FACEBOOK’S LUTHERKING

Youths of our generation are so deluded and hide or mask themselves under the cover of generalities, 21st century/social media adages and modern day proverbs, sayings such as “it doesn’t matter whether your peers are succeeding now”, “everyone has his time”, and “the fact that others are succeeding now doesn’t mean I won’t succeed”. As much as these sayings might be true, many hide under them, these people have become social media activists, 21^st century Gani’s and facebook Lutherkings advocating for the rights of the lazy, reposting and sharing them knowing fully well that these sayings doesn’t apply to them and isn’t the cause of their problems and predicaments. These people know fully well that their problems stem from laziness, they are very lazy, gods of procrastination and kings of sleep and yet they say “when my time come, I go make am”, True! Your time will come, True! You will be successful, but your success would only be in your dreams because unfortunately for you , when your time came, you were sleeping, when that opportunity knocked at your door you didn’t recognize it, you didn’t recognize it because you didn’t open the door when it knock because you were busy sleeping or procrastinating by saying “I’ll attend to this later”.

This our shortcomings allow us have the time and energy to criticize our leaders for not making life easy for you, you are annoyed with these leaders because, as a result of your bad attitude and character you’ve made things bad for yourself and you are so lazy to work you way out of the mess you’ve caused for yourself and as a result you look for someone you can lay the blame on for your predicament, unfortunately for the leaders, they become the victim. This is not to exonerate the leaders (the political leaders in this sense) of their sins as they are also guilty of gross misconducts.

This is a wakeup call to Nigerian Youths. “Let’s stand up, rise and work for our future”. Destiny is a delicate thing, pamper and care for it and it will grow to become beautiful, treat it carelessly and it becomes bleak. We hold our destinies in our hands, we hold the destiny of Nigeria in our hands; let’s not destroy that sleep on the sleep, procrastination and laziness. We have our future in our hands; let’s not allow generalities and the social media façade cloud our reality.

This is a message to me and every growth seeking Nigerian Youth.

As part of our initiative for helping the Nigerian Youth grow, GIDI STEEL has come up with a monthly giveaway which was formerly just segmented to the Nigerian Youth entrepreneur but now open to every growth seeking Nigerian youth. This giveaway is tagged #mygillionairestory. You stand a chance to win #5,000 for writing your story about any experience whatsoever in whatever career field you are specialized in, this story might be about an incident in the past in your career, either a good or bad encounter in your career experience and it should carry the ingredient of being either educative, informative, inspiring or entertaining.

                                                                                                                                                                   GIDEON PAUL

    

MY GILLIONAIRE STORY

The theme of the competition that was talked about in the previous post is #mygillionairestory

The competition is plain and simple, as an entrepreneur write a captivating, motivational or touching story of an experience you've had in your entrepreneurial journey, it might be a success story or a failure along the way. This story should be creatively written. The aim is to engage entrepreneurial minds on this platform and for the learning process of the budding entrepreneur.

ELIGIBILITY:  those eligible to participate in the competition must fulfill the following criteria:

1. Be an entrepreneur between the ages of 18 and 35.

2. Must be following this platform.

3. Your story must be realistic

4. You must be a Nigerian.

5. You must have a Nigerian bank account

How to participate:

To participate, you simple post your story on your page and tag @gidisteel and also use #mygillionairestory hashtag, your story will be reposted on this page, then you invite your friends and family to like your story on this page, the story with the highest like wins the cash prize of 5k which will be given at the end of the month, as such you have a whole month to garner as many likes as possible to increase your chance of winning the 5k at the end of the month.

PS: in a situation where the most creative story doesn't win the competition for that month, I'll give the writer of that story a special gift. The competition starts from 1st of June, 2017

THE NEW LEVEL OF WEALTH

As a young boy in primary school, I had many dreams, goals and aspirations, part of which was to become the richest man in the world. I dreamt of becoming the richest man in the world but I didn’t know the path I would take to achieve this or get to that level of wealth, as a matter of fact I didn’t have any idea or knowledge of the word ‘entrepreneur’ talk more of taking entrepreneurship as a career path. I also dreamt of becoming a soldier (I’m guessing someone is saying “this guy is confused”, a guy is allowed to dream *smile*).

When I grew a little older (by this time I was in secondary school) and realized that the richest man in the world (Bill Gates) was worth billions of dollars I began to dream again and made up my mind that I would be the first trillionaire in history, mind you, I’m measuring these wealth in dollars. This mind-set made me so allergic to the idea of ever being poor.

I started studying about wealthy guys, guys like Mansa Musa 1 of Mali who is regarded as the richest man of all time with a net worth of about 400 billion dollars, John D Rockefeller, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Carlos Slim, I even started to estimate how wealthy Solomon I the Bible was.

I felt if I had attained the level of a trillionaire (in dollars), I had attained the highest level of wealth. How wrong was I! I couldn’t be any wronger! (Excuse my French)

As I grew older, I started to learn about entrepreneurship till it became my passion. I started many entrepreneurial ventures and small businesses (mind you entrepreneurship and business have different meanings although commonly used interchangeably, but they are closely related), some I failed at, others I succeeded at, most times I just blew my profits, but I learnt a lot and I’m the better for it. Today, I have many stories to tell in my business/entrepreneurial journey.

Along the line, I stumbled on my biggest discovery yet; I found a new level of wealth in which I will reveal to you. This level of wealth is called “The Gillionaire’s” level. Meaning we have, the millionaire, the billionaire, the trillionaire…and the gillionaire.

Unlike the other levels of wealth earlier mentioned where your wealth is determined by how much you have, the gillionaire level is determined by how much you don’t have, that is, how much you give out. It doesn’t necessarily have to be cash; it is just how much of yourself you give out to the society, how much the society feels your impact or how much you do to improve your society. Based on the Holy Bible in Acts 20:35 where it is said that “it is more blessed to give than to receive”, the ideology behind the word “gillionaire” is captured in the first letter “G”. The letter “G” in gillionaire connotes many things as you will see.

A gillionaire is an entrepreneur who is God fearing, a giver, a goal chaser, an agent of real and positive change, a gillionaire impacts his society for good.

It is often said that givers never lack, a gillionaire carries the “givers never lack” mind-set which makes them exert themselves more to the betterment of the society. A gillionaire is active and has the strength and vigour of a youth.

In its entirety, a gillionaire is an entrepreneur with a difference, an entrepreneur who is anointed for business and uses his/her influence in the market place to touch lives and help make the world a meaningful place to live. Once you’ve reached this level of wealth, you earn joy, true satisfaction from the insatiable wants of man and you become the wealthiest man in the world. 

    ARE YOU A GILLIONAIRE?

Gidi Steel is a company that wants to help build a generation of gillionaires by helping start-ups and young entrepreneurs in Nigeria grow. As part of our mission to help and support start-up businesses and young entrepreneurs in Nigeria, we’ll be introducing an online Gillionaires competition and give away from next month (1st June). You have the opportunity to win cash prize from this competition and gain a lot. Don’t miss out of this opportunity.

This competition will be specifically for IG, so check out our IG page @gidisteel for details of the competition.