Ola Barnabas

TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING YOUR BUSINESS SALES LEVEL      In Line with my commitment to adding value to lives and businesses, I am posting in the next few days techniques that will take your businesses from where it is now to where you want it to be in the nearest future. 1.      REPLACE DEFICIENT/ UNDERPERFORMING SALES STRATEGIES AND PEOPLE Every business has a strategy that sells it well in a particular place at any particular time. You may have been carried away with a strategy that was highly effective at the time when you started that business. You are suddenly noticing that sales is on decline gradually and you have truly altered nothing about your process. That exactly may be what you should have checked. You should check which strategy is not seasonal for you, so that you can build your sales around it. There are strategies you should identify that work best for you at all seasons, such strategies, keep improving on them at every opportune time. For example, as

FINALLY NIGERIA IS DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT I’ve waited so eagerly and so have all the people that care about the lives of the innocent Africans dying in South Africa as a result of some people’s thoughtlessness, and as is almost always the case with Nigeria, we delay response, but to hear the Nigerian senate demand for a recall of her ambassador to SA, and asking that the king of Zulu be petitioned to the ICC is something we waited for too long. It is no news that blacks hate blacks. I have no issues, as I am sure most of us don’t, with brothers quarreling with brothers, but if that quarrel makes you throw reasoning out the window, then you must think again. Rwandans can at least tell how long it took for them to recover from the genocide of 1994   between the Hutus and the Tutsis. The Modakeke & Ife people, Tiv & Jukun people, etc, can all tell with evidence that brothers quarrel, but that is as far as it goes. South Africa has gone beyond its boundaries, and i

HELLO SOUTH AFRICA I sympathize with you. I sympathize that in this age and time, your mind can be so debased and reprobate enough as to allow you descend to the level that you did recently with your xenophobic attacks on other Africans living in your country. I sympathize with you, not because you got angry, we all do, but that your anger was largely undefined. I sympathize with you that wrapped around your neck is the gloom of apartheid we all thought we supported you to overcome. I sympathize with you that you easily forgot the help that other countries render to you in your time of need, just because of a little unease and discomfort that you feel. Need I remind you the role that Nigeria as well as other African brothers played in redeeming you from the hands of your captors? I sympathize with you that you have time and time again shown that, through these attacks you are showing of what stuff you are truly made. I would have kept quiet and expect that thi

MY CHILD, I HAVE THE ANSWER My child, you are going through a lot, I must say, but do not darken counsel by words without knowledge. I am not a God to make man because I want him to suffer. I am Love, and creating someone because of the pleasure derivable from the pain of that creature is no attribute of love. I love you, your testimony regardless. When I made man, I kept him in the garden under my direct watch and I did keep constant fellowship with him, but that’s not all I did. I handed over the rulership of every other thing I had made to man, I also left him with freewill because I am not One to coerce anyone to do what I will. If you find a religion that forces you to accept it, that is what it is, a religion. The man made a choice. He transferred that dominion to his enemy. Since that time until now, the whole world lies under the power of the evil one, in wickedness. And what do you think your enemy will do to you when he has power over you, especially the one

QUOTES ON SUCCESS -          Success? It is a product, not a factor. – Ola Barnabas -          Success is the child of audacity. – Benjamin Disreali -          It takes twenty years to make an overnight success. – Eddie Cantor -          How can such a thing as money be the definition of success? – Ola Barnabas -          He who wakes up and finds himself successful has not been asleep. – Anonymous -          Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. – Earl Wilson -          You will find the key to success under the alarm clock. – Anonymous

ON PERSEVERANCE -           1. Persistence  2. Persistence   3. Persistence. Those are the three keys to success in life. – An old business man -          Big shots are small shots that didn’t stop shooting. -          We conquer-not in any brilliant fashion-we conquer in continuing. – George Matheson -          The secret of success is to start from the scratch and keep on scratching. – Anonymous -          I hold a doctrine to which I owe much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extra-ordinary perseverance all things are attainable. – T.F. Buxton -     I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. - Steve Jobs

