The Power of Networking

There is a popular saying that “no man is an island”. This statement simply means as humans we are interdependent on each other for so many reasons and so many things. There is indeed a limit to the amount of knowledge one can acquire on his or her own because there is a lot to learn concerning this world.

It is for this reason that most people form groups to share information and learn from one another in a bid to better their lot in life. The same should therefore apply to the individual who seeks success in any field.

This is also part of the reason formal education was started – to impart knowledge on different subjects to the growing child who later in life would take fancy to what he or she is interested in doing.

Networking provides many advantages to people. One advantage is the enormity of resources available to the seeker of information. From constant interaction with members of his or her group, he or she is able to acquire a wealth of knowledge on issues that would have taken months or even years to learn.

A second advantage for such an individual will be to realize that everyone including even the most successful person in the group has stories of difficulties to tell on the road to achievement.

Some people think some are born to achieve and that is why success comes easily to them and is elusive to others. Not at all! Success is a series of planned activities that has resulted in what everyone now observes as an achiever.

As I have come to realize from my experience, there is no shortcut to success. It must be deliberately and constantly sought after by anyone who hopes to find it.

A third benefit for the person who networks with others is to see that different people have diverse opinions on the same issues and you get to appreciate that diversity especially if you hope to start a business to win customers.

People do not think the same way and when you realize that, you are better able to tailor your products and services to suit different customer categories.

It can therefore be seen that networking provides a powerful platform upon which one can build to great achievement. Regardless of what your goal in life is, take time to build networks and relationships that would pay off multiple folds as you progress.

At a time in one’s life also, you would be required to share your experiences to help build other newbies who are in need of valuable information to start their businesses or whatever endeavor.

A former American President Theodore Roosevelt is quoted as saying that “the single most important ingredient for success is knowing how to get along with others”. Ex-President Woodrow Wilson is also quoted as saying, “ I not only use all the brains that I have but all that I can borrow”.

Of course you cannot be friends with everyone just because you are seeking achievement. You can show respect to everyone who comes your way but what you should do deliberately is to seek out those whose interests match yours and that would be a good point from which to start.

A good place to start would be online where you have different forums on different issues where you can gain a wealth of information. All you have to do is go a search engine and type your area of interest in the search box with maybe something like “forum on XXXXXX” where XXXXX is your particular area of interest. A list of websites would open where you can study and choose one, join and then interact with others.

Do you seek achievement in any endeavor? Start now to look for those whose interests match yours, learn from them and climb the ladder of success with less stress.

There you have another wealth secret!

© copyright Gabriel Ama.

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Make A Habit of Learning New Things

I know a woman who has been in search of a child for 7 years now after marriage and she still has the hope and believe that God will one day answer her prayers. What I admire in this lady is that her search for a child has led her to make several discoveries of the health benefits of natural foods and how they boost progesterone, a hormone that boosts a woman’s ability to conceive a child.

For instance, she has studied the beneficial effects of honey, garlic, garden egg, walnut, ginger, etc. She now applies the knowledge and she enthusiastically shares that knowledge with her friends. In one of my discussions with her, I mentioned to her that she could put to use such knowledge to earn income for herself as a consultant or an author.

One of the discoveries anyone would make if he or she studies wealthy and poor struggling individuals is that the wealthy ones have knowledge of a number of issues while the financially struggling individuals have limited knowledge.

Notice I have used the word wealthy and not rich because there is a difference but that is not the subject of this piece. The basic difference between the wealthy and the financially struggling individual is the information at their disposal.

The man who is wealthy has come into information on what to do and has been able to put it to good use. In fact, I read a book written by Robert G. Allen, “Multiple Streams of Income” where the author wrote about many lucrative business opportunities in the United States of America.

What was very interesting to read was what he said that some of these opportunities he himself was engaged in legally and earning income from them; but whenever he told some people about such opportunities, they would resist and say it was not possible and that it was illegal. And the man continues to make money while the doubters continue to say it is not possible.

The import of my stories above is to encourage the individual who seeks genuine and legitimate wealth to become a student of knowledge acquisition and by this, I mean begin today to study the subject matter in which you are interested in and before long, you would have acquired enough knowledge to make a living out of it.

