At the beginning of October, I got a job offer to be an assistant editor in a particular company. It was a work from home job. I cherished every moment of it because it was based on human relations skills. - Recruiting writers to publish novels on their platform.
After I placed the advert for the job openings, I was fortunate to get series of messages on my chats. I gladly responded to those messages effectively.
After the day ended with no more messages, I was left alone with my thoughts. As a fresh graduate, I began to calculate my expenses. I had bills to pay. I knew bills are not merciful. - They would come either you are prepared for them or not.
My thoughts gave birth to a philosophy that sparked a reflection on my new job. - “Everyone loves their job if their payment serves them well.”
Before most people sign a contract for a job offer, the first thing that comes to their mind is the payment. How much would I be paid? When will I be paid? How can I increase my salary/wages?
These are the words that define what society says about money. The world focuses much more on money than impact.
We do more activities with money than we do with impact. But I write this as a reminder that we need to impact the world in other to make money.
The likes of Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Mukesh Ambani. How did they make it to the top list of billionaires on Forbes Magazine???
They had some services to render. Their works are considered needful and thereby impactful. Boom! On they go to make money. This is the starting point of how they emerged.
First, there was a product or service they rendered which society considered impactful and certainly needful.
Secondly, their products/services were patronized in exchange for money, making their cash flow resurrect.
At this point, I can hear you thinking out loud. - “There is no way they won’t need money from the start.”
Of course, why would you choose to start a business with absolutely no initial capital? It is possible but difficult. This is because money is a positive catalyst in anything we invite its presence.
Add money to that business you are into, then you are likely to see it boom. However, this is based on the fact that you have good money management strategies at hand.
Can you now see why money is overrated? Humans with poor money management strategies would remain poor if they never do away with their bad attitude towards money.
In the words of most folks in our society, they would say; ‘What is the impact if you don’t have money?’ In opposition to this, I say; ‘What is money if you have no impact?’ There are lots of people who are rich but they never made little or no impact in their society.
However, this should not be seen as a sign that I am dismissing money as an unimportant entity. Money is needed to make an impact. Nevertheless, we also need to create values that are impactful to make money.
These values vary from positive to negative values. I gave an example of people who made positive values that are impactful in my previous paragraph.
In contradiction to this, some folks run illegal businesses to make money. They cause harm in our society by passing on negative values to the world around us.
Money and impact are two sides of a coin that cannot exist independently. In other words, they are in co-existence with one another by default in our society.
In conclusion, we need impact to make money and we need money to make impact.
Think of anyone who makes money, you would discover they have values (positive or negative) to offer in exchange for money.
What are your thoughts on this?
Do you think money and impact can exist independently?
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In the world of today, impact cannot be made without having money; It is totally money dependent.