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Come and learn from the experts.
Let them show you:
- Strategies to create wealth
- The 8th wonders of the world
- Free distributorship of Multinational companies like LG,Samsung, Nigerite, Hair Thermocool, Dangote cement, Nestle, Cadbury etc.
- The Power of 4
- Property Investment Opportunities
- Loads of other opportunities

Date: Tuesday 5th June,2012

Venue: Oluwatobi House 71,Allen Avenue Ikeja Lagos beside MTN office

Fee: FREE (if you observe the following requirement below)
P.S 1: Text "Seat Reservation" with your name,phone number & email address to 08056121259 to secure a seat
P.S 2: Limited seat available.

Come attend a Business Executive Meeting that will change your life.
Where Prof. Pat Utomi the co-founder of Lagos Business School is the chairman
of the business locally and this avenue is used to empower people to achieve
dreams. Get empower now and live your dream.

Venue: 71, Allen Avenue(3rd Floor Oluwatobi House) Ikeja Lagos
Date: Saturday, 20th March,2012
Time: 2pm
Ticket: FREE

P.S: Strickly by invitation.
Your invitation will be a text message which will be
sent to you when you text RESERVE ME A SEAT,your Name,Email and Phone number to
08056121259.

Please no call,SMS only.

Imagine you are a corporate executive with five direct
reports in your department. You bear significant financial
responsibilities to your family and to your own future, and
you fervently desire promotions and pay raises. You envision
recognition for rising in the hierarchy, along with the
accompanying admiration.

You know that the single overriding
factor for your success in this equation
is the way your superiors in the
organization perceive you and your
accomplishments—in a word, politics.

Sure, you and your department must perform, but you know
that your promotions and pay are solely the prerogative and
even at the whims of your superiors.
You’ve watched the true hotshots in the organization blaze trails
and walk through all barriers to contribute to the growth and
profits of their department and to the company. Yet often these
high performers were mysteriously blindsided, torpedoed, backbitten
and driven politically from the organization for the crime
of becoming threats to others who coveted the positions these
superstars seemed destined to command—if they were allowed
to succeed politically.
You watched how the organization rewarded and promoted
yes-men, those who always seemed to get into the right social
circles or go to the right church or mosque, who belong to the right
club and, here’s the key—those who get credit for others’
successes.

So, you are ever vigilant of the need to
keep your head down at the right times,
play the politics of getting noticed and
approved of without becoming a threat to
the wrong people.

You learn to toe the mark within the rules of the game that have
been followed by surviving organization men and women
worldwide throughout history.
Today, a new hotshot is joining your team. Personnel sent
over his folder with notations: “Highly qualified, Has top
management potential.”
So, you ask yourself, how will you train and manage this new
superstar?
Will you teach him EVERYHING you know as fast as you can,
including all the “secrets” you have learned in ten years about
how to score big successes and how to rise in the organization
and how to set new records without stepping on any political
landmines?
Will you inspire him to have a burning desire to be promoted
to your level in record time, so that every day he comes to
work on fire to pursue this goal?
Laughable to even ask,

You will carefully feed him just enough
information to do well enough to make
YOU look good. You hope and pray that
he will NOT be recognized as a star rising
faster than you are.

You have learned the nature of the “logjam” of candidates
for promotions to higher levels in the organization, starting
with your boss who wants to survive long enough to move up
behind his boss in five or ten years. So, you’re already
desperate to get personal recognition for any accomplishments
your department has.
For you to rise up in the organizational chart sooner than the
slow timetable of your superiors, you will have to take risks
and step out of line to get the visibility to be recognized and
promoted faster than usual. Without, of course, alarming your
boss or his boss that your higher level of accomplishments may
benefit you and not solely them, much less threaten their
positions directly.
Should one of your direct reports develop into a rising star too
soon and garner the credit for the successes of your department,
your chances for the next promotion are out the window.

That new member of your department
may be a threat. So, you say a silent
prayer that he is not connected
by relationship to anybody in top
management or to company ownership.

But,

What if, your organization was turned upside down and you
could be certain that your success would not be hindered but,
instead, be furthered if you helped every person in your department
contribute at a maximum level with no limits?

What if, you and others were certain to be recognized and
RECEIVE CREDIT solely on the basis of accomplishment instead
of politics?


What if, the “age-wage” curves that define the limits of
salaries based on “years since receiving your B.Sc degree” were
thrown away and anyone could be recognized and paid
WITHOUT LIMITATION strictly on the basis of true contributions,
instead of on the politics of managing the perceptions
and preferences of top management?

What if, you could actually focus on being a rising star and
mentoring and serving others, and what if you could eliminate
all the wasted time, effort, and stress involved in mastering the
maze of maneuvers and manipulation demanded by the reality
of the primacy of politics in the organization?

