I am no millionaire, but am heading there. i am soon turning 27 but i have literally have nothing to show for the 4 yrs i have been working. I have drunk my ass off, partied and my biggest regret is having had to spend money on women and booze. My mistakes;
1.Women- i love women and women love money, not men. I think i would be a millionaire if settled with my 'Sanford chips'campus girlfriend. my biggest regret is not having a stable relationship.
2. Alcohol- if i had invested what i have spent on booze and entertaining girls on stocks i think i would have been on my path to be a millionaire
3. Friends- you are who your friends are.. i wish i had joined wazua earlier instead of klist. I wish i could chosen my friends wisely instead of having team mafisi as friends
4. Mentors- i think i should start hanging out with people who have achievers, people who inspire you and build you intellectually.
5. Live below your means- i drive a 2m car...and that's my one of my biggest regret. I wish i could have stuck with my first car that i had bought debt free.
I am trying to make amends to the mistakes i have done. I also believe that whatever i have done in the past will shape my future. I will take steps and in the next 2 yrs i will be worth over 5m. That's my goal.

Fast forward 3 years later. I'm in a much better spot financially than I was in 2014.

I have learnt a few more lessons

1. It was a much better use of my time to start a business which I could control and had ultimate responsibility over than speculate on the NSE. This is especially as I saw how some company management on the NSE e.g. Centum give themselves huge bonuses while leaving shareholders high and dry. Also notice how most of the fortunes made at the NSE have been by business owners that listed companies not by speculators which also suggests that the best way to make money on the NSE is to build a company that eventually gets listed on the NSE. There is nothing worse than being a spectator on your investments when you could use your skills to improve your chances of success. It also helped me to avoid looking at the stocks every hour of the day and my mood going up and down with the market.
2. What you have to do is the following; identify a business with good fundamentals i.e. where it is not too difficult to make money and even average players are making money, ensure that your education, skills, personality, experiences and talent give you an unfair advantage in that business i.e. don't get into land just because everyone is getting into it. Find a niche where few can outcompete you.
3. Do your best to grow that business and stay disciplined and patient.
4. Think big and stay hungry
5. Keep some perspective. No matter how much money you make, there is a whole lot more to life than money. You still have to take care of other aspects of life such as your relationships, health and happiness.
6. Try to be lucky by always looking out for more information, learning from mentors etc. Luck does play a big part of it but most times you get lucky by trying to put yourself in situations where you could get lucky.

Thanks @Bennry, over the years I have found such stories to be more inspirational than those happy go lucky success stories. I have learned a lot. Let us know how it turned out 6 years later

how i made my first million ?? there you go (joke)

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