Poverty is said to be a state of the heart which is true. In
Africa generally, some people believe they were born poor and were destined to be
poor for the rest of their lives. Others believe the the forces against them
are too sophisticated for them to have a chance of breaking through the huddles
of life. Bible says in Proverbs twenty three verse seven that “… as he thinks
in his heart, so is he…”. Now it is clearer to us that whatever happens to us
is a product of the thoughts will allow
dominating our sub-consciousness.
There are seven signs that shows you may become poor for the
rest of your life. They include:
1.
LOOKING BACKWARD: Watch any man that always
regret his past opportunities and decries the present and the future that man
is already defeated and his past is hurting him and he can’t let go of it
because he uses it to console himself that at least, I was once a champion. Looking
back with regret is looking forward for failure. Life is in stages. There has
never been a successful person without a time of falling and rising. So must
let go of your past (good or bad). If you were jittered in a relationship, don’t
assume all people are like that. Bury
your past in the graveyard were you may find it difficult to go dig it out
again.
2.
WASTING TIME: Any man that doesn’t value time never
value life. I have found out that people
who stay for three hours without doing anything that will improve their life
are people without purpose and direction. They can spend three hours talking
about others and surfing internet sites that consume their energy without
renewing them. A time waster is a life waster!
I hear people say this month is so long or today is so long. This is because;
they don’t have anything to do with their time. When I discovered my purpose
for living, every 24 hours is to me like 24 minutes. When you haven’t found
what to do to fulfill purpose, you will waste your life watching others.
3.
NO PLAN: Any man without a plan will accept
whatever that is presented to him. There are many countries in Africa that don’t
have a plan to develop their Nations. Anytime a corporation from the western
world comes to milk their country, they feel is development and revenue
generation. Often times such companies make millions of dollars in a short space
of time and pay the government and their people peanuts and they are very
happy. Some people can’t tell what they will do this week; they are at the
mercies of their bosses in office, friends, clergy men, neighbors and family
relations. It is an error for someone to just call you and says let us to
travel to another town and you are happy and ever ready. It means you don’t
value your life and you are available for spending at any given time. I wonder
why a man who is not using his phone for business is buying airtime and talking
with someone on phone for five-ten minutes. People with such lifestyle end up
broke financially and emotionally. Busy but not impactful.
4.
NO BUDGET: Any man without a budget is a
dangerous man. I met someone who won one million Naira looking so poor that
even poor people can address him as a poor man. He got the money but he had no
plan and budget so he blew the entire one million Naira and went back to his
suffering. When you don’t have a budget, whatever you see, you will buy and eat
food and drink beer with your children’s school fees. When a man spend all his
income without thinking of saving 15% of
it, he is heading to land of frustrated poor people. You must map out what you
will spend on petrol, recharge cards, entertainment, leisure and sports. There are
women that are cloth loaded but future empty and there are men with nice cars
with rotten brains because they never invest in what will improve their income.
Give a man without a budget two million and I will show you a man tomorrow who
has potentials of committing suicide because of frustration.
5.
I MUST START BIG MENTALITY: Many people would
have been great men in the society but they refuse to start small. The Bible
says you shouldn’t despise the days of your little beginning. When a man wants
to start on a big stage, he may end up with a disappointment that may result to
premature death. Most of the outstanding companies today started very small but
are great today. If you are still waiting for a friend, father, Church to help
you with capital before starting a business, then you are preparing to be poor
for the rest of your life. There is a man that started selling suits to bankers
and people working in offices and his Church members by carrying them on credit,
he will sell and make little gain and make returns. After a while, he started
travelling to buy those suits by himself.
Later, he got a car instead of a shop; to move round to sell. Now he is
doing well. But some folks will ask you “where is the money for renting office
or shop?” stop saying when you have big money before you will start investing. Such
people never have a chance to start anything in life because they wait until they
get wasted.
6.
IT IS A SPIRITUAL BATTLE AND I CAN’T HELP IT:
There are people with a mindset that forces from the kingdom of darkness are
blocking their way to success. I’m not ruling out such things but you can still
come out of any spiritual bondage and live a better life. Some people love the
blame game. So they want to explain away their weakness to spiritual attacks
that overpowers them to think right. They are so naïve and coward to a point
that they believe they lost control of their life to a spiritual force that
dictate whatever happens to them. These
groups of people blame spiritual forces behind their poverty. Anyone with such
a mindset is doomed.
7.
NO CONTROL OF THEIR EMOTIONS: People without emotional control are controlled
by the five senses. They can easily get angry and damage their future in no
space of time; they can sleep with any man and woman without planning for it. These
folks are manipulated by their emotions to lost control of their life. They make
decisions base on emotions and end up heartbroken tomorrow. I have seen quite a
number of young men go into relationship just like man drinks water and come
out the same way heartbroken simply because they let emotions rule their common
sense. There are people in businesses appealing to their emotions and very
soon, the capital will be lost. Anybody without emotional control will end up
broke financially and get frustrated in life. Imagine a business man lavishing
the money that was meant to buy goods in a wedding when he saw others spraying
money. What will become of him? The business will surely crash. Don’t explain
it away with excuses and live a life that has no meaning.
This article is written by: Henry Lupper
CEO Henry Lupper Products (HLP)
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