I Learned By Teaching.

Learning by Teaching?

Learn about yourself by teaching others.

Wow, I didn't realize this moment would come. Tomorrow is the last session of my 12 week course. I decided some time ago that I would devote some dedicated time into helping others plan their future, learn how to organize themselves and teach them how to manage themselves for their business. Now when I say "manage themselves" I really mean, managing their ideas and their time.

You see, over the years and in my own opinion, I've learned the top 3 things that keep people from succeeding; an unclear vision, unclear objectives and procrastination. I've written about this in other posts that you can see here. But in any case, I've used these areas of focus to help others to improve their productivity to maximize the value of their business.

"Time to take action." 

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To teach a course every week and instill important and relevant principles in the individuals that participated motivated me every single week. I want to see each one of them succeed. I want to see them implement these maxims and make it apart of their core values. I've succeeded in many regards as to seeing the implementations garner positive results and moments of realization. Best of all, these outcomes have inspired me to create my own consultation business and even write a book. This course taught me a lot about myself and gave me confidence for my next venture.

The consultation business is very important to me and even to my family. My wife is a huge advocate of this being a career choice for me. Also being a mentor over the years has been a real joy and a tested experiment of my own knowledge in practice. In equivalence, the book will be a labor of love as I look to challenge myself to change the world or at least the generation that's coming up. I will try to "leave the world in a better place than I got it", so I hope you all stay tuned.

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"Love what you do." If you're looking to improve or even start your own business and you need some order or mentoring, contact me. I'd be happy to lend my advice. Thank you to my Mom for letting me make my own decisions in life. I hope I'm making you proud. I love you.

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Business is about internal and external battles... simply put, I prepare you for WAR. Business WAR. I teach and help people implement 3 simple pillars into everything THEY do in life.

I teach you how to "LEVERAGE WHAT YOU HAVE TO GET WHAT YOU WANT" & how to "BE FIRST or BE BETTER." 

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Who's thinking about your brand?

Marketing/Brand Awareness

What is T.O.M.A?

T.O.M.A. is top of mind awareness. Businesses that are at the top of consumers' minds have a high market share. Consistent, creative advertising will get your business top of mind awareness.

This system is used to determine the market share of who or what companies are on the minds of consumers in certain categories. What comes to mind when you hear a category? For example: If I said "French Fries", the first few responses would be "McDonald's" or "Burger King". If I said, "Tablets" a larger piece of the market would have responded "Apple Ipad". Not everyone will answer the same answers but the majority determines how well a company has branded their products and company awareness.

I tend to relate things back to the music industry as it's a business I am very familiar with. So as for artists, if I named a genre, who would come to mind? Top "R&B" Female ... Beyoncé, Rihanna, who knows??? But who came to your mind?

Now as an artist, producer, blogger, stylist, business owner or "mentor" (shameless plug), etc., who comes to mind when your genre or profession is named? Is it YOU or is it someone else? In the local market or the people that you are around most, are you the most dominant underground sensation or business in their minds? If you are then you're on your way and should have a solid clientele and advocating following/fan base. Or... you have a tremendous amount of work to do and it will probably start with your brand identity! 

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This is one of the topics that are discussed during the mentoring sessions with me. Love what you do. If you're looking to improve or even start your business and you need some order or mentoring, contact me. I'd be happy to lend my advice. 

ask Shaheim

Business is about internal and external battles... simply put, I prepare you for WAR. I teach and help people implement 3 simple pillars into everything THEY do in life.

The RESULTS:

-  UNEXPECTED GOALS BEING ACHIEVED

-  AN INCREASE OF PROFITS
-  CREATION OF AN INSATIABLE HUNGER FOR SUCCESS (Think of a LION that's always hungry)...Yum!!!

I teach you how to "BE FIRST or BE BETTER. Period.

To reach your goals this year, you should do these 6 Steps.

Well 2015 is here and if you like it or not, your unfinished goals from last year are still here too. The only reason they made it this far is because they're still on your list of things to do. Now it's time to stop procrastinating and get some of those goals accomplished.

