This is a collection of my newsletter articles aimed to help professional create a flourishing, independent and high-value portfolio career. Topics include:
You may have an aim you want to achieve yet procrastination, fear, and confusion may be setting you back. Wouldn’t it be great to stay motivated and get your work done? Many people disrespect the term motivation by referring to it as a word with no real substance. Many motivational speakers (to that effect) do…
Here are your 5 tips for networking effectively: 1. Create your own network 2. Stick to a Community 3. Dress Immaculately 4. Listen, Question Speak well 5. Commit to a Cause and attract more people Author of http://bit.ly/URE_Book1 – Michael Tabirade If you want more check out my FREE video series, 5 Models for…
http://michaeltabirade.com If there was any advice I would give anyone asking “how do I become successful in something?” I would answer by saying the following: 1) Find a Cause you are extremely passionate how learning, teaching or solving 2) Commit to that Cause entirely When you master these two basic things everything else in…
http://michaeltabirade.com I had the privilege of speaking to 200 year 10s in Canary Wharf aiming to motivate and prepare them for the working world. They have been on an inspiring and well planned out 10-day program hosted and funded by the charity FutureVersity, that showed them the importance of: *Drive *Well-informed *Resilient *Receptive *Self-awareness *Self-assurdness…
http://bit.ly/URE_Book1 Check out this Book Launch Event on my first ever Self-Published Book – Understand Reach Expand: 15 Super Effective ways to Manage your Mind. It was a fun day, with great vibes, Powerful Inspiration, and a case study used to inspire the audience to take practical action. Buy the Book on Amazon via this…
Introduction I made a decision to read avidly in the summer of 2011 when an ex-manager challenged me to open my mind to the possibilities that books could feed my mind with. This advice was supplemented by the words of Will Smith in a video compilation on YouTube called: Will Smith’s Words of Wisdom. 5…
In this section I spoke about the three concepts behind my tagline “Understand Reach Expand” – Understand focuses on developing knowledge and context behind your strengths, your purpose and how to move forward in life – Reach is about visualising, planning and strategising for success – Expand is based on systemising and networking to get…
How the Journey began On the 25th of January 2016, I began a journey that has and will change the direction of my life forever. Whether this is on a positive big or small scale I am yet to know, but I have come to learn a few things on the way. This was the…
The BYP (Black Young Professionals) Network called me to give a speech and host their event “Summer Mingle,” to mobilise, thought-provoke and empower the professionals at the event. Hosting was something exciting and new for me! The video is introduced by the founder Kike and leads to me giving the first part of the speech….
Intro… People always ask me, “Michael how can I improve my networking skills?” In this post I will attempt to answer this question as best as I think possible, based on what I have learnt through experience, and what I have seen others do. Now for these guys to ask me this question implies that…
Every time you say something you imprint a pattern of understanding into your mind. This means overtime when you repeat certain words, phrases or beliefs, your mind is learning a new song i.e. one that it will sing back to you. With this in mind, it is very important to use the right words and…
The Story This post is directed to people in their mid and late 20s. I have had many discussions post-university about how disappointed and surprised we were when we realised that university was not necessarily the answer to what we thought we wanted to do. Here is what I call the story: In the UK…
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