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THE 3 LAWS OF EXCEPTIONALITY (3)

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In this final post, we will draw the curtains on our series: The 3 Laws of Exceptionality. I really hope that our discourse has been worth your while and you have discovered exciting new ways to achieve exceptionality. Remember that you are born with that factor for exceptionality; all you are trying to do now is to express it full scale – if you have discovered what your exceptionality is. To discover this, I strongly recommend that you attend our live training program: EXCEPTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS Basic Certification Course OR order for our Private Training Program® on the same for just $129 (Standard Format: contains 4-hour Audio Training Pack, Hardcopy Training Workbook, Models, Charts and Tools in PDF. Other relevant materials are available for your choice with a Special 15% Discount Offer. Quote this code: PTP1025 when you call.) Please call +234 808 844 1154 or send us an email to theiconcompany@gmail.com.

The Law of Loyalty

What or whom you treasure gets the most of your attention.

Loyalty is one of the core requirements for profitable followership. Leaders are essentially followers who have mastered the art of followership. Leaders never cease to be followers; they have only learnt and developed their capacity to lead others having a deep understanding of what followership entails. Loyalty is not bondage as some perceive it to be. Loyalty is not inconvenient, neither is it painful. Often times when people experience inconvenience and pain with regard to their loyalty to their leader, it is primarily because they never were loyal. They simply thought they were loyal. You know it is very possible to assume you know something very well only to realize your foolishness later on. Loyalty is a state of the heart not a principle you adopt. If your heart is not in that state, you cannot beat your chest proudly to say, “I am loyal.”

Loyalty should not be confused with trustworthiness. They are different and extremely dissimilar. You are trustworthy because of your values and principles. You are loyal because of the value you place on a thing or person. The higher the value, the deeper your loyalty. You can be trustworthy to a person yet not be loyal to the person. You cannot possibly experience pain or inconvenience doing what you cherish. It was Thomas Edison who quipped, “I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun!” And his words were confirmed by Confucius who said, “Choose work you love; and you will never have to work a day in your life.” There is recurrent theme in these two statements; it’s that you don’t encounter boredom and inconvenience doing what you love from your heart. Loyalty is a state of the heart, not an attitude nor a principle to adopt. If you truly love the person in question, your loyalty to the person will not be laden with inconvenience. For God’s sake, you love and treasure this person.

The flip side of this law is that some people have divided loyalties; and many have their loyalties in the wrongest of places. If you take a second look at what the Law of Loyalty states, you will find that there is a “What” as well as a “Whom”. Many people have their loyalty bestowed on money, some on fame, and others on power. Some have their loyalty bestowed on silly things like sex, events, clothes, physical possessions and the like. With loyalty placed wrongly, you have no guarantee of exceptionality. In fact, the guarantee of commonness far outweighs the probability of exceptionality. Loyalty should be to superiors and the really important people in our lives. If you ask me, I believe loyalty should first be to God; unquestionably. Then you must be loyal to your spouse. After your spouse come your mentors and leaders. Then your friends and family share the next spot. I believe that the Law of Loyalty is what Jesus Christ was teaching his listeners during his marathon mountain training session in Matthew 6:19–34. He was redirecting the loyalty of the people from what to whom, and you ought to do likewise.

These are not all you need to be exceptional in life, but I strongly believe they form the foundation for most of the other things. With these three laws, your motives are guided, your actions are informed with certainty, and you giving are intentionally done with rewards in expectation.

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Adeleke David (Mr. Effectiveness)

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3 LAWS OF EXCEPTIONALITY (2)

Hello Dear Reader. In the first post on The 3 Laws of Exceptionality, I shared on the Law of Giving. In this post we will take on the second law. As a reminder, it is not what you know that really makes the difference but what you do with what you learn. I personally make conscious efforts to put into practice everything I learn immediately I leave the place of learning. That way, it gets built into my system and subconscious pretty faster because I am carrying it out with the enthusiasm I had when I learned it. If you allow the passion and energy to wane before you practice these laws, you may not get maximum results. You are the architect of your own destiny; I am just a guide and consultant. You are the builder, I am the observer. Guess what? I am just as busy building my own life as well. So you will be better off considering it a privilege to get a little of my attention since I am just as busy as you are. Before you get into reading the next law, if you missed my FREE E-book Gift in my last post, here is another opportunity to get it. Simply leave a comment about this post below, and be sure to include your e-mail address. You will receive your gift within 24 hours.

The Law of Obedience

True obedience is prompt and precise.

