In 2018, pray to God , but saddle your horse first. Chimezie Udechukwu
Happy New Year to you all my esteemed readers. It is an amazing time to be alive. Today, I yield my space to a fine gentleman who is ever committed to not just make a change but also to leave a lasting impact in the world.
I hope you pick the lessons and while enriching this piece. feel free to connect with him via social media and see how you can learn more and be a part of what he does.
I hope you pick the lessons and while enriching this piece. feel free to connect with him via social media and see how you can learn more and be a part of what he does.
May this year be kind and exciting to us all.
OjisiEmezie
It is not
uncommon that during this yuletide season and in the attempt to crossover into
the New Year, a vast majority of people immediately become tuned to the
realities of the failures of the current year and how drastic they want a turn
around in the following year. Nobody obviously wants a repeat of the old time.
Hence, churches, mosques, Ile - Ijuba's and
all sorts of spiritual places get filled up with people who want to get rich
quickly believing that this last minute prayer will transform the new year into
a failure free, poverty free and success filled money making year. But alas
those die minute gra-gra don’t transform into success and being broke might not
outrightly be the handwork of your family witches.
Perhaps you should look at the reasons why
you might still remain broke in 2018 irrespective of your beautifully designed New
Year resolution.
Planning
If there
is anything I have learnt in 2017, it is the fact that no task is unachievable
and that the outlook of your success is a photogenic reality of how good and
consistent your planning is. It is an untold reality that those who make money
both legally and illegally often times plan their way through the execution
from the inception of the monetary idea. It is not rocket science that a man
who lives life as it comes without concrete planning and consistent strategy
readjustment intune with the realities on ground might still remain broke this New
Year. Therefore it wouldn’t be a bad idea if you kick start this year with
something concrete, and not some unrealistic new year resolution.
Procrastination
Nothing
kills faster than procrastination! The sound of this advice given to me
someyears back still ricochet in my head as I pen down this piece. I believe it
also would serve as my guiding tool in the course of scaling through the
proposed hurdles accrued with 2018. I would perhaps say that I am inspired to
inspire myself with this write-up. The beauty of an idea is not in its
loftiness but in the reality of the execution, unfortunately a host of ideas
have been buried over the years with the strong arm of procrastination.
Sometimes, your architectural instinct
becomes the mood whenever you design the plan, yet when the "I will do it
later" urge creeps in, it destroys every iota of plan you have had. Procrastination
is a bitch that breeds laziness and impedes you on your ladder to success, and
it can only be cured by "doing
it now"! If only you can do it now, the story
would have been different. Learn to act now and do the complicated analysis
later, for it is worthy of note that there is no wealthy procrastinator.
So do
it NOW!
Time
Management
Subsequently,
I think you should also note that a man who is in control of his time is in
control of his life. A lot of young people find it very difficult to manage
their time efficiently whereas, the lack of a good time management skill is a
wanton factor to remain in the "very broke" zone managing your 24
hour effectively opens a lot of opportunities that will get you astonished by
the amount of success achievable with the same time you have wasted on irrelevances
in time past. I would rather sleep or read if there is no tangible task i can
engage my time with, it is in the end a win-win situation so manage your time
wisely and efficiently and you will definitely leap beyond the "broke
zone" in 2018.
Need
over want
The urge
to buy everything at our disposal is a very huge one. It has been proven
overtime that mans want is insatiable and it can never be satisfied. The desire
to buy more to satisfy our want is a salient mystery behind staying broke at
all times that can only be crushed by staying true to spending on what is
needed and not what your adamic nature wants. The ability to differentiate
between want and need is the gateway to responsible saving. Whereas, show me a
man who saves frequently, and i will show you a man who will rarely go broke.
Smart
work over hard work
Conclusively,
I have heard overtime the popular saying that hardwork is the antidote to
poverty, but permit me to add that smartwork (using 20% resources to get
80% result) compared to hard work is the resonating antidote to
financial impediment in recent times. It is my deepest wish that anyone who wishes
to snap out of the "I am broke" zone achieves that feat in this New
Year. What better New Year gift can I offer but a roadmap to financial sustainability?
In that regards, let me reiterate that smartwork in 2018 demystifies poverty
than hardwork.
Happy New Year!
Olawole Olakunle is a 2016 YaLa Alumni and currently National Director, Directorate of Student affairs, KOWA Party Nigeria.
Twitter: @mko_olawole Email: kunlefreedom@gmail.com