1. Break down your goals into specific and attainable ones. When the New Year comes in, we tend to set goals that are too vague or very general. You have to get specific. Break down the goal to what it is you specifically want to attain by accomplishing it. Set a date of completion and make it attainable. If you want to sell 1 million books, that's great but let's start by selling the first 100, okay?  
2. Have an action plan. When we are working on a project or a task or tackling something on our to do list, it's never just what's on the list.We tend to add so many things to the task that we fail to ever get started on the one we set out to do. Stop looking at the mountain of stairs and think about the step in front of you. Each task should be broken down (like in step 1) to get you closer to your ultimate goal. Take it one at a time before moving to the next step in your plan. 
3. Partner up/network with people. Sometimes just "thinking" that you can do all the work yourself is too much to handle. So why try to do it all on your own? Try to connect with people of like minds and, in some areas, excelled capabilities to help you get your tasks done. I always say "instead of having 1 person do 100% of the work, get 100 people to do 1% each." (And yes, that does equal 100%). 
4. Be prepared for obstacles. Back in the tenth grade I read John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" for my English class. I wasn't the biggest fan of reading at the time but I did affix a quote to myself from it. One of the best quotes I've read in it was, "the best laid plans of mice and men, often go astray." So true indeed. This quote helped me understand that no matter how hard you plan and how much you think ahead, when the time comes to take action something will go wrong. Things never go as planned so expect them not to. Be prepared and be proactive in anticipating the challenges that may arise.
5. Do not think failure is not an option. Failure is an option and so is success. You have to decide what your option will be. What you know you should be doing but in turn don't do at all, is a key example of failure being an option. An option you choose by not doing what you should be doing to achieve your goal. Let me be clear, even if you do the things you planned but still don't reach your goal doesn't mean you've failed. It just means you may have some tweaking to do before your success. Find out what it is early and adjust. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." (Thomas A. Edison)
6. Be decisive in your choices. I can't say it any clearer. Be decisive. Take out all of the excess remnants of other peoples opinions that aren't helping you achieve your goal. Remove all the excess "fluff" when people are explaining things to you and train your mind to get to the point of it, so you can make a logical decision. Try the Cost-Benefit Analysis which asks "What will it cost me? How will I benefit? and What is the risk? If the benefit can't outweigh the other two factors then the decision is easy... you don't do it. See? That wasn't hard. Now apply it to all your future decisions. One more thing, when I say "cost", I'm not just talking about money, the most valuable aspect you have in life is your time. Spend it wisely.

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Shaheim says... to use these 6 steps to make 2015 a productive year. I'll see you at the top. For more advice ask Shaheim

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Business is about internal and external battles... simply put, I prepare you for WAR. I teach and help people implement 3 simple pillars into everything THEY do in life.

The RESULTS:

- UNEXPECTED GOALS BEING ACHIEVED- AN INCREASE OF PROFITS
- CREATION OF AN INSATIABLE HUNGER FOR SUCCESS (Think of a LION that's always hungry)...Yum!!!

I teach you how to "BE FIRST or BE BETTER. Period.

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Go For it!!!

Go for it!!!

I have a lot of thoughts, maybe too many, but I was extremely frustrated one evening and my thoughts were jumble around. Scrambled would be the appropriate word, accompanied by a wave like headache. You know the one that feels like your heartbeat is in your brain and with every pulse you feel the pain. Ouch!!! It had me in partial tears. I decided to take a late night walk and see if the fresh air could lead me to some relief.

I wonder, have you ever looked up in the night sky and wondered what all those moving-blinking blips of light are? I don't mean the stars. Lol. It's something a lot closer. If you look carefully enough you can see them swirling in these around about patterns. It turns out they are actually airplanes. On this headache riddled night, I sat outside by the pier of the Hudson River and saw twenty planes flying above me and the coast of New Jersey. What I noticed was an elaborate dance in the sky that displayed these planes at different elevations, longitudes & latitudes, speeds and directions. I guess you could call it airplane traffic. They just kept swirling like a moth deciding if it wants to land as close to the flame it is attracted to.

