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We are sourcing for reputable and registered Rice and Maize Farmers Cooperative Associations across the South Eastern st...
24/12/2020

We are sourcing for reputable and registered Rice and Maize Farmers Cooperative Associations across the South Eastern states of Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu, Anambara and Imo States, for a possible partnership on the supply of grain processing machines and storage systems, directly to the core farmers.
Products:
Cleaning technology
Drying technology
Grinding / mixing
Storage technology / silo systems
Conveyor technology
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THREE TRAITS TO BUILD EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.Written by Josh Lannon If you’re looking to become a successful social entr...
07/08/2020

THREE TRAITS TO BUILD EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Written by Josh Lannon

If you’re looking to become a successful social entrepreneur, maybe it’s time to improve your emotional intelligence.
Many people think entrepreneurs are born geniuses. We assume they aced every test, won popularity contests and breezed through college to earn their degree.

And though many large corporations do have highly educated leaders spearheading their businesses, many do not. So it begs the question, if large corporations don’t have executives that hold college or advanced degrees, where did they gain their knowledge to run a business.

Persistence, internal drive, and risk taking are the attributes that truly determine the success of a social entrepreneur. These three traits build what Robert Kiyosaki refers to as emotional intelligence.

Robert discussed, in great detail, the four types of intelligence: mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual.

When we began to develop our business, we believed that we had a better way of doing things than what was already being done, that our experiences made us uniquely qualified to perform the type of work we were pursuing, and that we were worthy of obtaining capital to get our idea off the ground. We had a simple vision where others didn’t. We stuck with it until we found someone who would give us a chance.

"One of the big things I learned is that there are really two kinds of learning. When most people think of education, they immediately jump to school—reading, writing, and math, the great equalizers. But when you do the research and see the studies, academic success has almost no correlation to life success. There’s some, but hardly any. It’s the second side of education that bears all the impact. It goes by different names, but it’s largely social and emotional skills. The ability to have a vision for your future, set goals, communicate well, work well with others. It’s the integration of ideas and hard work, and discipline, and sacrifice for long-term benefit. It’s all this stuff that our families are supposed to teach us. But because of the breakdown of the family in some cases, most people don’t learn them. It’s those skills, those life skills that separate really successful people from unsuccessful people.

“What’s so interesting, at least to me, is that if you go to Google and type in ‘characteristics of an entrepreneur,’ what you’ll find out is that great entrepreneurs are masters of these social and emotional skills, not necessarily masters of academic skills. Some are, but it’s not the academics that are the breakthrough for them. It’s about being loyal, trustworthy, managing life by values, communicating, imparting ideas… So entrepreneurship is at the very basis of really important stuff, the first being that it’s how you build life success, and the second being that it’s the basis of capitalism, free enterprise, and what makes us the leaders in the world.”

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Goals are important. It doesn't matter what you are attempting to do you need to have goals. One of the things you must ...
01/08/2020

Goals are important. It doesn't matter what you are attempting to do you need to have goals. One of the things you must do to achieve your goals is to write them down. ⁣
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The mistake that a lot of people make only has a verbal goal, and it's not written anywhere. There is a quote by Fitzhugh Dodson is accurate.."Goals that are not written down are just wishes." ⁣
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The processes of transferring a goal from your mind to paper start the action of you pursuing the goal. Write down exactly how you are going to achieve this goal. What is the timeline? Will you need help from others? Don't leave anything unturned when you are writing your goals and the plan to achieve them. ⁣

Velocity of Money: The Secret to How the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer.Written by Robert Kiyosaki How to disco...
23/07/2020

Velocity of Money: The Secret to How the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer.

Written by Robert Kiyosaki

How to discover and use the velocity of money to get wealthy
When I was a kid, my poor dad told me, “The best thing you can do with your money is save it.”

My rich dad thought that advice was hogwash. “Savers are losers,” he said. “If you want to be rich, you need to keep your money moving. The velocity of your money determines the size of your wealth.”

When my rich dad said that savers are losers, it wasn’t an attack on them as people. There are many great people who follow the advice to save money. What he meant was they were literally going to lose in a world that rewards investors and is stacked against savers.

