One word

I was invited to speak at a youth meeting in my local church on the first Sunday of the month and I blessed them with this powerful opener:

Many atimes when we listen to sermons the preachers ask us to pray to God for one word and often times we see the 'one word' concept as a complex one, we expect it to be one scripture that we've never come across before, a new dimension to a scriptural verse we've always known and all of that..

But the 'one-word' concept has relevance both in the spiritual and in the secular, and like our elders will say 

"a word is enough for the wise"

The Yoruba will say "abo oro ni a nso fun omo oluwabi, to ba de inu re aa di odindi"

which means half-word is enough for a wise child, by the time he processes it internally, it will become whole.

Most celebrated men who once had down moments always do often times refer to short, simple statements that ignited them at some point in their life.

I was fascinated by the one word that led to the turn around of this young millionaire, James Murray Wells.

His story dates back to 2004 when he discovered he neeeded to start wearing spectacles, quoting him he became suspicious about how "essentially some wire and two pieces of glass could cost  £150"

For Jame Murray Wells "the pair of glasses costs £150" was his 'one word'

Triggered by this, he researched the optical market, contacted manufacturers then individual workers until a technician told him that a pair of glasses selling for  £150 costs only £7 to make.

Inspired by this, at age 22 he created a website selling spectacles directly to the public, initially funding his business using the remains of his student loan.

In its first year of business, Murray wells's new company Glasses Direct sold 22,000 pairs of glasses, and had an annual turnover of £1m

In 2009 Glasses Direct had 70 employees and sold a pair of glasses every 3 minutes.

Feb 2010, James Murray Wells set up hearingdirect.com, mirroring the business model of Glasses Direct, selling hearing aids online.

On Forbes.com where I first found him, he was ranked amongst top 10 entrepreneurs that become millionaires before graduation from college.

Young folks are doing things....e fit be u oh

You see, this is the kind of money I crave for.

Every solution today was yesterday's problem and every problem today is an opportunity craving to reward greatly the one who can profer a solution.