13/01/2022
*HAPPY NEW YEAR* (Great entrepreneurs)!
*WHY DID GOD GIVE US TWO EARS AND ONE MOUTH?*
The last time we spoke on this platform was the 2nd week in December 2021. Some probably have thought that we had naturally gone dead with 2021 but we say no, for as long as we have God in heaven who gives all the grace and so far as we have those who like to discuss and relate business issues with us, we just cannot stop.
We want to thank all our readers, those people who called 2021; those who mailed, those who we met with 2021, and those who took us part of their businesses 2021.
Those who mailed early this year wondering if we were actually coming up again, we say thank you to all of you and for all the love that you have shown.
We may not want to do adverts yet on this page but we advice the lucky ones who have actually discovered and come to love this page to continue to encourage more friends to come up on this platform every Monday.
What we do here is charity. It is an interactive session where we give out vital information free to friends. We shouldn’t be spending more money in form of adverts to making more people know our page.
We only like to congratulate the few privileged who have seen the page and have not ignored out of sheer arrogance.
We want you to be out of the every day financial troubles.
Olonade Abraham Olufemi is not a rich man. He has a future and as he plans his future for himself, he likes most of his friends to have the same if not greater thinking of how to be one of the richest men in the near future.
If Aliko Dangote can be rich, if Femi Otedola can be rich, and if Bill gates can be the worlds richest man at that tender age of less than 30years, then you can be rich too. That is what I say to myself every morning after prayers.
*WHY DO WE HAVE TWO EARS AND ONE MOUTH?*
We like to prepare our minds for the challenges that come with 2022.
Whatever challenges the world or the devil has put before us this year, the lord shall resolve for us in JESUS NAME.
I said to God the beginning of this year, I SAID GOD, LET YOUR MERCY SPEAK FOR ME THIS YEAR.
If you have God’s mercy walking with you to those places you seek favour to find jobs, favour for your strong proposals to be approved, favour to win that contract that a lot of people are bidding alongside with you, you just will have it your way as far as you pray for God’s continuous mercy to walk and work with you.
Naturally a lot of us had started the year with challenges. You know, some house rents have been increased, some school fees had been increased, and our cars too have given some troubles and all of that.
Olonade Abraham Olufemi has had his taste of some of these and some of his friends too have called to lament how challenging the year seems ahead and they are afraid, very afraid.
Life is a spiritual race and PRAYER AND FAITH is the only platform for securing God’s fulfilled prophecy in your life.
ONCE YOU HAVE GOTTEN YOURSELF TO KNOW GOD, then you stand the chance of enjoying that prophecy that comes with talking with him because the lord talks according to his ability, integrity and resources.
He is not like man. He won’t tell you something today and tell you another thing tomorrow. He won’t promise you what he cannot do.
A lot of us talk more than listen. The very few intelligent people will swallow their pride and gather more wisdom in addition to that wisdom and experience the lord has bestowed on them.
A strong and a wise person will continue to seek more knowledge while a weak and a stupid person will ignore knowledge and overlook advice.
They will not say who is this guy talking AND WHAT HAS HE ACHIEVED that makes him think he could give me the financial advice that I need.
I advise that those of us who talk more than listen change their ways and approach to life.
Let us swallow our pride and deduce one or more points of knowledge in addition to that we already have by simply staying 30mins in our private study at home or at that corner of the bed in our bedrooms to read articles from newspapers, free and motivating articles that come up the internet and other social networks like our radios and even our TVs.
It is not always at forums and seminars that we spend thousands on that we derive the best of knowledge.
Those professionals we fly to places and sleep in costly hotels to listen to AND PAY gather their information from all of these facilities around us.
Please, let us not look down on anyone as too little, too young or too in exposed to want to give the business or monetary advice that we need. Let us be more of a listener than a speaker.
I have learnt that being a listener than a speaker gives me more grace to think and absorb points of wealth from people.
*When I am opportune to talk to some of my friends and clients, I find out that when I do less of the talking, I gain more strength from the technical mistakes this person have made and was quicker to find myself in that position to talk him out of his troubles and shed more lights to his success while I learn from his mistakes too!*
Femi is just a food industrialist, Femi do not know it all and Femi cannot know it all.
He does refer to people of different business functions to move ahead. He do not pretend to be what he is not.
You know while we were in school, we used to say that at the age of 40years, come what may; we are settled, very comfortable, confident and very rich.
Today, majority of us are about and above 40years and we cannot just comprehend what our living standards is today talk less of what our tomorrow will be like.
*WE HAVE CHOSEN TO BE BUSY!*
We get busy every minute of our lives just to conquer fears.
Some of us are too busy to take care of our wealth and even our health.
We stay busy as a way of avoiding something we do not want to face. We don’t want to be reminded of our fears, if someone does, the person is in trouble.
You know what our responses are when our wives mentioned that it is time to pay another child’s school fees which have just been increased and we have no such amounts in our bank accounts or the rent has just been increased and must be paid this first month of the year when we just are battling to pay the school fees of our kids and all of that?🤔🤔
If we aren’t busy at work, we are busy watching TVs, chatting on the internet, taking a walk or a drive just anything to make us forget those problems.
*THE MOST COMMON FORM OF LAZINESS; staying busy!*
Now, what is this guy saying? What will it be like if we never had to work again?
If I don’t work, how do I afford that which I naturally could not afford? Now he calls getting busy laziness, now he is confused, can’t you see?
You know, when we don’t sit down to talk our problems with those that matter and are engrossed in one thing or the other, I CALL IT LAZY because we are afraid to face and tackle our problems.
