Skill Is the New Currency – Banji Alabi Urges Nigerians to Learn, Sell and Build Wealth
Skill Is the New Currency – Banji Alabi Urges Nigerians to Learn, Sell and Build Wealth
….Don’t Wait for White-Collar Jobs, Learn a Trade and Create Your Own Wealth….
Develop strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” — Machiavelli
Many of us have been trained to ENDURE poverty, but not to CONQUER it.
We have developed the strength to suffer — to manage, to complain, to beg, to borrow, to survive.
God is calling you to develop a different kind of strength — The strength to DO BOLD THINGS.
Here is the formula:
1. LEARN A TRADE: AGE IS NOT A BARRIER:
Stop waiting for a white-collar job that may never come. In this economy, your certificate alone will not feed you. Go and learn something with your hands that solves a human problem — Mechanics, Maison , fashion, barbing, baking, coding, graphics, furniture, makeup, photography, electricals, plumbing, baking, digital skills. Skill is the new currency.
2. LEARN TO SOLVE PROBLEMS:
A trade is useless if it doesn’t solve a problem. Don’t just learn it, master it. Be so good that people look for you. People don’t pay for your trade, they pay for the problem you solve for them.
3. COMMERCIALIZE IT:
Your skill is not for display, it is for exchange. Turn that skill into a service. Stop hiding. Talent that is not commercialized will still beg.
4. PACKAGE IT:
Packaging is value. Nobody pays well for what looks cheap. Brand it. Give it a name. Make it clean. Make it professional. People buy perception before they buy product.
5. SELL IT:
Learn to sell. If you are ashamed to sell, you will be comfortable to beg. Sell online, sell offline, sell to friends, sell to strangers. Money is in selling.
6. START SMILING TO THE BANK:
This is the reward of boldness. When you do bold things, money stops being your master and starts becoming your servant.
My conclusion:
Stop developing the strength to suffer hardship. Develop the strength to end hardship.
Suffering is not humility. Poverty is not spirituality.
Learn a trade. Solve a problem. Sell the solution. And start smiling to the bank.
AGE is mere numbers: Age is NOT a barrier
Banji Alabi, Esq.
