10 REASONS YOU DON'T NEED A JOB

Isn't it funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating from the university, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job?  But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

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In this post I intend sharing with you my personal reasons why I think every graduate especially in developing countries like mine (Ghana) should not go for a job. Because JOB simply means, Just Over Broke. I am not saying getting a job in Ghana is bad, but the overall objective of this post is to challenge our geniuses to look for more creative ways of becoming self employed or entrepreneurs.

This is the beginning of a series of post on job and job search among young Ghanaian graduates. There is a mad rush for jobs among fresh graduates these days and I intend sharing with you my personal reasons I think you do not need a job. If you share my views drop me your comment if you do not share them, drop me your comment any way!

If you are ready for me, then get set and let's go.

1. Job makes you a Slave to a Wage

Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea however, I have only one problem with it.  It’s the most unintelligent way you can possibly generate income! Why is getting a job so dumb?  Because you only get paid when you’re working. Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? 

Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too?  Why not get paid 24/7?  I know for the fresh graduate from the university it may seems like a reasonable idea but sound unrealistic, “Get paid whether you work or not?” Come to think of it, don't plants grow even after you have stop tending for it? So why can't we create a system that would feed our bank account even after we have stopped working? 

Who cares how many hours you work?  Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office.  Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60.  But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it.  We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. 

So how do we Provide Value for Money?

If I say income is for dummies and I am challenging you to provide value that pays you 24/7 how do we do that? Be SMART! Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income.  To my best of knowledge there are three kinds of income: EARNED, PASSIVE AND PORTFOLIO income .

So what is Passive income?This can include starting a business, building a web site , becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work.  The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not.  From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.

One such smart person in the world is Mark Zukerberg and his system is the Facebook.A young Harvard University graduate who would agree with me that income is for dummies. So how many Ghanaians use the facebook system? As of May 2011, approximately 800,000 Ghanaians have signed on to facebook and now Mark Zukerberg makes money whiles sleeping 24/7. If you still don’t agree with me that income is for dummies, read further.

How does facebook generate income?

When you sign on to the facebook social platform, facebook uses your information especially your interest to generate advertisement targeted specifically for your needs. As of August 2011, $1.2 billion was spent on advertising on facebook social platform alone.

If this isn’t a smart way of generating income 24/7, tell me what is?

Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems.  But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel —you can use the principle of OP to get you there.  Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself.  Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your family, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money?  If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead.  If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free.

  As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it.  How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway.  You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave.  This isn’t all or nothing.  If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.

What Next?

Join me in the next article as i share with you the next reason i think you don't need a job in Ghana.Please drop me your comment,and let me know your views on this post.Thanks


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"WHEN I GET MONEY I"LL DO X"

I just stumbled upon an interesting article fromAntonio cangiano and would love to share it with you.Please do drop me your comment after reading.
SO HERE GOES THE PIECE!
People who grew up in a poor family (as I did) were likely used to hearing the phrase, “When we have money we’ll do X”. X varies, but it’s always something that is perceived as being currently unattainable. Frequently that theoretical money never came, and as result, X almost never happened.

Poor people tend to live in the future, as a form of escapism. This outlook tends to stick with you and is often applied as a par for the course thought pattern — even when money is not involved. “When I lose weight, I’ll do X”, “when this tough work period is over we’ll do X”, “when business picks up, we’ll do X”.
Over the years I’ve often caught myself in the process of having such thoughts, and almost invariably, X was something that could have been done — at least to a certain extent — under the present circumstances that I was in.
While you need money for a high end digital camera, for example, you don’t really need overly expensive equipment to get started if you want to take up photography. If you wait for the perfect set of circumstances to arise, you run the risk of needlessly delaying (potentially forever) starting a new hobby, going on vacation, signing up for a writing class, or doing whatever else your heart desires.
These days I force myself to avoid this type of thinking, but it still floats ashore from time to time. The risk of such an outlook is having your life slip by as you hope for a better future that may never come. This isn’t an argument against planning or even dreaming, but rather an exhortation to start living now, as the present is all we have for certain.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

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Quotes from Napoleon Hills

Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success.

I  I bought one of  his best selling books of all time Think and Grow Rich ,a motivational personal development and self help book in 2007, and trust me if you have not read this book, you are missing out. Today, i just want to post on some of his great quotes are collected whilst deeply sunk in his books.Hope it becomes a turning point in your life. 

•      “Until thoughts are linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment"

• “Thoughts of doubts and fear never accomplish anything and never can. They always lead to failure”
• “The ladder to success is never crowed at the top"

• You cannot climb the ladder  of success dressed in the costume of failures “-Napoleon Hills

• “When riches begin to come they come so quickly in great abundance that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years” 
• “Opinions are the most cheapest commodities on Earth’-Napoleon Hills

•      "If you are influenced by the opinions of others  you will have no desire  of your own”

•   “Keep your eyes and ears wide open and your mouth closed if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision”

• “Money without brains is always dangerous”

•  “ideas are intangible forces ,but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power  to live on after the brains that creates them has returned to dust”

•  ‘Ideas are the beginning points  of all fortunes”

•  “That is one of the tricks of opportunity , it has a sly habit  of slipping by the back door and often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat”

 Whooo, hope u got something from these quotes which of them struck you most?. Share it with Us

Making Each Opportunity Count

So many people fail at getting to where they want in life because the do not take hold of the countless opportunites that come their way – on a regular basis. Everyday we encounter new opportunities and if only we knew how to identify them, we would not only save ourselves a lot of time and effort but we would also start to see our dreams becoming a reality.
So many times we do not recognise all the opportunities that are available to act on. Acting on all opportunites both big and small will help you get to your desired destination quicker.

