If you remain a poor student of history, you will always remain ignorant and gullible.
Learn from history.
Because history is a pattern.
Patterns are repetitive.
There is no human behaviour or pattern that is new under the sun.
The wealthiest people in the world:
75% of them are entrepreneurs.
15% of them are investors.
7% are athletes.
3% are artists.
None of them are employees.
A salary cannot leverage you into self-sufficiency.
A salary takes you through a journey of 5 phases:
Phase 1: Earning
Phase 2: Spending
Phase 3: Borrowing
Phase 4: Planning
Phase 5: Budgeting
Once you cross Phase 5, which comes after years of being broke despite earning, you cross to 2 more phases
Phase 6: Saving
Once you cross Phase 6, which requires a lot of maturity, self-satisfaction, sacrifice and discipline,
You unlock Phase 7: INVESTING.
This is where you either become a business owner or remain an employee forever.
Even if you remain alone, the VISION is yours.
Even if nobody believes in you, the vision is yours.
Believe in it.
Believe in yourself.
One day,
those who doubted you,
those who ignored you,
those who abandoned you,
Will beg to be part of your success.
It is easy to blame your:
• Childhood
• Parents
• Tribe
• Government
It is much harder to accept responsibility for your own decisions.
The day a man stops looking for someone else to blame is the day he begins taking control of his life.
#ManDay
Not every relationship is designed to last forever.
Some are designed to teach.
When the lesson is complete, let the relationship complete too.
Gracefully.
Every morning,
You meet men crawling from prison.
Their shirts look like they were pulled from a bottle.
Their pair of trousers are worn out,
Their faces are long and sad,
Their masculine energy is fading. They walk tired, gazing into an emptiness.
These are men stuck in houses where their wives terrorize them.
They sit in these houses because they are afraid to leave.
They built nothing that belongs to them. They own nothing. Just children who have been strategically weaponized against him.
When they retire from civil service or as teachers or as employees in Indian-owned companies, they resign themselves to fate, enduring insults and mistreatment from their domineering wives.
Their only hope is to sit at the bus terminus, betting and gambling, hoping to undo their years of financial losses.
But it gets worse, they suffer hypertension, diabetes and prostate enlargement.
They become a burden to their families, and they are abandoned in the corner of the house to nurse a chronic ailment.
Their years of sacrifice get swept away by comments from their children,
"Our father spent years drinking and entertaining hoodrats. It is our mother who took us to school."
Or their wives,
"When other men were building wealth, what were you doing? I can't continue living with you."
Yet, his productive years were spent on providing for the family without fail.
Pain and agony, as he counts his last breaths.
Then, one day, the sun will rise without him.
The main door of the house will open without his cough.
His chair at the corner will wait for his warmth, but it won't come.
His legacy gets buried deep with his regrets.
Forgotten.
In the ruins of his sunk-cost fallacy.
If you are a man reading this, start building your fallback architecture now.
Remember,
You can lie down for people to walk on you, and they will still complain that you aren't flat enough.
Your independence, in old age, is your wealth.
WAKE UP!