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Day 16: What’s the real currency you’re trading with, money or character?
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4:51Day 16: What’s the real currency you’re trading with, money or character? Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. Yesterday we talked about purpose as the pull that keeps you moving beyond pressure. Today, we’re looking at something even more foundational: character. Here’s the truth: your greatest asset is not your title, your bank b…
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Day 14: Adaptability is Authority What will you do if you suddenly realises that the market or the business you are in to suddenly changed and more demanded more from you? Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. We’ve reached the close of Week 2, and today’s message is about a skill that separates those who survive from those who lead…
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Day 15: Are you being pushed by pressure or pulled by purpose?
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5:20Day 15: Are you being pushed by pressure or pulled by purpose? Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. We’re beginning Week 3, and today’s message is about the force that keeps you moving forward even when life gets hard: purpose. Here’s the truth: pressure can push you for a while, but only purpose will keep pulling you all the way. …
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Day 13: Choices shape champions Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. So far in this series, we’ve explored influence, words, restraint, resilience, and silence. Today, we’re moving into something very practical: choices. Here’s the truth: champions are not made in a single dramatic decision. They are formed in hundreds of small, de…
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Day 12: Silence Speaks Louder Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. Today, I want to talk about something that feels almost countercultural in our noisy world: silence. We live in a time where everyone wants the last word, the loudest opinion, the fastest response. But here’s the truth: silence is not weakness. Silence is wisdom. An…
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Day 11: Resilience is the New Wealth Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. Today I want to talk to you about a kind of wealth that outlasts titles, salaries, and possessions. It’s a wealth that no economy can devalue and no crisis can erase. That wealth is resilience. Here’s the truth: success isn’t guaranteed to the smartest, the f…
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Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. We’ve been talking about influence, words, and the power of building others through what we carry within. But today, I want to talk about something that doesn’t sound glamorous. Something most people don’t naturally celebrate. Restraint.Because here’s the truth: mastery is not only about what yo…
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Day 9 – Words as Building Blocks Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. Yesterday we began Week 2 by looking at influence—the unseen force that comes before impact. Today, we’re going deeper into one of the most powerful ways you shape influence: your words. Words are not just sounds or syllables. They are building blocks. They const…
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We’re stepping into Week 2, and the focus now shifts. Last week was all about foundations, your self-awareness, courage, optimism, energy, conviction, and resilience under pressure. This week, we start to build outward: how your inner architecture begins to affect the world around you. And today’s truth is this: before you make an impact, you must …
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Day 7 – Pressure Reveals Pattern Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. We’ve spent this first week laying some strong foundations, self-awareness, courage, optimism, planting seeds, protecting energy, and living by conviction. Today, we close this first week with a truth you cannot ignore: life will put you under pressure. And when …
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Welcome to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. Today we begin a journey that I believe can change the way you see yourself, your work, and your future. And it all begins with something as ordinary as a mirror. Think about it, every morning, most of us stand before a mirror. We check our reflection. We adjust our clothes, tidy our hair, make sure …
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Day 6 – The Compass of Conviction Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. So far this week, we’ve looked into the mirror of self-awareness, discovered courage as the currency of change, learned that optimism is a strategy, not a mood, planted acorns that grow into mighty oaks, and sharpened our edge by managing energy. Today, we want …
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Day 5: Your Edge is in Your Energy Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. So far, we’ve looked in the mirror of self-awareness, embraced courage as the currency of change, discovered optimism as a strategy, and learned to plant small acorns that grow into mighty oaks. Today I want to talk about something you already know but often ov…
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Day 4: Plant the Acorn, Grow the Oak Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. Over the last few days, we’ve looked into the mirror of self-awareness, we’ve discovered courage as the currency of change, and we’ve learned that optimism is not a mood but a strategy. Today, I want to talk to you about seeds. Specifically, the acorn. The ac…
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Day 3: Optimism is a Strategy, Not a Mood Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. If yesterday was about courage as the currency of change, today is about another powerful tool you must add to your inner architecture: optimism. Now, when you hear the word optimism, you might think of it as cheerfulness, smiling through difficulties, b…
