How Power of Habit Can Catapult You Into Prosperity

THE ALTERNATIVE

By Reno Omokri

Many people who have never invested in a book will spend their money on booze and still wonder why they are not as rich as people who read and apply what they read.
Take our nation. We have one of the world’s largest breweries yet have very, very few libraries! It is the same thing with industry. We have the world’s largest churches (Google it), and hardly any industry.

Our fastest growing industry is population explosion. When it rains, our people vex! The next thing is sex! You know what comes next. Meanwhile, other nations see rains as a productive time for mechanised agriculture. Am I lying?

You have to understand that poverty is an ideology, and it is driven by specific ideas and habits that tilt people towards lack.
I broke it down into five or six ideas. Why are people poor?

Marry even when you don’t have a job or business Have kids anyhow because they are God’s gift, and God will provide Start going to church, not for the love of God, but in search of ‘miracle’ money Pray for money and mistake laziness for faith Give your many children limited education Wait for them to grow and repeat the poverty cycle by pressuring them to marry when they have no job or business You see, lack of money is not the cause of poverty. Lack of ideas is the reason for poverty. Because money follows advice.
One reason many people are poor is that they are looking for money. If you look for money, you will hardly find it. Instead, look for wisdom. When you find wisdom, you won’t have to look for money. It will be money that will look for you like it did with Solomon.

The reason why you have lots of wars in Africa and Asia is because of poverty. A hungry man is an angry man. And that is why my little contribution to addressing the pervasive poverty in the world is teaching people how to prosper.

Because hardly anything can calm you down like money. If a big electricity bill comes, you remain calm. School fees are increased, you stay calm. Someone bashes your car, you keep calm. Why? Because money solves problems. That is why you should do everything possible to make money legally.

Read a book for 15 minutes daily. Learn a new word daily. Find someone who is already successful in a field you want success in and cultivate that person.

Do you know why many people are in torment and poverty? They have 500 Facebook friends, 5000 Twitter followers, and 50000 Instagram followers. But they don’t have even one mentor. Read Scripture. NOBODY in Scripture succeeded without a mentor.

A mentor shortens your journey from effort to success. Christ told Peter what side of the boat to fish in and he caught surplus fish. Without Christ, Peter would have continued misapplying his energy. Life without a mentor can be tormenting.

By studying your mentor, you should know the difference between your needs and your wants. When you do, you won’t buy an iPhone 13, when you have 13 more pressing needs.
You should know yourself to a very high degree. Know your strengths and your weaknesses. If your enemies know your weakness and you don’t, they can destroy you by feeding your weakness.

Have power over your thoughts. Don’t just think whatever enters your mind. If you don’t have power over your own thoughts, it is very unlikely that God will give you power over people. Because if He does, evil forces can control those people by controlling your mind.

Decide where you want to go in life. If you don’t know where you are going, any road will look like the right way.
Then formulate plans and goals with dates and time attached to them.

These habits may look like small steps, but do not underestimate the big difference small changes make. 40% of our daily actions are driven by habits. Aristotle said, “we are what we repeatedly do.” Thus form these habits and these habits will form the basis for your prosperity.

And very importantly, get rid of the entitlement mentality that makes you think your relatives owe you something. Other than your parents, God did not put anyone on Earth to provide for your welfare!

God did not put anyone on Earth to live up to your expectations, neither did He put you on Earth to live up to anyone’s expectations.

God gave us each a head to decide how to help ourselves, and two legs to take us there.

That someone refuses to help you or give you what you asked does not make them bad. If you pray for their downfall because of their refusal, you are the one who is evil. And who knows, perhaps your poverty is as a result of your evil prayers bouncing back on you!

Because Scripture says, “the curse causeless shall not come”-Proverbs 26.2. So when you pray evil prayers against a person for the simple reason that he or she refused to help you, that curse will hit them and immediately bounce back, and finding no place to rest, it returns to rest on you!

I hate poverty with a passion, and have made it my life’s work to teach people practical steps to escape poverty, because you cannot fight poverty by throwing money at people. You just create dependency. But by teaching people the attitudes, skills, and habits that lend themselves to wealth, you create independence and interdependence, which are states of maturity that are very conducive to wealth.

And that is what I have tried to do in this piece, and hope my readers would put them to practice and benefit from them.

Reno’s Nuggets

Don’t let loneliness take you back to toxic people. If you return to an abusive relationship or an unbalanced friendship, because of loneliness, then you add stupidity to your loneliness, making it worse! Always remember that loneliness is better than uselessness! Learn to enjoy your own company. Learn to rely on yourself. Christ spent 40 days and nights in the wilderness and He came out stronger. Use your time of loneliness as your own wilderness period and come out stronger. You were born alone and you will die alone. So learn to stand alone!
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