Artha is one of the four goals or objectives of human life in Hindu traditions. It includes career, skills, health, wealth, prosperity and the means or resources needed for a fulfilling life.
It could be in he form of audacious inquest into wealth gathering through business or a gentle management of a trickling source through governance. I prefer the latter.
I have always been curious as to the living patterns of Africans and why they are not rich, addicted to processed food, made dumb by religion and colonization we have an impasse where one generation to the other seems to pass down the shackles of poverty, however in the same vein the poor are some of the overweight people in the world, their wealth is literally inside their gut.
So I posit to write an article on the art of Artha which involves either the fork of living with determinism as the way out of poverty for
the black man, Since jobs will cheat his labor and I posit this art of gathering wealth through business or governance or both..
So we start with the base which should serve as a basis for every one to glean from. They might sound far fetched lugubrious, or considered to be ludicrous but please laugh in check as these are some of the ways they have proven to take one family from the circle of poverty and portend a better life for the children and future generation.
First The understanding of Household Administration,
How to greet the neighbour, keep to yourself don't be too overt or tell them every Information about yourself, learn to have some form of jurisprudence and guard information regarding your life talk about general business the weather but hot your family
Never relinquish the authority for your life to anyone , learn how to keep yo yourself an read a book, or listen to the radio, music or watch a movie in your time.
Say less than necessary and maintain that distance even when close repeat stories that have didacticism but not fears and weaknesses.
When gathering wealth people turn into spy looking for ways to deflate and injure you.
When gathering wealth people turn into spy looking for ways to deflate and injure you.
Never collect food from them except on festivities where you collect from those you trust and even still be weary, When dealing with people learn to be patient but be very firm
Greet if you want, but those who are lesser than you are, reply their greeting never seek to announce yourself, greet them If they don't reply don't do so again.
Carry your prayer beads, chant a mantra, remain focus and always chart out a daily to do list.
Powering the fridge if you use it for sale, should be done with calculation, the storing of food inside a fridge is a waste of electricity food should be cooked and rationally why freeze fish and meat when the store does the same thing.
if you want your water cold, the ridge should be powered at 12 hours of every alternate day which is calculate at 220w per 12 hours which translate to 2 unit of electricity.
Carry your prayer beads, chant a mantra, remain focus and always chart out a daily to do list.
Powering the fridge if you use it for sale, should be done with calculation, the storing of food inside a fridge is a waste of electricity food should be cooked and rationally why freeze fish and meat when the store does the same thing.
if you want your water cold, the ridge should be powered at 12 hours of every alternate day which is calculate at 220w per 12 hours which translate to 2 unit of electricity.
When buying clothes disabuse your mind from the art of buying second hand clothes, a daily saving of 200 naira should get you the sum of 6 thousand naira monthly to sew a complete shirt and trouser buba and of Teru cotton or plain material.
Food: A diet of beans every day not only heals but proves to be very healthy in the long run, moi moi and vegetables. Beans being an oligosaccharides last longer in the stomach.
Walk to your place of business in the morning for exercise and also to get your brain juices flowing for ideas and to remember what you would write for the day's to do list.
Family responsibility are not your concern don't shoulder the consequences of another man's orgasm, he fucked, he should train them. Unless in the case of accident which you should do your quota and offer administrative advice x if they want to be flamboyant on your largesse cut them off and set then straight.
Sit down in your shop, prayer first, read the vedas and pick a poem to read at least a hundred pages, Check your store by cleaning the place daily and don't put a television, it should have only a radio for music as you should engender an environment that gives you ideas and make you think.
You should eat a heavy lunch, spaghetti or noodles with moi moi then after eating little snacks watch a movie, documentary light snacks till 7pm When you have to go to dinner of garri and moi moi
Always wake in their middle of the night to pray and or read poetry, make sure you sleep with a speaker playing ambient music or white noise or jazz to depend your sleep and improve your dreams and thought process.
It you have a borehole, pumping water for 2 units per hour is 500 Naira, It could be every two days or at least every 30 minutes if every day that is if you have a pumping machine.
If you cannot afford a tank, fetch b4 buckets of water to conserve energy as a bachelor should seve you for two days which allows you to fetch a new one or empty out the drum for washing.
