Don't Settle for Crumbs

Some people prefer crumbs rather than the main meal. This is how I got to know this.

So I have this friend who makes liquid soap for washing kitchen utensils. She usually make about 25-50 litres, even though they don’t need up to that much in the house. Her mum usually shares some of the liquid soap with her neighbours and friends who visits. So she always makes extra to make room for mum's gifting.

Some people would visit their home and they would just ask her to give them some of the liquid soap in a small container, a 75Cl Eva table water bottle. It went on until one day instead of asking to be given some in the Eva bottle, a woman asked for how to make the soap.

She was surprised because every other person while every other person was focused on collecting some from the one she made, this woman requested to be taught how to make it. The process isn’t stressful and it will save them cost because you could make 25 litres with #2500 ($5) which can serve for about 5 months.

So, this my friend decided to show her how to make the soap and also gave her a written step-by-step guide that she could use whenever she wants to make some.

At the moment, the woman makes for her personal use at home and also sell to her neighbours. From the information she shared, she makes about #5000 ($10) weekly from selling to just her neighbours and when she takes the soap to school she makes an average of 10,000 naira ($20) weekly.

This is so because instead of asking for the usual Eva bottle of liquid soap like the others she preferred to know how to actually get more than an Eva bottle and also make money off it.

But those that always ask for Eva bottle drums never got to learn how to make the liquid soap. And when the one they got for free finishes they would likely spend 800 naira buying commercial liquid soap. But the one that asked “how?” is already making for the house and earning small money from it.

5000 naira weekly in one month is 20,000 ($40) and 10,000 naira weekly in a month is 40,000 naira ($80).

So she makes an average of 20-40,000 naira from selling the soap to other people who would always ask to be given some in an Eva bottle.

Some people are like the people that ask to be given some liquid soap in an Eva bottle. You see someone making money from a particular business instead of you asking ahh bro how far? How you dey run am? Na giveaway and urgent 2k you go dey find. (Instead of inquiring about the business and how you could get started, you are waiting for a giveaway from the person or handout).

This is you going for the crumbs rather than the meal itself. What makes you think you can’t make the same amount of money that bro makes weekly or even more?

My advice for you this very day is is that you should learn to always go for the very best of the meal and not the crumbs or leftovers.

Why go begging for fish every day when you can learn how to fish, and catch enough to feed yourself and your family and even have some to sell for money? Food for thought.