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Merry Christmas!!!

It's finally here! I've longed for this day just as much as you have looked forward to it.

 I am on a mandate to execute an economic revolution in Africa, and a pivotal strategy is powering startups for growth and flourishing.

7 Startup Blunders (eBook) is a concise and practical book exposing 7 deadly mistakes that kill startups. These are mistakes you must avoid in 2015 and beyond if you plan to keep your business alive.

Feel free to share with everyone you love and hate; it's FREE!

I look ahead to your comments and feedback. Send them to mreffectiveness@outlook.com.

To your control,

You are an Icon!

Adeleke David Adekunle

(Mr. Effectiveness)


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7 STARTUP BLUNDERS: Deadly Mistakes That Kill Startups (#NewBook)

Christmas is here!!

I have taken out time to think through what would be a fantastic Christmas gift for startups out there. My conclusion was to give something valuable that can change the course of their experience in the coming year 2015.

I present the all-new eBook, 7 STARTUP BLUNDERS: Deadly Mistakes That Kill Startups.

The book will be released on Sunday, December 21, 2014. I will be speaking to about one hundred young startup entrepreneurs on that same day and I think the book will make a great gift for every one of them.

It's yours for the taking. I kept my promise to keep it short, direct, easy to understand and practical.

And the good part is this: IT IS FREE!

You simply have to request for it. That tells me you really want it. So get to it. Send a request email to info@startupplusng.com using "7 StartUp Blunders" as the subject.

To every startup out there...this is for you!

To a fabulous 2015...

And to power to control your growth as a startup...

You are an Icon!

Adeleke David
Mr. Effectiveness

MATURITY: Mumu But Sensible

Looking over my experiences in life, I used to be really cocky, as most people are. I would always insist on my rights and defend myself whenever I was "accused" of doing something wrong. But I remember one fateful day in my final year in the University while working on my final project, I did something wrong and my supervisor made a comment;

he said, "Leke will always find an excuse for everything".

What! I was taken aback. This man doesn't even know anything about me, or so I thought.

That day marked the beginning of a lifelong decision to stop making excuses. It wasn't easy at all. It took several years to stop unconsciously making excuses. It was as though I was programmed to give an excuse without thinking, and the excuse always made sense. And it proved a sensible argument, But that was not healthy for me and the destiny I was pursuing.

If you are like me, back then, cos I have grown and moved on, you may never into the fullness of your dreams if you don't shed some weight. Making excuses is a weight and it is a sign of immaturity. Refusal to be corrected is a mark of immaturity too. Both, displayed as cockiness, can be lethal to anyone with a great destiny.

Here's my advice, even if you have to appear like a mumu just to take the mature position, do so. No one gains anything ahead of you for appearing to look stronger. True strength is in character and will power to reach for one's dreams. Today, I have learnt by working and living with very difficult people beginning from my father to be mature: appear like a mumu but actually sensible.

I live now based on this premise: "If it is possible, as much as it lies with you, do everything possible to live in peace with ALL men - good, bad, difficult, suspicious, irritable, unlovable, nonchalant, stupid, backward, annoying, evil, wicked, corrupt, brutal etc."

I have chosen to be mature regardless of what the other party does. We all reap what we sow.

You are an Icon!

To your maturity,

Adeleke David Adekunle
Mr. Effectiveness
Twitter: @davidadeleke

Table of Men: Reconciling Differences in Relationship

Welcome to the Table of Men.

In times of difference, we have a very likely tendency to do our "thing": lock up in that familiar fortress of silence.

Here is what i believe will help:
As the man, put the issue on the table neutrally and let her present her opinion. Women will more likely express their opinion readily. So reserve yours for after hers. While she is talking, listen for her heart not her words. Understand the point of view she is seeing things from. With that, you will be able to give a balanced perspective when you're expressing yours. Remember it's all about leadership - gaining influence with her. While giving your opinion, validate hers and present yours as a complementary view not a differing view.

