Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Universal Productivity Code {UP-Code} tm: Prologue


 Production is the end of all endeavors. The greatest tools we need today to succeed are: creativity, connection and tenacity. This tierce or the CCT triangle is designed to unite and ultimately result in productivity.

 There is no productivity until there is creativity.  Creativity goes nowhere until it meets tenacity or the ability to endure. Endurance in a venture that aims at making an impact is never a lone ranger. Since great things are never accomplished by a one-man-band, the ability to connect is indispensable.

 Energy goes nowhere until it meets synergy (tm). It is the ability of the creator of the idea to connect and synergize that determines the depth and application thus the usefulness of the invention. Once the idea is born, the inventor must metamorphose into a teacher-developer of not only the creation but also of the followers or the students of that endeavor.

The inventor, now a teacher-developer, will have to build up consequential values that will construct a philosophy. Philosophy is simply the sum total of the knowhow and what is conceived as valuable to the invention. This incidental philosophy helps develop and put in place a modus operandi that will govern the application of the invention to the benefit of the universe.

 
The underlining principle of the UP-Code (tm )stems from a subtle distinction between perfection and excellence: Perfection is doing everything right and Excellence is doing the right thing (tm). Strive for excellence, for perfection is unattainable. Empirical findings have shown that efficiency is never 100% both in animate and inanimate existence. Human inventions have simply toed the line; logically, you have to be perfect to create something perfect. This is at the basis of the inevitable commission of errors by human beings that control and dominate the universe even when they are at their best. 



The UP-Code innovative technology is designed to step in and redefine the meaning of focus (Follow One Course Until Successful), redefine purpose and x-ray the importance of filling the skills gap in a rapidly changing universe especially in technology and the information age. The UP-Code helps illuminate the discovery that happiness brings success and eliminate the myth held over the years that success brings happiness. 
The essence of life is productivity; in order to produce, we must be able to discover the key to the combination lock. The number lock is the keeper of the safe that harbors treasures. Our goal is to decipher the life puzzle. Once the code is discovered, the rest is a walkthrough.  

To find the life puzzle or the Universal Productivity Code, we must be willing to impound our leisure in the form of delayed gratification and wear our coat of many colors and yet be buried in a unidirectional unalloyed attention.   This is simply the ability to focus {follow one course until successful} and pay no heed to detractors and naysayers.

The combination of the life puzzle often appears unreachable to some people only because they have not reached into the realm of their supreme power within. They go digging with peck and shovel without digging their brains. Until we have discovered and developed our own self then can we have the power to withstand the daunting rot of our detractors and the people of straw. Unscrupulous people litter our way through the theatre of life: although we may not stop them, we can spot them.

We can never discover the productivity code if we are a stranger to our self. It is the power from within that fuels our confidence, assertiveness, and the zest to stand our ground against all odds.  It is in studying and discovering our self that we can spot the unscrupulous and waylay them or avoid them.

The Universal Productivity Code stems from the individual and grows to others. In other words, it starts from within toward without; it is an inward-outward movement. The principle holds the same whether it is in one person, group of persons or an organization. Whether the organization is for profit or not for profit; whether it is humanitarian or ecosystem, whether it is secular or religious.



How can the Universal Productivity Code tm be discerned? The constituent elements of this life puzzle will come piecemeal. Get your salivary amylase ready to devour, digest and feed on these delicate nutrients. Please, make sure to give your feedback on the comment section at the bottom. I appreciate your time.



Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Motivation
Motivate means to stimulate to action, provide with an incentive or motive. The 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Edition does have the word motivate or motivation. The word thus is fairly new but very important. It is just like microwaves didn’t exist until some 50 years ago. Later on internet, cell phones, CDs, Flash drives, MP3s, iphone, ipad, and so on. Today, we act as though these gadgets have always been here; there is no going backwards. That is how technology influences the human brain. We typically have insatiable craving for the use of these items. When they fade out or go bad, we just replenish them.
How about motivation? It fades away with time just like our favorite meal does after eating. The open secret is that it works exactly like the technology gadgets mentioned above. We have to continually keep ourselves motivated by consuming motivational material: audio or visual tapes, books, magazines, and use mentors as well as attend motivational workshops and conferences. By the way, when we are motivated we are more productive and it is our production that gives us the means and ways to acquire technological gadgets that make life easy and convenient to us.
It is like our clothes, it is like food, it is like toothpaste, it is like bathing soap… when any of these items are out, we have to replenish it and life continues.
Motivation raises the specter of hope and achievement. It brings the spirit of confidence home and rekindles the thirst to drive our self and autopilot our dream-craft. Motivation overshadows the ghost of fear, discouragement, hopelessness and serves as the enemy to the naysayers.

Friday, February 17, 2012


DAILY CUP OF TEA



Dig Your Brain

Before you go to work with pick and shovel,

 Dig your brain first.

The greatest goldmine is in the brain;

 Train and drain your brain.

Make sure to pull out the grain.

Overlook naysayers’ disdain.

Beware of the detractors’ drain.

Focus on the potential gain.

Board the winners’ train.

Oh yes, no pain no gain.

The gain is worth the pain.

DAILY CUP OF TEA


Creed of Life

Life is a dive.

 Drive it right.

Jive the pine.

Time your vine.

 Dine to menu.

 Prime your dive.

Drive your mind.

 Feed it right.

Live your life.

Let others live.

Die and alive.

Live for ever.

Oliver Asaah


Universal Code Cracker

Your Partner in Crime: the subconscious Mind


v  What is subconscious mind?

v  How does subconscious get its programs?

v  How can we access programs in the subconscious?

v  How can we reprogram the sub conscious?

These are questions we address in this chapter.

What is the subconscious mind?

The subconscious is the guardian angel of the conscious mind and the queen motivator of our actions.

It is our partner in crime that micromanages the roles we play: actors, participants or spectators in the theatre of life as the case may be. The subconscious influences every second of our life in everything we do or fail to do, dictated by programs that have been systematically installed in our subconscious starting from birth.

Some of these programs are empowering, others disempowering. Disempowering programs are those that hold us back from exploring, exploiting and manifesting our passion and unleashing our full potential. Empowering ones help us get closer to our destiny. Disempowering programs are our focus.

How does the Subconscious get its Programs?



The subconscious is the invisible master pilot of our actions. It tele - guides our thinking; our thinking dictates our actions and our actions prove who we are.

 What can to be done to shape our subconscious to work for us?

 In the Nweh and some other cultures in the Cameroons, twins are believed to possess some magical powers: they can bring good and bad luck to their family. Twins can inadvertently hurt family members by inflicting severe pain. Upon satisfying their demand, they mysteriously fix their fetish deeds.

Once upon a time, at the age of 6, one of my step twin-sisters was upset with me and she promised to sprain my leg. She kept staring at my right    leg, consequently, after a while when I stood up I realized couldn’t walk. My right leg was hurting me and I submitted to her magical powers, coaxing her to forgive me and return my leg to normal. Instantaneously, my leg came back to normal.

This belief and many others have existed from time immemorial, and are held to be true and inextricably interwoven with the lifestyle of believers. Some beliefs might not be true but the faith in them, makes them appear real and they   manifest themselves in us. The subconscious gets its programs in a similar way. 

The subconscious is programmed in three ways: persons (family, teachers, mentors, peers, friends, associates…). Place (environment) and things (experiences; media; books; films). These three dimensions encode the subconscious at varying degrees. They determine whom, how, where, when, why we acquire our programs. These questions will facilitate the process of reprogramming our subconscious.

The programming of our subconscious starts from conception: According to Joseph Susedik; talking to children in the womb has a tremendous    impact on their development and recommends a calm, serene environment for a pregnant mother.  A solemn atmosphere ensures the birth of a child with utter trust in the parent.  The Dallas Times Herald article, May 15, 1982 wrote that Joseph and Jitsuko Susedik believe any parent can raise brilliant children; they just need phonics, environment and curiosity; the earlier the better.

