It’s been quite a long road for me the Network Marketing business and I guess the end is still far away. Ever since I came across this concept of work, I’d been fascinated and quite interested. I tried my hands at a couple before Avenues to Wealth and didn’t really succeed. Nevertheless, I latched on to the Avenues to Wealth train and religiously followed the guidelines set by my Upline and Mentor – Adeolu Akinyemi,and the rest is history.

I found growing in the business to be quite an uphill task, but I stuck to it tenaciously with an understanding that if I held on long enough and didn’t quit, I’d achieve my dreams of financial freedom with A2W. I joined A2W in 2008 and watched, supported, taught and celebrated many people who joined after me and went ahead to become Gold,Platinum and even Global Platinum Partner before me. I understood however, that “becoming financially free is like getting to heaven; when you get there isn’t what really matters, getting there is most important” as quoted by a friend of mine.

I am very delighted to finally after 3 long and most-exciting years become Global Platinum Partner while having a lot of fun getting there. Since I started with A2W, I’ve visited over 10 countries of the world with more than 50% of the visits being all-expense paid trips; I’ve been able to buy property (Real Estate) within Nigeria and outside my country; I’ve gotten married to the wife of my dreams with a wedding proposal done on the highest point of the Singapore wheel flyer while on an A2W sponsored all-expense paid vacation with my wife(then my fiancee); I’ve been to over 20 cities across Nigeria to teach and speak and have been able to impact over 20,000 people directly and indirectly positively.

Without the grace and blessings that flowed from my Queen and Most Precious Diamond – Bukkee Akanro (my wife); without the support and strength from my Upline and Mentor and his lovely wife, Adeolu Akinyemi(CM) and Temitope Akinyemi(MI), this feat would have been near on impossible. To the great team at A2W international (Chris, Dolf, Stefan and Damien); the entire A2W Nigeria team; all my downlines – Solomon James, Folayemi Anifowoshe, Somiari Jaja, Gbemisola Akande, Christian Love, Adesoji Adegbulu, Adesuwa Nwaka-Emeka to mention but a few; my Port Harcourt family – The Chilakahs, the Oghidis, Chika Ukpaka and her team, the Dublin-Greens, the Daniel-Kalios to mention a few; the Usars, Okoros in Jos to mention a few; the special people in Lagos – Matthew Abolurin, the Chukwus, the Akwarandus to mention a few and my own very special generis/A2W family – the Daramolas, the Fowowes, Sam (the voucher guy), Kunle Alashi, Maiye Owonubi to mention a few; I want to say a BIG THANK YOU. You made the journey bearable, exciting and fun-filled. I am only occupying till the rest of you who aren’t yet become GPPs.

A2W Rocks!!!

My name is Busayo Akanro (Bussee)

www.avenuestowealth.com/bussee

If you really want to own your life, become finanically free and time free, please find out HOW at the link below.
http://www.creatingwealth.co/lcp6/bussee

1. Find your “something the Lord has made”

2. No setback in life is an end, it’s just a bend

3. Out of sight can be out of mind and out of greatness

4. If you are not having fun, then you are doing the wrong thing

Let’s not fool ourselves, things are not likely to suddenly progress and transform you into success or greatness without doing something you didn’t want to, or think you can do before! Don’t read this mail, don’t take action based on what you read, and I can guarantee your life will continue the way it did before you started. Act however, and you may discover that you have untapped potentials for unique achievement and greatness.

The Foolish buy today, the Wise buy tomorrow based on trends!

I can still remember the hot afternoon of June 6, 1997, under the trees in the Alumni centre of the University of Ibadan, I asked my wife to be, the big question about marriage. It took her almost a year to get back to me. Why?? There was nothing much in that guy back then, if you looked at my shoes or rated my clothes, the answer would have been negative and quicker. Thank God however that our lives don’t stay on pause, we progress, and our progress creates a trend. My wife eventually said yes, but she didn’t buy the present, she bought the future. The foolish insist on current face value, the wise think about seasons down the line. The foolish waits to buy the estate when it’s an estate, the wise buy the estate when it’s a bush and then waits. All the wise wants to see, is the trend. What do you have in your hands that is trending towards a greater future? What you are about to hear, you have heard before… but not this way and not at this level.