It's like looking at the landscape from two sides of a mountain. What you see is correct; what she sees is correct. It's only that you both are seeing half of the full picture. When you put yours together with hers, you get a full correct picture. That's what couples try to do when they have different opinions about the same issue - Harmony. You both are trying to have the full and right picture if the issue on ground, which are the emotional and the logical.

So, please be patient with her. You will need so much of that patience for God knows how long. I can tell that you both have made radical progress over time. And that gladdens my heart. Who could have thought you both will come this far! So now is the time to celebrate your strength together. They say, "there is strength in diversity", and God never intended men to be like women and vice versa. He made us differently so that we could have it complete in our marriages.

Let the friction result in smoothening out of rough edges. If you both keep rubbing the rough edges against each other, the friction will keep getting hotter, but the surfaces will eventually smoothen out. Once they are smoothened, the friction will naturally drop drastically! That's when you have mastered that area of your relationship. I'm speaking from some of the raw, unpalatable experiences I've had in my relationship too. The situations are peculiar but the principle remains the same.

So, be the MAN; that's who you are!

Note by:
As men, we shouldn't do many things for and to our wives because we are comfortable doing them but because it's the right thing to do; especially when she isn't deserving of it. That's what God was saying when he said, "Husbands, love your wives". He knew we would find it a little challenging, but trusting him for help and relying on him to lead us in our thinking, feelings, motives and actions makes all the difference. And mind you, praying for your wife when you least feel like is the most effective of times because the prayer happens with emotion. You may be the only one praying for her in the whole world!

YOU ARE AN ICON!

ONE THING TO NEVER FORGET!!!

Till you draw your very last breath, don't you for one second forget this; don't let it slip into forgetfulness; don't relegate it to the backside of your mind. Keep it in front of your eyes, on your wrist and paste on your forehead. Convince yourself everyday and remind yourself of it.

YOU ARE AN ICON!

Would you grant me the privilege of tuning in to Radio Continental 102.3FM tomorrow morning from 7am to 10am as I discuss topical issues that affect our lives as Nigerians; and to www.praiseworldradio.com/tune-in from 1PM to 1.30PM for EFFECTIVENESS ON RADIO (Your premier Business & Career Effectiveness Show with Mr Effectiveness)

Enjoy your Sunday massively!

You are an Icon!
Adeleke David (Mr. Effectiveness)
Twitter: @davidadeleke
IG: @mreffectiveness

Global Icon: Adeleke David makes June 2014 Top 100 Leadership Experts to Follow on Twitter

Good day Friends.

I have some good news for you!!!

Just today, I was named among the June 2014 World’s top 100 Leadership Experts to Follow on Twitter by Evan Carmichael. Tjis comes just as the 2014 World Cup kicks off tonight (WAT GMT+1)

Follow the link to view the list. I am currently on number 84. This puts me on a global scale with top thinkers around the world.

Here it is

Thank you for your retweets; they did a lot of work. God made it happen!!!

You are an Icon!
Mr. Effectiveness

Follow me on Twitter: @davidadeleke

Getting Heard Audibly; Getting Visible Easily

Good day friend.

First, let me appreciate you for following my blog all these years. You are fantastic!

I want to briefly share my latest insights on visibility and audibility with you and I believe it will make a remarkable impact on your thinking.

Nothing gets bought that is not first seen. Nothing is believed that is not first heard.
                            ~Adeleke David Adekunle

Early in my career as a trainer and management consultant, I thought (unwisely) that I could reach my dreams by sheer intelligence and originality. I did not consider the intense impact of visibility and audibility. In these times when I've been appearing on radio and now going on TV in two days from now, I've enjoyed greater ease and speed. My credibility had soared more than all my combined efforts since 2012!

The lesson: Do all you can to be heard audible and to be seen vividly.

For some, that means engaging advertising, for some it is increasing your social media presence and activity, for others it means getting on the street and meeting the buyers of your dreams. Whatever visibility and audibility means to you, don't just sit out your dreams; do something to be seen and heard. Truth be told, it takes a lot but it is less expensive to not maximizing your potentials.

