"WHYNOT" shows points of views, where NO or Yes is not a satisfactory answer, we are dreaming; free-willing a 100,000 ways of seeing. We pursue WHY anywhere, there's time to spare, a thrilling chase to places for you and me!
I think there is time for retirement for everyone but not redundancy! The young must grow to replace the old, i have nothing personal in the labour world towards those ageing generation, in my opinion the older you get the more responsible one should be, which means one grows from being an employee to being an employer and from that towards governing in conjunction with the young.
As the population grows the need for job areas grow too and this isn't just the governments duty to find ways to reduce unemployment.
Many people view the word employment in terms of just that salary based paid job but it isn't so. Freelance (consultants) is a form of entrepreneurship but without heavy burden and it is the bridge that let's you test the business waters before jumping off that clif. And then there is the business world it's self; a complex environment but very rewarding when one has that drive.
Should government screw it's people for the demands they place on them so jobs are available or should people who have given about 20 or even just 10 years to an industry look to push out of paid responsibility and employ others? It's passing the baton to the next generation.
Maybe someday people will realise we are here to serve each other! For now ........
If business loopholes are found in problems, wouldn't the government create problems so that people can find what to be busy with? Wouldn't the elder generation be the best at being a solution rather than throwing themselves out of the labour market siting on pension and that wealth of knowledge dusting? By the way given the amount of fraudsters lurking and incompetence in the world arnt the older generation who has all the track record of respect, network of background history of works not a better candidate to win clients without much effort? I think it is the older generation that have written themselves off as useless while we need them especially in this our supposedly hard times. A lot of knowledge and skill is dying away!
I would say generally in Africa this is a problem! Our government parastatals are made of civil service people who never had a hand at entrepreneurship and most people are used to contract bidding, and supply. Very few understand what life cycle is nor the development steps! Business is different from trading! There is no value to life and living so what's there to be planing or developing?
Most of our leaders come from the stone era and to catch up with the trends is difficult as they didn't set it up in the first place! They didnt keep the industrialisation going so now infrastructure isnt available to support entrepreneurship.
They aren't able to negotiate our natural resources for what it is worth because they don't know of what benefit it is to the party requesting it! If there are business people who are consulting the government we probably would see some changes.
They also believe most of our population is into entrepreneurship anyway so what's the need to promote what's already in the mindset? Wrong judgement, mistaking retail for being business!
They do not fetch for the bright heads within the business environment and offer them a collaborative effort to push it further! Even if it is for no pay to them. Clearly not approaching those of us who are in diaspora making waves.
There is also a ploblem with the general populace. "Illiteracy" is high, no national education plan to push the knowledge we have!
Lets remove Nigeria away just for this instance because we all know that infrastructure is the problem, not just in terms of electricity and roads, we can as well start businesses that don't require power or roads. The west or north of this world started under candle lights,. Who wants to do will find a way.
Infrastructure in Man power Intellectual intelligence; we are street smart but that is only a fraction of what is required.
Technical creativity; technical information "knowledge" isnt sought for, we dont research whats in our minds or lands, we are timid cos of the lack of knowledge. we dont like to dig deep, and in effect cant see wide "collaborative spirit".
Our educational sector is corrupt and breeds a skewed view to life and making a living. Both Business Management knowledge is required as well as technical know how to go together.
Starting a business for many is difficult because they tell themselves it is. Just like some people run away from marriage, they dont want to be responsible for lives. They barely can take care of themselves, let alone manage a heard. This requires Leadership. Business ethics is personal ethics. Sacrifice is hard because most people are "me & now" based and for those who want to go into business they need to develop a spine. Hard Knocks develops a thick skin. Stop listening to those who tell you "it cant be done and check every information given, don't throw it away because it doesn't make sense to you."
I loved and lived in fairy tales, I have always imagined myself either RobinHood or Athos (the Musketeers) and always had my quests outlined and hoped to find like minds as mine! Unfortunately i have been riding on my own but the journey isn't less adventurous.