Would you like an opportunity to get special treatment?

Imagine that there is an ultramodern international supermarket being erected at Tejuosho. An offer is made to the public for anyone who wants to lease a shop space. Not only do you get this shop space, you also get to become a member of the “Tejuosho international market association”. This leased space and membership means three things.

1. Anytime you have anything to sell, you have an opportunity of selling via your shop and advertise to all other members of the association – FREE.

2. Anytime anybody comes to you to ask for any product, you have an insider deal with all the members of the association to buy at distributor prices and if you want, to resell.

3. The Tejuosho space owners are willing to reward you for telling your friends about the ultramodern shopping mall and getting them to lease a space.

The good thing is, even though your foundational product is the leased space, you have a unique privilege of being able to sell anything else on offer in the shopping mall. Imagine that you sell beverages, and someone approaches you to buy phones, all you need do, is ask them to wait, while your girl… fetches the mobile phone and sells to you at the price you would have gotten it upstairs… but this time, you make a margin.

All your life, you can enjoy an opportunity to buy everything at distributor’s price, and you can determine to be anybody’s distributor.

This shop… is the new face of Holidays and Cash in Nigeria… the trend is real, and today we have over 100 shop spaces filled with goods, and over 18,000 members of the association enjoying all the 3 benefits.

For Real??

Oh yes, for real! You can ask any of the distributors you know to log into the company’s website with their unique passwords, and you’ll see that the estate is beginning to evolve from the bush.

It is fast becoming a solutions city, a growing domain where whatever it is your want or need can be found. We are fast becoming an enlightened company of special elects, our motto is empowering others, our values are L.I.F.E – Love, Integrity, Future Orientation and Excellence and our vision is to have distributors in every family in Nigeria by 2020 and be strategically positioned to replenish the earth and have dominion.

Even becoming more solid…

Is the fact that as distributors of the same international organization, we are getting to for a cooperative together to strengthen the asset base of each other, give our members access to loans for their dreams and creating investment options. We are also taking giant strides of building mini estates branded in our name, and our company is setting out to acquire property and build structures that will last forever… God willing. We are investing in people development, in values entrenchment and in carrying everybody in the team to a desired future.

We are not where we want to be… but we are far from where we were almost 2yrs ago. The network is getting bigger and richer, and only your friend can bring you in. You don’t want to be left out and be in the company of those in the world buying everything at retail prices

Our name could be misleading… and is going to be changed. Only those who can see the future may buy. Let me know if this is it for you!

Kind Regards

Hi folks, I know you want to say “where have you been for all these months?” or ” How come you haven’t written a single article in 4 months?” I really don’t know the answer. I must admit quite honestly that even right now I don’t feel like or want to write anything.

It’s not because there aren’t things to write, it’s just because I feel quite unmotivated and unworthy to write them. Anyway, I’m writing now ain’t I? So please just bear with me and read on…this will bless you.

I once heard about the parable of the monkeys. Once upon a time a monkey was placed in a particular cage with a bunch of bananas hanging from the top of the cage. Naturally, the monkey swung up the cage excitedly and reached up for the bananas, he was immediately doused with a jet of cold water from a hose that was aimed at the cage. Immediately, he dived back down to the bottom of the cage. Of course, monkeys don’t give in that easily so he tried again – no one was going to deter him from feasting on the bananas. He swung up again to retrieve the bunch of bananas but as soon as he almost touched it, he got doused with water again. He immediately dived back down looking for the source of his affliction (apes hate water). He couldn’t really see anybody and tried after a few minutes. He got doused again. He tried again and again and each time he got doused again and again. After a few days and many attempts, he stopped trying.

