Opportunities can be lost
So yesterday I had the chance to speak with an elderly man and he repeatedly said:
“When you see a good opportunity and you know it can change your life for good, my son, please never allow it to pass you by.”
I asked him why and he shared his story with me of how he lost a particular property because of procrastination.
He said that a couple of years ago he was asked to buy a particular property for 23 million naira. He and his wife had the money then but they kept procrastinating. The owner of the property was begging them to buy the property because he needed the money urgently but they kept giving excuses and postponing making the deal.
Five months later they went back to the man for the same property with the agreed 23 million naira. But the owner refused the offer. He told them that even if they give him 100 million naira for the property he won’t accept it. As the said property is now worth over 150 million naira.
They wept. He and his wife were filled with regrets throughout that day. If they had acted on the opportunity the time it was presented to them, they would have been able to afford it and made more than 5 times the profit, but now they can’t afford to buy the property.
Opportunities can be lost.
When you see one that could improve or change your financial status, never delay acting on it. Don’t allow small-minded people to deceive you into letting life-changing opportunities walk past you. Don’t allow fear and procrastination to make you miss the opportunity. It won’t wait forever.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge
Do you lack money? It is because you lack proper knowledge on how to get it.
You're poor and broke? It is because you lack proper knowledge on how to amass wealth.
Do you lack direction? It is because you lack knowledge on how to live a life of purpose.
Whatever you desire but you do not know how to get it, it is because you lack knowledge on how to do them.
Seek knowledge all the days of your life even if it cost you money. In all your seek for knowledge also seek understanding.
You are a business owner and you rant about not making sales. Here are three questions for you
How many books on sales and marketing have you read in the past couple of months?
What is your business weekly ads budget?
Who is your mentor and how many paid courses have you taken on how to grow your business?
You can’t manage your business like you don’t care and expect to have the same result with your competitors who always update themselves with the latest trend and invest in ads and personal development. If you want to do business do it right.
Seek knowledge about your business and understand what you need to do to achieve your goals, and then take action.
Knowledge is power but it is useless when you don’t take action.
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
~ Abu Bakr
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So many people I have run across are like this; they wait too long or worse, wait for things to just happen. Time decay is a real thing, and in the end can cost us dearly. The minute one realizes this, it changes their life forever.