Well am kinda happy writing this amazing article cause it was inspired by a user. just about 2hrs ago i received a mail from Victor Mokut saying:
You're such an inspiration for me right now reading all this stuff on your site/page. I'm done depending on, and using my brain and intelligence to make Distinctions in school, hoping to get a great job or scholarship and expecting so much from who knows who or where. I'm going into Business, I'm sure about this now. You made me sure about not just being my own boss, but making a difference in people's lives. oh... by the way you should put this straight with no apologies, School Sucks! And yes, I bookmarked your page and have subscribed to your newsletter. Sincerely Yours.
Thanks VICTOR. And in this post am going to join my voice to his saying SCHOOL SUCKS!
Mainstream thinking says that everyone should go to college. Many people say if you skip it you will fail…doomed to a life of low-paying jobs.
I believed this when I was younger, and that’s one of the main reasons I went to a college. Now, I think that reasoning is false. It might have been true in the old days…during our grandparents generation.
But the world has changed. Higher education is increasingly irrelevant. Its gotten to the point where it is actually hurting people. More people are realizing that university can be a waste of time and money. As time goes on, formal higher learning will become less important. At The College Investor, they’ve been showcasing Young Millionaire Investors, and many of them are skipping school for entrepreneurship.
Traditional schools are not good environments for many students. How does it make sense to send the same young people into four more years of school? So they can go crazy sitting at a desk and taking notes? For many, that is a complete waste of time.
Universities and colleges are businesses…like any other. They are looking to grow their bottom line. And they are highly subsidized by the government in the form of student loans. Colleges have gorged on the easy money. It is one reason why tuition rises every year.
And the increase in cost does not translate into better education. The value of a degree has been cheapened to be almost irrelevant. Taking out tens of thousands of dollars in loans for a degree that is no guarantee of a high paying job is foolish. And excessive student loan debt makes it harder to have a happy life after graduating.
It seems like this is unsustainable. At some point, the student loan bubble will burst and colleges will be forced into crisis mode. That could be a good thing. Iit might serve to trim the fat. Perhaps the country would be better served by fewer, higher-quality schools.
So what are some alternatives to college? Go Blue Collar
For many young people, learning a trade is an excellent choice. Trade schools teach real-world skills. Their programs are usually much shorter and less expensive than four-year college degrees.
Trade schools provide students with a way to rapidly enter the workforce…without wasting away prime years sitting in a classroom. And of course once learning a trade, it is possible to start your own blue-collar service company.
Hey, you might laugh at plumbers, but those guys charge what they want. They make bank. And that’s just one example. Many other blue-collar contractors do just as well. Entrepreneur’s Education
Another alternative is taking the entrepreneurship route…skipping higher education completely. This choice will become more popular as college degrees are devalued.
I’ve recently become fascinated with rapid-skill building. This means learning only what you need, as quickly as possible. This way you achieve your goals in a short amount of time.
You are blessed with the internet. Everything you need to learn to make money can be found online, mostly free. And you can pay a premium for specific, high-quality information to fill the gaps in your knowledge.
You can learn theory in school, or practice and build skills in real life. Of course there are always exceptions. Some professions require a college degree. If you want to become a doctor, engineer, or judge, then college is required. But unless you plan on going into STEM or law, why bother?
Here is what being an entrepreneur will teach you. Sure you can learn some of these skills in school. But why pay for what you can get for free?
1. Creativity. Schools foster conformity, not creativity. They teach you how to follow orders and be a loyal and obedient employee. This is not a good mindset for a budding entrepreneur.
2. Marketing. Running a business successfully forces you to learn marketing. Learn how to sell yourself, or a product or service. This one of the most valuable skills in the world. That is true in all walks of life, not just business.
3. Technology skills. Learning how to run a business online is essential to success for many entrepreneurs today. These kinds of skill can be learned rapidly online with very little investment. WordPress, basic HTML, SEO, and content creation are just a few examples.
4. Real-world experience. And finally, being an entrepreneur introduces you to real life. College is like a cocoon, a buffer from the real world. Cutting the apron strings and standing on your own two feet is liberating.
