Step for once out of illusion, delusion and
wishful thinking. Step into a reality right now as I ask this question and I
want you to answer this question truthfully and sincerely. You need not give an
immediate answer if you know you do not know, don't just answer or be slushy
and unrealistic with your answer. The purpose of the question is not to tease
you or excite you but to make you think seriously. And I want you to think
about it seriously.
This is my question. If someone pays 100
million naira into your account today. What will be the first thing you would
do, the second thing you would do and the third thing you would do?
In my seminars, I ask my audience this
question in purpose research and planning workshops and the most frequent
responses are: at number one, I'd resign from paid employment, number 2, I'd
invest it, number 3; I'll start a business.
Then I smile; the responses I expected
exactly. Then I begin to ask further questions relating to these responses. And
eventually it becomes obvious, many say they would resign from their
employments not because they'll now have the opportunity to use their time for
something they really want to do, but because they want to escape from paid
employment. The response of resigning is most of the time informed by the
desire to escape the stress and pressure tied to their jobs.
Many who also say they would invest, only say
so to sound financially responsible and disciplined. When asked what they would
invest in, many would pause, start to think then say shares and real estate.
When I ask further questions about the stock market and the real estate
industry, they have no detailed information about these areas. They just know
people say they invest in stocks and shares and they also just say the same.
Many have no clue how it works or how to invest or profit from the investments.
For those who also say they'll start their
businesses, I ask questions about how they would do it? Their area of interest,
the product or service they want to offer, their target market, their customer
profile, their business plans, their business strategy, corporate culture,
their sales strategy, route to market agenda, differentiation, positioning,
branding and value chain process management. They just stare at me, having no
clue what I'm talking about, in fact they do not even have a business name yet,
much less company registration. They are obviously not ready.
You see, many of us wish for a life we are not
ready for, we long for a lifestyle we are not prepared for and desire a change
we cannot handle yet. Many of us spend hours in prayers and hard work seeking
for a life improvement and transformation that we only desire but don't
deserve. What it takes to handle what we're asking for, we do not have.
Its basic human instinct to desire wealth and
riches. We crave and pray for financial and material surplus. There are some
kind of blessings however, if experienced now, will destroy you completely
because you can't handle it. You're not ready or prepared for it, it will
consequently ruin you.
Many of us do want a good, rich and successful
life, but we do not prepare for it. We are not doing anything to prove we are
ready for a great life. A great life isn't something that just happens to you,
you build a great life.
A great life starts from within you. It's the
glory you carry and the greatness you grow on your inside that attracts the
glory and the greatness in the world into your life.
Whatever you desire in this life, you create
the possibility first in your own life, you create the place and space for it,
then it will naturally gravitate towards you. You must work on yourself and
make yourself ready for a blessing or a break through before it will ever show
up in your life.
People tend to think hard work is being busy
running here and there dissipating energy for hours; the real hard work is
internal reformation, recreation and transformation – changing who you are is
the real hard work. When you improve your quality of being, life rewards you
with better quality living. It's not by sweating or perspiring, that's why
people in offices earn better than those in the factory. Life does not reward
energy as much as it rewards good thinking.
Praying and confession and hard work will not
deliver your dreams if your mentality can not handle the dreams. Your life
experiences transformation as you renew your mind to understand what is really
good, what is really acceptable and what is really perfect according to your
maker's plan for your life.
Going back to the question of being handed a
100 million naira and your immediate reaction, contrary to what respondents say
about starting a business or investing it, what many people actually do based
on our research is this;
1. They immediately want friends, family,
relatives and everyone to know things have changed. They want their kith and
kin to know their condition has improved financially, so they shop for new and
expensive clothes first, then they buy new and expensive cars, change the
school of their children, maybe move to better neighbourhoods, they plan
overseas vacation trips, then they buy a parcel of land and begin to build
their house to escape the oppression of their so called greedy landlord.
2. They next thing they do is recall a particular
experience or item they wanted desperately when they didn't have so much money
and had probably brought them shame, scorn or reproach, they go for it and
indulge or purchase it, basically to address the psychological pain and
discomfort. They, in their minds, address or respond to their critics and the
embarrassment of lack.
But let's snap out of it, I'm not very sure
there's anyone you know today who would dash out 100 million so let's get real.
The essence of this message today is to
question your readiness for the great change you're praying for.
Do you really want the great change or you're
just deceiving yourself? What are you doing right now in readiness and
anticipation of the change? When suddenly the opportunity you've been waiting
for shows up, are you prepared to take it wholly, fully and completely without
failing?
Where precisely and in detail are you willing
to invest your money if suddenly good money comes your way? What do you know
about the business of your dream? What's the pricing strategy like and how do
you intend to achieve customer conversion from strong existing competitors? Do
you have answers?
How hard are you working on your mind set and
mentality to access your dream life and experience?
You cannot access what your mind cannot see,
you cannot explore what you cannot access, you cannot explore what you don't
understand and you cannot profit from what you cannot comprehend.
Lack is not the same as poverty, in fact lack
is the consequence of poverty, poverty is not scarcity of money and resources;
poverty is lack of access to money and other important resources. People are
not poor because they lack, people lack because they're poor and people are
poor because they don't know how to access wealth. Poverty is a knowledge
problem.
Poverty is simply not knowing how to become
rich, which leads to lack - empty pockets and empty bank accounts, therefore
poverty is not a problem of deprivation or insufficient money and resources to
go round, it is an ignorance problem.
You can't be poor in your pocket if you're not
poor in your knowledge of wealth creation, and if by accident money comes into
your pocket and you're still poor in your thinking, you'll soon become poor
again in your pocket.
Dear friend, stop this lies in your life, you
know you're not ready for great riches and prosperity, you're not prepared for
it, you're not ready for the blessings you're praying for, you're not even sure
how you'll react to sudden wealth, and I know God will not put on you more than
what you can bare. Stop asking for what can destroy you, prepare for it first.
Work hard on you mentality and knowledge first and the maturity to handle the
blessing, and consequently with ease, your great wealth will locate you.
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