Birthing A Great Idea

Welcome to #BAGI- Birthing A Great Idea

I was in search for some refreshing knowledge and like I should i found some. That's what I want to share

So like most discussions, we might need a definition of an Idea.

My definition of an Idea is a thought developed to solve a problem or meet a need. As long as there is a need, there will always be an Idea. No matter how stupid it might sound to you. So what’s the problem with having a great idea? The truth is as long as a little time is used to think, an idea usually pops up. Why don't people now accept ideas or why don't great ideas quickly sell? great ideas alter the power balance in relationships. That is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Anybody with a great idea always seems to be superior to people who don't have one. This is the first knowledge we need to know at the back of our minds. The fact that your idea might not have been accepted in the past might be based on the fact that good ideas alter the power balance in relationships. So note this.

The second point is great ideas comes with responsibility. Great ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. You need to break out from the "I don't want an extra wahala" before you can have a great idea. Have it at the back of your mind, few people can handle great ideas. So the true question is are you ready to be one of the few?

The idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to change the world. That’s what makes it great. Never expect your idea to be big before you can term it great. Changing the world is a function of time so you need to be patient to watch your idea grow and do what it is meant to do. We all spend a lot of time being impressed by folks we’ve never met. Somebody featured in the media who’s got a big company, a big product, a big movie, a big bestseller. So we call them a big shot. This in itself isn't wrong if they act as a source of inspiration to us.

You need to know what you do. Know it very well. It’s in the place of knowing it, great ideas are birthed. Knowing what you do doesn't only mean trying to improve your skill. It means being sure that’s what you do. Focus brings clarity. Clarity is improved as ideas are birthed. The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far more people than the actual content ever will. Your idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world. The more it will be termed a GREAT idea.

To do this you need to put the hours in. Doing anything worthwhile takes forever. 90% of what separates successful people and failed people is time, effort, and stamina. Put the hours in; do it for long enough and magical, life-transforming things happen eventually. If your business plan depends on you suddenly being “discovered” by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra etc. Something in us screams for the crayons. They’re only crayons. You didn’t fear them in kindergarten, why fear them now?

If you make something special, powerful, honest and true, you will succeed. This is what’s called a great idea. The creative person, one who is trying to come up with the great idea basically has two kinds of jobs. One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Wherever you are, either one or two you can turn one to two eventually.

Don’t try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether. It nerve wrecking to but if you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you. Doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. Merit can be bought. Passion can’t.

The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does. Remember only great ideas change the world and ideas are birthed by people.

Finally, don’t worry about finding inspiration. It comes eventually. Remember, it’s in the place of focus clarity is born and ideas give more clarity. I hope I've been able to inspire someone to Birth his great idea.

Have a great night

BUSINESS GROWTH VIA TEAM BUILDING, VOLUNTEERS, NETWORKS AND CONNECTING WITH RIGHT MINDS PART 1

I was hosted on #SkillMeUp a couple of weeks back and I shared a few thoughts via my Twitter handle @IamJLordz. I'm so sorry I didn't post it on my personal blog. I just read through it again and I felt it was quite educative and was worth sharing here.

July 17 2015.

BUSINESS GROWTH VIA TEAM BUILDING, VOLUNTEERS, NETWORKS AND CONNECTING WITH RIGHT MINDS PART 1 
By: Fola-Bolumole Oluwajare @IamJLordz
Taught on Skill Me Up #SkillMeUp with Stakeholda and Associates
I will be sharing thoughts on Business growth via team building, volunteers, building networks etc. Let’s hit it.
Every entrepreneur and successful business owner has adapted and is still using the skills I will be discussing
The first aspect we are dissecting is Team Building.
Team building simply speaks of synergizing your work force to produce maximum efficiency.
A background truth: Everybody has his/her unique strength and not everyone is “useful”
But this is after proper selection has been made. So let’s step back and speak a bit on the selection process.
How do you identify and select effective people to build your team?
You need to come to terms with the fact that you make the best of what you have available.
The next is to identify all the elements where you need people to form and build a formidable team.
Next you need to realize that you might need to do many of those areas you need people by yourself.
If you need to get trained in that area then go ahead and learn if not managing your own skill is easier than managing people.
Your team members don’t necessarily need to be people you already have a relationship with.
Speaking with people goes a long way in shortening your search.
Always have at the back of your mind that people = network = influence.
Set a time frame for the search of these people and stick with it. Except if extremely important move on with those you’ve got. Eventually they can help you find the other “missing person”
To get the best out of people, the following things are extremely important. Build an atmosphere of warmth and ease of communication. Introduce fun and relaxation.
Let people know their specific task and how important they are to the overall success. Never make anyone feel like they are indispensable. It is never to early to work on protégé. 
Make promises, fulfill them and apologize profusely when you can’t. Always sell visions and dreams to your team. Always welcome feedback, criticism and suggestions and implement them.
When financial rewards come, PUT YOUR TEAM FIRST. Celebrate success, learn from failures, never place blames on individuals. So let’s call it a day on team building. We move to the next topic.