What if, you had immediate, unlimited earning potential
based on accomplishment?

What if, you were allowed to identify and mentor others to
follow in your productive footsteps and be rewarded
accordingly, on a permanent basis, for their success, without
fear that they would replace you?

What if, you received a small monthly percentage of the
earnings of all those you identify, nurture, train, and mentor to
contribute to the company’s success?
Oh yes, and,

What if, there was no limit, now or in the future, on your
upside success and income?
Imagine the burst of growth, productivity, and successes all this
unleashed energy and creativity would produce. Sure, the political
“bigwigs” who knew how to play the game and how to
take credit for others’ work would suddenly be naked, and they
would have to contribute and truly serve and train others with
all they knew, instead of putting most of their waking efforts
into polishing their image and protecting their turf and position.
There would be no more politics.

Individuals would succeed solely on their
accomplishments personally and, more
importantly, on mentoring and serving
others.

If you identified, trained, and mentored many others who
became more successful than you yourself had, you would continue
to receive a leveraged, residual percentage of all the sales
volume created by those individuals and their organization, for
as long as they remained members of the organization, with no
limits. Why not, since you were the causal factor in their joining,
learning, and following in your footsteps, hopefully to the
point where they took this foundation you provided and went
beyond your accomplishments? Do you suppose you would
continue to champion them, long-term?
And think expansively, without limits, that you would further
be rewarded for teaching your leaders to serve and to teach
other leaders, with you receiving additional tiers of override
compensation for this extraordinary, increasing success.
What if this utopian business model could actually be
implemented?
It has been.
How does it look to you?
If you feel this is you and want to take control, you can reach out to 08056121259 or visit http:///3ounkd4 for more information

Are you in the world where people can't help but complain about no time, no money no fun and no health?

Are you in a world where people struggle everyday in a rat race just to make ends meet?

Are you in a world where people are routinely told to "get real" and forget their childhood dream?

Who say's you can't work and play?
Let the professionals help you rediscover your core desires and show you a way to fulfill them.

Call 08056121259 to book a free consultation.

If you have N55,000 to do business and earn good profit from doing the business, you can call Lanre on 08072694208 for detail of a profitable business you can do with that N55,000.

Note: I mean business not investment.

Reading this message is a first step in an exciting journey; a journey that could possibly be the most exciting in your life to date.

I am sure you are wondering what exactly this opportunity is all about, and how it can be of benefit to you.  I would like to take some time to provide answers to all of your questions.

For the business minded. . .
It is an e-commerce platform that grants its members the opportunity to showcase their products and services to a global network of Distributors.
This affords our members a unique and no cost way to grow their own businesses.

For the everyday consumer. . .
It is a discount club where you can obtain products and services at discounted prices.  This includes everyday products from food to electronics, credit and clothing, just to name a few items.

For the wise spouse. . .
It is an opportunity to support your spouse in obtaining an affordable vacation for the family, or an exciting couple’s week of fun-filled activities.

For the lover of life. . .
It is a health plan that saves you a fortune and provides you with access to the best in health care both locally and internationally.

For the career-minded. . .
It is an opportunity to earn multiple streams of income and to implement a financial freedom plan.  You can call it your "Plan B" for the "what if's" that happen in life.

For the trader. . .
It is a place to sell your merchandise without the overhead of owning a brick and mortar store.

For the social minded. . .
It is an amazing opportunity to create net worth from your network and to make your relationships profitable.

For the not very social. . .
It is your chance to change your way of thinking and earning.

For the student. . .
It is a business university where you will learn all you need to know in order to conduct your own business successfully.

For the investor. . .
It is your chance to join forces with others in order to participate in local and international investment opportunities that you would otherwise not have access to.  We provide the guidance of world renowned experts.

For the dreamer. . .
It is a vehicle to help you achieve your dreams.

For the blessed. . .
It is your turn to be a blessing to others.

To the aspired. . .
It is your Avenues to Wealth!

Recognising opportunities is an extension of who you are.  I have been involved in this OPPORTUNITY for a while now and it has been amazing for me.  I committed to never give up.  I have seen people far ahead of me and I have decided to be equal or to surpass them.

If you know who you are and where you want to go, explore the benefits.

Call: Lanre on 08072694208, 01-8282850

@G-benger,my advice to you is not to quit your job, now,what i will advice you to do right now is to have a PLAN B(what will be generating you extra income) that will not affect the job you are doing now,by the time your PLAN B is generating 3x of your present salary,then it is the right time to quit the job.
But for now don't quit.Get a PLAN B.If you are thinking of what to have as PLAN B, i may help you out, just contact me on 08072694208

My name is Lanre Shotunde,a consultant who help people to develop there own business with fun and profit. I am looking for 300People that i want to empower. If you think you are one,kindly test your Name,Phone number and email Address to 08056121259 to secure a slot, and i will communicate the date and venue with you.

