Your investment is the seed you sow today to ensure that you reap fruit tomorrow. What you sow today is what may guarantee what you can get in return tomorrow. The good seed that you have today but refuse to sow because you did not want to lose it will never die and so will not return anything to you.
What you know you should do today but refuse to do by reason of the lack of resources, by reason of fear, by the lack of knowledge and perhaps the degree of self-awareness or esteem you have, will determine what does or does not accrue to you tomorrow. It will determine what you are not able to attract tomorrow. You can only attract as much as you sow. Attraction is just a little more than vain thoughts which are not backed up with consistent action.
There is a way that I reason about product marketing, sales and the price we pay for either a product or service. If I have a service or product worth 10000 Nairas and I am willing to sell it for that price, but someone wants to buy it for less, say 7000, though that prospect can pay the 10000 price tag attached to it, he or she is only going to end up getting the value of what he or she paid because he or she only exploited the seller.
Negotiation is neither manipulation nor exploitation. We do not negotiate someone into a corner that they cannot extricate themselves from because we estimated that they are in desperate need. It means the misuse of opportunity or power by the one who has it today.
On the converse side of it, if a person who
has lesser resources but who knows the value of that service or product and needs it to further his or her cause in life according to the purpose of the Author, goes out of his or her way to acquire it, such a person will reap the full benefits of it. Such a person sought it with all persistence and pain of discomfort in perfect sincerity and harmony with spatial and universal laws.
There is something about the genuine thirst and hunger that determines the returns. Without this thirst and hunger, there is no quenching of thirst. This principle is the same that guides the acquisitions of things. We often greedily acquire the things we do not have need of for all the wrong reasons.
The universe and entire human space is guided by laws. These laws are in our members. They are in our conscience. They are in our mental faculties and our entire systems are wired to them because we are composed of all the elements of nature in our human system.
It is the reason that we reap what we sow. Nothing can change that. However long it takes or goes for, it will definitely return. Be mindful therefore of what you sow and the motive behind your sowing what you sow.
This is where I always come up with the question of motives behind our every action. The motive behind our actions or inactions are stronger than the actions or inactions themselves. Why do you do what you do? What underlying reason known to you only guides your actions or inactions? This question is at the core of reward and retribution.
For some, it is let us do evil so that good may come. Such is the inspiration behind defrauding others, and they are the motives behind many, if not all nefarious activities. They are often engaged in and embarked upon for all the wrong reasons. You want to oppress someone. You want to enslave another. You want to get back at someone for something they did to you in the past. Your cravings are driven by urge to consume upon your lusts. Love is not the strength of it.
For some other, your motive is not driven by the primary urge to eat, or clothe yourself. The modesty of eating, clothing and having a roof over our heads are huge benefits that we underestimate. We are often oblivious of the fact that once these basics have been taken care of, every other thing has been taken charge of, potentially.
This definitely has nothing against huge wealth attraction and acquisition. If you have been so gifted to know what another person does not know and you have been able to build the known from the unknown by constantly working to bring solutions to others and earn a lot of money in the process, sure, you have only fulfilled the law of multiplication. If you did not meet the standards, it would not accrue to you.
Every action you engage in is an investment of some resources or the other. You invest time that you can never get back. You invest energy that dwindles with age. You invest health that reduces in quality each time but we are not aware of these things.
As we age, things seem like they all automatically go towards increase but they only do for the purpose of nosediving. It goes up only to come back down again. Unfortunately, because we think we have everything forever, we invest everything, if not many things wrongly. How you think based on the information at your disposal is who you are. It is your number one treasure.
So, how should you think about what you do with the resources at your disposal? Many of us, due to wrong, poor or unproductive thinking and vain imaginations are unconscious of the wealth at our disposal.
We underestimate the resource of time, the physical energy and strength, our age, the relationships we have today and how we either manage or mismanage them based on the management or mismanagement of our emotions. This is in turn based on our involvement in the development and nurturing of our emotions and mental faculties. What is the worth or quality of your investment in the area of your emotions and mental faculties?
