How to invest your salary for a rewarding lifetime returns

The degree of value you have for anything is base on the information you have about it. I want to take this time to throw more light on how powerful your salary is which you might not have taken time to consider .

Just like every tree bears a fruit and inside every fruit is a seed which can be planted to produce the same tree from which it was gotten . 

So I want us to take every company to be the tree and the job it offers to be the fruit it bears and salaries paid to each person to be the seed inside the fruits .With this simple scenario in mind ,we will focus our minds on the salary to be a seed that can be planted to produce a company  which can pay the same salary given to the employee.

 Just like the power of a seed is not in it size but in it ability to produce a tree, so is every salary that comes into our hand no matter how small it is. A mustard seed is the smallest of all seed but produce one of  biggest trees on earth.

There are only two things we can do with a seed,we either eat it or plant it. If we eat it ,then that becomes the end of that seed but if we plant it ,we will not only get the seed back but a tree that can produce multiple seed.

So each month your salary hits your account or in what ever form your receive it ,just know a seed to produce a company that can pay the same salary has been sent to you.

If you take your salary every month and keep using to meet your needs ,you will always be in need of more salary from that job to survive but if u take that salary and plant it like a seed ,then oneday you will become a master payer and you wouldn't need to spend the rest of your life in that company .

How to invest your salary as a seed 

It amazing how people take their salaries and what changes first in their life is their lifestyle whiles their life remain the same .Some gets good dresses ,new cars and many things to make their life beautiful .There is nothing wrong with that because you can only use your salary according to the knowledge you knew how to use it.

The first things you should use your money for is to change your value .Changing your value is what really changes your life .And there is nothing really to change in a man that will change his value other than his  mind.

A man's life is regulated by his mind ,his perception of life and how he respond to it, all originate from his mind. Your mind will either keep you in bondage or either give you the freedom you need. The way a man sees the world around him are all base on the orientation of his mind.

The differences in nations are not in the availability of the natural resources  but what they have train their mind to accomplish.

So to summarise everything we have  shared so far ,when you take your salary to invest into your wardrobe to look good of which there is nothing wrong with it ,don't leave the investment into your mind out.

Everyday on your way to work there are thousands of ideas your eyes sees that can help you become rich beyond what you have  ever imagined  but your mind is not trained enough to see them . You maybe looking at them  and you might have even complain about them before  but you are not seeing them as your opportunity to start a business with .

Let me share a short story with you .Two men who worked with a shoe company were sent to an African country and after the trip each made a report to the MD of the company .One said the people walk on bear foot so there is no way the company will thrive in such an environment because no one would want to wear a shoe but the other guy's report says that there are a lot of opportunities to sell shoes to everyone in that nations with a good marketing plan because no one had a shoe on ,so we will make more sales .The MD promoted the guy with the second report and fired the first guy because he lacks the ability to see opportunities that can make fortunes for the company.

So this is the story of many people today ,they lack ability to see the enormous opportunities around them because their minds aren't trained  enough to see them.

If you consider yourself to be an investor don't leave the investment into your mind .Invest your salary into your mind and you will begin to see the businesses your salary can accomplish which already exist around you but you can't see them.

No one knew there was an opportunity to make the whole world socialise until Facebook was born. No one knew there was an opportunity to make people rent out a room in their house for a short stay until Airbnb was born. No one knew you can sell chicken and chips until KFC was born. No one knew there was an opportunity to sell online to the whole world until Amazon was born.

Do you know how many opportunities are still hidden and no one sees them. The reason is all due to the limitation of the human mind.

How to make an investment into your mind to help you see opportunities around you that others don't see.

Let agree on the fact that to achieve anything in life what you need is time. And as we are about to take a look at some few steps to take ,someone might complain they don't have enough time to take these lessons but it all about making adjustment in our normal life .A person who may complain he or she doesn't have enough time spend hours on social media everyday ,so the same way you can make an adjustment to spend some little time to improve yourself which you will not be doing for the rest of your life but just for a short period to improve the capacity of your mind.

First is to self educate yourself by reading books either in voice or soft copy or in print .Begin by reading books on entrepreneurship. Entrepreneur is someone who identifies need yet to be addressed and design a solution to meet that need. So providing yourself with self education on this subject is a good start.

Second is to watch online video on this entrepreneurship and how to start and grow a business  on YouTube .You can even get a lot of access to online audio books as well.

Thirdly is to sign up for online courses on the several free online schools like Edx and Cousera to get trained by experts on business. As you do this just within few months you will see yourself to be a different person in your level of reasoning 

Fourthly is to hook up with online business mentors that can be very helpful to you .With these people, you can actually ask question on your peculiar need and get answers.

Once an investment has been made to build an excellent mind that can identify business opportunities, the next thing to do is to step into the water .Knowledge will never change a man's life until he put it to work .You may never have gotten the opportunity to read this blog if I just decided to write and never came to write.

So once you identify a business opportunity you will have to invest into it but prior to you investing, you have to set aside an amount of money from your salary every month and name it investing fund   and from that money you will first spend some into the cost of improving yourself and also use the rest to do business .Take a percentage of your salary every month let say 2%,5%/ or 10% etc that you are comfortable with and keep that money for investment. 

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Written by

Michael Analambano

(Business developer)

analambano@gmail.com