THE ROAD TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM

 THE ROAD TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM by Michael Henry

One of the best things that can ever happen to a man in life is to be financially free; a state where you don’t have to think of where the next pay cheque will come from or where the money to pay your bills will come from. Financial freedom gives you a sense of value and a life of peace in the mind; the feeling of going to bed at night completely at peace and in harmony with yourself and waking up in the morning with the same state of mind. Every average man in life needs to get to the point in life where he’s not preoccupied with thoughts of what to eat, when to eat, what to wear and where to live because no one can really enjoy life with thoughts like these. As such, to be financially free is to understand the concept of wealth creation. Wealth as many call it is not made by sweat. There is an inverse relationship between sweat and wealth, in fact people who sweat most are people who earns less and live less. Sweat which we call hard work is not the true meaning of hard work. Hark work does not denote sweat; people who work hard honestly don’t sweat. Hard work is a term used to denote discipline and commitment to work. When we see anyone that is discipline and committed to his work, we say his is hard working. Hard work has nothing to do with sweat and sweat does not make wealth, wealth is in the mind. The creation of wealth and the road to financial freedom starts with the mind.

Thousands of studies have been conducted globally, ten thousands hours have been spent and millions have been invested seeking the answer to this life and generation changing question, why are some people richer than others? Why is it that some people have enough money to buy whatever they want in life? This and many are questions many keep asking and only very few have true answers to these questions. Those who have correctly found the answers to these questions have long gained their financial freedom. Some especially Christians usually console themselves by misinterpreting the bible passage that says the root of money is evil.  They even frown similar questions like why are some unbelievers richer than some Christians? And I wonder if becoming financially rich has anything to do with religion because I have seen tons of believers who are financially free and millions who are not, likewise unbelievers who are struggling with survival on daily basis and thousands who are wealthy. This tells that financial freedom has nothing to do with whether you are a Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist. It is all about you and your thoughts. 

The truth is every human has what it takes to be financially free. It just that most of us aren’t using ours well. Every human is a genius, we are all better in one thing or the other. And the fact that each one of us has this powerful free gift of nature on the inside means we sure have what it takes to gain financial freedom but many of us never knew it. Some of us do but we usually doubt our ability to do exploit in life and this is why many have lived and died in financial bondage. 

If there is any one on earth who deserves to be financially free, it’s you but you are not, simply because you are not doing some things right. When you think of gaining financial freedom through physical strength which is sweat, you probably will die before your time, when you think of gaining financial freedom through your normal pay cheque, you probably will struggle with it till death do you part and when you think of gaining financial freedom through illegal, illegitimate and dishonest acts, then you sure will not be free. Even if you are free, it will never be peaceful and the freedom will never last because money made from dishonest acts never last like money made from honest, legal and legitimate deals. Every wealthy, rich or financially free person you see today started as nothing, most of them started worst than where you are right now. I have heard some people say that the world will be boring if everyone is financially independent. And I wonder why most people had to always give in to thoughts like this. This kind of thoughts usually put man in financial bondage because believing and acting in line with this thought is justifying your reason for being poor. Listen, even if everyone cannot be rich in life, not you and if not you then no one else. Everyone deserves the best in life but unfortunately life does not give anyone what he/she deserves but what he/she decides. So, if you want to be financially free, you have to decide it.

To get on the road to financial freedom is to first understand the industry a friend of mine called the convenient industry. The convenient industry is discovered through the fact that man’s survival on earth requires a lot which man himself cannot produce. The industry is of the school of thought that every man is willing to pay you thousands and millions just for you to help them with something they need but find difficult to do. In other words, people are ready to pay you for easing off their stress. This industry is an ever moving industry; it’s the biggest and largest industry in the world. Every great and big organizations or companies you see today, operate on the convenience concept. And this industry does not stop because convenience never stops. This means if you key into the concept of doing something that people are ready to pay you for, you can never be poor because as long as the human race exists, they will continue to need your service and all you will keep doing is to keep renovating, evolving and keep renewing your service to meet people’s immediate needs.

The world has 7 billion populations, Nigeria has 200 million populations and this population will keep growing. This means there is a market for you. What one thing are people finding difficult to do that you can do to ease them off their stress? Your answer to this question is your road to financial freedom. What can you do to attract 1 million minds out of the 200 million minds in Nigeria? What one thing can you do that 1 million people will be willing to pay you #100 per month? The young guy that invented the popular social network – FACEBOOK attracted just 500 million people out of the 7 billion populations and today he is valued at 25 billion dollars, for a product that is free. What if he now attracted 1 or 2 billion people? Listen, If you think well and release your mind to connect to the good part of you, you are made. If you can structure your mind to positive thoughts, if you can begin to think positive irrespective of the chaos in the global environment, you will begin to see opportunities where others see problems and when you begin to take the bold step of working night and day to solve that one problem, you begin to climb the ladder of success and very soon you will be financially free indeed. Every great and wealthy man did and so you can!

LIVE BEFORE YOU DIE by Michael Henry

LIVE BEFORE YOU DIE.