There are two concepts that try to discredit this law. They are partial obedience and delayed obedience. If I must lay things straight, the end does not justify the means. There are some things that are not to be rationalized. Let me give you a quick example: Suppose you are CEO of GE, and you tell your personal assistant “Sam, can you please get this cup of coffee off my table? I need to get down to work right away.” Sam responds that he will be right back to do what you have asked him to do; only that he just wants to deliver the files you handed to him earlier to the accounting department and HR. While Sam is away, your secretary walks in with a document for you to sign from the COO. Remembering that the cup of coffee is still on your table, you ask the secretary to get rid of it. She leaves the document before you, grabs the cup of coffee, wipes the table dry and heads out immediately. She returns within a few minutes to continue with the signing she earlier came in to do. While you are signing the document, Sam returns to execute the new instruction of getting the cup of coffee off your table only to realize that it’s been done already. Now tell me, who obeyed you? Sam or your secretary?

Obedience to God, authority figures, your intuition and your conscience – if it must count in your favor – must be prompt and precisely executed. What is instructed must not be incompletely executed nor should it be delayed for anything. We must learn to correctly discern what is important all the time, especially in the workplace. Partial obedience and delayed obedience are snags to experiencing the extraordinary results that should follow ever act of obedience. True obedience guarantees favor, strengthens reputation and enhances dependability. If you really want to obey, don’t delay and don’t rationalize. Do just what was instructed immediately.

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MENTORING

Mentoring is the fastest route to where you are going. It is riding on the carriage of those who have walked the same path you are on right now. Mentoring is your advantage above your peers. It is your access to the wisdom and experience of an entire generation before you. I’m sure you don’t want to take it for granted.

Mentoring is like an aircraft; it gets you to your destination faster than those who ply the road. True, it may be difficult for the aircraft to mount into the air, but its speed will definitely give you the needed advantage. Mentoring gives you unprecedented access to what those who went before you have learnt by errors, mistakes and attempts over their years of experience. It gives you confidence, directs your actions and gives you the freedom to be intentional with every move you make. With mentoring, you are not guessing!

If you want to be effective, you need mentoring. Let me put it in a better light: If you want to arrive at your dreams faster, you need mentoring! If you want to avoid the hidden pitfalls, escape the discouraging hassles and beat the odds against you, mentoring is the key. I have mentors who guide my steps. They reveal to me what I couldn’t have discovered on my own. They show me what could have taken me five years to find out. They help me avoid pitfalls that could have slowed me down and discouraged me. They help me gain speed and maintain my momentum towards significant achievement. I bet you desire the same.

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DON'T HIRE COMPUTERS!

This is especially to CEOs but if you are an employee or an aspiring CEO reading this, you are buying yourself an advantage.

I have observed and studied the workplace for some time now and I have observed that most of the people in organizations are not any better than a computer. Before you smile about that statement, give me some paragraphs to tell you what a computer truly is.

Researchers have proved that the capacity of the human brain is the number one plus eight long pages of zeros! If your mental capacity is this infinite, why are you performing so poorly? Or why are your members of staff performing so below par? If you agree with me, you will acknowledge the fact that computers were manufactured by humans. And you will agree too that only a fraction of the human brain’s capacity was replicated into the computer.

What disqualifies a computer from getting hired?

•  Computers can’t think! It is incontestable to say that computers don’t think, or better still can’t think! Why? Because they just cannot, as well as animals cannot.
• Computers lack initiative. Computers function only with the input of a human mind. Computers cannot initiate processes on their own; they are created to process instructions that have been given to them. Same goes with many workplace people. 
•  Computers are not proactive. They stay “booted” idly waiting for the boss to dish the next instruction to them. If you are boss intending to shed your work load yet hire a computer, you have successfully added some bigger responsibility to the already burdensome work load you have.
• Computers are not resourceful. You cannot successfully delegate if you always delegate to a computer because you will have to come back for the report before you can get it; and better be sure that the instructions you gave are accurate. They never take a second look at what lies before them neither do they seek better ways of executing their tasks. It’s not their fault; they just aren’t wired to do so.

If you upgrade a computer, you increase their efficiency not their effectiveness. They only get better at being ineffective not better. The only way to convert a computer is to execute a total overhaul. That is change the motherboard! You need to overhaul their prevailing mindset into what makes an effective worker. This is what we call Mental Revolution; and it comes best through Coaching.

Coaching takes time to work out and it can be quite challenging especially when the “computer” in question doesn’t see any reasons why he should change. And mind you, it costs quite some. If you think your computers are inseparable from you, employ coaching. But ensure that subsequent hiring efforts do not land you more computers.

My best advice to you is: don’t hire computers!

I'll like to have your feedback.  Please leave a comment below or send me an email to adelekeadeosun@gmail.com

Adeleke David Adeosun

 (Mr. Effectiveness)