success you have hankered after for a long time. Real happiness lies in GRATITUDE.

Gratitude gives you the strength to go on.

It gives you the strength you need to be stronger to face all the challenges of life

It gives you the strength you need to accept yourself as you are

It gives you the strength you need to cherish the blessings you have on daily basis

It gives you the strength to love yourself and be able to love others as you love yourself

So from today, learn to be grateful, learn to be alive, learn to live every moment as if it's your last.

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About the Blog

Success with Dr. Jerry - the First Blog is owned by Topitup Media And Communication Nigeria whose Team Head is Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie: JP

At Success with Dr. Jerry - the First Blog, we believe that life is a continuous process of learning, that successful people are continuous learners and that your success is completely dependent on you

 

About Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie: JP

Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie is a Physician, an Author, a Writer, Thinker, Founder, Convener and Success Coaching addict. He is passionate about helping people become the best versions of themselves through coaching, mentoring, teaching, enlightening and enhancing their self worth. And the Platform he uses to reach out to people is his Ministry of Encouragement  (MoE). He has deep interests in Personal Development including mindset reset and habit change, Personal Finance, Wealth Creation, Health and Fitness. He believes that financial knowledge (literacy) combined with self - discipline is the key to achieving financial  freedom.

He is the author of ThePractical Steps To Total Financial Freedom

 

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Thursday, August 12, 2021

Self Discipline Is It!

 

Self Discipline Is It!

 


How many times have you attended a Church service or Friday Jumat and came out with the impression that the Preacher of the day killed the sermon? - that is he spoke truth to the Words of God!

How many times have you allowed yourself to be reminded of the things you actually know but fail to do?

How often do you leak away the motivation that is in you already?

Our inability to do things we ought to be doing is the undoing of many a man and this is simply because we allow our brain to control us in such as a way as to keep us lazy

Listen, your brain was designed to keep you lazy, it was not meant to help you succeed, if you want success, then you must re-wire your brain.

You must wear the garment of self discipline because that is what it will take to make you productive.

Depending on your brain to help you succeed is like depending on facebook to make you socially valuable  and relevant because it is a social media site.

So when we start to question whether we are really going to get down to some work, whether it's too late to make a start, whether we should watch the James Bond movie on TV instead, we start to 'leak' motivation.

Any time you leave what you ought to be doing to do what you ought not to be doing, you are leaking motivation  and self discipline is not in you.

Make self-discipline 'non-negotiable'.

I'm guessing you don't um and ah about whether to clean your teeth or flush when you've visited the bathroom (I'm hoping) - these things are unquestioned by you.

Likewise, tell yourself: "I'm not going to listen to excuses or wimp-outs - this is non-negotiable!"

Remember the words of Abraham J. Heschel: "Self respect is the fruit of self discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say NO to oneself"

If you must create wealth and I mean generational wealth, then you must learn what it means to practice fiscal discipline - you must discipline yourself to the point of being an automatic implementer. When you automate things, you don't think about them again, you just do them.

Every day and every time some shiny object comes into your view to distract you from your chosen route, remind yourself that Sorry, it's non-negotiable

That way, you would become a made person sooner than you realize it.

Go do it

Cheers

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Success with Dr. Jerry - the First Blog is owned by Topitup Media And Communication Nigeria whose Team Head is Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie: JP

At Success with Dr. Jerry - the First Blog, we believe that life is a continuous process of learning, that successful people are continuous learners and that your success is completely dependent on you

 

About the Writer

Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie is a Physician, an Author, a Writer, Thinker, Founder, Convener and Success Coaching addict. He is passionate about helping people become the best versions of themselves through coaching, mentoring, teaching, enlightening and enhancing their self worth. And the Platform he uses to reach out to people is his Ministry of Encouragement  (MoE). He has deep interests in Personal Development including mindset reset and habit change, Personal Finance, Wealth Creation, Health and Fitness. He believes that financial knowledge (literacy) combined with self - discipline is the key to achieving financial  freedom.

He is the author of ThePractical Steps To Total Financial Freedom

 

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Sunday, August 8, 2021

The 3 Pillars Of Success Mastery

 

The 3 Pillars Of Success Mastery




Thanks for being a regular visitor to my blog and for reading my posts

I hope that you are taking these lessons to heart and putting them into action. 

I want you to be successful and there was never a better time to do it than right now. 

However, you will only achieve what you have earned through having the right mindset, the right strategy, and learning the right skills.

I created a thinking framework that simplifies understanding what it takes to be successful.

I call it the Three Pillars of Success Mastery.

Let me share it with you.

If you want to be successful in any area of your life, you have to MASTER three things.

1.    The first Pillar of Success Mastery is to Master Yourself.

You have to get control over your actions, your thoughts, and your schedule to even stand a chance at ever being successful. 

Most people fail because they either give up, don't work hard enough, don't want to make sacrifices, or can't keep a positive mindset. It's a fact.

You have to decide what is important to you and then carve out the time in your schedule to show how important it is. 

If you can't find time for your business, but have time to watch television or browse social media, then you don't REALLY want an online business. That is a choice you make in your head. 

If you quit working on your business, or jump from program to program, that is a problem with your thinking.