You’ll obviously learn more than that, but those are some basics.
It’s easier to take risks when you are young. You have less to lose. It makes sense to chase your entrepreneurial dreams early. Don’t wait. It’s harder after you get older and get used to the security of bi-weekly paycheck.
And college is completely overpriced. For an aspiring entrepreneur, it is just not worth the cost. Why should you spend four years and taking on massive debt? For a degree with no guarantee of job?
Young entrepreneurs can and should avoid wasting time and money in universities . Money that they might have spent on college should go into starting a business instead. Don’t listen to your parents or guidance counselors. If you have entrepreneurship in your blood, then consider skipping college and starting your business immediately.
Do you think higher education is a waste of time for entrepreneurs?
I actually took them down from my wall a few days after ordering them as I wanted to paint my office to brighten it up a little bit.
And I never put them back.
Not because I’m lazy, but because I don’t need them. They motivated me enough in a few days to turn certain disciplines into habits, and I only looked at them again to take the photo for this blog post.
Just don’t wait for that motivation to come before taking action, as you’ll read later. Focus on One Thing
When you’re just starting out online, it’s so easy to get caught in the trap of trying to do anything and everything. There are so many products targeted at beginners offering the route to ‘quick success’, and it’s easy to fall for them.
If you are a total beginner to making money online, I think this is the section you’ll struggle with the most.
Me just saying to someone “don’t go and buy all those shiny looking marketing products” or “just stick with that one website and make it successful” has never actually worked in deterring people as far as I know. Instead, people seem to have to actually go through the pain of buying shitty products or the struggle of running dozens of sites before they realise the advice is solid.
If you’re not a total beginner then just think back to the products you’ve bought in this space before that didn’t even come close to delivering on their promises. Or maybe they did deliver the information they promised but you just ignored the parts which were to do with taking action.
In his book, The ONE Thing, Gary Keller talks about how passion and focus can lead to the kind of results you’re looking for, “Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve. Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results.”
So it may be one traffic source, one niche idea, one product you follow or one anything in this space that you decide to focus on. Stick with it long enough for one of three outcomes to happen: You gave it your best and it didn’t work, you’ve figured it out so thoroughly that you’re ready to move on to the next thing, or you see it through and dominate with your growing skillset.
You’ll know whether you’ve given something your all and you’re either ready for a different path or the next level of your current one.
To demonstrate the power of focusing on one thing for my own business ventures, I have a great story about a popular site I used to run.
After a year and a half living in Cape Town, I had moved back to England because my online projects were finally making me more money than my full-time marketing job. I started spending much more time writing for a personal development blog called PluginID (no longer online).
I really wasn’t focused at all on making money with the site; I just wanted to grow my audience.
While reading a personal development book (I wish I could remember which one), there was an exercise which suggested you write to your future self in a year, proud about a goal that you’ve achieved to see how it feels.
You know how most marketing and self-development books have exercises we just skip over? Well, for once, I actually completed this one.
I took the time to write myself a letter stating how good it felt that PluginID had passed the 10,000 subscriber mark (RSS was still huge at the time) and how I had got there. I maybe read this letter a couple of times, but honestly forgot about it.
Then after living in Amsterdam and Cape Town (again) for over a year, I returned to England one Christmas and started going through all of my stuff. That’s when I found the letter.
The funny thing is that by then the blog had surpassed the 10,000 subscriber goal, become one of the top 10 personal development blogs in the world and I later sold it for a mid-five-figure fee.
(For the curious, the site was quickly sold again a month later for a $10,000 profit. A devout Christian took over and changed the content focus dramatically, marking the beginning of the end.)
While I am not crazy enough to think that simply writing the letter helped me gain thousands of additional feed subscribers, I have no doubt that because it was a huge, sole focus of mine for the site (I didn’t have any income goals), my mind sought as many ways as possible to make that happen.
It’s important to have goals of course, but I had but a single goal for that site, and I truly believe that’s a huge reason why it was successful.
[b]Now if I had set myself the challenge of writing 7,000 words before 3pm and hadn’t written for weeks, I would be lying on the floor, crying for the day to end. To just jump into such a huge workload from nothing is not easy.
