Category: People

Trust isn’t given on a platter; no one can trust you except you are deemed trustworthy.

There are some habits you show that will make people to trust you, and there are some habits that will make people not to have trust in you.

If you want people to trust you, then these habits should be part of you:

1. Transparency

Transparency is about being open, having nothing to hide, not withholding information and telling the truth. When you are transparent, you make it easy for people to trust you.

2. Be a person of your words

Unfulfilled promises make it hard for people to trust you. Be a person of your words; when you say something, try as much as possible to keep to your words. People will trust you when you are a person of your words.

3. Be original

Be your real self; don’t try to copy any one else. When you are who you are, you make it easy for people to trust compared to when you try to be someone else.

4. Take responsibilities for your actions

Don’t try to justify your mistakes or pour blames on someone else when you are the one at fault. Be the kind of person who takes responsibility for their actions. You become reliable in the eyes of people when you have this habit.

5. Be ready to forgive

We are humans, and we could make mistakes; we could misinterpret certain actions and take wrong decisions. When you are found in such a dilemma, just apologise for any wrong done. Be the kind of person who apologises when wrong. Apologies are simple yet hard to give; people who apologise sincerely for a mistake are easily trusted than those who fail to apologise.

6. Learn

Learn how to talk to people, learn from every mistake made and learn how to deal with people since we are all different. Make an effort to treat people better, and they will learn to trust you.

7. Demonstrate behaviors that show you care

People want you to care about them and not just yourself, people want you to show an interest in what they are going through. Practice empathy, learn to put yourself in people’s shoes, try to show that you actually care, and you wouldn’t only earn the person’s trust, you’ll also win their hearts.

Trust is earned, and when you have these habits, people will learn to trust you. Trust is needed in your relationship, business, workplace and your dealings with people, and this is how you can inspire trust.

Vikas Shah, a Professor of Entrepreneurship revealed the secrets of billionaires to Daily Mail after interviewing and working with some of the richest people in the world.

Below are 10 secrets to success of billionaires

1. Find your passion

You can’t achieve financial freedom if you don’t find out what you are passionate about. Don’t just chose a career path because you feel it pays the most; your passion can become a huge wealth generator for you.

2. Don’t give up easily

Every billionaire had moments when everything didn’t seem to work but they never gave up. If you want to achieve financial freedom, you have to be resilient and be able to get back up when life knocks you down.

3. Don’t chase wealth

Every single billionaire Prof Vikas Shah interviewed always told the same thing about starting a business – starting a business should never be about money. When your aim about going into business is just to make money, you might never achieve the financial freedom you desire. When starting a business, you should think about making a big change in the world, whether that’s revolutionising technology, solving a problem, improving lives or creating something. When you achieve this, wealth will follow.

4. Take care of yourself

According to Prof Shah, all the billionaires he interviewed were committed to their health. Billionaires ensure they sleep well, eat well, take breaks to ensure they are in peak performance.

5. Give

Prof Shah also discovered all the billionaires he interviewed and worked with love giving. So if you want to achieve financial success, you shouldn’t just be interested in just receiving; make a commitment to change lives by giving.

6. Think long-term

You can’t create a sustainable business if you only think short-term. According to Prof Shah, most billionaires are constantly thinking about how they can make their business sustainable, often long after they’re gone. If you want to be successful, you have to think long-term.

7. Ideas aren’t enough…execution is also important

Another important trait Prof Shah discovered about billionaires is that even though ideas are important, they aren’t enough. Just because you have the best ideas doesn’t mean you will make it. Having a great idea is important but executing the idea is even more important.

8. Have a team

According to Prof Shah, every single billionaire he met always credited their success to their team. To achieve financial freedom, you need to have a brilliant team who are motivated and led by your passion.

9. Have a mentor

Prof Shah discovered every single billionaire he met has a mentor, a coach or a close friend they can confide in. According to Prof Shah, finding a mentor is important because “nobody knows all the answers.”

10. Be yourself

Prof Shah also discovered the secret to being a billionaire is being yourself. If you want to achieve financial success, don’t try to be someone else, just be yourself.

Money is one of the most sought-after things on the planet, and you’ll agree with me that our daily lives revolve around the use of money — which makes money very important. Though, I’m still of the school of thought which believes that money isn’t everything, even though it’s very important.

Check out these interesting quotes by famous people about money:

1. “Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” — Benjamin Franklin

2. “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.” — Maya Angelou

3. “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” — Jonathan Swift

4. “Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” — Jim Rohn

5. “It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.” — Billy Idol

6. “Never spend your money before you have earned it.” — Thomas Jefferson

7. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

8. “Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.” — James W. Frick

9. “Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.” — Henry Fielding

10. “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.” — Ben Franklin

11. “Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.” — Erich Fromm

12. “It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.” — Billy Idol

13. “It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” — George Lorimer

14. “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” — Henry David Thoreau

15. “If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” — Edmund Burke

Life isn’t governed by a magic wand. There are some simple rules in life that you ought to follow, and doing the opposite might make you end up on the wrong side.

These are some simple rules in life that would make you better.

