Relationships and Money


I woke up this morning thinking about relationships and how interdependent we are. How we not only have access to the people we know but their network too. I met the client for this business plan, Mr Blessing, through Kola aka “K Baba”.I met K Baba earlier on this year through Mr Matthew. I met Mr Matthew in 2017 through Pastor Bestman.
K Baba wanted a business plan and Mr Matthew linked us up. We did not go ahead with the plan but we struck a friendship. One day, K Baba called me and said one of his Mentors wanted to restructure his company and he wanted to take me to him. His Mentor was one of Abuja’s leading manufacturers who I would ordinarily not have access to. He shared some aspects of his life story with us. It was truly inspiring. I remember him mentioning a deposit he got paid for a manufacturing job. It was mind boggling. I wanted to stand up, stand on his table & shout “say what?”, then come down & faint! Only God knows where I got the composure to act so cool.
Back to Mr Blessing, he called me and told me he got my number from K Baba. We met and agreed on a fee/payment plan. He stuck to his part of the bargain. Sadly, I was going through a phase that left me deflated with a loss of zeal and focus so I did not meet the deadlines set. I offered to refund his payment and still complete the business plan, he accepted.
Two weeks later, an older friend called & asked if we could see. I told him I was at my Parents in Ibadan. His response was “Even Better”. He said his sister, who lives in the UK, needed to make an urgent proposal to the state government and he wanted me to handle it. That’s how I helped to write the proposal too for someone I have never met and earn more than what I refunded — Mr Blessing called me last night and in the course of asking how his drive for investment was going, I apologized again for the delay on my part. His response was “the most important thing is that it ended well. We will still do bigger projects together in the future”. Is money important? Yes. Sometimes, relationships are more important than money.
