Financial Freedom: Mind Your Business
Posted on 12 October 2011 | No responses
I had always understood the phrase “mind your business” to mean “see no evil, hear now evil, say no evil”. Like a good boy I was trying to be, I learnt to stay out of issues that do no concern me, except I was invited, or my help was obviously needed. As I began my journey to financial freedom, I felt really foolish. I came to realize that the phrase meant just that. Mind your business. I realized I had no business to mind.
There is no way you can attain financial freedom without minding your business. For sure, there are folks that are regarded as the neighborhood FM station, that carry live broadcast of what is happening to other people. You may feel cool that you don’t do that, you are minding your business. Which business are you minding?.
Most of us mind our employer’s business. There is nothing wrong with that. We cant all start life as employers. We have to work for someone sometime, pay our dues and garner requisite experience and maturity for launching out. However, after having worked for other people for ten years, it’s high time you started minding your business, literally. Read more
Discover Your Business Idea
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Most of us don’t fancy ourselves as entrepreneurs. Some consider it runs in the family, either you are born with it, or you are not. I believe this is an excuse to cover our fear or venturing out to fulfill our dreams. Entrepreneurship can be learnt, through study and starting small.
The biggest obstacle some folk’s face is in deciding what it is they really want to do. Some folks even believe that they have no talents or skills to offer. Nothing can be furthest from the truth. Low self-esteem leads to self-depreciation and eventually a denial of you skills, capabilities and talents. You start to believe that you have nothing to offer that is good enough for others to pay for. If you believe this long enough, you start accepting this lie as a fact. When you get to this point, you can truly sincerely say that you have no talents. Read more
The Dream Maker
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Where do dreams come from? Deeply ingrained in every man and woman are seeds of greatness planted by God. We have to see the future in the present in order to embrace it, and start working/walking towards it. To do that, God gave us the gift of imagination, the ability to dream, and pre-play the future.
Everybody on the planet has a God given dream. God is the dream maker. He gives the dreams, and the ability to make it happen. The dreams belong to Him. He holds the copyrights. We are simply actors in executing His script. The world is one giant stage. We appear on cue, play our script, and take a bow. We are written off the script after we have played our part, or refused to play our part.
Our purpose is embedded in our being. We were born with it, standard specification. Read more
Information Age: Knowledge is King
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In our information age, having the right knowledge at the right time can make the difference between failure and success. Knowledge, gained through experience makes one an expert in any field.
We have pre conceptions about every issue, based on our knowledge of the subject matter. We believe some things are risky, because we do not know the internal workings of it, and cannot comfortably predict outcomes.
The best way to be equipped to start anything, be it business, travel, venture etc is to gain all the knowledge you can. In a knowledge economy, you cannot make headway or make money if you are not knowledgeable. Read more
Goals Get You Going
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Goals give you a purpose for taking life on. People who live without goals have no purpose and it is.obvious even in their body language. They are on permanent idle, they slouch, they list from side to side. Their conversations dawdle. They telephone you: “Hey, I’m just calling. I wasn’t doing anything, so I thought I’d call you.” Well, don’t call ME. I’VE got things to do.
Many people just muddle through life. They don’t read informational material, they don’t even pay attention when they WATCH television. If you ask them what they are watching, they mumblemouth, “Nothin’, I’m just lookin’.”
What are your goals for your career? For your relationships? For your spiritual life? Develop a schedule for the next month, the next six months, the next year, five years and ten years. Write it all out. Read more