Fola Daniel Adelesi, ASM

When I woke up yesterday I was looking forward to the great services we would have in church and the only other thing that ran through my mind as I descended the stirs was that I needed to talk to the judges that were at the project presentation I did on Saturday. The story became a different one as I approached the vehicle. My cousin came in hurriedly in a bid to beat the rain and shouted, ‘I am not going to church. My daughter was admitted yesterday into one of the wards at Gbagada geneal hospital and wife is still there with her so I have to go to the hospital.’

I felt comfortable going to the hospital with him since we were going to have four services and I could miss the first and second services to see this cute little baby. As we approached the hospital my cousin told me about how another baby girl that was brought to the hospital about the same time his daughter was taken there had died at 12 am when the doctors could not locate a vein in her head. Before that time the father of this baby that was lost and my cousin were to go to a laboratory to do a blood test for the blood sample that had been taken by the doctor. They were both given the same address but the other man went to another place so he could not return with the result of the blood test which made it more difficult for the doctors to decide what to do until the baby was finally lost even though she was placed on a life support machine for a few hours.

When I looked to the right side of the ward were my little nice was gently snoring I saw, for the first time, an incubator and really tiny babies in them who were being watched by their mothers. I came close to tears not for the baby that had been lost but for the fact that when babies were in incubators power holdings company interrupted power supply and for the next 15 minutes there was not electricity in the building. I had initially been complaining about electricity because of the need to do business online or the need to have some business machines running. For the first time I saw the impact of electricity directly on a human’s life. The babies have been born before they were due to be born and their only hope is to be I the incubator till they are fully developed but electricity is now becoming an issue.

I began to think about the so many issues that we have to deal with in the country. I asked myself, ‘how will I motivate a woman who just lost her baby and convince her that things will get better?’ What I saw at the hospital showed me the magnitude of work that needs to be done in the country and as a young man preparing to be a change agent I said to myself, ‘Fola you have a lot of work to do.’ In a nation where health care is still a nightmare for the people, we have some representatives and politicians stilling billions of dollars and they will still come back to contest in elections. If you have read this far then I need to tell you that what we need is not just ordinary change. It is a revolutionary change that really begins with the decisions that we take as individuals and then as a group or as a nation. We must begin to do things different and be selfless. It is only the selfless nature we all have as individuals that we become obvious when we come together as a nation and we can develop our society.

Be the first to change, because the process begins with you and I!

Fola Daniel Adelesi, ASM
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No money for lecturers; Enough money for 2011 election

In the last two weeks lecturers of Olabisi Onabanjo University have been on strike over 5 months salary arrears from the state government where politicians are already beginning to talk about elections in 2011. The lectuerers embarked on what, for now has become, normal warning strike to register their displeasure with the state government but the governor of the state was reported to have said that he does not have money to pay lectuerers.
The extended implications of the refusal to pay salaries are numerous but some that easily come to mind include the unnecessary delay on the academic progress of the students who are supposed to have only four academic sessions but now would have about fours years or more. That’s the normal period for some serious minded institutions to conclude about five or six academic session. While I was a student and was affected by some of the irrational and selfish decisions of politicians, I found people who gained admission after me graduating and doing their national youth service before me.
Some of the questions that come to mind include ‘how can people refuse to pay lecturers and expect them to work?’How can people say they do not have money for salaries but they have enough money to organize political meetings and strategize for the next elections? There are so many other questions that come to mind but I want you to think about those ones on your own.
It is time for Nigerians to be decisive and stop deceiving ourselves. We call people leaders and all they think about is money and their personal pockets. We trust people so much that we empower them and cannot make them account for the power we gave to them. We now need to change our attitude towards empowering people or entrusting people with power. We must not give people power when they will not account for them and we must begin to question people who are not accounting for the power they already have.
These are leaders who are holding our educational sector to ransome and they claim they will change the country. They are impeding the progress of lecturers and they expect the standard of education to improve! You and I have a choice on what to do. What are you going to do?

