True story…I created this sketch painting drawing after sipping a glass of Vodka spiked with pineapple juice (lol). The fusion of liquor and creativity combined with my almost drunken state of sleep at 2 am gave birth to this slogan “Don’t drink and write, drink and create.” Ironically it is true, most of my effortless creative touches come when my mind is distracted. So I learn to relax my mind, either by resting or listening to music and it works almost every time. Find your mind distraction mechanism so that you can unleash your creativity today.
 

WARNING: Ofili only encourages the consumption of alcohol for creative purposes only (not to be confused with procreation purposes)
 

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So am thinking to myself “What if I could invent an anti-viagra drug?” I know what you are thinking, who the heck would want to buy an anti-viagra drug? The answer is Responsible married men. Let’s face it, not every man intends to cheat but somehow they find themselves in awkward situations. But, with the Aiagra red pill all that will come to an end as you can now battle those awkward situations…such as the late night work session with your attractive secretary or when your wife’s younger sister stops by to visit. Just pop the pill and you instantaneously lose all the urge to do anything naughty. This pill could literarily save marriages and if it could save marriages, it could save a family and if it can save a family…it can save a state and if it can save a state…it can save the world. This red pill can save the world…lol…

 

Wishing You Extreme Success,

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Several weeks ago, I got the opportunity to hear an actual Nobel Laureate speak. To be honest, I had never heard about her before…all I knew was that when a Laureate came to speak, it was advisable to attend as it was a nobel rarity. So I reluctantly dragged myself out of bed on an early Saturday morning and headed down to the conference room to listen to Leymah Gbowee speak. Leymah is a civil rights activist and has been a vocal voice for the empowerment of women in Liberia. She responsible for leading a women’s peace movement that brought an end to the Civil War that almost crippled Liberia. Her activism in this area subsequently led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia, the first ever African female president. Her talk was riveting and pulsating her tales of rescuing abused women from their violent husbands and standing up to Liberian dictator Charles Taylor made my skin pores perk and sent jolts of inspiration through my heart. She spoke with a light sweet carribean accent which added a certain spice and vigor to her message of hope, determination and controlled anger. One of her salient quotes where the words “find what makes you angry and do something positive about it.” Her entire speech delivery was admirable and intellectually sound, it was as if she knew everything about politics, about the world and about human rights. But I was wrong,

As a little boy, I loved attending weddings. It was the one special day in the year that everyone got to have extravagant fun. There were sumptuous amounts of food, free flowing drinks all wrapped up in the ostentatious beauty of a heavily decorated hall splattered with lots of radiant people beaming in their best clothes. It was literally heaven on earth…that was until I hit my late twenties and then heaven started coming a bit too close to my earth. This was the period in time where close friends of mine began getting married, from secondary school classmates to college friends everyone was getting married. Even my enemies were getting married. And like anyone going through that period knows, you are hit with a plethora of questions that can be summarized in one sweet and annoying phrase “so when are you getting married?” This was really not an issue, I had trained myself in the act of neutralizing the questions dwindling effects on my mind. As I said before, I really truly enjoyed weddings. But the problem was that as more and more people close to me began getting married they began sharing wedding planning stories with me. And the more they shared their stories the more it ruined weddings for me. But that was nothing compared to the day a real close friend of mine shared his entire wedding expense with me…It was like the day you found out your parents actually had sex, it was not like you never suspected but confirming it actually messed up your mind. After hearing what he told me, I felt guilty for loving weddings and started resenting society’s illogical obsession with weddings. What exactly did he tell me?
 

So for the past year I have been working on completing my second book (yay!). One of the things I had not quite nailed down yet was the book title…based on the success of the title “How Stupidity Saved My Life” I wanted to find something equally catchy and even more riveting. So as the book came closer to becoming a finished reality I had to push myself harder for a title. I have had several in the past year “Lead, Follow or Get The Heck Out of The Way” and “Kick-Ass marketing: How to knockout the competition without killing your clients.” But none of them seemed to be doing it for me. So one hot Sunday afternoon (FACT: every Lagos Sunday afternoon is hot and Sunny) I set out to my favorite hang-out spot (Location withheld for security reasons) and began my usual cycle of brainstorming for a book title. But as usual nothing seemed to be working out…I was erasing more than I was writing. Frustrated and not getting anywhere I succumbed to the call of nature and headed to toilet to ______ . And then the funniest thing happened, I began churning out ideas like crazy…chapter ideas…chapter transitions and best of all a book title that was riveting and catchy! This is not the first time that sort of inspiration has hit me at such an inopportune time…In fact this morning, while on the toilet seat  the sketch idea on the right popped into the toilet bowl my head…enjoy

 Wishing You Extreme Success,

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The planking craze has come and gone…but this “sketch idea” was too hilarious for me to ignore…basically I sat down thinking to myself, “what would it be like if engineers actually planked?” As a fellow engineer I know that we (engineers) tend to get so caught up with our equations and school work that we don’t have time for physically activities such as planking…so I said what if we could actually planck without doing any physically activity? Could we planck in an equation? This is how Engineers plank:

 Ofili is an award winning motivational speaker, author, life coach and entrepreneur who blogs about life, success and entrepreneurial excellence. Follow him on twitter , facebook or subscribe to his blog for more success TIPS!”

Social Media is the new fad in Marketing and everyone is talking about it. Unfortunately, social media is not marketing. Let me explain…If you create a poor marketing strategy, using social media will not magically make your marketing successful. And the irony is that Social Media actually makes marketing harder because it gives one access to a large but undefined range of people. The smart marketer tries to reach out to these people but the really smart marketer instead focuses on creating a Niche and focusing marketing efforts on that Niche. The latter is the more effective means of marketing. Have you identified your Niche? And what are you doing to market to them?

Ofili is an award winning motivational speaker, author, life coach and entrepreneur who blogs about life, success and entrepreneurial excellence. Follow him on twitter , facebook or subscribe to his blog for more success TIPS!”

Life is extremely complex to understand and grasp, so humans spend hours simplifying everything and anything. From animals to electronics we are engrossed in categorizing and placing items into easy to organize labels. Unfortunately, we end up simplifying PEOPLE! Putting them in boxes to fit our simplistic and myopic mindset. An act that we subconsciously carry out everyday, one which kills client relationship for Entrepreneurs! To avoid losing clients, entrepreneurs have to make an effort to consciously see individuals outside the definition of what they expect and begin to see them for who they really are.

If you are able to practice this actively in your business or workplace you would begin to see your clientele grow and thrive as you would be able to connect on a personal level versus a stereotypical level. Are you working to get people outside of your box or are you still stuffing your box full with people? Think outside the box!
 
Ofili is an award winning motivational speaker, author, life coach and entrepreneur who blogs about life, success and entrepreneurial excellence. Follow him on twitter , facebook or subscribe to his blog for more success TIPS!”