QUOTES ON RESPONSIBILITY -          The buck stops here. – President Harry Truman -          The price of greatness is responsibility. – Winston Churchill -           The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. – Roy L. Smith -          “Wake up, wake up. Work, work, it’s another day.” The man who obeys that call, he is the man. – Ola Barnabas -          Some people recognize their responsibilities in time to dodge them. – Anonymous -          It’s an awesome responsibility to own a bible. – Anonymous

ON REPUTATION -          Everyone should fear death until he has something that will live on after his death. – Anonymous -          Reputation is the ideal, character is the judge of all. – Ola Barnabas -          I will never be caught doing some things, I have no reputation to gain in them. I will forever be caught doing some things, I have no reputation to lose in them.  – Ola Barnabas -          A good name is better to be chosen than great riches. King Solomon, Proverbs 22:1 -          No man is rich enough to buy back his past. – Anonymous -          Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies. – Arabic proverb -    Reputation - something high school students are always conscious of that they have none of. - Ola Barnabas

-                                  QUOTES ON DECISION/CHOICE MAKING       Be careful which road you choose – you’ll be on it for the next 200 miles – Sign at the crossroads in a southwestern state -          In every success story, you find someone has made a courageous decision. – Peter Drucker -          Your capacity to say NO determines your capacity to say YES to greater things. – E. Stanley Jones -          Look at it, size it up, but don’t postpone your life just because you can’t make up your mind. – Omar Bradley -          Choice is life’s business. – Robert Browning -          Once the facts are clear, the decision jumps at you. – Peter Drucker

QUOTES ON ANGER -          A gentle answer turns away wrath but harsh words stir up anger. – King Solomon, Proverbs 15:1 -          Anger is just one letter short of danger. – Anonymous -          He that keepeth his tongue, keepeth his life… - King Solomon, Proverbs 13:3 -          The greatest remedy for anger is delay. – Anonymous -          When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, count to a hundred. – Thomas Jefferson

QUOTES ON TRYING/ TOUGH TIMES -          Tough times never last, tough people do. -  Robert Schuller -          Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. – Anonymous -          Adversity causes some men to break and others to break records. – Anonymous -          Why can’t problems hit us when we are seventeen and know everything? – Anonymous -          When the going gets tough, the tough get going. – Robert Schuller -          If you fail in the day of adversity, your strength is small. – King Solomon, Proverbs 24:10 -          The right angle for approaching a difficult problem is the try-angle. - Anonymous -    The challenge the average housekeeper faces is that she has too much month left at the end of the money. - Anonymous -    The gem cannot be polished without friction nor the child of God cleansed without adversity. - Anonymous -    If you are going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

QUOTES ON FULFILMENT -          Whatever you do, do well. For when you get to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.  – King Solomon, Ecclesiastes 9:10 -          I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me. – Paul the Apostle, Philippians 4:13 -          Lord, grant me that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. – Michel Angelo -          You can’t build your reputation on what you’re going to do. – Henry Ford -          I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have Kept the faith. – Paul the Apostle, II Tim 4:7   -    To him who did a hard day's job, a good night rest is a reward. - Ola Barnabas

EXCUSE ME GOD I HAVE A QUESTION I was begging for food one day when someone saw me, bought a plate of food for me, and engaged me in a chat. She told me, she’d been married for ten years, and was never pregnant in the first seven. In the eight year, she took in and in nine months had a baby girl. She said the baby was very beautiful, but I guess that was too difficult for me to understand, because I can’t perhaps tell if that word really existed. If it does, I have not seen it. The baby was six months old, and after a very playful night, she refused to wake up the next morning. She said it was a witch in their family that had caused it with voodoo and magical powers. Could there be someone in my family too who is a witch and who is responsible for my unfortunate life? Did they not say you are the all-powerful? How a Witch could have killed a little baby and You didn’t stop him? If a family Witch is responsible for my predicaments too, are You not going to do anything abou