SERVE PEOPLE

PRINCIPLES OF SUCCESS Series 19

SERVE PEOPLE

Servants are people who meet other people’s needs…and they are paid for it. People are in need and will always be in need. There’s abundance of needs in the world of people. Meet people’s needs and you will connect to their abundance. Meeting people’s needs, therefore, is a major strategy for connecting to the abundance in the world. Meeting people’s genuine needs is a moral way of enjoying abundance in life. Your thinking should always be on how to meet people’s needs and be a blessing to them.

Kindly notice that manipulating people is the opposite of meeting their needs. People that manipulate others in order to get things out of them are not servants; they are extortionist. Servants serve people to meet their genuine needs. Extortionist don’t meet people’s needs yet get something out of them.

People will always be weary with needs. Your wisdom is to connect to them through their needs. Begin by asking, “What are the needs of people around here? What can I do to meet their needs? You think of providing goods and services to meet people’s needs. When people are willing to pay for your products and services then you have created a business venture. The more people you serve, the richer you become. So then, whatever you do, enjoy serving people. More people you serve more abundance you enjoy. As you serve them and they pay you, then you connect to financial abundance.

Servants of people don’t serve because of what they can get from people. They serve because they have a heart to serve. They serve because they love to serve. They serve because they want to solve people’s problems. And solving problems is making money. The more problems you serve the more money you make.

If you want to serve people primarily because of what you can get from them then you have as much poverty mentality as a person who doesn’t serve because he thinks he will not get something in return.

If you want to be a good servant of people, you may begin by praying for them - simply wishing them well. Prayer connects heart to heart. As you pray for people, a supernatural connection is established between you. Prayer prepares the ground for a peaceful coexistence.

Next, pursue peace with people. Somebody said, “One hundred friends are not enough. On e enemy is too much.” Make efforts to win more friends. Win friends; don’t make enemies. Winning people will eventually favor you. Making peace with people is good for your health. It feels good to know people want you, appreciate you, care about you. It feels bad to know you’re not wanted.

One of the best art you can learn is the art of making friends. Tolerate people. People can be unreasonable, insensitive and ridiculous. Tolerate them, nonetheless. Because tolerating people is the first step toward understanding them. And understanding them will help you win their friendship.

Finally, provide for people by making available to them things that will benefit them. Here are two ways of providing for people: equipping them and empowering them. Equipping people is giving them things that will aid their effectiveness at work. 

Empowering people is developing them to improve as individuals. When you empower people you help them develop personal qualities that will benefit their character. When you empower people you help them develop positive attitudes.

Providing for people goes beyond giving them things. It is empowering them to create things for themselves. Providing for people is not giving them fish but teaching them how to catch fish.