LIFE LESSONS THAT MAKE MILLIONAIRES

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”

~Joshua J. Marine

There are 3 extremely important lessons that I’ve learned from successful people that I think should rekindle a new passion in me as I go through the rest of 2015 and they are truly and absolutely priceless…

And I’d love to share them with you today!

LIFE LESSON #1:

Success is never about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness.

Many people believe that they need to have a sizable chunk of money, the right connections or a college degree before they can even begin to THINK about making their dreams a reality…

But this couldn't be further from the truth.  Don’t let your lack of resources stop you from pursuing your dream, let the challenges help you to get resourceful. Decide to set your fears aside and instead open your minds to learning what you need to know to get to where you wanted to be. In my country Zambia and probably Africa as a whole I hear consistently the cry for more jobs. 

Graduates are being offloaded onto the Job market in numbers and the competition is really heating up for the few jobs available.  The strangest thing is that I only hear people saying I want to find a job and nobody says I want to create jobs. Why? Because I think we attribute the lack of capital or resources to inability to start businesses. There is one fundamental truth that we may be missing. Take a leaf from the Christian Bible story of Genesis 1: 1… God only left water, land, animals, air and forests. He never created not even a chair for Adam to sit on let alone the so called money that we are all crying so much about.

Think about it How did a chair get out of a tree? Or a car out of the stones. Take a good look at yourself, you are the biggest capital you will ever need. Believe me someone can drop $1 Million in your laps today and you can do nothing profitable with it because what you really need is not money but ‘YOU’ (the one reading) with a creative mindset.  Which leads us to…

LIFE LESSON #2:

Don't let "I don't know how" stop you from learning how.

There's a quote by a Vietnamese monk named Thich Nhat Hanh: 

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."

What usually stops people from pursuing their goals and dreams is that stepping out and trying something new feels unfamiliar and scary. And so - even though they may not be totally happy with where they currently are in life - they subconsciously do what they can to stay there, because they find comfort in the predictability. Why are we so quick to say “what if it fails to take off” so what! At least you tried. Success is not the absence of failure, it’s the ability to rise from failure and soldier on. You don’t have to be a driver to own a transport company, period.

If you've ever felt this fear (or perhaps you're feeling it now), one of the best ways to overcome it so that you can spring into action is to surround yourself with the right support network, which leads me to…

LIFE LESSON #3:

Create a positive “Circle of Influence”.

Want to take your income, business, career or love life to the next level? You don't have to have all of the answers, or even a crystal clear plan…

But it IS downright crucial that you surround yourself with people who will mentor you and support you to stay in action and live your very best life. This could be called your "Circle of Influence”.

The people you choose to surround yourself with can either inspire you to create new exciting realities for yourself, or they can cripple your success by making you doubt who you are and what you're capable of. If you want to build a house, don't go and ask someone who has never owned a house if it is possible.

So be mindful of who you spend your time with! If you are hanging around nine (9) broke people, I can bet you are about to be the tenth one.

Just be careful of religion, being religious does not mean you are a believer in the promises of God  because religion has a tendency to embed fear in you and hence, make you judge everything around you as bad without thinking. You lose your ability to think and resign yourself to the comfort of a promissory heaven in which you will enjoy everything in peace. What about life on earth, how will you live it? 

Don’t replace thinking with prayer. That is simply laziness!!!!

To your success