Psalm 2: 4 – He who seats in the heavens shall laugh

May God cause you to laugh in this new week. As you go about your normal business He will spring up surprises for you. All those funny issues that have consistently brought you sorrow will pave way for you. Hope will come alive over that child that makes you weep. Hope will come alive over the financial situation that makes you despair. Hope will come alive over the work of your hands.
Where you have been constantly disappointed you will be made to laugh. That family member lying in the hospital will receive healing. That loved one of yours going through pains will no longer feel pains. God will give you unbelievable news this week. You will laugh so much that everyone around you will be caught up in your laughter. That young man or woman that you have been so concerned about because he or she has not turned to God will supernaturally surrender. In places where you have been begging before now people will come and beg you. At the end of it all the world will ask you, “who made this possible?” Your answer will be, “He that sits in heaven and laughs because He rules in the affairs of men!”
Your laughter will be so contagious that people around you will join you and forget their sorrows.
Enjoy your week!

Fola Daniel Adelesi, ASM
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Dear friend,

It could have been very tough all the while and you are looking for a way out of your business challenges, job issues, marital complications, decisions on your future and other financial issues. It just looked like you are already at the end of the road and there is no other way out. I don’t know which road you took but I strongly feel that you have not come to the end of the road yet. I also sense that you are only around a bend where it is difficult to see the other side of the road where it is beautiful, colourful, gracious, amazing, awsome and any other good thing that you can thing about.

Help is coming for you in this new week! Your situation will take a new turn! Whatever has not worked before now will start working. You will be favoured and you will be blessed. Something beyond your understanding will move you from the receiving end to the giving end. That will be your testimony.

Enjoy your week.

Fola Daniel Adelesi, ASM
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Climate change welcome address

16, 17 & 18th June 2010.

Kunle Soriyan, Principal Transformation Strategist, STN group | www.the-stngroup.com

The Principal Transformation strategist at the Soriyan Training Network stands out as a professional speaker who has been able to carve a niche in the corporate world for close to 2 decades with the ability to instigate your thinking. With topics like, ‘The Superior Lunatic, Endangered Species and Mad men in Jackets,’ you just can’t help but stop to think about how a man like this thinks. His debut productivity tool, Living Intentionally Paradigm, currently stands out for both personal and corporate productivity. He will be sharing on consulting and public speaking at the next Speakers’ Laboratory on 16, 17 and 18th of June.

Fola Daniel Adelesi,ASM. CEO, Edible Pen| www.foladaniel.com

With over 400 presentations to live audiences, more than 100 television appearances, 3 books already published, over 20 awards including professional certifications like that of the Institute of Strategic Management where he is currently an associate and close to 300 articles on the internet, Fola Daniel stands out as a young, deliberate and strategic speaker. Audiences around the world quickly notice and have not stopped talking about his unassuming appearance at first sight, his striking voice and his depth of knowledge that cuts across capacity building, strategic management and business development. His privileged platforms beginning with being a Senior Prefect at the Prestigious Mayflower School and being the 2008 Secretary General of the Nigerian International Model United Nations (Highest office even in Model United Nations), a body bringing together over 30 tertiary institutions have revealed his rare blend of Leadership, Strategy and Oratory. He was a conspicuous debater at the just concluded Seaon 1 of the Debaters’ TV reality show where he had an unparallel hands on training from people like Richie Dayo Johnson in the UK and Mr. Tony Osime, a thorough consultant. He will be facilitating some sessions at the Speakers’ Laboratory on 16, 17 and 18th of June.

Oyinkansola Alabi,Chief Imagination Officer, Konnektors | www.oyinkansolaalabi.wordpress.com

To say she is creatively weired is to keep it at being modest. This trained brand strategist from the Orange Academy and graduate of the Daystar Leadership Academy constantly lives up to the name of being the Chief Imagination Officer with her romance oriented business services. It must be said that she is one of the rare female species whose weight and voice have put men at the edge of their seats. How she effortlessly commands such a great attention and sometimes bringing men down on their feet with tears flowing freely is what she will demystify at the Speakers’ Laboratory on 16, 17 and 18th of June.

