Five, Life and Business Lessons I have learnt from 9ice

Popular music sensation, Abolore Adegbola Akande, better known as 9ice is currently enjoying the success of his single, entitled: Gongo Aso. The wave making hit is the most popular song on radio today in Nigeria.
This post is not about Gongo Aso, but about lessons you can learn from the musician that will assist you in life, work and in business. Well, I know you want to know if I’m a fan of 9ice. Yes and Yes, because the guy has something all successful people must have, originality, and Yes aging because I am a lover of good music.

OK now! What is the life and business Lessons you can learn from 9ice?

Lesson No. 1

Originality; To succeed in life, your work or business, you’ve got to be original. You will agree with me that 9ice’s music is 100% original, it is not a clone of someone else’s music, He does his music in his own way and if you are looking for success in life, your work or business, you’ve got to be original. Don’t let your life or Business be a caricature of someone else’s life or business. Have an original concept and work at making it a success. Does that mean if there is a concept working for someone I know, I cannot adopt it? You can, but as much as possible, inject your own personality into it, adapt it and positively, for your own purposes.

Lesson No. 2

Vision; Seeing your success before it comes. 9ice sang Gongo Aso when Gongo had not so’ (sorry if you don’t get my drift).What I am trying to say is that he predicted in that song that the world was going to celebrate him and his prediction has come to pass, so, if you want to succeed in life you have to visualize it.
Now vision is an idea or a picture in your mind (I call it imagination) once you can conserve it in your mind, then you can achieve it. You’ve got to start seeing your success in your mind’s eye and start working towards succeeding in life, I tell you, you will be able to attract all the success you need into your life. It doesn’t matter if you have been working at it for months or even years. Your success will come if you believe and start confessing it now like 9ice. 9ice throws more light on this in an interview he had with The Sun Newspaper recently. ”Well, I think that, for a couple of years now, a lot of good things have been happening in my career, glory be to God Almighty. The most recent, which everybody has embraced now is Gongo Aso. This is a song I wrote two days before recording it and after listening to the beat several times, I added one or two things and recorded it. The song talks about souls that have been pushed to the wall and everybody seems to be against them, yet you are telling them that Gongo Aso. That means there will be a breakthrough in spite of the odds and the whole world will know. For me, that is already happening now.”On the idea behind Gongo Aso, he said,”I wasn’t down when I wrote the song but I have spent most of my life fending for myself. Although, my parents are still alive, I was the one taking most of the decisions such as payment of school fees and making the choice of career. It is like a soul, which has been deprived of so many things, which other kids enjoy. The experience has been there and when inspiration came, I just wrote.”

Lesson No. 3

Positive Thinking; Do you also notice how 9ice boasts in his songs? In Street Credibility (I particularly love this song because it invokes the spirit of patriotism in me) which he did with 2face, he really did boast “Don’t doubt me I’ll bring home Grammies” That’s the power of positive thinking and confessing at work, only recently, the young man was invited to sing at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday party in the UK. See the power of positive thinking and confession. So in what ever you do, be positive.

Lesson No. 4

Networking; Strategic Partnerships 9ice has done a lot of collabos and he himself agreed that most of the songs which brought him to limelight are songs he featured in for other artistes like 2Shotz’s Make Them Talk,
Ruggedman’s RuggediBaba
and 2Steps Shokishombolo.
He also has a collabo with Ruggedman and 2face. Now, if you are looking for success in your life or business, do not be selfish or self-centered, having a strategic partner may be the way out of the woods for you. Now the power of networking is a double- edged one, i.e. having two possible advantages, just sit down and think, who are the major players in this business in which I want to operate? Select your friends. Once you have figured them out, email or call them. Some of them will agree, some will turn down your offer .Don’t fret, just move on with those that accepted your offer and I tell you, your journey to success would have begun.

Lesson No. 5

Hard work; 9ice talks about not sleeping in his house for days whenever he is recording. Hear him: “I have been trying to complete work on the album. I have also been busy shooting videos, aside other shows and tours, which I’m involved in. For a month, I haven’t slept in my house. I have my clothes, brush, and toothpaste in the booth of my car. ”If you also want to succeed and enjoy the glamour and money that comes with it, you’ve got to work hard. There is no substitute for hard work in life. Just forget about making it in life, if you don’t want to keep late nights fashioning out on how you can improve your life or strategizing plans on how to do well in your business dealings.

