MLMs: I Don't Like Pyramid(s) (Schemes).

Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Pyramid 

Hi there.

Just a quick write up on MLMs (Multi-Level Marketing). It starts with someone well dressed and looking successful walking up to you, and they are telling you: 'You too can make a lot of money and live the life you have always dreamed of.' They show you pictures of exotic locations, 3-storey houses and luxury cars; you can't help but imagine yourself in those pictures smiling proudly. They finally show you that triangle pictograph with you sitting on top of a pyramid of your friends/network, with dollar signs 'arrowed' to you. But what they don't show you is the giant network of people sitting on your head. 

Welcome to the 'shell' of Multi-Level Marketing.

What I would do with Twenty Million Dollars ($20m)

Yes, Twenty Million Dollars. It’s a good round figure. Besides, don't you know the dream of living on one million dollars is so 90s.

I can’t remember when exactly but I saw a news piece on an international news channel talking about the 'new' rich in either the UK or US. They said living like a millionaire with 1 million was possible in the 80s but for the 2000s you need approx. 2 million to live the millionaire life style..... for a short while.

But think about it, this is the age of billionaires, 500ft Yachts, Gulf Stream private jets, owning a island or two, owning a major sports team etc. Millionaires are almost insignificant in all this displays of luxury.

Anyway, I digress. How would I spend $20million? Depends on what I love. First of all, I would start small; with the basic things I need sorry, want. 

What to do in a boring town

Abuja

We all know it's hard moving to new place, especially moving from a big bustling city to a developing town. I did. It's been a year and it hasn't been easy. I have been exposed as being shy and a little socially challenged. Making new friends is kind of hard especially if you are also working on not losing the ones back home. Finding things to do in a town that is less exciting than one you are used to is... well... challenging. In this developing town I live and work in, it’s so monotonous. It's all about gardens and night clubs. I am a literary person, I like wild nights spaced with quiet poetry recitals.

The transition to a slower pace can and did expose new sides of me; I have been the couch potato, the procrastinator and the burgeoning hermit. I then decided to get off my butt and do stuff. But not only my bad side came out; I became more entrepreneurial, independent, curious, more put together with thoughts and plans for the future. It has been a ride.

For you out there in this same situation don't lose hope, you just have a new opportunity to do something different.

Take the chance

Loving Disney Couture

photo credit disneystore.com and disneycouture.com

I am so in love with Disney couture right now. I first saw this Mini Mouse cuff on a fashion blogger, it took me a while to recognize the shape. Immediately I went to Asos to see if it was available. Turns out that they not only make them with Swarovski crystals that's more affordable but also high end jewelry with precious stones.

Never Enough

Earlier last week I was resolved to be positive. I had plans. Though I have started to put some in motion and several things are happening that have spiked my happiness radar a bit, I still feel drawn and like nothing's working out.

First off my job is getting to me. You know how they say 'do the work you love and you'll never work a day in your life'? Well I don't enjoy the job I do, so its real work. Just when I think I have gotten the hang of it, curve balls come. I give and give and give and they say its never enough. The company might be in jeopardy but what can I do? I have been promoted but no pay increase has been initiated. Its just demoralizing.

Midnight Musings I

I am happy, some sort of happy anyway. I can afford the Galaxy Note 8 yay! But it felt too easy just going out to get it. All of a sudden I am questioning myself, even though I have always wanted a reader and now I can get a reader and a tablet in one… do I really need it? Yes I do for sketches and blogging and reading and so much more but..

I just feel like maybe it should be a reward, not just a birthday present to myself. So I have given myself a challenge to make some things happen first. I have always had a list of stuff I want to accomplish and half the year is gone already. Its time to put in real effort into realizing my dreams.

First off, I have an assignment to write for a fashion magazine but I am stumped about what to write about. My forte has always been fiction and I pretty much struggle at non fiction. But I don’t want the opportunity to pass without at least trying.

Beginnings

I am a writer.

I am an environmentalist

I am a photographer

I am a fashionista

I am a dreamer...

It took about 2 decades to get all this information, just five lines. Knowing oneself isn't an easy task, it took a major change to help me realize that even though I couldn't carry all my material possessions to some place new, there were other more important things in me that I could take anywhere I wanted to.

Do not fear Change.