Take a moment and consider your life today. Do you like your life now? Do you like it as it is?
I know it is impossible to have everything perfect perpetually in life but how would you rate the quality of your life right now? At this age, at this time, how far have you come in comparison with the dreams, hope and expectations you once upon a time had?
Are you close to the dreams, are you living it, have you exceeded expectations or you appear derailed? Are you still in control of your life or you’ve totally lost control?
The power and control of your tomorrow lies where and with who?
Have you made some mistakes and it appears impossible to bounce back, retrace your steps or correct the error. Are you entrapped in people, situations, jobs, marriages and friendships that have kept you low, down and incapacitated?
Have you experienced disappointments, betrayals, failures and embarrassments and consequently given up on that dream, that vision and ambition?
Are you living in fear, insecurity, doubt and anxiety – unsure of what tomorrow holds?
Are you at that point where you think if no one helps you, if no one intervenes, if there is no miracle, it’s all over for you?
Are you struggling financially, can’t meet up with your bills, you’re in between jobs, have never been employed, highly indebted, can’t provide enough for your family, making back to back losses in business, and everything appears to be nose diving and you’re just helpless?
Are you pained and you believe under a different circumstance, a different environment, in a different country, things wouldn’t be this bad for you?
Have you become very bitter, angry and disappointed and day after day you complain, lament and invest so much time in criticising everyone you believe is responsible for your troubles and challenges?
It may feel good blaming everyone and everything, and you may find temporary emotional relief venting and even cursing, but would this attitude and disposition help your situation, secure your future, improve your finances, improve your life quality and address your fear factors?
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe it is time you accept life exactly how it is and not as you wish it to be. Listen to me, life is unfair to all, it has always been that way and it will continue to be that way. One man’s loss is always another man’s gain in life. Therefore, arise from your low esteem and self-justification, start thinking good, productive, progressive and constructive thoughts.
What is most important is having answers and victory over your personal problems and challenges despite the environmental realities and whomever messed you up in time past. If there be some people making money and growing great legitimately in today’s Nigeria, then you also have what it takes to do very well.
As we advocate and intensify pressure for good infrastructure, better policies, superior leadership and good governance in Nigeria, please don’t let go of your own personal life. It is possible to have a better Nigeria without a better you and it is very much possible to have a much better you even if Nigeria keeps struggling.
Get a grip on your life, focus on all you can control and deal well with them. Take that seal off your limited thinking and do all you have to do. Stretch yourself, challenge yourself and do the needful! Enough of excess pleasure, excess playing, excess excuses and this blame game; dear friend your time is running out.
Frankly speaking poverty or lack is not a problem, it is actually a result; it is a consequence of not doing the right things, the right way, in such a way that will bring more than enough income. People are poor because they are unwilling to learn what the rich learnt and do what the rich did that made the rich. Most of us want to do what we like, as we like it, when we like it, the way we like it and cling on to what we are used to and expect to have all the money we want. We have expectations based on our own opinion not the correct opinion.
Every time you’ve used the word “I can’t” what you’re actually saying is, “I don’t want to”. Dear friend, there is nothing you can’t do if you’re willing. If you have the will and capacity to learn, you can do anything – all you need is that will to learn and do.
Becoming rich is not about doing what you like, what is convenient or easy, it’s about learning what you need to learn and doing what you need to do to make good money within legal frameworks.
Financial surplus occurs by creating something or becoming someone of great value every one want to pay you to have you. It’s about growing your value and worth greatly.
But you must of course create something or become someone people need and want, for you to get paid not just into anything you like. People don’t just pay for good things, they pay for good things that they need.
When you become valuable, when you become a solution, when your product or service becomes valuable, you must subsequently learn to sell it effectively to people who need it for cash to flow in your direction.
If you hate sales, can’t sell and won’t sell, please don’t expect to be rich all lifelong. Every rich person with financial surplus, and control over their financial future is a fantastic sales person. The secret of being rich while you’re young and remaining rich at old age is in your ability to sell anything and everything. First your product while you’re young then, your intellect, experience and yourself at old age.
A friend shared with me last week a sad experience of a colleague who retired from one of the leading oil firms in Nigeria and died after three years. He was paid hundreds of millions as retirement benefits and within 24 months he lost most of the money to bad business and investment decisions and the desperation to maintain the high quality lifestyle he was used to in paid employment.
He lacked the ability to sell his experience, his skills and his personality post retirement, hence couldn’t attract cash at retirement. The retirement benefit he depended upon was unfortunately gone; he died of high blood pressure, he was a little over 60.
Dear friend, it is time to live a full life. I’ve heard too many advocacies about making sacrifices today for a better tomorrow and I’ve heard people say also they will choose to enjoy their lives today as no one knows tomorrow. I personally don’t subscribe to these two ideologies.
I do not want to make any sacrifice for tomorrow if I can afford not to, and I don’t want to sacrifice my tomorrow to enjoy today because I don’t want to suffer at old age. I have therefore decided to live a full life.
A full life is that decision to enjoy every moment of your life and every season in your life. I have decided to enjoy every bit of my today and every bit of my tomorrow.
I want to eat what I want, wear what I like, drive the car I like, live in the nieghbourhood I want, travel to any country I want and spend on all I like today and still be able to afford all the comfort, all the riches and all the security I need socially and financially at old age. I want to definitely pass on good inheritance to my children’s children. That’s a full life!
This decision has changed the way I think, work, interact and live my life. It takes a certain kind of lifestyle – hard work, brainwork, smart connections, right associations, healthy friendships and business know-how to live a very comfortable and fun life today, and sustain it all lifelong. That for me, is living a full life.
There are some clothes you can’t wear at old age, there are some food you can’t eat at old age; there are some travels that’ll become too stressful at old age and some kind of fun you can’t afford at old age. Dear friend, enjoy your life now and enjoy your life when you’re old.
Let go of the anger, pain, disappointment, animosity and grudge against your perceived enemies of progress. Love yourself enough to activate a full life. Make that needed decisions for financial prosperity and wealth creation. Don’t drink away your fears or sorrows and don’t hide it under the guise of religion. Stop escaping into entertainment, gossip, clubbing, work or social media. Arise and confront your fears and troubles and take full responsibility. Good success is achieved through obedience to principles not religiosity, being religion without obeying success principles will fail you.
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