“Examine Your Growth” — Didi-Omah Augustine Chinazaekpere

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

(Proverbs 27 vs. 23-24)

According to the opening scripture, riches is not forever and being at the top is not permanent. Once in a while, take assessment of your achievements quarterly and annually. Try to strike a balance. Are you progressing or downgrading? Are you spending more than your earning or you are earning more than your spending? What investment can be done and where? What project can be carried out? When, how and where?

What does the future tend to predict and what steps should be taken to avert danger or much loss? X-ray your expenses, incomes, progress, growth and failures. Executive. Without inventory of all you have and proper assesment into your achievements — you tend to lose your efforts, energy, resources and time — and this will cause sudden disaster on you. 

Looking into the scripture text: Proverbs 27 vs. 23-24. What a great knowledge? It is teaching us to examine our growth. There should be alternatives and diversification of investments. Examine our growth, and make possible changes. Examine our growth, and leverage wisely. 

Executive. Have a goal, avoid display of false wealth. From the Bible (Proverbs 12 vs. 9); Many people are destroyed by false display of riches. They display to the society to have arrived financially whereas they are at near zero level and in debts. Don't be a public figure with private failure — you are a public figure, but in real sense you are a private failure. 

You are living in a house you can't sleep because of rent, you buy a car you cannot maintain. You admit your child into school you cannot meet up the school fees. You rented a highly exclusive apartment but you are struggling with taking care of family expenses. Executive. Why the diseases you are bringing on yourself? It is better to be very rich and can afford all that life demands in your life and family, and yet be seen by people to be poor. Than to present yourself as been rich when you are suffering object poverty and in high debts. 

Avoid living false wealth, it brags to poverty and destroy people. Who do you follow? Executive. He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that follows after vain persons shall have poverty enough (Proverbs 28 vs. 19). 

I am not the one that said it, we got it from the knowledge of the truth. Have a goal! Executive. Have a vision, have a project to execute — as I regularly said, no project no progress. Yes, no project no progress. You are not making progress because you have no project to execute.

He that follows vain persons shall have poverty enough — enough poverty. I asked again, Who are you following? Decide your friends, choose your circle wisely. A great man once said, if you have five rich friends you are the sixth rich person — if you have five fools as friends, you are sixth fool. 

You must choose your mentor wisely to achieve your vision, study them and their backgrounds to see if it suits the success you are admiring to get. If Didi-Omah is not sighting wealth at 30 years old, Augustine must not have Didi-Omah as his friend and in his circle. Who you follow availed much? Yes, it matters more. We saw it from the knowledge of the truth. Executive.

Therefore examine your growth: by proper assesment, have a goal, avoid displaying of false wealth, and deciding the right persons in your life for your growth. Be productive not busy!

© Didi-Omah Augustine Chinazaekpere 

Founder, DIDI-OMAH