SEMINAR RECAP ON THE TREASURED ENTREPRENEURS ASSOCIATION TEA HALL OF WEALTH GENERAL ACTIVE GROUP PAGE
šš¼Theme:
ā¤ 8 PRACTICAL THINGS YOU MUST DO TO ESCAPE OR AVOID POVERTY
š¤SPEAKER/FACILITATOR/DISCUSSANT
š£Mr Asuni Adeshola
TEA PROJECT DIRECTOR
Good evening ladies and gentlemen
How has your day been sir/ma??
Hope we are all doing well despite this LOCKDOWNā¦
Hope we are all staying SAFE???
You are welcome to our seminar for tonight sir/ma
The theme for tonight seminar is
ā¤ 8 PRACTICAL THINGS YOU MUST DO TO ESCAPE OR AVOID POVERTY
The FACILITATOR for tonight seminar is my humble self
Mr Asuni Adeshola
Let’s set the ball rolling my peopleā½ā½ā½
I am an orphan,my parents are middle income earners or what you call AVERAGE INCOME EARNERS and i grew up hearing my dad often make statements/comments like, THE RICH ARE PROUD ; THE RICH NEVER SLEEP PEACEFULLY, I AM GREATER THAN THE RICH BECAUSE I SLEEP PEACEFULLY ā. He will often make comments starting with āWe the poorā¦ā These turned out to become some self fulfilling prophesies. Being a natural observer, one lesson became apparent for me; itās not circumstances that keep you where you are in live; it is what you think and say about yourself.
It is not a crime if you are born poor my fellow ENTREPRENEURS but it is indeed a BIG crime if you DIE POOR because you refuse to use your brain or God given talent to better your life or live a very successful and a financially independent lifeā¦
Although GOD does not create everyone of us to either be SUCCESSFUL, RICH,or WEALTHYā¦
Some persons no matter how hard they strive to be successful in life they will never make it
This is because all fingers are not equalā¦
Some persons are just in this world to RECORD other people success and storiesā¦.
That is the reality my people
The earlier we begin to take responsibility of our LIVES and believe in ourselves with determination and our readiness to take RISK as well as being prayerful to our creator then success would be ours
Hope I am making sense my fellow ENTREPRENEURS???
Let me go down memory laneā¦
This platform TREASURED ENTREPRENEURS ASSOCIATION TEA HALL OF WEALTH was created in 2015
Infact it was during one of the school break period
The idea of this particular concept came up as a result of my interaction with some of my friends that are school owners
They were lamenting about lack of fundsā¦
The lamentation then arose as a result of non payment or non compliance of school fees by some of the parents
As at that time too I was into PHONICS per time teachingā¦
I had a few schools that I go to once in a week to teach phonics ..
For me as at that time the moment there is an holiday I find it so difficult too to feed and to take care of my family
So I came up with this idea of PEER TO PEER learning
Teach me what you know and I teach you what I know
That was how this concept came upā¦
Then the orgainsation name was ENTREPRENEURS CONNECT from then it was transformed into SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ALLIANCE (TEA) to SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY(SEEDS) and then today to TREASURED ENTREPRENEURS ASSOCIATION (TEA) after our incorporation in July 2019ā¦
As at the time when the concept was birthed by me I was already into book publishing too
But then I was still struggling as a publisher
And as you all know we publishers only sell our books or materials during the long vacation
During the first and second break I am always on my own because I do not have any source of income
It was always tough for meā¦
But since the creation of this TEA concept I personally have learnt a lot of businesses
Infact I can tell you today that in my armoury I can give you the nitty gritty of over 500 businesses
And I have different streams of business income
All thanks to TEA
And of course a lot of persons have also been successful with different business ventures on this platform
It is however disturbing that some person still do not know why they are on this platform
As they have refused to take action or risk towards being Successful
Letās begin with the 8 practical things you must do to escape or to avoid poverty
(1) Stop being entitled
Itās not circumstances that keep us where we are; it is what we think and say about ourselves. But seeing yourself as deserving success is one thing; getting other people to see you that way is another.
You may feel you deserve to be handed a job because you spent five years of hard work studying at the university. But for other people, you are just another millennial that has a lot to learn.
You may think you deserve special treatment because you have suffered abuse and extreme poverty in the past; but most people are too busy dealing with their own problem.
People only respect previous results. That is why success continues to beget more success. If you are searching on āHow to build a parachuteā online and two videos show up; one has 415 views, the other has 1.5 million views, which are you going to choose? Thatās it. Youāll choose the more successful one.
It is why Samsung phones and iPhone continues to outsell the new phone companies. People unconsciously value sacrifice and result. They expect you to pay your dues.
If you havenāt done anything worthy of accolades, and you go about making demands, you are just being entitled
Get to work building your profile. Go out and start doing that thing you believe is beneath you. Learn that handiwork. Take up that job you believe is below your qualification. No one is going to lay that foundation for you; you have to do it yourself.
(2) Remove yourself from the statistics of the poor..
