The Managing Director
The Vice President/ Head of IT
Advisory Partner
Old and New Staffs
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I want to take this time out to thank the Managing Director and the management of Excellon System Limited for the privilege given to me to speak to you.
I know that at the end of this session, you would have succeeded in getting cutting edge information that will help you move from where you are to where you want to get to.
The Topic before me today is:
THE WILL TO SUCCEED
I once heard the story of a great French general named La Variere who made the decision to attack, even though his troops were largely outnumbered. He was certain of victory, but he felt his men's fear and wanted to do something to cut short their protestations.
On a country road he stopped before an isolated chapel and declared, "I am
going inside and I will ask for God's help. Then I will come out and flip
this gold coin. If our Emperor's face appears we will win. If the other side
comes up head, then we will lose. And so, my companions, our fate is in the hands of destiny."
After a few moments in the chapel, La Variere came out and flipped the coin.
Napoleon's head appeared. The soldiers shouted and acclaimed their destiny,
and the entire company's moral was lifted. Convinced that they would be
victorious, they fought with such bravery that they rapidly won the battle.
After the victory
one can change the course of Destiny. This unexpected victory is yet another
Proof of that."
"Who knows, my dear
Showed him the coin on which Napoleon's head appeared... on both sides!
You must develop a strong will for success if indeed you want to experience some level of success in your life and in your career.
Success doesn’t just happen, someone must make it happen and for you to become successful, you must make it happen.
Questions:
How many of you would want to succeed in life and in your chosen field?
Why do you want to succeed?
What is your definition of success?
My goal for this lecture is to motivate and inspire you towards peak performance and to help you channel your potentials and resources into a productive and fruitful venture for Excellon System Limited.
For us to be able to achieve this goals together, we need to understand some basics, but before I take us through the basics, I want us to know that we are either burning with a passion, working on a mission or carrying a vision. If we don’t belong to any of these categories, life becomes a burden.
There are people that became extremely successful in our society because they belong to these categories and they develop a strong will for success. People like Prof. Philip Emegwali, Pst. Enoch Adeboye, Rev Sam Adeyemi, Erastus Akingbola, Rev Dele George, e.t.c
Some Basics for Success.
It is the mission we have that helps us to set goals. Goals are steps towards the attainment of our mission.
VALUES:
Values are your beliefs that enable you to differentiate between what is right from what is wrong and what is important to you. Your values will go a long way to help both you and Excellon System to achieve success.
Your values determine how you use your time. When you place value on people’s time and on your time, you will hardly be late to work or any appointment.
Your values can pull you towards success or towards failure; it determines what you get from life.
PRINCIPLES:
Principles are the moral rules or a strong belief that influence every action you take.
If we work with the wrong principles, we can never arrive at the right result.
There are principles that govern success, discover such principles, I mean principles like Good Moral Ethics, Integrity, Responsibility, Respect to Rules and Laws, Hard Work, Saving Culture and Investment, Punctuality, Doing first thing first, e.t.c. build your life around them and both you and your organization will become successful.
The truth is that, when you identify and establish your essential purpose and set up shared vision and values, you can become successful with any situation that you will encounter on your way to executing your mission for Excellon System Ltd.
In Conclusion, I will like to leave us with this story.
It happen in southwest
As he lay there, desperate and dejected, Tamerlane watched an ant try to carry a grain of corn over a perpendicular wall. The corn was larger than the ant itself. As the emperor counted 69 times the ant tried to carry it up the wall, 69 times he fell back. On the seventieth try the ant pushed the grain of corn over the top.
Tamerlane leaped to his feet with a shout! He too would triumph in the end! And he did, reorganizing his forces and putting the enemy to flight.
No matter how many times you may fail on your job, if you have the “Will to Succeed” you’ll sure have success.
Thank you very much for listening, hope to see you same time tomorrow and I wish you success unlimited with Excellon System Ltd.
God Bless You All!
Motivational Speech Presented to the Management and Staffs of Excellon System Ltd. Oregun Lagos. www.excellonsystem.com on
By, Solomon O’chucks Nwokoro
Motivational cum Inspirational Speaker.
