Service, then Profit

Don’t try to take advantage of people; only ignorant folks do that. Everyday we see people doing the very opposite of this advice – people who want to profit from cheating others all in a bid to make money.

If only they understood the secret of success that lies in genuine service, they would stop short in their ignorance and begin to do the right thing. People are in need of solutions to their problems. The person who is able to provide solutions or services of value will profit.

He or she will profit because people are willing to pay especially for solutions that can change their situation almost immediately. Now this is where the problem lies. Some want to take advantage of another’s seemingly desperate situation to wreak havoc in the name of helping.

Humans experience a variety of challenges – financial, health, psychological, spiritual, etc,etc. If you want to profit, be genuinely committed to providing a solution to any of these problems. 

Do your researches, read books, listen to tapes, attend events where these issues are discussed and within a short while you would have become an expert whom those with such challenges would look forward to for help.

In providing the help, make sure not to promise what you cannot do; if anything, under promise and over deliver and that way the person or persons to whom you have rendered help will surely recommend your services to others. 

On the other hand if you over promise and under deliver, you come across as one with integrity problems and before long, the news of your insincerity would spread and you will lose customers in their thousands and eventually lose business.

Once again, I state categorically that you don’t have to take advantage of anyone or people to profit. Solve their challenges genuinely and you will surely profit.

© copyright Gabriel Ama.

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Compete Against Yourself, Not Others

Most often during competitions we hear of football teams studying other teams’ style of play to determine their areas of weakness to build their game plan around this to beat their opponents.

We also see business organizations undertake similar study of their rival organizations offering similar products or services to see how they can outperform them.

While this could be a good strategy, it may not always work to produce the desired results. If anything, it could breed a lot of stress and bad blood as you try to outdo the other person or business or football team.

The way to go as experience has shown is to compete against yourself- yes, compete against your previous performances. If a football team can focus on improving their individual players’ performance and work as a team, it gives them a better playing strategy than focusing on what opponents are doing.

As simple as this may seem, most teams unfortunately do not practice this strategy and this I must say is the major reason a football team like Brazil has consistently performed well at all major international competitions at youth and senior level.

Football fans, analysts, critics and other footballing nations have continued to admire but also wonder how Brazil has maintained this consistency but the reason is that simple if only they would look at the team’s players. They have so many talented footballers who focus on improving their individual performances but they also focus on team work that gives them the desired results most of the time.

For organizations too that focus more on what they are doing and what their customers want and not just what competition is doing will consistently produce world class products and services. Again, we see this in the Japanese manufacturers who are able to consistently churn out products in great demand from customers because of the very high quality of these products.

You can see an example in their luxury automobiles with lower purchase cost, maintenance and other running costs but higher quality than even American made automobiles.

If you wish to achieve in life, your focus most times should be on improving your previous performance, that is, competing against yourself and not against others. You will have less stress, less anger or bitterness towards competition and a healthy mindset that would allow you tap from the God given resources within and produce great results.

It is really amazing how most people or businesses expend a lot of time and resources studying competition. If only that time and resource could be channeled to study what they are doing and how to improve, there will always be light years ahead of competition.

I say this because man has a lot of hidden resources within him that should always be developed and tapped into for great results. This is even what competition uses and yet some are looking at competition rather than their own resources.

Focus more on yourself and your inner resources and see what great results you will consistently churn out. How to do this? Kindly check my previous posts on this please.

There you have another wealth secret.

© copyright Gabriel Ama.

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Always Strive for Excellence

Some folks are okay with average performance, which ultimately produces average results. Some strive for something higher, and obtain better results. In business, work, school or whatever endeavour one engages in, the key to great achievement is in a focused striving for excellence.

You have got to make sacrifices, put in extra effort, work longer hours all in a bid to excel. There is no shortcut to life as most people believe just like you cannot get something for nothing.

By this I mean is you cannot just sit down without doing any meaning work and expect to achieve results or your heart’s desire. There must be a conscious effort in undertaking some meaningful activity geared towards your goal in life.

Since we are now clear on this, it then means that striving for excellence should be the focus of the person who wants to obtain true wealth. So how do you strive for excellence?

