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Success earned without much work or efforts is not truly success. Success
earned through dubious means is not regarded as success, regardless of how
much money you are able to amass through such dubious means.
Even the Bible which most “Prosperity Preaching pastors” use often for their
messages to lure people into their congregation says
“Narrow is the way to success”
“Narrow is the way to life not wide”. Any way that is narrow is difficult to
pass through, it normally takes patience, determination, and strength to
pass through a road that is narrow. And the Bible says the way to success is
not only narrow but also difficult.
Therefore any success that must be a true success, that will earn applauds
from various fields of life cannot be achieved through a one-day work! It
must pass through process, must and can only be achieved through a stage
after stage progress.
The success story of any successful person are not the same, different
people have different story to their success in life.
Lots of young people want to become millionaires overnight, because they
say, “I am destined to be rich and not poor” but they won’t do what it takes
to become successful, they want to cut corners!
Be it any successful musician, writer or a business entrepreneur or even an
enterprise, success is never a day’s work, it is a continuous process. It is
not earned in a day or a week, not in a year!
What many people call success is not what success really is, getting
millions of money through dubious means and lavished within a few days or
week and start looking for N100 to get to a destination or to eat is not
success.That is what I noticed about most "Yahoo Boys".
And to earn true success, it is not an overnight deal like an armed robber
who goes out in the night to rob people and come back in the morning a
millionaire, buying cars when before the night he wasn’t even having a bike!
Ask any true successful person, I mean true businessmen, true entertainers
and celebrities in the world today, they will tell you that becoming a
billionaire was not a one year job, it was continuous work of years turning
into decades that brought them their billions and fame!
Success takes process, true billionaires we have in the world like Paul
Allen- Co-founder of Microsoft,
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO, and even
Bill Gates,
the founder of Microsoft spent years of work, pains, rejections and lots of
sacrifices to bring their name and personality to what it is today.
Even as a Christian, you cannot turn God into a magician, go through stories
of real men of God both in the bible and in our present world.
Abraham, David
and even Jesus all passed through process, various stages before they were
able to establish their brands and name. Abraham was Abram at birth, it took
years of his relationship with God before God changed his name to Abraham
and he didn’t even get an immediate breakthrough on the day God changed his
name, it still took a while. David was anointed by Samuel as king, for
several years before he became the king, God had to take him through a tough
process of training, he trained as a great leader, soldier and fighter such
that when he became the king he was able to defend his people. Look at
Jesus Christ; with all the authority He has, he was first baptized by John before he
started his real mission on earth. He could have started preaching the day
He was born if He wanted to, but I tell you God dislikes breaking of
protocol. What God does is to help you accelerate the process faster when
you are dedicated to Him, but God doesn’t jump process. It will be like a
born again woman who is pregnant and ask God to deliver the child for her in
the third month, that is abortion, and God won’t do it. God follows process,
due process.
I have met with many talented young people, particularly artistes who truly
sing good songs, very creative people. But everyone one of them have
something in common(except maybe one out of so many), they want to jump the
process, they want to be like
Tuface
within a day, if Tuface sits them down and tell them his life story before
he got to where he is today, most of them will never want to go through it.
They will prefer to start from where he was signed in by Kennis Record, they
believe they can sing well, so once they are not being heard it’s a crime on
them by the society, hence they switch into yahoo-yahoo or something worse
to punish the society or to gain quick money.
Many young people who are talented are the most in crime because they feel
offended that their talent is not bringing them money and so they go into
crime.
There is nothing bad in being zealous and ambitious but it is wrong when you
start cutting corners to achieve you goals in life.
Many young people want to cut corners; they want to prostitute their body to
earn money. Various religious groups have condemned the acts of
prostitution; there is great condemnation for prostitutes in the book of
Hosea Chapter two in the Old Testament of the Bible. I recommend that
chapter for any prostitute who truly wants to change, if you read that part
of the Bible and you don’t change then it will only take the grace of God,
maybe through deliverance to save you!
While you cannot succeed without being ambitious, being ambitious is not
cutting corners. Let me tell you what you don’t know about cutting corners,
when you cut corners you set yourself backwards.
Let me explain that- if after graduating you search for job and don’t get
and you decide to go into yahoo-yahoo business, duping people, thinking you
are smart. You use people’s sweat to build houses, to buy cars and sleep in
all the hotels in Lagos. I have never seen one fraudulent person that goes
unpunished. Their end is always a bad end; it’s from one trouble to another,
sometimes police problems, sometimes health problems etc. So eventually all
those assets acquired end up either being lavished on women, or wasted on
police cases, court, some even lose their lives out of reckless
lifestyles!
I have had the opportunity to see yahoo-yahoo boys, and how they live their
lives. Let me describe the life of yahoo-yahoo boy to you. Firstly, a
yahoo-yahoo boy has many friends, they plot and plan on how to ruin people
together, once they succeed in duping someone of large money, they move into
a hotel with their friends where they will lodge with their prostitute
colleagues who normally call themselves “runs girls” for as long as the
money lasts. They will drink heavily, smoke all sorts, sleep with all kinds,
sometimes they manage to buy a “baby boy” Honda car(I write this article
several years back, now what they buy is Benz). Then once the money is
exhausted they sell off the car bought through fraudulent means and keep
spending until they are no longer able to pay their hotel bill, they will
start scheming on how to dupe someone else. During their broke period which
most of the time may last for months before they succeed in preying another
greedy fellow, they will beg you for as little as N50 to use in smoking
weed, or N100 to use for an all-night browsing where they will get some new
prey.
It is shameful! Is that what is called success?
Sometimes they use the car to kill people on the road after being drunk,
sometimes they die too. Many of them spend their money in bribing police
after committing one traffic offence or after being arrested by EFCC, they
are jailed in prison. Some use most of their money to treat sicknesses
because of their unhealthy lifestyle of living from hotel to hotel, sleeping
with thousands of harlots and anything sleep-able!
Prostitutes on the other hand will rent a one-room in a hotel where they
will be up to four of them sometime; they call themselves “runs girls”. They
wake up in the morning hungry, no food to eat and manager of hotel banging
on their doors for them to pay their bills for the day; they wait until
maybe evening when they get their first prey for the day who will probably
pay for sex for maybe N2000 or thereabouts. That will be her first activity
for the day, then she will buy an alcoholic drink, maybe even a spirit,
drink before she thinks of food, after which she will pay half of her daily
rent to the manager. It continues like that on the next day until whenever
God says!
Some prostitutes date rich society men who gives them large amount of money,
but because of a prostitute's lifestyle of keeping to a very high taste when
they have surplus, just like their yahoo-yahoo counterparts, they will buy
Brazilian hairs expensive as N100,000, perfumes as expensive as N20,000.
Most of their money goes to police and doctors. Because of their lifestyle
they are exposed to several sexually transmitted diseases, and even other
health diseases like cancer, liver and kidney diseases because they smoke,
take alcohol in empty stomachs and always have to bribe police because they
keep late nights.
Most prostitutes have bad mood swings; they are usually very sad and have
emotional breakdowns. Many of them are killed by policemen on the road and
lot of them both living and dead have been used by money ritualists. They
are always looking for a better tomorrow but it never comes because giving
up that lifestyle takes the grace of God. They graduate from first year to
second until some of them have been in the profession for almost twenty
years now becoming kingpins in it!
It is better to be ambitious and do your best as much as God will help you.
Once you don’t give up, you will achieve your goals. I have never seen
anyone that didn’t give up that didn’t make it! Cutting corners is not true
success; true success is earned through a continuous process of dedication,
determination, hard work, and focus.
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