Yet when you choose the right disciplines for your goals and again, discipline yourself to stick to them until they become habitual, everything gets a lot easier.
In simple terms – and remember I did say I don’t think success is complicated – the whole process looks like this:
You have the motivation and desire to change something in your life. You define daily disciplines which you think will help you make that change a reality. You discipline yourself long enough for those actions to become habits. Your daily habits take over and shape your weeks, months and years, as you progress toward your targets.
If you think I’ve simplified things a little too much, I can only guess it’s because you haven’t implemented the right disciplines for yourself, and stuck with them.
The absolute best place to start is to make motivation your habit. Constantly top up the ideas and things that drive you, so the rest of the formula takes care of itself.
As another quick example, here are some pictures I printed to hang up on my wall a few months ago. [/b]
I know what the responds will be when most of you see this post and how lengthy it is, well thats me when i write, i try as much as possible to communicate my message very well with examples. i even went as far as hiring an editor to help me edit it, so please dont get scared, read it, i promise you will enjoy it. i just hope Cc: seun, lalasticlala, obinoscopy will be kind enough to move to FP
As we have entered a brand new year, your motivations are probably higher than ever to make 2016 the year to finally achieve all you’ve been dreaming of. Whether you’re starting a brand new foray into making money online or you’re hoping to take your current income to the next level, today’s guide is guaranteed to put you on the path to success.
Yet, to do so, I’m not going to give you the information you would probably expect:
I’m not going to give you a niche idea with no competition that is likely to make you millions this year. I’m not going to share any tips on how to get more visitors your website. I’m not going to ask you to opt-in for my ‘little black book’ of online success secrets
That kind of stuff hasn’t worked for you before. If it had, you wouldn’t be curious to read the rest of this article.
Let me be totally blunt with you: The rest of this post has as much to do with life in general as it has to do with making money online. It took me far too many of my 11 years building websites to realise this, but the strategies for success in both certainly seem to go hand in hand.
While there are certainly great resources out there to help you succeed online, they’re everywhere. I’ve written more than 500,000 words on this website alone – that’s enough to fill six marketing books – but knowledge in the hands of those who don’t use it is worthless.
Today I want you to consider achieving online success in a new light.
Not in terms of the niche you choose, how to get visitors or what to sell them, but what you can achieve by what you become and how a new perspective on work and life can dramatically increase your chances of crushing both.
Before we continue, I readily confess that I’m no productivity guru. I haven’t (yet) made 8-figures in a single year and I haven’t created any kind of app that is valued at billions of dollars.
All I can say is that after starting this very website ten years ago at the age of 16, I’ve personally interacted with over 10,000 people looking to ‘make it’ online, and it’s very clear why a lot of them – myself included – fail.
This guide is written as much for me as it is for you. More on that later.
If you truly want to make 2016 your year, get rid of the notion that you need some magic resolution, and be prepared for a mini-awakening. You’ll do far better following the fundamentals I’m about to reveal, than not. Live Like You’re on Commission, Not Salary
One of the best books I’ve read recently is entitled The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, by John C. Maxwell. It’s a very straight-forward, practical and to-the-point self-improvement tome. Just how I like them.
John covers many aspects of personal growth in the book, but I particularly like the story of the salesman who looked out a restaurant window and noticed a snowstorm brewing. He asked his waiter, “Do you think the roads will be clear enough in the morning to travel?” The waiter replied, “Depends if you’re on salary, or commission.”
The point of the story is that if you’re on a set salary, you’ll likely phone your boss and tell him the roads are too bad to travel. If you’re on commission, you’ve got to go and make the sale. Otherwise, you don’t eat.
In each scenario, there is a different why.
There’s the “Why would I go?” mentality, when you know you’re getting paid anyway. And then there’s the “Why would I not go?” mentality, when you need to put food on the table.
To have this commission mindset, which is always going to result in a lot more action, you must always keep in mind why you’re doing what you’re doing:
Are you trying to be a better example to your kids? Is there a dream house or car you want to own? Do you want to have more so you can give back more to others? Are you trying to attract a certain person into your life?