Here’s how I broke it down in my post:

Bank account balance ledger

There’s no doubt about it, from an early age we teach our children the value of saving money. “A penny saved; a penny earned,” we chime. And when they are a bit older, we spin tales of the magic of compounding interest. Save enough, children are told, and you’ll be a millionaire by the time you’re ready to retire.
Of course, we don’t tell them about historically low interest rates.
Historical CD interest rates (1984-2016)

Or the power of inflation to eat away at the value of money over time so that being a millionaire is worthless by the time you retire.
Inflation by decade

Those are inconvenient financial truths.
It seems as if the “wisdom” to save your money is timeless, in that it won’t go away, even though it’s proven to be wrong. Even today you find “financial experts” who push the save to be a millionaire myth.
This is not what they teach you about money in school or at home. When my poor dad said, “The best thing you can do with your money is save it,” he had no idea about what I just shared with you in these simple charts. My poor dad was highly educated, had advanced degrees, and had a high-paying government job. But he didn’t know how money really worked.

When my rich dad said, “The velocity of your money determines the size of your wealth”. My rich dad never went to college, but he understood how money worked and how to make it work for him.

The poor and middle class park their money
For the most part, the poor and the middle class follow the advice of my poor dad and park their money, hoping it will grow over time and make them rich. It won’t.

The poor park their money by putting it in a savings account or even in a jar in their home. They get a paltry savings interest rate or nothing at all. Meanwhile, inflation eats away the value of the money, making them poorer over time. That is why they are losers.

The middle class save in different ways. They may have a savings account, but they also follow the advice of the so-called financial experts and park their money in mutual funds and other passive investment vehicles. The return may be slightly better than a savings account (if the stock market doesn’t crash!), but the principle is the same. Keep your money parked, not moving, and hope you can get rich ahead of inflation and market swings.

The upper middle class makes bets with money
I wrote a post on John MacGregor’s book, “The Top 10 Reasons the Rich Go Broke: Powerful Stories that will Transform Your Financial Life...Forever.”

In that post, I shared the story of a young couple, Luke and Sue, whom John was advising on financial matters. Luke and Sue had a safe and modest investment strategy with John that would have allowed them to retire comfortably. They were high-paid employees and had been pretty conservative with their money. But then the 90s dot com boom hit and they wanted in. John told them it was a bad idea. The metrics weren’t good. It was basically gambling. But they put everything into tech stocks...and they lost everything.

People with lots of money who don’t know how money works are some of the most reckless people when it comes to money. They love to gamble under the guise of investing.

You see this with the obsession around flipping houses, buying the latest hot stock, or chasing down the latest get rich quick scheme.

The truth is sometimes the bet pays off, even handsomely. But it’s still a bet. They are moving money but in a haphazard way.

The rich move money in a very different way...by understanding there is a systematic formula to the velocity of money.

Velocity of money and playing with house money
To be clear, every investment has an element of gambling to it. The difference is that in both investing and gambling there are professionals and there are amateurs. An amateur doesn’t really understand the mechanics behind his or her bets. A professional knows exactly the right formula for increasing his or her chances to win...and win big.

the velocity of your money determines your wealth
In Las Vegas, professional gamblers move as quickly as they can to playing with house money. All this means is once they have winnings from the modest amount of their own money they’ve put into a game, they no longer use their own money to bet and only use the casino’s money, their winnings. They want to move as quickly as possible to using other people’s money, or OPM.

Professional investors play the same game. As quickly as possible, they want to get their money out of an investment and use the income from that investment to make their money work for them.

The definition of velocity of money
When talking about money, I like to use the definition of an electrical current. Electric currents are a powerful force, but they have one weakness, they have to move. If an electric current stops, it dies.

Money works the same way. As we see above with interest rates and inflation, money that is saved, or parked, dies over time. Money must move into new places in order to survive and grow.

And that is the definition of velocity of money. A professional investor understands that they need to continually move their money into new assets in order to keep it alive. What is more, they understand that it’s not enough to invest money in assets, but they need cash flow from those investments so that they can move the “house money” into other assets. By doing this, they create exponential growth in their wealth.

