WEALTH PLATFORM with Olowo Lawrence

CREATIVITY THE SUREST WAY

Great wealth, vast fortunes, and mega-rich families were created during the industrial revolution. The same is going on today during the information revolution.

I find it interesting that today we have self-made multi-millionaires and billionaires who are twenty, thirty and forty years of age; yet we still have people forty and over having a tough time hanging onto 120,000naira a year jobs. One reason causing this great disparity is the shift from the industrial age to information age. When we shifted into the indusrial age, poeple like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison became billionaires. Today, shifting into the information age, we have the likes of Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Jerry Yang co founder of the internet company[YAHOO], Mark Zuckerberg of FaceBook all becoming millionaires. These twenty-somethings will soon be passing Bill Gates who is old at 39-in wealth. That the power of shift in ages, the shift from the industrial age to the information age. Now there is a new trends, we have moved from information age to creative age. The age where poeple who are innovative and creative are making more money even in the midst of recession.It has been said that there is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time as come and there is nothing so detrimental than someone who is still thinking old ideas. Idea rules the world says Sam Adeyemi.

HOW TO BE CREATIVE

To do these things, you will have to make a firm commitment to the following.

1. POSITIVE THINKING: One of the surest ways to survive in this economy

crisis is to be positive in solving any problems that comes your way. Positive thinking required positive thougths. If you can continually tell yourself “it can be done” then, you will find exactly that. Creativity is born and nurtured in an environment of “can do’thoughts. Believe that it is possible for you to start up your own business today and also buy hunreds of thousands of nairas’ worth of real estate in your own area.

2. BROADMINDEDNESS: “Gold there is, and rubies in abundance, but lips that speaks knowledge are a rare jewels” prob 20:15

As regards the obvious wealth creation solutions, it is possible for some principles to work out now and some might not work. So, it’s very necessary for us to look for the solutions that will work, as a prospect geologist looks for gold. They are just as precious as gold to you, because they will enable you to look for ways to create wealth without you loosing out of business in this period of economy meltdown.

3. BRAINSTORMING: I want you to know that nobody is an island,everyone is connected to a particular source for sustainability during this recession. This will require you looking for solutions to any problem that comes your way through books, internet, magazines, seminars, workshop etc. There are lots of research going on, on how things could be done, in order to improve the quality of lives and products.

You can also search for solution from great minds that are very close to you. If you walk with the wise you will become wise, but walking with the fools leads to destruction.Creativity is borne when ideas are combined together. For instance, Mark Zuckerberg is a young man who invented the face book. Facebook has come to satisfy the yearning of our world for fellowship and networking for greater advancement. Today more than one hundred and twenty million men and women across the globe interact through facebook. So you can also brainstorm for business ideas using this social networking site. Also Jimmy Wales is the man behind the wikipedia. This is an online encyclopedia, which have succeeded in helping the world to be more effective in the way we gather facts. He has been able to create a research conscious world. Wikipedia today boasts of eleven million articles in 262 languages the world over. One major attraction to the site is that it gives you an opportunity to air your research work.

4. DEEP THINKING: This is a process that involves your mind,your brain, emotion and your time.deep thinking require you to take you to ponder on issues or ideas. It is also thinking out of box. In our world today, people like Dr Yoshiro Nakamats through deep thinking have been able to come out with over different types of inventions. These includes, digital watches, the floppy disc, Cd plates, Dvd plates and taxi metres. He is also the only one to have licensed sixteen patents to IBM. How did he acheive all these results acording to research carried out, it was discovered that, nakamats, in his home uses three areas to spark his creativity.

First there is a “static room” with a rocky garden and running water which provides a serene background for free thinking. Second, there is a “dynamic room” with special audio visual equipment to play music to refine his ideas. Finally, he spent hours under water each day in his pool jotting brainstorms down on his plexiglas writing pad. His most creative time is between midnight and 4:00am, and there he gets four hours’ sleep. He belives that if you sleep more than six hours in any twenty four hours period, your brain power decreases. “Genius lies in developing complete and perfect freedom within a human being”.

Dr Nakamats believes that we are all created to create. With this he had 3200 patents registered to his name, earning him a place in the Guinees book of world records. He beats Thomas Edison, who registered 1093.

In conclusion my dear reader, in order for you to create an everlasting wealth for yourself you must cultivate a creative mind, treasure it and your prosperity will be certain. See you at the top.

Profile: Olowolayemo lawrence is like a cat with nine lives, he is a geologist by profession and an enterpreneur by passion. He is a coach to many and the facilitator of the inspiration network , an outfit that is powered and packed to help the young ones discover their hidden treasure.

You can reach him on 07034736436