Positive attitude can earn us wonders
"If people in other countries can live better lives and own classy "fabrics" at low costs, why not our country?
An underground businessman Johan Martins is definite evidence that everything is reachable and doable as he gleams between way different business worlds.
He thus, in other words, is an example that we don’t only earn knowledge from school and that academic knowledge will always remain important, yet it is not the knowledge that we have that counts, but what we do with that knowledge that does.
In 1990, Martins embarked on a business world as timber tradesman which led him to travel few African countries steering his businesses which even led him working in Malawi for two years in (2012 to 2014).
Still in the same business, in 2014 Martins then spread his wings to software development business which then earned him a furniture business as he now owns a bed franchise brand (About-beds).
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Unlike other people, his journeys in the corporate world were not only self-centred business trips but also became an adventure on how he can better lives of other people back in his county, as such Protea Glen extension 16 residents are blessed as Martins touched down in their land with his bed franchise from Botswana.
“About Bed comes a long way, it’s a Botswana franchise and I got this deal while I was doing my software installation business. What caught my attention in this business is, I picked up that they are selling good quality beds at very low or reasonable prices while back here in South Africa we have to pay a fortune to own quality materials,” indicates Martins.
He then continues to highlight that this was a good opportunity for other people to have food on their tables and for the whole country to also own quality material.
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“If people in other countries can live better lives and own classy “fabrics” at low costs why not our country? Businesses are self-empowerment tools, but our people should also be considered.
“Now that we have a shop in Glenridge, few people around here have jobs, and this is a way of sowing back to our community and that is what I mean by considering our people. And this is the only strategy of helping people who want to help themselves, we empower each other,” he said.
“It is amazing what positive attitude can do for all of us. The person I am today is through focus and setting no limitations before me. We all start somewhere, I did timber and computer software and today in beds.
“The sky is the limit. We have two ears, two hands and a mind for a reason. Let’s not refuse to learn and take initiative and nothing can stand in our way,” indicates Martins.