We strive for excellence by careful preparation. Research has shown that most projects failure at planning stage. Therefore, there must be careful planning or a road map for the person who strives for excellence in a chosen task or goal. This helps one undertake an analysis and research into the goal, obtaining valuable information on the pros and cons of the task and what to do to achieve it.

We also strive for excellence by a review of the task after a period of undertaking it for a while, say every quarter or every six months. The objective here is to compare notes between the planning stage or road map and actual execution of the task to see areas of possible improvement. There will always be areas of possible improvement if we are sincere to ourselves and are always ready to get the best results.

We also strive for excellence when we sincerely listen to what others or specifically what clients have to say about our products or service. This gives us a wider perspective and helps us to see things from the client’s view point and make sure to implement the ones that would give the results we desire.

We also strive for excellence when we listen to what our staff say. As an employer of labour for instance, you cannot claim to have monopoly of knowledge. Your customer facing staff deal with and interact with customers on a daily basis during the work week. They therefore also have firsthand knowledge of their work challenges, the customer’s challenges and can suggest ways of improving them.

It is important to note here that it is not all customers who will want to later discuss an issue they have mentioned earlier in front of a customer facing staff. It is that staff who is in position to relay the message and the person or organisation striving for excellence would do well to listen and implement the suggestions given if they are focused on achieving results.

As simple as all these look, it takes patience and a lot of discipline to implement them. However, the person or organisation that takes this cardinal point as their rule is sure on the path to excellence and true wealth.

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Get Yourself A Mentor

My life’s experience has made me understand the importance of having a mentor. However, it is important to also note that there are different kinds of mentors out there so I need to distinguish that I’m referring to positive minded mentors to fit into the purpose of this site.

A mentor is simply put, a person who will point one in the direction to go in life. This is why I said one should get a positive mentor. The mentor has experience having been through several challenges and coming out of them with lessons learnt. Such a person would therefore be in a better position to give direction to a less experienced individual.

Most teenagers (13 – 19) and young adults between ages 20 to 30 do not really understand why they should have a mentor since they believe they know so much at their age. Yes, I felt that way too during my teenage years and as a young adult and I took a lot of decisions on my own then.

However, looking back now, I know better and I also know that someone should have been there to guide me.

With a positive mentor, you will avoid many of life’s mistakes and make better decisions. You will gain insight into things that ordinarily would not make sense to you at the time and you will most certainly have less regrets later in life.

So how do you choose a mentor? There are several ways to choose a mentor. It could be from the books you read. I want to assume that for you to be reading this article shows you already have an interest in reading and so from your reading, it would be clear to see if the writer’s articles or books arouse your interest.

If it does create an emotional experience for you, then you will look forward to reading more articles and books from the same writer with a view to applying the lessons learnt. Thus, the writer becomes your mentor even without a physical meeting with him or her.

You could also choose your mentor from the physical evidence of the person’s lifestyle. Again, this should be a positive lifestyle as this site is about true wealth secrets. You would be so moved and impressed with the person’s lifestyle that you want to become like her or him.

In this case you would have to find a way of reaching out to the person either by e-mail or telephone or a letter requesting exactly what your intentions are. This way the person knows upfront why you are interested in meeting him or her.

It is pertinent to note here that having met with the mentor and shared from mentor’s experiences and advice, it would most please the mentor to see you apply those lessons and get the results you so desire. This would encourage the mentor to give more of their limited time to sharing with you as a good student.

Take action now and go get yourself a mentor and see how you become way ahead of your contemporaries in your achievements in life.

I do have myself a mentor now, in the person of my Lord Jesus Christ. With His words contained in Sacred Scripture, I know I can never fail in life. His word says in Proverbs 3: 5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know. Remember the Lord in everything you do, and He will show you the right way” (Good News Bible).

His word also says in Mark 11: 23, “ I assure you that whoever tells this hill to get up and throw itself in the sea and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him” (Good News Bible).

With these scripture passages and many others from my mentor, Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I know I can never fail in life because His words are true and they are life and He is pleased with me when I put them into practice and achieve results for myself.

I encourage you to try this today and see the results you’ve always wanted.

There you have another wealth secret.

© copyright Gabriel Ama

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