Achievers Compass : Simple Practical Guide to Personal Effectiveness, Mental Productivity & Financial Freedom

Achievers Compass : Simple Practical Guide to Personal Effectiveness, Mental Productivity & Financial Freedom :-

I enjoy good natural food a lot. Home-made organic spicy food is one of my favorites. Unfortunately, I am a bad cook. My mother was a fantastic cook, and I was the last of her six children, so I indulged in eating wonderful meals without the responsibility of knowing how to make one.

I never knew how bad the consequence of my ignorance was until I graduated from the university, and began to live alone in a different city. As a youth corper in Nigeria at the time, my allowance was so meager that I could not afford to eat out frequently, so I decided to give home cooking a trial. I have seen my mother cook many times and I have also been in the market severally. I assumed that all that I needed to do was go to the market, buy all the necessary cooking raw materials, mix them all, apply the fire, and get the meal ready.

Well, I carried out the plan. I went to the market bought all the cooking raw materials I could find, and added all the condiments, seasonings, etc. After my cooking session at home, the aroma of the meal was awesome. My taste buds were screaming and my expectation for a tasty meal was very high. When I had my first bite of the food I cooked, it was a disaster! The taste was horrible. The stew was so hot that I nearly landed in a hospital.

A few months down the line, I visited my mum in the city where she lived. I was amazed that she cooked a very palatable meal for me with less than one-third of the ingredients I used to produce my horrible food. I learned a major life lesson that has helped my success and personal effectiveness journey in life. Raw materials and recipes are two different things. It is not the cooking of raw materials that produces palatable meals, it is the recipes that use the raw materials as inputs to produce fantastic meals.

The same principle is true of success, greatness, and sustainable achievement in any area of life. It is not so much about what you have in your life (resources or raw materials) as much as it is about how you use what you have in your life (resourcefulness or strategy) to produce your goal and desires in life. Robert Kelly after 10 years of research documented in his work “How to be a Star at work” concluded that It wasn’t what star performers had in their heads that made them stand out from the pack, it was how they used what they had that distinguished them. He discovered that these star performers do their work differently from the solid, average-performing pack.

The implication of all the above is that great achievers are not born, they are made. Becoming a great achiever is a matter of choice, not a matter of chance. Anybody can become a great achiever if they:

1. Know how to become one
2. Decide to do all that is required to become one
3. Create a system or Habit that will make the decisions and actions become an inevitable day-to-day activity
4. Sustain the habits and system until the momentum and equilibrium are achieved

Achievers Compass is written to help you fulfill all these conditions thereby providing leverage for achieving your desires and greatness in life. It is a simple practical guide to personal effectiveness, mental productivity, and Financial Freedom.