I was a bit more relaxed seeing this elaborate ballet and my headache started to subside. After a while, my attention was captured by a plane that flew much lower than the rest of the planes. Much faster, presumably because it was closer to me, and it was determined to "B-line" to its destination, the quickest route. And that's just it. In business, there are all kinds of companies swirling along at different altitudes and probably extremely profitable in their journey. Some being cautious and some just wanting to land somewhere. But there is always that start up company carrying all the frustrations and headaches of the business. Flying way below the radar of detection, not worrying about the traffic above and fiercely focused on one objective. Getting to it's destination. It got me thinking, maybe more companies should take a moment to look at the night sky. 

Instead of having so many objectives and running them all through your mind at the same time to the point your are overwhelmed with frustration, take a lower trajectory, pick one objective and GO FOR IT!!!

"Time to take action." 

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Business is about internal and external battles... simply put, I prepare you for WAR. I teach and help people implement 3 simple pillars into everything THEY do in life.

The RESULTS:

- UNEXPECTED GOALS BEING ACHIEVED- AN INCREASE OF PROFITS
- CREATION OF AN INSATIABLE HUNGER FOR SUCCESS (Think of a LION that's always hungry)...Yum!!!

I teach you how to "BE FIRST or BE BETTER. Period.

What else do you wanna know?

What's my real name?

What's my real name?

Shaheim aka Mr. Cynclair
(My ruffle shirt & bow tie is AWESOME!!!)

Hello,

Now many of you that have known me in the last decade have come to know me only as Mr. Cynclair. And that's great. There's something about that name that I've always loved. When I was younger I wanted to be like some of the super heroes I saw on TV and even some of the "Big Time" entertainers I was influenced by. In my early years, I practiced with all kinds of names until I couldn't find anything that existed to fit me. I did research, and everything, on names that would be able to describe me, my innovations and my capabilities. I soon realized that I was unique within in myself and wouldn't conform to just one name that can be defined in a dictionary. If I was going to be unique, I would have to create something that sounded like I was important, intelligent and to be one of the only people with that name that people would know if asked. So I created a name that I felt would embody the persona of who I would become while still tying it to the things that made me happy.

Here I am... Mr. CYNCLAIR

...but my family knows me as Shaheim.

I spend much of my time thinking, then planning and then implementing ways on how to reach every single one of my goals. And I have plenty. What I enjoy about how my mind works is something my Dad told me when I was younger: "To know something is for you, but to understand it is to teach it to someone else." Putting people first has allowed me to reach many of my goals, so I'm not gonna stop now. Funny thing is, "Shaheim" actually means "wisdom". Go figure.

I've worked in Retail, Sales, Management, I was and still am a Business Owner. I've worked in the Music Industry, Radio and as a Basketball Coach. I've even worked on a farm. Yes, a farm. Lol. I say all this to say, that I'm no stranger to hard work and my experiences have lead me to other professions I currently take on as a Mentor, Consultant, Public Speaker and an Licensed NYS Real Estate Agent in New York City.

I see the world in a way that can be only seen by those that have optimistic projections and commitments to understanding how things work. We have to leave this world in a better place than we got it. I do know that my life experiences can help others reach their dreams and seeing a window of opportunity to help people. Knowing this, I've lent my time, for free, to teach teleconference lessons on "How to Manage Yourself" and personalized 20 minute weekly consultations on how to get started or improve your business. Knowing what you want to do in life is the most invigorating and overwhelming feeling in life. But loving it along the way makes it worthwhile. I show you how.

Listen, my life experiences are flooded with failures but my successes have allowed me to put some color into the water. Kind of blend it all in to one big cup of "Life-Juice". I have so much belief in people that I want them to be able to see their potential one day. My hope is to help 10 Million people with my words, inspirations, lessons, classes, consultations and even from the stories in my experiences. My wife really wants me to write a book but I keep putting it off. Maybe this blog will help me get much of the writing done and help as many people as I can along the way. I am Shaheim Kellum aka Mr. Cynclair. :)

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Business is about internal and external battles... simply put, I prepare you for WAR. I teach and help people implement 3 simple pillars into everything THEY do in life.

The RESULTS:

- UNEXPECTED GOALS BEING ACHIEVED- AN INCREASE OF PROFITS
- CREATION OF AN INSATIABLE HUNGER FOR SUCCESS (Think of a LION that's always hungry)...Yum!!!

I teach you how to "BE FIRST or BE BETTER. Period.

What else do you wanna know?