1. If you don’t try, you’d always fail. People live their lives in fear, and because of fear, they fail to try, they fail to chase their dreams and they fail to reach their full potential. Guess what? If you don’t try, you’d always fail.

2. If you don’t take a step forward, you’ll always be in the same place.

Literally, you have to take a step to go forward; if you don’t take a step, you’ll always remain at that point. That’s how life is; you have to take a step in order to move forward, else you will remain stagnated.

3. If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. It doesn’t get simpler than this; if you are scared of going after what you want, you’ll never have it.

Your ethics in life define who you are; it says a lot about how far you can go in life, and in a way, your core value and your daily activities centre around your ethics in life.

The following life ethics would take you far in life.

1. Before you pray, believe. Your prayers wouldn’t mean a thing if you don’t believe.

2. Before you complain, appreciate. Many people complain about things going wrong in their lives, but fail to appreciate what’s going right for them. If you can take a little bit of time to appreciate what’s actually working for you, you will feel a lot more better about life.

3. Before you speak, listen. This is a basic part of communication. When this principle is missing, communication becomes ineffective. If you want to build better communication with your partner and people you come across, learn to listen. Besides, it makes you wiser.

4. Before you quit, try. People want to be successful, but they end up quitting before their point of success. Learn to try and try again, and never quit.

5. Before you spend, earn. As simple as this ethic might seem, it’s hard for people to practice. This is the reason people go broke and enter into debts, it’s why people can’t save and it’s why people’s finances are in a mess.

6. Before you die, live. You’ve got one life to live, but it’s surprising to find that many people are just existing and not living. Give life your best shot, learn to live in the moment and forget the past, and more importantly, learn to be who you are and enjoy what life has got to offer every single day.

Getting that dream job could be quite an impossible feat sometimes, and sometimes even that dream job might not really feel like a dream job when you get it. Certain work situations might make you feel unsatisfied and unhappy, and you’ll just keep carrying that burden day by day, and you might not even know it.

These are some signs that show you are unhappy at work.

1. You isolate yourself

When you start to pull yourself from fellow employees at your workplace, it could just be a sign that you are unhappy at work. Ordinarily, staffs who are satisfied tend to have a good working relationship with fellow employees. Isolation is a sign of unhappiness and even depression.

2. You become moody frequently

When your mood swing becomes too frequent at work, and you switch from being happy to being unhappy even when nothing was done to you, it’s another sign that you are unhappy at work.

3. You no longer give your best

A happy worker would always put in his/her best shot or at least close to your best. But this wouldn’t be the case when you’re unhappy. When you stop giving work your best shot and you stop putting in efforts to be good at what you do, it suggests that your happiness level has dropped drastically.

4. You no longer care

This is another huge sign that shows you are unhappy at work. When you are happy at work, you’ll care about your job, about your performance and even about your colleagues. But when that happiness is no longer there, you wouldn’t care about anything regarding that job.

5. You start slacking

When your approach to work starts becoming nonchalant and it doesn’t bother you, then it points that something could be wrong. If you start coming late to work, sleeping during work time, call in sick too often just to miss work and show a lack of interest in work activities and work-related activities, it only shows that you are unhappy with work.

Once you start exhibiting these signs at work, then it means something is wrong and your happiness level at work is now on the low.

One thing every boss hate in common is lateness to work. Every employer expects an employee to be punctual and avoid lateness, but lateness is an issue many employees have time after time, and they always have an excuse for it.

These are some common excuses people give for going to work late.

1. “I woke up late”

This is a dumb excuse that will infuriate your boss. It passes a message that you aren’t a professional and that you don’t take your work seriously.

2. Traffic

Traffic is another terrible excuse many give for going late to work, but it’s also inexcusable. Your boss expects you to know the scope of traffic in your area and beat the traffic too.

3. Distance

This is another common excuse people give for lateness to work. But to your boss, it’s a lame excuse because your boss expects you to live close to your workplace or leave for work early enough if you stay far away.

4. Family issues

A lot of family issues could make one come late to work, but your boss will have none of it if it has nothing to do with illness and death; anything other than this will be seen as a lame excuse by your boss.

5. Weather

If your boss beats the weather and is at work, he’d expect you to do the same, and except the weather condition is extreme, your boss will see your excuse as lame.

6. Car issues

Car issues like running out of fuel, and other similar problems will be seen as being disorganised by your boss, and another poor excuse.

Lateness for work isn’t something many bosses condone, and it gives a terrible reputation in your boss’s eyes.

There’s no perfect human being, but as imperfect as we are, every boss hates it when an employee makes a mistake. It’s normal to make a mistake, but when your mistakes at work becomes too frequent, then your job might be at risk.

If you’ve been making too many mistakes at work, then these tips are for you.

1. Acknowledge your mistake

Try to be responsible for your actions; know where you went wrong and the mistakes you are making at work. The first step to correcting your mistake is to acknowledge you made a mistake.

2. Learn to take corrections

Don’t feel too big to mend your ways and take corrections. Listen to your boss and your colleagues and take corrections where need be.

