To every situation, circumstance, substance or creation there is an
invisible power energizing and making it function and keeping it active.
The human body, no matter how perfect it is, without the spirit
living within,it is inactive and lifeless. A car can be very beautiful
and exotic but without power from the battery, it will never move. A
perfectly built brand new aircraft, without jet fuel, it would never
fly. Your fantastic and expensive brand new phone, without the internet,
without wifi, you can’t possibly upload or download anything.
Every creature, invention and even situation is powered mostly by an
invisible force. It is impossible to master, manage or manipulate
anything in this life successfully if the power behind it is not
identified and managed appropriately.
In my observation and understanding, God does not directly bless
anyone with wealth, God gives every man the power to create wealth. If
you don’t know and can’t control the seven powers behind successful
wealth creation, you will never be able to create and retain wealth.
As there are powers, in other words keys for successful wealth creation, there are also powers behind the state of poverty.
Poverty I must clearly explain, is not a condition or situation of
lack, but a consequence of choices made in time past. Poverty is a
consequence not a condition. Poverty is the total sum of your cheap
choices, easier choices, wrong choices, greedy choices or no choices at
all. Poverty is the consequence of your choices.
Are you afraid of poverty, are you afraid of becoming poor eventually
at the latter years of your life? How does one become poor in life, how
does one remain perpetually in a state of lack?
A keen and wide study of the lives of the very rich and a careful
observation of the life of the poor has helped in my uncovering and
reaffirming the powers behind poverty. Poverty is powered by certain
forces. If these forces be removed from any life, if these powers be
neutralized in any life, poverty will most definitely disappear from
such a life.
Find following the five main powers behind a life of poverty.
- Laziness
Too many people have dreams; we all have needs, wants and desires.
Too many people have ideas, most are wise, discerning, intelligent,
analytical and brilliant, yet most of us are still broke. This is
because intention, knowledge, capacity, competence and know-how remain
impotent without action.
The difference between the successful and the one who struggles could
be action. The energy to bring forth dreams to the realm of reality is
action. The power to do is a major key to success. If you lack regular,
consistent and required action, you’ll remain broke. One of the most
powerful powers of poverty is laziness.
- Ignorance
Nigeria as a nation is not broke, Nigerians are broke. The widespread
poverty in the land is not a problem of scarcity, it’s a problem of
access. There’s a lot of money in this country, unfortunately many
people don’t know how to access this wealth legitimately.
Ignorance in my personal interpretation is not just the lack of
knowledge, it’s the decision to ignore knowledge. Ignorance, – to
ignore. Many of us ignore sound knowledge, we don’t search and research;
research simply means to search again, because the facts of yesterday
can quickly become obsolete based on the consistent dynamics in the
environment. If you still think what you learnt in school 10 years ago, 5
years ago, even 2 years ago is the knowledge you need for wealth
creation, you’ve got another think coming.
Many of us remain broke not because there’s scarcity, is simply
because we have no true knowledge on how to legitimately access great
wealth. Many of us wouldn’t attend financial literacy classes, we
wouldn’t go for trainings, seminars and get up to date knowledge on how
wealth is created nowadays. Many hardly buy professional books, we’d
rather buy motivational and feel good books without deep insights on
answers and real strategy for success. Ignorance is a powerful power of
poverty.
- Pride
Most young people today have a sense of entitlement when it comes to
employment instead of an attitude of gratitude and the will to submit
and learn at the place of their employment. They wrongly assume having
gone to school and graduated, the society naturally owes them fantastic
employment and a very good salary. Formal education is one thing, an
opportunity to learn how work runs is another learning entirely. A place
of employment is not meant to just pay salaries, it’s a place to learn
as well.
When you’re too arrogant to submit, to yield and learn from your
superiors and bosses, you’ll never discover the secret of career
success.
Selling is the master formula for wealth. If you can’t sell you can’t
be wealthy. People hate sales because they’re too proud to handle
rejection, if you can’t handle rejection, it may suggest you’re a bit
puffed up. Many artisans also today can’t submit long enough to learn a
skill thoroughly. They see their masters as oppressors and users, hence
they abandon learning half way and hit the market with half-baked
abilities and skills – messing up people and contracts, they can’t stand
the control of their bosses, pride won’t let them, so they go around
lacking the excellence it requires to be great at what they do. Pride is
a powerful power of poverty.
- Stinginess
People who are selfish, stingy and always prioritizing themselves,
their needs and their money can’t have many friends or people who will
be willing to support, assist and give to them when they’re in need.
Wealth creation depends also on your social network. Your social
network is not the number of people you know or the number of important
people stored in your contact list on your phone, it’s the number of
key, important and relevant people that know you. If you’ve hardly been
useful, selfless, helpful to anyone, they can hardly remember you. Most
people that easily arise to support and help you are those who in one
way or the other owe you by a favor you’ve done them in time past.
Stingy people hardly do favors and what you don’t sow, you don’t reap.
Being stingy is the fourth powerful key to poverty.
- Divine Help.
The worst form of plans and strategies are the ones borne out of
leaning on your understanding. The future is unknown and unpredictable.
Judging tomorrow absolutely by the situation of today can be misleading
most times. Dominating the future comes from a peek into the future. No
one knows tomorrow except the almighty. Your spiritual connection – not
just religious routines, reveals to you what tomorrow holds.
If you lean on your understanding, you may fail, if you work with
divine revelation, you can’t get it wrong. Disconnection from the spirit
and instruction of your maker will frustrate your attempt to escape
poverty.
Ladies and gentlemen, being poor is not a condition or a situation,
it’s actually a consequence of bad choices, greedy choices, easier
choices, more convenient choices or no choices at all.
No matter the state of the economy, if you disarm the powers that
energize lack in your life, you’ll be free from insufficiencies.
Take your primary attention away from the government, your employer,
self-deception and blame games, there is no time in history, in the
present or even the future when there will be a perfect condition for
all citizens of a nation to become rich. There are very rich people in
many poor countries and many poor people in extremely rich countries
today. It’s really not about what’s happening around you, it’s more of
what’s happening within you.
Ladies and gentlemen, to become wealthy, disarm the powers of poverty in your life.
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