THE GREAT MAN'S TECHNIQUE

Preparation: It is preparation that determines your experience; a wise man said “when preparation meets with opportunity success is inevitable. You don’t prepare in greatness you prepare for greatness, no one prepares for an exam in the examination hall. A popular comedian said that people always described him as one who came from nowhere and now dominating the comedy industry, and he will always reply by saying I came from somewhere, and when they ask him further what he means, he said “I have been preparing myself all those years you never heard about me”. People have lost several opportunities to become great in life because of lack of preparedness.

Investment / Sowers mentality: No one becomes wealthy by savings, it is good to save but it is better to invest. Whatever you don’t invest will never increase. A lot of people are poor not because they never had money before but because they failed to invest the one they had by spending it on worthless things. Everyone loves to spend because the human want is unsearchable but check those who are great; you discover they spend more investing for the future. Aside from money and business investments, also invest in people because they may be the ladder you need to climb to greatness; also invest whatever is required in what you are passionate about and your vision in life.

Risk taking: Life itself is a risk; according to a wise man he said it is even risky not to take a risk. Fear has made a lot of people remain in the same position for years. The fear of failure keeps people in bondage of trying something new, you can never understand success until you understand failure; no one can manage success effectively unless they have been able to manage their failures. Failure is a healthy engagement on your path to greatness; it is a motivation for new heights. We must understand that in taking risk we must be wise not to take foolish risks. I have seen people risking their lives to walk through the desert to get to Europe, I have seen people who swallowed cocaine to crossover oversees to sell to their potential customers and along the way they had a delay and the cocaine melted in their stomach and they died, and so many other illegal things time would fail me to mention people do all in the name to be great.

Ability to discern opportunities: I don’t know who said this quote “Opportunity comes but once” but that’s a lie. Opportunity comes every moment, everyday is a new opportunity, every year is a new opportunity but our inability to discern them is what makes opportunity difficult to find. The only person whose opportunity has come and gone is a dead man, to the living there is hope. If you missed an opportunity, there is another ahead but you must be able to discern them not to miss them again. We must understand that opportunities does not always present themselves as one who has own a visa lottery, sometimes it presents itself as a problem that you need to solve. Opportunities sometimes at first would demand from you, and if you don’t have what to offer it slips away from you. The world is looking for solution givers, the more solutions you have to situations the more opportunities you maximize.

Studious learner: A wise man said that the illiterate of the 21^st century is one who has refused to learn, unlearn, and re-learn. Stephen Covey said “Those who don’t read are no better than those who can’t read”. Every great man is a studious learner which is called leader-level reading. The more you learn the more you keep pace with new innovations, ideas, and change trends. It is impossible, and I quote that again, it is impossible to be great without been a studious learner.

Goal setting: Goals gives your vision a direction par-time, it makes you understand where you are headed at the moment, what has been done, what needs to be done, and what needs not to be done. Goals are necessary in maximizing every moment. You can set either long term, short term, yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily or hourly goals but your goals must be realistic and achievable.