FACTORS I CONSIDERED BEFORE STARTING APPLESOFT COMPUTERS Inc:

 VISION

The foundation for business establishment and development is discovery of vision. Until you discover your purpose and the purpose for a business, you remain a struggler in that business.   Until you have vision, you can't create wealth. Until you have vision, you can't create a business.

What then is vision?  Vision is the discovery of purpose. (N.B: Purpose is the reason for a thing. It is that singular assignment that God wants us to accomplish on earth; Jeremiah 1: 5; Galatians 1:15-16). However, the pursuit of vision is Ministry or Business. Until purpose is discovered, vision and consequent manifestation on earth are not in view. Until you identify your own calling, wealth creation and abundance on earth can't be achieved.

How Can I Discover My Purpose on Earth (Vision)?

Be Born Again: Salvation guarantees manifestation (Matt. 6:33). Until you repent, access to revelations (the hidden secrets of God) is not in view. God is a God of mysteries, little wonder why Jesus Christ came on earth and spoke in mysteries. It takes mysteries to become master. And vision is one of the mysteries that can make you a master on earth. We are created to have dominion on earth (Gen. 1:26-28). Until you are born again, you can't have it. Be born again and you'll become sensitive to the things of the spirit.

Be Filled with the Holy Spirit: Being born again is the foundation for a Christ-like life. But, you must be filled with the Holy Spirit to make impact on earth (Acts 1:8; Acts 2). Have you cared to ask why same Peter that could not stand for Jesus at His death point was able to convert over 3,000 unbelievers when he was endued with the Holy Spirit? It takes the Holy Spirit to access power and manifest purpose on earth. Think about this!

Consciously Ask For It! What you don't desire, you don't deserve. Until you desire a thing, it might not be given (Matt. 7:7-8). Desire for the purpose of God for your life (Vision) is what guarantees your receipt. To discover vision, ask God for it. Ask God in prayer and fasting (Prayer of inquiries).

Go For The Word: The mysteries of God are wrapped up in His Word (The Scripture). Until you locate the right Word for your life, manifestation is not guaranteed (John 6: 63; John 1:1-5; John 1: 14). As you look unto the Word, every darkness, in and around you, will be terminated (John 1:5). However, you can locate the Word by listening to great messages by the spirit of just men made perfect (Great men of God), reading and studying the Bible, reading and studying great Christian books and literature, fellowshipping with others at churches and Home cells and being sensitive to the things of God.

Be Meek: To be meek means to be teachable. It is only the meek that has access to the deep things of God (Vision). Until you're meek, you can't have access to God's vision (Ps. 22: 26; Ps. 25:9; Ps. 37:11; Ps. 147:6).

PURSUE YOUR PASSION

Of a truth, vision is the opposite of ambition. Vision is selfless while ambition is selfish. Vision is from God while ambition is man-made. Vision is revealed by God while ambition is of man.

Thus, vision is from the heart while ambition is from the head. However, a lot of you are seemingly frustrated and stagnated because you have been waiting for God to speak concerning His vision for your life.

You just want Him to say, “My son (or daughter), I have called you to be a shoe manufacturer or a Barrister or a Medical Doctor or a Tomatoes seller…” Yes, it's possible for God to speak that way. But, it's rare!

When you have not heard clearly from God what to do on earth, look inward what is it that you're passionate about. Start doing it. Just do something. It may be a pointer to God's vision for your life. And soonest, you'll see that the vision of God for your life has been fulfilled.

Stop saying, “I'm waiting for God's time!” in ignorance. Otherwise, you'll be grounded. God forbid! Not for you!!!

However, purpose discovered and not pursued is purpose abused. Thank God you have discovered your purpose in life (Vision). However, remember that the pursuit of purpose is the real definition of business or ministry. The only difference between business and ministry is that business is the manifestation of gifts while ministry is the manifestation of callings of God. “The gifts and callings of God are without repentance”.

How To Pursue Your Vision

 There are many steps to vision pursuit. And these are:

Have a Plan: Planning is the first practical step in the pursuit of vision. Failure to plan is planning to fail. Planning sets the pace for setting the extent of a vision, achieving it, and measuring the achieved against the targeted. Until you have a target, you become a target for failure and stagnation. Planning involves goal-setting. A goal moves you into action. It makes you get MAD (Motivated, Aggressive and Determined) in accomplishing a purpose. A life without goal makes you a goat. A life without target makes you the target. Imagine a football match where there is no goal-post, when will the match end? Imagine a race without a targeted ending point, how do you determine the winner? The problem with most people is that they know how to be rich, but, the extent of their richness is never anticipated. For some, “As long as I can eat, pay my children’s school fees, pay rent,...I am okay!”. That is poverty in disguise. Be determined. Know what you actually wanted. Think big. And soonest, you shall be a wonder to your world. God is a God of wonders (Exodus 15:11).

As the year is about to begin, what is your financial goal? How much precisely do you hope to achieve in the next year, five years from now, fifty years from now? Or, do you want to gamble through life just as you have gambled with this year thinking that God was unfaithful to you? If you already have a financial goal, how do you hope to achieve it? What are the definite and concrete practical steps you hope to take to accomplish your financial goal? What marketing strategies do you hope to achieve? How many employees do you hope to bring into the system (if you have any) to act as leverage to your success? Think about these!

Take A Step: Inches make champions. A race of a thousand miles starts with a step. Because you already have a plan, taking definite steps will be easy. I am a living example. Those I have been mentor to, in businesses and NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) startment and running, are witnesses. Taking practical steps for the accomplishment of a vision becomes easy and result-oriented when the plan is on ground and analyzed spiritually and physically. Just one step per time is enough to make you a great success soonest.

Hear this: When God asked me to write, I knew that millions of readers would be touched because I am a big thinker. I penned down the plan and strategies for marketing this article online. On sitting down, I wrote the first letter and before I knew it, the manuscript became ready for publishing same day, the next day it was already published.

Just take the first step NOW!

ABILITY AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

 Do you have the experience required for the business? Do you have the ability/ can you make it? All these and many other related questions you will ask yourself before going into the business.

EXTENT OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION

 Is the government’s “eye” always in the business? What are the laws established by the government or any other statutory board, for or against that type of business? To what extent does the government regulate it

EXPANSION POSSIBILITIES

 Does the potential business have any room for expansion? How long will it take to expand more? These and other related questions should be considered before one goes into business.

EASE OR DIFFICULTIES OF THE POTENTIAL BUSINESS

Is the potential business easy or difficult to establish and mange/ How easy or difficult is it? If difficult, how can one handle the difficulty? These and other related questions should be considered and answers given to them before one ventures into business.

CAPITAL REQUIREMENT

The amount of capital needed for the kind of business you want to venture into must be considered. how much do you have? How much does the business require? Can you raise the capital? If not, how does you hope to achieve this target?

See in the next edition!!! I love you!!!

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