How to be successful at anything:
> be interested in a trade
> do that trade, in your own way, but fail miserably
> copy someone else, but it's still shitty, but it works better
> get tiny results, get tiny validations, but enough to motivate you
> you keep going, you keep copying, you get better results
> you keep following the trend, learning the meta, iterating on your skills
> keep doing that 1000 times, and suddenly...
> it hits you
> skills become craft
> craft becomes vision
> you start to understand the meta
> you start seeing the world in new perspectives
> you feel like you're in the matrix
> things start to click
> you used to understand, but now you Understand
> you no longer need to copy
> you start getting creative with it
> you bend the rules
> you question the status quo
> congrats, now you're inventing
> because nothing that exists satisfy your taste
> now you cant stop until your vision becomes a reality
> you can stop reading now, nothing you read here is going to help you be successful
Tinubu and his family don't pretend. They tell you exactly what is coming and they stick to it.
Go back and watch his campaign videos. He said the reforms won't be easy.
He said people may protest.
He said he won't reverse it.
His wife said Nigerians should learn trades and everyone mocked her but she wasn't wrong, there are people in this country who genuinely need that push and need that grant she was talking about.
That is a man who respects your intelligence enough to tell you the truth even when the truth is hard to hear.
Now look at Peter Obi. The man is a master of playing on emotions. He will stand on that stage and tell you he has another way that subsidy will go, naira will float and you won't feel any pain.
Anyone with a smartphone and a functioning brain knows that is a lie. You cannot restructure a broken economy without the people feeling it. It has never happened anywhere in the world.
But Peter Obi knows Nigerians.
He knows we prefer a sweet lie over a bitter truth. So he keeps selling the sweet lie and the emotional ones keep buying it.
One man is building a country. The other is building a fanbase.
One dangerous financial habit nobody talks about enough is this,
Building your lifestyle around temporary income.
Trap wey pass that one , e scarce.
Do not conver temporary inflow into permanent responsibility.
Meanwhile the income that created the lifestyle was never stable to begin with.
When fixed expenses become bigger than predictable income , bata wahala
That is why disciplined people treat extra money carefully.
Sometimes the smartest thing to do with increased income is,
save more,invest more or reduce debt.
Not every income increase is a lifestyle signal , Some are just temporary seasons.
Walk with me ,
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If you treat them like sure banker and lifestyle inflation quietly creeps in .
Anything your eye see , take am
Like that .
State police.✔️
Regional development commissions.✔️
Local govt autonomy.✔️
States can now generate their own electricity.✔️
With all this signed, you think Nigeria will remain ONE forever?
If you like don't develop your region.
The signs are already there.
Humans are fickle. They move on quick, even the ones you called ride or die.
So take care of yourself first. Your health, your peace, your mind. That’s the one investment that never leaves. That’s all you really have.