From experience, I have seen that one does not have to be in a hurry in this life because opportunities abound for the individual who searches for it. There is no short cut to legitimate and genuine wealth. I say it again emphatically that there is no short cut to legitimate and genuine wealth.

But there is unimaginable opportunity for wealth creation if only you can apply yourself to learn new things in the area of your interest. People all over the world are in search of one solution or the other for their many problems. All you have to do is engage in research of such areas that you will be enthusiastic to speak about and use that wealth of information to provide the solution people crave for at a fee.

It is important at this point to state that your learning should be in a subject that you are passionate about. It could be in health, finance, spirituality, internet and online businesses, real estate, arts and entertainment, self improvement, motivation, computers and information technology, insurance, investments, relationships, fishing, gaming, sports, etc. It has to be something you always love to talk about or else you would burn out and lose interest with time.

As you would notice from studying my blog, I am a person who loves to help people by giving useful information and I am never tired of doing it. I love giving advice on important subjects that can positively transform a person’s spiritual and financial wellbeing. Too many people are suffering especially in my part of the world in Africa and this is basically attributable to ignorance.

Those who are able to break away from financial challenges are those who have found useful information at their finger tips and apply the knowledge to earn income. Unfortunately, majority are engaged in a pity party blaming everyone but themselves. If only they understood that the solution lies with them, if only they knew.

I urge you as you read this piece to begin today to study new things in areas you have passion and within a few short years, usually about 5 years, you would have become a subject matter expert in that area and you can build a profitable business from it.

There you have another wealth secret!!

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Earning Income from the Internet

I had intended writing about something else; but then I felt a strong urge to give more information on earning income online as a way of encouraging more people to look in this direction as a way of getting out of financial challenges.

The income earning potential on the internet is enormous – the market is huge as there is no one place on this earth where the whole world can gather to do business. This can only happen on the internet and so it gives even the beginner the opportunity to tap into this gigantic market place.

There are ways you can earn money on the internet. You can have your own personal website having information on your products where clients can click to make a purchase and get the product delivered to them at an address they have filled on a form if it is a physical product; or get the product delivered instantly if it is a digital product.

A second way of earning income online involves marketing products for other companies using advertorial materials (sales pages, banner ads, text links, etc) these companies have provided for your use. These are called affiliate programs where the companies pay you an agreed sale percentage or fixed amount for your efforts in getting clients to buy their products.

There are also instances where the companies pay for your efforts in getting leads and by this I mean getting potential clients to take a specific action that would most likely end in a sale or not. Such are called Cost Per Action or CPA programs and the potential clients usually fill a form or click a link or take some other action as agreed that qualifies for payment.

However, from my experience online, I have come to realise that the challenge for most people whether you have your personal website or work as an affiliate is getting clients to see your adverts and even when they see it, getting them to take action or what is called conversion to end in a sale.

This twin challenge has left many online business upstarts frustrated and confused. Another major challenge they also face is the high cost of advertising that the big companies are able to use to get clients to make purchases. Not everyone has this financial muscle and so the big companies enjoy much of it.

Another major challenge online upstarts face is knowing how to build websites or which affiliate programs to join. To have a website, you need to register a domain name and get a company to host your page on the internet. 

A domain name is something like www.google.com or www.yahoo.com where the name between www and .com is the domain you have chosen and can be anything you choose if it still available for you to use, meaning no one else has used it. Domain names are usually paid for once a year.

You then need to pay for hosting your web page on the internet and this is usually a monthly or annual fee you pay to a web hosting company to get this service or else there will be no space to host on the internet for clients to see even when you have a domain.

Then you would have to pay someone to build the site to suit your purpose for it. This will cost money and the rate charged would depend on what and what you want placed on the website from text to graphics, tables, etc. Once you have all these in place, you would as I mentioned earlier need to look for ways to get people to visit your web page and do business with you.

Affiliate programs on the other hand already have the web page or sales pages already designed for you with your affiliate information tied to your particular sales page and your concern is in getting people to see those pages with the hope that it would result in a sale.

Unfortunately, most affiliate programs makes promises they are unable to deliver on because of the enormous amount of money one has to spend in promoting them. Even where one lacks the income, there are programs that you can use FREE of charge to also promote the affiliate programs but it requires a lot of time and effort on one’s part to do this.