That is the five, Life and Business Lessons I have learnt from 9ice

And which I’m sure you have also found useful.

written by; Iyabo Oyewale and Olukayode Orikeye

Iyabo Oyawale quit her day job in August 2007 to pursue her dreams of making money online.You can download her 100% free success manuals at http://askiyabooyawale.com/ as well as http://naijanetwarriors.com/.

Olukayode Orikeye is a student of Iyabo Oyewale’s E-wealth Institute Ikorodu Lagos, Nigeria

What And When Not To Share

“A burden shared is a burden halved but a joy shared is a joy doubled”

Do you understand that meaning? Well, basically, when we have someone to share our burden, whether it is to talk over our problems or carry a heavy luggage, the load is lightened. Similarly, when we have good news, we share.

The point is — sharing is a wonderful thing. It’s the source for human to live. I couldn’t imagine how someone can live without sharing because that would be meaningless life.
If you notice, that’s why social sites like myspace.com, facebook.com, twitter.com, etc are so popular in this age of internet or why people start blogs – to share their thoughts and experience.

But sharing’s is not just for the sheer joy or releasing burden because I think that the biggest benefit of sharing is internal growth.
Think about it. You share with your friend about a new book that you’ve read that’s really good, say it’s Think and Grow Rich. Then your friend automatically tells you another good book that he has read. Now you both learned something new.
See what I mean?

The power of sharing is exponential. If you want someone to share something with you, share yours first. Now, I’m not teaching you to use this technique to get what you want from others but to emphasize that sharing has a reciprocal effect.
If you don’t believe it works, try it.
Sometimes, it’s not that we don’t want to share but we’re hoarding to our own selves. It’s an ugly truth that we all have a greedy part but if you don’t want to face the reality here, that’s fine. If you do, I’ll tell you how to overcome that.
The first thing to realize is - are you sharing something that is in abundance that the source cannot be emptied?

Secondly - will those who received your sharing be a threat to you?
And lastly, can you see the life of others changed because of your sharing.
If someone is very unhappy with his life but you’re able to make him happy again by giving an extremely valuable advice, then you’re sharing a source of abundance without threatening yourself in anyway and changed his life. In return – you’ll “grow”.
You should not share a big chunk of money to your favorite charity and leave nothing for yourself and family to eat or pay bills. That’s not sharing from an abundance source but a limited one.

You should not share your confidential business strategies to your competitors because they will become your threat and affect your own income.
You should not share your house with a king because it will not change life. The king already has a palace to live in. But if you want to share house, share with someone who doesn’t have a luxury house like yours or a shelter to stay.
It is said that the primary job of a teacher is to teach the students. However, a lot of teachers actually learned through discussions and observations. That’s the balance of life – a universal law that is unbreakable.
The growth of knowledge thrives from expressing and receiving information that 2 or more individuals can grow.
You see, your point of view and experience in anything is unique only to you. So are other people’s points of view and experiences. When all these unique points of view and experiences come together, that’s when we get synergy.
That’s why seminars are such great places for learning. The people who participate not only get new information, but from other participants as well. And of course – the motivation and inspiration from the environment.
However, motivation and inspiration die if they are not continuously fed. If each of the participants leaves the seminar with the knowledge and let it collect dust in their own heads, it’s not going to grow right?
My advice - keep the knowledge ‘alive’ by sharing the knowledge and here’s the good thing, you’re not restricted through conventional methods.
Take a look at SuccessAndLife.com Forum. Some of these forum members are experts, but not all of them. They are there to learn while at the same time, adding their own knowledge and experience. And because it’s a free forum, everyone around the world is invited to be part of the growing community.

At the same time, are you the type of person who’s hesitant to share your knowledge because you are afraid that people might laugh at you?
Again, like what is stated above, each one of us has our own unique experiences to share. So what if others disagree with it? It’s just your way of viewing things. If that is their attitude, then let it be. They are just missing out on an opportunity to see things from a new angle.
Besides – if you’re sharing through blog or forum, what is there to be embarrassed?
So the next time you have something to share, let it out. Sharing is will grow you.
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You “Chan” Do It!
Patric Chan