Life is a game that must be
played not by trial and error, if you wouldn’t want to waste precious time or
part of your precious life. It doesn’t matter how smart you are, except you are
a master in it, it is expedient for you to go through the manual of any game
you want to play, if you will not want to be a victim.
Many have been playing along with
life and their business without going through the manual drawn out for it.
Friends, the bible is the overall manual for all to live a fulfilled life and
successful business. You cannot afford to take your business out of the bible,
except you are in for another thing that will crash later in the future.
We are kicking off with these
stated and unstated commandments that business people must identify themselves
with to suceed exceedingly in life.
One: Acknowledge God – Luke 2:49, Jesus speaking that He must be
about His father’s business, which connotes that God is a businessman. The
greatest businessman, whose worth cannot be valued. Other businessmen and women
worth can be valued but God’s worth cannot be valued. Therefore, wisdom demands
that you acknowledge such a man, who has been in such industry before the ages
begin, if indeed you want to be great.
You have to acknowledge God in
all your doings as you run your business. Don’t acknowledge Him by having His
image around your only, have Him at heart, be concious to do what He requires
and to run away from what He detest in your business. Don’t run your business
in this world styles, it will fade off but it will stand farther, if you run it
on His demands.
Two: Acknowledge Predecessors – Genesis 14:17-20, God has made
everything perfect that He makes every man never to be independent. You have to
trace your success story to a man that you met ahead, who showed you the way.
As close as Abraham was with God, he had to still pay tithe to Melchizedek.
It doesn’t matter how dear you
are to him, He will show someone you have to follow that He sent ahead of you,
for you to leverage on their shoulder. Friends, there are godly men and women
who have succeeded and are succeeding in your industry, you will do yourself
good, by journeying with them to learn from their mistakes, so that you
wouldn’t make blunders that they made in times past.
Predecessors make your journey to
be faster than theirs, if you fail to recognize them in your business journey,
it will take you longer years they spend to get to where they are instead of
you to soar to where they are in a jiffy.
Three: Learning Before Earning – Have you seen people who are
struggling today? Have you met people who murmuring about the rising of others?
Such men are always men who have avoided learning for earning. It doesn’t
matter the business you are into, there is need for you to learn before
earning, any earning that proceeds learning will only be meagre.
Friends, I need to tell you that
a lot is changing in the industry you are into, you need to go for refreshers
course to meet up with today’s changes. Don’t be deceived that young boys are
rising above the predecessors, it is because they are always learning, it doesn’t
matter what happen, learners are always leaders. Don’t waste away the advantage
of the megabyte on your phone to read jokes only, read something valuable that
will change your levels in your business area. Find courses and school you will
attend in few days and weeks that will boost your value in your business. E.g.
it doesn’t matter what you are selling, customer service is key to your
business, hence you are too spiritual to go with customer service, it is just a
matter of time, you wouldn’t know how your long listed customers will disappear
on the list.
Four: Business Entity – The reason why many people aren't prospering
is because they have mixed their business with their personal life. While
learning Business Law in higher institution, we were taught that you business
is an entity on its own that can sue and be sued.
You need to bring yourself out of
the business for your business to grow. I have seen many traders today, who will
have thrive but because they have mixed both personal and business together,
they cannot rise because they cannot discipline themselves to separate their
business from personal life.
Accept the truth that business
money isn't your money, handle it as business money, then will you prosper. If
you make N100, 000 weekly, you need to
place yourself on salary and maximize the profit with your financial
intelligence and if you aren't, then, you have to go and become financially intelligent.
Five: Discover Your Purpose – Don’t jump into business without
discovering your purpose here on earth, especially business that will be run by
you personally, I mean business that will require your personal attention,
which will require you to be active.
You cannot function too well and
far in an industry that doesn’t link with your divine purpose here on earth. I
am yet to see what will separate me from writing and typing on a daily basis, I
write always, all because I discovered my purpose and this is a significant
tool to achieve my purpose here on earth.
Lay your hands on books and CD
that will open you up to purpose discovery. It is expedient that you go through
the archive teaching of daddy to get details on how you can discover your
purpose. Failure to discover your purpose in life is a proof that you will
surely or most likely be in the wrong business industry. I have seen people
bored in an industry that a few are thriving in, I seen people sleeping and
complaining in an industry, where a few are awaiting the future challenge for
them to conquer, it isn't their fault, it is failure to discover purpose. It is
not too late, you can still discover your purpose, so as to aid you to locate
your purpose.
Six: Have A Vision – After discovering your purpose, which will
help you to find the business you will engage in, you will need to have a
vision about the purpose God have given, so that it will not remain small.
Friend, it is vision that help
you access how far you will go in life. You have to open yourself to this realm
in what you are doing. Someone said, I will work until I wont need to introduce
myself anymore. That to me is a challenge that everyone must have – it is a
vision.
Have a vision about what you are
doing, it doesn’t matter the corner, where you have found yourself by the issue
of capital, I have the delight to tell you that you will come to limelight
because who are at limelight today didn’t start from there, they started from
the corner of their room, but now, they are global.
Seven: Structure Your Business – You don’t need to define the end
of a business at the end, you can always define the end of a thing from the
beginning and its persistence. Your small business that you call it, can be
structure because it is not small but because that is what you can see. I am here
to tell that that business must be structure if indeed, you want it to become
great.
You must have an opening and
closing time, you can also decide to organize overtime for jobs that is urgent
with extra payment. As a drycleaner, I can decide to have a day and time for
collection of clothes and delivery of clothes. You can decide to classes of
your products and services for profit maximization.
Eight: Cultivate The Habit Of Savings For Investment – It is only a
fool that spends it all says the book of proverbs. Before you started earning,
you weren't earning, yet, you were living, you started earning, it is not enough
that you had to spend all, it is gross level of financial indiscipline.
What you are selling isn't the
problem, the problem is your mindset. Whatever you says is not enough cannot be
enough, but if you can see surplus in the little, you are so sure of living in
abundance soonest. I have stated this before that 75% of the properties on
Maryland Mende is originally bought and developed by stack illiterate, who used
to settle within this axis then, to sell their farm produce. As they do these
weekly, they decided to start saving and approached landowners for purchase of
lands and today Maryland is a celebrating place in the city of Lagos.
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