The application of wisdom for financial empowerment leads to Financial freedom, below are tips to help you achieve that freedom.
1. Breaking The Fallow Grounds
Of The Mind For Creative Ideas
The human mind is
the greatest asset God gave man. It holds the keys to all accomplishments in
life. There is no limit to what the mind of man is capable of doing. Anything
you can think of and believe, you are capable of achieving, because
there are no barriers to a man’s attainment
in life except those established in his mind.
When the mind of man
comes into contact with the wisdom of God it produces a sixth sense called
creative imagination. It is this
creative imagination that gives man the superior command over life to attain
economic heights. You need the wisdom of God in order to harness the unlimited
economic power lying dormant in your mind. Begin to break the fallow grounds of
your mind for the release of creative ideas to make way for the economic
empowerment you desire.
2. Discovering Your Connecting
Point to Access the Unlimited Resources of the Earth.
“Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place
for gold where they fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is
molten out of the stone….
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. The
stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and
which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by
it”. Job 28:1-2, 5-8
Everybody has a
connecting point to economic empowerment. Yours may be different from mine but
that is not the issue. The important thing is the ability to discover your
connecting point in order to access your portion of the abundance of the earth.
The scripture says; “
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, and
brass is molten out of the stone…” It takes wisdom to make discoveries.
Therefore get in touch with the wisdom of God in order to discover your
connecting point. It may be your work, a gift or talent you were born with, a
person you must come into contact with etc.
3.
Creating Work as a Channel for Your Economic Empowerment.
No man has ever been
blessed in vacuum or idleness. It takes a channel, for finances to flow into
the lives of people and your work that you do for a living is that channel
. “and whatsoever he doeth, it shall prosper”.
It is the works of our hands God blesses, not our desires. When the wisdom of
God comes upon you, it empowers you with creative and innovative ways of doing
that same work but in different ways and becoming financially prosperous.
Wisdom will empower you with uncommon skills and expertise to get better
rewards for your labour and efforts. You will no longer operate only with your
experience on the job, but also with expertise through wisdom for empowerment.
You realise that
when Isaac encountered the wisdom of God he did not need to change his
occupation as a crop farmer, but he was rather supernaturally empowered for
uncommon results. Likewise, Jacob didn’t need to change his profession as an
animal farmer. He maintained it and was blessed through it. You too may not need
to change your occupation, because what you need is not a change of occupation
but an encounter with the wisdom of God.
Somebody may say,
well I don’t have any work doing to begin with. To you I say create your own
work. What is work? I have an acronym as the definition for work:
- Wisely
- Organizing
- Relevant
- Knowledge
Work may therefore be defined as
“Wisely
Organizing Relevant Knowledge”.
What I mean by this definition is that you can create your own work
without looking for a non-existent job. How do we do it? Since work is all
about solving problems or meeting needs and getting paid for the services
rendered, you begin by identifying in your environment, problems nobody is
solving and needs nobody is meeting.
Go to work immediately to find out the kind of knowledge that is
relevant to the solving of those problems and meeting those needs. Acquire that
relevant knowledge, organize that knowledge wisely and begin solving those
problems and meeting those needs and you’ve got work to do and you will very
soon be on your way to becoming economically empowered. This is what wisdom for
economic empowerment is all about.
Are you a young graduate who has completed school and has been seeking
for a job but is finding none? Your answer is to stop searching for a job and
start thinking of how to create one and employ other colleagues of yours
instead of seeking to become an employee. Find out what problems the knowledge
you have acquired can help solve in your society and environment. Wisely
organize that knowledge you possess to meet the demands of human needs and
you’ve solved your own unemployment problem and may be that of someone else.
4. The Wise Use of your
Spare Time as a Channel for Financial
Empowerment.
The secret key to becoming an outstanding successful person in life is the
beneficial use of ones spare time. Time
is the only universal commodity of nature with the fairest distribution.
Everybody has access to access equal amount of time; Twenty-Four hours a day,
Seven days a week, Thirty-One days a month and Fifty-Two weeks a year for all,
rich or poor, black or white, learned or unlearned, for time and chance happens
to them all.
The difference therefore in life lies in how we individually utilize
this great asset of nature. The beneficial use of one’s spare time is the secret key
to becoming an outstanding success in life. What do you do with your spare
time? Many people complain that if they had enough time they could do something
else to better their financial lives. Time is a highly perishable commodity,
and once wasted it is never recoverable.
Let us do some quick mathematics
here to see whether we make judicious use of our time or not. There are 24
hours in a day, as we all know. If you are an employee, you work from 8:00 am –
5:00 pm equaling 9 hours of the 24 hours leaving 15 hours for you. Let us also
assume you sleep for 8 hours everyday thus leaving 7 hours unaccounted for
which we can refer to as your spare time.
What you do with this time is
very crucial to your economic success or failure in life. Another way to expand
your economic time is to cut down on the hours allotted for sleep. If you sleep
for 8 hours everyday, by the time you die you would have slept for one-third of
your total life span, which is not a good omen for successful economic life.
Become wise in the use of your time, most especially your spare time. Find
something economically viable to do in your spare time, which will give you
some financial freedom, instead of depending on your employer to make you rich.
No employer has ever made any employee rich. At best, he will only give you
what is due you for your labour of service. However, to be economically
empowered for financial freedom, you need to redeem the time and make economic
use of it.