PS: Immediately it is 300, i will not attend to any again
PSS: Strictly for those in Lagos and its environ.

Lanre Shotunde

you've reached the desk of Lanre Shotunde. I'm either on the phone or away from
my desk. If your call is in reference to the ad please listen carefully for
the details of the opportunity.
Because of the global interest of our system in this down economy, we are exploring
and opening offices all across Nigeria and africa.
What I'm looking for is someone with the following background:
marketing, real estate, insurance, morgages, some1 having owned a homebase or
traditional business, direct sales, network marketing, internet marketing or traditional sales. I'm also
looking for ambitious entreprenuers who may be searching for an opportunity to start a business.

If you feel qualified and would like to learn more, Drop your name,location and fone no here(lidsresources@yahoo.com) and i will forward the mandatory
details to you for review. I will follow up with you within 24 to 48 hrs to discuss the next step.
Thank you.

You've reached the desk of Lanre Shotunde. I'm either on the phone or away from
my desk. If your call is in reference to the ad please listen carefully for
the details of the opportunity.
Because of the global interest of our system in this down economy, we are exploring
and opening offices all across Nigeria and africa.

What I'm looking for is someone with the following background:

Marketing, Real estate, Insurance, Morgages, someone having owned a Homebase or
Traditional business, Direct sales, Network Marketing, Internet Marketing or Traditional Sales. I'm also
looking for ambitious entreprenuers who may be searching for an opportunity to start a business.

If you feel qualified and would like to learn more, let me have your name and fone no here(lidsresources@yahoo.com) and i will forward the mandatory
details to you for review. I will follow up with you within 24 to 48 hrs to discuss the next step.

Everyone needs a Plan B including YOU.
Have you ever stopped to wonder what will happen if your ONLY source of income today stops flowing now?
It is unimaginable!
It is unthinkable!!
Don’t wait for that to happen, start Planning NOW!!!

Attend a FREE Business meeting to discover an exciting PLAN B to move with

To Reserve a seat for this meeting
Simply Text the following to 08072694208:
Email Address
Your location
Your Phone number

Note: After booking a seat the date and the venue of the meeting will be sent to you.

To your success
Lanre Shotunde

@24volts,my advice to you is to stay clear of it,there are lot of thing to put your money into and achieve greater things from and earn residually from.

@y2kaustin,there are lot of business you can do with your  N150k,it depends on you.I can show you on how to become  distributors of some companies in Nigeria without the need to pay the huge distributorship fee and such companies are:Hiaer Thermocool,Nigerrite,McNichols,Mimee Noodles,Vita Form etc.Also i will show you how you can also earn residually.

You can reach me on 08072694208 or mail me at freedistributorship@gmail.com

Thanks,
Lanre Shotunde

I will pretend that I didn’t hear you say “No one ever told me about this” after you finish reading this.

I have taken my time to break it down so as to aid everyone’s understanding

* Are you tired of reading and hearing how good Real Estate Business is? All you want right now is to see some actions? Would you like to meet Dr Dolf De Ross – Professor of Wealth Creation at Trumps University, Author of 15 bestsellers on Real Estate (he actually bought 52 houses in less than 52 weeks). You can jump start your real estate career/investment by attending the event. He would be there LIVE. Guess who need to be there – YOU!


* Would it be a privilege you sharing a ceremony with, World renowned economist, Pro Pat Utomi and hear him share his wealth of knowledge? He doesn’t need much description. He walks his talks. He would be there LIVE. Guess who has the opportunity to be there – YOU!

Looking for 4 people that will be in a Team i am building that will make me achieve my goal and also their goals.If you interested call Lanre on 08056121259, 01-8282850 or send mail to lidsresources@yahoo.com

I really feel you cause i understand what you are talking about cause i have been in your shoes before,if we can see to discuss it will be better.You can reach me on 08056121259, 01-8282850 or lidsresources@yahoo.com

