Friends, as you begin to build your wealth and do international investments, it will become important to accurately trace and document every amount passing through your accounts.
Properly separate your business & personal expenses and inflows. Stop using your account to receive monies from 3rd parties anyhow. Keep all major invoices.
Some investment opportunities will be denied you because you can't prove the sources of your funds. Even with crypto, find a way to document peer-to-peer transfers and the corresponding crypto inflows. Just be guided generally.
Also it's okay to have an offshore account, as long as you can prove you've already paid taxes on the sums you are transferring. Sha, talk to your tax advisor and accountant for professional advice. 🙏🏾
My mission in life is to help the middle class create wealth. I am amazed at the number of global opportunities that exist for professionals who have a steady income. You don't need to have Dangote like wealth to participate.
Also because Nigeria is currently doing anyhow, most investments need to be in USD to make sense. Remember your Plan B will most likely be Dollar denominated.
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The sacred triad of sustainable friendship or relationship:
1. You share the same core values.
2. You receive and communicate information in similar ways.
3. You can speak each other's love language.
If there's friction in any of these 3 areas, the relationship will need a good measure of sacrifice, counselling, hard work and stubborn committment. This assumes you even have the emotional, spiritual and physical energy to make things work.
Whenever I hear of how the older generation "sacrificed" in their relationships, I wonder about the following:
1. What had to die for the relationship to survive? (Sacrifice)
No matter how educated you are, your nativity always shines through. You will remain a slave to culture & tradition unless you choose otherwise.
You were brought up in a certain way. You inherited one religion or the other. Certain norms and behaviours were ingrained from childhood.
However, one day, you must decide how you want to live your life. You've got to take a critical look at all you believe and decide what serves you well and what is inimical to your progress, happiness and relationships.
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I believe the greatest form of self-awareness is submission. When you understand your human frailties & predilections and you look to God for help, even as you take personal responsibility for your character. 🧵
I have seen too many people do the very things they preached against. So self-awareness is important, as well as awareness of others.
Generally, a lack of self-awareness means you will be completely oblivious to what everyone else around you can see. You exist in a self-righteous bubble, do things without asking for opinions and have a single way of doing things.
Upbringing is important and greatly influences how individuals manage relationships. 🧵
So when people check out the families of those they intend to marry or do business with, I understand. Ideology, lifestyle and values can be shaped by background and family (or the lack thereof).
The thing about learning about a person's family or upbringing is, it helps breed understanding. It should never be done in judgment. We all have our baggage. So, no one is superior.
When people say communication is everything in relationships, what they fail to emphasise is that there is no substantive communication without speaking the same language. 🧵
The parties will fail to grasp what the other really means and will be confused by seemingly outsized reactions to little things.
While interpreters can help - counsellors - they cannot sustain day-to-day dialogue.
Many don't see what's behind the veil of grand ideas. They think of visionaries as sexy and charismatic but don't know they are very hardworking too. 🧵
What people call success is a result of many concepts, meetings, documents, brainstorms, prototypes, strategies and so on. Some boring, repetitive and tiring. It's why some people who always look for activity, excitement and stimulation rarely follow through on anything great.
They scarcely deliver on lengthy projects unless sustained by brilliant administrative support. The behind-the-scenes process of achievement can be sheer tedium.