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Who Is This Website For?
This website -
www.spontaneousdevelopment.com
- is especially targeted at people who desire
to learn how they can take advantage of the
virtually limitless opportunities for self-determination,
accessible through diligent application of
proven self-development techniques in conjunction
with technology and The Internet.
Spontaneous
Development Dot Com is home to Self-Development
Academy Limited on the World Wide Web. We
offer New Ideas, Information, Articles, True
Stories, Strategies and Services for Career
Development, Performance Enhancement, Small
Business Best Practice, Spreadsheet Automation,
Professional Web Design, Copy writing, Freelance
Writing and more. Spontaneous Development
Dot Com is a dynamic online resource for ANY
individual, group or organisation passionately
driven to continually function at their best
in whatever they do.
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What Can It Do For You?
This site's
primary objective is to offer useful, real-world relevant
information, and education, that shows people what
they can do by themselves for themselves to achieve
their set goals - with minimal trial and error. Articles,
books(print
and electronic), learning events(talks,
seminars, workshops) based on practical experience
are available. In addition, the Self-Development Academy's
Business
Support Services and Custom
Excel Software can help you increase your profits
by enabling you to do what you do at less cost, in
less time and using less resources/effort are showcased
on this site, for purchase at affordable rates. |
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Why The Focus On Information And Education?
"..the
biggest challenge facing most African nations is to
creatively adapt ideas to their unique environment."
- Mr. Patrick Boateng, Adviser for
Africa, US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
at the African Internet Summit and Exhibition(AFRINET)
2002, held in Abuja, Nigeria.
In the October
20, 2000 edition of Newsweek magazine, Tim Berners-Lee,
inventor of the World Wide Web(NOT the Internet, which
was created 20 years before the web) in an interview
expressed his belief that the Internet presents a
"real chance" of integrating the Third World
with the rest of the world.
He narrated a story(told to
him by someone who had been a missionary in Africa)
about a woman who had taught herself English through
the Bible, and subsequently began earning a living
by translating documents received in English over
the net into the local dialect. As Tim put it, Internet
access can enable a person earn income in a way that
would not have been possible before, and can even
benefit an entire village. He added that there are
numerous jobs which are just "information-in,
information-out" that anyone anywhere in the
world can do if they are given access to the Internet.
(SDAc invites you to visit www.freelanceworkexchange.com
to see countless examples).
The SDAc, through
this website aims to demonstrate practically, specific
ways any individual or group can successfully utilise
self-development, in conjunction with technology and
the Internet, to empower themselves economically,
socially and politically. We will provide real-world
relevant information and education that will equip
our target audience with competencies they need to
more frequently achieve authentic personal successes,
and also show them how they can help others like themselves,
achieve similar successes. |
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Business Profit Making Combined With Social Development
"I want
to be part of a South Africa and Africa sending out
a new message to the world, of taking responsibility
for our own challenges. The world has got used to
a picture of Africa asking for support, with cupped
hands. It's time we create a new image of Africa.
It's time that we ourselves start giving and assert
our sense of dignity. We deserve respect. It is time
we stop apologizing for ourselves and acknowledge
our achievements".
- Graça Machel -Mandela
Even though we
are engaged in people development and empowerment,
the SDA is NOT - and has no intention of becoming
- a Non-Governmental Organisation(NGO). We maintain
a profit making focus, and believe that by so doing,
we will be better able to empower our target audience
with income-generating skills than if we ourselves
depended on grants and other unearned income sources
to fund our operations. Click
here to learn more about the Self-Development
Academy Limited. |
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Are Entrepreneurs Who Achieve Success Luckier Than Those Who
Don’t ?
In my Ten Ways self-help manual,
I referred to a definition of luck given by someone as: “when
preparation meets opportunity”. Well, that
was just one of the many definitions of luck that have been
given by people who have achieved success (see more below).
Some people always try to explain away another person’s
success (or lack of it) as being due to luck (or bad luck).
But the fact remains very obvious to anyone who will take
an objective look at the issue. There is NO shortcut. Lasting
success, very frequently, comes to those who apply themselves
with commitment to a chosen cause.
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(This article is one of twenty-five(25)
contained in Tayo Solagbade’s Ebook titled "25
Articles/True Stories On Self-Development, Entrepeneuring
& Web Marketing To Help You Succeed More Often")
Those who take action to relentlessly
pursue their heart’s desire, often end up achieving
that which they seek. Time and time again we have seen this
happen.
Entrepreneurs who achieve significant
business successes are often those who persisted in the face
of daunting challenges and setbacks, till they achieved their
objective.
Those who failed were inevitably the
ones who lacked the will or “mental/emotional
stamina” to keep fighting till they got what
they wanted.
As so many successful entrepreneurs
have pointed out time and time again, it is NOT possible for
an entrepreneur to fail - s/he can only give up. This is because
for as long as s/he keeps trying to succeed, making needed
adjustments to his/her plan based on recorded failures, success
will eventually be achieved.
Having faith in oneself, and refusing
to recognise temporary defeat or setbacks, no matter how devastating,
as failure, is bound to result in achievement of the desired
goal.
There is nothing–
right or wrong – which belief backed by desire will
not bring to reality – Napoleon Hill
In effect, the truth is that entrepreneurs
who achieve their desired successes, are often not luckier
than those who don’t. If anything, they are people who
put in everything they had to realise their ambitions. Very
often, “everything” here would even include the
last of their personal assets - this being a good indication
of their level of conviction and commitment.
By so doing, they greatly increase
their chances of success when opportunities came their way.
Any entrepreneur who wishes to achieve similar (or greater)
feats will simply have to do the same(or more).
Bill Byrne in his book, “Habits
of Wealth - 111 Proven Strategies That Will Change The Way
You Do Business Forever” explained that even
though accidents do occur in nature, those who are lucky tend
not to be selected accidentally.
Citing the example of iron will displayed
by Colombus in boldly sailing the seas, which resulted in
his "luckily" discovering East India, Byrne observed
that most times, what many people interpret as luck, is only
the final visible result of preceeding prolonged periods of
diligent hard work, and persistence.
Here are a few more experience-inspired
quotes, which underscore the point being made that those who
end up being "lucky" are (as Bill Byrne said) NOT
randomly selected. 
"The harder
I work, the luckier I get"
"Luck frequently
visits the prepared mind"
“Luck is the
residue of diligence."
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