Are you willing to pay more???

I met someone willing to pay a dollar extra for my fish per kilogram which means he is ready to pay $3 instead of $2 for one kilogram of fish and I will get my payment immediately before he moves the fish out of the farm.

After my investigation, I discovered he buys tons of fish from different farms, dries them, and takes them abroad where he makes a huge profit so he is willing to buy at a higher price compared to what other buyers are ready to pay.

I don't want to make the decision myself so I want to ask everyone if I should go on with the sales of the fish. I will make about extra 400 dollars and that's cool for me because it would cover the losses I had in the past week from the woman who lied about my fish.

I know your response would be, common on George. What are you waiting for? Sell your stuff and make huge profits, I would love to do that even before you give your response in the comment box but do you know that some people are willing to pay higher than what you are willing to pay for success?

This man knows how much he is going to make so he doesn't want to leave behind my fishes and to get what he wants, he gave me an irresistible offer meaning he is willing to pay what others are not ready to pay.

Talking about paying for success doesn't have to be in monetary value, there are lots of things that can be done to boost your chances for success in life.

I understand that there are people who go through the back door to become successful in life but that doesn't erase the fact that there are still people who work hard in life to also achieve success and this article is basically about the people who walk through the right path to success.

I remembered primary school day when we do sing a song, it says, "Do your best and leave the rest". That use to be the case then but there are times when one best is not enough to earn a living not to talk of becoming successful in life. The world population is increasing drastically and the things that used to be enough are not enough anymore, it has made the world very so competitive that you have to do more than your normal to be relevant.

If you are a company CEO and you want to hire a data analyst. People came for the job and two out of all the candidates met all requirements, who will you choose between the two after testing them practically?

Candidate A is a pure data analyst while Candidate B is a data analyst, software programming, and has some basic networking knowledge.

I am certain you do be taking the one who can give you more than you wanted and that's the real situation of the world today.

There is indeed no shortcut to success but people can use what they have to step up to success, these things can give them an edge above others and they include knowledge, skills, efforts, and others so we must be extra prepared for success opportunities that can eventually come my way.

People refer to it as luck but there is more to it most times which involves having what your competitors lack in pursuit for success, referring to them as competitor sounds awkward but that's the reality because if you don't keep up, you might get kicked off.

I remembered the story of a lady I once worked with, we became friends somehow. She works in the office while I did the field job, she was earning better but she doesn't discriminate like others in her department.

According to her, she came to apply for the job of a street promoter in the company since they employ people every day for the job. It is a kind of per-time job, they are paid wages because it is not an everyday thing. She was with the crowd that came to try their luck for the wages job when one of the big bosses came out and asked if any one of them could use the Microsoft excel package very well.

She wasn't sure of what she knew but since nobody stepped out, she did. She just finished high school then so after doing the task given to her, she was offered money but she turned it down and begged them that she needed a job to support her family and that was all.

She was employed as an office assistant to the man, when she furthered her education with weekend studies and got used to the company system, she became a staff with a multinational brand. Her parents mandated her to go for computer training after closing at school during her high school for three years and that was the extra she needed to pay to become successful.

Some people extra was taking the risk that others weren't willing to take, it could be an effort for some people, it could be acquiring more knowledge, it could be a skill as I have said earlier.

Olamide became a Canadian just because she was an expert at making hair, her uncle who was in Canada wanted to help one of his brother's children.

They were all educated but he chose her because he believed her skills would boost her chance of fending for herself and she wouldn't be a liability, today she owns one of the biggest salons in Lagos and the neighboring states.

In crypto blogging, we want to be like some big names but are we willing to pay the extra they are paying to be successful?

Recently, Jane shared what her portfolio looked like and a lot of wish we had the same thing but are we willing to pay the extra she was paying which includes taking huge risks with trading and investing in different projects?

This might sound weird...

Relying on what we can do is not enough anymore because things are moving forward and the competition is getting tougher.

You need to keep adding more in terms of values to what you know and what you can do, that still doesn't guarantee success but it will give you an edge over others. It is not about the best anymore, success requires more than your best in the world today.

The fish buyer is just a fictional story, I needed a perfect illustration for the article and I felt that would work.

Thanks for reading.

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