Add Value In Anything You Do In Life

Value is a measure of your usefulness. You can measure your value by who is looking for you. If your absence creates no vacuum, then your presence has no value. Will your neighborhood feel your absence when you travel for a week? Who misses you when you go on a casual leave for just one day? Who calls your phone when you're not seen for an hour? Value is a currency; it can even acquire things that money may never acquire for you. 

Pastors, asides the word of faith that you teach your congregation, what else do you teach them? What do they know about business, career, education, relationship, jobs, politics and so on? If the only thing your members run to you for is for prayer and spiritual guidance, then you have work to do. Even if you're not well informed about business and career, do you have a relationship with people who can equip your congregation with those things you don't know? The church should be an institution where ambassadors are raised and equipped for full presentation and representation of Christ.

If you want your members to stop begging for money, then teach them financial intelligence. Equip your congregation with relevant knowledge; that's how the church and the people will become valuable in this 21st century. Remember that faith without work is dead. 

RELEVANCE IS A PRODUCT OF ADDED VALUE. THINK ABOUT IT; ASIDES THE LOVE OF GOD, WHAT DO WE REALLY HAVE THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD DON'T HAVE OR EVEN HAVE BETTER? LET'S INCREASE OUR VALUE

It's one thing to add value, and another thing to increase value. And one way to increase value is to improve yourself, your product or service. In this 21st century, once something is good, the only way to make it better is to reduce the time and make it shorter. Phone manufacturers keep increasing phone speeds by adding a higher memory and a faster processor, and that's all to reduce the time it takes for a phone to process an information. OMO, a washing detergent, recently released what they called "The power of ten hands"; in other words, it washes ten times better than the previous release.

Dettol must have thought that their "Original Soap" took a lot of time to clear skin infections, so they created "Dettol Skincare Soap". The risk of not improving your product or services is that your competitors will make an improvement on their product that will take yours out of the market in a short time. The best product in the market today may not even stand a test in 2 months’ time. The best time to make an improvement is not necessarily when your sales is less but when your sales is best. This has been the undoing of many organizations.

Even churches now apply this principle; they reduce their service duration. Churches that used to spend over 3 hours in one service now spend less than two hours. And of course, the impact now is far more than the impact then. In this century, time is currency. 

 IF YOU WANT TO BE RICH, THEN LEARN HOW TO SAVE PEOPLE'S TIME. PEOPLE NATURALLY VALUE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES THAT SAVE THEIR TIME.