Next is volunteering.
Volunteering is two ways. You volunteer or people volunteer to help you.
I must be honest I have done sooooo much of this and I have had sooooo many people volunteer to help me. This is one of the biggest money saving technique and experience gaining one.
You just must employ this to get success with less effort and plenty reward. Managing volunteers is as simple as managing your core team. It’s just integrated. But sincerely it’s more difficult because you have more people. The reward is worth the pain and the question that readily comes to mind is “how can you get volunteers?”
How to get volunteers is simply by asking.
People will find out about your people managerial skills and will decide to work with you if they are comfortable with you.

It’s been an exciting time so far. We shall stop here for this part kindly join us for part 2 on SkillMeUp with Stakeholda & Associates

Join me next week as we host a thought leader on Skill Me Up every Monday at 5pm on Twitter. Thanks for your time and attention.

Shaking My Head

I shake my head for my generation,

Many of us are so hung up on men of God that we forget the Christian race is a personal walk marred with errors and mistakes aka sins that are only there to make us better.
We are sooo good at pointing fingers and laughing at men of God's mistakes that we forget that before the "of God"  there is the "Man".

Yes they are there and their mistakes/sins(whatever you call it) are more glaring because they are up there, but God never expected us to look at them as our role models. He set Jesus as the standard. 

I see many people going to hell just for this fact that they use Pastors/Ministers/ whatever its called in your denomination as their standards such that when they fall something just raises a question in their head.

Run your Christian race individually, 

Go to Church, its primary purpose is for fellowship, get close to God BY YOURSELF!!!! it was never the responsibility of the Pastor,

Model after Jesus NOT A MAN!!!.

Do not join in sharing things that only tarnishes God's image, you are just indirectly working for the devil.

Save a soul, that's your primary responsibility.

Get ready for more humiliation of the Christian walk, its the end time, its meant to happen.

*stops shaking head*

Carving a Niche (Part 2)

Hi guys. Hope you picked a few points from the first post on Carving a Niche, if you didn't read the first post you can read it here....

This is the conclusive part of the post please feel free to ask questions, make observations and drop comments.

Thank you.

This post was complied from my tweets on the topic Enterprise development; Carving a Niche which I posted from @thechocboy handle on Twitter for the #TenConference hosted by @ten_africa on Twitter. kindly follow both handles.

31. Identify every single person in your niche as a potential. That dude has world capacity. You never know! #TenConference

32. Now to my movie of the month. The Expendables 3!  If you haven’t watched it please do. #TenConference

33. Watch it with attention to how Sylvester Stallon selected his team. #TenConference

34. Think of everybody around you as someone with unimaginable potential. #TenConference

35. As the movie rounded up, it was practically looking impossible for them to overcome the battalion of opposition but YES they did. #TenConference

36. Everybody contributing his own skill and expertise. #TenConference

37. That is exactly a feel of what the people around you can do. #TenConference

38. Never disregard people no matter what!!!! #TenConference

39. Even when your brand as failed on its promise, creates a buy-back mechanism. #TenConference

40. Don’t be surprised a failed brands promise cost more to repair.#TenConference

41.  If you care that much. Pay the price. #TenConference

42. It’s also very important you create BRAND Ambassadors. How to create one is a topic for another day but the strategy is pretty simple. #TenConference

43. IDENTIFY-TRAIN-SENDFORTH-CALL BACK, Repeat step 2, 3, 4 as many times as needed. #TenConference

44.Yes it is very possible that the people closest to you don’t need your service/product but the truth is they may know who does. #TenConference

45. After all these have been done the next step will be expanding your niche. That’s also a topic for another day. #TenConference

46. On any business at all these basic principles apply. Many times it is not that we do not know them we just need to be reminded. #TenConference

47. The most important point here I think is KEEPING YOUR BRAND PROMISE. #TenConference

Hummmm. So that's about all I said (tweeted) on the day of the conference, I got retweets and questions and It made me know the message was well received.