This is a story I shared in a number of times with friends, and I think it’s only proper that I share it with you as well. I’m not certain exactly who owns the story, but I believe I have read it in one of Robert Kiyosaki’s books before. It’s an interesting story that connects with us in some little ways. It’s the story of our lives, and we can clearly see where we are in our journey.
It so happened that once upon a time, in a village somewhere in Africa. A new king ascended the throne, and felt it was the right thing to get water for his people. He decided to hire the services of two good young men to help deliver the promise of water to his people. He offered to pay them $10 per 25 litre bucket of water, and the two of them were excited about the possibilities.
The first day of work they both carried 10 pairs of buckets each. It was tedious and hard labor, but by the time they got their payment, they were excited all over again. They continued like this for one week, until one of the contractors called his colleague and told him that even though they were earning $200 per day, he did not feel that what they were doing was sustainable. He suggested to his colleague that rather than go to the stream to fetch water everyday, why not put forces together and develop a pipe that can run from the stream to the town.
The colleague however wanted none of that approach. Why will he leave the bird in hand and be hunting for two in the bush. Why should he reduce the number of buckets he can fetch today, and focus on a pipe that might fail, that might burst, and that might even be attacked by militants. Rather than take that risk, the bucket colleague continued to fetch his water. The pipe colleague decided to still carry about 4 buckets in a day to have some small cash, and focused his energies almost totally on constructing the pipes.
After 1 month, the pipe had gotten halfway. This ensured that the colleague who was developing the pipe didn’t need to travel as far as the bucket pusher to get more results and to still have time to focus on completing the pipes.
After three months, the pipe was completed. On the day it was launched, he was able to fill over 100 buckets of water. Now he doesn’t need to go anywhere anymore, the pipes just need to be open and he’ll earn.
The bucket pusher of course lost his job and had to apply to another village. His strength was also waning. He couldn’t go on vacation; he couldn’t really afford not to work for long. He doesn’t have time, he is busy, and he is a bucket pusher!
Before you criticize the bucket pusher too much, I have a few questions for you.
Can you afford to stop working for 3months or more?
God forbid you have a health issue that requires your resting for 6 months, does that thought frighten you?
Do you have income that does not require your input anymore to be made?
Do you have a system that you are working on that has the capacity to be a pipe for you?
Are you dimming your present to brighten your future?
Are you carrying buckets or building pipes

Don’t get this wrong, having your own business is not building pipes, so long as the business needs you everyday, the chances are high that you have a bucket carrying business. When you die, nobody can inherit your bucket carrying business, but someone can inherit your pipe. Carrying bucket can become sophisticated with the use of trucks or cranes, but so long as there is no system, or the system requires your regular input to survive, you are still carrying buckets!
Carrying buckets is a good start, in fact it’s were we all have to start if we are to make anything in the short term. There are creative ideas that can make the buckets you even carry worthwhile and effective. If you want to grow and become wealthy however, you need to start working on your pipes. Let me give you a few examples of what can constitute a pipe, and the characteristics to watch out for in a good piping system.

1. A real estate investment can be a good pipe system. It’s simple, you invest money and time in building a house, and you put it up for rentals. Even if you don’t work again, if you have enough of this type of investment, it continues to yield annually. If you live in a country where rent is paid monthly, you earn monthly. Like all pipes, there are some elements of risk. Risk here involves something major happens and people need to flee where your property is. There is a fire incident, a water incident or a natural disaster, or there is an economic meltdown and the value of property plummets. All good things however have risks, so it’s just understanding the worst and moving in faith in spite of it.

2. Investment in some stocks could be a piping system. There are a few companies in Nigeria that have attained the status of a full pipe for their owners. We have not experienced many company transitions from owner to manager. Any company you can trust to last long and still be around to pay dividends when you are no longer fit to work is a good pipe. All you need to do is build an investment profile that is big enough to make your dividends make sense. There may be lulls in the market on the short term, but to a person who is looking to build pipes there is no problem. There are people who enter the stock market with a bucket mentality, its fine. When these types of people seriously outnumber the pipe layers is when the economics begins to wobble. Investment in stocks is a time tested way of building a pipe. This also has its risk, the investment is in a business, and there is no business that is risk proof. It’s just that when all you are doing is carrying buckets, you are running a greater risk!

3. Network Marketing is another good piping system. Many of us have experienced the wrong type of Network Marketing. We have experienced companies that we didn’t know where not built to last. To know a network marketing opportunity that can build you a pipe, the design in place to make it last is crucial. If you ask me, I’ll say this offers the biggest piping potential amongst piping opportunities. Why, because in just a few months, or years, you can have a network that companies that have existed for 160yrs can’t boast of having. Imagine for example that you are in a network where you make one sale per month, and coach your direct report (downline) to do the same, things will grow slowly, but if this model of small activity is maintained in 20 months, you’ll have a network of over 1 million people. Even if it was one per year, and it took you 20yrs to build this network, it is well worth it. There are network marketing companies that are over 50yrs old currently, and some that are 10yrs and in between. Some of them have millions already in their network and some people are not actively involved anymore, but are earning obscene amounts per week. The upside of this is that the capital requirements are very small compared to the first two, and is augmented by work. The downside and risk in this, is that the NM Company may not last long, figuring out the DNA of a successful NM company is the required skill here.