When someone has mastery over themselves, then they can get up early and stay up late if that is what is necessary for success. They can quit television and other entertainment to devote their time and energy on accomplishing their goals. They keep going even when most people would have quit because they know that success isn't easy and "get rich quick" is a myth. They can get themselves to put in the work.

 

2.    The second pillar of Success Mastery is to Master Your Strategy and Foundations.

You can work really hard and be completely committed to success, but if you are using the wrong strategy, then success will never come. 

You can spend months and years climbing the ladder of success only to find out just when you are almost at the top that it is leaning against the wrong wall and it just came tumbling down.

If you were trying to lose weight and your strategy was to eat a gallon of ice cream each day, then you would probably not reach your goal. That is a bad strategy.

If you want reliable online income, then the best strategy is to build an audience of people who know, like and trust you. Then you can sell things to that audience. That is a winning strategy. Trying to sell to strangers (most people's strategy) is a bad idea.

You need to constantly be upgrading your strategy and knowledge of how marketing really works so that you can master the second pillar.

3.    The third pillar of Success Mastery is that you need to Master Key Skills.

You can work hard (Pillar 1) and be following a good strategy (Pillar 2) and still not be successful if you don't know how to execute that strategy.

For example, if your strategy was to build a big email list, send them emails to educate and motivate them and then sell to them, but you don't know how to write emails that are compelling and informative, you are doomed to failure. You are missing that key skill. 

If you want to build an audience on YouTube but have no idea how to make a video, then you strategy isn't going to work.

The great thing about Pillar # 3 is that you can learn any key skill that you need to be successful. 

Want to write more compelling emails? 

Read a book on copy-writing by Dan Kennedy, John Carlton or Gary Halbert. 

Take a course on writing emails by Andre Chaperone.

Get a coach or a mentor. 

You can learn anything ... if you commit the time to do it.

Most people don't want to do this part because they don't like to learn. Learning new skills seems boring and it takes time to see results. That may be true, but the reality is that time is going to go by anyway. 6 months from now, you could have learned a new skill and gotten results, or you could have wasted your time and money on 5 new "money making opportunities" that didn't pan out. Improving yourself pays off forever.

The Three Pillars of Success Mastery dictates that the amount of success you achieve in life will be held back by whatever pillar you have the lowest level of mastery at. You need to identify which Pillar is the cause of your low performance and focus your energy on improving that area first.

If you are working hard and staying focused, but not getting results, then the problem is probably with Pillar # 2 (Strategy) or Pillar # 3 (Key Skills).

If you can only find 2 hours a week to work on your business, then your problem is definitely with Pillar # 1 (Master Yourself).

Which Pillar is holding you back? What are you going to do to improve that area?

Take ACTION to Supercharge Your Success

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Success with Dr. Jerry - the First Blog is owned by Topitup Media And Communication Nigeria whose Team Head is Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie: JP

 

At Success with Dr. Jerry - the First Blog, we believe that life is a continuous process of learning, that successful people are continuous learners and that your success is completely dependent on you

 

About the Writer

Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie is a Physician, an Author, a Writer, Thinker, Founder, Convener and Success Coaching addict. He is passionate about helping people become the best versions of themselves through coaching, mentoring, teaching, enlightening and enhancing their self worth. And the Platform he uses to reach out to people is his Ministry of Encouragement  (MoE). He has deep interests in Personal Development including mindset reset and habit change, Personal Finance, Wealth Creation, Health and Fitness. He believes that financial knowledge (literacy) combined with self - discipline is the key to achieving financial  freedom.

He is the author of ThePractical Steps To Total Financial Freedom  

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Sunday, August 1, 2021

August Is Here!

 

August Is Here!



 

And the eight month of the year is here - AUGUST is her name.

It is God's grace that has brought us this far, it is neither by our power nor by our might because by strength shall no man prevail.

August has brought with her a lot of goodies and it is your responsibility to pick your choice out of her bag of goodies - whatever you pick is what you get.

So think deep, reflect well before making a choice from the bag of goodies. However, if you don't like what you picked, you can always turn it around but no longer from the bag of goodies because you have only one chance to make a pick BUT by your mind power.

I cannot tell you that all your problems are over in this month because that will be telling a lie - there would be old problems that would resurface and then there will be new problems that will surface BUT whether they surface or resurface, you have been EMPOWERED to deal with them all by your Creator. His grace is abundant and ubiquitous; make every effort to rely on HIM because it is in Him that we LIVE and MOVE and have our BEING.

Happy New Month

Wishing you the best possible outcome of this month

Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie: JP

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About the Writer

Dr. Jerry - the First Oguzie is a Physician, an Author, a Writer, Thinker, Founder, Convener and Success Coaching addict. He is passionate about helping people become the best versions of themselves through coaching, mentoring, teaching, enlightening and enhancing their self worth. And the Platform he uses to reach out to people is his Ministry of Encouragement  (MoE). He has deep interests in Personal Development including mindset reset and habit change, Personal Finance, Wealth Creation, Health and Fitness. He believes that financial knowledge (literacy) combined with self - discipline is the key to achieving financial  freedom.

He is the author of ThePractical Steps To Total Financial Freedom

 

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