THE SECRET OF MY LIFE
(The gospel truth)
Whether its the hundredth time meeting this or first, it still worked
magic for me and so can't help but share. What if I told you, by this
same trick or lesson, I got practically every favour from people who had
already disappointed me for same requests, would you then pocket your
doubt and sit for it? Okay, what about I showed you, the dictum I had
over the day to day happenings in my
life, just because I applied this simple act of.... (hold on, its a
multi million old lesson and I can't let go that easy). Did you know
that, like my Brother Dr. Wiredu Kyei Bright said, we were not born to
work like donkeys just because we want to be rich? Once I read an
article online, which said to become successfully rich, first, ignore
the advice of your mother. Don't accept the old fate, which said, money
is not everything on earth, happiness is blah blah blah, well, that is
some pretty piece of advice always coming to us in tatterdemalion pair
of trousers and dirty cap to match. Like Marianne Williamson said in her
A Return To Love poem, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure, it is our
light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who
am I to be brilliant,gorgeous, talented and fabulous. Actually who are
you not to be?". So tell me, who are you not to be rich, we are almost
always scared of applying basic lessons of life and nature, in our
journey to self reliance and financial freedom. We are most frightened
by our successes than our failures.
So today, like an angel
sent from a corner in Heaven, I have come to tell you the same old
sermon, but this time with much emphasis, in the continuation of A
Return To Love, Marianne said "we are all born to shine, like children
do, To make manifest the glory of God that is within us, is not just in
some of us, its in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we
unconsciously give others the permission to do same. As we are liberated
from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others". You will
agree with me when I sit here and tell you, that was a whole lot of
wisdom there in the poem. So, before I come with my sermon, I would
request that, you become born again. Born a new pattern of thought,
change the mythos of old that said 'No pain, no gain. No sweat, no
shirt. No work, no food. No school,no job. No cash, no wife.'
Once you have forgiven and redeemed yourself from the shackles of your
mental slavery, open wide your palm, take a deep breath in and out, then
wipe your face using your opened palm. Now, that is the first regular
step to riches. It is in this position, the secrets of this BIG TURN
THAT YIELDED ONLY SMILES are communicated, they consist of a severely
disappointed heart, a tired life and a willingness to overcome at all
cost. I will herein, use my story, the better to enable you appreciate
in full, the secrets am about divulging, which I trust you will equally
apply with hope. You may want to keep it with same strict caution that,
you will only communicate when it works for you with same precautions as
taken by me, never to speak it straightforwardly or naked, but always
in suspense or periphrasis.
Now, by this length, only those who
mean business are still reading, therefore its safe to undress this
woman who only births favour, riches, authority and above all peace.
I am not coming from a well to do home, right from class 3, I have
struggled to get my wants, my parents were doing their best with our
educational needs and the rest joined the wants. I was also told to
politely reject money offers, (Thank you Sire, am okay. Oh pls sire, am
okay.....then we reject the 50p dash), that was my Mum's theories
working magics in our lives. So, as a little boy, who was brilliant in
school and everyone's toast, I had mates from rich homes befriending me.
I visited their homes after Saturday classes and we played games on
their large LCD TV screens. Don't blame me, right from infancy, I have
never contented my status. I keep struggling to catch up, I have always
been the rich boy in a poor home. While my sisters settled for a pair of
shoes for the whole academic year, I managed to buy myself two or three
additional ones. When they were okay with two course meal, I was
enjoying three with elevensees and desserts. In high school, I was
leading a group of rich boys and no one ever doubted my stand, until the
very dying days, when I took one trusted friend home, he asked me too
many questions about how then , I had lived that good, time didn't
permit me to answer him proper but the little was "my environment is
poor, my mentality is rich, therefore my being is rich". Still keep
calm, the trick is unfolding.
Now, to the question you probably
asking yourself, how did you make money then?....... I asked, for lack
of better word, I begged. Oh yes, I was a beggar. Fortunately in my
case, I wasn't stationed by the roadside with a disability. I walked on
two feet, swang two hands, to their offices, in their homes and
sometimes on phone. I would say, "Mr. Agyemang, I am in need of this
amount and my parents can't afford it, would you mind helping please?",
as simple as that, and the response "the system is hard oo, my children
school fees and my wife is pregnant and my work is .... and me too
...Ghana and the world .... and Russia.." hahahahaha, I learned a lot of
world history and finance issues by this act. I got so many
disappointments that, it got to a point I made fun out of them, if I
wanted to laugh, I would call and ask for money, then the person starts
singing his troubles and I danced in laughter. The letdowns harmed my
relationship with all those who couldn't help. Its either they felt too
guilty to fraternize again or I felt too hurt to approach them once
more.
Then THE BIG TURN, I read in a book somewhere in Junior
secondary school, that, we must blame nobody but ourselves, take
responsibility of everything that happened to us. That was the whole
gospel, the whole secret. I visited all those who failed me and repeated
these words, " Am sorry Sire, I have disappointed you and myself, I
should have realized the economic hardships of today before approaching
you for assistance, please forgive me and continue to smile with me", in
some cases, I knelt down to show my remorse and in others, I did it
with much humility,so I knew that,not only Job was humble. And the
response this time after a day or two "Cliff, how are you?, meet me
today, I have something for you", they came in multiples of the amount I
initially requested.
Time rocketed and I grew up and didn't
need money that way again, I needed to be a man, I needed favour for
employment and favour for almost everything. And it worked again. After I
was rejected in a job interview, I wrote a note to the head of the
panel and I said "I am sorry, I gave you a bad time doing what you
didn't want to do,rejecting me. I should have acquired all the necessary
qualifications before applying, that way, we both would have been
happy thereafter. However please consider me a friend and share with me
the smile of your company when next you see me on the street, obviously
searching for another job. I am sorry and thank you". Then, after a
week, he called and asked if I was employed and I said nay, he replied,
"we needed a spirit like yours, please see me first thing tomorrow
morning" and I started working.
So the secret is, always blame
yourself and accept responsibility, make the other party feel safe but
never fail to ask, because you need more of the disappointments to earn a
tired life and then the secret to willingly overcome at all cost. Like I
said in the beginning, its an old lesson, but you never had it this
way. Try it, and if it works, share but in the manner so described
herein.
"GO OUT THERE, ASK FOR EVERYTHING, IF YOU ARE
REFUSED, THANK GOD, YOU NEED MORE OF THAT, ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY AND
APOLOGIZE AND GET RICH, FAVOURS, AUTHORITY AND PEACE." ~~~Oppong
Clifford Benjamin~~~