The reason that many are not resourceful is that they do not know how to put the intangible resources at their fingertips to use. There is a difference between having resources and being resourceful. Many of us leave everything at the doorstep of cash today and where we do not find it or see it splashed around the only thing we sow or invest there is disrespect. Our respect or disrespect is determined by the cash around.
Being disrespectful is being dishonourable. If we disregard people today for whatever reason, we have shown the worth of our emotions. We have shown how low or illbred we are. We have misinvested in this case because we lack the knowledge first, the understanding secondly, and the incompetencies to leave our great footprints of character in the minds of men.
Many of us think that life is short and that determines the actions we take. We act today like there is no tomorrow only to meet the people we mistreated or acted wrongly against tomorrow. Tomorrow is not one hundred years. Tomorrow can be twelve, eighteen, twenty-four, thirty-six or forty-eight months after. It could even be far less. If you can imagine that the sowing and reaping of corn is a mere ninety days, twelve weeks or three months, we should better learn how to aggregate our time. Our poor investment of good character, poor use of time, and poor attitude stares us full circle in the face.
We wrongly aggregate time. Our evaluation of these things are rid of quality awareness and because of these gaps, our deliveries are disheartening and half-hearted. Emotions are everything. Emotions are energies. A wrong investment of emotions is a wrong lifestyle. This is automatic. We cannot negotiate it otherwise.
There is a critical thought about the concept of investment. If you are not ready to lose it, you are not ready to grow it. Losing it does not have anything to do with the fact that you do not have any interests in its multiplication. Losing it means sowing it in order to gain it. That means that you have to deny yourself today in order to enjoy returns tomorrow. This is how pain births gain.
Now, the field you put it in is extremely important. In a wrong field, you actually threw your seed away. This field could be a wrong heart. This field could be a wrong belief system. It could be a wrong faith system. This field could be a wrong relationship. This field could be a wrong job. This field could be a wrong career. Imagine the endless fields we sow into today.
It could be a wrong money growth initiative. You know the types that fill the space now. Those are actually one of the strong reasons or indications by which you can weigh the value systems of the majority. You do not know they can generate the funds they lose to such schemes. The stories of woe you hear afterwards let you know how the mind works and what it is capable of. They are called Ponzi Schemes. They work on your greed always.
It is almost impossible for you to escape if you have such greed as reaping where you have sown nothing outside your empty expectation and lack of knowledge and understanding of what the initiative is.
How does it work? Did you you know? Do you know now? But will you not get bitten again? This is the crucial part. Will you be scammed again? I ask because you may have the seed in you that attracts it. It is the seed of your thoughts with which you attract the things that come to you.
There is the wisdom of learning in everything that happens anyway, whether we think it is right or wrong. There is a lesson to learn. This is the wisdom of understanding that wroughts a change of behaviour. You may have been burnt before but you do not have to stay burnt. You can use the past as a guidepost today to direct tomorrow.
The worth of your investment begins with the quality of your thoughts. The quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of information you ingest. You truly cannot attain beyond the quality of your thinking and what you think is largely dependent on what you invest your conscious mind in: What you read, what you study, what you like to hear or listen to, where you like to go, and what you desire to feel. These things influence your meditation, determine and activate your actions. You can predict your results and outcomes therefore.
Everyone of us has something to give. You do yourself great disservice if because of your lack of funds, you fold your hands and do nothing. When you are free from the bondage of senility, the bondage of illness, the bondage of lack of physical energy, the luxury of time and such bountiful resources that we underestimate and so underuse, then you do know that you have great worth to invest and reap in due season.
Your quality of investment is determined by the seed type you are carrying and sow. Do not get into the place of ignorance where you fail to evaluate the quality of what you are carrying. This is failing before you even start. Endeavour to know the seed you are carrying. This should let you carefully choose your earth. It will also let you know the period of maturity and the aggregate of all the other resources you require to engage.
What is the worth of your investment? It is the worth of your value. This is yours to determine based on the resources you are able to attract to yourself to make you earn you cutting-edge resourcefulness.
