Why you should pay attention to your Financial Life

Everything created was made for a purpose. The manufacturer saw the result of the product/service that was to be created in his/her mind first. A clear picture of what problem the product/service would solve was first seen in the mind before the manufacturer went ahead to create it. Moreover, no manufacturer wants to start creating a product without knowing what problem that product would solve. They see the big picture of what they want to produce then they goto plan and strategize on what to do to make that idea become a reality.

For example, Alexander Graham Bell who is best known for the invention of the telephone transformed communication as we know it today. The purpose of his invention was to create a device that enabled many messages to be transmitted over wires at the same time. Funded by investors, it took a period of at least 4 years (1871 – 1875) for that purpose to become a reality.

Also, the purpose of why the electric dynamo was created in 1831 by Michael Faraday was to solve the problem of generating electric current. Today, the electric dynamo is used in generators, turbines, and windmills to generate electric current.

Compulsory education was introduced in Nigeria in the 1970s to ensure that the problem of ignorance and illiteracy is solved. In Nigeria, students spend at least 16 years in school to acquire formal education.  Parents begin taking their children to school at an early age where they are groomed, trained, and equipped so that they will end up becoming responsible and productive people in society. At the end of every term/semester, parents are expected to pay their children's school fees.

There is always a reason why something is done. You buy food to eat to solve the problem of hunger, you buy books to read so that you would educate and exercise your mind, you pay to learn a skill to aid yourself financially after using that skill to work for someone.

The question arises when you know what problem you want to solve but yet you lack the financial backing to support yourself. Probably, you have the idea of creating something that would be of great value to humanity but unfortunately, there is no financial backing. What do you do? This is the reason why you should pay attention to your financial life.

Building relationships with strategic people and people of influence that would sponsor you financially whenever the need arises is one way to pay attention to your financial life. Joshua S. Nimmak, a well-renowned clergy from Nigeria puts it this way, "If you have to use money to buy everything you desire, then you're truly broke”.  A relationship could be a huge asset that would help you in a lifetime. It is important to pay attention to the people you know who have the potential of becoming great. Build a solid relationship with those kinds of people and you would be grateful you did so for a lifetime because when you need financial assistance at a particular point in time, they will be right there to help you out.  Successful people are also in need of something, try as much as possible to find what that thing is, then use that opportunity to build a relationship with them. 

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