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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
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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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Rise
Above Mediocrity: Refuse To Be A One-Eyed "King" In
The Country Of The Blind!
To be successful, a person must
choose to rise and stay above mediocrity in every area of
endeavour. Keep this in mind when next you have to take a
decision about whether you should strive to meet set standards
to gain entrance to a degree program, or to decide which of
the candidates interviewed for a job should move to the next
stage etc. This article explains why you need to make mediocrity
your enemy and how to avoid falling into the trap of thinking
you've done all there is to be done in your chosen area of
interest. It has been said that success is a never ending
journey in the pursuit of excellence. You can NEVER finish
the journey before you pass on. All you can do is try hard
to get close - the most important thing being what you get
out of the experience and the benefits that accrue to others
around you as a result. Read this article to learn more.
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(Published Online: 28th Feb. 2007)
Mediocrity Is Your Enemy - It
Damages!
There is one mind set I dislike because
of the damage it does to people who allow it to "possess"
them. It’s called mediocrity. Many people in life are
so prone to it - and it ends up depriving them of the opportunity
to BE and ACHIEVE so much more than they settle for in life.
It is important for every adult who aspires
to have a worthwhile existence to realise that every time
s/he voluntarily settles for less than the acceptable standard
in any area of life, s/he is invariably being mediocre and
that will only lead him/her to failure eventually! Note that
failure here means "accomplishment of LESS than you
have potential for".
To be successful, a person must choose
to rise and stay above mediocrity in every area of endeavour.
Keep this in mind when next you have to take a decision about
whether you should strive to meet set standards to gain entrance
to a degree program, or to decide which of the candidates
interviewed for a job should move to the next stage etc.
Don't Be A One-Eyed Champion Amongst
The Blind
Then on a more personal note, NEVER allow
people to praise you so much for one achievement that you
lose sight of the fact that a lot still remains that you do
not know and have not done! Some people think that "the
world" ends in their workplace or neighbourhood where
everyone says they are the "best".
What they frequently forget is that outside
their workplaces(and in other people’s workplaces) exists
a "bigger world", where someone else could have
already recorded even greater achievements! A local saying
in my language (Yoruba) aptly illustrates the foregoing point
thus: "It is the person who has not travelled away
from home that always thinks his father's farm is the biggest
there is". The point being made is clear enough.
If you allow people to praise you so
much that you begin to "think" you are the best,
instead of striving perpetually to "be the best",
you will be like the proverbial one-eyed person in the country
of the blind. Keep being that way, and one day, a "total
idiot" - with two eyes - from the country where everyone
can see, will voyage to your "country", and suddenly
assume a superstar status that you never enjoyed. This would
happen ONLY because she would know, and be able to do, many
things you never did - and probably cannot!
Summary
In effect, I am saying that no matter
your achievements in any area of endeavour, ALWAYS continue
to strive to do something new and better. Don't be contented
to sit back and relax for too long. Yes, it's okay to celebrate
your successes, but don't overdo it. Quickly review and re-focus
on bigger goals to aim for. Remind yourself that out there,
in the bigger world, someone will have already done something
you have not, in that same area. Even though you would have
no desire to compete with him/her, that knowledge should challenge
you that you can go even further to achieve new, higher levels
of performance in your personal or work life.
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“Even if you’re on the right track, you will get
run over if you just sit there” – Anon
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Let me end by imploring you to
be unafraid of the unfamiliar. Even if you are the "undisputed
champion", you can still actively seek opportunities
to learn something new and different TODAY! Go out of your
way to participate in activities that will expose you to things
you do not know or have not done before, but which you need
to learn. It is difficult only in the initial stages. Once
you start, you'll find it’s much easier than you thought.
When you do it well and for long enough, you will find that
people around you - in and out of work - will openly accord
you even greater recognition and respect, PLUS express interest
in learning from you and getting to know you better.
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