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RECENTLY, on
my Facebook page, I offered free recharge or top up cards to my Nigerian
friends on Facebook. It was just a way of keeping tab on my friends on a media
that claims to be social but many a time is far from what it professes. I
simply asked my friends to post on my Facebook wall indicating their interest
in the freebie. There was no gimmicks, or tricks or hidden anything anywhere
whatsoever. I wasn’t marketing or selling anything to anyone, neither was I
bribing anyone for today or tomorrow. I wasn’t expecting anything in return
from any friend. The only thing I required of my Nigerian Facebook friends was
to indicate interest by saying so on my Facebook wall. Say it, and get it. It
was that simple. Of course a lot of my friends could
not understand why I would just give away recharge cards for no reason.
In most of their worlds,
this act on social media is unheard of and near crazy. We
now live in a world where anything that looks too good to be true, might
actually be too good to be true, so avoid it. There is no free lunch
anywhere is what we have been told, and we daily see negative effects of a free
lunch. My free gift invariably became suspect. And avoiding it was a natural
instinct. Thankfully, some people took the risk.
What really caught my
interest is that majority of the people who indicated interest in getting the
free recharge cards were not my friends in real life. By that I mean I have
never ever met or spoken with most of them. Our friendship begins and ends on
Facebook.
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The most I may have done would be to send them birthday wishes when
Facebook reminds. But these set of people, not knowing me, not having
a-one-on-one relationship with me, not bothering how I will perceive them not
knowing them on a one-on-one basis, took a risk to ask, and indeed they
received. My friends who knew me where preoccupied processing my post, my
intentions, my thoughts, what some scholars call the paralysis of analysis,
while ‘non-friends’ took a chance.
How many times do we let prospects
pass us by because we have been taught that the world is full of no-good opportunists?
I am by no means advocating that we throw caution to the wind and jump at every
supposed opportunity or open door. No, absolutely not. Rather we must never
allow familiarity, past experiences, past unexpected results, what some call
failures, fear and skepticism rub us of the magnificent openings that life
presents.
My social experiment
with the free recharge cards has taught me to be bold and take a chance
especially when I don’t have anything to loose. What is life
teaching you, are you taking a chance? What chance would you take today?
I encourage you to keep a
date with us at The Next Level with
Chukwuemeka International Self-Discovery and Financial Empowerment Conference
coming up on 18th and 19th November 2015 in Abuja. Come
and learn the skills of knowing opportunities and taking calculated risks.
Whether you succeed or not,
is really in your hands. Remember
that when you set the sails, God sends the wind.
In your success
journey, what insights have you acquired or tips you would like to share? I
would like to hear from you. Your feedback is valued.
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