All protocol duly observed
Once again thank you very much for the privilege to stand here and to speak to you all and I guess you learned something yesterday.
Victor Hugo once said and I quote”
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it!”
Our topic for today is:
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING
Attitude simply means – the way you think and feel about somebody/something or the way you behave towards somebody/something that shows how you think and act.
Attitude serves as a medium by which you can strike a balance in your life and your relationship to people and circumstance.
The degree to which we can control our earthly destinies and way of life to a larger extent depends on our attitude. Attitude is indeed everything. The following will help us appreciate the value of Attitude.
From a strictly mathematical view point, what is equal to 100%?
Here’s a little mathematical formula that might help you answer this question,
If;
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Is represented as
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Then
H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K is
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%
K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E is
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%
M-O-N-E-Y is
13+15+14+5+25 = 72%
and
L-U-C-K is
12+21+3+11 = 47%
but
A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E is
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
from the above, one can rightly conclude with mathematical certainty that, while HARDWORK, KNOWLEDGE, MONEY and even LUCK will get you close to success, it is only our ATTITUDE that can get us there (the arena of success)
TYPES OF ATTITUDE
We have two types of Attitude; they are Positive and Negative Attitude.
Just as Positive attitude will pull you towards success, negative attitude will pull you away from success.
Erasmus once said that “A nail is driven out by another nail, a habit is overcome by habit” the easiest method in changing a negative attitude is to replace it with a positive one.
For you to accomplish anything worthwhile with Excellon System Limited, you must work with the right ATTITUDE (a positive attitude)
The person with a positive attitude will definitely become a good team player and you all need to work as a team to achieve one common goal for Excellon System Ltd.
There is little a person can achieve with a negative attitude. The person with a negative attitude will always find fault in everything.
The person with a negative attitude will always see a glass of water as half empty rather than half full, they will always see the hole in a doughnut rather than the doughnut itself.
The easiest way to help the man with a negative attitude to succeed is to help him replace his negative attitude with a positive attitude.
One Saturday evening, a minister of God was preparing his sermon for Sunday, his wife has gone to the market and he was left alone with his son who was restless and was distracting him.
The minister thought of ways to get the child busy, so that he can concentrate in preparing his sermon. He came out with an idea, he searched for colorful magazines in his house, he found a page that contains the map of the world, he tore the page into pieces and he told his son that if he can arrange the puzzle of the world that he was going to give him a dollar bill.
The son was excited and started arranging it. The minister went back to his study room with a sigh of relief thinking that at least this will keep the boy busy all day. With less than 10 minutes, the boy knocked at the fathers study room’s door and the dad asked him to come in. the boy told his dad that he’s arranged the map. The father was surprised and when the father saw it well arranged, the father ask the child “how did you do it?”
The child told the dad that at the back of the map, there is the picture of a man. So he arranged the picture of the man and then he turned it to the other side where the map of the world is and the map of the world was well arranged. The child then said “I figured that if I got the man right the world would be right.”
There’s a great lesson in this idea. If you are unhappy with your world or with the challenge that you’re most likely to encounter in the line of your duty, the only way to change it is to start with yourself (your attitude). If you perhaps change your attitude from negative to positive, your world will be right.
Most of the important accomplishments in this world have been accomplished by people who have positive attitudes towards life. With a positive attitude, you will always see a bend when people see an end. You’ll always expect to see a light at the end of every tunnel and you’ll know that the sun will always shine after the storm. With a positive attitude, you’ll be able to put in your best in all that you do because you know that your best will be worth it.
I believe that success of whatsoever magnitude is within the reach of everyone, but the absolute truth is that, it will take the man with the right attitude to keep succeeding.
For you to succeed and keep succeeding with Excellon System Ltd., for you to achieve the vision of Excellon System Ltd. Which is “To be among the leading IT firms with high value added to all our products and services”. You must imbibe a positive mental attitude.
Thank you very much for listening, I do hope to see you at the peak of success unlimited in your career.
God bless you all!
Motivational Speech Presented to the Management and Staffs of Excellon System Ltd. Oregun Lagos. www.excellonsystem.com on
By, Solomon O’chucks Nwokoro
Motivational cum Inspirational Speaker.
