YOUR LOCATION WON'T CHANGE WHO YOU ARE- Iyama Francis
Archbishop Benson Idahosa once said that a lizard in Nigeria will not become a crocodile in America. He was trying to address a mindset that many of us in the third world have. We say that if only we could go to the western nations, if only we could go to the countries that look so beautiful in the movies and in the magazines, then our lives would change.
There are many who assume that if they could just land at the airport, they would just change instantly. Their fortunes would change if they arrived in a developed country. There are many who have acted on that idea and who have been shocked. Why? They got to those places of which they had seen beautiful pictures. May be relations of theirs or even their friends had taken beautiful pictures and sent those pictures to them. When they got to those places they realized you also had to work there before you could make money. You have to give out value before value can come back to you.
The principles that govern finances in the country where you are, govern finances in the place where you want to go. Money does not grow on trees there, neither do you pick gold on the streets, the same principles apply. They realized that without the capacity to solve problems for people, the money won’t come. Without the capacity to offer products and service the money won't come,therefore your location does not change who you are.

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