Depending on the country you live in, there’s probably a very easy way to make it to old age – and eventually your coffin – without putting in too much effort. You could find a part-time job, make friends with the local weed dealer and live off ramen noodles for a pretty long time.
Yet since you’ve found this website there has to be something else that is driving you to achieve more in life than the bare minimum.
Have you strongly identified what that why is?
It doesn’t matter if it’s spiritual, material or philosophical; just make sure you’re able to clearly define it.
I personally have far more than just one why for the things I want to achieve, and write down new ones every time they come to me. Just for the discipline of working out, I have eleven items written on the Notes app of my phone to remind myself of the reason I’m putting in the effort. I don’t always need to read them, but they’re there when I do.
There’s more to living like you’re on commission than just knowing your why for doing things.
When you’re paid a salary, it doesn’t matter how much additional work you do, you still get paid the same amount. Yet when you’re working for a commission, the more you sell, the more you get.
Do you want to live this life doing the same things and getting the same results, or do you want to be able to get more by doing more and becoming more?
We are INCREDIBLY fortunate (bold and italics don’t express my feelings strongly enough) to live in a time where we have the opportunity to say “I want to become an online millionaire” and actually have some chance of making that happen. A time where we can say – today I’m going to write five articles on this topic and try to rank this site in Google – and have everything at our disposal to do so.
You have a PC. You have an Internet connection. And you have some way of inputting words and ideas onto the Internet. Even just leaving a comment on this very article could result in someone discovering you for the first time, finding your website and connecting with you in a new way.
We’ll never truly grasp how lucky we are, but at least try to work like you know it.
Find your why and realise how limitless our potential is because we actually have the freedom to put our desires into action. Trust in the Compound Effect
The definition of compounding, in the investing world is, “The ability of an asset to generate earnings, which are then reinvested in order to generate their own earnings. In other words, compounding refers to generating earnings from previous earnings.”
To put that another way: Over time the small things stack up to help you earn bigger things.
This is an important concept to keep in mind, especially because we live in a society where quick fix solutions are constantly presented to us. We’ve got:
The fast ways to lose weight. The tips to speed up language learning The promise of finding a perfect partner, tonight. The best strategies to get rich from the Internet, often within a 7 or 30-day timeframe.
If you believe these quick fixes truly exist in some magical manner, the fastest way to rid your beliefs is to suffer the pain of wasting money on them. You will no doubt still be looking for a solution afterwards.
Ironically, positive results tend to find you a lot quicker when consistency becomes your focus, rather than speed.
The headline for this section was lifted from one of my favourite books, The Compound Effect, by Darren Hardy. In it, Darren says, “It’s not the big things that add up in the end; it’s the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.”
And doing them consistently over a period of time.
I’m willing to bet that if you were able to travel in time and follow the daily life of anyone in modern history who has been successful, your initial excitement would quickly be replaced by boredom.
If you sat down with Bill Gates through his daily programming, Stephen King through his daily writing, Jay Cutler through his daily workouts or Beethoven through his daily piano practice, likely very little would change day to day.
As exciting as we may often predict the lives of these people are, I’m also willing to bet for the most part – at least while on the path to success – they were very mundane. Not to take anything away from them of course, I’m sure they have fond memories of these moments.
Yet it’s unlikely you’ll feel like you’re living in the movie The Social Network, where everything snowballs, seemingly overnight.
The compound effect can show up in many areas of life. When you start a new fitness routine, for example, you see very little difference in results day by day and neither will those around you. Yet as the weeks and months go on, as long as you stick to the plan, the results will become a lot more evident.
If you haven’t seen certain people for a while, they’ll likely make some comments on your physique that confirm you’re on the right track.
The day to day doesn’t change very much but the end result – where all the little parts of your effort compound on top of each other – shows a far more radical change.
The thing I love about the compound effect is not only the results it can generate, but the entire concept of it.
I mean think about it. All it asks of you is that you do something small, today.
