Boldness and hesitation elicit very different psychological responses in their targets:
Hesitation puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them.
Once you understand this, you will find it essential to overcome your natural timidity and practice the art of audacity.
Bro to bro: do you know that a 50kg bag of cement will conveniently lay 50 blocks?
A bag of cement now is at N12,500,
Labour for laying a block as at today is averaging N150.00 per block.
For 50 blocks: 150 x 50 = N7,500.
Back to our sample:
For a standard 4 bedroom bungalow:
4,500 blocks will require: 4,500/50 = 90 bags of cement.
Which will cost: 90 x 12500 = N1,125,000
Labour will cost: 4500 x 150 = N675,000
Total for cement and Labour: 1,125,000 + 675,000 = N1,800,000.00
Have you started planning your building?
@Seunfunmi_mi O ga o. As tomorrow May 1st is my birthday, I will bathe with the salt water, maybe somebody will send me N100m as birthday 🎂 gift 🎁? Who knows 🤷
When you take time to think, to hem and haw, you create a gap that allows others time to think as well.
Your timidity infects people with awkward energy, elicits embarrassment.
Doubt springs up on all sides.
Boldness destroys such gaps.
The Arabs in old times used to say:
Four things separate brothers:
wealth, women, jealousy, and death.
Four things make you lose your value among people: talking too much, laughing too much, lying, & gossiping.
Four things by which a wife ruins her home:
stubbornness, anger,
People respect you differently when they realize that your life is actually organized around something. Purpose changes your timing, your speech, your availability, and your tolerance for nonsense. It makes ordinary chaos feel expensive, and that is when softer people begin experiencing your discipline as distance.
No one likes feeling stupider than the next person.
The trick, then, is to make your victims feel smart — and not just smart, but smarter than you are.
Once convinced of this, they will never suspect that you may have ulterior motives.
While he considers you weak and inferior,
and takes no precautions against you,
you are using the time to catch up and surpass him.
This soft, permeable form of invasion is often the best,
for the enemy has nothing to react against, prepare for, or resist.
A man becomes hard to replace when he combines three things that rarely live together in one person: deep competence, strong judgment, and emotional reliability, because skill gets you in the room, judgment makes people trust your decisions, and steadiness makes them want you there when pressure rises.
LAW 25: RE-CREATE YOURSELF
Do not accept the roles that society foists on you.
Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience.
Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define it for you.
Cocoa is now down to N2500 per kg in ipele.
Markets today were a bloodbath. Demand has collapsed. Crop processors are enjoying a bonanza
Coconuts dropped from N700 to N300 each
Traders begged buyers to collect plantains on credit to avoid spoilage
Value addition is king! 👑
My Paddy younger sister dey sell baff up - so I ordered one nice TM shirt.
Asked my guy to bring am come my side when he's coming few days later.
You won't believe this 😩😂
My guy wore shirt wey I buy carry babe go flex, still wear the shirt come my house later pull am, say make I give am another shirt to wear go house
Even tell me thank you say the babe e carry say the shirt is nice.
I just open my mouth I no fit close am.. some friends go just dey behave like goat 😂😂😂
Lack of discipline is rarely about laziness; it is about fear of self-confrontation. Discipline forces you to face the gap between who you are and who you claim to be, and most people would rather stay distracted than endure that level of honesty daily.