Are you ready?

You know I once said "Reach for the sun instead of the clouds" (Technically)

Well, I want to give you a typical day-to-day example of what I meant, because I see most of you didn't understand;

Imagine you're an influencer of 50K followers on IG and you were approached by Unilever to promote Vaseline or something and they asked you how much you were going to work for? And then because you were aiming for the clouds (to you, the clouds—50K was THE BEST THING that could happen to you) you told them 50K. That's you reaching for the clouds because you didn't even recognize your skills, talents, and beauty.

So they agree to pay you 50K monthly and you're happy. But then after you announce to your followers, you signed a deal with Unilever, congratulations from your fellow influencers pour in and they're like... "Congrats oooh, welcome to the 150K teammmm." You'd get confused. You know? Because... Wait what?

That's when you'd find out your mates were reaching for the moon (and some would have lesser followers than you, some just 20K, some 10K self... But that won't matter because they aimed for the top, especially in their capacity. They aimed for the sun best to their capacity and followers, and they got it).

That's when you'd wish you aimed for the sun instead too, because if 10K followers are getting 150K naira, per month for lesser work or even equal work... Then IMAGINE what your 50K could get you ✋🏽. What it could've gotten you. You would've even whopped in over 300K if you played your cards right.

So here's what differentiates me from other motivational speakers. I'm telling you it's never too late. You could call up Unilever after putting in a month of hard work earning customers for them, making yourself EVEN more valuable, so that when it's time to renew your contract, you announce you're charging more. Because it's never too late.

—New knowledge, new skills, new information IS NEVER wasted. Don't sit down feeling dejected and wishing you knew better. Instead, DO better next time. You're allowed to feel bad about past decisions that never favored you, but you're not allowed to let that feeling stand in the way of making better decisions that will favor you!

And now that you've proven you're even MORE valuable than they thought (remember you pulling in customers and even more followers on the side), they're not going to want to lose you. You could even settle for 400K now.

Do you see the difference between you aiming for the clouds and aiming for the sun? A whooping 350 Thousand naira difference!

Aiming for the clouds would leave you dejected, as long as you know you're worth more, because you do more, bring more. Then NEVER settle for the clouds.

—Awelekume 2021