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By Josh Okello,

The reason why people fail to succeed is because they get too reluctant implementing the goals they’ve set. This is because success always come dressed in work clothes instead of something adventurous and fun. This is how you can make 2016 a successful year for you.

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Maximum Objectives

Never set more than 5 goals to achieve in one year. Anything past 5 always become a chore or a to do list. It makes objectives boring and work less fan. If possible have only 3 goals and make sure you give them your best.

Flexibility

To be successful, sometimes you have to swim with the currents. Things will not go your way and in some instances you will be forced to abandon your objectives in order to achieve them. One thing you need to remember is to never lose focus on what is important. Be faithful to your set objectives and execute them with unrelenting pursuit.

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Time Management

A wise man once made an alarm clock and a lazy man found a way to introduce a snooze button. The lazy man’s clock sold out. We try to be too comfortable when pursuing our goals yet we are not staying faithful to our objectives.

We are the first people to give a reason on how busy we are to appoint where we cut communication with friends, family and sometimes even our customers. But where do we really spend our time? Are they on worthless destructions that we intentionally choose to entertain in our daily lives? What if we were to spend one our per day writing or reading or even calling our customers? We will have spent 365 hours in a year doing something that builds us. But do we save that time for something productive? You can answer that.

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Build alliances

In 2014 I made sure that I paid attention to people who would help me further my dreams and the results were obvious. These teams pushed me to wake up early in the morning, go for meetings that I wanted to ignore, write on topics that I knew were good but did not choose to write on. This accountability alliances redesigned and pushed me to be the greatest I have ever been. Find a team that is dedicated enough to pursue success.

Expand Your Horizon

I dislike not getting things I want because I do not know how to make them. There are two ideas that can help you do whatever you dream of: 1- finds people who already know how to do it and let them do the work for you or 2- spare some time and learn it. After mastering the technique then make it yourself. The second option has worked for me especially in programming.

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I always wanted to know and understand coding I realized that wishful thoughts never make a dream come true. So I sat down and started coding, using free resources online, working with programming gurus until now that I can do a bit more using PHP language. If you thirst for it so bad, you will hunt for it desperately until you get it.

Do not stand on your way to success. Let 2016 be a breakthrough year for you. Wishing you a prosperous New Year.

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By Josh Okello

In this post, I am going to share with you what motivates me to write or how I source my writing inspirations. Writing is one of the ways that I use to elevate myself into a cathartic experience. It takes me out of this world and connects me with the world unseen. It makes me develop ideas that have never been developed, dreams that have never been dreamt, visions that have never been visible and thoughts that have never been explained. So how do I do it? The following points elaborate in details how I got hooked to the world of writing.

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Coin a Motto

We can only act if we are compelled enough to go beyond our comfort zones. We have to be ready to work beyond average to make our dreams come true. To do this we need a motto or a compelling reason, a driving force to keep us enthused. I have the same motto on my desk, on my computer log in screen, on my phone wall paper and on my note book cover page. The moto is in Latin and it is; “docendo disco, scribendo cogito” which translates to “I learn by teaching, think by writing.” Build your own motto and pledge allegiance to it.

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Utilize Technology

We are living in an era where writing has been made so easy and if you do not like typing, there are free software out there that you can use to record your ideas and transcribe them in a document. How easy can it get? (You can try e-speaking, dragon or windows speech recognition softwares) I have written three books, two published and the third one is on its way launching early next year as I work on the fourth one which is halfway done. All my four books were written on a smartphone. Find a gadget that you can learn how to type on quickly and master its use. In my case, it is a BlackBerry phone because of how its typing keyboard is set. I can type on that phone at the same speed at which I think my ideas. Know what works for you and master it to the best of your knowledge.

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Find an Environment

I have talked with writers who can only develop new ideas when they are in a candle lit and very quiet room at a given time of the day. That is what works for them but what works for you? In my case, I have to be in motion to be able to generate new ideas. All my four books were written while riding a subway to and from my office. I spend two hours on the subway every day for 5 days meaning that in a whole week, I spend ten good hours on a subway ride. Why not use those to teach myself something about myself that I did not know?

