The Business System That Never Fails by Benson Agbortogo

Author:Benson Agbortogo [Agbortogo, Benson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780989505703
Publisher: Kingdom Business Publishing
Published: 2013-07-28T04:00:00+00:00

30 Luke 22:39-46 So there are times when you have to do a job you hate, in order to enable the people you love (your customers) to get good results.

When it comes to business, I know a lot of business people (including myself) who do not like to create a plan, but they love the results that planning generates. Like a lot of business people, I hate to plan because it is time-consuming, it requires deep thinking, it requires energy—a lot of people in business don’t plan, because of the above reasons.

There are even people who plan and then get a loan from the bank, but after they get the loan, they don’t follow the plan. They leave it on the shelf to collect dust.

The results that planning brings to any business makes it a worthwhile exercise. So even though I don’t like to get up in the morning and plan my day, I enjoy the results, so I allow the love I have for myself and my customers to motivate me to plan. I force myself to go through that activity because the results will benefit me and my customers.

The purpose of every business is to solve an existing problem. In solving a problem, you will sometimes be doing activities that you don’t like to do. Because you like the result that the solution you provide will produce, you will go ahead and carry out that activity.

A wise man once said, “If GOLD is your desire, then the FURNACE must be your passage.”31 To achieve the great things you want, you will have to make some sacrifices.

You will have to go through fire—there is no way around it. It is like saying that you want to win the Olympic gold medal in swimming, but you don’t want to touch water or practice too hard. That doesn’t make any sense, does it? Loving your customers requires some sacrifice.

Jesus had to go through suffering in order to fulfill his purpose. Using our previous definition of business, we can see that Jesus was filling a need— he was solving an existing problem. He was solving the greatest problem on earth—iniquity.

It was an existing problem—iniquity was and is still a big problem. The solution to that problem was salvation, so he needed to go through pain and suffering to bring the solution to mankind. His main motive was love.

Here is the secret of doing work that you don’t like, in order to serve the people you love. When you are motivated by love, you will easily overcome the pain of the process. The joy of seeing your product bringing positive results in the lives of people erases the suffering. Let us look at a scripture from the book of Hebrews:

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