Joachim Okhai

10 SURE WAYS TO GET A PROMOTION Looking for ways to get a promotion and climb you the corporate ladder, look no further. Follow these then proven steps: 1.        Work for a company that can give you room to grow . The type of company you work can determine your potential for promotion. When applying for jobs, seek out companies with opportunity for advancement. You don't have to work for a huge corporation, although these usually offer plenty of promotion possibilities at any given time, but you do want to look for a company that has enough going on so that you can be assured you're not running into a dead end. Preferably this company will be doing well and growing, though many companies, especially very large ones, tend to grow in cycles. 2.        Concentrate on just doing the best you possibly can in your current position. Excellent performance reviews aren't sufficient to get you a promotion, but they're ...

Quote of the Day: “When you don’t have resources, you become resourceful.” -- K. R. Sridhar. 10 STEPS TO BEING RESOURCEFUL 1.      Be creative. Think of crazy possibilities as well as obvious or practical ones. You might find inspiration for a workable solution in one of them. 2.      Improvise. Improvise. Don't box yourself into thinking that only a permanent solution will do. Use what you have at hand for a temporary solution. Fix your bike enough to limp home and do a proper job later. 3.      Don't spend too much time worrying about the problem. Rather focus on finding solutions. This can be learnt by training your mind each time you start worrying. How severe is it? Is this truly a crisis or merely an inconvenience or a setback? Does it need to be addressed immediately, or can it wait for an appropriate solution to be developed? The more urgent the situation, the more creative you'll have to be. Calm you...

Monday’s Motivational Talk. Topic: Boldness. Quote: ’Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. ’ -- ~Sultana Zoraya. Only the bold stand-out in the pursuit and the achievement of their goals. ... No man is born with boldness just as no man is born with timidity. Inspite of the little frame of Napoleon Bonaparte, he learnt boldness on the field of wars to preserve his army and his empire. Humans have the sixth-sense to perceive fear in others – when they sense the lack of boldness in you they go blood-thirsty attacking you on all fronts – its just human nature - never let your guard down – pursue your goals and vision with a new and avowed demonstration of boldness. A wise-man once said: courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to go on even in the face of fear. My advise to you this week is that you embrace and act with boldness in all you do – give no place to fear, because ’only the brave survive’. Have a terrific week team. Joachim O...

Dear All, I hope you had a nice weekend? As promised, we are beginning our short, Monday’s only, “motivational talk”. Topic: Stay Motivated With Your Goals. Quote: “All things are difficult before they are easy.” -- Thomas Fuller. We all experience “The N-Moments” (The Negative Moments). The “The N-Moments” are times in our lives and the pursuit of our goals, when we get so de-motivated towards the pursuit of our goals. Those are the moment when we doubt if the “goal” is worth been accomplished anymore. The moment when we get so discouraged with the results we are getting from our goals, and we just don’t want to continue, or just want to slow down, and look for a much easier, enjoyable and better goal to pursue. We all have this temporal moments of discouragements, even the most accomplished of men go through these moments. Some are going through them right now. But the good news is that good things come to those who can persevere and exercise patience. You must keep on keep...

"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow."-- Rupert Murdoch.

"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds. It is something one creates." -- Thomas Szasz, psychiatrist.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' John Abbott.

"Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died." Author Unknown.

Today's Quote: "Common sense is genius dressed up in work clothes." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The Story of Mary Kay Ash, 1918-2001: She Started a Skin Care Company That Has Sales of More Than $2 Billion a Year Independent representatives sell products in peoples' homes in more than 30 countries. And I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. This week, we tell about one of the most successful American businesswomen. Mary Kay started a company in nineteen sixty-three with a five thousand dollar investment. Today, Mary Kay Cosmetics is an international company worth thousands of millions of dollars. Mary Kathlyn Wagner was born in the state of Texas in nineteen eighteen. For much of her childhood, she cared for her sick father while her mother worked long hours at a public eating place. Mary Kay married Ben Rogers when she was seventeen years old. They had three children before he left home to serve in World War Two. When he returned, their marriage ended. Mary Kay looked for a job so she could support her children. Mary Kay began selli...

God brings you to it he'll bring you through it... Read this... I mean REALLY read this This is without a doubt one of the nicest good luck forwards I have received... Hope it works for you -- and me! You have 6 minutes. There's some mighty fine advice in these words, even if you're not superstitious. This has been sent To you for good luck from the Anthony Robbins organization. It has been sent around the world ten times so far. Do not keep this message. This must leave your hands in 6 MINUTES. Otherwise you will get a very unpleasant surprise. This is true, even if you are not superstitious, agnostic, or otherwise faith impaired. ONE: Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. TWO: Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other. THREE: Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want. FOUR: When you say, 'I love you ,' mean it. FIVE: Wh...

Times are are tough and depressing; financial and otherwise. And the immediate thoughts that comes to mind is "either I am doing the wrong thing, or I am not smart or hard-working enough", "therefore is better to quit now since the going is too tough to coupe with". In the words of Larry Bird, the legendary Basketball player: "I don't think when you get to one level, you should relax, you've got to keep pushing". That is the sure key to success especially during these trying times. Never retreat! Never surrender!! And don't allow the thought of giving up come across your mind!!! Keep pushing until you succeed. Drop your comments and thoughts. Signed. Joachim Okhai.

