EVALUATE YOUR YEAR.


GO INTO 2019 A BIGGER, BETTER, SMARTER, STRONGER YOU.


This year will end in few days; everybody is ready for New Year resolution and the entire shenanigan that comes with it. Not that I am against New Year resolution. But a resolution that you didn’t keep and a resolution that didn’t change your 2018 is that one a resolution? Before you rolled your eyes, got miffed and called me a spoilsport, I want you to know first I am not going to pad words for you like a fake bum on this page. I am going to tell you the truth. If you want to be successful, you must be brave with the truth, knowing it and accepting it. When it is convenient and when it is not convenient. One of the most important aspects of growth is your ability to constantly evaluate yourself. Before going into the New Year, you have to reevaluate your year. Did you achieve your dreams? Are you where you plan you would be at the beginning of this year?

Yes? No?




If ‘no’ what went wrong. What were the obstacles? What are the solutions to the obstacles? Where did your plans fell off the radar?

Maybe you didn’t achieve your dreams this year, no one would completely fault you on that, but if you didn’t understand why, then that one is on you. You cannot end this year without being a better person than you started and part of that growth is to know what and why you didn’t achieve all that you set out to achieve this year. What were the mistakes you made? What were the flaws and weakness that hindered you from living your best and doing your best and achieving your dreams in 2018 (you can pick a piece of paper and write them down) You have to find answers to those questions and find solution to those problems until you do, you aren’t ready for 2019 yet and there is nothing as diminishing as lack of preparation.




Even if you did not achieve your plans for this year, if you know what went wrong, if you know why you made the mistakes you made, if you know what to do to correct those mistakes and if you are ready to do them then you have grown abound this year and a bigger better, smarter, stronger, you will be ready to face 2019. As I used to say on this page ONE DAY YOU WILL BE READY. 2019 will be the year you are finally ready. You will be so ready that no mistakes, no failure would stop you from achieving your goals and your dreams.




Examples of some of the context you can use to evaluate yourself is the 2/10 ratio (these are parts of the stuff we talked about in 2018) statistically, on the average, only 2 out of 10 ideas are successful. So how many ideas did you execute this year?

If you want to have one successful ideal in a year you should at least executive five innovative ideas. If you want to have two successful ideas in a year you should at least execute ten innovative ideas. You think that is two much? Well, ask successful people and they will tell you it is just the beginning.




The higher your decision rates on every idea the higher your chances of success. So how many decisions did you make? Did you just make one decision to execute your plan and it didn’t work and you gave up. Or you tried different and several strategies.

To increase your odd of success, you must increase the number of decisions you make.

More decision= success.

Less decision=failure.




This are some of the standard you can used to measure yourself to see if you are getting enough done to achieve the success you desire.

First week of 2019 I am going to post a comprehensive article on some of the statistics you need to know as an entrepreneur and how you can use that to constantly evaluate yourself throughout 2019 to know if you are performing at your best. Let’s get it right this 2019. No more excuses.

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WHY WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO FIGHT

 We don’t know how to fight.
Many people fights with their love the way they fight with their enemy and they expect their love to not become their enemy.
When they fight they fight to win, no matter who they fight.
They fight dirty;
They equipped themselves with malevolent skills; from manipulation to falsification.
They fight for that very moment, that very hour.
Forgotten that they may win that day, but lose the rest of the year.
They fight to break.
To break the emotion, to break the soul, to break the mind, to break the heart.

We fight with the enemies to win; we fight with the flesh to lead.
But we fight with our love ones to love and be loved.
We fight with our love ones with love.
We fight for love
To understand and to be understood.
To uphold the growth of fundamental understanding.
We air our grievances with respect and with kindness and with love.
Otherwise we lost our reasons with contempt, with malice and with spites.
 

Everything that has being freely given to me of God will no longer elude me.
I will not work in the ignorance of my gift from God.
I will no longer work in ignorance of my blessings from God. 

For the scripture says we have the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.  

From now and henceforth, i will work in the complete knowledge of my talent, gift, quality, creativity and potentials. 
The spirit of God activates the full knowledge of the free gift of God inside of me. In Jesus name.