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Day 2: Courage is the Currency of Change Teleprompter-Ready Script
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5:54Welcome back to Everyday Wisdom for Personal Mastery. Yesterday we began by looking into the mirror of self-awareness. Today we take the next step, because once you’ve seen the truth about yourself, you must decide what to do with it. And here’s the reality: nothing changes without courage. Courage is the currency of change. You cannot buy your way…
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The Reinvention Payoff: Reaping the Rewards of Staying the Course
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6:04Day 29 – The Reinvention Payoff: Reaping the Rewards of Staying the Course Have you thought about how Long-term persistence produces lasting reward? Scripture says in: Galatians 6:9 (NIV) “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Here is what I have to to realise, The greatest rewar…
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Reinventing Under Pressure: Thriving When the Heat Is On
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6:36Pressure doesn’t break you; it reveals you Scripture says in : 2 Corinthians 4:8–9 (NIV) “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” I have come to learn that pressure is the proving ground where reinvention becomes reality. Hello and welcome to …
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The Power of Pre-Decision: Setting Standards Before the Test Comes
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6:01Hello and welcome to Day 27 of Everyday Wisdom to Reinvent Yourself. I’m Martins Toluhi, and today we’re unlocking a game-changing principle in your reinvention journey—the power of pre-decision This is Setting Standards Before the Test Comes. The hardest time to decide your values is in the heat of the moment. If you wait until the temptation, pre…
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Making the Magic Happen: Small Actions That Create Big Changes
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6:13Many people think reinvention happens in one big, dramatic moment, a career change, a business launch, a major breakthrough. But the truth? Big changes are the result of small, repeated actions stacked over time. Transformation is less like a lightning strike and more like the sunrise, steady, incremental, and inevitable if you stay consistent. The…
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Reinventing Your Voice: Refining Your Message for the Next Season
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6:53Every new season demands a new sound from you. Your voice: the way you communicate, lead, influence, and connect, must evolve as your vision grows. The voice that got you here may not carry you there. Why? Because: •Your audience changes •Your platform expands •Your vision deepens •Your influence widens If your voice stays static while everything e…
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Turn Pro: The Discipline of Consistency Moving from amateur habits to professional discipline Hello and welcome to Day 21 of Everyday Wisdom to Reinvent Yourself. I’m Martins Toluhi, and today we’re talking about a truth that separates those who start strong from those who finish strong, the discipline of consistency. This is Turn Pro – The Discipl…
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Your Bold Reinvent: Taking Brave, Visible Action
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6:03One of the most common traps in reinvention is over-preparation. We convince ourselves we’re “not quite ready yet” when in reality, we’re just afraid. We hide behind the safety of research, planning, or skill-building; waiting for a perfect moment that never comes. Here’s the truth: Your reinvention will only become real when it becomes visible. If…
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Future-Proof Foundations: Building for Where the World Is Going
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6:42Theme: Anticipating tomorrow while structuring today Scripture Anchor: Matthew 7:24–25 (NIV) “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its f…
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Making Success Scalable: Systems for Sustainable Reinvention
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6:11Reinvention is not just about getting a win; it’s about creating a win you can repeat. Many people work so hard to create a breakthrough, but they never build the systems to maintain it. They rely on energy, talent, or even luck; but without a structure, momentum leaks away. Now let’s fix that. Here’s the truth: Momentum without management eventual…
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36-Two key decisions to enhancing your business and career growth
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9:40In this episode we shall answer the question, “what are the two decisions you can make right now that will have a remarkable impact on your business and career growth?”. These questions come in the light of you developing your own success system. So, we shall discuss two key decisions that could enhance your business and career growth in the light …
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Decides what Goals to focus on One of the key areas of decisions that successful people consider is what goals to focus on in every season of their lives. This is because we have limited time, resources, and energy at any one given point in time. So, the decision of which goals to prioritise is a success booster and can be consider as wisdom on the…
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In this episode we shall answer the question “what drives your success?” This question comes in the light of your success system. While we have established in our previous episodes that information provides the fuel that galvanizes your inspiration to action, it is important to note here that there is a bridge between the information that you recei…
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33_Success System-What is growing Inside you?