The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.

TOPIC: 10 SECRETS OF UNCOMMON MILLIONAIRES. A secret is information kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged. Uncommon millionaires operate by some key success secrets. These secrets of success may seem ordinary and unknown to the ordinary man on the street. But the secrets are endowed with huge potentials that can create uncommon success for you as they have done for the uncommon millionaires. It’s important for us to always remember, during the course of this teaching, that the term secrets of success (The Uncommon Millionaires Success Systems) are likened to LAWS – laws are not respecter of persons or circumstances, they always hold-through e.g. the law of gravity, the law of aerodynamics, the law of floatation etc. The Secrets of Success are like laws; they work for you when obeyed and they cause great lack when disobeyed. SECRET 1: LEVERAGING: The Uncommon millionaires uses the Secret of Leveraging to create phenomenal levels of wealth which make them the env...

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” – Abraham Lincoln. Advise: Change is the only constant in life – it is not a thing, it is the constant. You must learn to accept it, work with it, and make it bring you good success! If you are experiencing any kind of setbacks or de-motivation towards the realization of your success goals right now, then it’s time to change your strategy(s) for the realization of your goals. Yesterday’s strategy may have worked very well to have brought you this far, but for you to experience the next big thing you have to change strategy(s). The world is changing at a fast pace please don’t be left behind. Dr. Martin Luther King spoke of “the fierce urgency of now.” Please waste no time in thinking out new strategy to combat the temporal setbacks you are experiencing right now. If you are at loss as...

The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it. Jerry Gillies. Advise: Success can be defined, in a broad sense, as the ability to achieve your dreams, desires, hopes, wishes and goals in each of the important areas of your life.The big question is what is the starting point in attaining good success? The answer is simple. In your thoughts. How do I get it started in my thoughts? Through the creation of success conscious BELIEF systems. It is important for us to know that knowledge alone cannot make a person succeed, that’s why no matter the level of persuasion given to person about success while he or she does not believe, need or desire to succeed, it just a waste of time. “…..as he thinks in his heart so is he.” Proverb 23:7.So its all rooted in the thought process; if a man thinks is he a failure, failure will be his reality, and if he thinks he can succeed, no matter the circumsta...

"Determination is the down payment on sales achievement." -Anonymous. ADVISE Human evolution has taught us that humans has conquered all ages till the present age of information technology, and have outclassed and outlasted every obstacle that came their way through the power of determination. They were able preserve their species through-time, not because they were super-strong, but because of their uncommon determination and the application of their brain-powers. Your God given assignment, dreams, success goals, can only become achievable, no-matter how large, through the power of determination. There is nothing that guarantees success, more, than the power of determination; even God Almighty respect and give success to the determined, always, than He does to those who serve him and give up on their dreams easily. So I say to you, as you go about the pursuit of dreams today, go with this renewed thought process “no retreat, no surrender” – that is the success key of champio...

Arie De Gues said “Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.” ADVISE Human evolution have experienced several revolutions such as the ice-age, stone-age, agrarian, industrial, and now, the information revolution – even within the information revolution, there are several revolutions going on. You must understand that this fact; that the information with which success was achieved yesterday is far different from the information that makes for success today. And the information that makes for success today will be obsolete when the information that makes for success tomorrow comes. The world is constantly changing, and if you must become an uncommon success in this age, you must learn to catch up with the changes now, and even strive be several steps ahead of today to flat your competition. We all know about Fuller Buckminster, the futurist businessman and writer. He was a man who was ahead of his time and the difference his ideas...

Benjamin Disraeli said "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." Advise: Action is the only means great dreams come to live. Start taking precise actions towards the actualization of your dreams today. You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue. Your dreams and goals can never see the light of day if you are unwilling to pursue them. Race Horses never win races while they are in stalls. Soldiers never win wars without combats. Great businesses are never built by just thinking about them alone. You've got to start taking meaningful actions to actualization your dreams today.Motion is the seed for emotion. Movements changes your environments instantly. It is time to move from just thinking into the realm of actions.Remember, for you to start enjoying the kind of success you have never had before, you have to begin to do things you’ve never done before. Remain blessed. Till I come your way again, Your partner in success, ...

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness." - Henry David Thoreau, Author, Philosopher. MY ADVISE: Please I urge you to take courage if the results you expect of your dreams/goals are not forthcoming as expected. What you need to do under that circumstance, is to simplify your dreams by breaking it into smaller parts and take action on one piece at a time. A wiseman once said that the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time, and the best way to build a skyscraper is one brick at a time. The journey of a thousand miles starts with one step in the right direction.” Learn to use patience and say no to haste by taking baby steps with your dreams, before you can run sprints like a professional later. If you do too much at once, the weight of your dreams can overwhelm you and dash your enthusiasm and determination to pieces. So before your enthusiasm and determin...