15 NECCESARY SKILLS FOR STUDENTS IF THEY WANT TO BECOME RICH
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videos. Our focus today is on the skills student need to acquire in order to become rich.
As a student there are a lot of things you need to consider if you want to become rich.
We have run studies on several rich and successful people in and out of our circle in order to
determine which true skills are necessary for an adequate ride to success. It is important
to watch this video to the end, including the explanations, because it isn’t enough
to just know what is mentioned on the list, but to actually understand and know the areas
in which you are lacking and see how you can improve on them.
The content of this video entails analyzing oneself. I recommend you get a piece of paper
and after each point we state, you rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is poor and
10 is excellent. At the end of this video, you should be able to know which skills you
need to develop over the course of time and the ones which are your strengths.
In no specific order, here are 15 most important skills you need to acquire as a student if
you want to become a rich and successful person in future.
1) DISCIPLINE Discipline is simply the act of training a
person’s mind and character, building a sense of self control and obedience. Our focus
here is on self -discipline. This is the number one step you need to acquire to get rich.
It entails the ability to put in all the effort, time and energy in order to achieve a desired
goal and setting aside those things that can hinder you from getting there.
Irrespective of what of are trying to achieve, if you don’t discipline yourself you won’t
get it. Your ability to push through with your goal no matter how difficult it seems,
what the weather’s like, how you feel each day, what other people say, is what you will
get you to the finish line. If you want to achieve excellent results,
you need to discipline yourself. That is to say, take your lessons seriously, be attentive
in class, study your notes, do your assignments, for go hanging out or partying with friends,
playing video games and all distractions that can hinder you from reaching your target goal.
If you want to get in shape, it means mastering your diet. This entails hitting the gym every
single day, irrespective of the weather condition, your mood or if there are other distractions
you’d rather be doing. Discipline means you’ll take care of the
most important tasks related to your long term goal before anything else.
That is you won’t let a single day pass without closing the distance between your
current stage and your target. This is the number one reason why people fail in life.
Let us give you tips on how to develop discipline. • What do you want?
• Why do you want it? • Get rid of distractions
• Prioritize your goals over everything else Keep record of your progress each day
Keep yourself accountable. Every successful person we’ve read about
practice self- discipline. They know want they need to do each day in order to get what
they want. Thus start working on your self-discipline.
2) MAINTAINING FOCUS Nowadays it’s barely easy to maintain focus
especially as everything around you has been engineered to distract you. Maintaining focus
has to deal with one’s ability to choose activities which will aid us reach our target
goal over activities that feel good in the moment but has no reward for us in the near
future. A quick question, how focused are you on reaching your target goal?
Let’s take yesterday or even today, apart from watching this video what have you done
today that will impact your future or close the gap between your current situation and
your target goal? Take a jotter, list down all the activities
you have done from the moment you woke up from bed up to this moment.
How many of them are beneficial to you? How many of them can contribute in your journey
to success? How many of them are time wasted?
You will discover that you’re wasting a lot of time on useless things. Sorry to say
this but the lives of some people are a complete waste. You aim at completing a project within
three days but you spend most of your time sleeping and gallivanting around. Sorry for
you, you won’t complete that project on time. Hence, maintaining focus is a very important
skill you need to cultivate if you want to become rich.
3) HARD WORK Hard work they say is one of the major keys
to success. If you don’t put in all the necessary efforts in a project, or a tasks
you won’t yield results. Let’s say for example; you have a time frame of about 12
months to construct a building. It goes right from laying the foundation to painting the
house. If they builders spend time lazing around, I bet that building construction will
exceed the time frame of 12 months. You want to top your class, but you spend
time sleeping rather than studying on, playing games and involve yourself in all types of
distractions. Nothing can be achieved if you don’t work for it. So every goal you aim
at, invest time and energy to get it.
4) CONTINUOUS LEARNING Learning they say never ends. If you watch
the lives of rich people, they spend time studying and reading books. You will see a
successful man going back to the university in his fifties or sixties and you will be
wandering,’’ with all the money this man has while would come back to school’’.
Sometimes it’s not always about the money but how to manage and make more money. This
people go back to school gain more knowledge and wisdom. They never stop learning because
they want to keep growing in everything they do. One can learn not only through reading
but also by observing everything around us. Your success depends on your ability to continuously
learn, acquire new skills and use them to grow yourself.
It is not only about learning things but understanding them too. There’s a clear difference between
learning and understanding. The former fills your mind with a lot of information
while the later makes you use put that information into use. Now ask yourself this question;
when was the last time you learnt something of real value to you or the people around
you? This is how you keep track if you’re growing or not.
Learning never stops, so keep learning every day to grow yourself.
5) MONEY MANAGEMENT You can be rich on a Sunday and get broke
on a Monday. It is very important to make money but what’s more important is what
you with the money you made. This can make or break you, so it is very important to know
how to manage your money. You need to learn how make more money from the money you earn.
