Do not live up to other people's expectations because they themselves will not live to satisfy your own expectations. Listen, if you are not living your life for yourself, who is going to live their lives for you? Let people be disappointed in you. They did not appoint you, so they have no right to be disappointed in you. As long as the Person is not God, you have full permission to disappoint others and appoint yourself.
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Don't live in a way that people will dislike you. However, be prepared for people to dislike you when you are living in a manner that pleases you and fulfils your purpose. And refuse to care whether people like you or not. To be a people pleaser is to be a failure by definition. Because once you start doing things necessary for your success, you must automatically attract haters. It is a necessary price to pay for anyone wanting personal fulfilment in life. What you do in life is your business. What other people think of you because of what you do is their business.
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If, indeed, you go to work to feed your family, then it is better for your work to suffer because of your family than for your family to suffer because of your work. Never forget that you are easily replaceable at work, but hardly can be replaced at home. In fact, if an AI can do your work, your boss will fire you and hire it. Your boss loves your work. Your family loves you. So choose wisely who you prioritise.
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Where is the wisdom in spending so much to throw a party for a person in a coffin, when you did not show them the power of your money when they were coughing with the ill health that killed them? As Africans, perhaps we can do better than investing in the industry of death and burials and instead target our money at extending the lives and improving the conditions of the living and on the type of industry that expands our economy.
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It is better to go to bed hungry than to wake up a debtor. Stop borrowing. Especially to consume. Live within your means and keep trying to expand your income rather than take loans. Do not even go into debt to start a business. Most businesses will fail. That is a bitter truth. Only borrow to expand an already successful business. Remember, nothing pressures and depresses you like owing money and still being poor, with no business. Therefore, make it your business not to be in the business of borrowing.
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Visiting the places you want to see on Earth is much better than people visiting your grave after you die. And we will all die. Don't let any religionist fool you. The only way you and I are leaving this planet is by dying. You even start to die the day you are born. This continues until you have less time on Earth than the time you have already lived. That is why you should enjoy your life. Money facilitates it. But even without money, you can still find time to make merry. Stop worrying about what people think. Do things that make you happy. Sing out loud. Laugh out loud. Wear your hair any crazy way you want. Chase your dreams. And if your dream is a person, chase that boy or girl. Your happiness is your responsibility, not your destiny!
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‘What Will People Say?’ is the biggest prison on Earth because it traps you into doing things to please others and displease yourself. Develop the courage to be disliked. Don't say yes when you feel like saying no. Don't borrow to throw your parents a burial that you can't afford, or to lavish on a wedding that will leave you in debt for almost the entirety of your marriage. Choose happiness and do what makes you feel at peace. Let people talk. At most, you will be the subject of gossip for a week or so, then they will move on!
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If you are looking for someone to fall in love with, I recommend yourself. Other than perhaps your mother, nobody will love you more than you love yourself. So self-love is key. Now, people may label you a narcissist when you effectively love yourself, and that is okay. Not everyone likes themselves, so of course you will trigger some people when you have high self-love. Your relationship with yourself matters more than your relationship with others. So, prioritise yourself. You are not being self-absorbed; you are being self-aware. Sadly, too many people do not attain self-awareness, which is the basis for self-love. And when you find it hard to say no to others without feeling guilty, your self-awareness and self-love are deficient.
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Think about anyone you owe money to. Do you have positive thoughts concerning them? No. The thought of them generates anxiety in you. If your phone rings and it is them, your heart may skip a beat. You avoid their calls and evade them in real life. You pretend not to see their messages. Nobody likes their lender. And that is why you should not lend money to people you love. By making them indebted to you, you will slowly but surely make them hate you. Tell them no. Their initial disappointment is better than the maleficial resentment that can last a lifetime.
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Always be aware of which of your family, friends, and associates really want your progress in life by being conscious of micro expressions when you reveal good news about yourself. When you surprise human beings with either good or bad news, for the first few milliseconds, their facial expressions and body language reveal their true feelings. Don't be so excited about your own good news that you fail to catch the person who was sad when you revealed it, and then quickly hid their true feelings with a smile.
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The reason people are afraid of ghosts is that they don't see them, which makes them mysterious. The reason they take you for granted is that they see you all the time, which makes you appear unserious. So, if you want to be respected, be like a ghost. When you stop being available, you start being preferable! Scarcity, rarity and reduced visibility result in increased respectability.
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Nobody can teach you how to make money. Nobody! If people know how to make money, the last thing they would do is to teach others. It would be their secret. The more exposed their ability to make money is, the less likely they are to make money. The only exception to this is from a parent to their child, because only your parents want you to succeed more than they have. Apart from this, be very suspicious of anyone who promises to teach you how to make money, especially if they charge to reveal their 'secret' to you. The money you are paying is their secret way of making money!
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Kindness is just like food or wine. You need just enough of it to be spiritually healthy. Too much food and you will be fat. Too much wine and you get drunk. And over-kindness will make you broke. Beggars and takers do not understand limits. Therefore, you must place limits on them. If you allow them to suck you dry, they will move on to their next victim. A tree can survive if it loses some of its leaves. But if all the leaves are lost, it may shrivel and die, and those it gives shade to will go elsewhere and forget it!
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Your boss will not miss you if you don't come to work. What he will miss is your work, not you as a person. Don't ever think that your boss is your friend and your colleagues are your besties. Everyone in that office is there to make money. And if your boss ever finds an AI that can do your job, you are gone. That is why you should have a side hustle to grow your financial muscle before you and your boss get into a tussle that turns you into a financial fossil!
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If you have family that never ask after you until they want to ask you for money, just know that those are not really family. The more accurate word for them is famoney. In other words, family for money. You can never count on such people, whether you are alive or dead. All they want to do is count your money. Even after you die, they won't contribute to your funeral expenses. Their main purpose at your burial will be to shed crocodile tears and eat food, then pack what they can from your survivors. So, while you are alive, it is in your own interest to know who is your family and which are your famoney and prepare yourself and your children accordingly!
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The reason many people turn to religion is not because of salvation, but because of either condition or desperation. And that is why when a lot of people change location and improve their condition, their religion becomes a contradiction. Money solves more problems than religion. That is why it is good to pursue success and attain it. It will give you the clarity of mind to make religious choices based on your observation and contemplation, rather than on your condition or desperation.
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Before you give your girlfriend or pastor that money, ask yourself if you have given even half of that to your parents, especially your mother. You came out of your mother, and even if she does not ask, she deserves the first fruit of anything that comes out of you. Giving your girlfriend money attracts absolutely no blessing from God. Giving your pastor money is useless in God's sight if you have not first honoured your parents. Your pastor, wife, girlfriend, friends, and acquaintances are fruits of your life. But your parents are the roots of your life. Any gardener who focuses on the fruits of a tree and ignores the roots of that tree will soon lose everything because, without roots, the tree will die!
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With money, how disciplined you are is more important than how intelligent you are. Even if you are not educated, you can be well remunerated if you study money religiously and are clinical and critical in your budgeting, which means you are prudent in your spending. Making money is not easy. But it is also simple. No matter how little you earn, do not spend all that you make. Pay your necessary bills, invest the rest, and let compounding interest do what it knows best. Investing money in the stock market will make you richer than sowing money faithfully or paying tithes in ANY church or to ANY pastor!
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