I KISSED POVERTY GOODBYE

I KISSED POVERTY GOODBYE –
FELIX EKPA – 3rd February 3, 2008

FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT
What a way to start today’s meeting than the inspiring story of our guest speaker who spent 8years studying a 4 year course. From a no future background from a ghetto in Port-Harcourt with bad grades all through primary school he was off loaded to Lagos and gradually started picking himself up.
Without a certificate but a willingness to serve Felix rose to become an executive at Generis Solutions one of the finest consulting firms in Nigeria.
What on earth would make a man rise from such an impoverished background and become who has become today
D E C I S I O N
- We don’t have to accept our circumstances, but we must accept our beginnings and then decide our end. Decision determines destiny
HOW DO YOU GET TO YOUR DESTINY?
1. STRONG DESIRE – A desire that is stronger than death.
• Champions aren’t made in the gyms. They are made from something they have deep inside the- a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have he skills and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill – Mohammed Ali
2. IMAGINATION – Imagination is what sets the pace for destination
You are the only person that can limit yourself. No one else will and could but you. There is something in you that the whole world needs.
Everybody can be rich if we all decide to be rich.
3. Talk doesn’t cook the rice – knowing is not enough, we must be willing to apply; willing is not enough, we must do.
You won’t move forward complaining about your environment. The fact that you wish about something doesn’t mean you will get it. However you must move your want from a wish to a desire.
A wish changes nothing, a decision changes something but an action changes everything
Felix Ekpa.


To be continued