KEEP WINNING!
I have often listened to a popular motivational speaker on the radio every Monday; for a time, he was my
favorite. He could quite easily become yours too, given the great doses of stinging action-provoking talks he injects into your youthful veins at the dawn of every business week to cure your slough. And he always ended with a phrase: "keep winning!‟ What a capping phrase!
That is most probably the
philosophy every youth here today operates with: to win, to be the first in Latin Negroland.
This is a powerful philosophy, and the selfsame reason we find it seems true that "no one becomes successful working for others‟. Apply it to the very letter, and no one will get to their destinations joining your wagon too! For the simple reason that those who become good at winning can only do so
in competitions, as titanic plutocrats exploiting every resource around, including their employees and customers, to hoard wealth.
This is hardly a bad thing in itself: if material wealth is the ultimate
definition of your success, compete! Why not? In fact, the dominating forces in the business world are those of competition, and the celebrated players are those who have found ways to send others packing! The prayers of such have been "to buy cheaply and sell at a high price‟, or "small work, large money‟.
But as Wallace Wattles pointed out in his _'The Science of Getting Rich’_, a book which I stumbled
upon in trying to get a get rid of the struggles which laid siege of my mind upon careful consideration
of the plight of bottom-end workers of the economy, “Riches secured on the competitive plane are never satisfactory and permanent, they are yours today, and another's tomorrow”.
Accursed with something worse than materialism, the competing man deploys all diligence to ensure he is in sole possession of what could make the lives of much easier; the simple formula is to pay less for the higher value and charge high for lower value to make it quickly on the competitive plane. This is business psychopathy, a path taken by the unenlightened, and the exact reason we wish to believe money does not mean happiness, knowing many of them are rich but wretched in private. They reap cash only to start seeking happiness to purchase in the black market. What is the use of hoarding it all and then giving part in charity to those made poor for you to be rich?
The golden truth is this: wealth comes with happiness on a different highway- on the creative plane!
Youthpreneuring on the creative plane entails recognizing the truth that you do not have to beat others at anything to be successful yourself: you do not need to underpay employees or partners, hike prices during the scarcity of hoard goods, nor secure monopoly of God-given resources to be wealthy. You do
not have to take ungodly advantages of information, nor be a slave to the laws of capitalistic economies. All that has to be done is to deliver value at the right cost and do business with the mentality that the most important raw material- creativity itself- is in unlimited supply. This connects your endeavor to
higher meaning, universal creative process, and the unlimited raw materials the universe has to offer. There is more for everyone!
It is however even more difficult to walk the creative plane than the competitive plane in a market where the sweetest jingles sound over the most worthless merchandise, and except you are totally stricken with the truth of the fact that happiness is what we are ultimately after, and that you are spiritually and philosophically wretched if your business contacts do not get the right value for their efforts, it will seem hell to take bold steps in this direction.
Whichever way you go, however, keep winning!
Jide Makinwa; JWRITES PENFIRM.
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