How to Turn Your Skill into Fortune

Over the years, there has been this ‘mad’ rush for acquisition of degrees and certificates. This mad rush is necessitated by the need to acquire top jobs that will fetch fat income.

But, jobs have become so competitive all over the world that people now make do with jobs far less than their qualifications. It appears the present trend points to the fact that degrees and certificates will no longer serve as ‘insurance’ against failure, poverty, and regret.

Now, this is not to say that education is no longer relevant. Education remains and will continue to be relevant. But it is, however, worthy of note that higher qualification is not indispensable.

History is replete with people who have little or no education, but who banked on their skill, talent, and potentialities to achieve massive success in life.

The story of the American millionaire, Debbie Fields, is very illustrative. After graduating from high school, Debbie got married. She remained a full-time housewife until she finally decided she would do something spectacular with her baking skill.

She told her husband about her plan to go into cookie business, but the husband replied: ‘Oh Sweetie that is such a stupid idea.’

When she told her parents, they replied: ‘You don’t have any business going into cookie business.’

Debbie ignored them and went ahead with her plan. Armed with her business plan and a batch of ‘freshly made cookies,’ she approached many banks but was turned down because she had little education and had no business experience.

However, a bank finally gave her the loan which she used to set up her business. Starting from that little beginning, she expanded her business into a business empire. Today, her business, Mrs. Fields, is one of the strongest brands in the US, having over 2,300 locations in 10 countries and yielding about $1 billion (dollars) annually.

Dear reader, do you know that you can also make a fortune from that skill of yours? Your skill may not be cooking skill and you may or may not make a billion dollars annually from your skill, but one thing is certain: you can turn your skill into a constant income generator and start amassing millions of dollars for yourself.

Here are some tips you can use to turn your skill into fortune:

1. Find What You are Good at and Which You Enjoy Doing

The way to excel in life is to find what you are good at. Don’t waste your time trying to be like others by copying what they know best to do.

Fields did not waste her time trying to be like others around her. She sat down and figured out what she was good at, which is baking.

The world is not asking for the number of degrees you have acquired, but what you can do or the GENUINE VALUE you can render. So, sit down and figure out what you are good at and which you enjoy doing.

2. Value Your Skill and Talent

Once you have figured out what you are good at, you need to start valuing it. Place high premium on your skill or talent. There are thousands and even millions out there waiting to benefit from your skill and talent. They are anxious and ready to pay you for your skill and talent.

The value you place on your skill or talent is the value people place on it. Don’t look down on what you are good at or what you are doing. Appreciate it. If you don’t value what you are good at, you will not find it necessary to give it all it will take to excel in it.

Valuing your skill or talent makes you to be totally committed to developing and deploying it for the good of mankind. And that is the way to turn your skill to fortune.

3. Believe in Yourself

Do you belong to the category of people who always seek the approval, opinion, suggestion and advice of people before you start doing what you believe you are capable of doing? Then listen: not everybody will believe you and support what you want to do. People and even banks would not believe and support you until they see practical results you have previously achieved.

    

If you have no results to show for it now, you may not likely attract quick help. However, you need not be discouraged because if you believe in yourself and in your capability, sometime, some day, somewhere, at least you will at least meet someone who will believe you and give you the big break.

Field’s husband and parents did not believe she would succeed. Other people did not believe she would succeed.  As such, they offered her no support. But Fields believed STRONGLY in herself and in the business she wanted to establish and she eventually succeeded.

The point here is, believe in yourself. If you believe in yourself, you will succeed even if no one believes in you; but if you don’t believe in yourself, even if people believe in you, you may not succeed.

4. Seek Assistance

 

If you STRONGLY believe in your capability and in what you want to accomplish, don’t hesitate to seek the help of those that can help you.

One great lesson I learn from the lives of successful entrepreneurs is that they don’t single-handedly finance the establishment and management of their businesses. They always go to bank for loan.

You need not bother financing your business by yourself. Where necessary, apply for loan. This is the path Fields took to establish her business – Mrs. Fields. She took her business plan and a batch of cookies with her to some banks. After many rejections, she found a bank which offered her the loan she needed to start her business.

When you are serious about what you set out to achieve, you will definitely find someone who will give you the resources you need to achieve it. But you must seek the assistance of that someone.

5.   Show Them that You Can

Not learning, not degrees, not certificates, and not knowledge alone that counts; WHAT COUNTS IN LIFE IS WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL.

As long as people are yet to see the results, there will always be rejections. You know, people don’t normally argue with results. Therefore, to turn your skill into fortune, you must SHOW people that you can do what you say you would do. 

The fact speaks for itself. Don’t waste your time struggling to convince any person of what you are capable of accomplishing. Let the fact speaks for itself.

One of the characteristics of successful people is that they don’t tell people what they can do; they show them what they can do.

Like Fields, don’t be discouraged by rejections. Every rejection you encounter should inspire and motivate you to find a way of showing them that you really can.

Dear reader, degrees and certificates are okay, but they are not the determining factor for your success in life. The determining factor for your success in life is your ability to turn your skill, talent and potentialities into fortune.

This is the path to victorious living. Read this article again and again, follow this path and you will be victorious all your life!