MR. AND MRS. ENDOWED

A house in Victoria Garden City. A Lexus, three Toyotas, and one Maserati parked in the expansive garage. A six digit account balance, plus gold chains, wrist watches, bracelets, ear rings, nose rings......gold everything.

That is the kind of life that a lot of us envisage when we think about the good life. And that’s just to start. Most of us also want to have yachts and private planes.

Well, you’re not wrong to think that way! I’m also in your camp.

I fantasize about living a very comfortable life with billions at my spending pleasure. I think about wining and dining with presidents and heads of states. I want the good life!

Wanting the good life is not bad. The problem lies in not having the right perspective of what a good life is.

Money is very important. I would be a raving lunatic to propound otherwise. Even the Holy Bible says, ‘Money answereth all things.’ The place of money can never be over stated! But then brother, my sister....money should never be your goal.

A lot of us go to school and read diligently all in a bid to get the ‘almighty’ certificate. Many of us are not genuinely on a quest for knowledge. We do whatever it takes to pass, forget about the subject totally, and move on to the next course. We do not read to equip our minds. We read to regurgitate. Garbage In Garbage Out (GIGO). That’s what we do!

However, a huge portion of the blame for that lies on the shoulders of the government. The universities are not adequately equipped to be the citadels of learning, wisdom and knowledge that they are meant to be.

The laboratories are merely functioning, and sometimes, students have to contribute money to get the job done. The lecturers are always grumbling about non payment of salaries. Tell me, how can they function optimally?

But enough said! No matter the circumstances, we should continually increase our mind power.

In this rapidly changing world, information is the highest currency that a person can have. Your certificate is only as good as the paper on which it’s printed on. Uhm, uhm.

The proof of your education lies in your mind. Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in 2004 to begin Facebook. He was barely twenty at the time.

This was a young man who realised that his mind is not bound by school walls or library doors. He accepted that his mind is limitless, and he tapped into that potential to create program that billions of people all over the world can’t do without.

Mind power. That’s the real asset!

When this understanding dawned on me (Don’t forget, I said I’m also in your camp), I had a re-awakening.

I re-ordered my priorities and vowed to soak up as much information as I possibly could. But not just for the heck of it, I decided to merge and weld information together to create things of my own.

That’s the good life, I tell you! Creating things that will give other people joy. Things that will inspire millions of others into creating things of their own. Awesome!

The human mind is bestowed with a unique ability to soak up more information than you can think of. As a matter of fact, a group of psychologists once stated, after research, that the average human being utilizes only about 20% of his/her brain power. Wetin we dey take the remaining do? We wan chop am (What do we want to do with the remaining space? Eat it?)

Seriously. You might not have the physical attributes of ‘Superman,’ or ‘Wonder girl,’ but by the sheer potency of your mind, you are Mr./Mrs. Endowed.

Leave it! That’s the fact. A car is a liability. It only depletes your resources; and de-values quite rapidly. The only thing it increases is your face value, which is only for a period of time anyway.

Gold chains, Blackberry phones, trips to Europe......are material things that can be bought. But your mind is an asset that is invaluable. That means you can’t put a price to it.

Today, Mark Zuckerberg can buy whatever it is that he fancies. Come on, the guy is twenty some billion Dollars rich!

If you want the good life, you have to reach deep into your mind and create things. Could be a product, an idea, an invention, a service....anything.  Then, will you be qualified to be called Mr./Mrs. Endowed.