The document discusses personal effectiveness and how to develop yourself for a better future. It emphasizes that the major key is looking inside yourself and committing to personal development. It provides tips for how to walk in a skillful way such as getting knowledge from books, lectures, and associations in order to add more value. Developing skills and continuously improving yourself will lead to more opportunities and expansion.

1. PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS:
THE MAJOR KEY TO YOUR BETTER FUTURE
Yetunde Macaulay
Chief Executive Officer, McVision Connect
March 2014

2. What Is The MAJOR KEY To
Your Better Future?

3. In this class, you will:
• Learn how to LOOK INSIDE YOURSELF and
discover the priceless seed God has placed
inside of you;
• Learn how to be PASSIONATE ABOUT LIFE;
• Learn how to work better BUILDING HEALTHY
RELATIONSHIPS;
• Understand that the MAJOR KEY to your
better future is YOU.

4. • No matter where YOU are in life, YOU can be
better.
Joel Osteen said in one of his quotes
“God didn’t create YOU to be average, YOU were
created to excel. YOU have everything.”
So, if YOU are going through a tough time now,
TAKE HEART, THERE ARE BETTER DAYS AHEAD.

5. YOU can have more than YOU have, because
YOU can become more than YOU are.
The Question is HOW?
‘WHAT MUST I DO TO
BECOME A BETTER
ME?’

6. Mr. Jim Rohn said
“If YOU don’t like how YOU are,
CHANGE IT; YOU are not a
TREE”

7. Who Can Change?
anybody

8. Who Is Anybody?
you

9. When Can YOU Change?
anytime

10. So LET’S talk about
YOU
What do YOU think YOU need to do
to become a ‘better’ YOU

12. View Your Destination As
SUCCESS.
(SUCCESS is doing what the failures won’t
do)

13. HOW
• Crystallize your THINKING (work on your personal philosophy);
• Decide your PERSONAL VALUES (e.g. Love, Integrity,
Accountability,…) and WRITE THEM down;
• Develop a sincere DESIRE for the things you want in life. A
BURNING DESIRE is the greatest motivation for every action;
• Develop supreme CONFIDENCE in yourself and your abilities.
Enter every activities without giving recognition to the possibility
of defeat;
• Develop a dogged DETERMINATION to follow through on your
plan regardless of obstacles, criticism or circumstances.
• FIND OUT what successful people do and do it.
DON’T BE A WASTE, SOW THE SEED.

14. SUCCESS is something YOU ATTRACT, it is
NOT something YOU PURSUE; SUCCESS is
looking for a GOOD PLACE to stay, so instead
of finding SUCCESS, work on YOURSELF.

15. Commit To WORKING ON
YOURSELF.
(Consciously and genuinely engage in
YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT)

16. “Some people live such a mediocre lives; at the end of the day,
they don’t know whether they are winning or loosing, they
live their lives daily with their fingers crossed.”
YOU CAN’T LIVE YOUR LIFE THAT WAY: ask yourself the major
question.
For example, ON YOUR JOB: The MAJOR question to ASK
YOURSELF is not WHAT AM I GETTING ON THE JOB, the
MAJOR question is WHAT AM I BECOMING ON THE JOB;
because TRUE HAPPINESS is not contained in what you get, it
is contained in what you become.

17. So WHAT MUST I DO TO DEVELOP MYSELF.
• Know that there’s power in a made up mind; DECIDE your career,
family, financial and spiritual goals.
• Learn to WORK HARDER on YOURSELF than you do on your JOB.
• DEVELOP a PLAN for achieving your goals and set a deadline for
the attainment of each goals.
• Be PASSIONATE about BEING RESPONSIBLE; In essence be
DOVOTED to RESPONSIBILITY, ensure you take action ALWAYS.
Know WHAT TO DO and DO IT. Pastor Sam Adeyemi said, Do not
spend your life just dreaming about ‘DOING IT’. A lot of people
will want to ‘DO IT’. But WINNERS will ‘DO IT’. They do what it
takes to get the work done.
SO, when you DECIDE TO DO IT; MAKE IT HAPPEN.

18. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT helps you
to be STRONGER, more DECISIVE; be
CONFIDENT and to WALK IN A MORE
SKILLFUL WAY.

19. Walk In A SKILLFUL WAY.
(What You know determines YOUR
‘ASSOCIATION’ and vice versa)

20. “Why do you think some people do better than the other
working in the same condition, the same number of hours
per day and selling the same thing?”
VALUE MAKES THE DIFFERENCE; Your ‘ability’ to produce
solutions in some problem domain makes you more
valuable.
YOU can’t create ‘more time’ but YOU can make ‘more value’.
KNOWLEDGE is VERY KEY.

21. WHAT’S THAT?
According to the WordWeb dictionary, ‘SKILL’ is defined as
‘ability’ to produce solutions in some problem domain.
To Walk In A Skillful Way you need to GET more KNOWLEDGE.
That’s what determine YOUR WORTH. We only get paid for
bringing VALUE to the marketplace.
The BIBLE says “my people perish for lack of knowledge”
SO HOW DO YOU GET STARTED?

22. • If you don’t give, YOU don’t get.
• What you give is what YOU get. Know that what you spend your
resources (time, money, skills, etc) on will determine the quality
of your life. EVERYTHING AFFECTS EVERYTHING ELSE, NOTHING
stands ALONE. WATCH IT & TRACK IT.
• Invest in your ASSOCIATION carefully; ensure you associate rightly.
The bible, books, cassettes, audios, videos, people put together
form your ASSOCIATION. An ASSOCIATION is defined by the
WordWeb as “the state of being connected together as in memory
or imagination”. Your connection determines your wealth.

23. • It’s good to study the BASICS. Read your bible everyday; it is the
book of the basics, it helps to correct your thinking. (There are
examples and warnings worthy of following in the bible). Read
books (at least for one hour per day) on areas you need help, it
makes you a better ‘if not’ a top-performer in that area. It helps
you to build insight. Listen to (not hear) or watch (not see)
lectures on digital devices.
• What YOU KNOW determines YOUR COMMUNICATION with God,
colleagues, your team, friends and family. Work on your inside, it
determines the quality of your output and the size of your
rewards.
YOUR BETTER FUTURE IS IN YOUR SELF INVESTMENT NOW, HAVE A
DREAM.

24. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for MORE
SKILLS. Keep gathering more skills to
INVEST in your DREAM, to become a better
person to the partnership, workplace,
commitment, brotherhood; The best value
YOU can add to any relationship is SELF
DEVELOPMENT not SELF SACRIFICE.

25. • EXPECT the best ALWAYS
• Engage in POSITIVE SELF TALK
• DO what successful people do.
• ASK QUESTIONS from the top performers in your field.
• WRITE your goals, plans, thoughts and personal profile.
• ‘GIVE UP’ your whole BLAME LIST (stop blaming policies, negative
relatives, government, etc.)
• KNOW that you can’t change circumstances but you can change yourself.
• TAKE full responsibility for your life
• MAJOR on what’s important.
• MAKE rest a necessity not an objective. The objective of life is not to rest,
the objective of life is to act.
• INVEST in your ability to ACT. When an idea is hot and the emotion is
strong, that’s when to act. Engage in ‘ACTION IMMEDIATE’ to avoid the
‘LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURN’.

26. DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO SHARE.
Keep passing it along.
When ‘somebody’ SHARES
‘everybody’ WINS

27. The more YOU work on YOURSELF, the more
EFFECTIVE YOU become.
DAY follows NIGHT, OPPORTUNITY follows
DIFFICULTY, EXPANSION follows RECESSION
and ALL with a regulation. So Learn How To
TAKE ADVANTAGE of The Season.
Only YOU Can Make It Happen

28. • Email: ymacaulay@mcvconnect.com,
ymacaulay@mydreamconnect.org
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29. …for your listening attention.