“It should be encouraging to know that practically all the great fortunes began in the form of compensation for personal services, or from the sale of ideas. What else, except ideas and personal services, would one not possessed of property have to give in return for riches?” – Napoleon Hill

People with USEFUL SKILLS, who also have entrepreneurial savvy or know-how, are often able to make money profitably, by using those skills to SERVE others.

It is instructive to note, that quite often such people need little or no capital to get started earning income in this manner. Instead they simply need to find someone who needs their SERVICES, then provide it and get paid.

This is why Skills Acquisition is a powerful way to empower ANYONE to achieve financial independence.

I say this as one who earns 100% of my income this way, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, shuttling between 2 countries (and planning to visit more), while SERVING an international audience both on and off the web.

My advice to you, is contained in the tag line I use to promote on-demand learning solutions I offer:

Acquire Self-Development Skills. Create The Future You Want™

That’s what I’ve been doing in my own personal and work life for over 2 decades. I excelled in paid employment for 7 years doing so, and I’m NOW excelling as an entrepreneur (defying visitations of failure and hardship) doing the exact same thing.

Anyone familiar with my past, and who is willing to be objective, will agree: I AM CREATING the future I want, for myself and my family!

You can do the same – and so can your kids incidentally, if you set them up to do so…

I’m doing that for mine already via a special Personal Achievement Coaching for Kids (PACK)™ program I’m taking them through.

For you, or your kids, a good place to acquire USEFUL real-world relevant skills (that command the paying attention of others), and which I PERSONALLY endorse, is Omowale Ola’s Foundation for Skills Development (FSD).

There may be others, but THIS is the one I know, and am sure of.

What makes FSD’s programs effective is that in addition to training their learners in specific vocations, they also give them entrepreneurship education.

This equips their trainees with the crucial understanding of how to use their newly acquired skills for profit making business purposes.

This latter aspect (i.e real world relevant entrepreneurship education) is often neglected by providers of most vocational skills programs.

That’s why graduates of such programs often go into the real world unable to find – and stay – on their feet financially, via money making, for the long term.

Less than 2 weeks ago, I saw the post shown below, from Omowale Ola on Facebook…announcing that registration is ON.

Go to www.fieldofskillsanddreams.com for details of courses on offer. They have a rich variety to serve people of different interests, needs, and talents.

Below: Photo of page 8 that I cut and kept, from Sunday Punch of 11th July 2010 – it’s a special report on Omowale Ola’s Foundation for Skills Development (http:// www.fieldofskillsanddreams. com/).

In my new book titled Defeating The Devil Inside (Subtitle: Travails of a Young Believer, and His Misguided Female Convert), I deliberately used FSD as a reference in the story line, for the main character (John)’s self-transformation: After losing his job, and suffering major hardship for a prolonged period, he eventually attended a 7 month “carpentry” program at FSD and launched his own business venture – employing workers of his own.

Click here to learn more about the book, and the real-life play script it is based on.

Click here to visit Foundation for Skills and Dreams

Full disclosure: In case you wonder, I have NEVER met Omowale Ola before, and she did NOT ask me to say all this (nor will I be getting – or asking for – anything for doing it) but I have seen, read, and heard enough over the last 10 years to know FSD is a good place to learn.