One thing I noticed is that a lot of people pass up the smaller opportunities because they are looking for that one opportunity that is sure to ‘make it big’, but a lot of times it is the smaller opportunities that provide stepping stones to bigger opportunities.

So here are my 3 Keys to Making Every Opportunity Count

1. Awareness
   How can we expect to be taking hold of new opportunities everyday if we cannot find them? The first thing that we need to be doing to make every opportunity count is the be aware that opportunities are everywhere! Especially with how busy life always seems to be, we get so caught up in what we are doing that opportunities are walking straight by us - and we don’t even notice.Another reason that we never seem to notice opportunities is because most times they arrive in the way of a problem.Every problem is an opportunity in disguise!Take Benjamin Franklin for example, he had bad eyesight and was tired of changing glasses to view short distance and and long distances. So he created bi-focal lenses. So the first thing we need to be doing to make sure we are taking advantage of every opportunity in to realise that opportunities are everywhere and usually they come in the form of a problem.
2. Anticipation
   So now that we know opportunities are everywhere the next step is to anticipate them.The dictionary defines anticipation as:

   "To realise beforehand; foretaste or forsee."

The thing is, that now that we are aware of the countless opportunites available to us, we have to prepare ourselves so that when they come along that we are ready to take ahold of them. This is where your attitude plays a big role.
Even if you have taken the first step and made yourself aware that opportunities are everywhere, if you have a negative attitude you will always make excuses on why everyone else can take ahold of these opportunities and you can’t.
You will make excuses such as:

- I don’t have the money
- The timing isn’t right at the moment
- I could never do that
What you need to realise that the people who take their opportunities and run with it, could easily make the same excuses as you do – they just decide not too. There will always be excuses that you can make as why not to take an opportunity, what you need to do is put those excuses aside and focus on the reasons why you know you should take advantage of it!

3. Action
   I’m sure you were already guessing this would be the final point, but the thing is that a lot of people even when they are aware of opportunities and start to anticipate these opportunities, taking check of their attitude to make sure they are ready – but they never take the action required.The only difference between you and any successful businessman, blogger, internet  marketer or who ever you look up it is the fact that when they were presented with an opportunity they took action! If the opportunity requires you to be more qualified – get more qualified. Take the required action to take advantage of the opportunity, but whatever you do, don’t let these actions become excuses that stop you!

I hope these steps will help you to not only find more opportunities but also to take advantage of them and see each opportunity you come in contact with count!

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Unleashing Creativity In 5 Easy Steps

This is  post on creativity i chanced upon on a site standoutblogger  ,i am re -posting it because i felt it would do you good.
People always seem to think that only a select few people are able to constantly unleash a steady flow of creative thoughts and ideas – but that is not true at all. The reality is that creativity is just like a muscle that needs to be  consistently exercised in order to give out great results on a regular basis. If you do not practice harnessing creative thinking, this skill will fade away into inexistence. However, if keep working this skill you will find your self having creative thoughts all the time.
So how do you unleash your creative thinking? There are 5 steps to unleashing creativity – and they are:
1. Become A Human Leech
Well, the first thing is that you have to become a human leech. I’m not talking about sucking the life out of every living being available, but instead that you should be taking in as much knowledge and learning you can find. Read everything available — good and bad (this is why I read so many blog posts each day!), and always keep your mind open to to possiblities, because a closed mind stunts creativity. The more you know, the more you’ll want to know.

2. Exercise Creativity Daily

You need to focus on a creative activity everyday. I know it’s an effort. It doesn’t have to be anything massive, even doodling is a creative activity. But for people who are just starting out to unleash a little bit of creative thinking in their lives, it is helpful (and encouraging) to have concrete evidence, that, “hey, what I’m doing is getting somewhere.” So why don’t you try it. Practice drawing for a couple of minutes each day. Bring out your old camera and start snapping photos like crazy. Whatever it takes for you to be exercising your creativity!
Before you know it, you’ll have built yourself a tiny portfolio, and you’ll be amazed at the growth you’ve undertaken after amassing all those works of art. Who knows, you might actually take to liking those things you do everyday. Pretty soon those things will become a part of you and you’ll be addicted to these creative exercises.

3. Be An ‘INSIDE The Box’ Thinker

Think out of the box — or don’t. Sometimes, constraints are actually a good thing. Limitations discipline you to work within your means. It enables you to be more resourceful. Creative freedom is awesome, but limitations enforce discipline – and challenges you to work with the tools that you have.

4. Try Something New Everyday

Try something new everyday and let it broaden your perspective. Explore a new district in your neighborhood. Spend an afternoon in an art gallery or museum – go where you’ve never been before. Chat to someone on the bus. Open up to the people around you. As you take yourself out of your comfort zone more and more each day, your sense of adventure grows and so does your creativity. Think about it. When was the last time you did something for the first time? If it’s been a while, then I encourage you to step out and start living creatively!

5. Embrace Insanity

Embrace insanity. Not to the point where you are admitting yourself into the mental ward. John Russell once said, “Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.” Every creative thought was once deemed insanity by other people at one time or another. Luckily, that didn’t stop the creative geniuses from standing by them. The thing is, sanity or being normal confines people to think normally. With their limits. It’s important that your creativity doesn’t get you detached from the real world completely.
I hope this inspires you to start thinking