One month after, another monkey was brought into the cage. The monkey saw the bunch of bananas and immediately went for it (Note: The bunch of bananas were changed to fresh ones from time to time). He got the shock of his life as a jet of cold water hit him in the face. He quickly scurried to the bottom of the cage and waited a few minutes for the shock to wear off before trying again. He got the same result and after trying a while and getting drenched, he understood why the first monkey wasn’t as eager as he was to eat “free” bananas hanging at the top of the cage. He also succumbed to fate and stopped trying to get the bananas.

Another month after, a new monkey was introduced into the cage. As custom will have it, he went straight for the bunch of fresh bananas he saw hanging at the top of the cage but the other two monkeys went for it as pulled it down with his legs. They immediately pounced on it and beat it silly and into submission. They did that because they knew he would get sprayed with water  and all of them will get wet. They didn’t want to get wet and they knew that he wont get the bananas anyway so they took steps to ensure it didn’t happen. After a while of trying and getting beaten, the monkey gave up trying. One month went by and another monkey was introduced into the cage. He suffered the same fate as the 3rd monkey only that the 3rd monkey was involved in beating him up and keeping him from getting the bunch of bananas.

After a few weeks, the first two monkeys were taken out of the cage. Now of the two monkeys remaining in the cage, none of them actually had water sprayed on them for reaching for the bananas. They were only restrained with pain by the first two monkeys.

Yet another month went by and another monkey was introduced into the cage. He immediately was giving the customary beating treatment when he tried to get the bunch of bananas. After trying a while and getting beat a few times, he suddenly blurted

“Why are you monkeys beating me and holding me back?”

The other monkeys looked at themselves blankly and said

“We don’t know, we don’t know why we are beating you? We were beating as well when we came and tried to reach for the bunch so we just took on the custom of beating every other monkey who tried to reach for the bananas”.

How many of us are like that? We don’t why we are where we are or why we are doing what we are doing. We just know that that is how it should be done. Who told you that? Who told you that you must have only one stream of income? Who told you that you can not live above sin? Who told you that you can’t own your business? Who told you that you can not be financially free?

We were mostly brought up hearing our parents and environment say,

“Get a good education, get a good job thereafter, work all your life, retire broke and busted with a good pension and die!”

What a big lie!

You are like the monkeys!

Why can’t you dare the jet of water and pull out all stops to get the bananas!

What is your own excuse? Are you pulling others down who are trying to get the bananas?

Have you been enslaved by the system?

Do you merely wish freedom or do you DESIRE it?

Listen!!! those who have tried and failed have been taken out of the cage!

Ask yourselves what they did and how you can do it better?

Perhaps, if the three remaining monkeys planned to go for the bananas together the focus of the water spray would be divided and one of them would have been able to get the bunch.

Instead of proliferating negativity and pessimism, think of another way to achieve your dream and go for it.

LIFE DOES NOT GIVE YOU WHAT YOU DESERVE, IT GIVES YOU WHAT YOU DEMAND.

I once read about a story that talked about freedom. Once upon a time, some circus workers captured a baby elephant from its family in the amazon jungle of South America. This elephant was very aggressive and violent towards its captors. It resented deeply its forced seperation from its mother and the rest of its family. It fought its captors bravely but unsuccessfully and they were able to subdue it a little, bind its legs and carry it on a horse drawn cart to the circus camp.

On getting to the circus camp, they tied up the elephant to an iron stake in driven deep into the ground. The elephant tried time after time to get away from his captors but each time he tried, when he had stretched the chain fully, he got stopped by the chain and had to return back to the stake. He kept on doing this for days and after a while resigned to fate that he could never be free from bondage.

One day after many months, one of his captors came and removed the chain from his ankle and literally set him free. The elephant simply walked to the same point at which the chain gets fully stretched and stopped. After a while, he returned to sit by the stake. Day after day, the elephant performed the same ritual, never stepping beyond the point he had been unable to cross when he was bound.

The elephant though hav’n been set free in reality was still bound in his mind and as a result could not live in the reality of his freedom.
The state of the elephant is one I like to define as being delivered but not being free.

