Joachim Okhai

Quote of the Day: A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. -- Henry Ford Business ethics are the key to profits. If clients and customers don’t trust you, and your business ethics, they will not do business with you. Would you buy from a company you didn’t trust? Of course not! Business ethics have become a hot-button topic. There are often ethical conflicts between making money, and doing what is right. There can be dilemmas about doing what is best for your employer, what’s best for your own career, and what’s best for the customer. Business ethics is about negotiating these mine-fields. Here are 10 keys to good business ethics: 1.   Personal Ethics.   There is no real separation between doing what is right in business, and playing fair, telling the truth and being ethical in your personal life.   2.   Fairness.   Would a dis-interested observer agree that both sides ar...

Quote of the Day: You can find inspiration from others but determination is solely your responsibility. ~ Dodinsky. Why A True Genius Sweats!   Mulish Persistence and Dogged Determination Win Through to the Gold! Thomas Edison was a man of immense determination and persistence -- he wouldn't let any obstacle, hardship or setback block him from achieving his goals. He understood that a true genius sweats! When it comes to developing million dollar creative gems, most people stop short of reaching the mother lode while mining their own "Field of Diamonds". Genius is not airy-fairy come-up-with-a-few-ideas, sit back and let the workers carry them out. Genius takes effort and passion. Above all, it takes perseverance. It's easy to be mediocre. It takes no effort at all to be like everybody else. The whole world gets dumbed down so that we can all smile and speak the same language... Banaleze, the language of the banal! If your brain has been well and truly Home...

Quote: Successful people fail more than the unsuccessful people. They fail so many times till they become successful. The fear of failure is what holds the unsuccessful back, most times -- Joachim Okhai. Fear of failure is one of the greatest fears all humans have.   However successful people overcome their fear of failure. While the same Fear incapacitates unsuccessful people. The Law of Feedback states: there is no failure; there is only feedback. Successful people look at mistakes as outcomes or results, not as failure. Unsuccessful people look at mistakes as permanent and personal. Buckminster Fuller wrote, “Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.” Most people self-limit themselves. Most people do not achieve a fraction of what they are capable of achieving because they are afraid to try because they are afraid they will fail. Take these steps to overcome your...

Quote of the Day: A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. -- Confucius. 4 WAYS TO TAKE ACTION ON YOUR GOALS. As with all things in your life, you have a choice to make. In this case your choice is clear: Are you going to apply what you’ve learned in pursuit of a better life or business, or are you going to file this knowledge away and stay in your comfort zone?   Realize that action is the key to making positive changes in your life. Without action, knowledge is lost. Inaction will not result in fulfillment. There is only one thing standing in the way of achieving all that’s possible: You! If you make the conscious choice to sit back and watch the world go by without ever making an attempt at achieving your goals, you will experience profound regret in your life.   The sad truth is that many people remain idle in the face of challenges and make the decision to stay put in a life of discontent—to remain in a job that brings them no sati...

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...