Q: You have been associated with teaching people how to succeed in life and business, how to create wealth, and so on. But some think you are into pastoral engagement, strictly…
A: Well, a lot of people recognised me for my broadcasts on Success Power
before they knew me. I am a pastor. The truth is that I have multiple
gifts but the dominant one, from different gift tests I have taken, is
teaching. And that can come in different dimensions. It simply means
being able to get and structure information, and to teach it in a way
that people can apply it to their lives with tangible results. So, on
the platform of the Church I pastor, but on the platform of Success
Power, which is non-religious, I am a teacher, coach and
consultant.
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Q: Strictly, can success or wealth creation be taught in a structured way or better still in a classroom?
A:: My life changed radically when I discovered that there are definite principles that control the achievement of success. As I began to learn them from books and apply them to my life, I started to get amazing results. Principles have no respect for race, colour, or social status. If you learn and obey the principles of aerodynamics, you can fly a plane whether you are Black, White, or brown. Yes, success and wealth creation can be taught in a structured way.
Q: What is the place of information in wealth creation?
A: Information is about everything in wealth creation. It is like asking
what is the place of a tree without roots, or what is the place of a
building without a foundation? A long time ago, wealth creation was
built on agriculture: ownership of land and the ability to cultivate
crops and livestock. And then, we moved into the Industrial Age. Now
we are in the Information Age. In other words, we are getting back
closer to the origin of everything. This material world was created
with intangible resources, the most basic of which is thought. The
people who control the world the most are those who have control of
these intangible resources. Ideas are the primary resources with which
we create things. You recognise people’s needs with your mind and you
create products or services to meet those needs with your mind. The
major difference between a rich man and a poor man is the way they
think. Information is the baseline.
Q: Recently, some South Africans initiated a series of attacks against
some other nations, accusing them of taking the jobs that rightly belong
to them. What do you have to say about this?
A: The situation in South Africa is simply a failure of leadership and it is not just the South Africa problem; it is an African problem. It is primarily a cultural problem borne out of our history of slavery and colonisation and Apartheid. I wrote in my book, The Second Revolution, that people who experience slavery and colonisation always inherit a mindset of poverty, low self-esteem, mediocrity (which is poor quality living) and a sense of irresponsibility because the slave owner provides everything for the slave. The mindset and skills that you need to operate in freedom are different from the one you used to survive in slavery. So, I quite sympathise with South Africans who have seen foreigners prospering right before their eyes in the free South Africa that they fought and died for. I will, however, encourage our South African brothers and sisters to realise that driving away and killing of foreigners will not automatically make them to prosper. They need to address the root of the problem. I encourage them to take the long look, go for training, and acquire professional and management skills. Also, they should no longer elect leaders who fuel this feeling of hatred and bitterness, but those who will help them to upgrade their skills. This applies to other African countries, including Nigeria as well.
A: The situation in South Africa is simply a failure of leadership and it is not just the South Africa problem; it is an African problem. It is primarily a cultural problem borne out of our history of slavery and colonisation and Apartheid. I wrote in my book, The Second Revolution, that people who experience slavery and colonisation always inherit a mindset of poverty, low self-esteem, mediocrity (which is poor quality living) and a sense of irresponsibility because the slave owner provides everything for the slave. The mindset and skills that you need to operate in freedom are different from the one you used to survive in slavery. So, I quite sympathise with South Africans who have seen foreigners prospering right before their eyes in the free South Africa that they fought and died for. I will, however, encourage our South African brothers and sisters to realise that driving away and killing of foreigners will not automatically make them to prosper. They need to address the root of the problem. I encourage them to take the long look, go for training, and acquire professional and management skills. Also, they should no longer elect leaders who fuel this feeling of hatred and bitterness, but those who will help them to upgrade their skills. This applies to other African countries, including Nigeria as well.
Q: What qualifies you to teach people about wealth creation and how to achieve success?
A: As it is often said, you cannot give what you don’t have. I had a
first-class experience with poverty and failure before. I know what it’s
like to brush your teeth without toothpaste, or to buy used clothes.
Well, that was then; this is now. Things have changed and I can describe
how it happened. I discovered the principles for success and wealth
creation, I applied them and I have results to show. I have an amazing
and beautiful wife, and lovely children. I have results to show in my
career and my finances. I have founded several organisations with
hundreds of people in employment. And there must be a reason why I am
invited to speak at conferences around the world. Of course, I attribute
every achievement to the grace of God. I believe that I have one or two
things to share with a person who is aspiring to a better life. But
more than that, I have been specifically called by God to do it.
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Q: How did you get into success teaching stuff?