Remember this fundamental rule: to be an investor, you need to receive money...and invest it forward.

The formula to find the velocity of money
How do you find the velocity of money? Good news! There is a simple formula. But beware, this is not a get rich quick scheme. Learning this formula is one thing. Applying it and building wealth over time is another.

Here’s the formula:

Invest my money into an asset
Saving is not bad...if it has an end goal. And that goal should be to invest it. Again, if you save money but don’t invest it—that is move it—it will die.

Get my money back
Rich dad said, “In order to be an investor, you need to receive money.” You might invest in assets, but if those assets aren’t paying you back in cash flow, then you’re not really an investor. You’re a speculator hoping your assets grow in value.

My real estate advisor, Ken McElroy, and I have applied this portion of the formula many times over, putting money into apartment investments, doing improvements and raising rents, and then refinancing the apartment loan to get our money back.

Keep control of the asset
A major component of the velocity of money is that it grows exponentially over time...much more so that compounding interest. How? By keeping your assets that still give you cash flow, while also using the money from those assets to acquire more assets.

When Ken and I refinance an apartment building, we get our money back tax-free, keep the apartment building, and continue collecting cash flow from that apartment building.

You can do this with any cash-flowing asset such as a business or venture capital.

Move my money into a new asset
This is the velocity part of the velocity of money. Once you get your money back from the original asset, you don’t sit on it. You move it into another asset! Ken I take the money we get from our refinance of apartment buildings and move that capital into yet another great apartment investment. Now we have two great, cash-flowing assets and we’re playing with house money.

Repeat the process
Simple enough to understand. This is a repeatable formula you can employ over and over again to build massive wealth. This is how the rich get richer.

Two major benefits of the velocity of money formula
If you want to be rich, there’s no better formula to put into practice than the velocity of money, and it comes with two major benefits.

It significantly reduces your risk
Professional gamblers know that once they are playing with house money, there’s really nothing to lose. They still possess their money and now they can get creative.

Professional investors who get their money back and then use cash flow from their investments to make further investments understand the same thing. When you’re playing with cash flow to build wealth, you reduce the risk to your own money. Make a bad investment? That’s OK. Learn and draw from your other good investments to make another one. No harm; no foul.

It allows you to compound income at a faster pace
Hopefully this is self-apparent now that you’ve read this far, but the velocity of money will grow your wealth exponentially faster than saving it and counting on interest and appreciation. Like a flywheel, it starts out slow but once the momentum gets going, you compound your income at an amazing pace. This is why billionaires like Bill Gates can’t spend or give their money away fast enough. Even if they tried to give everything away, the velocity of their money is so fast that they can’t get ahead of it.

Get into the velocity of money game
Ok, now’s the part where you get into the game. Take some time today to figure out how you can move from parking your money to getting it moving.
To be continued.

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How to Turn Your Dreams into Reality.Written by Lisa Lannon At one point or another, we all have hopes and dreams. They ...
16/07/2020

How to Turn Your Dreams into Reality.

Written by Lisa Lannon

At one point or another, we all have hopes and dreams. They typically start when we’re young and continue to evolve and change as we get older. But there’s a huge difference between having dreams and actually achieving them. The ultimate question is: how do we turn our dreams into a reality?

The truth is that you cannot have what you want unless you do something. In order to succeed in anything, you have to have accomplishments. If you want to become a successful sales person, you have to deliver a product or service that someone is willing to buy. If you want to become the next fitness model, you have to dedicate yourself to eating well and exercising.

Whatever you have is a result of what you do. The textbook definition of do is “to perform, to execute, to accomplish, to exert, to be the cause of.” There are three types of doing that are necessary to reach a goal: aspire, acquire, and apply.

When you aspire to do something, it’s the dream, the vision, the want. It’s what you will ultimately have once you reach your financial goal. The dream might be something like, “I want two vacations homes in tropical locations.” “I want to spend more time with my kids.” “I want to start my own business.” “I want to be able to donate to a cause close to my heart.”