If you cannot afford a tank, fetch b4 buckets of water to conserve energy as a bachelor should seve you for two days which allows you to fetch a new one or empty out the drum for washing.
A strict usage of Vaseline, Shea butter, soap and detergent, and ensuring your skin doesn't take unnecessary money from you.
Don't let cloth pile up before washing, wash the previous day cloth which shouldn't exceed twenty minutes., using the same soapy water to wash the Crocs and to mop the room.
if you have low blood sugar you eat bread and pap in the mornings
Bath with salt water, when you come back from work and you should see some significant change in your health and behaviour that should save you money on health, care mental health and diseases.
Saving 500 naira daily for 200 days should buy You a plot of land of 100 thousand in a town somewhere where you can go on Fridays to Sunday morning to just to farm and engage nature on a weekly
You found start a library build a room and parlour mini flat using blocks. At 600 naira per block By 1000 pieces you could build a library or a shop beside it. A daily savings of 1000 naira daily for 3 years should achieve that
You could build yourself a library, a provision store for the wife with a child or two that is homeschooled you shouldn't be indigent in any way either now or in future.
All that is done in the bid for building and gathering wealth should be done in virtue and doing this in recurrence should set you on the path to gathering wealth. living simple, minimal and free.
Social activities with neighbour and religious aquitance should be done with caution, have a generic cloth for wedding and burial, it could be a white ore black lace, stop buying different material all the time,
For church activities, break your money into change, God shouldn't allow you spend more than you can sustain never put more than the cost of one unit of electricity in the offertory box. God cannot power your fridge for 12 hours but 500 naira can.
No one who pays tax should also be paying taxes you should be getting f*cked in both holes as a man you should have just the one.
Make sure that you plan for and take time to prepare the food to be cooked for the day, checking fot diet, nutrient and most especially thrift, there isn't much to do in the day after chores, make a ceremony of this an d listen to opinions cast a vote, have fun
If you have grains in bulk, make sure it is measured, don't eat to excess as for the tress don't keep food in bulk like noodles or pasta, it inculcate waste and makes children fat.
Buy what should be spend for the day
For snack buy dates abs tiger nut, or crackers and groundnut drink tea in the morning, apple cider vinegar in water at night
Last Saturdays should come with a cleaner of fruits and vegetables boiled scent leaf, lemon lime garlic and ginger.
No one in the house should have more than five of each clothes a new cloth should only be gotten at the cost of an old one.
Detergent should be gotten at the sachet form and not the refill pack to avoid wastage bar soap should be use 1 a week, average of six o'er month one for washing and bathing
Toothpaste while be user in a medium size, soft and medium toothbrushes that should be discarded every 3 months two towels to be washed monthly discard the older one in the year as rag.. bedsheet should be gotten from cotton materials which are cheaper and more durable than the flower design material that do not last long
futons or naked mattress should be used to be folded when not in use to create space.
The only acceptable hairstyles should be afro and deadlock attachments and wigs are a waste of hard earned capital, if wigs were important Bill Gates would be wearing one.
Underwear should be more than 3-5 underwear to inculcate neatness which must be of white fabric, which goes immediately into a small paint rubber of bleach and detergent to be washed off the next day small is constant use and easy to discard
The use of socks and indoors slippers should be used to avoid making the floor clampy with the bare feet
Sanitary pads should be of a single sachet of 3 pieces until the day of completion, excess tends to encourage waste except in the case of heavy flow
Children are to be taught governance by opening an account and teachings them how to hoard and manga money, homeschool with a big note and a singular textbook every month in Agriculture, philosophy, Music Economics and history, sciences can be taken up as a matter of interest.
The only form of light should be solar, of possible, Employ the use of charcoal pot, which should be used in cooking rice and beans whole faster food like noodles and pasta should be cooked with the gas . Electric stove consume energy
All devices should be charged and powered with the power bank which they can charge during the night electricity brings the need for television and cable you should read instead.
Sport team should be watched online or at viewing center, it's better to spend 800 naira a week than buy a cable subscription of 10 thousand naira
Don't buy flits they are expensive, buy coils instead, get a singled ceramic plate that's can keep your could malaria cannot kill you and be cured with boiled scent leaves.
Just as lighter should be used in the kitchen, matches get soggy and cold over time. Tissue paper are not sustainable use water and a bar of soap.