What we believe determines what we receive.
Our thoughts rule our life. 

The way we think determine the quality of life we live.
In many cases whatever we spend our thoughts on generally configure what becomes our belief. 

Why is it that you can’t eliminate negative thoughts from your mind no matter how hard you have tried?
You will like to see things in beautiful positive light and full of passionate joy about your life and your environment but you cannot just seem to get your mind out of the trough of negativity. It is deeply rooted in what you have considered to be your TRUTH. 

Let me tell you the truth about negative thought and negative life pattern.
The devil speak to people on a daily bases, and on Constance bases; either you are a Christian or not doesn’t matter; devil will still try to have conversation with you anyway. But just because devil was trying to have conversation with every one doesn’t mean we give him listening hears, some people know the truth enough to resist him. But For some people it is a continuous nonstop riotous gisting, they have become a perfect gisting mate with the devil. In there thinking, in there head and in there spoken words. But what many don’t know is that every time they agree with the devil they disagree with Jesus Christ? Either you are a bible carrying, church going Christian it doesn’t matter. Every time you accept the word from the devil as true, you are saying the word of God is a lie. You are calling God a liar. And yes, a Christian, I mean a bible carrying, church going Christian, can be agreeing with the devil and disagreeing with God on daily bases. 

How?
There is no middle ground here, when you agree with word from the devil you are disagreeing with words from God. And when you agree with the word from God you are disagreeing with word from the devil.
It is automation.
And every time you disagree with the word of God you call God a liar and every time you call God a liar, you align yourself with your enemy.
Devil is an enemy of man. The bible called him the father of all liars.
What are the words from the devil?


All the negative words spoken to you by people, or in your thought, in your head, in your mind, they are the words from the devil, they are completely different from the word spoken to you by God. The words that say you are not good enough, you are ugly, you are a failure, nothing good can come out of you, you are sick, you are poor, you are dumb, you are weak, you can’t do anything good, all these are words from the devil. If they are spoken to you through anyone they are still words from the devil, the person who spoke those words doesn’t make them valid or right. It is still coming from the devil. Those people have only subjected themselves to be used for evil enterprises during that time. Either they are your love ones or they are your foes at the time it doesn’t matter, either they are inside the church or outside it doesn’t matter. Devil carries out his enterprise up and down the earth and he uses people to manifest them especially people around us. Listen, it doesn’t mean all these people are devil or demons or possessed per say but it means they have subjected themselves to be use at that moment to carry out devil enterprises. Remember in the house of God there are vessel unto honor and vessel unto dishonor. 2timothy 2:21. ( Unto honor to build up, to nourish, to love to bless to glorify, or unto dishonor, to pull down, to breakup, to destroy, to demoralize) And at any time people can choose to be either. 

And when you agree with this saying, when you affirm this saying, when you believe that they are true, you are agreeing with the devil and disagreeing with God. And every time you disagree with God you are agreeing with your enemy and subjecting yourself to your enemy. 

The plan of God is to put you above while the plan of the devil is to put you below. You have to align yourself with the plan of God so that you can stay above and above all otherwise you will be submitting yourself to being put below. Staying neutral won’t solve it either. Staying neutral is the strategy of the devil so that you won’t have dominion over him.

WHAT ARE THE WORDS FROM GOD?
You are more than conqueror through him who loved us. Romans 8:37.
You are created to do good works. Ephesian 2:10.
Everything God created is good, so you are good and beautiful. 1Timothy 4:4
You are fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139:14.
God said you are unique and special. 1peter 2:9
You are the head and not tale, you shall go up and not down. Deuteronomy 28:13.
You can do all things. phil 4: 13.
You are healed. Isaiah 53:5.
You are rich. 2corinthian 8:9
God has given you the power to make wealth. Deuteronomy 8:18, psalm 112:3.
Everything works together for your good. Roman 8:28
You have life and you have everything in abundance. John 10:10
You are a masterpiece. Ephesian 2:10
You are prosperous. Jeremiah 29:11
You have the grace to be rich 2corinthian 8:9
You have the spirit of love, of power and of sound mind (You are powerful, you can love and be loved and you are a genius) 2Timothy 1:7
The word of God said you are victorious, you are more than a conqueror, you are the head, you have the power of love, you are wonderfully made, you can do all things. 

