Read moreWhen you work for money the results are short-lived. When you are motivated to become the best you can be, you leave a lasting legacy.
(Excellence the Key to Elevation – Dr. Sunday Adelaja )
Money, money, money, money!
I am sick of hearing “PASSIVE INCOME” and “GETTING RICH NOW” from every corner.
Money, money, money, money!
People are worshiping Mammon every single day of their lives by chasing money. Millions of YouTube videos are about:
– making a YouTube channel to earn money
– create digital products to earn money
– making socials to earn money
– writing books to make money
– even shaking your a$$ to earn money
– doing this, making that..
Yes, money is responsible for the exchange of goods and services. BUT we can’t build our lives around getting goods. What about building our lives around the Calling! The Essential Reason We Are ALIVE?
It was no different in the times of Jesus when he was telling his disciples not to chase money, but to seek the Kingdom of God and its righteousness first.
Every single human being is called to do so. We did not come to this earth to consume only. There is no such thing in nature as just being a consumer only. All the world lives in harmony – a cycle of taking and giving, sawing and ripping. Every single creature takes part in the chain of life! Only humans consume unstopably. Unapologetically. Like crazy. More, more, and more. A never-satisfied hunger for goods, for money, power, taking everything that can be taken.
We are not called to live this way! We were not created for this. The human being is created in the image of GOD. The nature of God is to build, give, and create!
We are built to produce! But not only goods for uncontrollable consumption. We can invent, bring order, make things beautiful around us, communicate, share, give, love.
What am I producing today? Am I just building nets to get people caught in to extract some money from them? Or do I build the Kingdom of God on earth?
Christians know that they are following Christ for his teaching. However, Christians, despite being named after Christ, disregard his main value: the Kingdom of God here on earth and its righteousness.
We have to bring the Kingdom of God to everything we do. Not to bring the church. Not to bring religion. Not to bring another system of oppression. But to make things right!
Why can’t Christians do it these days? Because their main concern is money. Money for “noble” things, of course, because we all know that Christians maintain the “righteous” brand. What kind of righteousness is that? Is this righteousness to help the poor, the one in need, the orphan, the destitute, the sick? Or is it the pretended righteousness that is like a suit that you can take off when the discussion is about money?
Because when it is about money, it is a totally different story. When it is about money, the so-called righteous fellow has the total right to mislead, abuse, pretend to be a servant, thinking of his benefit while chasing his own income?
What happened to Christ’s statement: Don’t think of what you should eat and drink because the pagans are worried about those things? Seek first the Kingdom of God? First, his order in all things? Bring order to everything you can? Teach?
Create goods and services that matter..
Make difference..
Make impact..
All these are imprinted on the back of our minds. But then the “opportunity” presents itself on our way to righteousness, we choose to bypass it, while we are chasing our own interests.
For whom was this parable of a Good Samaritan?
The opportunity presented itself to three people and only one was able to prove the righteousness – the Samaritan.
Are we even close to the Samaritan? Are we anywhere near the person who expended his own goods to help another human being in trouble? Are we anywhere near the person who postponed his plans to do something for the other?
At this point, many of us may remember how they drifted away from this Samaritan standard at some point in their path following Christ. Someone’s kind intentions were not appreciated; someone’s were abused. I get that. Does this cancel the reason we decided to follow Christ? Does disappointment cancel that?
So many times, I myself was misunderstood, not appreciated, and my desire and attempt to help were abused. And so what? I have learned to understand who truly needs help, who doesn’t, who is sincere in their cry for assistance, and who is looking for an opportunity to get more for less at my expense. I am learning every day, so that I can keep moving on the path I have chosen.
Yes. It doesn’t always work the way we want. I am the first one to witness it. But that is ok. Jesus himself was misunderstood; his kindness was abused by the one from his closest circle. He was unappreciated. He kept moving and finding those who will value what He does for them.
That is why he was preaching about the Sower. He experienced that. He knew what it meant for His words to fall on deaf ears. He knew what it meant: people are consumed by mundane things and do not want to change anything.
And He kept sowing! To get the seed into good soil.
It takes time, effort, and countless unsuccessful attempts to build the right world around you.
When things are right, when the most important things in life are taken care of, the work brings results. It doesn’t happen the next day. So why do Christians chase the PASSIVE INCOME, the GET RICH TOMORROW ideas and techniques? Either it is in finances or in services they create, in the YouTube channel they develop, in books they write, in relationships they build? Chasing money is the problem. Trying to get rich now, to get money now, fast and easy, is the problem.
But, Kate! – You will say – You are charging for your services.
Yes, I do, but… 100 times below the value I give. I work my hours to create solutions that go beyond money. They extend to ETERNITY. They will live beyond my physical existence. I make people pay so that others can benefit from these solutions. The money comes as promised every single time. God never betrayed me. He did take care of all my needs.
