Start Something From Where You Are, With What You Have

Greatness is only possible for whoever starts something. Great companies started small. Some of them started in their sitting rooms, warehouses, dormitories, garages and so on. Many of them have unimaginable beginnings - Google was a PhD project and incorporated in the garage of a friend at Menlo Park; Dell computer started in one of the dormitories of the University of Texas; Coca Cola emerged in a bid to find a substitute for a problematic drug called Morphine and the Coca Cola recipe was formulated at a drugstore in Columbus, Georgia. The list is endless.

Do not be shackled by the chain of job security. It is an illusion - there is no job security anywhere. Stop allowing people to determine what you do with your life. Your employer largely determine what you do with your life - the kind of food you eat; the school your children attend; the apartment in which you live; the places you travel to; the type of car you drive. It is not wrong to start as an employee but it is damning, limiting, disadvantageous and destructive to remain an employee. Your salary is meant to be saved to start your own establishment; it is not meant to be spent recklessly. I hope you will not be submitting your CV at age of 40. If everybody was an employee, who would create jobs and feed the nation? Take it or leave it, employees are modern slaves who do the bidding of their employers. The only difference is that they now wear suits and knot ties with no chain around their neck.

They eagerly look forward to Fridays and hope that Monday will never come again. Some people even bank on their pensions. My dear, the pension scheme is a ponzi scheme whereby the current generation of employees payback the pensions of past generations. GOD help you the future generations are incapacitated to pay your pension, it will be very sad. Wake up, your pension is not reliable. There are visible evidence of retired government workers who are suffering now after spending years in different government and private establishments. Take a clue from them and be wise.

Start something from where you are with what you have - you can start with that little savings in your account. For how long are going to wait to start something? You can do better than you are doing right now. Do not be afraid to go solo and start something on your own. Stop selling your labour - it is shameful that you graduated with a good grade from a higher institution and you cannot create a job with your seemingly superior mental power. Many first class and second class graduates have the brain power but they are weak in their mind to start a company, to create a job even to save their own future.

They excelled in an academic setting and regimented examinations but they are cringing in the real world and constantly failing real life examinations and tests. Is not that an irony? Take your destiny into your hands. I can bet it with you that you will later regret every indecision, procrastination, fear of failure, the lack of gut; excuses being given by you and the blame game which you are playing now. Before now, President Goodluck Jonathan was the reason people were giving to excuse their personal failures and ineptitude but now, President Buhari is the latest song on people's lips. Keep blaming the government while you fail at your responsibilities.

Leave the government alone and look inward - government will never be perfect. May GOD help everyone of us. Do not forget that It is never too late to start something today....!!!