User:Faultsniffer

TALKING ABOUT AN IDEA

Many of us go to school and end up with one motive in mind, and that is what? To get a lucrative job and then you work all year long and day long earning wages and salaries. That is not supposed to be so. You are to go to school to learn how to put your brain into use to be able to be a job creator yourself and not a job seeker.

The problem is that many of us are afraid of facing the unknown as we prefer the ‘one bird in hand’ being of better worth than a thousand in the bush. What makes you think you can not catch a thousand births in the bush if you but find a new technique to do so? The answer is that we are very impatient to find new techniques so we end up settling for less. Therefore, the people that will find such way of creating the new techniques to create wealth will always be the modern day Bill Gates of America, or Aliko Dangote of Nigeria.

I am glad to mention Aliko Dangote, because right from my younger age, I have watched the young man turn his family fortune to something that is to be reckoned with world over. Visit your google or yahoo search and type in Dangote and the name will be there for you to see. Many young men of his type would have felt comfortable with the bird they have in their hands. But he chose to adventure deeper than his brothers and peers and today the world has known that name from Nigeria.

Every body does not have to do fraud to make money. There are many God given opportunities out there. All you need do is watch out for them. Always ask yourself this question. WHAT IS THAT THAT MY NEIGHBOUR NEED THAT I CAN SUPPLY? If you can figure that out, you will be making money more sooner than going to a 9am to 5pm job everyday. In the world of investments, creativity, they call it idea. So please what form of idea is in your head right now and what do you think you can do with it?

I pity some of the people in the developed world who has the money to invest in Africa or Asia or some other money spinning developing world and they just sit down and tie themselves to their home town. But once you mention money transfer, they get interested. That is a very wrong motive of investment or way of seeking money. Why do I say that? Because I feel and I know that every living man or woman is born to make the millions from or by their creative ideas. So why wait to win a lottery of some sort or an inheritance from one dead uncle or another? You don’t have to wait for such because you are a total embodiment of wealth yourself. You can make the wealth 100 times over by yourself if you can put your brain to work. Just tell yourself I have an idea

Same is applicable to us here in Africa. Young men and women, what are we doing with our thinking? What and what and what can we do instead waiting on the Lord and for a miracle? Or for some food aids from the United Nations. Everyday you wake up in the morning and we hear either inter tribal wars, coup, embezzlement, killings, fraud, or any other negative information that make me get sick. The question that will always be in my lips is don’t we have any other thing to do to benefit mother Africa? How long are we going to hold the Whiteman responsible for slavery and continue to stay stagnant. Why is it that we have to travel abroad or the Whiteman will have to come down here to invest before we will know what to do. What bothers me is that actually we know what to do, but most of us are not doing them. The leaders are not doing them. But we don’t need to wait for the leaders to start putting things in the right places for us to grow up. Until we start thinking out of the box the story is going to continue to be the same. I have been to seminars, workshops, talk shows and it all starts from somebody’s idea. I have an idea. What idea is that? If your idea will hurt somebody and will not make the world a better place, drop it.

Many of us chase money, but what did Mr. Warren Buffett have to say about money? He said and I quote, “IT’S NOT THAT I WANT MONEY. IT IS THE IDEA AND FUN OF MAKING MONEY AND WATCHING IT GROW”. When you have a good idea, watching money grow becomes fun. But when you don’t have an idea or did not put it well in place, watching the bills grow is no fun. So please don’t watch your bills grow, rather, I will suggest you watch your money grow by doing the right thing. If you are living in the United States of America or Great Britain or any part of the developed world and you are still poor, please I will want you today to start thinking out of the box.

You are in a land where you are placed in a 1million time’s advantage over some people that are living in poverty stricken places. So I dare you today to start developing you idea of how to turn your world around for the best. Yes, you can do it because you are in a blessed and fertile land. All you need to do is start putting your ideas down in a paper. The world will not wait for you if you are doing noting, but the world must wait for you if you are doing something. Why? They want to hear how you made it. Mr. Tom Monaghan the founder of Domino’s Pizza was once the dullest student in his class. Surprise? Yes he was once the last in the class. But I know you know how much is his worth today by using his own hands to turn his world around. It all starts from I got an idea. Here are some of the things he said. “I BELIEVE EVERYONE ON EARTH HAS A CERTAIN GOAL/DREAM IN LIFE. I ALSO BELIEVE ANYONE CAN ACHIEVE THIS IF THEY SET THEIR MINDS TO IT”. That is exactly all the noise I am making here right from the start. An old man once told me that you can not make wealth through wages or salaries. Wealth are made or created from deals. Your idea will bring the big deals.

I will welcome comments on this topic. If I have not dwelt well or dealt well on this topic, I will please welcome comments or criticisms. I noticed that there are sensitive issues I brushed through while passing by writing on this. If by any way one or some of my words inflicted you with hate, pain or regret, I deeply regret the words used. I am only trying to help us bring out the best in us. I will be writing on diversification of your investment as my next topic. See ya. (faultsniffer@yahoo.com)

Isioma.