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12:54In this episode we shall answer the question “what is growing inside you and why that is important?” in the light of your success system. So, I ask you “What are you internalising? Over the last two decades as I have studied the art of succeeding and the psychology of success, I have come to find out that the key to success is largely dependent on …
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32_Success System- The Force of Information
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10:31In this episode, we look at the force of information. So, let us uncover the force of information as the first tool in delivering the results you desire. As we have covered in two previous episodes, our success system operates in cycle. Life in general operates in cycle; from the solar Systems to the different seasons of the year, the season of see…
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Like many things in creation, the success system operates in cycle. Life in general operates in cycle; from the solar Systems to the different seasons of the year, to a woman hormonal cycle, the season of seedtime and harvest sets in motion in creation; all things function and operate in cycles. According to Gary Keller, the author of ‘The One Thin…
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What would you give to be able to constantly create great results in your business and career? How would you want to be seen as a peak performer on your job? How will you want your organisation to deliver results that your customers would consider to be the top of the market? It is pretty obvious that we live in a world where the right result is cr…
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So, if I were to ask you “what is at the core of a success system?” What will your response be? How do you make a go at succeeding in chosen career and business? This will be my focus in this episode.By Martins Toluhi
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28_Pushing the boundaries for your professional growth
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8:47Have you thought of how you can improve and grow your career beyond where you are at the moment? Are you setting yourself up for the next season of professional growth? Or are you wondering how to go beyond been stock on the same spot professionally? If you answer is yes to any of these questions, then get ready for a power ride to a new season of …
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The concept of scoping your week or month ahead of time simply means taking a ‘helicopter view’ of what you think the week or month ahead of you should be like. It helps you to obtain a high-level view of what should happen. This way you are able to define the broad strokes of your pursuits for that period of time. Scoping should be intentional, an…
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Have you ever asked yourself the question? Why is it that some people schedule their tasks and plan out what to do, yet constantly procrastinate on what they know they ought to do? Why can’t they find the energy, drive or passion to do what they planned and set out to do in the first instance? Could it be that the goals, tasks, and objectives they …
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To make the most of your time and increase productivity, it is imperative to understand yourself, know how you are wired to function, and create the right atmosphere for your own personal productivity. Without a doubt finding your creative zone will enhance your capacity to deliver more consistently at a level that will help position you for the ri…
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It has been scientifically and psychologically confirmed that productivity is higher when one takes breaks at reasonable intervals to refresh the brain. It gives the brain the opportunity to produce at its best. In carrying out mental tasks and activities, the brain uses up a lot of body energy and calories. Continuous mental activity can be exhaus…
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In this episode we look at another philosophy of productivity that I called - Inner calmness Over the years, I have concluded that the calmer a person is internally, the more control that individual will have over his or her energy, and as such the more directed they will be in their efforts to get things done. Worry, anxiety, and inner turmoil rob…
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22_The power of a deadline-Productivity Series
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4:46If you have handled any major or minor project, you would realise that every task has a way of expanding to consume the time allotted to it. This is the reason why, for instance, people who have two weeks to turn in a job sometimes linger until the last three days to get it done. It is crucial to understand the importance of having a schedule with …
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YOUR PHILOSOPHY OF PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY: LESS IS MORE In this episode we focus on the concept of doing the right work and not just doing things right. We consider a critical piece of personal productivity which is the philosophy that ‘less is more’. This is certainly central to the mastery of productivity. If you are going to make any difference w…
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20_Your Productivity Philosophy - 01 Bias for Action
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11:13YOUR PHILOSOPHY OF PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY: DOING MORE IN LESS TIME Some of the questions I regularly get and that I will address will include: What is your personal philosophy of productivity? How does your personal philosophy impact on your personal productivity? How would you like to do more with the time you have and go further in less time than …
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19_Switch our career successfully: Resilience - 05
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10:32In this episode I will conclude our series on switching your career successfully. If you have been following this series, you will remember that I have been using questions to drive your strategy for switching your career successfully. I promised I will use a four-question model – FQM; so, in this episode you have the fourth question covered. The q…
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18_Switch your career successfully- Skill Gaps Audit-04
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15:21While most people advocate for you to do what you are passionate about, it is important to scan your past experiences and see if there are skills that you can take forward from your paste career and life experiences. This is where you ask the all-important questions around the gaps that may exist in the skills you currently possess and the new role…
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17_Switch your career successfully -What's stopping you-03
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16:52Humans are wired with the capability to leverage their personal stories on the journey to their best life. This is even more so when it comes to making your career change. The next phase of your life and career may very well depend on the storyline that is shaping your current perspectives. Christian Jarrett, in his BBC feature article of 27 May 20…
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16_How to switch your career successfully -Your Big Ask - 02
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13:44In this episode I will consider the key question that triggers the process of your career change. In this framework, we will work through the four quadrants for transformation, each quadrant driven by a major question. First it bears repeating that questions are powerful in engaging life change and transformation at any level. Questions are equally…
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15_How to switch your career successfully - 01
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14:41In this episode we will start a new series on how to switch your career successfully. Essentially, we want to look at the concept of pivoting your career strategically from your current or previous positions to a new one. Truth be told, most people will have to change career a couple of times in their career journey. The economy and the changes aro…
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14_Future Proof your career in a changing world
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25:49There are changes happening at all levels in our world today. The workplace of the future is going to be radically different from how we know it today. The rate of change is also accelerating at a speed beyond what we had imagined before now. In this episode we consider why it is necessary to future proof your career and provided you a model for fu…
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Career optimisation is really non-negotiable if you are going to remain relevant in the marketplace. A significant part of making the most of your career is not necessarily hinged on your core hard skills, rather it is based on a strategic blend of both hard skills and key soft skills. While technical or hard skills are necessary as core bases for …
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12_Setting yourself up for your career success
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14:33Your career as a professional is a life-long journey that requires your strategic engagement. Whether you choose to grow through the corporate ladder to building a business or you venture into building your own business. Whatever the route you take, the core objective of career growth is to be so good that the world can’t ignore you. Setting yourse…
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