Lies! some are sweet and some are dark! I love my sweet lies, they keep me going so long as i am the one dreaming my vision up. I pick the puzzles of the picture i see. We are all used to stories, it is our fab past time to listen to gossip of how someone else had lived their life. We use them subconsciously to place landmarks for ours!
The lives of our leaders are far from the truth to what we see or told! What it took for Oprah to have a mind that She has would be hard to absorb in one day so some truths need to be coated and left for later.
We are afraid of the truth cos we really are very self critical. We will shut down the truth cos "We cant handle it" as Jack Nicholson had said! Now how many of them quotes we know today were really told by those who they said quoted them? Well the idea is that these people are respected so why not just add a bit more grease to their elbows, right? It dosnt really take away anything, right? Or they call anonymous those quotes whose name they wish not to compromise. PR is such a devil that i refrain from using anyone to do my publications. I'd rather die from my own mouth and shamed for my souls grammatical blunders than deceive anyone to be what i am not. I know that i am not here to impress, just a gal doing her thing and happy you read what i have seen or experienced. I read yours too :) and same it is with my brother. He is just as honest to boot as i am, maybe even worse, at least he isn't pretending. "There is no grace in spending money you steel by lying to the public" thats how our parents brought us up. They did bring us up honest, now they are like "cant these kids shut up sometimes?" Sorry habit daddy.
Milli Vanilli sang to us. Yeah it was disappointing to find out that the Music industry lied to us cos we probably wouldn't have accepted the face to the original voices. We are so full of shit that we probably deserved to be lied to.
Knowing nothing of our strengths we are actually persuaded off our natural strengths by those responsible for our internal and external well being in exchange for the illusion of community. We hate people who are proud of themselves and stand against principles widely adopted as a norm even when it is obvious it is leading us to doom because we recognise that we could be them but don't know how or were not told that they were not afraid to shift; just a bit away from the old to the new! We cling to those who we have been knowingly or unknowingly manipulated to believe think like us and then after a while realise "oh dear this isn't who I like" but we have made commitments such as friendship or relationship or a vow to stick to a religion that is clearly eroding our spirit and we have those guardians of faith who actually physically harm you if you wish to leave.
We have been conditioned to lie to ourselves. We continue to live in that environment not because we like it but because we don't want to be extricated. Left alone having to survive seems to me the struggle of many people. Parents are the staring point of society that teaches their kids their own truth, conveniently and self serving, used in protecting themselves or keep them kids illusionary protected "doped out of their perception of reality"! Did they think the old walls will hold when the new demands its turn? Milk teethes are always replaced. Teach your kids transformation, remove the rigid walls of self serving morals that aren't theirs. In Africa our kids are still our pension, In the developed world at least the kids have been given a breather by parents who fought for the true meaning of parenthood. Maybe this happened by mistake who knows! Ask those rebels for parents who dared not to follow the crowd!
Little red riding hood was a story invented to keep girls from the big bad wolf because there was no other way from protecting girls from men who hid in forests. Today it is just a story yet it still has the same effect "put fear!" kids are perceived reckless, in the bid to try protect them we hurt some and keep some but that feeling of fear afterwards is hard to erase, i ask that parents be-careful what they paint as a picture to their kids, It transforms into other areas creating complexities parents themselves become confused in. Such as lack of self confidence.
Kids were told the story of Hansel and Gretel to protect them from falling pray of people who lure them with ...... Sweets in other meaning for words "witches" after the story became so wide spread people actually believed witches existed and some even took up the profession as mediums and in the bid to enforce people to believe in them they did make some predictions come true. How about in example for a setup? Some old lady passes by you and says "you will be rich" or "you will be attacked in 5 days" and you snob her off rather than give her a penny for the warning and in 5 days she will send her gang to come harass you. Witchcraft isn't that much voodoo as much as it is a staged game on one and then it becomes news.
