7 STEPS TO ACHIEVING FINANCIAL FREEDOM

FELIX EKPA
7 STEPS TO ACHIEVING FINANCIAL FREEDOM
It was another fantastic session as Felix started his session with a story of a woman whose children gave her a surprise birthday bash and they gave her all sorts of bizarre birthday gifts including a parrot that was trained in a seminary to read the bible in Hebrew and English.
But to their surprise she appreciated them and told them how much she appreciated the gifts but discovered that most of the gifts were not relevant. She appreciated the one that sent a car and a house but to the one that sent the parrot. She said ‘Thanks for sending a wonderful chicken that I found so delicious after I killed and ate it. Apparently she had no clue to what the parrot could do and she killed and ate it.

His thoughts today was on steps to achieving financial freedom
The 7 steps are as follows

GOAL SETTING AND PLANNING –
A goal is a dream with a date on it. There is no successful person without a clear cut written down goal. Planning is the step by step processes that will take you to the end point.
Writing your goals down is not enough; you must be able to put in motion the steps to getting there.

USE YOUR TIME WISELY-
You waste your life every time you waste time. You lose money every time you waste time. Assuming you have N86,400 credited into your account everyday for you to spend daily because at the end of each day you won’t be able to spend it the next day. How would you go about it?
The truth is that everyday you have 86,400 seconds on a daily basis so each day that you waste you waste 86,400seconds.

GO AFTER THE CARROT –
Most of us want to be successful but we fail to follow the steps it takes to get to that destination. Fix your eyes on what you want to do and achieve and let go of the pains of the process. The pain would be forgotten once you achieve your goal so the gain of the glory (goal) should motivate us to achieve inspite of the pain.
Sometimes in life we must become deaf to negative criticism because people can stop you once you start listening to what they have to say about your dream.

PEOPLE FORM HABITS AND HABITS FORM FUTURES
Successful people take the pain to form the habits that can take them to their dreams. If you don’t set your sail right as a ship the wind can’t work in your favour.
Opportunity comes to all but how prepared are we for the opportunities. What are the skills you are learning now and how relevant are they towards your future?

LITTLE DROPS OF WATER MAKES AN OCEAN
One person that does the right thing is able to influence others to go in the same direction. It may not make any difference now but after some time the difference would be so obvious for all to see. The little decisions and little decisions you take today can make a mighty difference in your future.
Our greatest fear isn’t that we are incapable; our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measures.


BE PERSISTENT
You must never give up in the face of adversity. You just need to do it one more time. Even when it doesn’t look as if it’s working, keep at it. Quitters don’t win and winners don’t quit.

DON’T WAIT FOR PERFECT CIRCUMSTANCES
Start now
Improve until it’s good
Finish
Get feedback
Polish it until it’s very good.

He ended with a powerful message that your destiny is in your hands