"Education Is The Key, To Anything That Holds Greatness And Excellence" — Didi-Omah Augustine Chinazaekpere

I remembered when we are growing up as kids to teenages to adults. My great dad will always chase us inside the house, to read 2 hours at evenings — then we were living at No. 3 Salvation Street, Rumueme, Obio/Akpor LGA, Rivers State, Nigeria.

Monday to Friday, reading at evenings; Saturday working at home; Sunday, visiting and relaxing. 

I thought reading was a punishment, I dislike reading. Most times, I prefer sleeping over reading — when sent to read my books.

Now, the discipline pay off, I am enjoying the fruits more than my dad — he plays a good role. I am now addicted to reading, researching and studying the Bible, and more executing on what I have learnt; that is taking action, massive actions on knowledge I have acquired.

My amazing mother, a dedicated Christian, that one, draw us to God and Church. My great father, draw us to education and self development. At early stage of our lives, age and growth.

Your downfall begins when you are bigger than learning. Yes, when a man is bigger than learning, that is the beginning of his downfall. 

Pride goes before a fall, that's the system. I keep learning everyday of my life, keep studying the Bible, keep investing on myself, keep building my businesses, keep investing in relationships. 

Education is the key, to anything that holds greatness and excellence. Information gives you education, education gives you knowledge, knowledge gives you power. 

To educate, is to inform; to acquire knowledge, you must get information. And to get power, you must be of knowledge.

What I am today, is from knowledge of yesterday, and insights I continuously acquire. I have no one-on-one mentor nor teacher on — business management, wealth creation, wealth acquisition, wealth multiplication, wealth management, human resources management, taxes and tax management, business models and structures, marketing, digital advertising, blogging, company building, servant-leadership, corporate leadership and management, finance management, etc. 

More to these, I learnt them from videos of successful people, great teachers on Facebook and YouTube; also learnt most from reading ebooks and physical books related to the field I want to learn, and have knowledge of. Learning much from their failures over their success stories.

80 percent of my learning are self learning, which you can call, self development. 15 percent of my leaning, are from school teachers, institutions lecturers, Christian pastors or minsters. 

The remaining 5 percent are from conferences, corporate meetings, business camps, etc. That's total of 100 percent of my learning.

No prayer can give you power above knowledge, no prayer can empower you more than insight.

Even to operate in the supernatural, you must be saved in Jesus Christ, and have the knowledge of the truth — that's in the holy scripture. 

You see, greatness begins when you are determined, dedicated and disciplined. There are two pains, one must suffer — no one suffer the two pains, you must experience one to the fullness. 

It is the pain of discipline, and the pain of regrets. It is for you to choose, which one to suffer. I chose for you, the pain of discipline, because it have great rewards at the end of it. 

© Didi-Omah Augustine Chinazaekpere 

Founder, DIDI-OMAH