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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
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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
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Why You May Want To Rejoice When Others Mock You!
This article briefly recounts the
true story of a visionary scientist who despite widespread
mockery and ridicule, courageouly continued his pioneering
work in the field of rocket science, that eventually made
space travel possible. It then provides explanations about
what made the achievements possible, with reference to proven
success principles and philosophies that can be freely adopted
for use by any willing persons. The reader will learn - among
other things - why when people make fun of you/your ideas,
it could be a good sign that you are on the right path!
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It does not
matter how successful, respected, authoritative, wealthy or
famous they are. For as long as they do not have the
passion for, insight into and knowedege about an issue that
YOU do, they are unlikely to see what you see - at first.
The problem is that because such people tend to feel they
already "know"(and many others tend to believe that
these people actually do know!), they will not be aware that
"they do not know" as much as you do.
Robert Goddard today has America's Space
Center named after him. But during his lifetime, he enjoyed
little in the way of recognition for the work that would win
him the honor of immortality. In 1920, The New York Times
(and reporters who followed him around, taunting him after
each failed test-launch of his first "Nell" rockets)
in a stinging editorial played a leading role in mocking Goddard's
scientific publication.
He consequently, developed an aversion
for publicity/the press, continuing his work in "near"
secrecy, often refusing to supply details of breakthroughs
recorded even when asked. Among other things, he wondered
why they would not "mind their business".
Ironically, while his countrymen ridiculed
him, the Germans periodically contacted him about his work.
Evidence that he knew what he was talking about later emerged
when Germany launched over 1,100 V-2 rockets at London, badly
damaging the city. The missiles later examined(and a captured
German scientist interviewed) revealed they were modelled
after those developed by Goddard - only his were not meant
for use as war instruments.
Forty-Nine(49)
years later, in 1969, after the US' Apollo 11 rocket(built
based on Goddard's work) took off for the moon, a retrospective
New York Times editorial admitted that further research evidence
and experimentation had confirmed Goddard's theories(that
rockets can fly in a vacuum - such as space - as well as in
an atmosphere) to be correct. The editorial ended thus : "The
Times regrets the error." A great lesson, taught
by a great man.
The scientist (who had died of throat
cancer 24 years earlier) did not get to see the rocket launch
or read the apology, but the FACT that both happened (see
Time Magazine March 29, 1999, Vol. 153 No. 12 ) confirms that
sometimes people who mock another for his/her ideas do so
out of a lack of insight or knowledge that the latter has.
The originator of a new or untested idea must therefore follow
his/her convictions unflinchingly, till s/he is proved right.
James Cook
in his book "The Startup Entrepreneur", expressed
a similar sentiment when he wrote that an entrepreneur should
consider him/herself in "good company" whenever
his/her ideas attract "doubt or scorn" from others.
To give anyone who faces this kind of
challenge further reason to stay resolved towards achieving
his/her set goal, the insight offered by Napoleon Hill in
the book "Think and Grow Rich" is also quite instructive.
In explaining the fact that defeat is a "temporary condition",
Hill pointed out that we all daily see people who encounter
obstacles in their pursuit of a set goal and readily give
up, just as we see others who trudge on, again an again, remaining
undaunted by repeated setbacks they encounter.
One thing,
according to Hill, that most of us do not however notice,
is what he called the "silent but irresistible power"
that inevitably "rescues" those who refuse to give
up in their pursuit of success in a chosen endeavour
- adding that if we acknowledge it at all, we call it "persistence".
He then ends by saying that one fact we all do acknowledge,
is that anyone who lacks the quality of persistence CANNOT
achieve significant success in any thing s/he does.
Moral:
When people mock you, rejoice(!), because it is most likely
a good sign that you are on the right path. Keep going, and
you'll succeed!
"Life
is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Security does not
exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience
it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
- Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
"Some
people make the mistake of equating consensus with truth.
That you, and others who think like you, agree among yourselves
that a centipede is a millipede wearing a metal coat, will
not make the centipede become a millipede."
- Tayo Solagbade
"Even
if 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish
thing" - Anatole France
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