Unfortunately again, some affiliate programs require you to pay money to join and even when you spend money promoting them, you never get any payments because they are SCAMS set up to take your money. So there is also the problem of finding legitimate affiliate programs to join and promote for one to earn a living online.

It is important to note at this point that if one is able get steady traffic of visitors to see your personal web page or genuine affiliate sales page, the chances of making steady sale is guaranteed. Fortunately, I have found a program in which the owner has struggled for 3 years online before he was able to crack the code and started making money online.

He has further developed a program where he builds you within 24 hours a completely FREE website on the condition that you join 5 money making programs where you can earn decent income and break out of the rat race. 

Even the company that handles the hosting for the FREE website has a program that will pay you every month for new referrals. Again, the challenge like I mentioned earlier has to do with getting people to see your website, right? Very correct.

Fortunately, this program also shows you cost effective ways of doing this where you do not need to spend thousands of dollars before you break even. One of their advertising means is one where you pay just once and you get advertising for life! 

If you are an experience internet marketer reading this piece, you would agree with me that very few programs if any are able to deliver such powerful package to anyone who wants to earn a decent and legitimate online living starting on a low budget.

Without wasting your time, I bring you the program here http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-5262 and advise that you take this very seriously if your goal is to earn online income to replace your daytime job.

Please take this advice, as the purpose of this blog is to reveal true wealth secrets to you and so I would never give you misleading information as it impacts on my integrity, which I would not compromise for any wealth.

There you have another wealth secret!

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Develop Multiple Income Streams (2)

Believe me when I tell you that you will find the additional savings if you look critically at your expense lines. I have done it before and so I speak from experience. There are things you don’t need but you engage in those expenses maybe because others are doing it or maybe because you believe you will die if you don’t buy that item.

Far from it as there is nothing indispensable as far as expenditure is concerned. If you don’t believe me, then go and ask someone who has not eaten for 2 straight days if he feels like going shopping to buy clothing and then you realise from his response his priority at that moment is to kill the hunger he feels.

Or go ask a homeless individual in the chill of the night if he wants to buy a television and then his response would be that he wants a home and warm bed to lay his head.


People have different expense priorities at different times and so anything additional that is not a priority could be done away with and the extra money saved towards investment in an additional income stream.

It is that additional income stream one could now use to engage in the expenses that are not priorities. But I tell you some other folks would rather look for a 3rd additional income stream. It all has to do with one’s level of discipline and focus in life.


So please do not make excuses anymore about not having enough money whether you are a new business owner or an employee. With time, you would see how much you can save for investment if you follow the advice I have given here.

Now having gotten the additional money for investment, what area could one invest it? One good area to invest additional income is Real Estate since the world’s population is always growing faster than available housing, which means there will always be a need for accommodation for families, business people and even organisers of different sporting and social events.

Another area of investment could be in the money and capital markets. Yes, I know someone else would shout “no way” because people lost money in the recent stock markets crash. Now take note that there is never any such thing as a safe investment.


Someone I would refer to as a sage made a remarkable statement, “The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour on the business known as gambling”. What this person was saying in essence is that gambling is a business just as business is like gambling.

In business you cannot have it all because you will lose sometimes and gain sometimes just as we were taught about profit and loss in elementary math. So, as you cannot rule out other areas of investments as being risky, so the money and capital markets are equally risky. What one therefore needs to do is to become an informed investor.

This, I can tell you, has been the number one secret American billionaire Warren Buffet has used to help him take financial investment decisions in the stock market. He is always reading companies’ financial reports on a daily basis and so he has a long term perspective of their businesses and is therefore able to make informed business investment decisions regarding them.

Anyone who wants to go into the investment world cannot therefore afford not to do otherwise but that would amount to gambling at the highest level. The forex market is another very risky but extremely profitable area of investment one can put additional income.


Once again, I advise that you take time to get important information about the market before committing any funds there. Don’t be carried away by the potential returns available without doing the necessary homework of finding out what it entails and how the winners there take their investment decisions.

Finally, the third one I want to introduce is online business and by this I mean earning legitimate income on the internet to pay one’s bills and add extra for taking of other luxuries. Unfortunately, there are many scams out there and it would take one with experience to be able to sieve the genuine sites from the fake ones.