A: Well, I grew up in a middle-class family in Nigeria. I studied Civil
Engineering so I could work in my father’s construction company. But
things went bad for his business, and we experienced difficult times. By
the time I was done studying engineering, there was no company in which
to work. So, I began to search for a job. It took me almost two years
to get one. As difficult as that experience was, I didn’t realise it was
going to turn into an advantage in the sense that it helped me to
experience what an average person goes through in our country. In my
quest to find a way through, I stumbled on books that taught me basic
principles and attitudes that guarantee success. I began to apply them.
It was literally a revolution. My life changed. Candidly, I was not
doing this because of anybody. I was doing that to liberate myself. But
along the line I realised that the whole experience was to position me
to be able to add value to other people’s lives.
Q:You were trained as an engineer; how did you get into pastoral work?
A: When I was in school, I accepted Christ as my Lord and Saviour, and received forgiveness of my sins. Then, I had a strange experience. I would pray and in my imagination I would see something like video clips. I would see myself standing before people to speak. Later I realised God was asking me to be a minister of the Gospel. So, while I was actually studying Engineering, I became active in church activities. I love to pray for people and to show them truths from the Word of God. I get more fulfillment than I could ever get making money as a contractor.
Q: We understand that you run a coaching programme. What is it about? Is it coaching about pastorship or what?
A: Yes, indeed, I run an executive coaching programme. While pastoring
sometimes involves a bit of coaching, my coaching programme is
completely separate from my work as a pastor. February 2015 made it
exactly 20 years that I began to teach people the principles
for success on Radio. Over those years, the results have been
phenomenal. However, when you teach like that on the media, you give so
many people the same information. It is like a fashion designer who
sews a dress that is of the same size for millions of people. For
some, the size will be right, but for some others it will either
be too small or too large. Many who have heard me over the last
twenty years have just not been able to apply those principles with
results. That is the gap that coaching bridges. With coaching, not
only do you teach people the principles, also you take them step by
step through the application of the principles and the end result
is that they can achieve their goals. So, what we are having is an
evolution of our success development programme. The next phase is
taking it to the public where people would have the opportunity of
interacting with me. That will be happening in two months’ time.
Q: Please explain more about the coaching programme, since you are trained
as a pastor. What would you be saying without quoting the Bible?
A: Let’s get it clear here. I have also received training for skills apart
from pastoring especially with respect to my teaching of success and
leadership. I have a Master’s degree in Leadership Studies from a U.K
university, and I am a doctoral student of Strategic Leadership at the
moment. What I do in my coaching class is completely different from what
I do on the pulpit.
Q: Do you also have a coach or a mentor? What is the difference between a
mentor and a coach, or better still, between mentoring and coaching?
A: Well, I have many mentors in different areas of my life. Some I have
met in person, others I have met through their products such as books,
CDs (Compact Discs), videos. What makes them my mentors is the fact that
I accept their advice. At a point in my life, Rev. George Adegboye
coached me for life and ministry. In the last 20 years, Dr. David
Oyedepo has been my coach. The difference between a mentor and a
coach is that a mentor is interested in you as an individual
usually, and where possible cultivates a relationship with you. When
it comes to coaching, there is a definite end that is desired. It is
focused more on performance and there are certain skills you need to
acquire in order to achieve that end result.
Q: We have read about your coming to Lagos with just a pair of shoes and a few shirts. How did the transformation then happen?
A: Yes, I remember the day I moved to Lagos from Kwara State. It was in
June 1991, and yes, I had on a white shirt, a pair of brown trousers,
and a pair of white shoes. Weird colour combinations! I had a travelling
bag hung on my shoulder, and nobody looked a second time at the guy who
had just arrived the city. For close to two years I stayed with a
wonderful family. I must say that the transformation happened inside me
before it happened on the outside. I opened my mind to information.
As a man thinks, so he is. I realised that God gave me an equipment
called imagination. Any picture that becomes dominant there will
ultimately attract its material equivalent into your life. So, I
focused on dreaming in my early days in Lagos. When I rode on the
bus, it was my physical body that was in the bus. In my imagination I
was in my own car driving around the city. Sometimes I would be in an
aircraft flying out of the airport in Lagos and around the world,
all in my imagination. When I went to the roadside cafeteria which
we call buka, it was only my body that was there. On my inside, I
was dining in the best hotels. When I walk on the road, I saw
people driving beautiful cars. I used it as an opportunity to say
to myself: “In this Lagos, we will drive these beautiful cars
together.” Everything human being functions like a magnet. If a magnet
does not have the power to attract an object, you can reduce the size of
that object, and that is what people do: they reduce the size of their
dreams. The alternative is for you to put more power in the magnet. As
my thinking changed through the information I took in, I began to
attract people, opportunities, and resources I had never attracted
before. Truly, information is the foundation for transformation. What I
am saying is that the level changed by re-organising my thought life.
