According to Katherine Mansfield, ‘I
must say I hate money but it's the lack of it I hate most.’ I would have
said only a mad man hates money, however, even mad men love money. I mean,
everyone loves money. De facto, everyone
is working hard each day to make money. We all want to be comfortable financially
and be able to afford our own bills. No one would love to depend on others for
survival unless you are a lazy person.
Well, money is known to be a scarce commodity;
however, it still comfortably rests in the bosom of some people. Those people
are not more special than you; they have just pressed seven important buttons
that you will learn today and also be able to make it through. Therefore, if
you want to make money come to you before any other, if you want to make money
comfortably or you want live a comfortable life, then you also need to press
these seven important buttons in your life;
#1
Educate yourself
‘The moment you stopped reading is the moment you are dead’ –
Anonymous. Check the richest people in your society that are doing well for themselves,
one thing they have not stopped doing is to educate themselves. This is
different from the knowledge they went to school to acquire. Of course school will teach you a lot of
things, however, the application of the knowledge you learnt in school is up to
you. Need to know, the likes of Bill Gates, late Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and so on did not even graduate
from the university, you start to ask where they got the knowledge that made
them what they are today.
Well, they only allow the street to pass through
them. They knew what they wanted, and definitely, school cannot offer it. School will only teach you how to be
relevant in a contemporary society, but would never teach you how to be rich.
So it is up to you to learn and relearn. Read books, go for seminars, colloquium,
online meetings, read reports, articles, be updated on global business, and
before you know it, you are doing something right. For more understanding on
this, please check 6 Lessons from RichDad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki.
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6 Attitude you must have towards life
3 Things that should never control you
#2
Go out and Network
According to Craig Hickman, ‘The 'dynamic network' is an organizational
architecture that accommodates constant and accelerating change while at the
same time stimulating components of the corporate environment to build deep and
lasting relationships.’ Humans are social beings that need each other to
survive. No single tree makes a forest, we all need each other to survive and
achieve goals. If you want money to get
attracted to you, then you have to increase the strength of your network. You
need people of like minds to achieve your goals.
You need to reach out as much
as possible to people that can help you out. Don’t keep to yourself when it comes to making money, don’t mind making
money with people as long as they don’t jeopardize the sharing ratio.
People in high places are always there to lift those that have good ideas,
expose yourself to the society that can help you; it will only help you on the
long run. Check out this article on this, 5 People you must have in the baggage of life journey.
We cannot overemphasize
the importance of self-discipline in
achieving one’s goals. There are so many articles on these self-discipline, they include, Sacrifice:what you must give to win, Consistency:Why still water runs deeper, The 3 Power packs of life and so on. Please read up these articles so you can get
acquainted to the importance of self-discipline.
Put it at the back of your mind that he who cannot control himself can never control the world; he who cannot rule himself can never rule the world.
See also:
6 importance of reading
Jack Ma: The powers behind Alibaba
Bill Gates and the secret of Microsoft
9 Billionaire quotes you need to succeed in business
One of the first traits seen in rich and
successful people is self-discipline.
How much are they passionate about the things they want to achieve, how much
are they ready to sacrifice or deny themselves just to make them fulfill their
dreams and make money. Forget it, if you
can’t discipline yourself, if you can’t put yourself under control, then, you
can never make money. Even if you make enough money, just because you can
never control yourself, your profligacy would help you spend all the money or
you lose them by other means. Therefore, get disciplined.
#4
Share your knowledge
According to Andrew
Carnegie, ‘The only irreplaceable capital an
organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The
productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their
competence with those who can use it.’ In life, no one is an island of knowledge. If you want to make money, firstly, you
must have knowledge before you can share knowledge. It is the knowledge you
sell to make money. According to Tony Blair, ‘The successful economies of the future will excel at generating and
disseminating knowledge, and commercially exploiting it.’ Yes, it is
actually your knowledge that will make way for you.
That particular thing you call idea or skill is enough to last you a
lifetime, however, you must be ready to sell it. Build your idea or
knowledge into a component and people will buy it. That is why Bill Gates could come up with Microsoft and begin to sell
it, Steve Jobs with Apple, Mark with Facebook, Jack Ma with Alibaba and so on.
That knowledge you have is enough to make you a success.
Samuel Johnson would say, ‘All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or
inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.’ Always remember,
no knowledge is a waste. It is better to know little of a thing than knowing
nothing at all about it. Get knowledge and share knowledge.
#5
Ask for help when you need it
According to Althea
Gibson, ‘If I made it, it's half because I
was game enough to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way and half
because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.’ You can go far in life alone,
however, you can get to the end of life alone, you need help, I need help, and
we all need help. Sacrifice, self-discipline, determination, smartness, hard work, might have taken you so far in
life; however, you still need help. There are people that have passed through
exactly the stage and point you are passing through in your life, why don’t you
reach out to them and let them help you. Let them give you the experience of
how they scaled through.
See also:
The Mirror and Mirage of Life
Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary
Jerry Rawlings: The man that changed Ghana
Six ways to become a successful Entrepreneur
Lord Melbourne says, ‘What I want are men who will support me when I am in the wrong.’ If
you could do it alone, you will be the only one on the earth surface. I
remember Steve Jobs having to
complain about not getting people believing in their dreams and wanting to
support them by investing in them. You
have to make people believe in you and your dreams. Let them support you in
any way they can, whether physically, financially, spiritually, emotionally, psychologically
or in any way possible, to get money, you need support.
This is one of the best
bets for you to make it in life as much as possible. You can’t leave this out
in your pursuit of a better life. In fact, a whole article was dedicated for
these purpose, 9 Successful People you can learn from, check it out. Success sometimes, is inheritable. It is inheritable in that, there is a high
chance you will be successful if your parents were successful, except for cases
where the children chose to be unserious and vagabonds.
It is easier to
make it when you are in the midst of successful people, you start to think like
them and relate with them. This is the reason so many people leave their poor
society and go and look for a greener pasture amidst successful people. Never underestimate the power of influence.
Look for someone around you that is successful and get close, let him teach you
the secrets of making money. Let him expose you to the things you don’t know
about money. If you were patient enough to learn, before you know it, you are
making your own money too.
#7
Learn from your Failures
Here are some anonymous
proverbs,
‘Live
and Learn’
‘Experience makes men wise’
'Experience is the best teacher’
‘I heard’ is not as good as ‘I saw’
‘Experience is the best of schools’
‘Experience is the mother of wisdom’
‘He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string’
See also:
10 Opinions of a Loser
The Mirror and Mirage of Life
How to get your first job after NYSC
Fear: The Limiting factor to success and breakthrough
I don’t think we need
to talk too much on this again; you already should have gotten the point from
the proverbs. There are some articles as regards learning from your failure… These include one other reason not to fail, what can stop me, why you have never failed, Fear: the limiting factor to success and breakthrough, I have never failed, it couldn't have been my fault and many more. Please check these articles. You can’t go far in life when you don’t learn anything from your fall
or mistakes. You don’t belong to the top echelon when you stumble and you never
looked back on why you did. Even if you make money, it will never stay with
you. Whatever you do, even if it doesn’t go well with you as expected, just
feel a little bit bad and move on.
The water you will drink won’t pass you by.
Always check yourself and evaluate yourself. Always try to be better than the
person of yesterday, always pick a lesson or two from every circumstance, by
then, you are learning on how to make it in life, how to be successful in life.
‘Life doesn’t give us what we want; it
only gives us what we deserve’. So work assiduously to deserve something
good and nice from life.
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