The wanton storage of food stuff should be discouraged, no sense in storing away tins of tomato paste or thes rest, since the market opens every day but what last fore the week and used the money for something productive, let the ones that should eat the food fast intermittently in the art of getting it since people die every day they should try to be alive first and see the day before trying to eat, Live to eat, stop storing food ahead of time.
For the making of stew, dried tomatoes are better, they are completely dried off the fertilizer that have gone to its productive and make a cleaner, healthier and thicker stew
Recreation like walking lawn tennis Football and cycling help to keep the bones health and strong.
Buying of western medicine should eschew as these medicine in the house create a dependence for them ,food medicine should be encouraged instead using herbs like ginger garlic, fennel, etc
Soft drinks should be eschew as the sachet drink of chapman and lemon could be made at home readily available soft drinks create an addiction for them
Unless your refrigerator is in solar you should be using one as har will you store but food and excess food, water and which could be gotten easily in a utility proportion
Cats a re the ideal pets to have as they are cheap to procure and manage, and still serve as predator to rats, can be feed on led overs or tiny bits of sausage rolls.
For your sewer, create a round hole without cementing the base , and every month pour sawdust into the pit as the bacteria in the wood would break down the fecal matter and ensure it never gets full.
You don't gave to drill a boreholes erect a tank and get a hose if you can get wager from.your neighbors it will teach some form of conservation and you get to calculate water at 100 per day for 4 buckets which is 3000 per month for a nuclear family
For fan, get the old computer CPU fan from Ikeja computer village and attach it to the intended position and sleep and reduce the cost of energy the same function.
For Those still working, do your work in judicious but don't every reveal any plans to your colleagues at work or make a habit of drinking with them, since a work will definitely rob you don't stay an extra hour, or try to impress nor do the overtime, when you calculate the time in term of your health the overtime, once you remove transport and feeding you find out you spend more money doing the overtime work
Make sure you didn't a hobby like gardening or reading and never pick the calls so that you don't give the impression that you are useless without the work and cannot govern yourself.
For Mobility, get a bicycle but don't buy a bike it consumes fuel and price it is better to save up and buy a Suzuki every carry or a micra as a bachelor's that can serve a function off personal vehicle and haulage for extra money
For your couch, get a couch made it of pallet a foam and leather covering seek instructions online
Have a personal first aid box, a cosmetic basket, a school bag ror traveling, three buckets, a pocket mirror , cooler, a flask, two extra curtains, bag for storing documents, keep your photos online in a folder on MediaFire
I have often wondered why Africans aren't rich one generation after the other cascading the same shackle of poverty to their children, if we can focus on what's necessary the ear is just tress. practice minimalism, hinging often on the dual and auto functions of things,we should see an incremental increase in your wealth.
Debt management and profiling people should be studied so you can know who you should lend money to, ask for your money back but but don't believe they will give it immediately.
Learn how to play the debt game collect market on credit and use it to boost your own business then you can pay little by little
For those who sell drinks the same kilowatt will freeze a bag of water and ten bags, calculate your energy usages
marijuana intake every other month will help to change your brain and children brain make them capable of holding wealth unfazed by money. The brain and mind of a black man is not yet capable of holding wealth we carry a brain marred by slavery, so we actually need to learn how to keep money as our first instinct is always to spend it. Your children must learn to read poems like Tennyson Keats Milton, Shelley and Blake
Reading makes the brain lesson hungry fot the dopamine that translates hungers burns in the read and hardens thereafter
Change your nature aura understand destiny for your children, they must read and improve their minds to know how to dam and protect wealth from those who might want to take it from them.
For that is another whole business all together..
For data management, the news are the same Delay your browsing and download till the night plan download book ok poetry and movies from telegram to read and watch during the day
Occasionally make sacrifice to open your way moi moi with sugar on the road being the cheapest and reading poems to swaddle your climb .
In time you should see an increase in your wealth and also your ability to manage them z You should project a better life for your children and sure that will not be in the circle nor mindset of poverty.
You should see sike divine wealth, carefully store accumulated capital that allows you to do any of the start any of the number of business ideas I have been posting on Nairaland ..
With Artha, being taught in schools, religious houses, Africa has every right to leave behind the state of physical and mental poverty.
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