Your Ability To Make Money – What Does It Take?
There is a very real
possibility that everything that you and I have been taught about how to earn
money is so far from the truth that it's almost amusing.
Yes, I know that most
of our parents taught us that, if we wanted to make money, we needed to get an education
and then and only then look for a job that would pay us well. Mine taught me
the same as well. But my mother, my very wise beautiful and selfless mother – also taught
me the value of hard work, the value of buying something cheap and selling it a
profit.
I dint understand it
then but as a hawker, my mother taught me more about what I would need, she
taught me the basic principles for making money today than I would have ever
learnt back then from any classroom. She taught me dedication to a cause, taught
me that even as you fail (some moments she would fail to get the items she
wanted and would make loses), even as you tire and feel lost and dejected
because your plan for the day didn’t succeed, you do not give up on your “business/plan”.
You try again and again until you get it right. She taught me that making money
takes guts.
Earning money has
nothing to do with age, formal education, gender or geography. It has nothing
to do with past experience, your formal years of education or your level of
intellect. All around us, there are countless of individuals who are
functionally illiterate who have become multi-millionaires, while there are those
who are absolutely brilliant and have the best degrees in their drawers, and
yet are broke. Virtually anyone can be taught how to earn millions of Emalangeni
and yet the sad truth is that 97 out of every 100 people are born, live their
entire lives, and die without ever learning how to earn money. To perpetuate
this ridiculous problem, their ignorance is passed along from one generation to
the next.
Our school system has
been designed as an environment to enlighten young minds, to replace ignorance
with understanding and thereby improve the quality of life. Our educational
system has obviously been successful in many areas. However, it has woefully
neglected one important subject, "How to Earn Money".
You can earn a
doctorate degree in finance or economics and have little or no knowledge of how
to earn money. A lack of understanding in this area is the cause of numerous
unwanted and unnecessary problems, since money is the medium of exchange used
worldwide for all trading. There has always been a small select group of our
population, who clearly understand though that
Prosperity consciousness
is the primary cause of wealth and that prosperity consciousness, like
ignorance, is also passed down from one generation to the next.
Uyabo, now we are starting to plough the minefield!!! Although I must hasten to add that our education system, especially that imparted when we were still at school, was woefully inadequate at creating lateral thinkers. Merely rote learners. We've heard the constant clarion call to include vocational and life skills within formal academic curricular but I tell you, kids attending public schools in Swaziland today are still reading the same books and writing the same exams we were 20 years ago, give or take!! I fear that we are failing to shift the paradigm fast enough to churn out versatile and functional members of society :-( I look forward to engaging more on this change in mindset Mrs M. Thank you again! Jennifer
ReplyDeleteWell written comment right there. And so true.
ReplyDeleteHere is the reality .. The reachers themselves never leant the fundamental truth that to make money we need to be open to change. That what worrked before does not necessary become the norm today. Society has shifted. Today we need to be taught to get an education so that we can create jobs not so that we can get jobs. We need hungry eager minds that want to change the world to challenge the status quo and find solutions to life's problemsZ we need to be bold...