4. Setting up your own business, and building systems to ensure that you can retire is a good system. I have a friend who worked for Procter and Gamble early in his working life, and I can say quite confidently that they have a good system. The company has existed of about 172yrs now, the owners have died, and their children too, but the company continues to yield returns for members of the Procter and Gamble family and many of the people who invested in the business along the way. Setting up a systemic business requires a lot of commitment, and hard work. It’s never an overnight success; it takes patience, perseverance and keeping one’s hopes alive. You contend with the speed of advancement of technology, with your environment, with changing times and changing policies, but if you build a business in an area that is your passion, you have a joyful ride all the way. Failure doesn’t move you, success doesn’t relax you. What you want is more than the results; even the journey itself is appealing to you. People have built businesses that took care of them and it’s a good pipe building option. The downside is, business is a risk and you may fail a few times before you succeed. I however do not know anyone who ever succeeded in something he/she never tried.

Are you carrying buckets or are you building pipes?
Are you winding down your buckets for the pipes you are building? Or are you too busy with the demands of the buckets that you are not thinking about pipes.
Don’t be foolish, the characteristic that qualifies the ants as an example of wisdom, is their ability to live today, with tomorrow in mind. We have said that fear is not enough to stop you, we have said you chose the game that you play, and we have said a lot of things about a lot of things.
Don’t miss out the essence. You are a spectator if the words touch you and there is no action. You are a player if the words make your game better.
There are a number of pipes that I am building at the moment that you can be a part of if you want. We are not running beyond ourselves, we are taking it slowly as we have come to understand the value of patience and gradual, sustainable growth. We don’t need superstars, just level headed people who are willing to dim the present a little to brighten the future
I have learnt from both my successes and my failures, and I’m much better off in action than someone who is afraid of failing.

This is a story I shared in a number of times with friends, and I think it’s only proper that I share it with you as well. I’m not certain exactly who owns the story, but I believe I have read it in one of Robert Kiyosaki’s books before. It’s an interesting story that connects with us in some little ways. It’s the story of our lives, and we can clearly see where we are in our journey.
It so happened that once upon a time, in a village somewhere in Africa. A new king ascended the throne, and felt it was the right thing to get water for his people. He decided to hire the services of two good young men to help deliver the promise of water to his people. He offered to pay them $10 per 25 litre bucket of water, and the two of them were excited about the possibilities.
The first day of work they both carried 10 pairs of buckets each. It was tedious and hard labor, but by the time they got their payment, they were excited all over again. They continued like this for one week, until one of the contractors called his colleague and told him that even though they were earning $200 per day, he did not feel that what they were doing was sustainable. He suggested to his colleague that rather than go to the stream to fetch water everyday, why not put forces together and develop a pipe that can run from the stream to the town.
The colleague however wanted none of that approach. Why will he leave the bird in hand and be hunting for two in the bush. Why should he reduce the number of buckets he can fetch today, and focus on a pipe that might fail, that might burst, and that might even be attacked by militants. Rather than take that risk, the bucket colleague continued to fetch his water. The pipe colleague decided to still carry about 4 buckets in a day to have some small cash, and focused his energies almost totally on constructing the pipes.
After 1 month, the pipe had gotten halfway. This ensured that the colleague who was developing the pipe didn’t need to travel as far as the bucket pusher to get more results and to still have time to focus on completing the pipes.
After three months, the pipe was completed. On the day it was launched, he was able to fill over 100 buckets of water. Now he doesn’t need to go anywhere anymore, the pipes just need to be open and he’ll earn.
The bucket pusher of course lost his job and had to apply to another village. His strength was also waning. He couldn’t go on vacation; he couldn’t really afford not to work for long. He doesn’t have time, he is busy, and he is a bucket pusher!
Before you criticize the bucket pusher too much, I have a few questions for you.
Can you afford to stop working for 3months or more?
God forbid you have a health issue that requires your resting for 6 months, does that thought frighten you?
Do you have income that does not require your input anymore to be made?
Do you have a system that you are working on that has the capacity to be a pipe for you?
Are you dimming your present to brighten your future?
Are you carrying buckets or building pipes

Don’t get this wrong, having your own business is not building pipes, so long as the business needs you everyday, the chances are high that you have a bucket carrying business. When you die, nobody can inherit your bucket carrying business, but someone can inherit your pipe. Carrying bucket can become sophisticated with the use of trucks or cranes, but so long as there is no system, or the system requires your regular input to survive, you are still carrying buckets!
Carrying buckets is a good start, in fact it’s were we all have to start if we are to make anything in the short term. There are creative ideas that can make the buckets you even carry worthwhile and effective. If you want to grow and become wealthy however, you need to start working on your pipes. Let me give you a few examples of what can constitute a pipe, and the characteristics to watch out for in a good piping system.

