My weekend was very eventful.

I was privileged to attend an internet marketing seminar hosted by one of Nigeria’s leading internet marketers, Akin Alabi on saturday.This guy has earned about N30 million by selling his products through the internet over the last few years. (Don’t tell him that I told you..just kidding, it’s not a secret).The seminar was phenomenal to say the least.

He taught the basics of making money online-product creation, list-building, salesletter writing, advertising, site-promotion, traffic generation and a whole lot more.

I was particularly challenged by his down-to-earth style and the fact that he offered so much information free of charge.Most information marketers would charge a ton of money (and rightfully so) for a similar seminar.I have nothing against that, nevertheless, I was inspired by the fact that it was free and I’ve made up my mind to take my internet marketing business to the next level by applying the new things I learned.

If you are interested in making money through the internet, you should stay close to this blog because I will share some powerful internet marketing strategies with you from time to time and you don’t want to miss out. Meanwhile, you can check out this site.

Have a great week ahead.

A lot of people have said a lot of things about this year.

Prophets have prophesied.

Prognosticators have predicted.

Seers have announced their visions.

The question is what do you believe?

Prophecies may be noble (if they are from God).Predictions may be important but what matters most is what you believe.

On seversl occassions when Jesus healed people, he would say “your faith has made you well.”

He attributed the miracles to the faith of the people.

What do you believe?

Do you believe that the global financial recession will wipe you out or do you believe that you will bask in God’s abundance?

Do you believe that you will move into your own house or you will always have to pay rent.

Do you believe that your business will flourish or that you will become bankrupt.

If you have been believing the wrong things, this is your opportunity to flip the switch.

CHANGE YOUR BELIEF SYSTEM.

Stop being anxious about the future.

Become confident.

Move with confidence.

Speak with boldness.

Watch out for the next post for more on this subject.

I was privileged to speak to a group of passionate youths yesterday and the day before.

It was a camp meeting and to say the atmosphere was supercharged would be an understatement.

I want to share a part of what I spoke about with you.

You can call them keys to transformation.I pitched my presentation against the backdrop of the inspiring story of David’s victory over Goliath and the Philistine army.

1. Tools

You need the right tools to fulfill your purpose in life.

A doctor has no need of screw drivers.

A capenter needs no stethoscopes.

A barber needs to syringes.

David understood that he needed stones and a sling to defeat goliath so he took a station break by the brook to pick up five smooth stones.

David knew he didn’t need Saul’s armour to defeat goliath.

He knew he had the right tools.

Your tool might be your voice, your imagination, your intelligence or passion.

Find it and begin to use it.

2.Training

No matter how good your tools are, if you don’t have the right training, you’d still be ineffective.

Imagine a tractor-driver in the cockpit of a boeing 737.

Imagine a chef trying to operate on a patient in a medical theatre.Even if he has the best tools, he’ll leave the patient in a worse state.

David had been trained in the backside of the desert.

You have to train in obscurity so that you can be effective when you get your opportunity.

Whenever God lays a demand on you, remember He is training you not draining you.

3.Test

Every test is an opportunity for you to become your best.

You can never be the best if you stay in your nest.If you will be the best, you have to pass the test.

David told Saul that he couldn’t use Saul’s armour because David hadn’t tested it.God tests you before He uses you.Every test reveals your strengths and weaknesses.David had defeated the lion and the bear before so when He faced Goliath, he had the confidence to speak against him and defeat him.

The next time you face a test, don’t run away, pass it.

4.Timing

If you want to be effective in life, you can’t just do anything at any time.Y ou must understand timing.David couldn’t have defeated Goliath if he had released the stone at just any time.He had to release it at the right time for it to hit the exact spot on Goliath’s forehead.

5.Teamwork

I can spend a whole day writing about teamwork and I will definitely put up several posts on teamwork on this blog as time goes on but let me put in a few words now.

John Maxwell says “Teamwork makes the dream work.”

Great things are birthed through agreement.No matter how potent a man is, he can’t have a baby alone.He needs a woman to taem up with.David did not find any body to team up with, so he teamed up with God and got the victory.I know David didn’t win all by himself because when he released the stone into Goliath’s forehead, Goliath should have fallen on his back but he didn’t.He fell on his face.Someone must have pushed him from the back or what do you think?

Don’t get scared.

You won’t have to read all 2009 secrets in one post.

As a matter of fact, I don’t have anything close to 2009 secrets.If I did, it would probably take the whole year for us to get through the long list.

I am not a big fan of extremely long emails or blog posts so i won’t belabor you with an endless string of do’s or don’ts.

Just a few secrets that will help you make the most of this year.

I promise to keep this post simple and straight to the point.

Seek God with all your heart.

Don’t fool around this year.

Seek God with all your heart.Pray.Study His Word.Don’t wait for a general fast .Take out time to wait on Him.

Make the most of every moment.

You are not getting any younger.Some time in the course of this year, you’d be year older.Make the most of every second this year.Eliminate every time-waster in your life.

Build enriching relationships.

Don’t wait for people to connect with you.Make an effort to connect with people.Be kind.Make phone calls.Send emails(God has to help me with this one.)

Discover and develop your gifts.

Your GIFT is your LIFT.Discover it, if you haven’t already.Devote yourself to it.Then spend more time fine-tuning it till it shines.

I guess your hands are full already.I’d give you the others in another post, so drop by over the next few days for the remaining “secrets”.

Meanwhile, have fun.

I’m talking to you, not your neighbour.
This year is your season of greatness.
It makes no difference what the global financial scenario is.
It makes no difference what your personal challenges are.This is your year of greatness.
Better believe it.The earlier you believe it, the earlier you will live in it’s reality.

For you to understand what to expect this year, you have to understand what the word “GREAT” means GREATNESS means, i’d help you with a few definitions from encarta…

According to encarta, “great” means…

huge
huge, immense, enormous, vast, large, big, grand
antonym: tiny

countless
countless, inordinate, prodigious, excessive (disapproving), boundless, unlimited, pronounced, abundant, numerous
antonym: limited

important
important, significant, momentous, critical, major, weighty, serious
antonym: unimportant

absolute
absolute, utter, complete, downright, intense, profound, extreme
antonym: slight

famous
famous, illustrious, eminent, distinguished, celebrated, impressive, remarkable, talented, skillful, notable
antonym: ordinary

noble
noble, elevated, lofty, exalted (formal), imposing, stately, grand, impressive, heroic, splendid, majestic
antonym: lowly

wonderful
wonderful, fantastic, magnificent, excellent, terrific, cool (slang), groovy (dated slang), good

Impressively large

very large and impressive

large in numbers

large in number, or with many parts

-a great crowd of well-wishers.

bigger than others

larger or more important than others of the same kind.

much

extreme or more than usual.

-it gives me great pleasure to introduce our speaker tonight.

lasting long time

a long time, or covering a long distance.

-we endured a great delay.

-one of the world’s great railway journeys.

important

very significant or important.

-a truly great novel.

exceptionally talented

with exceptional talents or achievements.

-He was great humanitarian as well as a talented artist.

powerful

powerful and influential.

-striving to make our nation great again.

-in this great nation.

expert

able to do something very well, or very skillful with something(informal)

very good

very good or pleasing.

-we had a great time at the party.

useful

very useful or suitable for a particular task(informal).

-the cast-iron pan is great for making pancakes.

being good example of something:doing something often, enjoying very much, or being a very good example of something.

Well, what else can I say.Expect things to take a turn for the better this year.

Expect your experience to be synonymous to all the expressions above this year.

Some great things are going to happen for, to and through you.

I wish you the best of 2009.