When God said you are rich and you said you are poor, you are calling God a liar, when God said you are beautiful and you said you are ugly or you believe someone who said you are ugly you are making God a liar, when God said you are the head and you said you are always the last then you called God a liar, If the word of God said you are healed and you said you are sick you are disagreeing with the word of God, you are saying the word of God is a lie. You are calling God a liar. When God said you can do good always and you said nothing good is coming out of you….God said you can do all thing and you talk about how you cannot do anything then you are calling God a liar, when God said you are save and you said you are a sinner… God said you are more than a conqueror, you are victorious but you are saying you are a failure and you are talking defeatist and acting defeatist then you are not working in the truth of God’s word. You are having a carnal mind and you are walking in enmity with God. 

It is not about how many times you go to church or how large your bible is or your position in the church. It is about living in the truth of God’s word and having a sound mental mind of the truth of God’s world.
There is nothing that makes someone walks in enmity with God quicker than these two words calling someone ugly or a failure, or calling yourself ugly and/or a failure. Because you are not only calling God a liar you are also judging God and judging his creature. 

What is the remedy?
You have to cast down imaginations (negative mindset and imagination), and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 2corinthian 10:5.
All this thought and imagination are what the devil use to build strong holds in your life. If he capture your mind and convince you to believe in his words; infarct if he convince you enough not to know what to believe, he knows he can succeed in building strongholds in your life. Purpose of strong holds is to limit people existence, to make people live a miserable life, to prevent people from living a greater life and from fulfilling purpose. You must have the right mindset to live a fulfilling happy life. There is nothing in the word of God that said his people are ugly or failures. Every time the devil talk to you either through someone or even directly to you, you have to tell him no! That is not true; God didn’t say that about me, about my situation that is a lie from the pit of hell. The remedy is to know the lies from the devil, to reject them; either spoken by someone, either spoken by evil thought in your mind. You have to disbelief them, and you have to agree with the true word of God and believe the word of God and affirm them, and work in them, this is what it means to be a believer this is what it means to work in truth and in the light of God’s word. This is what it means to trust God and believe in his word and to be a victorious Christian. Now is the time to turn them tables and start living the great life you always wanted.

This will probably blow your mind. It’s the greatest kept secret.
99% of the world is under the illusion that some people are luckier than others, have an easier time than others, and so forth…

People who live with this notion believe that some people are more fortunate while others are not.
As a result, millions of people live under the illusion that one day they’ll get the one lucky break, perhaps win the jackpot or lottery, that’ll get them to the ‘promised land’.
What misconception!

Of course this is all bullshit created by Hollywood movies, fiction writers and the media to hype the idea that some people are luckier than others. It’s the biggest lie ever told.
That’s why there’s a multi-billion dollar gambling industry.
That’s why there’s a multi-billion dollar betting industry.
Did you know that 90% of the world’s wealth is controlled by about 1,000 families?
You heard that right – 1,000 families. Can you believe that?
Strangely, these families did not get there by a stroke of luck as you might imagine. They worked hard and many of them faced many odds, failure and rejection to get there.
Now, let’s get back to our greatest kept secret. It’s the world’s most treasured secret. It was crafted by the wisest man who ever lived on the face of the earth and also the richest man ever. He was also the greatest king who ever lived.
This is what he wrote in his own words:
“I returned and saw under the sun that –
The race is not to the swift,
Nor the battle to the strong,
Nor bread to the wise,
Nor riches to men of understanding,
Nor favour to men of skill,
But time and chance happen to them all.”
- Ecclesiastes 9:11
If you think this is religion, think again!
At its very best, this is called wisdom – and without it you will never even come close to joining the list of 10,000,000 wealthiest families in the world.
Is it possible? YES!
Is it easy? NO!

