Musa was raised in a financially strapped family. His dad worked as a lecturer at a state polytechnic at low income and then started a few businesses which all failed to pick up. He supported four children of which Musa was the third plus his mom, a teacher at an elementary school.
Things were tight. Apart from the basics - food, housing and education fees, there was simply no money for anything else. Toys, clothes, games etc. Musa hated not having money to buy these things and determined from an early age that if he wanted the freedom that financial success afforded, he was going to have to get it himself. So, at age 17, he left home, travelled to a different state where he rented a single room in a rural area. With no job, little money, and sub-par people skills, things quickly became tough.
Musa though was determined to succeed. He sat down and wrote out all of his financial goals, both short, medium and long term. He knew that since he had no university education and had no interest in acquiring one, he needed to find alternative ways to make himself valuable to people. This entailed having a skill. But Musa understood that if he was going to get to the big bucks relatively fast, he couldn't learn just any skill........it had to be a high income skill.
Which brings us to lesson number one:- The first step to going from no money to plenty money relatively quickly is learning a high income skill. Examples of high income skills include investing, analysis, programming to mention but a few.
Musa also knew that learning this high income skill was going to take a while, possibly years. Meanwhile, he had left home! He had to stay somewhere, feed, cloth, pay bills and generally maintain himself. These obviously involved money which he didn't have saved up. So he planned to get a job - any job that paid his bills while he learnt his skill. He looked around and got a job at a betting shop. He worked there even as he applied himself to thoroughly learning the ins and outs of analysis.
Fast forward 7 years and Musa was now a skilled analyst/consultant operating independently and specialising in the sports sector. He developed patterns, made deductions and advised clients on outcomes they could invest in and be sure of making profits. Soon he was making a decent income monthly from his efforts.
Remembering the financial goals he had laid out several years back, he knew that totally relying on his skills as an analyst wasn't going to be enough. He was going to have to step up his efforts if he wanted to scale up his income and status. He was making money now and after extracting the little he needed to meet his basic expenses, he vowed to make the rest profitably work for him. In other words, he had to invest wisely......
Around that time, a new form of currency hit the market. Known as cryptocurrencies, these currencies served as alternative means of payment to normal money. What's more, they had fluctuating values in relation to other forms of money making them prospective investments for the investor. Being an analyst, Musa did his research and discovered that the value of cryptos as they were called was going to shoot up in the near future.
He invested a portion of his savings, watched trends for a bit and soon enough, the values shot up just as he had predicted. He converted his cryptos back to cash, making serious profits in the process.
Which brings us to lesson number two:-
Once you're making decent income from your high income skill, the next step to going from no money to plenty money is by making wise investments. These could be one-off investments like Musa's above or ongoing. They could also be in any industry - Real estate, Precious metals, etc.
A big part of financial success is passive income. That is income that comes in without you having to regularly work for it. You do the work once, setting up the income stream and you get paid over and over.
Musa understood the importance of this to his financial goals and had begun making plans to achieve it. He had discovered certain secrets and tricks to skilled analysis in the sports sector. He rightly deduced that this information was worth money to others, so why not sell it to them? He created a course where he distilled these knowledge and made it available for sale. He set up a blog online where he regularly posted content displaying his expertise as a skilled analyst even as he marketed his course.
With time, his blog attracted traffic who quickly realised that they were reading the contents of a truly skilled analyst and several ended up buying his course. Musa was now an entrepreneur, another milestone achieved.
Entrepreneurship is the third step to going from no money to plenty money. What do you know? What are you good at? Regardless of how trivial you think this knowledge might be, it is worth money to others. Look for these people, make this information available to them and be surprised at what happens.
Musa wasn't surprised though. In fact, it was a no brainer to him. Accurate as ever in his deductions, the success he was seeing selling his course as an entrepreneur had been long predicted and even expected.
Now making a very high income monthly from his skills, investments and entrepreneurial ventures, Musa was truly free. He lived life on his terms, travelled wherever and whenever he wanted to and generally had a lifestyle unthinkable to many.
While this success might get to the heads of others, Musa didn't let his success do this. He prided himself on being spiritual and firmly believed in giving back out of his abundance. He researched charities and missions whose causes he resounded with and donated significant sums to them. He also set up foundations to assist the gifted who had limited means of harnessing their talents.
Sitting in his home office, reminiscing and looking around at how far he had come in life, he had confirmed for himself that indeed no one had any excuses for not succeeding in life. Given the right drive, determination and strategy, anyone can go from no money to plenty money.
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