Konnected Minds Podcast

Segment: Planting Seeds of Success: How Sacrifice Fuels Personal Growth - Moses B Arthur

• Derrick Abaitey

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What separates those who achieve extraordinary success from those who merely dream about it? This powerful conversation dives deep into the mindset of trailblazers—those rare individuals who don't wait for opportunity but create it themselves.

We explore a revealing incident where attendees at a free personal development event complained about lack of food, completely missing the immense value being offered. This becomes a launching point for examining how entitlement mentality prevents many from recognizing life-changing opportunities. The speaker shares how he intentionally created "Trailblazers Unite" to showcase individuals who "didn't have a table, created it, and sat down themselves"—a powerful metaphor for self-determination in a world that rarely hands out invitations.

The conversation tackles the provocative question: can anyone become successful? While success can be taught through systems and processes, not everyone possesses the innate drive, risk tolerance, or willingness to commit necessary resources. Your vision determines your ceiling—whether you dream of owning a modest home or building a world-class enterprise like Dubai, that vision fuels everything you do. Perhaps most valuably, we discover that people represent both our greatest challenge and blessing in leadership. Building authentic relationships while maintaining healthy boundaries emerges as the ultimate leadership skill.

Ready to shift from entitlement to empowerment? Subscribe now to join a community of forward-thinkers who are creating their own tables rather than waiting for seats at someone else's.

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Speaker 1:

I didn't eat the whole day. Da da, da, da, da da da. And I'm not afraid to say that I really regret making time to come for this event. The knowledge was good, but I regret because they said he used the word regret. So just yesterday he even sent me a message asking for one of the videos I posted on my status. So when he used regret, I just watched.

Speaker 1:

I said what a generation. And then he said please may I know who I'm speaking to, if they can get this information to moses be at. And I said you're speaking to me because I added my number on the flyer, so that's what he picked. I said you're speaking to me. He said how? I said yes, you're speaking to me. Then he said mentor. I said no, I'm not your mentor. There's no mentee of mine that will speak. The way you spoke Doesn't matter. And I said something to him. The reason why our people lose out on the gifts that God is blessing our generation with is because of some of these things, because what the person is looking out for is food. So I said something to the Ligon people that I met today. I said are you telling me that if not for this event, you wouldn't have dinner today?

Speaker 2:

Then they were quiet. Let me stop you here for a minute. If you've been watching this show, I want you to subscribe and become part of the family. We are on a journey of changing the lives of people on this channel and we appreciate you for being here, but if you haven't become part of the family, connect with us. Hit the subscribe button now.

Speaker 1:

Let's carry on the conversation about five leg on people who are angry with my volunteers. I said, yo, are you people trying to tell me that if you didn't show up here today, today you won't eat? And they were quiet and I said do you know what it means for a young man myself to sacrifice the resources that I can go on vacation with my wife with, or spend on my life to book a venue, to bus people to a venue, to bring a speaker from outside of Ghana, to collate speakers in here, flyers, mobiles I did a tour across the regions to mobilize people for this event and everything was absolutely free. Why? Because I wanted to inspire a generation to think bigger, dream louder and act bolder. Why? Because I wanted some, and I intentionally called it Trailblazers Unite. If you looked at my lineup of speakers, I wanted people who built systems for themselves, people who came into the space, had nothing and they took it. They didn't have a seat at the table. They created the table and the chair and they sat there. So I'm bringing futurist kwamek future scum is arguably one of our pioneers when it comes to public speaking for our generation. I'm bringing people like pizza man, um abeku and chris, because these are guys who didn't have a table. They created it and they sat down themselves.

Speaker 1:

And you are listening to all of these stories and I just want you to know that, irrespective of your background as a young person, you can become something. Irrespective of, as a young man, whatever. You can rise like pizza man and employ all the people you employ, and then somebody comes in to do this. So what will happen then is that you lose hope Because for me finishing the event, of course, there's nobody who organized an event territory that they didn't care one or two depths here and there, but you still would use your own resources to clear out the depth, right? But the joy is that somebody will also catch their light. So my inspiration is okay, I'll not listen to the guy who is saying I can't dead thing and all of those things. What will my inspiration be? My inspiration will be that I sat in ubuntu king's event in 2018.

Speaker 1:

Look at the results I'm commanding today. Ubuntu king is one of the few men who called greatness out of me when I couldn't even see it, and I went for his event in case I entered the bus from ghana to nigeria because I was hungry. It's not everybody that's also hungry like the way I am. Some people enter the bus and come for the UPS event, others you have to bus them and ignite it in them. So, regardless of everything I said to myself, moses, let's give ourselves three years. Let's give ourselves four years. Maximum, let's give ourselves five years. There will be somebody that will rise, like you, because of the impact that came from this event, just like the way I rose from Ubunke's thinkation to doing the things that I'm doing now. That is the same way. Let's give Trailblazers United five years. There's somebody that I don't even know. There's somebody who even came for the event that never even reached out to me.

Speaker 1:

Who is somewhere in Konongo? Who is somewhere in Ho? Who is somewhere with Basque people from the north konongo? Who is somewhere in who? Who is somewhere? We pass people from the north our people come from togo, benin, nigeria. Who is somewhere in um ikeja, somewhere who has caught a flame and they are brooding that flame and very soon the world will see. So those are the things that inspire me to keep going on and I remember sharing with that. I'm like next year we're not doing a big event. Next year we're doing trailblazers unite campus store and we're hitting and the person is like you never give up. I'm like no, because at the end of the day, success for me is a life that bless god. That's it. Speak and touch humanity at its core. Yeah, and I get to touch people, as they are called, by making sure that when you encounter me, you become a better version of yourself.

