Are Riches for everybody?

Good day good People

There is one topic that is always a taboo to talk about, money and riches. In December I was sitting with my daughters in Bulawayo I asked them a question would guys want to be rich. I got some many excuses and reasons why they can not be rich. The 20 year old said everything is possible in their church they are taught prosperity.

The 13 year old said Shonas have taken everything and they have destroyed what the whites had built. I said how can high a school kid think like that, there is many opportunities for everyone. Anyone can be what they want to be, before I could finish I was caught up in a debate with my children a political debate. I looked at the opinions they where presenting and I thought to myself most people think like that. We as blacks and worse still as Mthwakazians think that we cannot do much, we forget that those of us living in South Africa and Botswana came with nothing crossing the crocodile infested Limpopo and we have become great.
I asked the one who has been saying nothing, she said the problem is, what is it that you will do in order to become rich. You can have all the plans but the there is always a lack of this or that. I asked her to elaborate, she said one good example is the money to start the business and the people who will buy from you. She said business is for those who are born into businesses or have some connections. I looked at them and realised that we are still far away in terms of sustaining ourselves. We can not afford to be looking for investors from out side all the time.
If you look at it politicians in most developing countries, they are looking for investors from developed countries when will we develop our own investors. We have the same mentality like my children, limiting ourselves. I looked at the causes and I found that the schooling system produces workers. We are the same labobaba bethu and omkhulu who used to work in the mines and farms. They lent how to communicate with the basi, and read basi's notes of instructions. We have to change the way we think, we have to change the road we use in the realisation of our dreams. If we don't we will fall on the same trap, what in America they call the rat race, which you will never win because you are doing one wrong think over and over expecting different results.
Facing the problem, you go to school at the age of 23 or 25 if you went to college or varsity you start working from 25 you work thinking that if you do become promoted you will live a better life. In the next 40 years you live in this illusion hopping to get a nice company with nice boses until one day you reliase you are left with 10 years to retirement. You retire 5 years down the line your retirement money is finished then what. You become a problem to your children and family you move from urban life to go and try rural life which you are not used to. The next thing you will be half wishing you where dead and wonder what went wrong.

My one kid above said business is for those born in business or have connections, I donot buy that, though it may make your life easier. The elder one said in their church they are taught prosperity, now you see my point education. We need financial literacy and reasons why we must start or go onto business instead of working for someone the how part of it will be easier. If you work in a company, you are making the owners of those companies rich you will never be rich.  So success principle number one if you want to be rich you must own your own business and you must sell shares instead of buying shares. Bill Gates became the richest man in the world not by buying shares but by selling shares. Opportunities are plenty for everyone I will recommend a book THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH you can buy it from book shops or get a free copy from scienceofgetting.net.

NEXT BLOG WE WILL LOOK AT THE ROADBLOCK TO SUCCESS.