1. A real estate investment can be a good pipe system. It’s simple, you invest money and time in building a house, and you put it up for rentals. Even if you don’t work again, if you have enough of this type of investment, it continues to yield annually. If you live in a country where rent is paid monthly, you earn monthly. Like all pipes, there are some elements of risk. Risk here involves something major happens and people need to flee where your property is. There is a fire incident, a water incident or a natural disaster, or there is an economic meltdown and the value of property plummets. All good things however have risks, so it’s just understanding the worst and moving in faith in spite of it.

2. Investment in some stocks could be a piping system. There are a few companies in Nigeria that have attained the status of a full pipe for their owners. We have not experienced many company transitions from owner to manager. Any company you can trust to last long and still be around to pay dividends when you are no longer fit to work is a good pipe. All you need to do is build an investment profile that is big enough to make your dividends make sense. There may be lulls in the market on the short term, but to a person who is looking to build pipes there is no problem. There are people who enter the stock market with a bucket mentality, its fine. When these types of people seriously outnumber the pipe layers is when the economics begins to wobble. Investment in stocks is a time tested way of building a pipe. This also has its risk, the investment is in a business, and there is no business that is risk proof. It’s just that when all you are doing is carrying buckets, you are running a greater risk!

3. Network Marketing is another good piping system. Many of us have experienced the wrong type of Network Marketing. We have experienced companies that we didn’t know where not built to last. To know a network marketing opportunity that can build you a pipe, the design in place to make it last is crucial. If you ask me, I’ll say this offers the biggest piping potential amongst piping opportunities. Why, because in just a few months, or years, you can have a network that companies that have existed for 160yrs can’t boast of having. Imagine for example that you are in a network where you make one sale per month, and coach your direct report (downline) to do the same, things will grow slowly, but if this model of small activity is maintained in 20 months, you’ll have a network of over 1 million people. Even if it was one per year, and it took you 20yrs to build this network, it is well worth it. There are network marketing companies that are over 50yrs old currently, and some that are 10yrs and in between. Some of them have millions already in their network and some people are not actively involved anymore, but are earning obscene amounts per week. The upside of this is that the capital requirements are very small compared to the first two, and is augmented by work. The downside and risk in this, is that the NM Company may not last long, figuring out the DNA of a successful NM company is the required skill here.

4. Setting up your own business, and building systems to ensure that you can retire is a good system. I have a friend who worked for Procter and Gamble early in his working life, and I can say quite confidently that they have a good system. The company has existed of about 172yrs now, the owners have died, and their children too, but the company continues to yield returns for members of the Procter and Gamble family and many of the people who invested in the business along the way. Setting up a systemic business requires a lot of commitment, and hard work. It’s never an overnight success; it takes patience, perseverance and keeping one’s hopes alive. You contend with the speed of advancement of technology, with your environment, with changing times and changing policies, but if you build a business in an area that is your passion, you have a joyful ride all the way. Failure doesn’t move you, success doesn’t relax you. What you want is more than the results; even the journey itself is appealing to you. People have built businesses that took care of them and it’s a good pipe building option. The downside is, business is a risk and you may fail a few times before you succeed. I however do not know anyone who ever succeeded in something he/she never tried.

Are you carrying buckets or are you building pipes?
Are you winding down your buckets for the pipes you are building? Or are you too busy with the demands of the buckets that you are not thinking about pipes.
Don’t be foolish, the characteristic that qualifies the ants as an example of wisdom, is their ability to live today, with tomorrow in mind. We have said that fear is not enough to stop you, we have said you chose the game that you play, and we have said a lot of things about a lot of things.
Don’t miss out the essence. You are a spectator if the words touch you and there is no action. You are a player if the words make your game better.
There are a number of pipes that I am building at the moment that you can be a part of if you want. We are not running beyond ourselves, we are taking it slowly as we have come to understand the value of patience and gradual, sustainable growth. We don’t need superstars, just level headed people who are willing to dim the present a little to brighten the future
I have learnt from both my successes and my failures, and I’m much better off in action than someone who is afraid of failing.

Some days ago i shared about dream,the dream you have for you life,business,future and the likes.
Right now i will love to share this with you in other to know where passive income(the great source of income) comes from.