Temiloluwa Awonbiogbon, President, Power Talk Services| www.powertalkng.com

From his poise to his diction down to his ability to get attention with words, listening to Temiloluwa, President of Power Talk Services and Engineering graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University is one of the easiest ways to understand that speaking good English is not tongue twisting and nose acrobatics. ‘If you don’t speak it, don’t fake it. Just learn it.’ Popularly referred to as Mr. Capable, he was one of the 14 Talkmates at the much talked Debaters TV reality show where he scaled through eviction from the first episode till the grand finale. This energetic and very dramatic speaker would be handling elocution and the word test at the forth coming Speakers’ Laboratory on 16, 17 and 18th of June.

Module:
How to make money, if you can read, write and speak| Elocution | First steps in public speaking |Effective presentation | The celebrity speaker and more|

Training date – 16th – 18th of June, 2010.

Venue – Harmony Enclave, 12 ABA Johnson Crescent by Eco Bank off Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja.

Time – 10:00 – 2:00pm

Offers – Training manuals, Certificates, practical sessions.

Fees – N5,000

Payment – Edible Pen Ventures – Gurantee Trust Bank Plc | ACC no: 208 722 936 110.

Register online after payment on www.tinyurl.com/ediblepen

You are sure to get the best of public speaking training!

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Special invitation to SPEAKERS’LABORATORY – Where we practically bake speakers
Get trained, be professional and make money from speaking!

Trainers – Kunle Soriyan, Principal Transformation Strategist, STN group | Fola Daniel Adelesi,CEO, Edible Pen| Oyinkansola Alabi,Chief Imagination Officer, Konnektors | Temiloluwa Awonbiogbon, CEO Power Talk Services

Module:
How to make money, if you can read, write and speak| Elocution | First steps in public speaking |Effective presentation | The celebrity speaker and more|

Training date – 16th – 18th of June, 2010.

Venue – Harmony Enclave, 12 ABA Johnson Crescent by Eco Bank off Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja.

Time – 10:00 – 2:00pm

Offers – Training manuals, Certificates, practical sessions.

Fees – N5,000

Payment – Edible Pen Ventures – Gurantee Trust Bank Plc | ACC no: 208 722 936 110.

Register online after payment on www.tinyurl.com/ediblepen

You are sure to get the best of public speaking training!

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1.) Decide where you are going – Only those who decide to go somewhere will ever get anywhere.
2.) Have written goals – Opportunities open up in line with your dominant thoughts.
3.) You are not too young to start something – Tiger Woods started at 4 and became the best at 17.
4.) Stand out from now – you can listen to what other people say and remain irrelevant or stand out and be relevant.
5.) Working hard does not kill, working ignorantly does – a lot of people are suffering not because of the financial meltdown but because of a brain-melt-down.
6.) Enhance your person with role models – Who is that person that looks like who you want to be not because of material possession but because of substance.
7.) Increase the speed of your mind – to be ahead you have to run ahead of others. You can’t always seat with people and still be their leader.
8.) What you are reading or viewing today will determine your relevance – you can’t be viewing pornography and expect to be relevant when your colleagues are becoming governors and presidents.
9.) Cultivate a success habit – every success person has something he or she does consistently that has become a habit and consequently comes with the reward called success.
10.) Indecision is a decision – if you have not decided where to go, you have just decided to go nowhere.

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If you are a poet then this is for you

Bluntly Speaking – This is a new poetry collection that Edible Pen is working after publishing our first (Hope of the Zealots) in 2005 and two other books in between from the publisher. Fola Daniel Adelesi.

This entry is open to all people from secondary school age and above once you are a poet.

How many poems can I submit?
3 poems but only one is guaranteed to be published.

What do I get for submitting my poems?
1.) You get published along other recognized authors
2.) You will get a certificate of contribution
3.) You are also entitled to a copy of the book when it is ready
4.) We usually send our publications to recognized local and international libraries.

Will this book be sold?
For now we are not selling but we are trying to make publications available on Amazon and proceeds, if any, are intended to be used for the support of ‘Teenagers’ Mentorship Class’ – see details on www.teenagersclass.wordpress.com

Where do I submit my poems?
www.tinyurl.com/poemsubmission

What else do I do?
Pay a sum of N3000 into any branch of Guarantee Trust Bank Plc in favour of ‘Edible Pen Ventures’ Account number: 208 722 936 110

When is the book coming out?
Tentatively October

How will I get my copy and certificate?
you will be contacted through details provided on the registration page (www.tinyurl.com/poemsubmission)

What are the rules?
1.) Do not submit any poem that has been written as if you are texting or writing an SMS. Only standard English abbreviation is allowed.

