MY TEN RULES TO BUSINESS

MY TEN RULES TO BUSINESS

1. When business is tough, its not time to borrow money, use the pressure as a catalyst for innovation. This is time to contemplate; review processes not spend more money to make no money. The problem if identified and answered will bring you even more money and increase your understanding of your business. So look at challenges as opportunities to grow not threats

2. Marketing is like a seed, if you want to harvest one day start planting your seed today . Plant your idea into the customer's mind and water it with benefits of using your product everyday indirectly. To push a customer to buy is to push them away , let them be magnetized by your energy and enthusiasm towards your own products and services


3. Everything is hard at first, believe in what you are doing and it will blossom into a flower that you never thought of . Don’t listen to advice you didn’t ask for , your brain is sufficient and you are wise enough , trust your gut . Have you ever eaten poison or failed to cross the road despite it being busy ? If not then trust yourself to be capable make the right decisions in your business.


4. No one sells a profitable businesses, A good business opportunity will only be seen by you not another person. Becoming successful is also staying away from bad business opportunities, the market is flooded with them watch out . My litmus test for this is if it chases me it's not an opportunity.


5. Be honest and kind . Do not cheat people , when you cheat people , you cheat yourself , when you lie , you lie to yourself . Business is the accumulation of goodwill , the people you interact with are going to talk about you best they talk good about you . For me , I even have to tell clients to not force people to come to me , that is how much they want to help . I refuse because I understand that people need time to make a decision to buy , the teacher appears when the student is ready .


6. Business takes time , whatever you start , expect to be successful in 7 to 10 years . During this process you will meet all manner of trouble. If you withstand, you will be rich in your 7th year and a millionaire in your 10th . Don’t expect to be rich overnight . But you will see yourself growing steadily , enjoy the journey and live life in the meantime , enjoy the present too . Be graceful as you suffer , you will be proud to look at the attitude you held one day .


7. You don’t need money to do business, Money is refined energy. If you find that you don’t have money then what you have is raw energy to work with. So you will have to go the long way round to start business. Say you want to sell clothes but have no capital, you have to sell other peoples clothes and get a cut . I don't have money is just an excuse and lazy thinking . Where the is a will the is a way .


8. Keep something, Keep anything . To be rich , you need to keep something from your hustles . that is the only way . what counts is what you keep . doesn’t matter wether you make 1 billion and spend it . you are not moving if you are not keeping it . This is a challenge I personally have but I know it’s a rule , maybe my last one to final one . They say saving a million can take you 10 years but wether you save or not , 10 years time will still pass , best you are a millionaire then


9. Give and you will receive abundantly, Give money , give energy . I personally don’t have money to dish out but I give knowledge , free valuable knowledge. Free book and it pays back through engagement and referrals. If someone reads about a business strategy and applies it and it works , they recommend their niece who needs a CV to me . People will always return a favour one way or the other .


10. Don’t work for money , Work to become an unshakable character . There are many types of riches and the best you will find is to find yourself and release your potential. Ever since I started this business , I have come to learn that we are all the same but circumstances make us different and they way we that we think . People are beautiful , people are funny and people are wise .

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