All in the name of business...

I have been having brain waves upon brain waves of Ideas for as long as I can remember.
The issue or should I say my issue is how to transform one of these breath taking ideas into a decent money spinner.

This particular endeavor has been a mounting passion - especially as regards becoming an independent business owner as soon possible. I have no plan to work indefinitely for anyone.
Truth be told - there's so much to do and so little time to do it.

I have read articles and books, talked to people but I still consider myself a novice of sorts.
Today on the spur of the moment I ran a Google search for business ideas and came across a avery interesting blog titled:

Unusual Business Ideas That Work

I found the title particularly intriguing so a-clicking did i go and i must confess that it yielded a whole lot of material for me to digest. I must say that i am finding the ideas here particularly fascinating and very inspiring but to say the least.

If you happen to be someone like me searching for inspirational ideas - this is a very good resource to start from and grow.


Regards

Amazing - Lunatics on the loose...

I cannot but wonder on how it happened?
Was it simply one of those little issues of a disease progressively getting worse - in that case are we allowing the situation to deteriorate to the point where everyone is just that extra bit crazy daily?

Can we truly be living in the jungle in spite of the of our pretensions to aspire towards western influences? What influences - apparently we find it so hard to read between the lines; the fine print - which is often where the core message lies.

We are not our environment except the reference to environment means - people.
People - which includes you and myself, are what determine and define the direction of society, morals, ethics, norms and mores and a host of other social issues.

You can take a horse to the stream but you can't force it to drink from the stream - in fact you can't force it to drink - Period!

Which brings me to the main topic for discussion:
Why are Lagosians (Nigerians living in the state of Lagos) so much in a hurry?

I can't for the life of me understand the reason or thought behind all the daily rush.
You rush to work and then you rush back, you rush to the car, rush to get through traffic, rush to join a fuel queue forming in the nearby petrol station, rush to market, rush to the club, rush to get married, rush to get to church...

Why and where does one spend all that "saved" time spent rushing... Answer: Nowhere!
You are just raising your blood pressure and sending your nerves down the path way of destruction.

You need to see the demonic look of the fellow in a rush - have we all taken leave of our senses or is there more to this problem than meets the eye?

I am beginning to think that HELL may have a new branch in this state.
The chaos is just mind numbing and all to what end.
Sometimes I get the feeling that the state is in a "state" of waiting for something to happen or occur - maybe an outbreak of mindless violence or something else...

We're so full of it - it makes me wonder - then when the day is over you see the poor sods trying to justify the day as if doing that makes up for all the frustrations, anger, envy etc.
we act lower than the animals and it makes me kinda wonder where our lot is going to - zoo perhaps?

I think we ought to slow down a great deal, live a life at a pace that makes sense and save the rush for when you die. There's no need to barrel through life like you've got more at stake than everybody else. It is the same game with different outcomes and the winner or loser is a personal choice for each individual - rushing through the race doesn't enhance the outcome in any way, you may even miss out the markers...

My advice - take time to smell the roses and please try to cut out the need to barrel through life like a Ferrari - notice the numerous crashes they're often involved with...

Ciao...

Where i'd rather be...

Anywhere but here...

Wishful thinking right?

A colleague who was robbed at gun point yester-night, narrated the entire experience to me.
It is one of those stories that touches the heart and at the same time shows you where this country is headed to - nowhere...

Yesterday on MBI (a television station) - there was a story of a CNN reporter (Jeff Konange) who was taken to the lair of the MEND forces (Movement for the Emancipation Of the Niger-Delta) and interviewed the second in command - who went about a speech and then abruptly ended the interview...

I was shown an image of "the Niger delta freedom fighters" holding a certain number of Filipino hostages at GUN POINT - maybe it was for the sake of the TV cameras (I don't know). I always say that there are two perspectives: The bravery that a gun holder feels when pointing a gun on someone or the terror of a hostage who has a gun trained on him/her...
It was one of those situations where you're forced to question everything you think you know about humanity...

Point:
It is an extremely lucrative business to kidnap foreign nationals within the Niger-delta region and hold them for a specified amount of money...
What the long term objectives are is truly beyond me....

On a broader level:
the 2007 polls are another source of entertainment. We are subjected to claims and counter claims emanating from all corners...

Allegations and counter allegations of bribery, corruption, strong-arm tactics and a host of other methods employed to harass and intimidate political opponents.
Recently the EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) published a list of "corrupt" officials which was to be used a means to disqualify candidates...

I mean - this is Nigeria (the last time I checked), ranked as one of the top ten most corrupt nations on the planet... everyone's corrupt so the judgment of a commission to publish a "list" of corrupt officials is like telling us that the sky in not "blue" but somewhat "bluish".

As i had earlier predicted, the true test of democracy in Nigeria would be the 2007 elections - ( i hate it when I'm so right!)

I don't go around fooling myself on the merits of any other nation to Africa but when you consistently decry real development and eschew some kind of ethics in favor of short term gains and advantages - what do you expect but chaos...

We are a continent of survival...
Short term advantages have always been preferred to long term gains...
I can amass a fortune by stealing and committing fraudulent acts but how many life times do I have to actually spend the money?

In this day and age - the bottom line should be how to re-engineer, re-structure. We have seen that this is very possible and has proven successful in some sectors - why can't we do it for the long haul?

You can only push and toy around with people for so long. Put simply:
You can fool some people all the time
And most people some of the time,
and that's enough...

We need to break out of this dependency mentality - we need to make personal corrections to our lives and propagate those corrections to the on-coming generation.

In summary - I would prefer to be a slave of a caring master than to be a free born without any real choice, ruled by the whims of others.

There is no future that doesn't start from now...