No one ever had it easy in life. None. This is a fact you can take to the bank any time. And you better come to terms with this fact sooner or you’ll never make it. And if you think those who inherited wealth or won a lottery has it easy, think again. A survey of lottery winners in the US, found that a staggering 80% of all lottery winners had lost it all within only 5 years.
The industrial revolution is regarded as the first technology revolution because it revolutionized the way wealth was created by automating production.

Subsequent technology revolutions such as the computer revolution, the PC revolution and the information revolution completely transformed wealth creation. The information revolution has completely democratized wealth creation regardless of age, race, color or geographical location.
The Forbes list of 400 top billionaires in the US indicates that over 69% of new billionaires are self-made. Eleven of those billionaires are women.

According to king Solomon’s statement mentioned earlier, everybody on earth has a chance (opportunity). While your opportunity may not be similar to mine, some opportunities are hard to implement and take years to bear fruit, others are easy and can yield results within days, weeks or months.

Life never brings opportunities in any particular order. Opportunities are like sea waves – some high, some low. And events cannot be predicted with certainty. It’s up to you to choose which wave you want to ride. However, life expects you to choose at least one opportunity and implement it without complaining.

The problem is that most people want things to happen faster and under their terms. The difference between success and failure depends on how you implement an opportunity without complaining. The difference is in the implementation.

Most people prefer to have it easy in life but in reality, things don’t go the way we want them. And when they fail, they blame it on bad luck or misfortune. The fact that you have tried something and failed doesn’t mean you should abandon it. Falling doesn’t mean failure. You can always try again. You only fail when you don’t stand up again.

Before going any further, I’d like to make a bold statement:
SUCCESS OR FAILURE IS DETERMINED BY THE CHOICES WE MAKE, NOT BY LUCK.
If we were to take this one step further, we will remember what someone once said:
“I’m a great believer in luck. I’ve found that the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
Another important thing to remember is that when making choices in life, we should choose very wisely and carefully. The same goes for all life’s choices such as choosing a career, choosing a life partner, or making a business decision and so on… The reason is that a single mistake can cost you a lifetime.
This fact is further proven by surveying some people in history who despite many odds, made significant impact in life.
Let’s see a few examples:
See this guy here? His name is Thomas Alva Edison, considered America's greatest inventor.

Born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, Edison attended school only for a short time. He was often sickly and went to school when he was eight. He did so poorly in school that his teacher said he was incapable of learning. His mother, a former school teacher herself, took it upon herself to educate her son at home.
At this point most people would have given up.
Edison developed a passion for reading at a young age, a habit he kept for the rest of his life. He spent most of his lunch times at the Detroit Free Library where he would immerse himself in books. Edison enjoyed the support of his mother, who often stood by his side, and he would study everything he could lay his hands on including history, economics, mathematics and science. He developed a particular keen interest in science and started making scientific experiments in their home basement.
Edison developed an entrepreneurial spirit at an early age of 12, when he started selling fruits, sweets, snacks and newspapers on a moving train as a newspaper vendor and even printed his own local newspaper called the Grand Trunk Herald.
At age 16, Edison became a telegraph machine operator and learned how to send messages using “morse code”. But even then, Edison continued to work on his experiments and noticed many improvements that could be made on the telegraph machine. What Edison really wanted was to become an inventor.
His first experiments such as the electric rat-trap and the electric vote-counter failed because nobody wanted his inventions.
With the $40,000 the Western Union Telegraph Company paid him for his innovations, Edison decided to set up a small workshop in Newark, New Jersey.
At this workshop, Edison invented major improvements on the telegraph and the telephone. This workshop became his base for subsequent inventions including the new stock ticker, the phonograph, electric hearing aid, and his most famous invention – the electric light lamp.
Edison was so obsessed with the electric light bulb project that, he is said to literally spend many hours working on it, and failed about 10,000 times.
Edison also worked on X-rays, storage batteries, and the first talking doll. He also worked on one of his greatest ideas: motion pictures (movies).
Edison’s inventions changed the way we live even today. He held many inventions and patents to his credit.
By the time of his death in October, 1931, aged 84, Thomas Alva Edison held or controlled a total of 1,093 US patents in his name, and a total of 1,239 foreign patents.
Steve Jobs

Born in 1955, Steve Paul Jobs was put up for adoption at birth by his biological parents who could not get married due to interracial barriers. His biological father was Syrian while his biological mother, Joanne Schieble Simpson, was a Catholic Swiss of German descent.