It’s not asking you to jump out of bed and run a marathon. It’s not asking you to write that novel that’s stuck in your head. It’s not asking you to give a speech in Chinese. Instead, all it asks is that you run today. That you write some pages. That you add words to your vocabulary.
And the final thing it asks is to do the same thing again tomorrow. The end result being that all of those little actions you repeat over a period of time will result in something much bigger.
Could you perform some small action today towards one of your goals? We both know the answer to that.
To give a more personal example, a couple of weeks ago I decided to undertake what is probably going to be one of the biggest challenges of my life. I would rather not say what it is in case I ‘fail’ at it once again, but it’s on the scale of writing a 300-page book from scratch, memorising large portions of the Bible or learning to read hieroglyphics.
When you begin to undertake such large challenges, the long road ahead can look daunting. Yet, if you hack away at the mountain of work piece by piece, it can be surprising how quickly you start making some serious progress.
Just writing 500 words per day on your book is certainly manageable, wouldn’t you agree? In a month you would have written almost a quarter of the size of most business books.
Just reading 20 pages of the Bible per day means you will have gone through 600 pages by the end of a month. Learn five words per day of a new language and there’s 150 new words added to your vocabulary each month.
Trust that your little actions over a long period of time can result in huge rewards and watch your results flourish. Make Motivation Your Habit
I’m a very adamant believer that while being successful is not easy, it is also not complicated. In fact, I think the entire path to becoming successful can be summed up in this section alone.
The first requirement to be successful – in whatever way you define success – is to have the motivation to be successful.
Having the desire to succeed and create more for yourself and others.
Once you have this desire to improve – to change – you then need to look at the disciplines which will best help you make progress.
Let’s assume for a minute that ViperChill is the only thing I have going on in my life. Imagine that I have no goals in life other than to make this the best marketing blog in the world and to share better niche ideas than anyone else on the planet. With that desire, the best disciplines I can possibly implement are to wake up early, and to write.
Waking up early helps me to get more done in a day, and writing is without a doubt the best way I produce content (trust me on this one). I could try to improve sharing my message via other media, but I’ve been doing this long enough to know that for me, the best thing I can do is to produce more (and more valuable) written content.
Once I’ve defined the discipline then I need to…well…discipline myself to make sure I do just that.
As you’re likely well aware, if you do something consistently over a period of time, that action becomes a habit.
If I push myself to perform a challenging action often enough, I will get to a point where it becomes much easier. So waking up early and writing straight away becomes an action I take as if on autopilot. This is actually the case for me right now, but I assure you I have other things I wish to achieve.
Reaching this almost autopilot state is the point where you need far less motivation and far less willpower to actually get something done.
I’m not struggling to write this at all; I’ve been doing this for months at a time, for years of my life. When I take a break and get back into it, writing is initially difficult. But once the habit has resurfaced there is very little mental challenge. You can see from what I shared before New Year that it’s no longer rare for me to wake up and write.
You wanted to be rich by all means so you went to a native doctor he said you will be the richest man on earth in one condition, that you will be mad for one full year, . you agreed and you have been mad for eleven months and thirty days, remaining just a day, a pastor from no where came and cast the spirit of madness out of you. What will you do?.
wapmingle: Popular music stars, Davido and Wizkid has finally proved that their beef is over as they headlined the Grand Finale of the Remy Martin club tour that held at Ocean View, Victoria Island, Lagos yesterday
Well, this video says a lot about what went down at the Remy Martin Grand Finale.
The pop stars where seen voicing out the lyrics of each other’s songs while the teeming fans reeled and watched in amazement the level of maturity and composure they displayed on stage
Popular music stars, Davido and Wizkid has finally proved that their beef is over as they headlined the Grand Finale of the Remy Martin club tour that held at Ocean View, Victoria Island, Lagos yesterday
Well, this video says a lot about what went down at the Remy Martin Grand Finale.
The pop stars where seen voicing out the lyrics of each other’s songs while the teeming fans reeled and watched in amazement the level of maturity and composure they displayed on stage
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Education › Re: School Sucks! Why Going To College Is A Waste Of Time - Marvejohndaily.com by wapmingle(op): 10:39am On Feb 06, 2016
