Why You Are Rich in Money But Poor in Wealth.
By Ogiri John Ogiri
In our today's society, many young people are more focused on making fast money in order to be rich than they are in building true, enduring wealth. This may explain why a great majority of them are more interested in working in government's offices than they probably are in starting a business. They are ready to pay millions of naira to secure a job space in the civil or public service without counting the cost to their innate entrepreneurial abilities. One probable result is that they end up being rich but very poor in wealth.
I find it difficult to understand how the same set of unemployed Nigerians who always complain that they lack capital to finance and translate their dreams and hobbies into viable entrepreneurial ventures, say SMEs, can easily raise two hundred thousand (#200,000) to a million (#1,000,000) naira, sometimes within a month, to purchase job opportunities in the civil and public services without considering that such an amount of money, if wisely utilized, can make the difference between economic slavery now and economic self-reliance in the end.
I want to know why you can borrow or use your private savings to purchase a job in government offices but cannot do the same to start a business in line with your hobbies. Do you think government jobs can immortalize your family? It may interest you to know that the glory of a government job ends the day you die. Only your business can securely promote and immortalize your family name even after you are long gone.
Let me be honest with you. If I can get a soft loan of, say 5 million (#5,000,000) only from the government for a five-year period, I assure you that I can expand my business to a level that I will never have to look for any white-collar or a blue- collar job, except on ground of being called to serve for patriotic reason.
I am certain of this; that in the wider society, there are needs to be met and problems to be solved (there will always be) and that there are millions of people out there who are willing and able to pay if only they had someone like you or me with the right solutions to their needs or problems. For example, people need to have their clothes washed and laundered; lawn mowed; houses kept cleaned; money taken to banks; shoes polished; children driven to and from schools. They want to sell their property: They want to have their events' venues decorated; they want to have their cars washed; they want to eat and sleep away from home. They want to be taught how to know. The list is inexhaustible. But these opportunities are often ignored in favour of white-collar job opportunities.
If you need to know the kind of business that meets your passion to solve problems, check your hobbies.
Examine what you are good at, and patiently deploy them to solving problems. There lies one key to your success.
Over the centuries past, this is what successful people have discovered to have been one lasting secret of financial break-though and individual economic freedom- meeting of needs and problem-solving.
Therefore, if you really desire to be wealthy, then start solving problems and meeting needs for a fee. Salaried employment can make you rich but only self-employment can make you wealthy.
©Ogiri John Ogiri.
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