“Only if the child has complete trust, can he or she be taught. You must teach your children with love, gentleness and only at a time they are willing to learn”. He says.

According to Zig Ziglar 1985, Dr. Carole Taylor, Ph.D. – head of the Tolatr Academy in Pittsburgh, believes that once children master phonics, they can read anything, even college texts. Dr. Taylor has a ten and fourteen-year-old daughters both enrolled part-time in pre-medical courses in a community college. She applies person, place and thing factors in empowering her daughters.

How can we access programs in the subconscious?

This is a journey into the realm of our being to enjoying human endowments: self-awareness, imagination, conscience and independent will, that differentiates us from animals. Just ‘deep’ it: (Dig, Employ, Expect, Profit) and the salt and the sweat will yield the malt.

 Unlike consulting a doctor when we are sick for diagnostics and prescription, we have to DOCTOR ourselves in reprogramming the subconscious; that is my experience.   To me, DOCTOR means:  Diagnose, Operate, Cure, Treat, Oxygenate and Respect.  The exercise is very personal, serene and engaging.

"Faith is a state of mind which can be induced through repeated affirmations or instructions to the SUBCONSCIOUS MIND through the principle of autosuggestion”, Napoleon Hill.



    I started with an insight and ended up with sight; I have seen tangible results in my life such as an impeccable positive mindset, which is the reason I am writing this chapter. My baseline of positive attitude is fantastic, then super fantastic and finally super doper fantastic.  My contagious positive attitude has given me beatitude at my jobsite, earning me the nickname FANTASTIC! I have seen colleagues who were less enthusiastic and other employees who were generally moody brighten up and raised their level of happiness at least when we meet and communicate. This is the mirror neuron effect as described in positive psychology.

Begin with the outcome in mind. You have to see the project from start to finish by visualizing how the successful result will impact your life. Believe in the magic of believing prior to the process and see it manifest itself. Take a leap of faith forward into the unknown and see your undertaking fructify. If you believe it, it will work for you and vice versa. Physicians have testified that, patients who belief in their prescriptions see the best results.

v  Look for serene place.  For instance, notes pad, a flashlight, a pen in a closet.

v   Jot all thoughts that come to mind:  empowering and disempowering. 

v  Exhaust all thoughts until they begin to repeat themselves.

v  Separate programs into group (A) – empowering; group (B)-disempowering.

v  Transcribe into positive heading (A): rich; happy; healthy; lucky; generous; successful; likeable, intelligent, confident, strong proactive, good-humored, smiley, blessed, hardworking, attractive … and negative (B): poor; unhappy; sickly; wicket; bewitch; dishonest, stupid, weak, unlucky, quarrelsome, hated, moody, greedy, unattractive, procrastinating, lazy, self-doubt…

Group B will dumbfound and daze you but it is a crystal ball if harnessed, will take you to the crest. It demands tremendous personal effort. When the daze is overwhelming, take a break but do not freak; resume after regaining sanity.

Negative programs also come from errors we committed in the past, unrealized dreams and aspirations, unforgiving & retributive attitude learnt from unforgiving & avenging people around us, hatred of self/others; liking/love of self/others. The entire process is an ORDEAL: (Open, Right, Developmental, Enforcement, and Action (for) Life). It is the right action. Just be open and enforce it for your personal development. Eventually, your energy will lead to unstoppable synergy!

 You are the way you are because that’s the way you want to be. If you really wanted to be any different, you would be in the process of changing”, Fred Smith.

 We are 100% in control of the process of decoding/ re-encoding our subconscious and unleashing potential just like we are control of our attitude.  The difference is that our negative programs might be influencing our attitude. Let’s program our subconscious to work for us.   “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” William James.

How can we reprogram the Subconscious?

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see”. Helen Keller

Synchronize the final process; fill the vacuum left by decoded negative programs with positive ones. It is the most difficult but groovy part of the process. Our burning desire to succeed will hone our power to alter the status quo, release our potential and unshackle us. Unlike our minds, the subconscious works round the clock over our lifetime.

