THE BOY WITH A TOY GUN

 I was conversing with my brother, a chilly evening and he told me of a boy he met during a Christmas celebration.

This boy bought a toy gun worth #150(Nigerian naira). This toy gun we equally played with when we were kids, have a small round of bullet worth #10, which you can shoot eight times. The  boy then gathered his friends who could not afford the gun and told them they can shoot the gun once an pay him ten naira. Happy to hear that, the kids clogged around him, each trying to shoot  for just ten naira.

Now what is unique about what he did?

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 Each bullet consisting of eight shots costs ten naira. Now he is selling each shot for ten naira that means he's making eighty naira for each ten naira bullet he bought. This is just a kid of about seven-eight years old. 

What piqued my interest about the whole thing is how he was able to come up with such an exclusive way of making money on his own. I termed it the true definition of thinking outside the box.

 Truth be told, i have bought and played with that toy gun throughout my childhood to adolescence but never come close to thinking of making money with it.

Bottom line?

Being an entrepreneur entails cultivating a certain kind of thinking that separates you from others. An entrepreneur must learn to look at things differently, to look at opportunity where others are only seeing problems or pleasure.

Someone once remarked that if you're given a measure of beans, do you visualize a hot meal or a bag of beans from that one measure? And it dawned on me that the way we view the resources at our disposal may well define how successful we  become in life. 

 It's  important to develop a good eye for ideas, that alone is one of the basic foundations upon which innovations, inventions and great businesses are  built.

I dare you to begin to think differently about your resources, and just like the boy, it may surprise you to see that you've been sitting on some cash all the while.