MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS

                In one of my previous post, I said i will throw more light on this particular vital point "MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS". If you are somebody that wants to be rich, then you need to mind your own business. Rich people mind their own business and not the other way round, minding the business of other people. Some people think living in a big mortgaged house, riding in a car bought by the company they are working for, a car they took loan to buy, taking loans to pay their bills and also depending on their monthly salary to do everything do not mean you are rich. Remember your boss's job is to give you job and it's your     job to make yourself rich. The main reason most people are lacking behind is the mentality they are having. From generation to generations, we are taught in school to work for money. Do you remember the time you were in school, a teacher came to class to ask you what you will like to do in future and the answers given were; doctor, attorney, nurse, soldiers and the others. Our current educational system focuses on preparing today's youth to get good jobs by developing scholastic sills. Their lives will resolve around their wages or their income column. And developing scholastic skills, they go on to higher levels of schooling to enhance their professional abilities. They study to become engineers, scientists, cooks, doctors, artists and so on. These professional skills allow them to enter the workforce and work for money. Anytime my friends set their eyes on me reading books on how to make genuine money, they become agitated. They do this because their main aim in school is to complete at the fastest rate and enter the workforce and work for money-surprising, when i try to engage some of them in conversation, to educate them on how our lives will be after school and few examples people making it without school but with their mindset, both locally and internationally, some buy my idea and the others who think I’m nobody to advise them, leave it to me they do not know what they are doing to themselves. There is a big difference between your business and your profession. Often you ask people, “what is your business?". And they will say "oh I’m a banker”. Then the funny thing is that, when you ask them if they own the bank, then they respond "No, I work there'. In that instance, they have confused their profession with their business. Their professional may be a banker, but they still need to mind their own business. A problem with school is that you become what you study, say if you study law, you become a lawyer/attorney and a study of medicine makes you a doctor. The mistake in becoming what you study is that too many people forget to mind their own business. They spend their entire lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich. To become financially secure, a person needs to mind his/her own business. Your business resolves around your asset column, as opposed to your income column. The main thing is to know the differences between an asset and a liability and to buy assets. The rich focus on their asset column while everyone else focuses on their income statements. That is why we hear so often: "I need a raise". If only I have a promotion" I am going to back to school to get more training so I can get a better job". "I am going to work overtime". "Maybe i can get a second job". I'm qualifying in two weeks "i found a job that pays more". In some circles, these are sensible ideas. Yet still you are not minding your own business. These ideas all still focus on the income column and will only help a person become more financially secure if the additional money is used to buy income generating assets. The primary reason the majority of the poor and middle class are physically conservative-which means," I can't afford to take risk", is that they have to cling to their jobs. They have to play it safe. If you want to be rich, you have to mind your own business. The only thing that can help you achieve that is your mindset. The world has shown as us that, your mindset can help you. People like Bill Gate, Michael Dell and Henry Ford used their mind. Though they were surrounded by people who thought minding the business of other people that makes you rich, they still went ahead, followed their hidden thoughts and made it bigger.

THE MIND

The mind is an asset that needs to be well stimulated  by thinking and imagination.
Somewhere  in your make-up(perhaps in the cells of your brain)lies sleeping the seed of  achievement.If aroused and put into action,this will carry you to heights you may never have hoped to attain.
Just as a master musician may cause the most beautiful strains of music to pour forth from a string of a violin ,so may arouse the genius which lies asleep in your brain,and and cause it to drive you upward to whatever good you may wish to achieve.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average person`s familiarity with  the word impossible.Remember success comes to those who are success conscious and failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

TAKE THESE INTO CONSIDERATION AS YOU MOVE ON IN LIFE.

• “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success”

• “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.”

• “Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.”

• “The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”

• “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

• “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

• “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle…”

• “The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”

• “The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

• “The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”

• “Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”

• “Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.”

• “Fears are nothing more than a state of mind”

• “Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach”

• “If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.”
•   “Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.” 
•   “When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve
•  “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
•   “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
•   “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”
•   “If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”
•   “When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”
•  “The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
•   “To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.”
•   “We refuse t“Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.” o believe that which we don't understand.”

•   “There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is
  
  ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.” 

 After reading,contemplate on the quotes and learn some vital things from it.I am very sure you will have a change of mind on some issues.

THE POWER OF THE MIND

THINK AND GROW RICH
Do you think becoming a rich or wealthy person is all about school?Have you notice the number of  people who are  rich in your community who were school dropouts?Examples of some billionaires who drop out of school are: Sheldon Adelson,Michael Dell,Bill Gate,Richard Branson and Steve Ballmer.
Becoming rich is all about the mind.The almighty God has given us two big assets.These are the MIND  and TIME.We all have the mind and also equal number of hours in a day.i.e 24 hours.It depends on how you make good use of them that will make us rich.

“If you think you are beaten, you are,

If you think you dare not, you don’t

If you like to win, but you think you can’t,

It is almost certain you won’t.

“If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost

For out of the world we find,

Success begins with a fellow’s will-

It’s all in the state of mind.

“If you think you are outclassed, you are,

You’ve got to think high to rise,

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before

You can ever win a prize.

“Life’s battles don’t always go

To the stronger or faster man,

But soon or late the man who wins

Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN.

As you are on the path of becoming rich by reading this,know that everything here must be practical.Without practicals,you can not succeed.
 TAKE NOTICE OF THESE

• Never say "i can not afford it" but rather "how can i afford it." because immediately you say "i can no afford it",your brain shuts and stops working but  immediately you say "how can i afford it"your brain is stimulated to do something.You can do everything if you want to do it.With desire,definite major purpose,belief,faith and persistence you can do everything.
• Mind your own business.If you want to be rich you have to mind your own business.I will throw more light on this particular point in subsequent post.
• Lean to manage risk.
• Be truthful about your emotions and let your emotions work  in your  favor  not against yourself.
• Learn to have money work for you.
• Know the difference between asset and liability and buy asset if you want be rich.Asset is something that brings money into your pocket and  Liability is something that takes money from you.This is the basic definition for an asset and a liability.