5. Wise Use of your
Talents and Gifts for Financial
Empowerment
Talents and natural gifting are divine endowments for giving means of
livelihood to his people. Your talent is not a decorative piece; it is your
vehicle to economic empowerment. Your only role is to discover, develop, and
add economic value to it and you are on your way to earning money from that
talent or gift. Look at the wealth sports stars are making from the wise use of
their natural talents all over the world today. Note however, that talents and
natural gifts are only raw materials. They only become economically viable when
we are able to turn them into marketable skills. No body employs talents or
gifts. People are looking for skills to employ, and the more skillful you become
in the use of that gift, the more you will be paid for it. There are many
talented footballers, singers, actors etc, in the world but only the skilful
ones are paid very well. The wisdom for economic empowerment here is to
discover your talents and natural endowments and develop them into economically
viable and marketable skills, and you are not far from earning money from them.
6. The Wise Use of
People’s Resources as a Channel for Financial Empowerment:
People’s resources are the greatest asset any individual or an
organization embarking on economic empowerment venture can have. You need
wisdom from above to effectively utilize this asset to your economic advantage,
but not at the expense of their legitimate entitlements. Apart from your
personal resources, you will need other people’s resources for your economic
empowerment.
How do you wisely use people’s resources as a channel for economic
empowerment?
i.
OPM – Other People’s
Monies
ii.
OPT – Other People’s
Time
iii.
OPK – Other People’s
Knowledge
iv.
OPA – Other People’s
Abilities
v.
OPG – Other People’s
Goodwill
vi.
OPE – Other People’s
Experience
You can use all the above-mentioned People’s Resources to empower
yourself economically. Note however that we are not talking about exploiting
people unduly to amass wealth for yourself. Bible frowns on that and you will
not go unpunished for that. What I am teaching you is that there are so many
people out there with these resources in abundance who do not know how to
harness and utilize them for their own economic gain. With wisdom, employ these
available resources, and pay them their due remunerations and utilize the
resources for a greater economic gain.
Let us consider some case studies for the use of the above
The use of OPM (Other
People’s Monies)
How do financial institutions make their wealth? Simply by the
principle of OPM, they take your money with the promise of keeping it safe for
you and giving it back to you at any time you want it just for a minimal
charge. They then invest your money into some viable money market instruments
with greater yields and make more money with your money for themselves. How
about that? That is financial wisdom for you.
If you happen to meet an excellent opportunity for an investment that
can yield you over a hundred percent return with no or minimal risk and you
don’t have the money it takes to seize the opportunity, do you fold your arms
and sleep? No! You look for somebody with the money who doesn’t know what to do
with it and promise him some interest for the use of his money and you are on
your way to making big time wealth for yourself. You don’t need to have your own money before
you can be economically empowered, but you surely need wisdom for that. So
‘wise up’
The use of OPK (Other
People’s Knowledge)
Henry Ford, it is said was a school drop out and a near illiterate but
he is credited with the invention of the Ford Car. How did he accomplish that?
By the principle of OPK (Other People’s Knowledge), he had a vision and a
desire backed by determination, but he had no knowledge to achieve that by
himself. He used wisdom to employ OPK to
accomplish his dream.
He was once accused of being an
ignoramus and in his defense astounded every body by saying:
“I don’t need to cram my head with
knowledge I can easily get elsewhere at the snap of my fingers” By that
statement, It was held that if one knows how to get from elsewhere, the
knowledge he should have acquired by himself he cannot be said to be an
ignoramus. By that he won the case. This can work for you too. You don’t need
all the knowledge in the world to be able to make money. All you need is the
wisdom to gather around you people with the knowledge you need.
Consider this success story and get an inspiration that the OPK can
work for anybody who has wisdom enough to harness its powers.
Some Senior High School candidates who could not make it in all their
papers contacted a young man to help them in some extra classes as they were
preparing to rewrite some of their papers. He did help them and they were
successful in their exams. The news soon spread in town and many more students
started flocking to his house everyday. He was overwhelmed with their numbers and
besides, he could not handle all the courses. An idea quickly came to him to
create a remedial classes’ centre and employ the services of the graduate
teachers in the secondary schools in the town to help him. This he did and
today the place has turned into a fulltime remedial and regular school with the
young man who has not got a university education as the proprietor and
facilitator making his cool money through the use of the OPK (Other People’s
Knowledge). You too can try the OPK because it will definitely work for
you.
7. Taking Advantage of
Opportunities as a Channel for Financial Empowerment:
There is a wise quotation in my book “
The Nuggets of Wisdom” which will be coming out soon that says:
“If you want to be successful in life,
you must either have a chance or create one”
In the Ecclesiastes 9:11 account
of the Bible, the Preacher said:
“I returned, and saw
under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet
favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them
all”.
The word chance in this context talks of opportunities being part of
every human life. We encounter opportunities every day of our lives. The only
problem is that most of the time we are not even able to recognize the
opportunities as they come our way.
Every time you meet somebody new in life, know that it is an
opportunity to establish a relationship and to benefit from that relationship.
Some opportunities come disguised as temporary failures; some times too, they
come through the back door. Your ability to recognize and identify
opportunities in order to take advantage of them will put you on the path to
your economic empowerment.
You however, need wisdom to be able to do that. Get the wisdom to seize
existing opportunities or create your own where none exists.
It is the season for Economic Empowerment. Get Wisdom and begin to
explode financially.
Get wisdom and in all your getting, get understanding.
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