YOU CAN DO BETTER #MondayInspiration with Gabriel Olatunji-Legend

Gabriel Olatunji (OLATUNJISPEAKS)

As forgetful as I can be I couldn’t forget this statement I heard from a friend some years ago, she said - ‘Excuses are like arm-pit, they stink.’

How pathetic it is for a young man to gain admission into the higher institution, spend over four years and in some cases eight years for a four year course, and manage to graduate into an association of job seekers! I thought education was supposed to empower and enable young people to think independently, to offer solutions to life problems and to be a blessing to the society!

What do we have today? A bunch of certificate holding young people parading the street in search of a job when it has become obvious to even the uneducated mind that the way to go in this new century is not Job security but offering ‘value adding services’.

The silly excuse often given by young people in this country for not maximizing their potential is appalling and calls for urgent correction. A 24 years old Nigerian guy owns a university; Yes, you heard me right – he owns a university. Basketmouth, the popular A-List Nigerian comedian was 15 years old when he started comedy. Muhammed Ali started boxing at the age of 12, won the coveted Olympic Gold medal at 18, then went on to win a world title. Omojuwa started his blog at the age of 25, he’s 29 years today and he’s already making national impact. Lionel Messi won the world title at the age of 23 and has consistently won it afterwards. Imagine how old Teju Babyface was when he starred in the movie, Diamond Ring; he became a successful comedian shortly after that. Omotola Jalade Ekeinde started acting before she was 18years old; became a star a few years down the line. The Facebook guy (Mark Zuckerberg) is just 28 years old if am correct; at this age our graduates here are still looking for a N50, 000 (About $313) salary jobs – Come on guys; You can do better!

I need your mind to open to possibilities. You are still very young, you should be very active. This is when you should organize that seminar you’ve always wanted to; this is when you should write that book you’ve always desired to write; this is when you should open that blog and give Linda Ikeji and Omojuwa a run for their money; this is when you should start that business and become an employer of labour rather than lifetime membership in the labour market.

Invest the same amount of time you are deploying to complain, look for job, abuse and criticize into making your name an institution in a particular field and few years down the line we will be begging for your account number.

As forgetful as I can be, I couldn’t forget this statement I heard from a friend some years ago, she said - ‘Excuses are like arm-pit, they stink!’



Gabriel Olatunji (@OLATUNJISPEAKS on Twitter) is an Entrepreneur, Solution Strategist and a speaker of the word. You can reach him on olatunjispeaks@gmail.com or for intelligent conversation add him on Blackberry Messenger: 

How to Become a Millionaire in One Year #MondayInspiration

Gabriel Olatunji (OLATUNJISPEAKS)

“Any enterprise is built by wise planning, becomes strong through common sense, and profits wonderfully by keeping abreast of the facts.”



Have you ever given it a deep thought how Aliko Dangote and Mike Adenuga keep getting rich? I did and this is my discovery.

You and I are the ones enriching them! How? Every single time I recharge my Globacom line or Modem; every single time I use Dangote salt to cook and every single time I need to build a house.

You don’t have to be as rich as these guys to never be stranded again financially, you only need to apply the same laws they are applying though on a smaller scale for you to also experience a financial turn-around.



Sell a Product or Offer a Service that brings in cash Regularly

By regularly, I mean daily or weekly! The funny thing is you don’t have to quit your job to do this; you could employ the service of a younger person to manage for you. Sell small chops, snacks, Asun, Shawarma, bread, shoes, bags, clothes etc to atleast 80 people on a single day and you will see your financial portfolio rising than before. Where do you find large number of people on a single day? It could be churches, mosques, weddings, event centers, conferences, concerts, stadiums, bus junctions and many other places.

You can make a profit of N5000 to N10000 in a single day and if you are smart you will multiply your success by increasing the number of your sales point or clients (for those offering a service) thereby doubling, tripling or even quadrupling your profit in a single day. Do not assume that this will be an easy venture but any productive result is a result of some diligent effort.



