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HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE U SERVING?
A great leader is not determined by the numbers of people who serve him, but by the number of people he serves. Service is the hallmark of true leadership. This concept of service in leadership is a sharp deviation from the traditional leadership style in Africa: a practice where the ruler's interest and wellbeing is the number one priority of the community. This ideology is intricately woven into the fabric of the traditional Africa society and to a very large extent most politicians and religious leaders in Africa today still hold onto the ideology of " the leader first", which means until the leader is satisfy with food, the followers are not permitted to eat. This system breeds strife and envy instead of love and productivity. A society where the people or followers are placed as top priority, will attract all-round development. The people in such a society are bound to be productive.
Service means putting the people first in all things. Most persons in Nigeria today desirious of leadership positions either by election or appointment are doing so to be served. With leaders of such configurations at the healms of affairs we may continue to remain so for a long time. The question that begs for answer is: how many people are you serving? If the numbers of people that serves you are more than the people you serve, then you are a tyrant. Moving forward, the heart of service must be the driving force behind our leadership aspirations. The desire to be served by others breeds entitlement mentality, it creates the desire to have it all before anyone else and when you are not having it, the followers suffer untold hardship. They are subjected to draconian tax regime, where the citizens are expected to give what they have not earned. This is the bane of leadership in Nigeria, leaders pursue their comfort and interests as a priority above that of the led. Prioritizing the followers is the foundation of leadership, it is crucial to attaining political stability, infrastructural development and socioeconomic wellbeing of a people.

"Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs."
-Zig Ziglar

I have been studying to understand what influences people to buy or get involved in things that would inadvertently remove more monies from their pockets.
My findings revealed among other things that the disposition to either acquire an asset or buy a liability is propelled by the PATTERN OF THINKING of the individual.
I observed that people who acquire assets thinks in a particular way, while those who buy liabilities thinks in the opposite.
Asset buyers are DEEP THINKERS, whereas liability buyers are SHALLOW THINKERS.

Shallow thinkers hardly think beyond what they can see with their physical eyes. They can't grasp beyond the obvious. They can't see beyond the immediate, so they act to satisfy their superficial desires. Shallow thinkers are like plankton, they are surface dwellers, they drift with the current and offer zero resistance to anything. They often take information at face value and looks at things at first-order consequences.

Deep thinkers on the other hand looks at the domino of effects, the consequential impacts, and the likely outcomes of whatever the plan to buy. They view the immediate in the light of the ultimate. They consider how present financial decisions would impact on the big picture. The deep thinker is always ready to forgo immediate ephemeral excitement of today for tomorrow's greater glory. They buy assets today, because they can see in their mind eyes the great benefit that would accrue from such assets in the near future. They looks at second and subsequent-order consequences of their acquisitions.

Would you consider yourself a DEEP or a SHALLOW thinker? Before you answer, look at what you have been buying, are they ASSETS or LIABILITIES?


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"Poverty is a very stubborn animal, when you beat it, don't throw away the stick because it will always come back!"
- Chief MKO Abiola

Robert Kiyosaki author of international best seller RICH DAD, POOR DAD in simple terms defines an ASSET as anything that puts MONEY in your POCKET, whereas a LIABILITY is anything that takes MONEY out of your POCKET.

The big mistake that poor and middle class people make, according to Kiyosaki, is spending their lives buying liabilities instead of assets. He teaches that if you want to be rich you simply need to spend your life buying assets.

Although accounting professionals are not completely in agreement with Kiyosaki’s definitions. I am of the opinion that he is absolutely right.

To arrive at your desired destination of defeating poverty, you must deliberately avoid the pitfalls and quicksand of buying things that would drains you of your money. Some persons today are trapped in the quagmire of poverty not because of how much they earn, but because of what they acquire with what they earn. This is also true of wealthy people.

It would be nice if you could take a cursory look at the things you have acquired this year. If you view then in the light of Kiyosaki's definition, would you considered them to be ASSETS or drain pipes of your financial resources?