Many people are like the elephant in this story. They have shut down their minds to freedom so much that in the moment of their deliverance, they are not aware of the consequent freedom that attends it. Deliverance is many times an external activity but freedom must be internal.
People’s minds are bound to the prevailing circumstances in the environment. I just got into Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti state with a great opportunity. I really expected to be greeted with enthusiasm and drive, rather I was met with skepticism and excuses. I almost got discouraged but quickly recognised the fact the deliverance vs. freedom issue springing to the fore.

People don’t want to fail forward. They don’t want to try something that looks like something they have failed at before. It is no wonder that Nigerians support one club in England this season and another in Spain next season and another in England next season and so on….People are so used to rushing after the winning team. They don’t understand the importance of building a winning team.

I couldn’t help but wonder, “what will it take me to drive the elephant beyond the boundary of his bondage in his mind?”. “what do I need to do to open the eyes of his mind?”

People have one negative thing or the other to say about network marketing and I ask myself.

“would people rather stay on a job, work their lives out, hate their bosses and their organisations, earn less than they desire, deprive their family of necessarily time  and still get stuck int he rat race simply because they are unwilling to bolster up courage and write their own stories?”

“If network marketing especially those with models by which you can earn passive income for the rest of your life  isn’t the fairest type of marketing inthe world, then tell me is it conventional marketing that only rewards the direct salesman and not the chain of advertisers, referrers or indirect marketers?”

“Why are people hypocritically behaving as if there’s one particular thing they are passionate about, the absence of which they’d rather die when it’s obvious that all they truly wish for is freedom (financial and otherwise)?”.

“If only wishes were horses, even beggars will ride”.

“The proof of desire is pursuit”.

Apparently, loads of people around here are not desirous of freedom, they only wish it, otherwise, they’ll pursue it with all they’ve got.
Deliverance is not equivalent to freedom until one gets involved in making it so.

Deliverance is to wishing what desire and pursuit are to freedom.
You may have been delivered, but are you free?

It seems like yesterday when we all shouted “Happy New Year!!!” It was the dawn of 2009. There were lots of promises and prophesies. My own church had a word that read like this ”2009: My year of signs, wonders, miracles and positive change.” Everyone was in high spirits. We all believed that even though the shadow of the economic recession was looming large over things generally, respite would surely break forth in 2009.

In line with this, many of us wrote down goals, some as usual resolutions whih they have long since broken. We wrote down goals that seemed harder to achieve than dry bones becoming a live army in the valley of the dead. We were consoled by the air of possibilities and optimism. Now, three months down the line. Exactly a quarter of the year gone, most of us have already forgotten our goals. Some of us don’t even know where we wrote them down, not to mention what they are.

What we held on to as possibilities are fast mading in our imaginations as possibilities. We are beginning to become “reasonable” and to settle for whatever comes our way. Those who thought to strike out in one business or the other are balking away. Those who had on their list a new language to learn or skill to develop or degree to acquire or to apply for are giving the current economic landslide as an excuse not to do it again.

Many are beginning to look at and consider the wind. Many have forgotten that they were actually living by faith and hope and are beginning to look at the boisterousness of the sea and the waves thereby sinking into the sea and drowing. We have quickly forgotten that the proof of pursuit is “Desire”. We merely wished for the things we wrote down and seemingly trusted God for.

For if wishes were horses, even beggars will ride. Activity they say is not rewarded, only results are. Therefore, we who have seen the 1st of April should say excitedly to ourselves “Happy New Quarter”. We should pick up our goal list and get re-energised to accomplish all we have set to do. Only those who have wasted the first 3 months and are not taking stock on their achievements or repositioning to perform better are truly “April Fools”.

Life only gives you what you demand and not what you wish, ask or deserve. If you haven’t spoken to that babe, come on speak to her and let her know you want to marry her. What’s the worst that can happen? She says “No”,you cry a bit and you move on..LOL. 

How sad will it be if on the first of July, you discover that not only did you ignore the April fool’s warning, you inadvertently became a July fool as well. I wish you all the best in the new quarter guys and please “GO OUT THERE AND LIVE YOUR LIFE”. “CREATE YOUR OWN FUTURE” and make yourself and generations born and unborn in your genealogy proud of you.