Every problem in life has a solution; and there are different solutions to a particular problem. People go through life looking for solutions to problems.
Many of us believe there is only one way of doing things. Very few believe there are alternative solutions to particular problems.
What is most important is the amount of information available to enable one solve the problem in question. One of the biggest problems most people grapple with in life is financial – in fact, research has shown that finance or money problems is the single biggest cause of divorce in most homes.
What is most obvious the world over are the psychological, social and emotional damages occasioned by lack of money in people’s lives: increased divorce rates, armed robbery, prostitution, illiteracy, heart problems and stroke, emotional trauma, social violence and so on.
What may not be so obvious to many people is the fact that all these and other related problems caused by lack of money is basically a problem of lack of wisdom.
What is the difference between a wealthy individual and one who lives in abject poverty? It's not money as you may want to believe – the basic difference is the amount of wisdom both possess.
Poverty is a problem caused by lack of wisdom while wealth is a solution to a problem by applying wisdom. What is wisdom? To make it easily understood, we could use words like understanding, insight, intelligence, knowledge, good judgement to describe wisdom.
If one has a problem and makes an effort to solve it, he must first of all understand the nature of the problem and then apply knowledge to solve it. Some people say knowledge is power.
Knowledge can only become power when applied to something. Knowledge on its own amounts to very little except applied to solve a problem. Only then can it become power.
If you desire true and genuine wealth in life, one of the things to be done is to commit yourself to obtaining wisdom about what makes people wealthy. Most of the time it is information or knowledge you need for this.
Unfortunately, most people are concerned only with knowledge obtained from formal school.Formal education while having its own merits cannot be totally depended upon to achieve wealth, fame or success in life.
For example, one of the things no one is ever taught at formal school is the mindset to possess to be able to wade through great challenges in life, especially what people consider to be failure.
If anything, students are taught at school and even at home to abhor the word failure. They are taught never to fail exams and that if they fail, they would amount to nothing in life except losers.
When these students leave school to face the outside world, they approach it with the wrong mindset created from continuous exposure to wrong teaching and it creates an even greater problem for them.
They also carry that mindset to their various work places and are most times taught the same thing there and in turn teach it to their subordinates.
Only very few are able to discover that there is another side to the failure story and that is that anyone and everyone has a capacity to rise above it.
Only very few are able to discover that there is another side to the failure story and that is that anyone and everyone has a capacity to rise above it.
The discovery could come is several ways. It could come by accident if one is fortunate to come across someone with a wealth of experience about life’s true meaning and how to approach it.
It could also come when one has passed through an especially difficult situation and is able to come out of the experience emotionally unscathed and then gains a new outlook on life.
What is important is that wisdom is gained in the process and of equal importance is committing oneself to applying the new found wisdom to similar and new challenges encountered later.
If you take time to study the history of the world’s wealthiest individuals, what you would find is the fact that most of them never acquired a degree from college.
So what made the difference in their lives to enable them become achievers? They simply acquired education of the informal type – reading and listening to inspirational materials, interacting with successful individuals and studying their habits, searching for knowledge through trial and error and obtaining a wealth of information in the process.
They then patiently applied the informally acquired knowledge to their lives and that made the difference.
During the time of their acquiring the knowledge, almost no one would pay attention to such people since they’ve learnt from experience to only accept in their minds what they consider very important. It is only when they begin to achieve results that people take notice.
Again very few take time to find out the story behind the success – they only see the success.
…………………….to be continued next week.
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