This is a story I shared in a number of times with friends, and I think it’s only proper that I share it with you as well. I’m not certain exactly who owns the story, but I believe I have read it in one of Robert Kiyosaki’s books before. It’s an interesting story that connects with us in some little ways. It’s the story of our lives, and we can clearly see where we are in our journey.
It so happened that once upon a time, in a village somewhere in Africa. A new king ascended the throne, and felt it was the right thing to get water for his people. He decided to hire the services of two good young men to help deliver the promise of water to his people. He offered to pay them $10 per 25 litre bucket of water, and the two of them were excited about the possibilities.
The first day of work they both carried 10 pairs of buckets each. It was tedious and hard labor, but by the time they got their payment, they were excited all over again. They continued like this for one week, until one of the contractors called his colleague and told him that even though they were earning $200 per day, he did not feel that what they were doing was sustainable. He suggested to his colleague that rather than go to the stream to fetch water everyday, why not put forces together and develop a pipe that can run from the stream to the town.
The colleague however wanted none of that approach. Why will he leave the bird in hand and be hunting for two in the bush. Why should he reduce the number of buckets he can fetch today, and focus on a pipe that might fail, that might burst, and that might even be attacked by militants. Rather than take that risk, the bucket colleague continued to fetch his water. The pipe colleague decided to still carry about 4 buckets in a day to have some small cash, and focused his energies almost totally on constructing the pipes.
After 1 month, the pipe had gotten halfway. This ensured that the colleague who was developing the pipe didn’t need to travel as far as the bucket pusher to get more results and to still have time to focus on completing the pipes.
After three months, the pipe was completed. On the day it was launched, he was able to fill over 100 buckets of water. Now he doesn’t need to go anywhere anymore, the pipes just need to be open and he’ll earn.
The bucket pusher of course lost his job and had to apply to another village. His strength was also waning. He couldn’t go on vacation; he couldn’t really afford not to work for long. He doesn’t have time, he is busy, and he is a bucket pusher!
Before you criticize the bucket pusher too much, I have a few questions for you.
Can you afford to stop working for 3months or more?
God forbid you have a health issue that requires your resting for 6 months, does that thought frighten you?
Do you have income that does not require your input anymore to be made?
Do you have a system that you are working on that has the capacity to be a pipe for you?
Are you dimming your present to brighten your future?
Are you carrying buckets or building pipes

Don’t get this wrong, having your own business is not building pipes, so long as the business needs you everyday, the chances are high that you have a bucket carrying business. When you die, nobody can inherit your bucket carrying business, but someone can inherit your pipe. Carrying bucket can become sophisticated with the use of trucks or cranes, but so long as there is no system, or the system requires your regular input to survive, you are still carrying buckets!
Carrying buckets is a good start, in fact it’s were we all have to start if we are to make anything in the short term. There are creative ideas that can make the buckets you even carry worthwhile and effective. If you want to grow and become wealthy however, you need to start working on your pipes. Let me give you a few examples of what can constitute a pipe, and the characteristics to watch out for in a good piping system.

1. A real estate investment can be a good pipe system. It’s simple, you invest money and time in building a house, and you put it up for rentals. Even if you don’t work again, if you have enough of this type of investment, it continues to yield annually. If you live in a country where rent is paid monthly, you earn monthly. Like all pipes, there are some elements of risk. Risk here involves something major happens and people need to flee where your property is. There is a fire incident, a water incident or a natural disaster, or there is an economic meltdown and the value of property plummets. All good things however have risks, so it’s just understanding the worst and moving in faith in spite of it.

2. Investment in some stocks could be a piping system. There are a few companies in Nigeria that have attained the status of a full pipe for their owners. We have not experienced many company transitions from owner to manager. Any company you can trust to last long and still be around to pay dividends when you are no longer fit to work is a good pipe. All you need to do is build an investment profile that is big enough to make your dividends make sense. There may be lulls in the market on the short term, but to a person who is looking to build pipes there is no problem. There are people who enter the stock market with a bucket mentality, its fine. When these types of people seriously outnumber the pipe layers is when the economics begins to wobble. Investment in stocks is a time tested way of building a pipe. This also has its risk, the investment is in a business, and there is no business that is risk proof. It’s just that when all you are doing is carrying buckets, you are running a greater risk!

3. Network Marketing is another good piping system. Many of us have experienced the wrong type of Network Marketing. We have experienced companies that we didn’t know where not built to last. To know a network marketing opportunity that can build you a pipe, the design in place to make it last is crucial. If you ask me, I’ll say this offers the biggest piping potential amongst piping opportunities. Why, because in just a few months, or years, you can have a network that companies that have existed for 160yrs can’t boast of having. Imagine for example that you are in a network where you make one sale per month, and coach your direct report (downline) to do the same, things will grow slowly, but if this model of small activity is maintained in 20 months, you’ll have a network of over 1 million people. Even if it was one per year, and it took you 20yrs to build this network, it is well worth it. There are network marketing companies that are over 50yrs old currently, and some that are 10yrs and in between. Some of them have millions already in their network and some people are not actively involved anymore, but are earning obscene amounts per week. The upside of this is that the capital requirements are very small compared to the first two, and is augmented by work. The downside and risk in this, is that the NM Company may not last long, figuring out the DNA of a successful NM company is the required skill here.

