The bible verse I love so much:
Habakkuk 2:3
“ There will be a time when your tears will fail, not because of ur troubles but because God has answered your prayers” 🥹
There’s a way you’ll believe in yourself, you just can’t fail. You might not get it right at first, you might have a slow process, but you’ll win at last.
Never underestimate the power of simply getting started. You don’t need to have everything figured out… you just need to take the first step. Momentum comes from action.
I see many people attacking me when I said that brother should learn media buying. Media buying is one of the highest leverage activities that directly impact an organization’s revenue and profitability.
And media buying includes running paid ads across different channels, including Meta (Facebook/Instagram), Google, and TikTok.
Some of the best media buying experts I know charge on commission. “I run this ad for you and my charge is 10% of your total revenue.” It is faster and more scalable for them to build serious income through that.
Like he said in the video, sales and marketing (plus negotiation) are high-leverage skills for anyone just entering the labour market.
As the Agentic world eats coding and design and most people build their dream products, the real moat will be distribution. And real distribution is built on attention and relationships driven by content and paid media.
If you want to make good money with your skills, you must combine whatever you are learning with sales and marketing.
All the top banking, oil and gas, financial, and tech professionals, as well as their CEOs, are products of the 9-to-5 system. Many of them have become billionaires through legitimate earnings, in addition to other bonuses and benefits. I saw what some bank MDs and the MTN CEO earn, and I couldn’t believe it.
You can’t tell me wealth in this world is always built legitimately. The bigger the money gets, the more you start questioning what happened behind the scenes. Not every billionaire story is as clean as the headline makes it look.
I don’t think we fully grasp what happens when an entire generation realizes doing “everything right” doesn’t guarantee stability anymore.
That changes people.
Davido told Israel to go into his car twice but he didn’t listen. One lesson I’ve learnt about business of late is that there are two people you don’t employ;
1. Anybody you can’t arrest if things go wrong.
2. Anybody you can’t talk to and they’ll listen.
He even suggested his own car as an alternative for him instead of telling him to go sort himself out. It’s okay to be free and friendly with your staff, but boundaries and respect should never be misplaced.
The moment they start taking advantage of that access, you need to call them back to order. And if they find that uncomfortable or disrespectful, remind them that you’re their boss, you employed them.
Being a good boss doesn’t mean being a pushover. Business is business.
Sometimes being busy in five directions isn’t ambition, It’s noise. Pick one thing, Go deep and Finish it.
Then watch the chaos disappear faster than you’d expect. Discipline doesn’t entirely remove problems, it stops you from creating them.