You can start up a business, invest in a project and do a lot of things that can help you generate
more income. How many people have you seen whom after they
collect their salaries go on shopping spree, vacations, buying things that that have no
value to them ? Money should be used to protect you and help
you come out from unpredicted situations. The more you have it, the better for you.
Getting rich just entails learning new stuffs and working. After making the money, you need
to know how to manage and multiply this money for your own good.
I have friends whom have won awards and competitions worth millions but are very broke now. The
simple truth is they mismanaged their money. They looked at the money as being so much
not knowing it’s volatile. The money you have at this time can get all exhausted in
the minutes ahead. It all depends on how you manage your money.
Now grab a pen and paper and write down all the things you’ve spent money on this week.
You will notice that 60% of the things you got were temporal and useless. Dear viewers,
it’s not only about making money, but managing it.
6) BE WILLING TO MAKE SACRIFICES If money was an unlimited resource and easy
to get, a lot of people will prefer to jus seat at home and chill with a bottle of beer
all day. You now understand why people wake up every morning and head to their job sites
because they need to earn a living for their survival. This means you have to sacrifice
your long hours of sleep and leisure to do what’s essential to keep your family and
you going. If you want to be rich there are a lot of
thing you will need to sacrifice such as your time, bonding moments with friends and family,
hangouts just to name a few. This is where you realize that the lifestyle you want doesn’t
come for free. Nothing can be achieved without sacrifice,
sometimes we even end up sacrificing more than we would like, but this depends on the
individual and how important wining is.
We sacrificed our time to make this video, there are hell a lot of things we would rather
do than producing this video, but because we know our focus and we know how important
this is to us and to you watching it we went ahead to produce the video.
7) ABILITY TO BRING QUALITY PEOPLE AROUND YOU
It is often said “show me your friends and I will tell you who you are” If you are
aspiring to become rich, you need to change your circle of friends. You need to associate
yourself with people who have value for everything. You need to mingle with people of common interest
and goals like you. Let’s say you’re an average earner, and among your circle of friends,
you are the richest. Then you have a problem. You’ve probably heard this couple of times
“YOUR NETWORK IS YOUR NETWORTH’’ If you’ve got the right type of friends,
the right type of mentors, these people will open new paths for you. They will help you
grow faster and will give out their knowledge and resources to your aid when necessary.
What will have the greatest impact in your life is choosing the right mentor. These are
people who accelerate your growth and help you navigate your world more easily because
they have gone through the same path before. If you surround yourself with billionaires,
you will definitely join the club soon but if you surround yourself with poor people,
you will remain poor the rest of your life.
8) READING We will say it countless times; successful
people read a lot of books! It is better to read books than watch videos.
Reading helps your brain to process the information and creates a relation between your internal
memories and reality, but videos are just visual representation of information.
There is a link between most of people’s successes and reading. Rich and successful
see reading as a gateway to knowledge. Thus they tend to read books that will help them
grow their minds and improve their lives. This is important because, if you’re not
learning anything of value, how do you expect your life to change.
You’ve definitely read a lot of boring books and books which helped cured your boredom
for the mean time but didn’t have any positive long impact in your life. We will help you
with a list of books successful people like Warren Buffett have read.
• Thinking fast and slow • Sapiens
• The Alchemist • The Psychology of persuasion
• How to win friends and influence people • Rich Dad, Poor Dad
• Rich Dad’s cashflow
9) COMMUNICATION Sadly enough, a lot of people don’t know
to interact with their audience. Imagine trying to market a good or service and you can’t
speak up because you are shy or maybe an introvert. How will you convince people to buy your product,
how will you make them see reason to get your product? You need to be outspoken, people
need to hear what you have to say. Now communication includes not only speaking, but listening
and writing. Employers want to see if you can articulate your thoughts and ideas clearly
and effectively. Being a good listener means you strive to understand emotions, build strong
relations, work in a team and resolve conflict.
10) HOW TO SELL Every single thing you do in life is in the
form of selling right from the time you are born till you die.
Life is all about interacting with others and selling is just a means of convincing
someone get a product or service you have in exchange of money.
If you learn this skill, there’s a 98% probability that you will make it in life because you’re
going to use this skill to get a lot of things you desire.
You’ll have to convince your parents to give you money to organize a party with your
friends, you’ll have to convince your partner to be with you, you’ll have to convince
am employer to give you a desired job, you’ll have to convince people to buy a product your
selling, you will have to prove that whatever your offering is worth exchanging money for.
People will trade their money for things with a lot of value to them. This applies to time,
people will trade their time for money, if the money they receive is more valuable than
their own time. If you know how to sell, you will be a great salesman and be able to make
people see reason in everything you offer.
Thanks for watching .I hope you enjoyed every single part of this video. From your jotter,
how many of these skills are you weak or strong at? Now work on the weaker skills and put
more efforts on the stronger skills. Don’t forget to give a thumb up to this video and
leave a comment in the comment section.