Time Management

As a self-employed entrepreneur, time management is critical to my success. If I am not writing then I am at work and if I am not working, I am reading/learning and if I am not doing any of those, I am with my family and or friends. An example I have given above captures where most of us lose hours and lost hours can never be recovered.  Find an area in your life where you lose one hour a day and try to utilize that hour to learn or do something new five times a week. You will be shocked at how much you learn and how much you teach the world.

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Accountability

You can have a group of friends to hold you accountable for your success in writing. In my case, I have over 105,000 followers on twitter, and these are people who actively engage with my content every single day. That is my source of accountability pushing me to post at least a blog a day. You can have family, friends, your social media tribe or any other ways you can think of to hold you responsible over your credo you set.

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By Josh Okello

Back when I was a child, my parents used to ask me what I wanted to be. Of cause my answers changed over time and the older I grew the more I clarified what I wanted to be. Are you still struggling to achieve your dreams? Are you held up in an unproductive cocoon? And how do you burst that burble? Do you get trepidant when you think of who you want to be? How about knowing the way? Do you often express strong aversion to personal servile procrastination out of habitual imprecision? Get a tentative solution to the challenges above using the following significant points:

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Clarity

There is a difference between having a vision and being clear in that vision. Clarity will help you communicate with people on your way to attaining your dreams. Clear communication and clear vision simplifies the odious task that lies in front of you as you work on becoming who you want to be. If you are clear on your vision and values, you will be clear on how to get there.  Plan ahead sometimes even as far as a decade and walk your way back.

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Set Objectives

Forget goals and work with objectives. What are objectives? Objectives are specific results that a person or a system wants to attain at a specific period of time. Goals are useless but if you tie them to a given period of time then they become things you must work on. That is when they change to objectives. Time is of essence and you must relate all you do to how long it takes to accomplish otherwise it becomes a chance if a task is done.

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Form a Personal SI Unit

An SI Unit is a Système International d’Unités, (French) or International System of Units (English). This would be a personal form of metric system that is coherent to your success. How do you measure success or achievement? Is it by the whole project? Or it is the total amount of work done per hour? Whatever is that you are using, try and incorporate the effect of time in it.

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Develop Success Habits

What are some of your habitual practices that draw you closer to your dream than ever? These habits need to be cultivated in our day to day life. They need to define us and they can extend to practices such as  planning, persistence, determination, hard work, improvement, clarity, setting daily objectives etc. The end goal is to be the best you can ever be therefore start today and record your achievement using your standard metric of success.

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By Josh Okello

After starting and closing a number of businesses, I sat back and reflected why my big ideas shrink within a few months if not years. You probably have come up with transformative ideas that you are either too reluctant to implement at the onset or they become a daunting task making you opt out of them in the middle of the race. This is how you can stay on track building a mega successful business hence becoming the greatest. Crave for Success!

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Understanding Yourself

We only have two school of thoughts, the implementers and the vision casters. Very few people fall in both categories but mostly we are either one or the other. Personally I am a visionary entrepreneur but vision alone cannot take me anywhere. I need implementers to kick start my ideas. Figure out who you are and find the right partner to start a business with.

Learn from the Great

Learn from the great and become the greatest! It never stops at learning. This is a classical modus operandi that has guided so many people who we can call the great today. Find role models and borrow ideas from them. After gaining the wisdom from the wise, do more than they did and you are guaranteed to attain mega success.

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Choose Your Competitor 

The first competitor you need to add on your list and to monitor keenly is who you were yesterday. Are you doing more than you did yesterday? Are you spending your time doing productive work than you did yesterday? Are you helping someone grow today? Are you building a plan to greatness today? Compete with yourself, look at other product/service competitors as a motivation to be the greatest you can ever be. To be the greatest, you must be ready to run with the great and that is how you can be crowned. Be on the offense, attack methodically but remember to always compete with yourself.

Get Fired Up!

Build contentment around everything you do and have some passion in them. It is true that there come a time when you will be losing more than you win but be guided by your strong will to do whatever it takes to reach your goal. View yourself as the greatest winner of all the times and you will persevere enough to get to greatness.

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 Remember these words, “Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” – Barack Obama

 Grow People

Remember that you are dealing with people, your employees, your customers, your board members, your team, your competitors, they all deserve your respect. Help them get where they want to be. Inspire them, encourage them, reward them and teach them. Grow people and they will grow you back.

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© Joshua Okello 2015.