  I came up with this formula to clear my path: Steadfast; Proactive; Assertive; Discipline and Emphatic (SPADE).  I decided to pick up my SPADE and dig my goldmine. This metaphor propelled me to un-clutter my mind and get rid of the noise that held me back from moving forward. I apply SPADE in my daily activities.

SPADE forms the north arc; Action forms the south arc meeting in the middle to form the circle of life. Diameter states: do it now; there is no tomorrow!

 Decoding and Reprogramming Process.

v  Original cause of negative programs.

v  What fuels programs?

v  Negative programs decoding support systems. (person; place; thing?)…

v  Positive programs: supportive energy. (Person, place or thing?)…

v  Use answers to handle corresponding situations promptly and assuredly.

v  Note positive programs against  negative ones

v  Example:  rich >  poor

v  Replace disempowering programs with corresponding empowering ones

v  Declare, affirm, meditate…

v  Celebrate success and progress.

v  Repeat process until corresponding positive programs replace negative ones

I used the mirror technique created by Dr. Laura De Giorgio in the decoding and encoding procedure. I look at myself squarely in the eyes in the mirror; build trust and bond with myself first. Use this technique in decoding/reprogramming process. Look in the mirror, ask self: am I poised for change? And be honest. The mirror reflects our image back to us, facilitates introspection, reaching into the subconscious to install our new software respecting our probing inquisitorial response/drive.

The mirror technique helps translate our daily mantras, pep ourselves and prime our limitless possibilities pump. We have to Be, Do & Have respectively. Never try to have, be and then do.    Are we taking full advantage of our positive programs?  Release their full potential. In the ORDEAL we shall face obstacles, objections, mesmerisms, dilemmas… but our faith alone will resuscitate us. 

I experienced a rollercoaster in some programs and momentary crest falls in some.  SPADE, daily meditations, declarations, affirmations helped me get over most of them.  Listen and watch motivational and inspirational tapes. Adjust or quit the relational illness environment and develop a nourishing mindset. READ (Rise Everyday Above Death) & STUDY (Seek Tune Up Drive Yourself) consistently. Reading is the first step. Studying what you just read tunes you up so you can apply yourself correctly through acquired knowledge; that is power!

Become a prig to master your new positive programs with practice and exercise.  The more engraved disempowering software was in your subconscious, the harder you have to work to reprogram it. For me, I revisited the reprogramming process several times and I still do for the hard ones. I believe the earlier in life one gets this awareness and use this technique; the more reversible the situation is. Meticulously unlearn the negative programs and learn positive ones. Once positive ones take root, practice and accentuate their benefits preventing negative programs from resurfacing. The procedure is simple but not easy. Everyone can learn the art, apply the tact, earn the act, tell the facts and sell their story.  

My first name is OLIVER (Open Life Invitation Earn Riches). I am inviting you to open up your life by giving reprogramming a chance because I am living proof that it works; this is not pontification. While in the process, I realized that I needed help, an accountability partner. Incidentally my last name is ASAAH (Asking Seasoned Assistance Always Helps). That’s how I decided to make my names acronyms and then put them in full to empower me in all my ventures. We always need help from a loved supportive one who can hold us accountable and measure our progress; commend or reprimand us accordingly. It must be someone we trust & respect enough to bestow our life’s purpose on.

Were it not for Tanzing the native guide, Edmund Hilary would not have made the historic climb of Mt. Everest. (John Maxwell 1984).


Do not frustrate yourself by expecting exquisite performance initially. Donald Trump’s Apprentice became number one reality show on NBC after several failures but he chose his instincts against expert’s advice; hone your partner in c rime for invincible results.



Everyone has empowering and disempowering programs. Just make sure the ratio greatly favors positive programs.

Ninety-seven percent of the population works for three percent because our programming influences our choices. We can alter that equation by reprogramming our subconscious mind.