There are a number of people who have been able to find and earn wealth online and are having a great time doing that. At this point and with my experience online, it would be unfair of me not to direct you to a legitimate and profitable program I have discovered.

I need not say much since the site says it all. I would just advise that you take advantage of this opportunity. For those who have been online and know what obtains there, you would after seeing this agree that this is a bomb of an opportunity for anyone to miss especially for one operating on a low financial budget. Here it is: http://www.pluginprofitsite.com/main-5262.

So begin now to develop additional income streams as the initial ones give extra savings and watch your fortunes skyrocket over time.

There you have another wealth secret!

© copyright Gabriel Ama.

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Develop Multiple Income Streams

It is a fact that most wealthy individuals have been known to grow their wealth from more than one source. No matter what it is you are pursuing in life, at some point or the other, you will have to look at other areas of endeavour to increase your income.

Now this somehow sounds contradictory to last week’s posting, “Be definite, Be purposeful” where I mentioned the need for one to focus on one endeavour and not jump from one activity to the other because it would led to nowhere.

If you look again at the first paragraph of today’s post, you would see I said at some point or the other one would have to look at other areas of endeavour to increase one’s income. 

Simply put, what this means is that there will come a time, having done all I have advised on this blog as true wealth secrets, when the income from that one endeavour would grow more than one’s expenses and there would now be need to invest the additional income into other areas.

A reader here may be tempted to ask, why expand into other investments when the first source is still producing income that has outgrown one’s expenses? 

This is a beautiful question to ask; however, it is important to note here that the beauty of having multiple income streams is that when one source experiences a challenge then depending on the nature of the challenge, the other income streams will continue to take care of the individual’s needs while the person sorts out the challenge.

If on the other hand the challenge is such that no additional income can come from there anymore, then the individual’s other income streams would come in handy. A typical example of this is seen in Sports people. 

Whether they like it or not, a time comes when younger and more sought after individuals would take over the scene and the older ones would have to make way for them to avoid embarrassment and disgrace.

Another group of individuals that fit in here are employees of organisations. Unless you own the organization or it is a family business, there will come a time when the company would release you for varied reasons ranging from looking for more skilled folks, redundancy, economic downturn as is being witnessed globally since last year and so on and so forth.


Anyone who has been affected by a layoff without an additional income source usually has tales of hardship and woe to tell. However, the individual who had created other income streams while in paid employment would not be so affected.

Thus, I believe the point is now clear to see the benefits of having multiple income streams; so the time to start is now, not later. I can almost hear someone scream, “how can I start when I don’t have any money?” Good question again; however, please note that for most people, this is the very reason they give for never starting anything.

You just cannot spend up all your income on expenses because you think it is never enough. What you need to do is look at your expenses critically, get rid of those that are not necessary, and then begin to save the extra money realised until it grows into something substantial for investment.


………………………to be continued.

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Be Definite, Be Purposeful

Napoleon Hill stated in his book Think and Grow Rich, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe is achievable”. This is a very powerful statement, considering the fact that so many people believe their ability to achieve in life is linked to something external, something extraordinary that must first happen. Now the word “whatever” as used by Napoleon Hill here simply means “anything” without restrictions.

Napoleon Hill says as long as you can conceive whatever idea that comes to your mind and simply believe it, then you can achieve it. This statement is indeed also a pointer to the barrage of inventions that man has been able to churn out repeatedly time and again. Just when you think nothing else could be done, we hear of a new invention. The human mind as given to us by God is indeed a wonder!

If one understands the preceding paragraphs, then one would see that you don’t have to jump from one activity to another all in a bid to make it in life. You have to first conceive the idea in your mind, believe it and then work at achieving because you will achieve it no matter how long it takes and as long as you don’t give up.

Sacred Scripture states in James 1: 5-8, “but if any of you lacks wisdom, he should pray to God, who will give it to him; because God gives generously and graciously to all. But when you pray, you must believe and not doubt at all. Whoever doubts is like a wave in the sea driven and blown about by the wind. A person like that, unable to make up his mind and undecided in all he does, must not think that he will receive anything from the Lord”.

This passage of scripture reminds me of someone I know who will talk with so much enthusiasm about a new business, start it and a few weeks down the line begin talking about some other project when the present one isn’t bringing out the millions he is expecting.

