I can not begin my writing without having to send regards, regard, and making reference to whom it is concern....not whom it may concern....no one other than @surpassinggoogle .

Mentioned @surpassinggoogle without recognizing @stellabelle is incomplete since I found out most about @surpassinggoogle from her blog.  Kudos to Sir Terry for keeping us moving. 

If one ever ask me this question 6years ago - Bob where will you be in 2017, I would tell you my dream is to work for Procter and Gamble.
Its what I long for. I dreamt to be a successful investor, to work for multi-nationals. But I've got to understand that in life, most of our dreams turned out to be fantasies when we have not the right architectural tool to draw our plans. And too many ambitions derail us. 

It's not that we don't plan, in fact virtually everyone has got a plan. Even the market woman has a plan. It's only an insane aka mad man on street that goes without having a pre-planned direction to follow.

He goes back and forth without something to achieve. Every person of sane mind do plan ahead, though planning doesn't amount to success, it's only a part out of numbers of steps toward achievable objectives.

You might plan and still do not catch up with the purpose of planning. Several reasons might be that the objective is not well defined, or not in achievable quadrant, time lag and so on. 

I had this urge in me. What was it? Nothing but to work for P&G. And I saw this a great step to be financially free in the future. If I could work for say 10years, I would save enough...to do what?.... to start a new trade. 

What a fate, when I met a friend who preached the doctrine of MLM - Multi Level Marketing to me. I bought into it. I never knew it was sort of product awareness and sales scheme not until after three weeks of consistently attending training when I found out it was GNLD. 
I've heard friends and colleagues talked about GNLD scheme and how it appears unprofitable to them, so that would be the last thing I wanted to do. But the instructors are so cunning that you're in the dark for weeks until you make a commitment of lump sum before you get the gist. And when you're finally exposed to it, turning back would be difficult as you wouldn't want to lose your investment.
After selling the first products assigned to you, the proceed goes to your upline and you're denied access to it. The proceed is reinvested for you until you attain a certain stage before you could claim any gain. 

It's actually a good strategy but the whole process is cumbersome and it takes longer time to leave a stage to move to the next. In the end, you would discover you had made so much sales for the company and what you have left is only a particle left for the ant. 

What a Rat Race! I was frustrated to abandoned everything I invested as for up to 5months, I kept borrowing to sustain myself. On the sixth month, I had a debt summing up to about 50,000Naira....so pathetic. 

One morning I woke up from my dream, and I decided to take another job. Luckily I got a fairly paid one. 
Few months I had saved enough and was able to service all debts. 
Perhaps it would be nice for me if I hadn't anyone tell me about the famous old devil scheme - MMM. 

I can't actually remember what lured me into it, all I knew was I found myself doing it. Though some made overnight fortune from it but of what sense it is to rob Peter to pay Paul? This was the idea behind the scheme. 
Well, I neither make a nickel nor a dime rather I lost all my savings. And until this time, no one woke me up as I had to woke myself up. 

Don't you think of talking me out about online stuff, or else, we might turn enemy if you're my friend. And if were an enemy, maybe I'll think of killing you 'cos I've had enough. 

I've got to learn a lesson from an online webinar I attended, that *"to be successful, three similar things are required* - ***persistence***, ***endurance*** and ***perseverance***
This was my motivator when I was added to a group where I learnt about ***steemit***. Ordinarily I wouldn't give it a second thought but for my watchwords. 

When I joined steemit, I didn't spend a dime aside of the usual subscription.The freedom,i love it.  I had a month of less activities. But seeing others doing well on the group gave me a serious concern. 

This time, I had a new Dream, a new plan, a defined objective with right architectural tools - steemians, my time, my energy.

I can boast of something : Improvement in my skills and knowledge has been the basic. Talk of the social aspect too, I've met people I never dream of. I'm demonstrating my experiences with the below image. 
![img1508130092608.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaUmCe7T9TGG2hB756efHmj6Ynj4JiaXDgEYeydwQbQJo/img1508130092608.jpg)
image designed by me. 

The Steem blockchain spreads daily like a virus - it's an evidence of acceptance and legitimacy. 

Thanks for reading.

![IMG-20170902-WA0016.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdQP2NPCTr2tQYYJUh58m1zCDN1aqAqqH9A6PVYFXp3uE/IMG-20170902-WA0016.jpg)
Thanks to @Jodipamungkas for the badge and @gbenga 

@bob-elr 
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