Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~Dale Carnegie
I have some Good news for you all
today! There is no safe place in life, why? Because no one gets out of life
alive. Isn’t that awesome! at least it takes the whole lot of load off your shoulders. So the question is why do you keep trying to play it
safe in life? Is it for fear of loss or failure or fear of success? I know what
you thinking it’s easy and safer to get a job and have a guaranteed pay check at
the end of the month and probably the following year get a promotion with a
raised salary, you can plan and buy a car blah, blah, blah. Typical middle
class thinking. Yes this will make you comfortable for a while and help you experience
the so called good things of life. Let’s put the record straight. The middle
class means you are employed by a company in a relatively considered well-paying
job, correct? I think you said yes! The next question is for how long? I think
you said probably until you retire if your ego does not force you to go and
start looking for another job in the so called greener pastures for more pay.
This is the illusion we constantly live in or the so called ‘Rat Race’. Hear
this! If a company you are working for makes a lot of profit and goes really up
higher, the company will go up alone without you. If on the other hand the
company begins to make losses and goes down into liquidation, you go down with
it (I mean with you bleeding with it). Wow! Isn’t that wonderful and thoughtful.
Am I saying stop working for others? No! I am saying use your employment to
learn how to open your own doors. If the owner of the company was able to start
it, that is evidence enough that you can also do it. I know you might be
saying, if we all started companies who will work for who? I can tell you, the
world will never run out of workers…
Recently, in my country, the retirement
age was raised from 55 to 65 years. There has been a lot of debate for and
against the move. I can bet you on this no one (may be a few) will choose to
retire at 55 which has been pegged as an option for early retirement (I may be
wrong). If you want to know really why! Ask someone who is closer in age to 55
if they are really ready to be thrown into the world of ‘No Life Time Income’ considering
the phases the Zambian economy has gone through with regards to the development
of local entrepreneurship. its a developmental cycle
Remember that in Zambia may be
Africa, the Mindset of ‘Being employed’ is still the DEFAULT VALUE of our
thinking style (straight out of school). Immediately one gets out of college, the
default value kicks in – ‘look for Job’. Entrepreneurship is still considered
to be too risky. But this can be changed. The only ideal place where this default value of our thinking can
be changed or reprogrammed into people’s minds especially of the next generation Africa
should be the Schools right from Kindergarten to University. This requires a
model of Education that not only teaches students what to think but how to
think using the tools (subjects) they learn in schools and higher learning
institutions. Remember it is in schools where we are told to pay attention and stop any form of imagination and stick to the logic as it is being given. Anything outside that is considered being disobedient. Our next generation should
graduate out of colleges with a strong option to create jobs for themselves and
others….
To your success
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