4. Setting up your own business, and building systems to ensure that you can retire is a good system. I have a friend who worked for Procter and Gamble early in his working life, and I can say quite confidently that they have a good system. The company has existed of about 172yrs now, the owners have died, and their children too, but the company continues to yield returns for members of the Procter and Gamble family and many of the people who invested in the business along the way. Setting up a systemic business requires a lot of commitment, and hard work. It’s never an overnight success; it takes patience, perseverance and keeping one’s hopes alive. You contend with the speed of advancement of technology, with your environment, with changing times and changing policies, but if you build a business in an area that is your passion, you have a joyful ride all the way. Failure doesn’t move you, success doesn’t relax you. What you want is more than the results; even the journey itself is appealing to you. People have built businesses that took care of them and it’s a good pipe building option. The downside is, business is a risk and you may fail a few times before you succeed. I however do not know anyone who ever succeeded in something he/she never tried.

Are you carrying buckets or are you building pipes?
Are you winding down your buckets for the pipes you are building? Or are you too busy with the demands of the buckets that you are not thinking about pipes.
Don’t be foolish, the characteristic that qualifies the ants as an example of wisdom, is their ability to live today, with tomorrow in mind. We have said that fear is not enough to stop you, we have said you chose the game that you play, and we have said a lot of things about a lot of things.
Don’t miss out the essence. You are a spectator if the words touch you and there is no action. You are a player if the words make your game better.
There are a number of pipes that I am building at the moment that you can be a part of if you want. We are not running beyond ourselves, we are taking it slowly as we have come to understand the value of patience and gradual, sustainable growth. We don’t need superstars, just level headed people who are willing to dim the present a little to brighten the future
I have learnt from both my successes and my failures, and I’m much better off in action than someone who is afraid of failing.
If you are interested in knowing the pipes I am working on, and to be a part of this movement that is not confined to Nigeria or to Lagos, you can download Skype and add me, my username is lanre.shotunde. You can also mail me lidsresources@yahoo.com .
2010 is a strategic year, and I’m looking for 300 people, whose financial destinies will be transformed. We’ll be going around Nigeria and around Africa. We’ll be building a big network of pipes, and perhaps kicking off a school of entrepreneurship as we go.
There are pipes to build, and two are always better than one!
So, whether we do it together or not, find you team, and start working on your pipes.

We all grew up as young children full of dreams. We wanted to become this, to have that, and to go everywhere. When we saw an aircraft on TV, we wanted one, when we saw a big house, we dreamt we would own it, we even fantasized about the definition of beauty that the media had sold to us. If every anything we were dreamers, our imaginations ran ahead of our realities, we wanted more from life than mere existence. We had big dreams, and somehow in our minds, we were unstoppable. We had the dreams, and we didn’t disqualify ourselves by thinking we were too small or the dreams too big.
As we grow up, our dreams grow with us, but somewhere along the line, many of us lose the youthfulness to dream. We are so caught up in waking up early, spending quality time in traffic, coming back late, that we have lost our dreams. We have become realists, we face the facts rather than the possibilities, we live the lives of drugged zombies, repeating the same routine day in day out, and hoping for the “one day”. If it is true, that repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is insanity, and then we might indeed need to submit ourselves to some form of psychiatric counselinge. Some of us however have dreams; we still nurse them, still hold them dear and are working towards them.
The question for you today is “What is your dream?” What is the compelling reason that motivates you to action? I watched a video presentation yesterday that inspired me and there was something the speaker said that really got my attention. He said, and I phrase in my own words, “A business opportunity is like a Ferrari, it’s a lovely car. We might however spend undue time looking at it and touching it. If you don’t know where you are going however, any car is useless”.

“Nothing happens unless first we dream” - Carl Sandburg

Does it not seem interesting to you, that many of us have entered different CAReerS without setting our destination? Many of us got into many good pipe building systems without any dreams. I’m not asking about hazy thoughts of wanting a better life, I’m asking for concrete and specific desires that are tangible and documented. This may sound funny, but if you think about it, you’ll possibly arrive at the same conclusion with me - If you don’t have a dream for anything, you will not excel at anything. It’s not the quality of the car that matters, or the potentials or capacity of the same. What matters is do you know where you are going? Speed only makes sense when direction is clear.

“A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness” - Zadok Rabinowitz

Before you involve yourself in any business - franchising, network marketing, direct selling, first of all identify with your dream. Write it down, and then break it down.
What milestones do you want to achieve?
What things do you want?
Who do you want to become?