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Q: What are the key wealth-building principles that have worked for you?
A: The first basic principle is just the understanding that real money is
not the paper or the coin. Real money is value. If you have something
that can meet a need in someone’s life, either to cure their
sicknesses, their ignorance, hunger, homelessness, or nakedness,
money will come to you. So, those are the foundational principles. To
create products and services, I have had to develop skills to create
solutions with expertise. I try to serve with excellence. Also, I have
developed management skills. I always have a spending plan. I give,
save, take care of needs and invest. Giving is critical. If you don’t
overcome greed, you’ll be amazed to learn how difficult it is to control
money.
Q: Which are the seven most impactful books that have helped you on the journey to the top?
A: Well, first the Bible. Second, “The Fourth Dimension”, by Dr.
David Yonggi Cho. Others include “Think And Grow Rich” by Napolean
Hill; “Tough Times Never Last But Tough People Do”, by Dr. Robert
Schuller; “Towards Excellence in Life and Ministry” by Dr. David
Oyedepo; “The Purpose Driven Church” by Rick Warren, “The Cash Flow
Quadrant” by Robert Kiyosaki. There surely are others.
Q: We understand that you had at one time attempted to travel out of the
country in search of greener pasture? What then, changed your game plan?
A: Well, first, God so worked it that I was refused visas by several
embassies over and over until one day I sat down and asked myself a
basic question: What was I supposed to do. My eyes opened to the
opportunities in my environment. The book, “Acres of Diamonds”, by
Russell Cornwall, explains it. It helps us to realise that the best
opportunities we are looking for are the ones closest to us at the
moment. What I just simply saw was the enormity of the needs that people
have in Nigeria. And I devoted myself to pumping out information that
would help people to change their circumstances. It’s amazing how
everything changed for me right here in Nigeria. Instead of struggling
to succeed, I decided to help other people to succeed.
Q: What would you regard as the most difficult problem you have encountered, and how did you overcome it?
A: Candidly, the most difficult problem I have encountered is changing my
thinking. I teach people that they need to change their thinking. If
their thinking can change, their lives would change. But I always add
that the reason many peoples’ lives don’t change is that it is hard to
change one’s thinking. In fact, it is warfare.
Thoughts have a way of strengthening themselves in the mind overtime to the extent that the Bible describes a mindset as a stronghold. You see when thoughts come into our minds, they are in a fluid state. If they stay there long enough, they solidify. I found out that with persistence, mindsets do change.
Thoughts have a way of strengthening themselves in the mind overtime to the extent that the Bible describes a mindset as a stronghold. You see when thoughts come into our minds, they are in a fluid state. If they stay there long enough, they solidify. I found out that with persistence, mindsets do change.
Q:How do you see failure generally?
A: Well, I see failure on two levels: There is a difference between
failure as a person and failure as an event. I will take on the event
first. When something does not work out, I have come to see that it is
an opportunity to learn. Those who invented the technologies that have
helped us the most never got them right the first time. Their attempts
took trying and failing many times; changing their approach and trying,
again, before they finally got what worked. Why should we think that the
achievement of success in any area of our lives should be different?
So, I tell people that if your library on success does not have a book
on failure, your library is not yet complete. I have tried many things
that did not work, maybe one day, I will try to catalogue all of them in
a book and if I will give it a title it will be ‘How to Fail
Successfully’, taking a cue from John Maxwell.
Q: Many research findings suggest that fear, more than anything else, has
prevented many people from achieving their full potential. Did you at
any time also experience fear? Is there an effective strategy for taming
fear?
A: Well, I used to be fearful of taking risks, but again, from my studies I
came to realise that all human beings feel fear. In fact, there is a
positive dimension to the mechanism of fear. If I come face to face with
a lion, it is fear that helps my system to kick in and to try to find a
solution, either to run or to fight. So, there is a positive dimension
to fear that alerts us to danger. The dangerous dimension to fear is
when it exaggerates the potential for failure and paralyses your
initiative, and frustrates your capacity for imagination. Most of the
things people fear never come to pass, and this reality has been proved
by research. Someone said fear is an acronym for False Evidence
Appearing Real.
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Q: How do you keep fit?
A: I keep fit first by doing everything in moderation, and then, I play golf. Table Tennis is also a favourite sport. Playing golf helps me to walk long distances, to socialise and to improve my strategic thinking ability.
