Creating Value: The True Path to Wealth
We Create Wealth, We Don't Wait for it
The journey to wealth is highlighted by the value you create. To know this is to know peace. It's to understand what you can do to help yourself in the face of doubts and besetting pressures.
Wealth creation has been turned into a complicated structure that few people seemingly understand. There are gurus and rich folks around us and it's easy to see them like they're different from us. I'm aware of the huge corruption and the dubious, shady business around us. Young folks who drive expensive cars without necessarily doing anything valuable.
But I'm not going to focus on that because it's not within our control. One thing is within our control, creation of value, solving problems in our fields of expertise. That is what it means to be creative.
Whether you bake, you write, you handle social media pages, you code, or you're a civil servant, it is important to know that creating value is the truest way to wealth creation.
Ask yourself, what value am I creating? What problem am I solving?
Skills are important to creating wealth, an abundance of it. Gaining competence in these skills is important too, working smart to realize your strong competencies is germane. But whatever you do, remember that we don't wait for wealth, we create it by solving problems, making life easy for other people.
What occupies a creative's mind is how to create wealth or in common terms, how to make money. But we often overlook the part, what value will I exchange to make this wealth possible. Nothing is small or insignificant, just be valuable. Solve an economic problem.
Whatever you are doing right now, that is not solving a clear problem is probably a waste of time. You might derive some sense of accomplishment from it but if it doesn't solve people's problems to the point that you can charge for it, it's a waste of your economic time.
It's this simple. It's not in the hustling, it's in paying attention to what you love to do, or knows how to do, or can do to help people. Focus on that and you're on your way to making wealth.
Do you need to learn a skill, build competence, create a product, highlight a service? Whatever you need to do, ask yourself without getting distracted.
Looking for a job is not a strategy for wealth creation, looking for where to add value and grow is the strategy. Look beyond the salary, focus on what brings the salary.
Use this series to evaluate what you're doing now and reposition yourself. Put in the work, have a clear vision of what you need to do, and be willing to grow along the way. Remember, nothing is small, money is not made by how much work you have to do to earn it, but how significant your contribution is. Be so good and impactful.
Dear creative, you can build wealth if you start today and keep growing.
Have a blessed week and breakthrough from within.
I’d love to hear from you.
Abiola Iyiola
Creative Director,
AI Leadership Consult
