TUNDE OYEDOYIN
Tunde Oyedoyin is a London-based personal finance coach and founder of Money Intelligence Coaching Academy, a specialist academy of personal finance. He can be reached as follows: +447846089587 (WhatsApp only); E-mail: tu5oyed@gmail.com
As a sequel to last week’s column, let me begin by saying you consider putting things in place in line with your expected outcome. By doing so, you’ll be programming your financial expectations for next year. Irrespective of whether you’ve already started doing so or not, launch out and go for Zenith.
As you may well remember, last week’s piece was about the need to be intentional regarding your financial outcomes for 2025. One way to do that is to take the wool off your eyes and be on the lookout.
In other words, and to make it very Nigerian, you need to ‘shine your eyes.’ It’s also important to put your ears to the ground. Moreover, you’ll need to take action and make your moves. Yours truly is on the lookout as well. It’s part of being intentional about what I’m expecting next year. Please, make your own intentions known by taking any actions in line with how you want your financial outcome to pan out at the end of 2025. You can’t go wrong by throwing your hat in the ring whenever the opportunity presents itself.
So, folks, if you haven’t heard or seen their offer, Zenith Bank is out there. They’ve thrown out the invitation to come to the party. You and I can go for it. Whether you can only buy the minimum number allowed or many multiples over, don’t miss the boat. Put in your bid for some.
For the record, and disclosure purposes, Zenith Bank doesn’t know yours truly exists, though. I don’t even have an account with them. That doesn’t stop us from asking for a bite of their cake.
Interestingly, the closest that I got to the bank was over a decade ago when I was tasked with interviewing the founder. Though I made it to the hotel he was staying at Park Lane, Mr Jim Ovia and I didn’t get to meet before he went back to base.
As I was saying, it’s important that you start chipping in your intentions for 2025. What you don’t want to be happening when the bank is announcing next year’s results is to not have anything to look forward to.
Just recently, yours truly was listening to a pastor as he explained the difference between giving someone direction and guiding them. His illustration made a tonne of sense.
That also reminds me of the two ladies we met on the way out at Mile End not long ago. We were on the eastbound platform waiting for the Central line tube in London when they came off the district line there. Someone had misdirected them to get off rather than following that Upminster train all the way beyond Barking station. Here’s the thing, asking you to add a bid for the shares of Zenith to other plans you’ll put in place for a better next year is a form of guidance.
At the launch of Brooklyn City Roadshow with Daniel Ford
Having previously attended “An Evening with Professor Wole Soyinka,” which was hosted at the British Library over a year earlier, when word dropped into my inbox that Daniel Ford International had lined up an investment event for the second Friday evening of May, it made a tonne of sense to not miss it.
In fact, I asked Mrs O to tag along to the Standard Hotel in Kings Cross for the UPDC PLC roadshow for the launching of Brompton City.
It turned out to be an evening well spent. Brompton City, according to the organisers is a “30-hectare mixed-use project located in Lekki Scheme II, Lagos,” in our very God’s own country of Nigeria.
Despite hearing of the earning potentials for investors, one couldn’t show his hand when they mentioned the asking price per plot. You can’t beat yourself down for going to see what was on offer.
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