Money Grows on Trees

By Bolaji Ola-Adams

In the world of today, everyone of us must understand how money works. You must know how to get it, how to keep it and how to multiply it. This essential skills are not thought within the four walls of conventional educational systems. That's why often times, the people who come out with Third class grades degrees end up employing the people who come out with First class grade degrees. You must know how the game of money works and you most be ready to work it to your own advantage. This book will teach you everything you need to know about finding your own money seed and the strategy you need to adopt to grow it into a mighty one

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ola-Adams International LLC
• Release date: Dec 19, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386630241

Bolaji Ola-Adams

Bolaji Ola-Adams, is an Author, Motivational Speaker and an Entreprenuer. He currently serves on the board of a number of companies, offering professional advice that greatly impacts on the productivity and growth of these companies. He is a personal coach to several C.E.Os, helping them to articulate their visions, both individual and corporate and asking relevant questions that create the enabling environment that gives room for the development of strategies that makes the result they want to achieve attainable. He travels widely and speaks yearly in several high profile seminars and conferences around the world, creating positive response in his audience and helping them to realize that it is within the power of everyone to create the tomorrow they hope for. He believes that any negative circumstance can be turned around in the positive direction if the essential principles are understood and implemented. He seeks to empower people everywhere with the techniques essential for personal growth and financial freedom. He is carrying this mission with great commitment and passion, pushing through his insightful information in every nook and cranny of the society with every resource available.

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Introduction

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his book has been written for the singular purpose of simplifying the subject of money and how it can be acquired. I have tried to chronicle, in the simplest form, how any individual can create wealth. It is not written to bombard you with what you do not already know but to bring it to you from a different perspective that will make it easy for you to remember.

It is often said, Money answers all things. This statement is true and any of us can acquire enough of it in order to meet all our needs and also help others. This book will give you the prerequisite information on how to acquire money, how to keep money and how to multiply money. To achieve these three fundamentals, knowledge is vital. This book will give you that knowledge. The fact that you have this book in your hands, is a testament that something revolutionary will happen to your finances.

Many a time, ninety percent of national, organisational and individual problems are rooted in insufficient funds. Quantum development cannot be achieved without money and to move from a third-world nation to a first-world nation means that trade and investment must be allowed to thrive unhindered in that nation. I sincerely implore you to pay careful attention to the words written in this book. A wise man once said, No nation or individual can ever be politically self-determined except they are first economically self-determined. It therefore means that he who pays the piper, certainly dictates the tune.

It is very important that you liberate yourself economically. Do not wait for the perfect situation because when you do, you will waste away. Do not ever worry about what you do not have while what you have is rusting away. Do not worry about who you are not, while who you are is being downgraded. Every one of us has a unique path. That path, rooted inside of us, is our money. You have to learn how to tap into it. This book will give you the fundamentals, but what you do with them afterwards is entirely up to you. Until you take concrete steps towards the direction in which you want to be, you are simply a dreamer. Do not just dream about money, take the active steps outlined in this book and see a whole new door of possibilities being opened up to you.

This book will change your paradigm and help you see that there are multiple answers to a given question. The choice you make all determine the result you get. We will have our destinies in our hands. What you do today is what will determine your tomorrow. We create the future by the actions of yesterday. Any result can be predetermined. All you have to do is apply the relevant principles continuously and the result is sure to come. This world is big enough for all of us. We are all individual stars and can all shine brightly to our financial progress.

I eagerly await your transformation.

Chapter 1

The Tree Called Money

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believe that every individual, either man or woman, black or white, has a money tree attached to him/her. Some might have come to realise theirs and have started cultivating it, while others are yet to discover theirs and are expecting their neighbour to feed them from the fruits of their own money tree. It is a great tragedy when you cannot achieve what you want to achieve due to lack of money. It is a tragedy when a tenant dies without owning his own house; when a driver dies without owning his own car; when an employee dies without minding his own business, all due to the lack of money. We need to understand that God really never gave us a finished product, he only gave us raw materials. The man or woman who knows how to turn the raw material into finished product is the one who will end up with the money.

Experts have said that money is a device for solving problems for specific persons or groups of persons. The bigger the problems you solve, the bigger the money you can make. If this is true, why then are so many people still poor, most especially in the third-world nations where a lot of hardship, instability and poverty exist. If we all have a money tree, why is it that we cannot go up to pluck as much money as we want? That would have been the most sensible thing to do. If we can locate our money tree, then the poverty in our land would be a thing of the past. But herein lies the general question, Where is my money tree?

The absence of a sound answer to this rather lingering question has made a lot of people conclude that being rich or wealthy is a matter of luck. Some people are destined to be rich and some are destined to be poor. So goes this assumption. This statement, as false as it is, is a common philosophy among the downtrodden. We are all a product of our thinking, and whatever we hold true finds a way of becoming a reality in our lives.

Many of the things we see in our world today have gone through a process. Nature never gave man a car but has put the resources for the making of a car in the soil, and to have a car, the responsibility was for man to make the car from the raw materials that nature had provided. Nature never gave man the gorgeous houses he now lives in, but has only put the raw materials in the soil and if man wanted to live in such houses, the responsibility was his to build the house. Everything we see, be it technology, food, etc., were not made for man in a finished state but rather in the raw material state and man had to put his intellect into use to get what he wants from what he has been given. This is why, irrespective of what you have, what you can do with what you have is much more important.

TRANSFORMATION

The process of changing raw materials into finished products is called transformation. The extent to which you can transform is the extent to which your money tree will bear fruits. Transformation is the process of adding value to what already exists and turning that thing into something else. There is no one who cannot transform because we all have something inside of us that can help us process different raw materials around us into finished products. What you have might be different from what I have and vice versa, but in the final analysis, I will need what you have and you will need what I have.

In the beginning of this chapter, I said that money is a device for solving problems and these problems are usually in the form of a needed product or service. Money, therefore, is a means of exchange. In time past, there have been different forms of exchange, but as things got modern and technical, the currencies that have now become legally accepted in various countries and even globally, were invented. The means or mode of exchange has changed but the principle still remains.

The wealth of any nation or individual is directly proportional to the degree of the transformational ability such individual or nation has. Some countries have crude oil but may not know