Walking with a woman to the market could be rigorous work.
The reason is that, women tend towards soft spending. They are very good at
pricing and getting better bargain than men are. They will choose to spend so
long at the market over one commodity until they get it at the price they think
they can spare even if they do have more than the cost price the seller is
offering.
Men show off even when they don’t have much. When they buy at
the market, they do so at higher prices because often, they lack patience to
bargain and they think its unmanly doing so. The market sellers make it easier
with their phrase “you are not a woman, bro” meaning only women should bargain
to the extreme.
In life’s market place, every buyer buys as a matter of
choice. The seller presents numerous options and says to the buyer, “make a
choice, there are different variants.” The choices available at the market are
often so much especially because there are many industries that produce similar
products with varying quality and price.
The reason behind a buyer buying a product at the market
place varies. The reasons may include quality, taste, need, amount of money
available etc. The market provides the perfect communion for all reasons.
Now, here’s the market place lesson. We do not visit the
market because every other person is visiting. We do because we have our own
needs to solve. We close our eyes to what other persons are buying however much
they buy and focus on what we want even if we may need what those other persons
are buying.
The need for contentment cannot be overemphasized. If we
keep repeating it, it pays. Our choices should be relative to our capacity.
Though, we may need much more than what we have and may not be satisfied with
our current position or financial status, yet we must find fulfillment in our
present status by going for what’s within our means.
Assuming your pocket’s fat and you desire to get some shirts
from the market. You visit the boutique and hanging on the shelves are shirts
of various designers at different price tags. You pick the shirts you want and
offer to pay for them at uniform price as against the boutiques varying price
tags. The attendant may reprove you and alert you to the individual price that
each shirt carries. He may offer to show you shirts from which you could select
from at the price you intend to buy. If you make a choice of high cost shirts,
then you pay for it else you can go for low cost shirts.
Many persons want the best of life but are not ready to put
in the necessary cost input. They would select the best cars at the showroom
but quiver at the price the attendant calls, they go for a four bedroom duplex
in a posh part of town but hate the value the landlord places over his
property, they love the scenic view of the resort but dislike the high cost of
Coca-Cola being sold inside it.
It’s common
to hear people brag at their ability to have their way and get more than they
could bargain for. While this is possible, often the means are
unethical. These persons cut corners. Though they succeed and become the envy
of all eyes, they know within themselves the void of discontentment that their
seeming success brings them.
The sellers at the market are aware that they have a variety
of persons to service. They provide something for everyone and they expect when
you come to buy, you come and buy as you have. However, sometimes the sellers
run promos to attract people to buy. They give grand gifts to buyers who buy from
them. In this case, the buyers are seduced to buy and may end up with huge
gifts much bigger than what they had anticipated buying.
There are opportunities that come in our everyday living
that may not necessarily require more input than what we have always done. It
just requires us doing what we have always done when it matters most like recharging
our phones during promo periods of GSM networks.
We don’t have to wait for opportunities when we can
instigate them wholesomely. We can create opportunities for ourselves by
developing creditable means through which we could render service to people who
will get attracted to us even if they never needed our service.
The market place could be so vast a learning location but
you might not have noticed it because often you find yourself so busy trying to
get one product or the other.
Now you know. You have a choice.
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