Oh, ye Startup founder! You have a great idea, a ghost of a product haunting the recess of your mind. A beautiful concept that will undoubtedly set the World on fire with its sheer genius...and yet, and yet you just can't seem to get this idea moving. Fear, resources, time, imposter syndrome, networks? Whatever the stumbling block is, it still does not help you understand how everyone out there seems to be 'making it', how all these young startup founders are seemingly having

If there ever was a movie that deserved the top spot amongst 'the-movies-you-must-watch-before-you-die' genre it must be The Shawshank Redemption. The seminal movie based on the Stephen King novel of the same title is about one Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover. However, he is in reality innocent of the charges. While in prison, he forms alliances with key figures with the main goal of esca

You probably may have read the Indian parable or poem of the blind men and the elephant? The one where 6 blind men, each wise in their own respect chance upon an elephant on their collective path and set out to describe the nature of the animal to each other? Yes, no? I'll refresh your memory. So these intelligent but blind men encounter an elephant and proceed to describe the animal before them based on their limited experience and first encounter with it. One fellow had re

Go back with me 243 million years ago, when the World was a rolling mass of lush green vegetation and a battery of twenty thousand mountain peaks breaking a skyline lit by multiple Suns. A strange and exotic place whose air was rendered asunder by thunderous screeches and roars of reptilian creatures taller than the tallest buildings known to man; creatures living in the deepest ocean depths, roaming the vast plains of land and soaring high above the tops of massive tree trun

In this article I set out to explain how I managed to recover from a devastating $ 30, 000 loss made from one of my earliest business ventures. Get downloadable story from this link HERE Get downloadable story from this link HERE The author, Jan Okonji is an entrepreneur, mindset virtuoso and founder of the company Business Growth Solutions, www.bizgrowth.club. He is also the Startup Expert with the SNDBX, a unique collection of 40 business experts that offer affordable and i

When you set out to achieve a goal ( health, relationship, spiritual, financial or career ) you really are looking at one thing ultimately : RESULTS, right ? You are looking at an exact outcome in a defined time. You are focusing on a 20kg weight drop in 3 months, a six pack by December, a wedding date by next year, a closer walk with God or $ 1,000 in your bank account within 4 months so that you can settle overdue bills. Maybe to be a better husband, daughter, work mate or

It has been a while since I last blogged. I feel the guilt of my absence down to my very last nerve because putting my thoughts, knowledge and focus in print is not merely cathartic but now, almost second nature. I have been engrossed in my NLP - Neural Linguistic Programming and CBT - Cognitive Behaviour Theory studies....spending long amounts of time trying to understand how this mind and its accompanying brain work. Trying to understand how I, we, you and I can develop a f

The mind is a fascinating concept. The mind, quite separate from the brain - is the environment of the sub conscious. That place where beliefs, thoughts, dreams, passions and fear reside. Our minds determine how far high we fly in life and in retrospect, how far low we can plunge. What mental barriers feed into our nature of self-sabotage and in turn affect our business success ? How do we overcome these barriers ? In this interview with Metropol TV, I sit down with Elijah Si

On Monday this week, SNDBX Kenya kicked off a first of a 3-Part Webinar series availing nuggets for business growth for African business owners and entrepreneurs. In this snippet, Jan Okonji - the resident SNDBX Startup Expert gives his insights on MARKET OPPORTUNITIES FOR BUSINESS GROWTH IN 2021 for potential attendees of the Cohort II Startup R.O.A.D Map training program through his unique D.O.O.R model. The speaker, Jan Okonji is a business consultant running his own compa

If there are aspects of life that have fascinated me, these are the areas of business, entrepreneurship, mindset, success (whatever that is) and the general human quest for passion and purpose in life. Why are we here? What makes me feel alive? What makes me feel whole? Can I have it all? How do I get out of my comfort zone and do that which I fully love and am called to do? Is there more to life than just paying the bills? These questions have led me to reading tonnes of lit