The word I cannot afford it shuts our thoughts and the brain but when we talk to those who matter for instance, our intelligent wives or husbands, our friends, colleagues in business, and all other person around us that matter, we start to have possibilities, hopes and excitement.
We are challenged to want to diversify, we are excited to want to do more and in the process of us thinking and talking on how to find additional jobs and investment, we are making more money than we had expected and *I CALL THAT THE CURE FOR LAZINESS!*
I have come to learn that without a strong reason or purpose, everything in life is hard.
I am not rich yet but I have chosen to be rich. I think the same of you and it is this reason I like to share my thoughts with those who will let me; those who will not look at fellow humans as worthless; those who see an advantage in every person they come in contact with to forge ahead.
You won’t be surprised that your success lies in that poor man that will give you an advice rather than that rich and well connected friend of yours who will take you nowhere, promise to call back at your times of need but will never do until he needed something again from you!
Do not be too quiet and do not talk too much. Be more of the listening type but do not be too quiet before you are referred to as a witch and never talk too much before you appear too arrogant.
Having no money should not be an excuse for us not to learn.
We don’t need very big money to get information these days. Information is wealth.
Money is just power. I prefer wealth to power believe me. Money may come and go because money is a spirit.
Wealth will stay with you all of your life and after you have passed on; your impact is still felt.
It is a choice we make daily. The choice of what we do with our time, our money and what new things and information we get into our heads.
If you have read this article and some other articles this far, then I say congratulations as I see that you are not arrogant.
Arrogant people are the center of the universe, so they don’t read and probably don’t listen.
They argue instead to ask questions.
A true intelligent person welcomes new ideas as they come to him daily.
Learning is more important than talking.
*God gives only one mouth and two ears because he knows it is better to listen than to talk!*
You know why I keep friends who are rich and friends who are poor?
My friends who have money are always talking making more money. In the process I learn.
My friends who don’t have money don’t talk money, business or investment.
They rather will talk about women and politics and those people around them who have been successful at all times, so I learn from them what not to do!
You want to have rich friends because that is where the money is made. You are closer to getting information.
You know how to better profits with lower risks; the quickest return on your investment.
That is what we have friends for and it is not always about partying and women and you just moving with them or feeling among when you derive nothing from them.
Having good information and how to drive money makes you smarter than money.
Money will do as it is told when we technically know how best to handle it and put it under control.
We don’t borrow too much. I have practiced this and I am still suffering for it.
Borrowing is such a short term financial gain and a longer time financial enslavement.
We only borrow money to create more money. We don’t borrow money to acquire for us liabilities.
It is a habit that most of us as individuals, and even as a nation have gotten ourselves in.
*THE POWER OF GIVING:*
When you want something, you must first give.
A lot of NGOs today make their monies from here. You know, there are rich men who after they discover they have gone bankrupt will surrender their last doe to charity either in a church or NGOs.
*They believe in the power of that principle of reciprocity.*
Give out what you want and it comes to you double. It is the reason our pastors always preach tithing.
I wonder how many of us are faithful tithers?
I am not there yet and sincerely I am not a faithful thither.
Majority of the rich pay their tithes faithfully.
We that are still struggling always have something to do with that money and it is true!
You know poor people are greedier than the rich!
*THE WORLD IS A MIRROR OF YOU:*
Whenever I feel that people aren’t smiling at me, I just force myself to start smiling even though that mood isn’t very good.
I pretend at times all is well and surprisingly I realize I am surrounded by smiling people.
When you get to your work place you frown, that is the way the world sees you and it frowns back.
When you get to your work place no matter the circumstance you smile to your workers and colleagues, the world comes back smiling at you.
*BE A GENEROUS GIVER AND NEVER BE SELFISH:*
You only need to be generous with what you have. I may not be very rich yet, though some say to me that I am.
To me I am just starting because I know what I want for me and I know where I am going.
I am just starting and if I must receive I must learn to give part of that which I have got.
I don’t have plenty of money but the lord has given me much knowledge and ideas and I see that the more the advice I give to those who want to learn, the more I learned.
New ideas come in, more decisions come in and I am more excited to want to make more money and *That is the secret!*
There are also times when I have given and nothing has come in, I thank the lord for the joy that come in affecting a life.
There are many people who want to do instead of think, and there are people who like to think but will not do.
I love to be up and doing and I love fresh ideas, so I am both persons. Are you thinking this way too?
Don’t be that person who is easily talked out of the best business ideas.
Take action. If you do not have the money, look for people who do, never be afraid of selling out your ideas to someone who might take advantage of your financial weakness and dupe you out of your ideas.
What will be will be; and that is business and business is a risk instead of loosing out completely.
Stop to waste your time in what is not working and find something new.
I used to be afraid people will call me a failure if I left what I was doing that is not minting me money.
Today I have grown, I let people have their right to their personal opinion, and after all it is a free world. I just find which is better for me and I move on.
I just goggle the internet for the knowledge and ideas, newspapers for free articles and business information classes.
Sometime I spend little time in a drinking spot or have lunch with those who have done what I intended to do and I learn the secrets of their trade.
So many people make things difficult and take life too seriously.
We talk to a lot of people, make efforts and counter efforts, negotiate, reject and accept. I encourage us all to learn. It isn’t hard.
Next Week:
We shall continue to open our eyes further to those businesses which will fetch us better profits at the minimum risks possible.
We thank you again for your time and we say, welcome again to 2022, our year of multiplication and exceeding grace.
Invite more friends to like *Business Enterprise with Olonade Abraham Olufemi.*
It is another good way to show you care. It isn’t all about giving money. Information is the best tool to success.
Good morning and do have a blissful and a most blessed year.
*Olonade Abraham Olufemi.*
13/01/2020.
*Thank you for your time*