There are parents that so crave power that even within the walls of their homes treat their kid so bad, that the child wishes they were an orphan and for the child to survive he has to learn to lie to protect himself should they have had the opportunity to run. They now have to lie to the askers about their parents and the society levels them bad if they dare tell their story! "thou shall honour thy parents" after all God himself said it right?", so the kid has no hope to whom to go so they lie to survive! "A parent cant possibly hate their child" every body shouts! Havnt you heard of mothers and fathers jealous of their kids confidence or beauty? Ivan the Great was one. You will only know the truth when they let you close to them or when its to late to save a life! I work with youth and I see the damage done to this kids who were made to believe what isn't good or made to lie. Sometimes i have to lie to bring them out, it is called "therapy" to trick the mind to open up cops do this as well its called tactics of interrogation "good cop bad cop" but then there is the other side. How do you tell the truth without little lies to soften the blow?
Kids they say can be hurtful, we have created this stereotypes of beauty that when one doesn't have the shape or size as Heidi Klum or Naomi Campbell we rule ourselves and others as ugly! There are actors we have wet dreams about and if a guy that approaches you don't quite look it, we say sorry you not my type or we say a sweet lie like "i am in love with someone else". How can one be out rightly rude to say to a friend "You know, i am dyeing for Harrison Ford!" I am sure the same person out of his hurt or bad mood tells you "dream on" or "you aint Harrys type". Telling sweet lies protect you from the attitudes of others.
Would we know who is our type if we weren't given an example? I am sitting here watching Diane Keaton a woman in her 50 kissing Keanu Reeves who is 38 in the film called "Something's Gotta Give" and I am pissed :) Why? I like him to bits but then some would go on a crusade to look for him in every man and even him himself and then be surprised he isn't what they saw on screen cos DAH!! he is acting on a script! I am also pissed that i live in a society who has created this lie about age being a factor to consider when in marriage, that it has led gals like me to believe a man older than me has some brains. A wise heart is what one should be looking for.
A Lie is a script delivered to achieve an aim but the author of it dosnt know what would be its effect. It could either cause damage or bring healing but the crusader should be wise and know when, where and how to deliver it. How many have the skill of communicating and faith in man or the person before them? One may have been mistaken and said something out of line, but that ain't a lie. A lie is a cooked up plan aimed at getting a specific result, what witchcraft really is. Maybe it's why religion and science are at log aheads. :) who knows who is lying and who is saying the truth? Only time can tell. The deeds of men within these is what makes it stand or fall. I always believed that there are 6 billion people on earth (dont know if it is true but we have to accept it, i sure know i didnt count) and with these 6 billion come 6 billion varying truths and lies, now you know why we are in such a mess. Is there something like the truth and nothing but the truth? Life sure is a fact, that no one can dispute.
People shouldn't take every word uttered personal cos that's when it takes hold of you and starts ruling your world! A compliment is a lie if you know you didnt earn it. If you are beautiful say "Its my Creators doing", dont accept it as though you were the creator of it. If you feel beautiful then you know and can see you are beautiful through the lines of your face, you are really in charge sometimes of your moods and sometimes you are at fight with the hormones who take auto pilot. What makes your beauty ugly is when you rubbing others blind with it. The art of witchcraft, is when they attack your mind to accept an idea through gossip, slander and fabrication of facts! Everything that picks your fancy must be put to test! Depends on the liability level of course! Take your pick, dont forget to use a toothpick.
Remember the beautiful Lady in Red in "the Matrix" movie? Get distracted and when you turn around she has a gun to your head? but can we live in a world where we dont believe in anyone and anything to be real? Humans are social creatures, i refuse regardless of my downs to live a life of a rat! Principles do protect you but they also have their application.
Kids are often deaf, so a slap sometimes drives the truth home. :) Hey you! Wake up from your slumber! Have you ever as a parent one day turned around and said "I don't recognise my child anymore?" That happens to every parent because they all of a sudden realise they had spent all this time programming their child to act and talk a certain way and then it all goes to smoke! That effect does come with a little too much effort from brain washing; We fit them with people who we think think like us and shield them away from people who we think don't think or behave like us!
You know how they say give a poor man money and you will see his true colour? or a chameleon changes its colour based on the environment it is in or decides to be? What is his true environment do you know? Survival instincts make us lie, we are all protecting our strengths to survive be it on a physiological level or on the esteem level. Would it end?
