Poverty is the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs. Identifying the poor people first requires a determination of what constitutes basis needs.
Assuming you are living in poverty, your best option is escape that Poverty is to apply and observe the following things:
1. Learn a skill and get good at it
2.Move your service from intermediate to
professional
3. Learn to sell
4. Control your mindset
5. Do not have children
6. Start seeing yourself as a successful person
7. Remove yourself from the number of poor
8. Do not drugs
9. Do not take on student debt for a degree
that ends in arts or studies
10. Consider working for the government
11. Speaking of which, the single greatest
skill an employer wants in a new employee is reliability
12. Stop caring what other people think,
unless they are buying from you
13. Be patient
1. Learn
a skill and get good at it
On a deeper level, the problem of poverty is
not lack of money but lack of skill. The best way to escape poverty is to learn
a skill people want to pay for. Fascinatingly, there is a fall of free
resources to help you develop and brush up your skills, from programming,
design to marketing skills.
There is also carpentry, shoe making, car
mechanic and other handwork. This is where you need to keep your entitlement
mindset to check. As long as you are doing decent work and earning a living off
it, you should be confident and proud of what you do.
2. Move
your service from intermediate to professional
Listen attentively to this. People do not
hire you or patronize your business or service because they want to help you
get out of poverty. They do so because they need to solve a problem. Many
people get trapped in the circle of poverty and mediocrity by offering poor and
nonchalant services.
They go about their work like hunting; every
encounter is hunt and kills. They leave each prospect bitter and vowing never
to patronize them again.
Do not toll this path. Instead, keep in mind
that people are inherently selfish, they want to be treated well, and they want
good result. Focus on helping them get what they want, so that you can get what
you want. Instead of treating your work as hunting, decide to treat it as
gardening.
If you are in business, you need repeat patronage
in the professional world; you need referrals and recommendations. Do not go
about burning your bridges. Start cultivating positive relationships around
your work.
3. Learn
to sell
What do you think is the highest paid
profession in the world? It is not medical doctors or engineers. The highest
paid profession in the world is sales. The richest people are the best at
selling whether it is selling their vision, their product and service or their
skills. They are masters at selling.
The ability to sell is not reserved for a
few set of people. Anyone can learn this skill. The problem is that most people
spend too much time on the product and too little on selling what they have. If
you want to escape poverty, the ability to sell can you our faster than any
other skill. There is no best-written author, but best-selling author.
4. Control
your mindset
Most of your opinions are not original. They
were adopted from your environment into your mind. Each time you turn on the
TV, go on social media, listen to people around, your mind is getting
suggestions on opinions to hold or to let go.
Here is an example. Do you know that mega
supermarkets are designed to make you buy more than what you had in mind to
buy? You walk in to get a deal on one item and you walk out buying a cart full
of items, some of which you do not need. How would you explain that almost
everyone in African seems to fanatically support a football club in England or
Spain? Or that millions of people lost their money in a Ponzi scheme that
promised 30% interest every month. If you take the time to consider, you will realize
that you are not as in control of your mind as you think. You will realize that
some of the things you spend time, energy and money on are actually not worth
much. Your mind is your most valuable asset. Take back control of it by
deciding what you let into it. Read good books and stories that inspire you to
dream and take productive action. Invest in yourself.
5. Do
not have children
Children are not only expensive, but time
consuming and limit your job choices due to scheduling alone.
6. Start
seeing yourself as a successful person
We are all human and we have the natural
tendencies to be selfish. Even religions depend on what is in it for the
convert like eternal life and prosperity. Poor people see these characteristic
of self-centeredness as belonging to the rich, so they portray this false
humility to mask their true desire. The truth is that you cannot become what you
hate. If you continue to see progress people as antagonists, you will never
understand what it will take to make progress.
No doubt, some people take their greed and
selfishness to the extreme and only live to oppress other people. But the magic
is to understand this inherent human behavior, which everyone you meet is first
and foremost interest in what is it for them. People are always thinking about
themselves. With this knowledge, start focusing more on what people want and
what you can offer them. Turn the focus of your life towards identifying and
providing what other people want and you will be on your way to getting what
you want.
7. Remove
yourself from the number of poor
The first step to help the poor is to not be
one of the poor. With the limitless knowledge and resources available today, it
will be too selfish of you to remain poor. By using the resources within your
disposal to get out of poverty, you precisely reduce the number of poor people
in the world, not just by one but many. That knowledge that idea, skill you
have can help take care of two, three or more people. It will be unfair if you
do not develop it.
Another important reason to remove yourself
from the poor is that, if you want to get what you do not have, you have to do
what you have never done. Poverty comes with a lot of mental baggage. You cannot
become a person of success while still identifying yourself as poor. Eliminate all
those labels associated with poverty from your lips. Stop referring yourself as
among the poor masses. Start surrounding yourself with progressive people.
8. Do
not drugs
Drugs are both expensive and lead to other
negative habits that will limit your employment opportunities.
9. Do
not take on student debt for a degree that ends in arts or studies
Basically, if you must go into debt to get a
college degree, make sure it is a degree that has a clear path to employment an
afterwards.
10.
Consider working for the government
Particularly the local government of a major
city. One of the reasons so many major American cities have billion dollar
budget deficits is because of their generous salaries and compensation packages
to city employees.
11.
Speaking of which, the single greatest skill an employer wants in a new
employee is reliability
You can separate yourself from the pack in
any entry-level, low-skill job just by showing up on time and doing your best
every day.
12.
Stop caring what other people think, unless they are buying from you
Little minded people are like crabs. You have
probably heard about crabs, have not you? If you put, let’s say 47 crabs inside
a bucket without covering the lead, none of them will be able to get out. In reality, they could simply climb on each
other and find their way out but not these creatures. They will rather pull
down anyone of them tries to find their way out. In their mind, we all die
here. Little minds who do not have the courage to work themselves out of their
below average life, are often fond of talking down on people who want to try. These
people will rarely support or patronize what you offer. But they will be the
first to tell you why this is not for you.
13.
Be patient!
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