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Learn from mistakes and set-backs (yours and other people__), pick yourself up, make necessary changes and try again. I once came across a saying that went something like, __he wise learn from the mistakes made by fools!_ So at some point we all have been fools, I suppose, since we all make mistakes.

Dreams are difficult to measure if they remain wishes _ crystallise them into measurable goals with specific targets and action plans. Goals/objectives are easier to measure when broken down into tasks with clear targets and deadlines.

The question is what kind of stuff do you immerse your mind in? What kind of food does your brain feed on? What kind of exercise does it get and for what purpose? What do you spend time listening to? What thoughts do you entertain? All these are the processes that form the conveyor belt into your subconscious mind.

Everything you love, enjoy, respect or value will somehow find top priority, even without excessive conscious reminders. Show respect through the way you manage time, especially when others are involved or affected.

Have you positioned yourself to be reachable and accessible by those you seek to serve and make an impact on? Do they know where and how to find you, either physically or in the cyber realm? If they cannot reach you for whatever reason, then you have not done your homework, because you are supposed to have a strategy to reach them before they can even look for you! Otherwise someone else will meet them along the way as they look for you.

People are different and it is this uniqueness that also makes it imperative for the definition or meaning of success be left to each individual to determine.

To achieve your desired success you have to be effectively selling something and to be significant in impact, you must be teaching somehow. How effectively are you selling and how well are you teaching?

An entrepreneurial spirit makes you someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business enterprise, talent or calling to become an agent of change.

There must be a season for everything that measures what success means to you, there must be a deliberately scheduled time slot for the things that are important to you. Wishing is not enough, deliberate plans followed by deliberate actions make it possible.

Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail.

So why don__ we take the step of setting goals for ourselves? One reason that stands out is that we aren__ willing to accept full responsibility for our lives. If we don__ set goals, then we don__ have to reach them. Another excuse is that goal setting has never been part of our lives or culture. As a result, we may end up mixing with people who have no clear idea where they are headed, becoming a person who __ollows the followers.

The setting of SMART goals has been written about extensively over the decades, but will only be as useful as the extent to which its principles are used.

Your age reflects or measures the rate at which you have been spending life. Every one born into this world is given life and that life is measured in units of time. Spending time means spending life, wasting time means wasting life. Getting value out of time means, getting value out of life. Time does not stop moving because we stopped working with purpose, meaning life does not stop or take a break even when you plan to go on vacation. You never stop spending time, even when you don__ have a penny in your pocket.

Money might be a reward (by-product) but should not always be the only goal of your efforts and enterprise.

People and organisations should want to be associated with you as a brand. A sign of a depleted and irrelevant brand is unwillingness of your market or peers to associate with you.

If you can listen to yourself and obey yourself more, then you have increased your chances for attaining personal effectiveness.

If the African stars do not rise, are not known, remain obscure, their stories are not told _ who and where is the African story teller? Your challenge if you are in the media is to continually ask if you are doing enough, using the appropriate strategies and at the right platforms. Let__ create and promote international and global stars with the talent and skills in our people, no one will do it for us.

So many voices are out there, both excellent and mediocre, do you have a credible solution for the needs of your target market or audience? _ prove the authenticity of your substance. Do you have what it takes to make a difference? Whilst some come as talents, their development to excellence and maturity will not come without passion, resolve, productive work ethic and opportunity.