DON'T RUN AFTER MONEY, LET IT COME AFTER YOU!

         A huge percentage of concerns that individuals, families, private organizations and corporate firms, governments of nations have in quantum boils down to money.  It is such a monumental issue because it is a means of exchange for what people need to get going in life.  No one can possibly survive without money to get things done.  The absence of money tends to make individuals lose confidence in themselves.  They feel less human and totally disoriented.  If you have never been in a place where you have so many things to do but have no money to get it done, you might not understand this. Even the Holy Book says “money answereth all things” and that “money is a defense”.

            As a result of this all-important role of money in life, there is a daily mad rush after money.  Check the highly densely populated areas in your city and you will find that the place is that much populated daily because it is a high value environment by which money can be made.  The busiest places in this world, I guess is the literal market place.  A lot of us do not pay close attention, but the next time you go to the market, the only language that is spoken there is money.  If all the noise around a particular city is to be deadened except the noise of money talk coming from inside the city’s market, you can hear the noise from 10 to 15 kilometers away.  Everybody is talking at the same time and the whole object of that hullaballoo is money.

            The most sparsely populated areas in a city during the day time are residential areas.  The residents have all gone to look for money: work, business places, and all kinds of places.  Money is the motivation for those criminals who rob banks and your houses.  Money motivates the politician to seek political office.  The politician’s intention may not be to embezzle but he believes that with money at his disposal to carry out projects for public good, he will feel fulfilled.  Money is the only subject you can vouch for in your mind that over 99% of people worldwide think about every day.

            The truth about money is this: money is hard to come by.  Not everyone gets all the money he needs.  There are only few people who have it in abundance but the vast majority of people barely survive on the little they get.  The question now is “how can I get enough money?”.  What can I do to move from the needy situation to the club of the haves?  There is a place for having more than enough money.  That place is where you don’t run after money, but money comes looking for you.  Until you get to that point, you will continue to be in want.

How does money look for you?

            It’s as simple as ABC.  Do you have anything of value that people need?  If you do, people with money will come after you to get that stuff while they give you the monies in their hands.  It’s very simple for the simple-hearted to think that they do not have anything of value.  That is not true.  Everyone was born with a gift for his or her generation.  Your gift is your money-making engine.  All you need to do is to develop that gift into a skill.  A skill is what people pay for.  God might have given you more than one gift or talent.  Recognize them and train in the areas of those gifts.

            Once you have trained and developed yourself to the point of making the gift sellable, those who need the services will come after you.  It could be a product you have created, a service that you render; as long as there are people who need those things, they will come looking for you with money in their hands.  Repeat the circle in other areas, branch out and diversify and before you say “Jack Bauer”, you have become super-rich and left the class of the “Never have Enough” to the club of “More than Enough.”

You Have to Pay the Price

            There is a price to pay.  It’s not a walk in the park.  It’s not as easy as walking into a coffee shop and ordering for a drink or driving past McDonald’s for a hamburger.  It will require your time, energy and mind.  Discovering your gifts and potentials could take an educational pursuit not necessarily in a conventional institution but through informal means.  It would mean that you will need to read more books and develop a culture of continuous learning.  Nobody stumbles into wealth by accident; it is attained by deliberate and intentional effort. 

            There are seminars, workshops and training programs that are packaged everywhere all the times, including your city.  Seek to find out what they are all about and pay the required fee to learn what they have to teach as it relates to your search for unearthing your money-making potential.  If you don’t learn through the available means by getting proper information, you will remain where the vast majority of people who do not want to lift their fingers remain.  They may be good people, well-intentioned and intelligent in their own way, but they will remain poor.  They may be religious, prayer-warriors and holy people, but they will remain in religion, war in prayer and become monks in poverty. 

            If you want to be comfortable, able to meet your needs, leave a fortune for your children as an inheritance, it is time to pick up yourself, dust yourself up and find your bearing in the race for making money for good purpose.