I believe everything and nothing, what ever has no substance can not be tested and therefore not true to me. I choose to believe in what would push me there. That's why people believe. They have something to gain when telling or interested in the stories. They got the truth they need to move on. For me it isnt about ideologies its about substantiating. Even the stories in the bible are half myth half examples of other people's lives compiled. People want and crave for the story of the treasure islands because it leads them on the adventure maybe they may not be interested in the actual treasure, they may not find it but they lived in pursuit of it!
I have sobered up Captain Sparrow where is the Rum?
Why do some children think it's alright to talk about 'Inheritance' whilst their parents are still alive or dictate to their aged parents on how to live their life or spend their money?... Surely, we all know the most important thing parents owe their kids is to give them a good upbringing and a good education, after which they'd have to make their own way and also become successful....Inheritance and taking over parents wealth can only be done by parents consent or wait for their Will to be read after their death ...or No?
Its the parents fault for making their kids mentally lazy. I know one family like that and there are many in the world. The mother manipulates their kids to fight their father because she had done nothing to earn her respect or make savings, so she uses her kids to protect her perceived rights even when the father denied them nothing and or the father along side used money to win their silence/obedience while they were kids. Both stopped them from going after their lives. Every-time they wanted to get married to those they loved he would threaten them with pulling out financial support. When the children rebelled he would do so and when they in hard times they had nothing to fall back on returned back to the parents rather than say "F" them i will chop grass if need be. The kids while young were arrogant to their peer mates so they had no one to go to ask for help or partner with. They always thought they were better than others. Both parents are egomaniacs.
Haven't you heard in nature there are animals who eat their own to survive? Same it is with humans who keep their kids to feel irrelevant because the parents never built anything in common apart from money and the children that grew to despise them for their cowardice in not cutting off. Sorry for being brutal but ......the truth is bitter.
Was asked ; Why will anybody come into a new country and walk into their bank and get a loan just because he/she is a foreigner, a loan they have refused the local people? Why are foreigners more trusted regardless of where they come from? What is the difference between Nigeria and India in terms of their business environment?
When a foreigner comes in he comes to invest! He is bringing an innovative idea because he has done research and found a loophole. He proves it works and he gets the support needed and this isnt often in cash but strategic alliances that the internal consulting group within the banks have.
If you look at the need for loan it's because you need to buy one resource or the other. What if the bank asks you "would you like to partner with a company from whom you want to buy the resource and you then give them a cut"? It's just logic, if I can't pay I see if I can partner!
For a bank to keep paper as money or e-money there is no value in it if it isn't networked. Banks will give you a loan-to trade and link you up with partners to build your business. Which is why investors invest in companies that have networks, that's the only safety for anything. When 3 people speak one and same language then there is collaboration. I am sure there is a quote for this in the bible because all 3 can't be lying and everyone would look out for his share.
Foreigners have a lot to loose and will do everything to make back what they put in. Banks are not interested in your profit they look at your turn over which is where they make their money from. COT and % from returns they aided you with through networks. A bank is just a gathering of lawyers and accountants :) that's why we don't really like them, crafty buggers but then they are ruling the economy in conjunction with politicians who trade national resources including their people's skill for export! We are all a commodity, slavery is still real its just that the chains have transformed its look. What hurts most is that they are not aware of it!
The locals however take their own country for granted they dont network, snobbish of each other, rather than forming alliances that will make them independent from all the blood suckers! Family values disintegrating was the start in taking advantage of themselves.
Foreigners want to create a good impression and they are careful be it in a good or bad sense. War used to be business but now business is war.
Are foreigners really foreigners? Traveler's are foreigners but we call them tourists, they are touring "scouting" a country but we are less treatened by them because they are seen as spending their money and seem not to take anything away but we are likely to be threatened by those who give us some competition while in time contributing on a larger scale. If only we looked at it in a positive manner that we are gaining more from them. Citizens exchange the long term benefits for short term gratis. We are all given nationalistic ideas but in the end you are just as much a foreigner in your home by doing nothing or if you trace your ancestry. Travel is trade. Exchange of strengths - barter (import and export) the rest is just logistics tools and surrounding rules and regulations (law $ Accounting procedures) protecting the goods or its secrets. Every nation should be fighting to keep their citizens who wish to resettle because they are taking away with the national treasures what they are "resource/skill" and giving it to another country because theirs took them for granted.
