Written by Uyoyou
Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Your strengths constitute your competitive advantage;
the divine edge you have over your competition. That is what separates you from
the pack to give you advantages, edges, leverages, that you can always use to
outbid and outshine your competition. Identify your strengths and the value of
your strengths.
Opportunities on the other hand are platforms for you
to showcase your strengths and be financially rewarded for your strengths.
Opportunities could be created, identified or they could just come your way.
Whichever, it is your responsibility to find them and take advantage of them.
In Jesus’ discourse with the woman at the well in John
Chapter 4, Jesus took advantage of the opportunity at the well to lead the
woman to God. You can and should create a demand for your goods and services.
After the woman found salvation, she became a powerful mouthpiece of the gospel
that brought the men of Samaria to Jesus and consequently, the entire community
to Jesus as they begged Jesus to stay with them.
In 2nd Kings Chapter 4 verse 7, the widow
of the indebted prophet was instructed to – “Go sell the oil”. Go and search
for the people who need the oil and sell to them and even if you have
identified the people, take the goods and services to them. Do not wait for
them to come to you. As they see the products and you the seller, they will
buy.
Find financially rewarding platforms to share your
timeless cutting edge resources, your strengths. Do not throw your intellectual
properties/divine gifts to people who do not know their value. This is because
they will treat both you and what you have to offer cheap. Also, engage in
financially rewarding economic activities. These should be income generating
activities packaged as consultancies. This implies that there are economic
activities that are not financially rewarding. Your task then is to identify
the economic activities that are financially rewarding and engage in them: also
identify the ones that are not financially rewarding and let go of them.
Also leverage on the strengths of organizations and
individuals that are supportive of what you do to get to where God wants you to
be. You can find such organizations, individuals who may eventually become your
partners online. There are quite a number of opportunities for collaboration
online. All you need to do is find them and work with them as God would have
you do. This is also a way of expanding your network; expanding your circle and
sphere of influence. As you leverage on the strengths of other organizations,
you are actually networking and collaborating, giving what you have in exchange
for what you need. Break new grounds through networking and collaboration
packaged as partnerships. This means that you do not trade your birthright –
divine ideas and IPs for bread. Rather, they should be platforms and
opportunities for collaboration and mutually benefiting partnerships. Those are
the opportunities to leverage on.
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