When in Need, Create and Give Value

“The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.” Idowu Koyenikan

Most of the wealthy people you know of where once in need. So if you are in need right now, know that it’s not the end of the world. It was the beginning for many people. What do you do when you are in need? Most people go about asking people to help them. The thing about asking people for a handout when you are in need is that you develop the begging mentality. That is the product of a scarcity mentality.

I am really grateful that I had developed an abundance mentality prior to becoming in need. You really know people when you are in need. Everybody was more concerned about their needs than mine. There was just nothing I could do. Yes, there was. I could have dusted my certificate and started searching for a job or even begging people for handouts. But those things could have taken me away from my destiny.

I decided that I have to find a way out of the needy state I found myself in. I had no source of income. I had mouths to feed and many other things to take care of. I believe the reason why I didn’t resort to begging was simply that I had healthy self-esteem. I believed I there is a way out and I have the ability to make it out.

I have encountered people who lost their jobs and became professional beggars. While they were working, they never invest in the building of their self-esteem. They never really saw value in themselves, so they never invested oil themselves to bring out the value. When they find themselves in need, all they can do is call on friends and relatives to keep helping them out.

I started giving the little value I could create. I gave them free. I knew that giving is the best and proven way out of every need. When I started giving, something started happening with them. I was getting free of the needs and was beginning to see that there is more than enough. Giving puts you in the abundant state.

In that abundance state, ideas came to me easily and I kept giving out value. Before I knew what I was earning 6 figure income. I broke the back of need by giving. I still do the same thing today. Once I noticed that I am in need, I know that it is time to start giving and the more I give, the more I will get back. The greatest evil that destroys people is getting money that you don’t create value for.

Creating & Giving Value

You have to be in abundance state to create and give value. If you are I a needy or scarcity state, you will eat to take from people rather than give to them. Giving on its own will not end your need, rather by changing your mindset, your state gets changed. To help you be I abundance state, do the following:

See Opportunities in Your Need: It is hard to see beyond your need when you have a scarcity mentality. Your focus is on your need. But when you have an abundance mentality, your focus will be no the possibilities in the need. If you have a need, it means there are more people with that need. You can start giving by encouraging them.

Give Instead of Beg: No matter how deeply in need you are, there is always something you have that you can give others. Begging is giving up on yourself. It’s not a virtue. There was this ma who was I need years back and had nothing to give, yet he gave a pencil and even the button of his shirt. Today, he is rich and has given out about 30 jets as gifts. If you have the abundance mindset, you will always give no matter how needy you are.

Focus on Others Rather Than Yourself: Your need will make you focus on yourself and you will see the world through your needs. You will pity yourself. But then you begin to focus on others that is you will notice their needs and then create a solution to meet it. Inn the times of my need when my landlord gave me quit notice, I wrote a book, Business Secret of Oyedepo and gave a number out for free. It solved the business challenge of may people. By helping them with their needs, I had my needs taken care of.

The Need is Not A End: Most people commit suicide when they have needs because they believe that it is the end of them. I believed that everything will turn out better because there is a way. I didn’t give in to self-pity. Instead, I found out what I needed to do to get out of the need and kept doing it. I didn’t give in to fatalistic thought that things will change on their own, rather I believed if I do the right thing, things will change.

Invest in My Growth: The last thing anyone who has a need will ever do is to read a book or invest in their growth. Their focus is on their need not on their value. You must see value in yourself to invest in yourself. I get my greatest ideas when in need because I take time to invest in my growth. You have to grow above your need to be free of it.

Believe There is More Than Enough: Most people in need believe everything is scarce. If you want to create value, you must change your belief. You have to get to believe that everything is created in abundance. When you believe there is more than enough for everyone, you will not hoard your value instead you will share it with people. When you give, your world will expand.

When Value Givers are in need, they make a way out of their need by creating and giving value to people. No matter how in need you are, if you do these things, you will get out of it. That's the way of Value Givers.

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