How come most nationals complain about others coming to steel their jobs yet do nothing to keep the business they are employed in from falling down? No one will ever give you the secrets except some pain in the butt rebels and those who try to tell the truth for the better of the masses! Thats why people like MLK and Mandela were violated! They often get shot or extricated from the society that doesn't like change and it is the mass minded they use on you!
Why do so many people not follow their dream jobs? What are the real or perceived limitations preventing them from doing so? :)
A certain value set has been engraved in the mindset of people on what is real and what isn't.
We all set barriers to others, and ourselves through laws (personal cultural values). Very few are willing to go against what mama, papa or friends and external social families, which includes religious barriers said.
The fear of failure is so engraved subconsciously through bad parenting (fit in or I will punish you tactics) and sibling rivalry (comparison based judgmental minds), that many resign their faith to hopelessly following others and what society views set as the example but no one tells them that every human being has limitations due to circumstances needing urgent handling (eat, protect), time and many facts are buried in the sands of time on how someone did it! Nothing is new nor will forever be hidden. Clearly egomania (not willing to shadow an example to find the loopholes) stands in the way.
We like to listen to myths and seldom probe to bring out facts to see the truths buried in mysteries. Break it in your mind to see the loopholes (at least there is no lord over your mind except you allowed someone to rule over it) and bend it (develop the innovation that transition the old to the new). Many hold on to the old even when it is choking the life out of them and the society.
Scientific knowledge is limited and ever renewing its previous stance. How much time does one really have to know it all? In partnering and socializing one can get a lead! Science deals with 2 major areas mind and matter! How many employ themselves? Man innately is lazy except he is pushed, be it by positive or negative motivation! Many people don't dig deep or explore wide.
In the hierarchy of needs! The first 3 which is physiological, security, and belonging levels are the basic levels that sustain life.
The other 2 stepping stones are "Self esteem which is achieved through self actualisation" (level of needs in the lifecycle of a person or a business in its endeavours towards growth) is what most humans struggle with. These are also drivers of innovation and evolution which exists in the minds of self and economic leading people.
Very few people want to be conscious of life and hence find it difficult to achieve their goals. Lack of interest in the world and their inner self is also a factor where people get stuck in finding their strengths that would reduce the weaknesses the world has!
There is also this habit that developed due to growing in the warmth of the family's arms. People get used to being given so they think their job is just to take. All this policies on child labor etc. has been staged to such extent that we have made cripples out if kids and this self serving ideologies of inheritance that has made kids turn to adults for every thought and thing accepting that they don't need to find themselves within the walls of life that their parents went through! same parents who fought for their comforts have now trapped their kids in it.
The Purpose of life of man on earth is clouded with the world’s noise! If only they knew that all that noise is just other people fighting for their space and they should join the dance or dream up a new way!
PS: For what it takes now in the world that we live in to market and promote self or a business is becoming harder and harder regardless of available marketing tools, Strategy and tactics skills is none existent in most, apart from available resources there is also creativity skills and character to withstand the constant bashing from competitors who use underhanded manners in sustaining their market share "like bad publicity" how ever that can also be a way out. What does it take to keep being there? An almost animal instinct is to be adopted when facing those who choose to be either docile or aggressive. There is something called Gorilla tactics and that is not just time and energy consuming but demands intensive capital that a startup seldom has.
What is a dream job? Coming from where I have threaded it is interest in seeing oneself grow as well as passion for those whom I have employed myself to serve.
I think there is time for retirement for everyone but not redundancy! The young must grow to replace the old, i have nothing personal in the labour world towards those ageing generation, in my opinion the older you get the more responsible one should be, which means one grows from being an employee to being an employer and from that towards governing in conjunction with the young. 