This person has moved from one idea to the next, to the next, to the next and so on and so forth without really achieving anything. That is the very essence of this write up: you have got to be definite in your objective. You cannot afford to move from one idea to another just because the first isn’t going the way you expected.

If this is your current habit, then I urge you going forward to desist from this because you just may never achieve anything with this style. Being definite means you’ve understood that nothing good comes easy. You must be willing to keep moving until you begin to see results.

If you give up and move from one idea to the next, what real lessons would you learn? All you would be doing will be like trying to win a jackpot without learning how to run a business or have the endurance to achieve a purpose in life.

As Napoleon Hill also said, you must have a definiteness of purpose and as Sacred Scripture has said, you have to be decided in what you want out of life. That is the hallmark of achievement. Anything short of this will be a recipe for disaster.

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Generosity Works!

One great wealth secret some folks practice is the act of generosity – they give and give and give. Kindly take note however, that this giving may not always be monetary. You can give anything of value to anyone who needs it.

Giving could be of your time, money, talent, gifts, shoes, clothes, books, etc etc. What most folks have discovered in this simple act of generosity is that the giver always almost receives a multiple fold of what has been given.

Now the question is, should there be a particular time when giving is necessary and when it is not necessary? I ask because while for some giving is something that comes easy and natural to do, for others it could be a Herculean task.

There is really no time for giving; what is usually of importance is the giver’s disposition – are you giving because it is convenient to do so or out of an excess? Giving should be done from a heart that is genuinely out to help and not to be done grudgingly.

When you give from a genuine heart of help, it triggers Divine Providence to respond in similar fashion. On the other hand when one gives grudgingly, nothing of significance usually happens.

Evidence abound of individuals who have given genuinely and their businesses have grown in leaps and bounds – Oprah Winfrey of Harpo Productions Inc., Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Ted Turner of CNN, William H. Gates of Microsoft Inc. Others who have genuinely given of their time include late Mother Teresa, late Princess Diana, erstwhile American Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, actress Angelina Jolie.

It is important to equally point out here that some giving may not be right especially where the receiver has turned it into a drainpipe to milk the giver of their resources. In such cases when giving is monetary, the receiver wants to take advantage of the giver’s generosity and now becomes lazy, refuses to use the initial resources given and waits continuously for the giver to continue to give and give and give.

The giver should then become wise and stop giving in this situation because it is obvious the receiver is not really in need out of lack of options but just being damn lazy. Giving should therefore be to a genuinely needy person, who at that moment does not have the resource at hand; for instance an orphan in need of food or clothing, a poor student in need of books or finances, an individual trying to raise finances for a business proposal that he or she has taken time to put down on paper to show commitment, etc etc.

Take note that when I mentioned the individual requiring finances for a business proposal I stated that the person has taken time to put the proposal down on paper. What this simply means is that there must be something to show commitment on the part of this needy individual before the giver parts with his or her money so it does not turn into giving to a fraudster.

It could also be that the needy individual has evidence to show that some significant part of his or her financial resources has been committed to the project. This shows the person believes wholeheartedly in the project to be able to make such sacrifice while requiring additional funds.

The giver would usually not need to ask many digging questions before discovering the receiver’s genuine commitment to the project or not. If there is no evidence of genuine commitment, the giver should simply refuse to part with his or her hard-earned resources.

Finally, I want to reiterate a beautiful comment from John Maxwell about monetary giving, “don’t wait until your income changes; change your heart”. When you are fully engaged in the act of generous and genuine giving, you have fully understood that the rewards will come sometime some day soon.

© copyright Gabriel Ama.

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No Obstacle Should Stop You

At times when I hear or read about the amazing stories of achievement of a person, it leaves me to wonder if anyone really has an excuse for not achieving. Making excuses is one of the easiest things to do if one has not heard what another person has experienced on the road to success.

One story that baffles me and would equally baffle anyone is the story of Helen Keller. She was born normal but at just 19 months of age she had an illness that left her both deaf and blind; but this same lady through Divine providence eventually learnt how to read and went on to write several books.

Now take a closer look at this situation: a person both deaf and blind at 19 months long before she was able to learn the skill of reading and writing being able to write books. This means there was no sound around her and she could not see either. She could only speak.