A: I keep fit first by doing everything in moderation, and then, I play golf. Table Tennis is also a favourite sport. Playing golf helps me to walk long distances, to socialise and to improve my strategic thinking ability.
Q: Assuming you are in a position in which you should advise the
President-elect of Nigeria (Muhammadu Buhari) on how to move the country
forward, what would you tell him in a few sentences?
A: The first thing I will have for the president-elect is a question:
“What is your vision for Nigeria?” If he describes to me a clear vision
of a developed Nigeria, then, I will advise him to transfer that vision
into the heart and mind of every single Nigerian through every available
means. It doesn’t matter how fantastic your idea is if you cannot
communicate it effectively as a leader…. Where there is no vision,
people perish. One-hundred and seventy million Nigerians are going to
pull in 170 million directions if there isn’t that one vision that
transcends all the factors such as religion and ethnicity that divide
us. And I think that an average Nigerian wants to live a good quality
life. I think development is the message that the average Nigerian needs
to hear. The president should speak to Nigerians by leveraging the
media: Print media, electronic media, and the Internet to communicate
that vision. People don’t buy into a vision in one day; so he needs to
repeat this message, describing the ‘New Nigeria’ practically everyday.
And for people to buy into a vision, you have to put what is important
to them in that vision.
Q: If you were given a chance to relive your life, what would you do differently?
A: Well, candidly, I don’t think I will want to change anything. I don’t
think I will want to change where I was born, the family I was born
into, or the fact that I experienced challenges along the line. Why?
This is because I have been able to leverage even the seemingly negative
dimensions to develop my character and to build competence. From the
negative circumstances, I have derived what we call inspirational
dissatisfaction. And I am just grateful to God because He is the one who
makes meanings actually out of your life and turns whatever your
experience is - whether negative or positive - into leverage for moving
on to achieve success. Since the God factor is there, I don’t think I
would want to change anything.
Q: Are there values or principles that have helped you over the years that you want to share?
A: Oh yes! If you lose your character, you have practically lost
everything. To me, integrity is not being perfect; it is being perfectly
honest.
I value independence and I think that helps quite a bit. The best hand that will help you is the one attached to your shoulder, learning to not push one’s responsibilities on other people.
Love is the greatest of all principles and values. There are many good things you can do and still end up a failure, but you can’t love and fail.
Prudence for me is critical. You don’t waste your resources and you don’t spend everything. It is a sign of foolishness and short-term thinking.
I have found that service is the key to wealth and real success. And it is the essence of leadership.
I value independence and I think that helps quite a bit. The best hand that will help you is the one attached to your shoulder, learning to not push one’s responsibilities on other people.
Love is the greatest of all principles and values. There are many good things you can do and still end up a failure, but you can’t love and fail.
Prudence for me is critical. You don’t waste your resources and you don’t spend everything. It is a sign of foolishness and short-term thinking.
I have found that service is the key to wealth and real success. And it is the essence of leadership.
ADEYEMI Wisdom Tips
CAREER
• There is a divine design for everyone
• Look beyond your training to find purpose
FAMILY FINANCE
• Build trust with your spouse over finance
• Be accountable to each other
• Create projects account and make it work
• Build trust with your spouse over finance
• Be accountable to each other
• Create projects account and make it work
MAKING MONEY
• The foundation for wealth is your mind
• Programme your mind to think wealth
• Put your imagination to work
• The foundation for wealth is your mind
• Programme your mind to think wealth
• Put your imagination to work
OVERCOMING FEAR
• Use faith and action to drive fear away
• Do what you fear anyway
• Most of what you fear never happen
• Use faith and action to drive fear away
• Do what you fear anyway
• Most of what you fear never happen
FAILURE
• It is the raw material for success
• Don’t take failure personally
• 1% success overrides 99% failure
• It is the raw material for success
• Don’t take failure personally
• 1% success overrides 99% failure
FUN TIME
• Find something that resonates with you
• Try playing golf, for instance
• Find something that resonates with you
• Try playing golf, for instance
PERSONAL FINANCE
• Have a spending plan
• Save, invest and give regularly
• Have a spending plan
• Save, invest and give regularly
MIND DEVELOPMENT
• Treat your mind as your most important asset
• Reading can revolutionise your life
• Deliberately stretch your mind
ADVICE TO PRESIDENT ELECT• Treat your mind as your most important asset
• Reading can revolutionise your life
• Deliberately stretch your mind
• Have a clear vision for the country
• Then transfer the vision into the hearts of Nigerians.
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