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SHOW UP AND TAKE ACTION!!!




Immediately after my National Youth Service, as a young graduate still seeking relevance, a friend added me to a group "Valuex" Valuex is a platform where information is exchanged through lecture delivery and quality content sharing.

So, I started delivering lecture on this platform and there was a time, we were to choose from a wide range of topics. I couldn't choose from any topic and there was this topic, which people fail to pick. "Thriving as a start up" with little or no knowledge about entrepreneurship. I took the topic, using the knowledge I garnered from the Young African Leadership Initiative online courses and my experience as an associate of the chartered institute of customers relationship management.

I delivered a top notch lecture and I got an invitation to speak at the Federal School of Statistics, Ibadan on the same topic.

Lessons: Show up and take action. Somehow, someone is watching somewhere.

Show up!
Learn!
Prepare! Opportunities meet preparedness!
Create relevant content and seek relevance!

Caption: Youth SDGs Cafe (Nigerian Youth SDGs Network)



                                       Hammed Kayode Alabi ©2018

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