Can you now stop and sit for a while and try to imagine in your mind’s eye what that means? If such a person had no excuse, then what excuse could anyone ever have as failure to achieve? Most people are unable to achieve because they feel one obstacle or another caused it.

The most common excuses you find people make is:

Ø       If only I had money

Ø       If only my parents were rich

Ø       If only I went to school

Ø       If only I had connection to know someone to help me

Ø       If only help came from the government

Ø       If only if only if only

A friend of mine told me recently that the government of the country where he presently resides provides its citizens with money for schooling, medical care and even unemployment benefits. However, he further said that even with these things, you still find some citizens refusing to go to school and expect their government to do much more and even everything for them.

Most governments in Africa hardly ever do anything for their citizens and yet the citizens wish help could just come from the government. I have given these two examples for all to see that no matter the kind of help that comes from government only few would be serious enough to make use of it to attain their goals, that is if they ever set any.

The story of Helen Keller should be more than an inspiration for anyone on the road to success. If you encounter an obstacle therefore, it should not mean that the end has come but rather it is an opportunity to raise your game and find a way around it.

Believe me when I say that no obstacle should stop you from achieving. The world is already filled with too many success stories to give anyone an excuse for failure to achieve. Go out there and ride your way to success.

© copyright Gabriel Ama.

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Is Achievement Determined By Destiny ?

Do you believe in destiny? Some people do and some others don’t. There is a group of people I know who believe so much in destiny that they go as far as visiting soothsayers to give them an insight into what their future looks like, if they are “destined” to make it in life.

Another group I also know have the belief that if you were born poor, that is your destiny and there is nothing you can do about it and if you were born into a wealthy family, then that is your destiny.

These beliefs are deeply rooted in their culture and religion. I am a Christian by the grace of Almighty God, so am I supposed to believe in destiny? Sacred scripture says in Deuteronomy 13: 1-3 “A prophet or an interpreter of dreams may promise a miracle or a wonder, in order to lead you to worship and serve gods that you have not worshipped before. Even if what he promises comes true, do not pay any attention to him. The Lord your God is using him to test you, to see if you love the Lord with all your heart”.

This admonition was addressed to the Israelites of old and in today’s time equally applies to Christians not to go to soothsayers to check for their “destiny” for such practice would lead one away from worshiping the one true God and into idol worship. For me personally, I hold this statement very dear to my heart.

Now in Mark 11: 22-24, our Lord Jesus clearly states, “Have faith in God, 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. For this reason I tell you: When you pray and ask for something, believe that you have received it and you will be given whatever you ask for.

So the Christian’s destiny, as it were, lies in his or her ability to have more faith than doubt in any endeavour embarked on. For this reason I don’t believe in destiny in the way the two groups I earlier talked about do. Rather, I know clearly that the words I speak and the thoughts of my heart are areas I should direct my focus.

Interestingly the nature of man is such that anyone can do this whether Christian or not because God has given us inherent qualities that produce the physical results of words we speak and thoughts we carry.

So I tell you, the destiny you have lies in you. God in His infinite mercy and love for man has made it so. Do what our Lord Jesus has advised in His word and achieve whatever you desire in life. There you have another wealth secret!

© copyright Gabriel Ama.

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Averse To Criticism?

Not all criticism is good. Secondly, you cannot be all things to all people; as a human that would make you a divine being. However, the individual who has fame, wealth, recognition or whatever achievement in mind must learn to sieve through the shaft of daily criticism and take the good ones on the journey to success.

The simple reason for this is because you cannot know everything about every situation. I have come to admire my spouse in this area because though she studied a social science subject at higher institution, she sometimes amazes me with her technical reasoning ability.

At times I find myself struggling to resolve an issue at home and she comes and says why not do it like this and this? I then look at myself and wonder why I didn’t think of it along the same line; when we try her advice, I get the result I had in mind and I tell you this has occurred a couple of times during our stay together.

I tell you pride is one major obstacle that could hinder one from listening to criticism especially when going in the wrong direction but when you find yourself doing the same thing and expecting a different result, then what happens? Do you remain there still doing the same thing? That, as someone once said is madness.

