The dark complexion Segun, the father of Junior began his long over-due annual leave eventually. He stayed behind with the son who is also on holidays and just returned from the grandparent's house where he spent just few days.
The mother, Yetunde have left for her business outfit at Ring road.
Segun planned his leave that way for reasons. It will give him the ample chance of overseeing his son's welfare while sorting things out with the family. Also, he needed a rest because of the stress encountered in his place of work due to tedious tasks and busy schedules.
The father was not pleased with his personal life that looks disorganised. He desired a positively change of life style physically and spiritually.
In addition, Segun realised that age is no longer on his size again. The lasted birthday was September 4, this year when he clocked 45! The lad is over forty years already. A fool at forty is a fool forever!
In order not to end up being a fool, Segun must do something reflective about his life. Nothing happens without an Action!
The best time to make hay is while the sun shines. To avoid things from getting too late, it became imperative and highly compulsory to do something now.
'' To Be Something, Do Something!''
To have a significant headway in life, one needs to be so serious with himself and mean business as much as possible. Those who have stories to tell are faced with dynamic experiences of life. Progress is subject to moving forward positively. If you failed to deal with yourself, you will be dealt with by life in a painful way.
Claiming to be the first born of a billionaire is not too good status to hold unto in the present dispensation. And that he had a nice identity in the society as the offspring of a former Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is just living in the past.
A pharaoh that may not know Joseph will soon reign. It is a dynamic world of changes. Those who failed to catch up with time are often left behind to be recounting and tell old stories of unpleasant experiences. You have what it takes to start a fresh breeze of life.
Leaving in the past glory is not ideal for any right thinking child or a promising lad like big Segun...a Chartered Accountant! Really, nothing happens without an action enforced.
Segun was not the only son of the Ibadan billionaire. Although, from a well to do family in one love. Yet, he needs to venture for himself and stop depending on the heritage of father who made from business and politics.
All these were realized by Segun. He was ready to rejig himself towards a better future. And no significant achievement can be made in this unique world without making tangible efforts.
''Nothing happens without an action enforced''
''To be Something, Do Something''
''If you must do it, then Do it Right'' -Segun was motivating himself serious!
He was an ardent reader like is rich father who was deeply rich in books and politics. Those who are readers and are wiser to apply it will also live a better life. This is the secret of the winners!
The wealth of knowledge in books is too rare for a fool to discover! Information is power anywhere in this universe!
At this annual leave, Segun made up his mind to search for and design the blueprint to follow so as to have a sustainable development.
Yes, Segun began to realise that the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
'' The person who risk nothing does nothing and is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrowing but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his certitudes; he has forfeited his freedom. Only a person who risks is free! ''
To be candid, the simple and easy going father of Junior was very bent, factual and realistic. He wanted to stop hedonistic life by all means before the end of his annual leave of forty working days that started that Monday morning in harness.
In Ibadan city, where most of the families and relatives of Segun lived were tough austere times for many who are feeling the pressures and the economic squeeze.
As a person with good and solid background, Segun did not join the rest of his kinfolks to merely lament and muse over the terror unleashed on the citizen with the hyper-inflation reigning. Instead, he rose to the challenge.
There was so much gloom and doom that if one is not careful enough, a person can be swallowed up in the negativity of times.
The chartered Accountant felt as a father and husband, he needs to be more responsible. A planned life is a well spent life.
''The cattle that walked with dog for long will eat faeces eventually'' says a Yoruba adage!
Segun felt it was high time he took proper stock and review of his behaviours for a better prosperous bearing. He desired a shining life experience. The life of first-born in the family counts a lot. It must be tailored strategically. If not, it will be from good riddance to bad rubbish!
All these facts and plain truth were down on Segun as he searched through some documents while Junior was very busy watching a video.
'' Yes, a tree is only strong as its root'' was the motivational message he read on his phone from one of the popular pastors based in Ibadan that operates prayer program tagged: '' The Turning Point''
Segun planned attending the next retreat at the prayer mountain with his family. He felt the need for it fast and better. More so that it is not enough to have outward, physical, visible growth. The inner unseen, spiritual or structural growth is more factual and vital for any child of destiny.
If you don't have a firm grip of your spirituality, a lot of good things you are naturally entitled to may be far from you!
Segun realised that Samson of the holy bible, a lot of lack of inner depth cut him short. ''Root down, fruit up'' Only depth and deep devotion can sustain a man even in the midst of an ungodly political class! All these thoughts inspired and engaged Segun for a while.
In addition, the husband of Yetunde picked from his mini-library, some set of motivational books to read and digest!
In the main time, Segun began to flash back and began to meditate on some of the instructions and life lessons derived from his beloved and supporting father:
In life, according to notorious, versatile guru of Ibadan politics with great fame and prestige!
''Only God the most supreme is One'' and Him alone should be abhor and worship sincerely in life. However, outside of God the most magnificence, there is nothing good for a man to have and processed that should be one or single again. Those who have one thing in most cases end up suffering in life. It only in ''One with God '' that you can be the majority!
Therefore my son, if you must have a house, you should not build one but as many houses as possible.
Likewise, if you must engaged in business for financial success or breakthrough; have chains of businesses that will always make you to be relevant no matter what may happy to the economy of our nation. Do not depend on a product to sell no matter the boom for now. Develop and sell variety of products and services. It will make you wiser later in life no matter the pains of the moment. Streams of income only come from many sources!
Life is in variety. Those who make fortunes in the world have many things to claim. You cannot be called a Billionaire if what you have does not worth billionaire in value or number.
Really, you cannot be comfortable millionaire in the society if your income is not in seven digits. Do not depend on one source of income if you do not plan to suffer financially.
Frustration is not far from such an experience. Imagine, a man with a job instantly becomes jobless if sacked from the employment. Several people are in agony of life today simply because of their failure to consider multiple or streams of income.
If you are searching for how to be financially successful or attain financial success in life…do not bother yourself too much; just start having multiple businesses. Use the principles of duplication and leverage. It works like a fire outbreak in the dry season.
Read not one book but many books in your search for information on any matter of importance in life. You will do yourself proud in the process. It will equally make you a reference point for other citizens.
Image the Holy Bible having not one word or one chapter but 66 chapters or 66 books-in-one. Why? No wonder, the Bible remained the bestseller book in the universe ever since!
A man with only a child must pray and beg God very well. If not, God forbids oh! It takes only a strike of the devil to turn the portion of a woman with only a child to become a childless mother.
May you not have a bad experience of life?
Strife hard all times. Do what you can do to relief yourself from the avoidable stress of this world. Yes, no life without a problem; no life is problem free in the actual sense of it. The rich too also cry sometimes!
But notwithstanding, you can reduce, abstain, or manage your problem. Do not be greedy!
Nothing good for your life that should be One but many!
Have many things including many friends as your asset. Do not fail to share out of your wealth. Only what is shared will not finish! If the stock market is stabled; consider the purchase of shares in bulk or large for a reasonable return. Stop working all the time if you desire a freedom life in the future, but make your money to work for you in so many areas of life.
If you will live longer and not live to suffer, have good and well trained bonfire children that will be yours to claim and not set of vagabonds who will turn against you at old age for fussy reasons. Take good care of your health; your health remains your wealth!
If possible too, have some tastes of investments in the health sector. The reason for this is that later in life people's health would be costly to maintain due to the present life style that is without disciple as regards the eating and drinking habit of the majority in the society. Be simple and moderate in your performances. Shorn any act of trying to impressing anybody; you do not need it.
Invest heavily in real estates and agriculture no matter how attractive or otherwise it may be in the society at the moment. They will prove you to be wiser later in life.