How To Make Money While In School 4 Chapter 3: Look Inward

meaningful and more interesting on the outside. You will do well to look inside into what it is.

Many students go through life without realizing these special abilities that are divinely bestowed on them to make life easy. This is saddening! But not too late. Many students look up always for help. Wow! What a beautiful thing. However, it is more beautiful to look inward than to look up because everything you need in life has been transferred from up into you.

Believe this; you have a special gift that can make a difference, not just in your life, but in the world at large. There is a deposit of intrinsic worth in you. Look inward. You have an outstanding endowment from heaven to acquire the kind of money you envisage, even right in your school. Search inside. The resources needed to turn your dream of making money on campus into reality are within you, merely waiting for the day you will finally decide to wake up and claim your birthright.

Purify your mind of the 'scarcity-mentality' you have carried around all your life. Purge your reasoning faculty. There is nothing as shortage of funds around you; you only have shortage of skills. No matter how overwhelming your present financial challenges are, they can be completely eliminated if only you can tap into the reservoir of abilities you have been endowed with. There are virtues loaded in you. There are potentials buried in you. There are treasures waiting to be exhumed. There are gifts waiting to be discovered. You can not become wealthy until you believe this. Believe it and make up your mind to discover them, and your life begins to experience a change. Your decision today will determine your destiny tomorrow.

All the money you need is with you right where you sit now. Once you can grasp this understanding that there is something you can do to make money, you will never have to worry about money anymore. Upgrade your reasoning faculty. Discard the scarcity mentality and acquire the abundance mentality. You have all you need.

Everyone who has succeeded knows this: to succeed in life, you will first need to identify what your potential is. This is a crucial factor in wealth acquisition. It is a major way of gaining mastery over one's financial situation. This is because you can not make it outside your place of interest. Strive to identify what catches your interest; that is likely your area of dominant gift. Every man's making is in his gift. Even the Bible says "A gift opens doors for the one who gives it and brings him into the presence of great people" Prov. 18:16. It is only in exploring the gifts of G.o.d upon your life that wealth flows towards you.

If you know that there is something you can do so pa.s.sionately, turn that pa.s.sion into profit. There is something you are cut out for. No matter how useless you have been made to think you are, there is something you still can do. It might look negligible, but do not despise it, there lies your wealth.

A profound truth is hidden in Proverb 13:23 where G.o.d bears His mind "Much food is in the tillage of the poor:" This means even the poor man is not poor in the real sense, he is only poor because he does not want to do anything. If he is really willing to do something, then he will no longer be poor because there is much food in his tillage.

Same is applicable to students. Ever seen a poor student? He is poor not because he does not have money, but because he does not want to make money. There is much food in his tillage.

Do you want to be successful in life? This is the secret: do what you are gifted for continually until it begins to yield profit to you. What you love to do is a pointer to what your potential is. Whatever gives you excitement and makes you enthusiastic is an indicator of your prevailing ability.

It is very important that you do what you love if you must make money because money only flows to those who focus on such. If you also do, the end product will be wealth.

This discovery helps you to gain financial freedom. There is a strong link between this discovery and your money supply. G.o.d has configured man in such a way that what he naturally enjoys doing can also serve as his main source of income. This discovery of what you are created to do will take you to a new level in your finances because wealth and potential can not be separated.

One of the highest paid people in the world today are footballers. However, football was not their initial career; it was a hobby. Then, it later became their main source of income. There is an area of interest of your life that can also become a main source of income to you in years to come if only you will be careful enough to discover it, train up yourself in it and keep at it until you eventually become the best in it.

The journey from poverty to wealth is not imaginary. It is a conscious one. Whether or not you make money while in school, and how much money you will make while in school will be solely dependent on how serious you take this issue. If you take it with all seriousness, you will experience financial progression, but if not, financial turmoil awaits you. Money continually flows only to those whose focal point is primarily on their most dominant skill. Even the Bible says skill will bring success (Ecc.10:10).

Of a truth, some students finds it difficult combining their gifting and academics together and still make headway, but then there is something every student can do naturally which will not affect his academics. It just comes naturally to his person. There is an area of interest which he will naturally find so easy to do without having a negative impact on his studies. That is it. That is just it!