Folks who used to just think of me as an upcoming guy are regarding me as a serious player in my field just because I am more visible and audible. Friend, be seen and be heard. That's why the ladies who dress in dull colors marry (if ever they do) far later than those babes who dress in brightly colored clothes (pink, white, yellow, lilac etc). There's no profit in staying in oblivion; get heard and be seen. I'm imagining how much better things will get after the TV appearance.

Remember: Nothing gets bought that is not first seen. Nothing is believed that is not first heard.

You are an Icon!

To your visibility and audibility,
Adeleke David Adekunle
Mr. Effectiveness
Twitter: @davidadeleke
IG: @mreffectiveness

P.S

Join me on wapTV on Monday June 9 by 9.30am as i do justice to some critical business management issues. You can stream LIVE at www.thewaptv.net/tv.php

Why You Can't Give In Yet

"To not give up is to not lose hope. To not give in is to not lose ground."~Adeleke David Adekunle

Friend,

Welcome to this month of wonder bundles!

May I just encourage you to keep your dreams alive and never give up! Time will reveal one of two things: Your greatness or Your regret.

Choosing to be tenacious in pursuit of your dreams, regardless of what pessimist and myopic folks say, will bring you greatness. One way to do this is to be effective daily. I don't want to comment on the other side***

To your dreams,

Adeleke David Adekunle
@davidadeleke

TURBO: achieve your dreams swiftly

Hey! It's a #DoroFantastic Saturday morning for me. I don't know about you. But you better make sure you are the one holding the pen writing your life's experience.

In a bbm chat with a distant cousin this morning, I got this great report about the potency and effectiveness of my Premium Discovery Episode titled, HORSEPOWER. My cousin told me it's helping him and that he listens to it every Saturday morning! What!

It's amazing how the things we seem to despise turn out to be treasures to others. I can count how many times I've listened to that CD as the author; that tells me something inside it needs to tingle my brain to move higher and faster in my pursuit of my dreams.

So what are you waiting for too?

Turbo forward... Ride with HorsePower!

To your effectiveness,

Adeleke David
Mr. Effectiveness

P.S.
Tune in to Naija 102.7FM on Tuesday, May 20 from 1pm to 2pm to listen to me LIVE as I deal with critical career issues and questions. I'll be on air with your favorite comedian, AJEBO for one hour!

BRING BACK OUR GIRLS: 234 Girls, 17 days, 1 country.

17 days have passed since the kidnap of 234 teenage girls from their hostel in Government Girls College, Chibok, Borno State in Nigeria. The abduction is reported to have been carried out by suspected Boko Haram insurgents. The missing state of the girls have triggered civil unrest and protests, social media campaigns with the hash tag: #BringBackOurGirls on Twitter, avatar black out by several Nigerian Twitter users including Mr. Leke Alder (@LekeAlder).

If the whereabout of the girls remains a mystery after 17 days, does it make any reason to justify it by the still missing Malaysian Airline? Millions of dollars have been spent on campaigns for the girl child, but this deathly blow to more than a hundred families is a record crime. In a country where a leader exists, 234 girls should never disappear without a hint of where they currently are. The United Nations is mostly laid back about this horrible and saddening situation.

Sahara Reporters wrote 2 days ago: PDP Chieftain Expresses Doubt Chibok School Girls Were Kidnapped, Asks “Who Saw It Happen?” A CNN article reports that, "A total of 230 parents registered the names of their daughters who were missing on the day of the kidnap," said Asabe Kwambura, principal of the Government Girls Secondary School. "From my records, 43 girls have so far escaped on their own from their kidnappers. We still have 187 girls missing."

Whatever will come out of this, the days ahead will reveal. But let me leave it to your imagination what sort of response the Nigerian government would have had if the daughters of national leaders were involved. I bet that the sheer insensitivity of the President and his cabinet wouldn't be so. One is left to wonder whether they actually care about the girls or are simply interested in dramas of the 2015 Presidential elections.

Life is short; live it to the fullest.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

#BringBackOurGirls

Adeleke David

STIR NIGERIA: After the Presidential Media Chat

Before you ask me if u have become a political writer or blogger, let me inform you that there are three kinds of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.

