@Joan_Afc@Row_Haastrup I strongly agree!
Whenever you're serious he's serious too.
When I understood was when I meditated on that scripture where he said he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
When someone says seek me, it also means he's ready to be found.
Now this is God.
@IfyAniebo It's really not that serious, honestly. Because I have also noticed a seperation of the nail plate from the nail bed on the left marriage finger just after the last gel manicure. Looks as though the affected part isn't properly developed.
How was it treated, ma'am?
It may be an advice that has come late for most of us because most a lot of our parents gave us everything including what they didn’t have.
So they didn’t have savings, investments and knowledge of multiplying the little they had.
It only makes sense that we take care of them unconditionally.
However, going forward, we must do it differently. While we give our all to our kids, we must create our own economy, make savings and investing a huge part of our financial lives and prepare for the future.
When our kids grow up, we should aim to leave inheritances for them and their kids and they shouldn’t have to be burdened from their very first job about sharing their earnings with us.
That way, we break the loop, both we and our kids can begin to build generational wealth.
I earned $120K a year working for Shell in 2012.
Ten years and multiple promotions later, in 2022, that figure has doubled to $240K a year.
In 2023, I stumbled on an internal, confidential, document that showed the salaries of my superiors.
I saw that even if I were promoted multiple times again, the best I could hope for in another 10 years was another doubling to around $480K a year.
This may sound crazy saying it out loud but that wasn’t cutting it for me.
I simply didn’t want the next 10 years to be a repeat of the last 10.
I wanted geometric progression, not an arithmetic one.
On my 40th birthday, in 2023, I was asked to make a wish as a blew the candles on my birthday cake.
“Get the hell out of Shell,” I quietly whispered. Months later, I was out.
In 2024, my businesses grossed $500K; in 2025, they did $1M - geometric progression.
It required me to be delusional about my abilities, to bank on the faithfulness of God and to trust that inner voice that always nag at me that I could be more, I could do more and I could have more.