It is not just about doing something but about doing something worthwhile. It is not all about being busy but about being busy with the right thing. It is not about activity but about productivity. Whatever you want to do to make money in school must be centered on what will work best for you.

Take a cue from the people making waves in the entertainment industry, either the music or the film industry. Most of them really did not study such courses in school. But they discovered early in life their areas of interest and despite their course of study, kept at developing this ability. So many of them started making waves as students and their names are now household names, simply because they looked inward and brought out what was within.

How much money you make is as important as what you do. You can only flourish where you are planted. A fish can perform wonders in the aquarium, but if thrown out of it, it dies a natural death. You will bloom where you are planted. So, understand where you are planted so that you can extend your roots to every corner of the soil, grab all the richness of the earth, and bloom your brightest blossom.

You cannot be doing the wrong things and be expecting the right rewards. There is no shortcut to true and lasting riches except by discovering this potential.

If you are careful enough to look deeply inward you will discover that all the things you will ever need during your stay on campus, and even beyond, are embedded in the endowment of G.o.d upon your lives. Your riches are hidden in your potential. All the money you will ever need in life will come from the potential. All the cloths you need to put on, all the books you need to buy, all the foods you need to eat, all of them have been divinely provided and hidden therein. Even the woman you will finally get engaged to will be attracted to you by your potentials. Why wont you then search inward to discover what this endowment is, so that all your needs will begin to materialize; not out of the blues, but out of the endowments G.o.d has bestowed on you?

The discovery of this latent ability is what provokes the response of money to you and makes wealth readily accessible to you. Until you discover that potential, the money you envisage may not come. Until it is discovered, the connections you need may not materialize. Until it is discovered, the a.s.sistance you desire will not surface. Until it is discovered, you may be stagnated on the same spot for as long as it would take you to.

Discover yours today; potentials are not a.s.sumed, they are discovered. Until you discover it, you do not recover from the ghastly blows of poverty. But when you do, you will know it; and so will others around you.

In order to discover what your potentials are, you will find these questions quite helpful -

(1) What am I gifted in?

(2) What do I love doing?

(3) What am I pa.s.sionate about?
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(4) What natural ability do I possess?

(5) What can I do so well than all of my peers?

(6) What do I find utmost pleasure and fulfillment in doing?

(7) What can I do for so long that I never get tired of doing it?

(8) What will I keep doing even if I am grossly underpaid or heavily overpaid?

(9) What is it that, if woken up from sleep to do, I will still do without grumbling?

(10) What will I do well enough whether in the privacy of the corner of my room, or in the public glare of the general audience in a cinema room?

The reason you must honestly answer these questions to the best of your knowledge is because life will only respond to those who react to the dictates of their potentials. So if you want life to answer you, take time to discover what you can do. The student who values so much the little allowance he receives from home to the neglect of his G.o.d given potentials will soon lose both. The allowance, in no time, will cease, and the talent which he has refused to develop will be taken away from him and given to another who will make proper use of it.

If you are unhappy with your present financial situation as a student, do something about it. The solution to your financial security is in your hands. Begging others around for alms, praying ceaselessly for favor from philanthropist, and hoping for a supernatural miracle of financial breakthrough, scholarships and sponsorship will not bring a lasting solution. The answer lies in the unquantifiable wealth of resources that G.o.d has embedded on your inside. If only you can discover it, you will in no time become a celebrity, both on your campus and beyond.

Discern what you are pa.s.sionate about. Everyone is gifted in one thing and only proper discovery helps determine precisely what. You may not have Celine Dion's unique voice; or Michael Jackson's matchless dance steps; or Anthony Robbins' stage charisma; or Kenneth Hagin's undiluted faith; or David Oyedepo's uncommon boldness; or Michaels Jordan's jumps, or Tom Brooks' fingers, but there is something you have.

To be upset over what you do not have is to waste what you have. You may think you do not have what it takes, but G.o.d is an expert in using insignificant things to achieve impossible feats.

