Using time to offset mediocrity(1).

From my diaries
Category:Motivation

"Don't be fooled by the calendar.There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.One man gets only a week's value out of a year,while another man gets a full year's value out of a week."-Charles Richards.

It is of no doubt that the greatest capital a business man has is time.What a paradigm of effective time management and rejection of mediocrity Abraham Lincoln was.
Fondly called Abe,Abraham Lincoln practiced reading and writing every evening.He had attended "blab school" less than 12 months in his entire life.There were no books,at which the students repeated the teacher's words aloud.Robinson in his book,"Lincoln as a man of utters" referred to him as a self-educated man.Nancy Lincoln,his mom said of him "The only time Abe loses his temper is when he doesn't understand something he reads or hears."
The farmers and merchants,the lawyers and litigants with whom he associated in the 8th Judicial district of Illinois possessed no magic with words.But Lincoln did not squander all his time with his mental equals and inferiors.This attests to the fact that those with whom you spend your time determines the kind of leap you get in life.It decides whether you will still be crawling with paucity of information or soaring with avalanche of ideas.Ideas rule the world-remember.He made boon companions out of the elite minds,the singers,the poets of the ages.
Carve your nitche with the great and you will definitely end up being great.Note that if you mingle with those whose mental capacities equal yours or appear less,you have started planning your mental drift.
He could repeat from memory all the pages of Burns and Bryon and Browning.Even when he was in the White House and the tragic burdens of the Civil war were sapping his strength and etching deep furrows in his face,he often found time to take a copy of Hood's poems to bed.
That is why Professor Williams James,a man I respect so much had these in his words;
"Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education,whatever the line of it may be.If he keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working day,he may safely leave the final result to itself.He can with perfect certainty,count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation,in whatever pursuit he may have singled out."
Professor Emerton soothingly described Abe thus "He was no longer at school,but was simply educating himself by the only pedagogical method which ever yet produced,any results anywhere,namely,by the method of his own tireless energy in continuous study and practice."
Be a thief of time.Master your seconds,learn to steal the moments.Abe read books again and again.He had it etched on his mind that one careless moment could end his life.
Earning 31 cents daily on Pigeon Creek farms of Indiana,once he read about John Bunyan and made up his mind he wouldn't end up in the woods.He said to himself,"I too can be uncommonly useful." You make a firm resolve about your success and take off the limits.
It is heart-rending how many people have settled for mediocrity.John Mason once said "Life is too short to think small."He also wrote that "the answer to your future lies outside the confines you have right now."
Lincoln had a burning desire to improve himself.He loved the woods,but he did not want to spend a lifetime cutting down trees.When he read George Washington,he was thrilled and scratched these words on the soil:"Good boys who to their books apply will all be great to me by and by."
If you have been following through,you would've noticed that Lincoln read a lot.I once was urging an acquaintance to read wide,but he was just like,what is the need and only cared about his academic success.Manage your time well and develop your whole man.
He disciplined himself to produce crisp,clear and simple sentences.He once wrote to a friend "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."That is why Rev. Sam Adeyemi said "You can not change a person's life without changing his perspective."
6 HOT TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS
1.Steal the moments.
Value your seconds.I learnt taking a book with me everywhere from Abraham Lincoln.Every moment he took a break from work,he read.Later in his life,he wrote the secret to a young man eager to become a successful lawyer "It is only to get the books and to read and study them carefully.Work,work,work is the main thing."
You can get through a book easily in a short time.Just use this method.Tear out specific number of pages each morning,put them in your hip pocket.Read the pages with you while waiting for elevators,buses,food,appointments,when waiting in bank lines,even when on hold on the phone.Like a magic,you would have pawed through the pages of the book that seemingly looked enormous to you in a few days.After you have read those pages,replace them in the book,tear out another number of pages.When through with them all,put a rubber band around the covers to hold the loose pages in place,or use a tape of gum.It is better to have a book mutilated like this,than to have it neat-spined on your library shelves unread.
2.Evaluate your life daily.
Take a stock of what you do with your time daily and how long you did it daily.This could be one of the hardest things to do,but just keep at it.Abe treasured Ben Franklin's book where he detailed how he improved himself by setting goals for each day and at the end of the day reviewed how well he succeeded.
Also in the letter he wrote to the sanguine lawyer,he recommended Arnold Bennett's book "How to Live on Twenty-four hours a day".He said "This book would be as stimulating as a cold bath.It will tell you about the most interesting of all subjects-yourself.It will reveal to you how much time you are wasting each day,how to stop the wastage,and how to utilise what you salvage.
Hard facts about an average man's life time include-
20 years of sleeping
6 years of watching TV
5 years of dressing and shaving
3 years of waiting for others
1 year on the telephone and
4 months of tying shoes
Critically looking at it,if you live in a busy city like some parts of Lagos presently,consider spending 10 years in traffic.So you need to get organized.Plan a day ahead.
I will continue with the other 4 hot tips in the part 2 of this post.Take charge of your life while you keep your fingers crossed for it.Be upbeat till then.

Free and simple steps in setting up your adword campaigne in minutes.

category:Online business
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Define your target customers.Click Adwords editorial guidelines.Type a headline.Try to include your keywords in it if possible.Your headline is not your keyword,remember.

2. create your advert.

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Write your ad text.
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Branding for successful blogging 1

category:Internet business
It is possible to build an online brand with your blog,especially if it is one you can customize.Let your visitors have a great feel of your worth.
Following are a handful of branding tips for high octane bloggers.
Using colour themes
Uniform or consistent colour themes can have an appealing effect on the visitors sight.Choose the set of colours you use for different aspects of the blog.Consider variant but harmonious colours for entities like major headers,sub headers,emphasized words,hyperlinks,references,lists and the likes.
You can also choose to be dynamic with it by choosing a different colour set for different months.
Using font sizes
You could also categorize your usage of different font sizes as in colours above.Make the titles of your posts big enough for quick association with the brain and to aid the visitor in preview of the page.
Choose variant font styles
Use different and artistic font styles in relevant post sections.Emphasize keywords and major points by boldening them.
Be known for delivering quality content
The growth and sustainability of any business lies in its ability to make repeat transactions with existing and new clients.In essence,the best businesses are the ones that sell boxes(Their products/services keep replicating themselves with little or no effort).Hence, a successful blogger will gain a loyal visitor's base when the visitors are sure to get off-the-hook content.
Watch out for a following post on this topic.