Rich by 40 and Wise by 50!

My father-in-law used to say; “If a man is not rich by 40, he may never be rich and if a man is not wise by 50, he may never be wise”.  Well, I am not sure about the wealth and riches as I have left my 40 a long time ago.  But while climbing in my 50s, I guess, I may have at least a few words of wisdom for those who wish to be rich and wise.

When you are in your 20s, you think 40 is a long way up in your old age and suddenly you wake up one day and realize you have arrived.  Too bad if you have not accumulated enough perishables to make you rich by then!  The older you get the faster the years roll on.  So, work hard while you are at it; whether earning or learning. 

Working hard pays off if you love doing what you do. So, find the thing that captivates your heart and mind. The sooner you find it the better.  Don’t waste your life doing what you hate doing.  Other people will always tell you what to do and what is good for you.  But only your heart knows what it wants to do.  Listen to your heart and check it with your mind if it makes sense.  If it does, go for it.  Doubt everybody but yourself. 

If you want to do the things you love doing, you should know that it all begins in a dream.  Some call it a vision for life.  Keep your dreams to yourself and talk to them.  If you must tell to someone, let it be only God.  Keep dreaming until you begin to see your initial dreams giving birth to other dreams. 

Everything has its beginning in a dream. A person without a dream ends up dying doing the things he hates doing.  But dreams create words (prayers) and words create realities.  What kind of realities do you want?  If you can’t verbalize to yourself what you want in life, you will achieve nothing.  So, write your dreams and keep them in a safe place.  Read them, speak them out loud and touch them with your fingers as often as you can. 

Life is too short to wait for things to happen.  You make them happen.  I was abandoned at birth.  Had suicidal thoughts from the age of six and decided to end my life when I was 17.  But something happened at 17.  I met Jesus Christ who challenged me to dream for a better life.  I did.  I dreamt of education, I got it.  I dreamt of a loving family, I got it. I dreamt of preaching and teaching about the Lord Jesus, I got it.  I could go on and on to list the things I dreamt and how they have become realities in my life, but suffice to let you know it works that way.

If you want to be rich, learn everything about money and how it is created.  Becoming rich has little to do with hard work and everything to do with how one thinks.  If you want to be wise, speak your mind. Your thoughts are your original creation.  If you can’t speak your mind for whatever reasons, you will die a fool because no one cares what you have in your mind unless you express it in your words. 

Today’s world provides limitless opportunities to express one’s mind in words just as it provides limitless opportunities to make wealth.  You can bake clay and make pottery out of it at home and sell it in the internet world.  Much more so, you can write or speak and the world is ready to read and listen. 

Don’t allow other people’s opinions to stop you from becoming a rich and a wise person regardless of at what age you are right now.  The saying “better late than never” has truth.  Don’t die without doing the things you love to do and saying the things you wish to say.