3. Learn from each mistake

Don’t beat yourself up because of a mistake you made, you’d only lower your morale. Instead try to learn from each mistake; let every mistake be a lesson. Look back at each mistake you make and try to make yourself better from it.

4. Earn back the trust

When you make mistakes, people lose trust in you; they’d see you as incompetent and would avoid designating important tasks to you. After you’ve learnt from each mistake, try to rebuild the trust little by little; don’t be in a hurry to impress anyone, just try to be better with each day.

5. Believe in yourself

Try to have a little more faith in yourself; overcoming those mistakes start from your mind. Forget what people are saying about you; just believe in yourself.

6. Be calm

Learn to be calm; the calmer you are, the better you’d work, no matter the pressure. Remain calm and you’ll feel less pressure.

Are you making too many mistakes at work? Is your job on the line because of your mistakes? Practice these tips and you’d only get better.

25 is an important age in the life of someone. It is the age that one is truly considered mature and ready to take on life. 21 is the official age of adulthood, but you’re not really there until 4 years later. At 25, a lot is expected of you as a person, both from your family and friends. And although I acknowledge that things don’t always go as planned most of the time, there still are basic things that are expected of one by the time they turn 25; they include…

Good communication skills

Children struggle to communicate sometimes because they’re children, and are still developing mentally, however as an adult, you have no reason to not be able to communicate properly with those around you. At 25, you would have gone into the real world, and you’ll meet people of different calibre and class, it’s your ability to communicate with them clearly that will help you through those meetings. So it’s important to work on your communication skills, your diction, accent, your body language and everything you need to reach out to people properly.

Know what you’re great at

Every single human has a talent in them; a gift from nature, something they’re very good at, which is meant to stand them out from the pack. For some it’s sports, others music, acting, comedy, oratory, hosting, etc. So it’s down to you to identify whatever it is your own gift is. Some people notice theirs very early, and others a bit later; but it’s important to know as early as possible, because the earlier you know, the earlier you’ll put it to good use. At 25, you ought to have identified your talent, and started using it to affect lives.

Computer literacy

I don’t need to remind you that the world is transforming quickly into a fully computerized system. If you do not know how to use certain technological tools, it’ll be hard for you to survive in the present world we live in. Computers are replacing manual labor to an extent, and employers no longer hire those who do not know how to use a PC. So imagine how difficult it’ll be to land a job without a good knowledge of the computer. So by the time you’re 25, it’s necessary to have acquired all necessary knowledge there is about technology and computers.

Ooze confidence

At 25, you’re considered a real man or woman. At that age you’re expected to have overcome shyness, and be more confident and bold. You should be able to comfortably interact with people of the opposite sex. You should be comfortable with meeting new people and having fun around them. It’s not as easy as I make it seem, I know, but I also know that it’s not impossible to achieve this.

Have (a) guiding principle (s)

Guiding principles are more or less, a set of beliefs or rules that a person lives by. Guiding principles will make you more disciplined and mature as you pursue your life’s goals. A person without a guiding principle cannot go as far as they should in their life’s endeavours because they wouldn’t have the right attitude and discipline to. By 25, you must have established a set of beliefs and rules for yourself, and follow them to the latter.

Have a definite plan for tomorrow

What do you want out of life? Where do you want to be tomorrow? You must have these thoughts, analysed it thoroughly, and identified the ways you’ll go about achieving them. A person without a plan for their life is as good as dead because they don’t even know where they’re going from where they are. They don’t know why they’re alive, and their purpose in life.

Good luck being everything you want to become!

Trust isn’t given for free; it is earned. To gain someone’s trust and make them trust you, you have to prove a lot by your actions. People will only trust you when they have tested you, and it’s in the things that you do every day that would make people to either trust you or not.

There are people who are trustworthy and there are people who aren’t trustworthy, and it’s what they do that separate them.

Below are the reasons why certain people are trusted.

1. They keep to their words

Trustworthy people try as much as possible to keep to their words; when they say something, they try to do it. However, an untrustworthy person would say so much and do nothing. People who say what they do tend to gain people’s trust.

2. Honesty

Trustworthy persons are honest; they tell the truth always and they don’t live fake lives. They wouldn’t try to be deceitful or take advantage of you. Because of their honesty, people tend to trust them.

3. They are reliable

Trustworthy people are people you can depend on, no matter what. You can rely on them to be there for you or stick to their words. They are believable and with them you are assured that they won’t hurt you or deceive you or do something negative.

4. They have integrity

Trustworthy people live a life of integrity; their characters and actions show integrity. They are honest and have good character; they tend to do what’s right.

5. They are accountable for their actions

Even when they make mistakes, trustworthy people don’t pass the blame onto someone else; they take responsibility for their actions.

6. They are consistent

Trustworthiness is built with consistency. They aren’t trustworthy today and untrustworthy the next day; they are trustworthy every day.

7. They are original

Trustworthy people don’t try to live a fake like or be someone else; they are who they are. Trustworthy people are real, and people take them for who they really are.

The key to being trustworthy lies in what you do, not what you say. People will only trust you when they see these qualities in you.