Speaker 1:

No, you know, another way to do that, that knowledge do you think everyone can become successful financially?

Speaker 2:

no, why?

Speaker 1:

because innate in all of us. Not everybody has that innate drive, not everybody has that, um, innate risk ability. Not everybody is ready to commit a certain amount of time and and resource to their destinies.

Speaker 1:

But you can say that if people did, they would be successful exactly because you believe in the systems and the processes, you've got exactly exactly if anybody would pay attention to their life and will commit the amount of resources, time, time, energy, everything in building the things that they are supposed to. Success can be transferred, success can be taught, but the question is, are you ready to pay attention to those things?

Speaker 2:

Is it more of the person or the information they are receiving?

Speaker 1:

It's a balance of both Right. If the information is wrong. If the information, which is the input, is wrong, it will affect the output. Number one, which is also the reason why I tell people and I'm pretty much honest about it who you learn from matters In this generation where everybody's an online teacher, prove what you are listening to.

Speaker 1:

Recently, somebody came to me and said they wanted to write a book. When I had a title of the book, I said it's a good book. I don't speak you out of it. When build results for the book. It was all the book faster. That's right. And the person was like it's true. I said yes and I said to the person if I write a book how to become a millionaire one day, I'll not sell. If don't go to write a book how to become a millionaire one day, you he'll sell. The reason results. So everybody can become, but not everybody will become. So in terms of the success, in terms of everything people seek out for, it's simply because we're all not the same. Somebody will not sacrifice their time, their resource, to build capacity, to learn, to grow, to connect to, to be daring. You know and I like to use that word innate ability or innate drive and fire. Not everybody has that innate drive. There's some people. They wake up and there's no sense of urgency in them. You think we need?

Speaker 2:

that sense of urgency. We need it very much. But when somebody will say where are we going?

Speaker 1:

why are we going? Well, it depends on the lens you're looking at it from. Your success in life is primarily hinged on your vision. So, for somebody ethical, with some house in amasama and somewhere or kaswa somewhere, one family that they want, they want their child to go to, maybe some LA somewhere, yeah, okay. So pair that person's vision. That is what is fueling their drive. But you see, if your success in life is primarily hinged on your vision, then your vision will fool all the kind of things you do. Dubai wants to be number one in the world. Have you seen the things they are?

Speaker 2:

doing. Do you think more people need to be more daring?

Speaker 1:

yes, is the reason why I put together that event think bigger, dream louder, act, because he shall be like a tree planted by rivers of living water. Yeah, after israel, whatsoever you do with, so you can be planted. If you don't do, you will not flourish you yourself if I ask you can be planted.

Speaker 2:

If you don't do, you will not flourish you yourself. If I ask you the one thing that has fueled apart from god, the one thing physically that you have done that has fueled your level of success today, what would you say?

Speaker 1:

one thing, one thing. Yes, can I say one thing? Yeah, yeah, just just just, I know there's several things, but just give me one thing thing, yeah, yeah, just, just just.

Speaker 2:

I know there's several things, but just give me one thing, let me box it up in a thought, because one thing it will be difficult, it's a combination of things, but pick one out of it.

Speaker 1:

Let's see, if I'm looking through my life and the journey that I've been on, the biggest challenge and the biggest blessing has been people. Okay, so, as a leader, I've had to handle people who are older than me. I'm young. As a leader, I've had to deal with people who are older than me. There's a lens in which old people look at you. When you're young. It's been a challenge. I've had to deal with people who are older than me. There's a lens in which old people look at you when you're young. It's been a challenge. I've had to deal with people who are equally my level and they are probably not seeing things the way you're supposed to see. I've also dealt with people who are older than me and they saw you as a mighty blessing in their lives. I've also dealt with people who are at my level, below me, and they've also seen you as a mighty blessing in their life.

Speaker 1:

So I look at it this way it's the fact that greatest blessing, greatest hack, has been people, and not people. Build relationships with people it is very, very important and not people and be humble. You know the thing about humility and I I say this way the most important part of your body is hidden. When moses's face was shining, he couldn't tell his face was shining when he had come down from the mountain. It was the people that told him. So, no matter the exploit, let the people sing the praise and then be humble, but honor people, another people above you. Honor the people that are at your level. Honor the people that are below you.

Speaker 2:

You know, I usually say that. You know, virtues are very important, beautiful, but there's a threshold that you should never cross, because when it does, some people take you for an idiot. So you can be patient. Greathmm, cross it, mm-hmm you're being over patient then people start mm-hmm people start walking. Where do you draw the balance?

Speaker 1:

the thing is people always be people, people always be people. So I like to give hacks and then I give thresholds. For instance, people see me very like okay, this guy, he's doing his this, he's that. Some of the times I can be very forbearing with the things people do because I understand it's a people thing. So I watch people clear their thing. The moment you switch and show them a very strong side of you, then they tend to go like you are proud, you are arrogant, you are this, you are that. Just let it lie. As I grow, I just come to realize not everybody can be your friend, not everybody is meant to be in your complete, complete space. You understand it does not mean we are enemies, we are friends. Now you draw the line with people by letting them know okay, you did this and this and this and that this is my stance on this. Some of the times you act and your action alone creates the definition for you, because truth is derek, you can't do your life explaining your every move to everyone. You know that.

Speaker 1:

Okay, I'm patient, but please, you crossed the line with this, that's right I'll give you another chance, but you try it again and I'll take a decision and when I take it it's final. It's like I'll share something with um, a friend mine. I told him that because I'm a people's person, I really open up my heart to people I can handle. One of my closest friends is always like how are you able to deal with this person? I said I relate with them on their strength, no matter the weakness that comes about them. I always try to relate with them on their strength because there's always good in the person.