The first step to help the poor is to not be one of the poor. With the limitless knowledge and resources available today, it will be too selfish of you to remain poor. Here is why
By using the resources within your disposal to get out of poverty, you mathematically reduce the number of poor people in the world, not just by one but by many.
That knowledge, that idea,that skill you have, can help take care of two, three or more people. It will be unfair if you donāt develop it.
Another important reason to remove yourself from the poor is that ā If you want to get what you donāt have, you have to do what you have never done.
Poverty comes with a lot of mental baggage. You canāt become a person of success while still identifying yourself as poor. Eliminate all those labels associated with poverty from your lips. Stop referring yourself as among āthe poor massesā.
Start surrounding yourself with progressive people.
3. Stop caring what other people think, unless they are buying from you.
Little minded people are like crabs. Youāve probably heard about crabs, havenāt you? If you put, letās say 47 crabs inside a bucket without covering the lead, none of them will be able to get out.
In reality, they could simply climb on each other and find their way out, but not these creatures. They will rather pull down anyone of them that tries to find their way out. In their mind, āwe all die hereā. Little minds who donāt have the courage to work themselves out of their below average life, are often fond of talking down on people who want to try.
These people will rarely support or patronize what you offer. But theyāll be the first to tell you why this is not for you.
If your strategy in life is to end up pleasing everyone, you will end up miserable; trapped in the same mess. So, you must train yourself to ignore crab minded people. Let them keep their opinion while you keep your dream alive.
4. Start seeing āyourselfā in Successful people.
We are all humans; and we have the natural tendencies to be selfish. Even religions depend on āWhatās in it for the convertā like eternal life and prosperity.
Poor people see these attribute of selfishness as belonging to the rich, so they portray this false humility to mask their true desire.
The truth is that you canāt become what you hate. If you continue to see progressive people as antagonists, youāll never understand what itāll take to make progress.
No doubt, some people take their greed and selfishness to the extreme and only live to oppress other people. But the magic is to understand this inherent human nature, that everyone you meet is first and foremost more interest in āwhatās in it for themā.
People are always thinking about themselves. With this knowledge, start focusing more on what people want and what you can offer themā¦ā¦
“Jim Rohn” puts it clearly that, āyou can have all you want in life if you can help as much people get what they wantā. Turn the focus of your life towards identifying and providing what other people want and you will be on your way to getting what you want.
5. Learn a skill and get good at it.
On a deeper level, the problem of poverty is not lack of money but lack of skill.
The best strategy for you my fellow TEA ENTREPRENEURS to escape poverty is to learn a skill people want to pay for. Interestingly, there are an avalanche of resources you must have learnt on this TEA Hall Of Wealth to help you develop and brush up your skills,from programming, design to marketing skills etcā¦..
As long as you are doing decent work, and earning a living off it, you should be confident and proud of what you do.
6. Move your service from intermediate to professional.
Listen attentively to this. People do not hire you or patronize your business or service because they want to help you get out of poverty.
They do so because they need to solve a problem. Many people get trapped in the circle of poverty and mediocrity by offering poor and nonchalant services. They go about their work like hunting; every encounter is hunt and kill.
They leave each prospect bitter and vowing never to patronize them again.
Donāt toll this path. Instead, keep in mind that people are inherently selfish, they want to be treated well,they want good result.
Focus on helping them get what they want, so that you can get what you want. Instead of treating your work as hunting, decide to treat it as gardening. If you are in business, you need repeat patronage; in the professional world, you need referrals and recommendations. Donāt go about burning your bridges.
Start cultivating positive relationships around your work.
(7) Learn to sell
What do you think is the highest paid profession in the world? Itās not medical doctors or engineers. The highest paid profession in the world is sales. The richest people are the best at selling; whether itās selling their vision, their product and service or their skills. They are masters at selling.
The ability to sell is not reserved for a few set of people. Anyone can learn this skill. The problem is that most people spend too much time on the product and too little on selling what they have.
If you want to escape poverty, the ability to sell can get you out faster than any other skill. There is no best-written author, but best-selling author.
(8) Take back control of your mind
Most of your opinions are not original. They were adopted from your environment into your mind. Each time you turn on the TV, go on social media, listen to people around, your mind is getting suggestions on opinions to hold or to let go.
Here is an example. Do you know that mega supermarkets are designed to make you buy more than what you had in mind to buy? You walk in to get a deal on one item and you walk out buying a cart full of items; some of which you donāt need.
How would you explain that almost everyone in Africa seems to fanatically support a football club in England or Spain? Or that millions of people lost their money in a ponzi scheme that promised 30 percent interest every month.
If you take the time to ponder, you will realize that you are not as in control of your mind as you think
You will realize that some of the things you spend time, energy and money on are actually not worth much. Your mind is your most valuable asset.
Take back control of it by deciding what you let into it. Read books and stories that inspire you to dream and take productive action, Invest in yourself
This is where I will drop the anchor for tonight seminar
Hope I have impacted you tonight my people???š¤·š¼āāš¤·š¼āāš¤·š¼āā
Thank you all and God bless you my people
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