Truly, not everybody that lives has really lived, not everybody you see is really living. Living on earth is beyond exchange of air. It’s beyond the eating, clothing and relaxing thing most think, it’s beyond partying and clubbing. Life is more than fighting and killing, it’s more than lying and cheating. Life is more than money making; it’s more than child bearing. Life is a field for impact makers, change agents, societal developers, mind developers, catalysts, problem solvers and not a field for small minded people, not a place for negative thinkers. Life is not a place for the cowards and not a place for the doubtful. Many who lived have long been forgotten; many who lived are not even remembered today. These are people who had died while they were living; small minded people, drunkards, liars, thieves, adulterers, abductors, pretenders, molesters, rapists and so on. They were so comfortable in their ill-gotten lifestyles that they soon become forgotten immediately they bade farewell to the world. People celebrate the fact that they no longer exist. Whereas some had long gone but their impact in life is very much significant that they cannot be forgotten. They are honestly missed. The world would have replaced their lives with thousands if it were possible because they were more powerful than millions of lives that are living. Listen, your true life or existence on earth is measured long after your demise.  It’s after you have left the world that you will be known to have lived or not. How many people’s good work can you really remember? 

How many people’s existence can you honestly feel especially when they are no more. Life is meant to be lived, we were made to live and when we die, our good works should speak and stand for us. It’s a choice altogether; either being a blessing or curse to the planet earth or human race. You are a blessing when your presence is felt long after you had gone and a curse when people can hardly remember or associate you to anything good.

So, what are you to the world? What are you to Africa? What are you to Nigeria - a blessing or a curse? What problem have you solved or what problem are you solving? Are you amongst the people that are solving problems or you have joined the league of people who are causing problems to humanity? Are you helping faces to smile or you are causing faces to cry? Are you alive living or you are dead living? To live before you die is to do something worthwhile that long after you have gone, you are remembered for that one thing. To live before you die is to do something that will make the world a better place, to live before you die is to add value to the planet earth. To live before you die is to put smile in faces, to solve problems, to cater for lives. That’s the sole reason you were made. Everything you do, every legitimate profession in life is to solve one problem or the other. It will be senseless if all you were made to do on this planet is to buy cars, build houses, marry wives, and go to all the clubs you could possibly think of or sleep with every girl or guy that comes your way. It will be meaningless if all you came to do on this earth is to make money and be famous, to be a president, governor, minister, commissioner, or manager. The driving factor must be beyond cash, people who do things because of money never get satisfaction in the long run because money will not give you all round satisfaction. There is more to life than making money; if money gives all, then people like Dangote, Bill Gates, Ryan Buffett, Richard Branson, Mike Adenuga and many like that will no longer be working. The driving factor must be beyond cash. If you must choose a type of work, it must not only be because the pay is good but also because it’s solving a problem. It must be adding value to lives, and making life a better place.

So, look into Nigeria, what one thing do people find difficult to do that you can do to ease their stress? What one problem can you think of solving? Think very well because that’s the sure way of living, that’s what makes it known that you have lived, until you begin to fulfill a purpose that is beyond money making, until you begin to fulfill a purpose that is beyond you, you have not started living. You are employed in that place of work not just to ease your employer off the stress of doing it alone but also to add value to the organization in the view to adding value to your clients/customers and the society in general. Even though you will get your pay at the end of the month, your motivating factor should be beyond the monthly salary. You are great; you are too big to be determined by a pay cheque. I hate to tell people what they are not. But that is what you are – great. I don’t know you, I don’t know where you live, I don’t know what you ate today, I am not sure if you ate or not but what I am sure of is that you are the best, you aren’t just showing it. Every human was made for one sole reason and the reason is to add value to the world. You are not made to glorify God because God does not need you to be glorious. You give God the glory for everything because you as a man cannot handle the glory, it will destroy you. You are made just to add value to life; you are made to make the world better. And since you are still alive, you still have more to give to the world; you have to live before you die so that you can continue to live even after you have died. The world is waiting for you, the world is waiting to talk about you, Nigeria will talk about you, and your community will talk about you either good or bad. They will curse you if you have brought them pain and will praise you if you brought them joy.

Listen, the best thing that can ever happen to you after death is not only to be talked of but also for your works to be able to talk even when you no longer have voice; for your works to be able to speak when you no longer have breathe. That’s when you have lived and that is when you can continue to live in the world’s memory long after you have gone. If you fail to do anything in the view to giving excuse to the one who made you. If you intend to say that life has not been fair to you, that life didn’t make it easy for you, that life didn’t provide you with the needed resources, life will also speak; life will be granted a chance to speak for herself. Life will tell how she has never made it easy for anyone; she will tell how she tried to stop millions and thousands of people who made it great in life. Listen, life may seem hard, life may seem difficult but life has no hand and cannot stop anyone who is determined to be great in life and if life cannot stop you then no one and nothing can stop you. The only person that can stop you from making a mark on the planet earth before you say “bye” is you.