TODAY ON FRANKLY SPEAKING – A FULL LIFE. 17/08/2017
today. Do you like your life now? Do you
like it as it is?
I know it is impossible to have everything
perfect perpetually in life but how would
you rate the quality of your life right
now? At this age, at this time, how far
have you come in comparison with the
dreams, hope and expectations you once
upon a time had?
Are you close to the dreams, are you
living it, have you exceeded expectations
or you appear derailed? Are you still in
control of your life or you’ve totally lost
control?
The power and control of your tomorrow
lies where and with who?
Have you made some mistakes and it
appears impossible to bounce back,
retrace your steps or correct the error.
Are you entrapped in people, situations,
jobs, marriages and friendships that have
kept you low, down and incapacitated?
Have you experienced disappointments,
betrayals, failures and embarrassments
and consequently given up on that dream,
that vision and ambition?
Are you living in fear, insecurity, doubt
and anxiety – unsure of what tomorrow
holds?
Are you at that point where you think if
no one helps you, if no one intervenes, if
there is no miracle, it’s all over for you?
Are you struggling financially, can’t meet
up with your bills, you’re in between jobs,
have never been employed, highly
indebted, can’t provide enough for your
family, making back to back losses in
business, and everything appears to be
nose diving and you’re just helpless?
Are you pained and you believe under a
different circumstance, a different
environment, in a different country, things
wouldn’t be this bad for you?
Have you become very bitter, angry and
disappointed and day after day you
complain, lament and invest so much
time in criticising everyone you believe is
responsible for your troubles and
challenges?
It may feel good blaming everyone and
everything, and you may find temporary
emotional relief venting and even cursing,
but would this attitude and disposition
help your situation, secure your future,
improve your finances, improve your life
quality and address your fear factors?
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe it is time
you accept life exactly how it is and not
as you wish it to be. Listen to me, life is
unfair to all, it has always been that way
and it will continue to be that way. One
man’s loss is always another man’s gain
in life. Therefore, arise from your low
esteem and self-justification, start
thinking good, productive, progressive
and constructive thoughts.
What is most important is having
answers and victory over your personal
problems and challenges despite the
environmental realities and whomever
messed you up in time past. If there be
some people making money and growing
great legitimately in today’s Nigeria, then
you also have what it takes to do very
well.
As we advocate and intensify pressure
for good infrastructure, better policies,
superior leadership and good governance
in Nigeria, please don’t let go of your
own personal life. It is possible to have a
better Nigeria without a better you and it
is very much possible to have a much
better you even if Nigeria keeps
struggling.
Get a grip on your life, focus on all you
can control and deal well with them.
Take that seal off your limited thinking
and do all you have to do. Stretch
yourself, challenge yourself and do the
needful! Enough of excess pleasure,
excess playing, excess excuses and this
blame game; dear friend your time is
running out.
Frankly speaking poverty or lack is not a
problem, it is actually a result; it is a
consequence of not doing the right
things, the right way, in such a way that
will bring more than enough income.
People are poor because they are
unwilling to learn what the rich learnt
and do what the rich did that made the
rich. Most of us want to do what we like,
as we like it, when we like it, the way we
like it and cling on to what we are used
to and expect to have all the money we
want. We have expectations based on
our own opinion not the correct opinion.
Every time you’ve used the word “I can’t”
what you’re actually saying is, “I don’t
want to”. Dear friend, there is nothing
you can’t do if you’re willing. If you have
the will and capacity to learn, you can do
anything – all you need is that will to
learn and do.
Becoming rich is not about doing what
you like, what is convenient or easy, it’s
about learning what you need to learn
and doing what you need to do to make
good money within legal frameworks.
Financial surplus occurs by creating
something or becoming someone of great
value every one want to pay you to have
you. It’s about growing your value and
worth greatly.
But you must of course create something
or become someone people need and
want, for you to get paid not just into
anything you like. People don’t just pay
for good things, they pay for good things
that they need.
When you become valuable, when you
become a solution, when your product or
service becomes valuable, you must
subsequently learn to sell it effectively to
people who need it for cash to flow in
your direction.
If you hate sales, can’t sell and won’t
sell, please don’t expect to be rich all
lifelong. Every rich person with financial
surplus, and control over their financial
future is a fantastic sales person. The
secret of being rich while you’re young
and remaining rich at old age is in your
ability to sell anything and everything.
First your product while you’re young
then, your intellect, experience and
yourself at old age.
A friend shared with me last week a sad
experience of a colleague who retired
from one of the leading oil firms in
Nigeria and died after three years. He
was paid hundreds of millions as
retirement benefits and within 24 months
he lost most of the money to bad
business and investment decisions and
the desperation to maintain the high
quality lifestyle he was used to in paid
employment.
He lacked the ability to sell his
experience, his skills and his personality
post retirement, hence couldn’t attract
cash at retirement. The retirement
benefit he depended upon was
unfortunately gone; he died of high blood
pressure, he was a little over 60.
Dear friend, it is time to live a full life.
I’ve heard too many advocacies about
making sacrifices today for a better
tomorrow and I’ve heard people say also
they will choose to enjoy their lives today
as no one knows tomorrow. I personally
don’t subscribe to these two ideologies.
I do not want to make any sacrifice for
tomorrow if I can afford not to, and I
don’t want to sacrifice my tomorrow to
enjoy today because I don’t want to
suffer at old age. I have therefore
decided to live a full life.
A full life is that decision to enjoy every
moment of your life and every season in
your life. I have decided to enjoy every
bit of my today and every bit of my
tomorrow.
I want to eat what I want, wear what I
like, drive the car I like, live in the
neighbourhood I want, travel to any
country I want and spend on all I like
today and still be able to afford all the
comfort, all the riches and all the
security I need socially and financially at
old age. I want to definitely pass on good
inheritance to my children’s children.
That’s a full life!
This decision has changed the way I
think, work, interact and live my life. It
takes a certain kind of lifestyle – hard
work, brainwork, smart connections, right
associations, healthy friendships and
business know-how to live a very
comfortable and fun life today, and
sustain it all lifelong. That for me, is
living a full life.
There are some clothes you can’t wear
at old age, there are some food you can’t
eat at old age; there are some travels
that’ll become too stressful at old age
and some kind of fun you can’t afford at
old age. Dear friend, enjoy your life now
and enjoy your life when you’re old.
Let go of the anger, pain, disappointment,
animosity and grudge against your
perceived enemies of progress. Love
yourself enough to activate a full life.
Make that needed decisions for financial
prosperity and wealth creation. Don’t
drink away your fears or sorrows and
don’t hide it under the guise of religion.
Stop escaping into entertainment, gossip,
clubbing, work or social media. Arise and
confront your fears and troubles and take
full responsibility. Good success is
achieved through obedience to principles
not religiosity, being religion without
obeying success principles will fail you.
Wisdom, knowledge and understanding in
all things are key to a life of good
success. The ability to enjoy today and
enjoy tomorrow spells a full life, live your
life to the fullest, it’s not in doing what
you like; it’s in doing what is necessary.
Dear friend, choose the full life.
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