"The Lesson I Learned The Hard Way"

Greetings friends and welcome to my blog. Let’s talk about learning, the hard way.

How open are you to learning, are you teachable?

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Learning is an everyday thing and it’s only a fool that gets full of learning as would say one of my mentors.

My dad would always say that the first lesson that I should learn in life is to learn that I am a learner for life. As that would always give me the right disposition to always be open to learn.

We all were born in a state of tabular rasa and everything we know we learned and everything we will ever know, we will still learn so there’s no end to learning.

Yea, but that statement applies to me and any other individual who is opened to learning as not all persons are. Some person claim they know it all and are the masters of knowledge.

They teach everyone else and can’t wait to shove what they think they know down another persons throat. I see alot of these type.

I know that nobody knows it all and if there’s anyone who might claim to know much, it’s definitely not me cos I still have a long way to go hence I am still open to learning and been taught.

I am very grateful when I see people who have gone ahead of me and are willing to teach and I am willing to learn. Learning is a good process for growth and one that we all should embrace.

What is that lesson you learned the hard way.

In my little time on this earth, I have had my fair share of failures, set backs , heartbreaks and successes in different dimensions and moments

Each of them have left a hard blow in my life and obviously the one that amongst many hard knocks that made me decide never to make such mistakes was learning that there’s no short cut to wealth creation or making money.

Money is among thorns they say and there’s no easy way to make money. Some of us want to be rich over night, blow over night or pick up money on the road.

We want to make investments today and become millionaires over night and this greed has helped to many scammers to be fed and I’ve learnt the lard way.

I’ve learnt that money and growing wealth takes time to happen and it’s not what we can get over night. I was a victim of a Ponzi scheme that took over half a million naira from me in the year 2021 and the tragic thing was that the money was borrowed.

In my mind, that was the year I told myself that I was going to be a millionaire but it was one of my tragic year. I almost committed suicide. After that experience, I never ever want to use my ears and hear anything about bring 20k and earn 100k in two weeks.

I have learnt to stick with genuine and honest means of making money and growing wealth instead of looking for get rich quick schemes.

Some person will tell me to invest that it’s still early. They know it’s going to crash but they will say that they will be amongst the fisrt to cash out before the system crashes and that’s how people keep loosing their hard earned money.

I was once beaten, I won’t be twice shy.

Do you think learning it that way made you a better person today.

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Obviously learning the hard way made me learn my lessons but I wished I didn’t have to go through what I went through. It wasn’t an experience I wish for my enemy.

Like I said earlier, I have learnt never to invest in any Ponzi scheme or anything that I do not fully understand how their reward system works.

Over the years, a lot of people and some of my friends have tried to introduce similar business or some that are even different but on carefully looking at them, you would see the same pattern playing out.

I will tell them that this is Ponzi scheme and would crash. Most of them do not listen but I have never invested in such again and won’t.

Over time those business crashed as I told them and they would come back to tell me it has crashed. I knew it but they didn’t listen. Most of them keeps making same mistakes over and over.

Well, I have learnt the hard way and no more. Now I am better and wiser when it comes to making investment decisions. I learnt the hard way.