Nine tips on how to run a successful business
Lehlogonolo Thoabala is living testimony that greatness can come from a great mess.
POLOKWANE –Lehlohonolo Thoabala is a man on a mission to educate and inspire the youth in his community.
The 22-year-old from Seshego Zone 4 is a social entrepreneur and a motivational speaker in his own right. What sets him apart is that after failing matric, he did not see that as the end of the road but as the beginning of a new chapter.
He started The Motivational Drive in 2015.
“The Motivational Drive focuses on the well-being of the communities and the province as a whole in terms of financial education. We bring financial literacy to the youth and channel them towards becoming more business-oriented,” he explained.
“We work with a team of accountants and financial advisors who give tips not only on how to help people, but to help the youth run their own business. Some of these tips include:
A few tips on how to run a successful business are:
1) The reason for establishment of your business will determine whether your business will be either a failure or success.
2) If the business was established merely to make a profit, the my dear I must warn you in time that your business is doomed o collapse sooner or later. Just as a house build on sand can never stand the strong winds and heavy rain and collapse with time. So shall your business be.
3) Business is all about identifying a need or problem then coming up with a solution to to the problem.
4) And as you benefit humanity, you prosper.
5) In business never mind to do more than you get paid for.
6) A man who refuses to do more than what he gets paid for will soldomely be paid for more than what he does.
7) Our rewards in life will always be directly proportional to our services. Not more, not less.
If you do not like your income, increase your services.
8) Understand it is only as we grow in value as persons that we receive the increased income we seek.
9) If you don’t like your income increase your services until you reach the amount of money you desire to earn.
In conclusion I would like to say: Whatsoever that you get yourself involved in, do it with excellence and all your strength. So you also reap with in excellence and greatness. For as we all know know the law of sowing and reaping-whatsoever that ye sow, so shall ye reap.