2.) Poems must be your originally written work.

3.) No poem should exceed 35 lines

4.) Check for spelling errors before submitting

5.) Authors of poems not selected will eventually be contacted for a refund.

6.) Ensure you have paid into the given bank account before going to the registration page.

7.) Deadline for submission is July 15, 2010. Submit early to avoid late hour rush.

For further information please send emails to info@foladaniel.com or call +234 704 196 0689

Fola Daniel Adelesi, ASM
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You can become poorer working for someone who is becoming richer even though you think you have been used as a tool to become richer in the business. If you go back to the agreement that you signed with your boss then you will admit that there was no clause that said it was your boss’ responsibility to make you richer because he or she is getting richer.

Do you cringe when you boss decides to buy a brand new car and you are even trying to get a loan from the office? Where you the one the boss even sent to the car dealer when you have not dreamt about buying your first car? Do you go crazy when you know that your boss has just bought a new house in some of the best locations in town while you are struggling to pay your rent? What was your reaction during the last holiday when your boss asked you to book a ticket for him and the entire family so that they would travel abroad while you where still thinking about having enough money for the holidays? How do you reconcile the fact that what you live in is like a slum compared to the boss’ house that you go to nearly every morning to help with whatever he or she wants to do?

The human nature has the tendency to say that “these rich people are wicked” but remember your boss did not sign an agreement to make you a richer person! When you get an employment offer from anyone you would have to remember the fact that the person’s primary responsibility is to provide the working tools for you to his business! Apart from providing working tools for you to do his business he or she will provide the enabling environment but everything in the agreement regarding the boss’ responsibility is about providing what to work with and paying you for the job if it is done at the end of the day!

Your boss may choose to be nice to you but that’s a personal thing. If your boss decides to give you some extra cash apart from what he or she agreed to pay you then you know that’s a personal thing. If you get some Christmas bonus you will have to be content with it because you really know that you both did not have that in your agreement. Does this mean I can’t be rich working for someone else? Oh, I think you can be rich working for someone else!

If you will ever become rich working for someone else you must see the fact that it is not your boss’ responsibility to prosper you. It is your responsibility to help yourself become rich and you must take that responsibility. Once that first step has been taken then you have to see your salary has a leverage for the other things that you need to do instead of hoping that it will always be increased and you will have more money to buy better things. Most of the people who became rich while working for someone else where people who definitely had some other ideas or projects they were working on. They also see their salaries as the leverage they need and when they collect their salary they set some apart for the new project or idea they are working on personally.

Some of the people who have also become rich while working for other people understand the fact that they will not become rich by being angry with the boss. If your boss is truly rich you have to learn from your boss. If you can allow your rich boss to mentor you then you are also on your way to becoming rich. Sometimes the truth is that the boss who realizes that you are willing to be a protégé and not just a salary earner will be nicer to you than other salary earners in the same office. You will never learn from the person that you detest especially when you have the mindset of someone who is being used to achieve personal means.

Looking what your boss is achieving through your “personal efforts” will limit your horizon and you will never see the bigger picture. Instead of learning in the process and building or increasing your capacity for the next level you will most likely be stuck in between trying to make your boss believe that he is wicked and that he should be nice to you.

Here are the lessons in simple lines:

1.) You will never become rich thinking that your boss should prosper you.
2.) The agreement you had with your boss was a salary!
3.) If you focus on immediate returns you will never learn why your boss keeps making money!
4.) To get more from your boss, maybe not financially, you should be a protégé, and a sincere one at least!
5.) Make your salary a leverage and not your ultimate
6.) When your boss seems to prosper more please admit that you are not a business associate or business partner who feels cheated. Just take his prosperity has a challenge by using his highest achievements now as your smallest goals for the future!

Once your boss is paying your salary as agreed then you have no right to be angry because you will only be bitter against someone who does not even know. The person will live a better life and your own problems will go from being physically to being emotional because you will now be bitter and your bitterness cannot remove one penny from the company’s account! That is to tell you your boss is not responsible for your wealth, you are!

Fola Daniel Adelesi, ASM
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