At this point I like to make a distinction - please don’t confuse open mindedness with foolishness. Some folks may take the comments in the preceding paragraphs out of context and think they should go about looking for people to criticise what they are doing. If you try this, you may land yourself in the hands of a never-see-good-in-anything-or-person kind of a person who would so criticise you that you could give up altogether on your dreams if you are not strong willed.

 On the other hand, a little stubbornness is good if you truly believe in a cause but like I said earlier, don’t be so stubborn that it turns to foolishness even when it is obvious that your path is leading to no where. You have got to know when to retrace your steps, change your strategy and continue until you get there. It just means you should be open minded to change to get past your obstacle on the road to achievement.

So in essence, what you must develop a good eye for is constructive criticism. Don’t be quick to defend yourself without first listening to what the critic is saying. You must make an in-depth analysis within your mind about what the person is saying and how it fits into your long term goal.

This is where you can distinguish between positive constructive criticism and negative destructive criticism. The person who criticises positively will also allow you the opportunity to speak while discussing with you to advance reasons for your present action and then use that to build on other initiatives you can try. The person’s countenance is calm; from his or words you can see a genuine desire to help you improve to get to your destination.

The negative critic’s countenance on the other hand exudes the very opposite. Please don’t allow their words and thoughts affect you or your dream. You were born to be great if you understand the power that resides within you. God put it there so be grateful to Him always.

Listen only to positive constructive criticism and when you expand your wealth of knowledge and then act on it, success is not far off.

© copyright Gabriel Ama.

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Mental Preparation, A Must!!

How prepared are you for success? It’s easy to say a resounding yes but further probe would show that most people are just not ready for success, especially mentally.

I attended a Catholic Church wedding recently where 4 couples were getting married including a Catholic and a Protestant. The officiating minister at this wedding preached a most beautiful message every intending couple ought to hear to have a successful marriage.

He emphasised the fact that the Catholic and Protestant couple should realise their different religious views and the fact that this will become a source of misunderstanding they should be prepared to deal with. He also emphasised the fact that couples don’t take time to realise what they are getting into and prepare enough for it. This he said unfortunately results most times in the breakdown of the marriages.

Mental preparation for success in whatever endeavour (business, marriage, sports, entertainment, etc) is much more important than physical preparation because it is the one factor that gets you going when challenges show up. It is also the factor that drives you and keeps you remaining focused on your results and not just activities.

If you were given cash of a million United States dollars, what would be your reaction? How about 2 million, or 10 million dollars or 100 million dollars or even a billion dollars, would you faint? The answer to that question is very important and shows how mentally prepared you are for success.

Mental preparation simply means you must never be afraid of figures when it comes to money, no matter the amount. You have to state in your conscious mind exactly how much it is you want to get in life, no matter the amount. You have to be specific, not saying, about so so and so figure but the exact amount and the exact currency (dollars, pounds, euros, etc etc).

A story is told of Jim Carrey the American comic actor who years earlier had written himself a 10 million dollar cheque when he had nothing and years later, he was cashing a cheque of same amount because he mentally prepared that figure in his mind.

It is the same thing with prayer just like our Lord Jesus said in Matthew 6:7 - 8. He said you must not beat about the bush and say long prayers like pagans do but go straight to the point because God knows what you want even before you ask for it. So its very important to be specific on the profession you want or whatever it is you want out of life.

So how do you prepare mentally? A simple way of putting it could be found in what Late American billionaire J. Paul Getty said that you think of the worst that could happen and then do all it takes to ensure it never happens. Remember you have to think of it first mentally to know the steps to take to handle it when it does happen.

This process could again be compared to what married couples pass through as the years roll by. Some couples cannot stand themselves for even one month of marriage while some others manage a year, two years, three, four or five. After five years there is usually a bit of stability though at times it crashes within the next five years.

Do you know what is the one common factor with couples whose marriages succeed? There is mental preparation where they decide that they will remain with each other no matter what happens. This simple decision enables them to overcome the roughest challenges they are likely to encounter with time. The challenges must certainly come because no two people are perfect with different upbringing, background, experience, etc.

That decision comes to mind to keep them in check anytime they reach a critical threshold triggered even by the smallest of issues. So you cannot run away from this process if genuine wealth and success in whatever endeavour is your goal in life. You just have to be mentally prepared.

© copyright Gabriel Ama

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