INVEST ( BUYING THE FUTURE TODAY)

Life is exciting when lived with the right mentality. One such mentality needed to live a good life is the investment mindset! The opposite of such mindset is the expenditure mindset. Those who end up at their God-given dreams and destinies are those with the investment mentality.

Life turns out great tomorrow when the investment mindset is employed today! Those who live with the expenditure mindset end up frustrated and wasted in life. The future is worth preparing for because that’s where you will spend the rest of your life.

FACTS TO NOTE ABOUT THE FUTURE

    1. IT IS WITHIN YOU: The future is not a date waiting to reveal itself someday, it is a reality trapped within you. This reality however grows day by day as you nurture it in your awareness. So life does not happen to you, it is coming from you

     2. IT COMES AT A PRICE: The future can be bought. Yes, it can be bought with the choices of today. The decisions of what to do or not to do determine what becomes of us tomorrow. The future is better bought today.

   3    IT IS WHAT YOU SEE THAT YOU SIEZE: Life works on ths principle: anything you cannot see today will never happen tomorrow! Whatever is not in your picture today can never be in your future someday. Your portion tomorrow is hidden in your vision today.

What does it mean to invest?

    a. To invest is to delay your gratification- which is to pay now and play later!

    b. To invest is to pour yourself and resources into a project or dream at hand.

    c. To invest is to refuse to be carried away by distractions that seek to steal your attention from your intention.

UNDERSTANDING THE REALITY OF TIME:

We cannot really talk about investing into the future without having a concrete understanding of the reality of time.

   1. Time is the great equalizer…all of us have 24hours

   2. Time cannot be saved; you either spend or invest!

   3. Time is a convertible resource; if properly invested it can yield profitable enterprises.

   4. Time is life. Ever attempted to remove your age from your life? What would you be left with? Time is life indeed…

CERTAIN AREAS OF LIFE INVESTMENT

   1.  YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE:  Your spirit is the core of your being. Man is a Spirit who has a soul and lives in a body. With your spirit you make contact with god and the spiritual world. However, great investments need to be made into your spirit so as to maintain an unbroken communion with God and to be able to stand against the forces of evil.

a.  Feed on the word. Joshua 1:8

b. Pray always 1thess 5:17, Luke 18:1

c. Associate with Godly people. Prov 13:20, 1cor        15:33

d.  Ask for the Help of the HolySpirit always to overcome temptations. Psalms 119:9-11

e. Fellowship with other believers. Heb 10:25

     2.    YOUR ACADEMICS: After your Spiritual Life, then comes your academics on the list of your life investments. As a young person, your academic excellence is your pride. Therefore, your academics must be given utmost attention for proper investment of time, energy and focus.

    a.) Set a Goal for your Academics: In order to properly invest into your academics, you must set b.SMART goals. Goals put you under pressure and stretch you until the precious juice in you start to flow and the target set is attained. Where do you see yourself in the next One year? Three years? Or six years in your academics? What class of Grade do you want to have by then? What extra discipline must you put in to your academics, so as have such results?

   b.)  Your Peers drive Performance: The people you surround yourself with determine the events of your life. Your academic results reflect the quality of people you have around you academically. Who are the people that you read with? Who makes up your discussion group?

   c.) Go the Extra mile: The Extra Mile is the lane of life achievers. Students who achieve extraordinary feats are known to always do more than the average students. They do group discussions more and they research their subjects more.

     3.  YOUR CRAFT/ENTERPRISE: Another area that calls for investment is your enterprise. This talks about what you can do with your hands, that when well- presented can be paid for by people.

   a. Acquire lucrative Skills: A skill is learned ability that makes you perform a task so well that people will pay for your service. Money is a reward for the value you render in form of a product or service. However, you must subscribe to learning that skill.

   b. Commit to Mastery: It is not the day you start learning a skill that you become very good at it. Therefore, persistence is much needed to arrive at the realm of mastery. A realm whereby you are so good at your delivery that people cannot but pay for your skill.

  c.   Be Business Minded: Business is about rendering value to meet the needs of your customers. So as you go out to learn the skill, work with the mindset of a business person, by adding value at a cost no matter how small it is. The value of your services determines the cost you will attract from people.

   4.    YOUR FINANCIAL FORTUNE: Your financial destiny solely depends on what you do with your time and your financial seeds. Notice that wealth is attracted by who we become.

   a.  We get paid for bringing value to the market place, and the value we bring is a function of how valuable we have become.

   b.   Money always travels in the direction of value…more value, more money, Less value, less money!

   c.  Anywhere  money is wasted; it runs away from such a place. But Cheerfully flows to and resides anywhere it is treated well through savings and investments.

It is your Season to Shine, investing today is a sure way to buy the future today! See you at the Top!

-(OLAYINKA O. EKUNDAYO’S TEACHINGS)