More often than not, we downsize the magnitude of our potentials by our own reasoning. We expect it to be something big, mighty, gigantic, magnificent, overwhelming and breathtaking. It may really not be that dumbfounding for a start; it may just be one little insignificant talent. It may look so little and so unimportant, but therein lies the wealth you desire.

That talent is only seen as inadequate in your sight. However, before G.o.d, it is more than you think. He fed five thousand men (and innumerable number of children and women) with just five loaves of bread and two fishes. It is the little things in life that determines the big things. It was Moses' useless shepherd rod that determined the freedom from captivity of over two (2) million Israelites. The big things in life starts as small things on an ordinary day like today. Make today your day, discover yourself. You have something to offer to this generation. You have something that is of an infinite value, it is there in you; do not look down on it.

This is the foundational basis of financial breakthrough; the ability to discern that there is something G.o.d specifically created you for. It may be a little ability, a gift, a talent, or something. Whatever it is, it can be converted into monetary values. Do not let it waste; an unused potential is a useless potential.

Be creative. Use the substance inside your skull. That is the factory where heroes are produced. Dig deep down in order to bring out the productive and creative instincts in you. Renowned manufacturing companies do not manufacture useless products. They have their integrity to protect. G.o.d is the best manufacturer in the world and He has not yet created anybody who has nothing to offer. There is a gold mine of wealth hidden somewhere between the rubbish heap of your life; explore it and maximize it.

Appreciate the input of G.o.d upon your life now that you are still a student. There is a name exclusively reserved for students who graduate without appreciating G.o.d's endowment upon their lives while on campus. It is a very common name you hear every now and then: The Unemployed Graduates!

If you have once been called that name before, you now know why. You can still change the name today if only you will look beyond your pressing needs to the gifts which G.o.d bequeathed on you. The day you discover what you are supposed to accomplish with your life, your life begins to change. Then you will discover that making money is just as easy as spending it. The pressure you place on your parents will be reduced, and your prayers for showers of blessings and financial breakthrough will be limited.

It is even more than just making money. If you have a serious inner prompting to accomplish things of great importance in this generation, this is the starting point. Stir up that which is in you, the world needs it. If you must be remembered for at least something at the end of your sojourn here on earth, if after all said and done, the final estimate of your life must count, then you must be ready to explore your potential. It is the only way to make a lasting impact on the lives of those around you and the generations to come such that they will forever be grateful to G.o.d that you walked the surface of the earth.

Discover your potentials. Very few do, and they are the few that rule the world. This is a reality. Without discovering your potentials, you go through life with a deep sense of having missed something of great significance, since you can never reach the peak the Lord aimed for you.

Your journey to making money on campus will either be terminated or be grounded here. You either decide to explore this hidden ability and be the best for it or shun it and suffer its consequence. The choice is yours.

A marketable talent, no matter how small, is the most reliable source of income any student can have. It is better than a part time job in most establishments. It will earn you a living any day, any time. David had only a sling, but that was all he needed to take him to the palace. Joseph could only interpret dreams, but that was all he needed to become "somebody" from "n.o.body". The widow whose son was about to be taken away by creditors had only a little bottle of oil, but that was more than enough to settle all her debts. Moses had only a rod, but with the rod, the Egyptians' rods were swallowed, the Red Sea parted, and themselves swallowed up in the sea. Just a rod! You also have something in you; do not look down on it. That which you have is that with which G.o.d intends to give you financial liberation. Go after it. If you do, you will soon be enlisted in the ever-increasing record of upcoming millionaires of this new century.

A generation is coming that will proof to the world that being a student is not synonymous to financial dependence, neither does it mean you should beg to survive, or depend on other people to see you through school. Through the wealth the Lord will entrust into your hands, you will become a voice in this generation right from your days on the campus.

This is the time for the fulfillment of the long awaited prophecy of the great transfer of wealth from the world to the church. When it comes, it will leave no member of the body of Christ behind except those who refuse to explore their potentials. Students too are inclusive in this prophecy of the great transfer of wealth, if only they are willing to look beyond their academics alone and explore their potentials.