Although the GOAL is financial freedom, the DREAM is much more than the money. It’s what you want to do once you obtain that financial freedom. It’s important to have a clear vision on what your dream is so that you can visualize it every day. The more you think about it, the more likely you are to start making accomplishments to achieve that dream.

In order to acquire your dream, you have to do the research to get there. Acquiring knowledge to reach your dream means you have to read books, attend seminars and classes, do online research, talk with experts, and work closely with coaches and mentors. By doing all of this, you are gathering the information you need in order to take action.

This leads us to the application part of your dream. People often say “put what you’ve learned into action”. When you apply the knowledge you’ve learned, you can start making offers, putting your money on the table, taking on your first clients, buying stock shares or gold, making sales calls, or asking for investment dollars. Without the application step, nothing happens.

When you start putting what you’ve learned into real-world practice, that’s when you’ll truly start to learn. But you have to do all three: aspire, acquire and apply. It takes all three steps to achieve your dreams.

I have seen many women aspire and acquire but then get stuck. They attend all the seminars, read all the books, and are constantly researching online. The problem is they never apply what they learned. Why? My guess is fear—fear of making a mistake, of losing money or fear of looking stupid.

But you have to move past the fear. If you don’t move past the fear, you’ll get stuck and never accomplish your dreams. And don’t be surprised if you repeat these steps. You’re not done when you reach the application step. You always acquire more and apply more, and acquire more and apply more, all the while holding onto your vision of what you aspire to. It’s an ongoing dynamic cycle.

As you move towards achieving your financial dreams, pay attention. Make sure you aren’t skipping the steps. When you find the right balance, you’ll start to move through every stage and begin to find financial success and freedom.

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The wealthy buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle-class tend to buy luxuries first. Why? Emotional discipline. ...
15/07/2020

The wealthy buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle-class tend to buy luxuries first. Why? Emotional discipline.



Take time to discover who you are and create both yourself and your company as a brand. How you handle obstacles will de...
13/07/2020

Take time to discover who you are and create both yourself and your company as a brand.

How you handle obstacles will determine your ability to achieve success.

Learn by doing; that's where your real education happens.

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The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it. Ge...
09/07/2020

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

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MISTAKES ARE LEARNING TOOLS.Written by Lisa Lannon Take the Opportunity to Better Yourself.When we were kids growing up ...
07/07/2020

MISTAKES ARE LEARNING TOOLS.

Written by Lisa Lannon

Take the Opportunity to Better Yourself.
When we were kids growing up in school, we were groomed to believe that mistakes were bad. We were punished when we didn’t get answers correctly on quizzes and tests. And as we got to early adulthood, we had this idea burned in our brains that mistakes were evil and not acceptable. But I am here to tell you that what we were told is untrue. Mistakes are not evil; mistakes just mean that we are human. Mistakes are opportunities.

I know it is a cliché example but Thomas Edison failed over 10,000 times before finally inventing the light bulb. Why didn’t he quit? Because he had a different mindset. He didn’t see his failures as failures. He saw them as 10,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb.

When you have awareness to learn from your mistakes, you have the greatest key to success. Have Josh and I made mistakes over the years of creating our business? Absolutely we have. But we learned from those mistakes and the mistakes of others and have figured out how to improve our business and business practices.

When I get together with my fellow business women, I notice that we tend to hold on to our mistakes more than our male counterparts. Why? Because we have been made to believe that when we fail it reflects who we are as women, not our skills or effort. Even women who have been in business for years still find it hard to break out of a restricted mindset and learn how to accept failure.

It’s hard to find the silver lining and gain back motivation after a hard failure. There are feelings of embarrassment and judgement that are sometimes more difficult for women to get over because of their male counterparts. Psychologists have found that leaders are found to be more incompetent when they are in gender-incongruent work environments.

Anytime I face a difficult situation I have to remind myself that hard times will pass. Good comes with the bad. It might be difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel sometimes, but keep telling yourself that you will come out on top. You will succeed despite the difficulties. The more you believe this and say this to yourself, the more your thoughts and feelings will become positive actions.

Force yourself to take a step back and ask, “What can I learn from this?”

If you can’t find the silver lining, I keep searching for it. The more you let your failures haunt you, the more you’ll hold yourself back. So, find some good in any situation.

