WEALTH NOT MONEY... educational

You don’t ‘really’ need money! Yes you don’t. What you need is what money can buy and not money itself. Money is the means to an end and not the end in itself. Knowing the difference between the 'means' and the ‘end’ is very important - a necessary recipe to success and wealth.

Before the invention of money, trade was carried out by barter. This system gave people the consciousness of the need to be business persons, especially people that generated wealth by trading material goods. The invention of money opened new perspectives in business and trade giving birth to service industries. The invention of money also adjusted the focus of people from true wealth to money, people went from hoarding wealth to hoarding money.

The focus on money unconsciously insinuates and inspires the seeking of jobs which is now widely known to be an acronym for "Just Over Broke”. The reality is that people merely get jobs to raise funds and not to satisfy any need in the society. The process exterminates creativity thereby placing a limitation on acquisition of wealth. Getting a job and living the life of 9 - 5 occludes the mind and gives no clue to its deterioration and the slow moribund awaiting next door - a phenomenon some financial experts have termed ‘rat race’.

People in the trade-by-barter age knew they had to acquire skills, perfect on these skills and engage in production to exchange for their needs. School was supposed to refine skill acquisition process and money was supposed to ease the transaction process. The aforementioned refinements could not fulfil the intentions behind them satisfactorily and also created problems.

School is good and money is great. The current perception of these forces constitutes the problems. The Nigerian educational system has been quoted to be a system that recycles ignorance which insinuates that it lacks the template to ensure the passage of information necessary for wealth creation. Money in itself continues to deteriorate in value leading to imbalances. Viewing school as a skill acquisition or and inspiring system and money as the new wealth may actually be a 21st century sin.

Everybody needs education. You need to know what you want to know and strive to learn. The school system with its grading system may actually be inspiring the crave and the dream for great certificates and not for education. The new rule for education is, know what you want to know and learn it! Go to school but don’t play by the rules of school. Having to study just to pass examinations is the great idea applauded by many people, okay your professors may shrug to that sentence, but how can you tell you learnt better by theoretical examinations alone?

The pursuit of money in itself inspires receiving money, an art the end of the month salaries has so perfected, and not the acquisition of assets or products and service skills for exchange. Pursuing the acquisition of assets - systems that generate cashflow, ensures not just paycheques but cashflows with satisfaction of positive contributions to the society. There is nothing like doing what you like doing, what you are great at and what makes you contribute for the society and still get paid - that is what we all desire!

Go to school, but learn to know and not to pass examinations. Education does not end in school, get involved in trainings, carry out research. Identify what you need to know and find out ways to learn and acquire the knowledge. Get a job! Yes get a job. You need a job to pay the bills, to stay over broke - a lot of people may need that. In the middle of this, look deep and state the things you would like to do. Is there a need you will like to fulfil? Is there a problem you would like to solve? Is there something you enjoying doing, perhaps a hobby? The next step is creating the business systems needed to use these skills to create wealth.