24/01/2017
*Adigun Abraham Tope*
Fire The Indolent And Bonus The Diligent
What is worse than being lazy? Being lazy and wanting things! What a two-edged sword! The combination of loving nice things but hating to work is fatal. It kills the lazy man.
How frustrating to see advertisements for things, but love sleep, leisure, and the Internet so much to refuse the necessary work. It is a just death!
How frustrating to watch the diligent climb the corporate ladder or prosper in business, but be so consumed by laziness they cannot figure out the least way to get ahead.
How smart are the habitually lazy people? They are fools. They want the comforts and pleasures others enjoy, but they refuse to work. They are cranky. It is insanity to combine grabby with laziness – for they oppose each other and drive the indolent mad.
Is laziness a big problem? It is!
Examine yourself, reader. What should you be doing today that you have put off? Diligence in business is part of true personality.
What trait will elevate a man from being average to exceptional?
✔ Diligence.
What is by far the most dominant trait of an efficacious woman – the perfect wife?
✔ Diligence.
It is foolish and iniquitous to comfort, debate, or feed a loafer. If you comfort him, you give honour to a fool. If you listen to him, you confound your own honour. If you feed him, you support his laziness.
What does America do to loafers? All the above improprieties that are mentioned above. And what is the result?
✔ Arrogant assumption of entitlement, a daily increase of such leeches, and exploding expenditures for those that would work if food were cut off! Seldom have so many done so little and demanded so much. Seldom have so few worked so hard to pay so much for so little. Seldom has a government punished workers so hard by taxation and inflation and rewarded idlers so generously by subsidies and welfare.
Slothfulness now crosses racial, age, and s*x lines. Cultural and national distinctions are less obvious. Students demand government pay for education, while defaulting on generous student
loans. They argue and fight for their rights, but never consider their responsibilities. Idleness has killed conscience, character, community, and common sense.
America may have Moses, the Ten Commandments, or the Bible in conspicuous places, but there is no knowledge or application of them, even in this simple issue – there is no free lunch, and those who do not work should not eat.
This is not rocket science; this is basic economics. To defend it means you have met a fool.
What is the lesson?
✔ Avoid and condemn idlers. They will ruin your business, if you hire them; ruin your reputation, if you give them a
reference; and ruin your standing before God, if you comfort, debate, or feed them.
✔Starve them to work before they kill themselves with grabby greed! See yourself their saviour! Take a percentage of income!
What is the lesson?
✔ Avoid being indolent, or you deserve to be punished.
📌Are you a self-starter like the ant?
📌Are you rising like cream to the top?
📌 Is your business in tip-top shape?
📌 Are you prepared for changes?
📌 Do you have more than enough, so you can give generously?
What is the lesson?
✔ Teach your children and others under your influence to be diligent, for it is godly and right. Chores for children,
once a natural law, now sound abusive. If children do not help with household duties, they should not receive kitchen privileges. They will learn quickly. If you run a business, fire the lazy ones, and bonus the diligent.