            If this material has been beneficial to you and you are already getting angry with where you are in life and sincerely want to do something about it, then get in touch with this writer… I can get you started.  I have resource materials for you to begin to train yourself and carry out a seminar for one right in your living room.  The materials may cost you a little, but it will be worth your while.  All you need to do is to send me an email @ creslead@yahoo.com or goba_ogwuche@yahoo.com and I will get you started on the most interesting journey of your life towards financial independence and peace of mind.  If you are in Nigeria, besides sending me a mail, you might want to call my direct telephone line 08165735746 so we can have a chat on practical terms as to how you can get started.  If however, you live in the Kano area of North West Nigeria, you may call at my office at 3^rd Floor, Union Bank Building, 37 Niger Street/Murtala Mohammed Way, Kano.  But if will be necessary that you send me a mail so an appointment can be fixed for you before you meet me in the office.

 
            Nobody gives you money because they like your face; there is always a reason for why people would want to give you money.  Waiting to help you get started.

SORRY, I CAN'T FIT INTO YOUR BOX

                Have you realized that many people seem to have a “stake” in your life when it is absolutely not there business not to poke into your issues?  A simple observer may not be comfortable with my stance on this subject because subtly, it is almost like saying you should discount people getting interested in your affairs and offering their counsel.  This is far from it.  What I advocate and campaign for here is not in any way a devaluation of the place of counsel, sound advice and guidance.  I am myself a life-coach and a mentor of many.  The issue at stake is the aggressive micro-management style of a lot of people who after giving you their advice, counsel and suggestions want you to follow their style hook, line and sinker without taking into consideration your personal responsibility of decision making and your peculiarity as a person.  People can make suggestions but it is your reserved right and responsibility to make up your mind on what to do eventually.  That is the personal freedom I fight for people.  Away with the dogmatic, stereotyped way of trying to force people to do things your way all the time.

                I find that people who rarely know where you are coming from and where you are headed tend to call you all kinds of names because you are not towing their path and lane in life.  I have always said that people who are busy minding their business and pursuing a bright future have no time to poke into the intricate issues of others.  They may have time to observe one or two things about how the people around them are living and they may offer a few tips on how you can tweak one or two things to make what you are doing better but they do not bother you with the methodologies and minutest details.

               

                I have had very serious personal experiences in my life and still having them.  You have these sets of people who think you shouldn’t be doing what you are doing because no one else has done them around them before.  If I have to do everything that has been done before, why should I expect a different result?  Change is the best sign of progress in life.  Do not get stuck in doing the same thing over and over again.  I learnt a long time ago not to be around people who regard me as their champion from whom I may not have something new to learn from.  Penultimate Thursday, I was a guest of the dynamic youths of Living Faith Church in my city and I told them to get away from associations and environments where they have stopped learning new things.  If you are the one people defer to always and you have all the answers in your circle of friends, then that circle has expired for you.  You have become a local champion.  I like being with people who make me look foolish; people who make me want to learn more.  Don’t be a big fish in a small pond.  I’d rather be a small fish in an ocean, so I can have enough room for growth and expansion.

                I was speaking to an elder man who considered himself my mentor and guardian some few years ago and he said I shouldn’t be thinking of any amount of money above N500,000 Nigerian Nigeria at my stage.  I was an officer in a thriving Nigerian bank with a take home pay of a little less than N100,000 monthly and I was engaged in my freelance writing and just published my first book.  I was exploring other areas of investment and business expansion while working and here was this man telling I was being too ambitious.  I was 33+ at the time!  I was expected to think within the box of my monthly salary and that was it.  I rejected that counsel because it was running contrary to my avowed vision and understanding of life and progress.  He wanted me to be boxed in to his limited thinking for me.  The devil is a liar… I didn’t submit to that counsel and you should not.  Anyone who tries to run down your vision is not a friend and cannot be one.  Run away from such people.

                When I bought my first car in 1999, I was 27.  A good natured uncle of mine called me and asked me to sell the car and go buy a motorcycle!  Why was he proposing that?  He was in his mid 40s and had worked for more than 20 years but had an aging motorcycle.  He said I was being too ambitious and that it was not right for me to be using a car!  I saw a car as a mere necessity and not a luxury.  He was indignant.  He wanted me to operate within his worldview of life but I refused to stay down.  People who want you to do their bidding because they have not thought of higher things are dangerous in your life – be wary of their small talk.

                People who will get to the top should always do things different irrespective of what others thing about them.  Leaders operate outside the box, go against the current and stand out of the crowd.  See you another day.