It doesn’t mean I don’t need money. Money will not be enough to cover all the needs of mine, of my family, of the people and animals I take care of. That is normal. Even millionaires lack money. Because when you have more, your opportunities expand, and the implementation of many ideas requires money. The bigger the ideas, the bigger the money you need. It is OK to LACK money. If you don’t LACK money, you are most probably satisfied to be a couch potato. Because for you to do good things, you need money.
It does not start with chasing money. The Good things start with planning, vision, and building a future in your mind. This vision will bring opportunities to get money your way. Not the other way around. Let’s stop chasing money and return to our base. Kingdom first.
Business vs Personal problems
Business and income is all about solving problems. And many of us are good at solving professional problems. Nurses know what to do in an emergency situations, backers know how to organize the mass production of bread, chef knows how to design a gourmet menu, painter knows how to mix colours, banker knows how to manage money.. we know how to be good at work.
What about personal and internal problems? Do you know why people are hiding them instead of solving them? Because they have no idea how to solve them! or they might have an idea but the exact solution is foggy and scary 
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Personal problems, those the others can’t see, most times are those that make us unhappy. We have to do something about that. We can’t keep pretending that we don’t have them. If you have reached this line of the post and agree, give me 
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Of course not only internal problems matter. We are also pressured from all sides to be this and that in this world. Sometimes this pressure from outside and the one we have inside are just tearing us apart. The saddest thing is that it is better not to be too public about your problems. Better not to share because the unpleasant consequences usually follows sincere public sharing 
. Eventually someone will punish you for being honest and open. Right? Feels like a trap.
What if you would have an exact step by step instructions on how to solve any problems you have. Here is just few hints:
1. How to understand what is the real root cause of the problem.
2. How to research and widen your understanding of it.
3. And how to get rid of it finally..
If you would have a clear blueprint on how to achieve that would you do nearly anything to get it?
What if I would say: the solution is stupid simple? You have to write a book about that problem and the solution to it. Write the book for you, not for others. For you to transform your own life. To become a master, designer of your own life with God’s help.
This opportunity presents to you right now. Please attention to what I say here:
You must take control of your life!
The business for those craving novelty
If I look back 20 years, in my early adult years I could not stay at one job for more than 3 months. It was boring. It felt like an eternity. I could not bare it. Staying working in the same place was making me unhappy.
Later in life I have figured out why it was. I needed novelty to function properly. New place and challenges kept me alert, organized, focused and productive. I acually have managed to work with one company for 5,5 years and it was my highest record then. I was able to achieve it only because I could change the activities within this period every 3 month: take a new project, work on new challenge.
If you feel like this is you it is a high probablity that you are also dependent on novelty. It is not simply a character or pecuiarity. It is a need, because it helps you regulate your executive abilities.
One of the resons I have settled with creating digital products in my life is that it is one-time investment activity with minimum further obligations. That is not about passive income or some kind of becoming reach easy scheme. It is about being free of obligation to be present on the job continiously for a long period of time.
And that is why it is important for you to figure out if this thing is for you.
For people like us entrepreneurship is very attractive. But only the kind of entrepreneurship that do not bond us. We need a constant change.
This is where the digital products production comes in.
Always remember that if you want to start this journey and create courses, write books and make impact through educational content, I am here to guide you through it with a system that is constantly improving.
Wherever you are working now, wishing you a great upcoming week. And I hope you will not sleep well thinking of what I have just said ) haha.
Business led by compassion
Nowadays, almost everyone dreams of crowds: people who will follow, be loyal and supportive. From a business perspective, it means to have customers passionate about their products, just like the users of Apple products are.
Crowds mean money. If you don’t use the internet opportunities to make crowds follow you, you might be leaving money on the table. Right?
Well large following does not always mean income, sometimes crowds love to stone the one they admired just an hour ago. Please do not desire Crowds.
If you want your business to prosper. You want a stable stream of income build your business and services with passion. Which passion? The compassion passion!
Here is an example from a history book.. called the Bible.
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
From Matthew about Life of Jesus
There is no reason to doubt that Jesus was a genius in creating products, branding and marketing. That is why I love to learn from him. This quote is about his attitude to his clients. If you question why I call people who followed Jesus his clients, you should check the definition of the word. Check out, particularly the Mariam Webster. Let me mention only the etymology: client, clean, lean, where lean is “to rely for support or inspiration”. Clients are those who depend on us.
Yes, Jesus had Clientele. And you will have if you build your business using his principles. One of them is Compassion.
This above quote will not be complete if you have no idea what was after.
Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
From Matthew about Life of Jesus
To serve his clients, Jesus had to travel quite a while. He even said that he had no place to put his head to sleep. So intense was the schedule that sometimes he couldn’t find a hotel or room. Still he was compassionate to his clientele who were not able to get his service because there was a scarcity of time and people who could attend to those in need.
The harvest is plentiful if you are compassionate enough to see it.
You are not compassionate if you worry that no one needs your product. You started from the wrong side. Start with the needs first and then you will see how people will gather around you. Be not interested in Crowds but in their needs and you will see that those needs will be taken care of by God in you. Because he is Compassionate.