“WE HAVE HARDWORKING LAZY PEOPLE IN NIGERIA” — DIDI-OMAH BLAST ENTREPRENEURS IN NIGERIA IN FACE OF INCREASE IN POVERTY

“Bishop David Oyedepo said, life is not a playground, it is a marketplace.

I have come to realise these after listening to his teachings on this.

Everyone have different resources but one currency — time. Where ever you are in the world, we still have the same 24 hours and 7 days, same time.

Here is my message:

Life only pave way for traders, those who trades with their gifts, talents, skills, knowledge, solutions, inventions, ideas, and whatever — offering value in exchange for money or anything.

Without selling, life will become hard for you. You must learn and know how to sell, how to trade in whatever you do, in your field. No one buys from you, if you are not trading or selling something — no one come to you, if you are offering something to them; that is life.

If you want to be rich, learn how to sell. The great salespeople do not have ceiling on their earning. With sales, you can get paid whatever you want to — you can decide what products you want to sell, who you will sell them to, and who you will work with.

Your offer does not distrupt any business, no idea kill another's effort — it is the acquisition of customers that kills another's effort, and distrupt business: how you attract people to you, how you acquire customers to your business, how your offer acquire customers to it. 

Focus on your strength, maintain what works for you, create unique figure in what you do, market aggressively, dare to be different, keep improving, be open to changes — focus on importance and urgency — these will help you in managing your time greatly.

Time wasters are life losers, big time losers — they do nothing with their time, so they achieve nothing meaningful with their life.

I will have to say this; Nigeria have a fast growing rate of entrepreneurs, yet still have the high rate of poverty. Many business owners, more poor people — many online coaches, many affiliate marketers on the internet, many fashion designers on the streets, many this and many that; yet we still have the highest poverty rate here in Africa, I am talking about Nigeria.

Why? I have to tell you the truth, we have 'hardworking lazy people'; yes, I said hardworking lazy people — they are hardworking, always busy with what they do, yet working for nothing, no vision, no aspiration.

African Billionaire, a Nigerian, Aliko Dangote, said, if you have no aspiration you should not be alive. The reason we have much entrepreneurs, yet increase in poverty, is because, they don't read — they don't think.

This I remembered, 'In Africa we have many graduated illitrates, they have graduated from the polytechnics, the universities — yet they are illitrates'. Real education is not in awards and certificates, it is in using what you have learnt to solve real-world problems, to improve the world, to transform people, and offer values.

Study, read, think, be creative, be unique, be intentional, be you — stop copying and competiting, be true. We all have the same time, 24 hours, same time.

The millionaires and billionaires are those that use their time effectively, yet some are more wealthy than others — because they leverage and delegate responsibilities wisely — same 24 hours.”

© Didi-Omah Augustine Chinazaekpere