Life Lessons-Presentation to University of Ibadan Pharmacy Graduating Class of 2010

Presentation to Graduating Class 2010 of the
Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan

Olu Akanmu
Managing Director/CEO -Retail Banking, BankPHB
August 2010
www.olusfile.blogspot.com

 School of life after school
 You don’t have a choice than to be in the
school
 You can however decide to learn, pass and do
well in the school of life or otherwise
 You have always been in the school of life
unconsciously
 Become a conscious learner of life lessons as
you follow your own Odyssey

Olu Akanmu, Presentation to
Graduating Pharmacy Class 2010,
UI. Aug, 2010.

 You are a unique individual, a special creation of
GOD
 You have some special gift or talents that defines
who you are and makes you unique
 Life will chart a special course for you, a unique
experience that will define who you are
 Who you are (intrinsically by your talent and
extrinsically by life experience) defines the unique
assignment and purpose that you are meant to fulfill
 You can only understand yourself by connecting the
dots of life backwards
 Everyone has a unique chart or pattern of life dots on
his/her life graph
UI. Aug, 2010.

 As you begin to make a sense of the life’s
dots, you should begin to make choices that
supports your life’s calling, your purpose
 As you graduate and you journey through life,
pay attention to the things you do effortlessly
compared to others, the things you love to
do, the things you get angry about if they are
not right, the problems people bring to you
to solve.
 Life success is about discovering yourself,
your life purpose and making choices that
supports the fulfillment of that purpose in life
UI. Aug, 2010.

 Integrity is critical to sustainable life success
 Lack of Integrity, cutting corners or cheating can only
give you success in the short term
 It catches up sooner or later, and the short term
gains are eroded in addition to heavy life sanctions
 Integrity is the basis of trust, if you cannot be
trusted, you will never develop enduring relationships
that matter in business and personal life
 Know the meaning of “honour”. What does “as men/
women of honour, we join hands mean?”
 The worst way to describe an individual is to say that
“there is no person in his body !”

UI. Aug, 2010.

 Personal Confidence/ Your inner strength-
everyone has one..find yours
 Everybody is a sales man in life, you are
always selling something, an idea, a product
or your skill, talent etc
 With low self esteem, you tell the world, you
do not believe in yourself, your product or
your idea. Who will then buy from you?
 With low self esteem, it will be difficult to get
a good job or get promoted or get a business
contract
UI. Aug, 2010.

 To succeed in life, you must constantly
develop yourself
 Life is a journey of mountains, valleys,
straight and sometimes crooked roads
 Learn and get better with every life challenge
 Your life learning is the asset and the weapon
that will help in your next challenge
 David fought a lion as a Shepherd boy before
he fought Goliath
 Develop Personal Mastery in subject of your
calling
UI. Aug, 2010.

 Knowledge and meta knowledge
 Know what you know
 Real knowledge is however knowing what you
don’t know
 And taking action to find and learn what you
don’t know
 If you don’t know, what you don’t know, you
will not grow in learning
 You will never have Personal Mastery

UI. Aug, 2010.

 Critical to continuous learning and
development of personal mastery
 Give a proud man a little time, you will see
him crashing down heavily
 You cannot know it all..
 Humility will bring you help, it will let others
who know more than you show you the way
 Humility will let others tell you when you are
going into a ditch

UI. Aug, 2010.

 Why did the Dinosaur die?
 Life dynamics are constantly changing? The
successful woman is she, who can adapt to these
changes and even use them to fulfill her life
objective
 Life opportunities may not present themselves to
you in the way you expect it. You will have to
adapt to exploit them
 Adaptation skills will make you succeed at work
and in business
 Change will be a constant, shape it if you can,
adapt to it and leverage in fulfillment of your life
purpose
UI. Aug, 2010.

 There will be times when things don’t go your
way or the way you expect
 Would you give up?
 You will sometimes need to be tough to
succeed
 If Obama was not courageous, he could not
have become US President
 Things that are worthy are rarely easy to get..

UI. Aug, 2010.

 Communications skill will make and average man
look very competent and a competent man look
very average when he doesn’t have it
 If you can’t communicate your idea, then you
don’t have it !
 Writing (memos etc) and speaking skills are
critical to success
 Speak to the bush to develop public speaking
confidence
 Read literature, poetry and prose, articles to learn
writing
 It is never too late to learn
UI. Aug, 2010.

 The skill of understanding people, their
sensitivities and their sensibilities and dealing
with them as such
 Emotional intelligence will help you to
connect with people to get the job done.
 You are not likely to work alone. You will be
part of a team at work. Your relationship
skills, your interpersonal skills will determine
if you will fit into the team or you will be
thrown out
UI. Aug, 2010.

 Criticisms are learning opportunities to
improve yourself
 Successful people learn to tolerate criticism
even if they are not palatable
 You should however be a constructive
critique
◦ Balanced feedback
◦ What I like about your views is xxxx but I am
concerned that it does not address yyyy
◦ Good for building interpersonal skills necessary to
work with others

UI. Aug, 2010.

 How have you disciplined yourself to study,
to stay focused on your mission as a student?
 Could you have done better or come out with
a better grade if you disciplined yourself
better?
 People without discipline lose focus, diffuse
their resources and make costly mistakes
 Successful athletes are very disciplined with
their training, their diet
 Would you be a successful life athlete?
UI. Aug, 2010.

 Life opportunities may not necessarily be
about where you are but your network can
connect you to opportunities outside your
personal space
 To receive, you have to give
 Networking is as much of the value you add
to others as the value you receive from them
 Do you have any value to add? Have you
developed yourself? What assets can you
share with your network?
UI. Aug, 2010.

 The world is now truly integrated and a global
village.
 You will be competing for jobs with Nigerians
and non-Nigerians who schooled abroad

 You might have schooled in Nigeria,
nevertheless ask yourself if I schooled in
Harvard, what would I have been taught, how
would I have been taught it?

UI. Aug, 2010.

 What can I do to cover the gaps? Search the
internet- a lot of free knowledge is on the
net, new books, journals, association with
those who have schooled abroad, find out
what they learnt
 Keep learning and if possible, go overseas for
a Masters
 Even if you don’t, develop yourself and a
positive self esteem based on your
continuous learning
UI. Aug, 2010.

 Wherever life locates you, would you be a
spectator or a player?
 Learn and have concerns for what goes on
around you?
 How could it be better? What should be
different?
 Be the difference that you seek working with
others

UI. Aug, 2010.

 Success is incomplete unless you also make a
success of your family
 Nobody on their death bed have ever said, I
wish I spent more time at work, they always
say I wish I had more time for my family
 Live a balance of work and life
 Recreation and rejuvenation

UI. Aug, 2010.

 A farmer may plant but there may not be rain
 Grace is the water that blesses our labour
 Those who do not know it call it luck
 You need to find your luck, to be in the right
place at the right time
 There is a divine ordering of path that leads
you to your destiny and purpose fulfillment
 You need to know your GOD to find your
luck, to lead you on your life journey

UI. Aug, 2010.

 Life is a journey. Enjoy the ride!

 Thank you

UI. Aug, 2010.

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