Saving to Become a Millionaire

I sat down to calculate how much you need to save to become a millionaire in one year or two and discovered that you only need to save approximately N2800 or N1400 daily. You might want to question this and ask - where do I want you to get N2800 or N1400 in a day? But multiply it by seven days and it will give us N19600 or N9800 in a week and in a month it will give us N84000 or N42000.  Some of you collect as high as N80000 or N100000 in a month and saving up N42000 should not be a big deal for you to become a millionaire in two years; some of you have spent over three years on the job already, if you had followed this rule you would have saved your first million already.

I am aware that some people do not make up to that in a month and even those who do might not be able to save as much as that due to other commitments. This is where you need to add a new stream of income that I mentioned earlier – sell something or offer a service that will give you a profit of N10000 and above on a weekly basis.



Let’s Conclude

I do not want to write a part two of this which is why I will wrap up with one or two sentences and hope that the point is driven home enough for you to be on your way to financial freedom.

Discipline is paramount if this must work! If all the above suggestion of what to sell or service to offer does not suit you, feel free to contact me via email or Blackberry and we can discuss further.

This is a free advise for whoever is concerned – if you are a veteran in a field, if you know something that people will be ready to pay for or you have built something successful that people will want to build; you should write a book, make an audio recording and video recording of all that you are sure people will want to pay to have, sell at an affordable price and strategize on how over two thousand people can buy your product – you can even become a millionaire instantly with this idea but the goal is to help you make money on a regular basis that can be put up into your Millionaire savings account.

There are so many things to say that I cannot wrap up here but let me say this, open a Recurring Deposit account in any bank that offer such services (it is like a Fixed Deposit account but can be opened for as low as N5000) – an account where you can put money but cannot withdraw from for a period of one or two years and some banks even offer between seven to ten percent of the money in the account when you want to get your money back – that is also making money work for you.

I hope with these few points of mine I have been able to offer solutions to some of your financial challenges? I am open to further discussions as I just shared from my little knowledge and would love to learn from you too.

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Gabriel Olatunji (@OLATUNJISPEAKS on Twitter) is an Entrepreneur, Solution Strategist and a speaker of the word. You can reach him on olatunjispeaks@gmail.com or for intelligent conversation add him on Blackberry Messenger: 

THE ART OF TRAINING #MondayInspiration

| Gabriel Olatunji



It doesn’t matter if you think you are too old, you have no money or you won’t ever be a success. You only need one opportunity. The reason why people fail in life is not because opportunities don’t show up but because they fail to prepare for opportunities. Your opportunities will eventually come but will you have been trained enough to manage that billion dollar project?



Train before Opportunity

“The best time to teach a president is before he becomes the president” – That is one of the truest statement I have heard in my life. You can apply that statement to every area of leadership.  Here are some examples; the best time to train a coach is before he gets hired by a football club, the best time to train a pastor is before he found a church, the best time to train a CEO is before assuming the position, and the best time to train a leader is before he occupies a position. You can’t become a flight captain without attending the school of Aviation.

Life has opportunities for you but when you fail to train you lose out on the opportunities.



What you Don’t Know

Those who train usually go farther than those who don’t. Training gives you a leverage, shapes you into a better you but when you fail to train you remain the same. School is a form of training but school do not truly enlighten, education does. Training is education! I said in one of my speeches that, ‘If you are not skillful, you won’t be useful’. The reason why someone else got hired over you is because of what they know that you don’t. It’s time to go back to school, and by that I don’t mean the conventional school.



Reading is Training

Reading is supposed to put you on the frequency of the author. It’s suppose to make you reason at the same level the author is reasoning. A book is an opportunity to resolve life issues the way the author would have done; this is one of the reasons why you should watch what you read because you will eventually become what you read. When you read all the sexy and romantic magazines, sex won’t be far from your mind and life. When you read about business you will most likely start a business – it’s a rule of life.



Getting Picked Always

If we both apply for a job or contract and you prove to be more qualified than I am, not necessarily by academic standard but by your knowledge of the job; you are likely to get hired than I do. Check your industry (ministry, business, corporate, entertainment etc) and you will discover that those who are ahead usually have better knowledge and understanding of the craft more than the others.

Apply for a three weeks course, attend that seminar, be at every conference that is related to your industry and let those who know more than you in the industry train you.

If you want to get picked all the time before anybody else, your level of training counts.



I am Gabriel Olatunji-Legend and you can follow me on twitter:  @OLATUNJISPEAKS. I am an Entrepreneur and I Speak.