I have chosen to not be mentioned among the majority who stood for nothing and never embraced the despair of failure in their quest for the joys of victory. If things aren't going right and you keep mute, you're no better than those in support of injustice.

I just had a cup of Lipton, and true to it, I almost drank a sugarless cup of Lipton. The sugar settled beneath like stones at the sea bed. I unconsciously stirred to "play" with the crystals only to realize that they "disappeared" until I found no more. Then it occurred to me that what is not stirred never tastes sweet.

Nigeria, is to me, like a cup of tea. The sugar must be stirred. If measurable changes are to find root in this country, we must stir!

That means that we must displace everything that can be displaced. We must unsettle whoever must be unsettled. We must stir Nigeria!

A cold war it will be, but it is a war worth fighting to the finish. Nothing seems guaranteed but our determination can see us through the hard moments. We should stop thinking we are in times of peace. These are times of war; cold, silent and ruthless war for the heritage of our children and our welfare. War against the greedy minority. War against the facilitators of insurgency. War against western ideas and opinions that turn one against another. War against the madness that has become a norm in a once admirable nation. Take a cue from the Late President John Atta Mills of Ghana, and now President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. These are African leaders that are stirring their countries, the cold-blooded threats of the west notwithstanding.

If you are a true Nigerian, from your sphere of influence, STIR NIGERIA!

To nation building,

Adeleke David
Mr Effectiveness
@davidadeleke

WHEN LOVE HAPPENS

Love is as strong as death.

What would a man do for love?

It was Brandy that said in her hit song, Have You Ever, "Have you ever loved somebody so much it makes you cry?" So many people are desperately in search of love but can hardly recognize true love when it shows up. "How do you know love when you can't explain it?" That was my question to an audience of about hundred undergraduates last Sunday at Red Val 2014 (see my hash tag #RedVal2014 on Twitter).

Unarguably, there is a premonition that love is an unexplainable feeling of affection for someone; and love songs from western tunes in America and Europe blare it loudly. Listen to Spanish Guitar by Toni Braxton, Brown Eyes by Destiny Child, I call it Love by Lionel Richie, and Brandy's Have You Ever; one thing is common to them: love is a feeling. If love is a feeling, then it won't last. Little wonder it was recently sung that Love is Wicked!

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WHEN LOVE HAPPENS 2

Love is as strong as death.

In the first part of this post, I began sharing about "When Love Happens". I continue from where I stopped.

...I taught that love is like a 3-D movie. It has three faces. The Greek clearly understand this mystery and as such they had whole temples dedicated to the goddess of love in every ancient Greek city. They taught the three faces: Agape, Phileo and Eros.

Agape is unreserved commitment to a person, not necessarily unconditional. It honors the commitment for the good of the other. It is selfless and focused on others. True love must begin from here.

Phileo is fondness for the person. It is committed to companionship and friendship. Phileo enjoys the company of the other. It is open and does not pretend. It is anchored on common values, vision, interests and sometimes background. Ur sets the tone for the next and third part.

Eros is the romantic part. It is packed with electricity flashing through your spine at the sight of the person. It accounts for sexual attraction and wanton. Eros generates all the feelings of affection and romance. It is the part everyone generally calls love; yet it's just a third of the picture.

When love happens, it must have begun from Agape, grown into Phileo and then erupted into Eros. That was my experience, unlike what Hollywood said in the songs. Love isn't fallen into; it is grown into.

Be sure to know...when love happens!

Happy Valentine's Day.

To love,
Adeleke David Adekunle
[Mr. Effectiveness]

B-L-E-S-S

Tomorrow is predictable by today's words.

Ever wondered why there is great importance attached to being blessed? I did too until I discovered through research few minutes ago.

To BLESS is to speak good of a thing, event or person. It connotes using current state to set the tone for the future of that thing, event or person.

To BLESS is to define the future now. It is to decide in advance that the days ahead will be highly favorable and more enriching than the past.

It often is engraved in a stone of delight; a fountain of joy and gladness. To BLESS is to ordain the future as better because of today's good. Wow!

If I were you, I would BLESS myself right away!

To your effectiveness,
Adeleke David Adekunle
[Mr. Effectiveness]