In the song "Billionaire" by Travis McCoy and Bruno Mars, Bruno Mars sing; "I wanna be a billionaire so freaking bad, buy all of the things I never had. I wanna appear on the cover of Forbes Magazine, standing next to Oprah and the Queen. But every time I close my eyes, I see my name in shinning lights. A different city every night, oh wow, I swear, the world better prepare, for me when I become a billionaire.
I love this song and I still do. But my love for it goes beyond just the song. It shines the light on the wishful thinking of two young men who are talking about their desires to become rich (Billionaires) at all cost. Because the glits and glamour that come with being a billionaire must be so thrilling and exciting.
Like them, we all see millionaires and billionaires and desire so much to be like them and enjoy the same kind of glits and the flashy lifestyle that they are enjoying.
But permit me to draw your mind on to something important, Have we all thought about the painful sacrifices most of them had to go through before they got to where they are now.
There are also people ( especially young men and women of our current generation who assume or think that every rich person got his wealth or money by evil or foul means, hence they don't deserve their wealth.
Here is the sad part and the reality that most of us do not know and tragically may never understand, most rich or wealthy men worked hard and sacrificed almost everything they loved and cared about to get what they have now. So just like in the principles of Napoleon Hill, you cannot just desire and wish to be rich, you have to work for it. You have to have a stronger desire bigger than yourself sometimes to work hard to achieve something, achieve a purpose and build a dream which eventually can have money value.
As Christians, sadly, some of us think that we can pray loudly and shout out all the spiritual words of spiritual forces of success into being to help us become rich, but that will never be possible. Because even God did not create the world out of wishful thinking or by chance, he designed, planned and executed perfectly each of his creation before he spoke them into existence. That is, he already knew what he wanted a tree to like before he brought them to life, he knew what human beings must look like before he created us. If that is not careful planning and design, then tell me what that is?
Prayer is not part of the success equation. Having a plan and working hard with a strategy is the success equation. Steve Harvey once said this; "Don't ever go before God with a prayer, before you go to him with a prayer, have a plan and vision first about what you want to do. I believe God sees through a deligent person who has an undying determination to do something meaningful with his or her life. Not just a prayer warrior or a prophetic person.
Learn to effectively use righteousness and the success equation to your advantage. And you will make it too I promise you. Not the other way around. You will be sorely disappointed if you think only the latter will carry you through.
The world moves in principles and codes not just by accidental design or some magic from space. So do well to adjust accordingly based on how each of these principles works.
One last thing before I end, to my fellow young men and women do not disrespect wealthy or rich people or for that matter hard working people, because you saw one person using his or hers in an unacceptable ways. Not everyone acquired what he or she has through dubious means.
The irony of it though, this our generation don't have anything sustainable of worth to show for the things we do yet we want to rob shoulders with those who have sustained their wealth or money for years.
How is that possible?? Are we ready to sacrifice something of worth?
Are we ready to serve and take instructions?
And are we ready to adapt or change in uncomfortable environments??
The night does not come before the day. Be prepared to follow and adapt to rules and principles.
We attract what we work and plan for not what we wish for.
I rest my case.
*Kwame Sarpong*
*Freelance Writer*
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