Jobs grew up against many odds, which most people would consider a streak of bad luck. Growing up as a child, Jobs lived a troubled life at home and in school.
His adopted parents put him to Reed College in 1972 but he soon dropped out of college so he could drop in to the more interesting subjects like calligraphy and typefaces. These being the hippy days of the 70s, Jobs found himself caught up right in the middle of the hippy culture, using marijuana and LSD. In 1974, he started on a journey, travelling through India to find enlightenment and also studied Zen Buddhism.

In 1976 Jobs and his friend, Steve Wozniak founded Apple and released their first computer, the Apple I, to the market. A year later, Jobs and Wozniak followed with the Apple II computer, which became very successful, making them both famous and wealthy.

Jobs story didn’t end there. In 1985, under intense pressure from John Scully, then Apple’s CEO, resigned and formed a new company called NeXT. His former company, Apple didn’t do very well after Job’s departure, and was at the verge of collapse when the board decided to buy Job’s new company, NeXT.
In 1997, Apple merged with NeXT Inc. with Jobs becoming CEO of the new setup. Later that year, Jobs introduced a blueprint that would culminate in the hugely successful range of Apple products including Mac OS X, iMac, iPhone, iPad, iTunes, iPod, and Apple Store.
At the time of Jobs’ death in 2011, Apple’s market capitalization was about $500 billion.
Apple’s current market capitalization is more than $945 billion.
Jack Ma

If there’s a man who has been undermined by a streak of failures and misfortunes, it’s this guy right here.
His name is Jack Ma, Chairman of the Alibaba Group and the richest man in China with a fortune of US$42.4 billion as of March, 2018.

If there’s anyone whose life was characterized by challenges, failure and rejection it’s Jack Ma, who through determination, resolve, hard work, agility, and vision, has built a multibillion-dollar global e-commerce technology giant called Alibaba.

Born in September 1964 in Hangzhou, China, Jack Ma (Ma Yun), showed traits of revolutionary ideas since childhood often being branded as crazy by his detractors. His father was one of his greatest detractors often warning him that his ideas might one day land him in jail.
When he was 12, he got interested in learning English. For eight years, he would ride his bike for 40 minutes every morning come rain or snow, to a hotel near Hangzhou's West Lake district, a distance of about 100 miles southwest of Shanghai, to show tourists around as an unofficial tour guide and they would teach him English.

Jack Ma learned more from his failures than through the conventional systems of education.
He failed a key primary school test two times.
He failed the middle school test three times.
He failed the college entrance exam three times, and only passed after attempting the forth time.
After college graduation, he was rejected for most of the jobs he applied for.
He was the only one who was rejected out of five applicants to the police force.
He was the only one who was rejected at KFC out of 24 applicants. All the other 23 applicants were accepted.

He applied to join 30 American universities (including Harvard) and was rejected by all of them.
In the late 1990s, after starting Alibaba, Jack Ma tried to get funding from several venture capitalists in Silicon Valley and got rejected for “running an unprofitable business model”.
Not being deterred by the failures, Jack returned to China and assembled a group of 17 friends to build Alibaba.
With a net worth of US$42.4 as of March 2018, Jack Ma is currently one of the wealthiest people in China and also one of the wealthiest people in the world
Looking back at the lives of these people, no one would ever have imagined that one day, they would have an easier time. Not by any stretch of imagination.
Later on, however, most people would probably agree that these people were very lucky, perhaps even fortunate.
Were all these people lucky? At one time NO, but generally, YES.
Were all these people unlucky? YES, at one point you’d say they were, but generally, NO.
Did they do anything about it? YES, they kept trying without regarding failure and not looking at the odds up against them
Were they successful? Again, YES, beyond anyone’s wildest dreams including themselves.

This post was originally written by Flavian Nwasi (Serial Entrepreneur, Business Advisor, Success Couch).

To read more articles by the same author on Quora please follow this link. https://www.quora.com/profile/Flavian-Mwasi

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