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- August 16, 2018

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"I never regret doing this business..." Lontsi Foppa Thiery

Thiery's at business site

Thiery is an orphan and a university drop out in the City of Yoandé, Cameroon. He is also a rising gospel singer and dancer. After dropping out of school because of financial burdens and considering that Thiery parents his younger ones in providing food, shelter and education, Thiery decided to hawk. He pushes articles in a wheel barrow across the streets and has tough times dealing with the police and city council workers for town disorder. With this, Thiery refuses to give up. But, braces through the storms for one year running. He has located for himself a spot at Chapelle Obili which he says is very strategic and there he displays his articles while waiting for customers this back to school season. He says he never regrets venturing into the petite business because it really keeps him, family and ministry going. I caught up with ever happy and broad-smiling Thiery and he lets me know what he is into, why he went into it and how it helps through this address below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W46meSfAgP8

This serves as a lesson to many youths in Cameroon where affording a job even after graduation from school can be likened to having your healthy bady at just five months of pregnancy. Because of the hard times for the youth and active population Cameroon, many have turned to embrace cheap means and ways they think can help them make quick cash like gambling, prostitution, scamming, stealing, and illegal migration to western countries where they think gold is buried. Their radical fleeing from their strange homes to foreign lands have earned many death certificates in ship wrecks in oceans.

However, Thiery's case may just be one of the isolated cases that can inspire one to start with the little he has and be the change he/she wants to see instead of having losers' mindsets. To DR. John Emilimor, he looks at winners and losers in the following words,

Winners vs Losers

A winner is always part of the answer/ a loser is always part of the problem

A winner has a plan and a loser has an excuse

A winner says, "let me do it for you"/ loser says, "That is not my job"

A winner sees an answer for any problem while a loser sees a problem for any answer

A winner says, "It may be difficult but not impossible"/ loser says, "It may be possible but difficult"

Also, Jim Rohn says, "Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it all.
Any day we wish, we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge.
Any day we wish, we can start a new activity.

Any day we wish, we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately , or next week, or next month, or next year"

But, If we think success will be served in a platter of gold, he continues to say, " We can also do nothing. we can pretend rather than perform. And if the idea of having to change ourselves is uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause. As Shakespeare uniquely observed, "The fault is not in the stars, but in us" We created our circumstances by our past choices. We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today" (source: John Emilimor. The winning mindset.pp.62&69)

Start now if you can and who knows? Tomorrow is pregnant.....

Awoh Caleb N. (ACN) in Yaoundé- Centre Region of Cameroon

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