I am not too much of a "journalist" but I will try to post as much content as I think is relevant to you.

Thanks for stopping by.

Your Sincerely

Oluwajare Fola-Bolumole

Carving a Niche

Hi friends. I was invited to speak at a conference hosted on Twitter by @ten_africa a Bolu Onasanya Initiative and I was to speak (tweet) on the topic Enterprise Development; Carving a Niche. It was an opportunity I gladly accepted because I felt it would be good for someone out there to learn a thing or two. Something that could help transform his/her thinking.

The tweets were quite many therefore I have decided to create 2 (two) posts out of it. The tweets were also numbered for ease of follow. You can follow me @iamjlordz and my company @thechocboy. I will follow back

The conference has since held on the 21st of August 2014 which happens to be World Entrepreneur's Day.

I have collated my tweets in my first post to this blog and will be sharing it here so that someone else might gain from it.

Let us jump right into it.

1. Good day guys, I am Oluwajare Fola-Bolumole CEO of The ChocBoy Brand. www.chocboy.com and I will be speaking on "Enterprise Development; Carving a Niche" #TenConference

2. I will be using the movie. The Expendables as a case study for comparison purpose. #TenConference

3. So think along the line of the movie while we unravel "Enterprise Development; Carving a Niche" #TenConference

4. I will explain my points with my business as "testimony" to the fact that it works. #TenConference

5. Carving a niche simply means to create a space for yourself; creating demand for yourself #TenConference

6. I think the first step in carving a niche is, UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOUR BUSINESS is about. #TenConference

7. You can call it knowing the purpose of your business. #TenConference

8. Note here- as an entrepreneur, you fully don't have all the knowledge about your field, #TenConference

10. Your strength might just be identifying problems and creating a medium through which you can make money while solving it. #TenConference

11. Yes, The ChocBoy Brand produces chocolate and its varieties but our sole purpose and aim is "selling fun" we want to be known as a hub of fun #TenConference

12. Chocolate is the most facinating tool through which we are selling fun #TenConference

13. That’s why we build everything up to our most climaxing event at the end of the year. #TenConference

14. Identify the most "intangible" part of your business, honestly, the most "intangible" produces the most tangible. SELL INTANGIBILITY #TenConference

15. SELL INTANGIBILITY #TenConference

16. Next step is identifying the least cost effective but highly efficient tool for selling it. #TenConference

17.This is why Social Media is one of the best tools. This already has been properly discussed by @JohnObidi  #TenConference

18. Have these questions in mind when carving a niche. #TenConference

19. Who are my friends?  Among them who is/are the most influential? Where am I right now? How can I use this place to my advantage? #TenConference

20. How can I get the people here to appreciate what I do? Do I do Give Away's? #TenConference

21. In every business, there are the early adopters and the late adopters, #TenConference 

22. Worry not because if your brand keeps to its promise the late adopters even have the tendency to bring bigger gains, #TenConference

23. GET THE EARLY ADOPTERS ON YOUR SIDE;  we call them the hype-men. They will sell your brand while you sleep. #TenConference

24. As much as it is possible let the brand keep its promise. A pissed customer is as bad as a sunken cargo ship. #TenConference

25. When you have done all this make sure your customer service is excellent. #TenConference

26. I am building up to one of the most important part of business here which is called referral. #TenConference

27. I personally think a well satisfied customer that paid on N500 can make a reference of N5million #TenConference

28. Never be shy to ask for a referral it’s as simple as asking for a follow back it doesn’t hurt. #TenConference

29. As a business person be ready to grow from your inner circle. #TenConference

30. I think this is just a simple life principle. Truth is the inner circle might change but that’s where growth starts.  #TenConference

Post continued in Carving a Niche (Part 2)

Thanks guys and welcome to my journal