Here are some great questions to ask yourself to help you reflect on your situations:

How did I make my mistake?

What did I learn from it?

How can I change so it doesn’t happen again?

Was there anything I did well? How can I do that again?

The last question I always leave for last. It’s a positive note to end on and I feel like positive things should always be acknowledged.

If there is anything you should take away from this, it’s this - don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Mistakes allow us to learn and grow in ways that positive experiences can’t. And being able to learn from them increases your abilities so when the next mistake is made, you can deal with it in a way that doesn’t disrupt your business, or get in the way of your emotional well-being.

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If the thought of sales terrifies you, start selling and get over your fear. It's an essential skill you'll need to sell...
06/07/2020

If the thought of sales terrifies you, start selling and get over your fear. It's an essential skill you'll need to sell your product, yourself, team, investment, and business.

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HABITS OF SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS Often times, when we hear the word “habit”, we associate it with something bad like n...
02/07/2020

HABITS OF SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS

Often times, when we hear the word “habit”, we associate it with something bad like nail biting or smoking. But habits can be good. Good habits are a sure way to build yourself successful routines. And the more successful routines that you have, the more your quality of life will improve. So, I wanted to share with you some habits that help make successful entrepreneurs.

Envision Success

If you ever played sports as a kid, you were probably told to “imagine yourself winning”. Sound familiar?

The reason we’ve all heard this at one point or another is because the power of vision is strong and effective. Successful entrepreneurs spend time envisioning, creating and exploring within their mind. This practice is how entrepreneurs become innovative. Using your imagination is a powerful asset that only you have access to. There is no limit to your creativity or ability to make money with a strong vision for success.

Start the Day Early

This doesn’t mean you have to be up at 3am with a coffee in-hand and dressed to the nines in a fancy suit. If you normally get up and out of bed at 9am, try getting up at 8am instead. It’s been proven that successful entrepreneurs are early risers.

Start your day visualizing your success. What do you want to achieve? Visualize it. What are your goals? Visualize them.

You might even start your day with some exercise to get your blood pumping and to wake up your mind. Getting a jumpstart to your day allows you to collect your thoughts, figure out your priorities and organize yourself in a way that makes your successful.

Keep it Simple

You might think that entrepreneurs are born with super complicated lives that make them so effective. WRONG. In all reality, simplicity is the key to successful entrepreneurs. Creating simple routines helps entrepreneurs avoid the mistake of overloading themselves. If every entrepreneur tried to take on every challenge and go beyond their capabilities, they would be so stressed out and unable to accomplish anything. Successful entrepreneurs know that by creating limits, they become more efficient and effective.

Keep the Curiosity Alive

Boredom can be a killer of success. Entrepreneurs recognize this and make sure that they are always busy. That’s why you hear about entrepreneurs who work 24/7, 365 days out of the year. Because they want to. They are happy doing something that they love to do.

I will say this too, curiosity in your field of work is a sure way to keep ahead of the curve. If you’re constantly looking into the “next big thing” and are paying attention to changes in the market, you are going to be light years ahead of everyone else.

Curiosity is just another word for success in the eyes of an entrepreneur.

I encourage you to adopt some of these habits and make them a part of your daily routine. If you want to become a successful entrepreneur, it starts here.

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FOCUS ON GROWTH A guide to business startup.Every day you should be focusing on business growth as well as personal. Nev...
01/07/2020

FOCUS ON GROWTH

A guide to business startup.

Every day you should be focusing on business growth as well as personal. Never get to the point where you say I don't need to learn anything else.⁣
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There is always something new to learn in your business, as well as always improving your life. As your business moves the next level, your mindset and actions must match the new level.⁣
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In your business, stay on top of what is changing in your market. Always research to discover the technology that is making it better. Your goal should always be to improve. How you view growth will make or break you and your business.⁣
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When you have a growth mindset, you are not afraid of challenges or obstacles. You face problems head-on and use your critical thinking skills to solve them. You will take risks because whether the risk is negative or positive, there is a huge learning experience. You will seek others for feedback to improve.⁣
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Until next time my friend!⁣
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