CLASON TEACHES MANYORO: Money Cannot Buy Happiness, But It Buys The Best Life 7 Ancient Laws From The Richest Man In Babylon

“Manyoro says: Money is servant, not master. Clason says: Make servant work, don’t work for servant. Ghana says: Money good, but wisdom better.” – Abundant Robert K. AWOLUGUTU

The Manyoro Empty Purse Story
In Manyoro, there are two hunters, Nakera and Naweh. Both have the same tools, years of experience and same hunting environment.

Nakera is always broke, borrows, and complains of hardships. He says, “Money is devil.”

Naweh has a plan for his life. He saves part of whatever he earns. He is always cheerful. He helps others. He lives in his own house.

Nakera admires Naweh. He asks, “How?” Naweh says, “I met Clason from Babylon. He said it is not only farm that has laws, purse too has laws. Riches follow the man who keeps the laws of purse.”

George Clason profoundly said: “It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.”

Ghana Today
The youth, in their desperate desire for quick money, engage in occultic practices like sakawa, betting games, and ponzi schemes.. They spend to impress instead of saving and investing. Soon poverty comes upon them.

Buddha taught us to mine the mind, Clason says, purse should be mined. Mind is farmland just like purse is. There are laws governing both. ‘When purse is empty, heart is heavy.”

WHY MANYORO NEEDS BABYLON TODAY – Babylon is Kumasi of Old!

Babylon was the richest city 6,000 years ago – like Kumasi and Accra today. The problems of today are no different from what Babylon experienced then.

Most youth are broke, debt-ridden, and worried. They envy the rich instead of learning their money-making secrets.

Clason discovered money secrets {ancient wisdom} in clay tablets. The same laws that governed money then apply today.

Ghana is rich in natural resources -gold, cocoa, oil, lithium etc, but there is mass poverty. A country is rich when its citizens are rich and vice versa.

Babylon fell, but laws remained. Ghana can rise if Manyoro embraces the laws.

DECODING CLASON’S TEACHING 7 Cures For A Lean Purse {Simplified for Ghana}

1. CURE 1 – A Part of All You Earn Is Yours To Keep {Pay Yourself First!}

Clason’s First Law: Keep one-tenth of every income you earn. For every 10 cedis, keep 1 cedi!

In Manyoro, a wise hunter kills 10 antelopes, eats 9 and smokes one for tomorrow – survival strategy.

The worst financial blunder you will ever make is when you spend all you earn and subsequently live on borrowed money. That will surely lead to poverty and destitution.

ACTION: Make savings a habit. For income from any source – salary, sales, farm – keep 10% in a separate tin/can/MoMo savings, susu etc. Have a savings account into which you pay 10% of your monthly income. This is the seed to grow your money. Let your money work for you by wisely investing. Don’t touch! It is your seed of wealth tree.

2. CURE 2 -Control Thy Expenditure {Budget – Make Money Work!}

This is a strategy for controlling your spending. After saving 10% of your earnings, list your most important needs and prepare a budget to take care of them, in addition to the things you savour. Your necessary expenses and what you savour must not exceed the remaining 90%.

Make sure to examine your spending habits to cut down or eliminate waste. Distinguish needs from wants.

In Manyoro, needs include food, soap, firewood. Wants include extra clothes, marrying two or more women. A youth may buy iPhone 15 instead of a cutlass.

In Ghana, it is not uncommon to hear remarks like “My money is finished but I don’t know where it went.” The consequence of having no budget.

Clason wrote: “What each of us calls necessary expenses always grows to equal income – unless we protest.” Don’t buy on impulse. No wasteful spending.

ACTION: List your expenses for 7 days. Then ask: Is this need or want? Cut wants and reduce expenditure.

3. CURE 3 – Make Thy Gold Multiply {Gold Must Work Like Slave!}

Clason advises, “Put gold to labour. Invest your saved coins to earn more coins. Money must have children.”

In Manyoro, one goat becomes many. Goat gives birth to kids. Your cedi must give birth to more cedis.

In Ghana, some are wise with money, others are not. Money sleeping under pillow or in a drawer is lazy money. Money safely and wisely invested multiplies. Learn and apply money laws, not sakawa and other occultic practices.

ACTION: You have savings! Great! Invest your savings in a business that brings money. Learn a skill, buy goods to sell, plant cash crops.

4. CURE 4 -Guard Thy Treasures From Loss {Better Little Caution Than Great Regret}

Many have become victims of get -rich-quick schemes. Clason made this point: “Gold slippeth away from the man who invests in what he knows not!”

In Manyoro, our elders tell us: Don’t give your goat to a stranger to keep for you – you don’t know him.

In Ghana, youth invest in crypto they don’t fully understand, bet, quick double – study first, then invest.

ACTION: Before any investment, ask 3 elders who are familiar with that business. Get knowledge! Get wisdom!.

5. CURE 5 – Make of Thy Dwelling A Profitable Investment {Own Your Hut!}

Clason’s financial wisdom posits: Own your home instead of paying rent to enrich landlord.

This writer first built with mud, then with blocks but my own.

In Ghana, many youth are renting. They complain of high rent. They should save money and build.

ACTION: Start small. Buy land. Use savings for moulding blocks, other building materials to put up your own accommodation – your own Manyoro hut.

6. CURE 6 – Insure A Future Income {Old Age Will Come – Like Rainy Season!}

In Manyoro, a farmer stores grain for the lean season. Prepare for the future, old age, retirement, and children’s education among others.

Clason says, whether we like it or not, rainy season will come – prepare.

In Ghana, some people retire into a life of destitution and unhappiness. No pension or provision for old age. No place to call a home. They spent all they earned. No savings! No investment! Poor life! A miserable life!

ACTION: After 10% savings, keep small for future needs: retirement fund, insurance, education fund, obtain own means of transport. Trees grow if protected and watered.

7. CURE 7 – Increase Thy Ability To Earn {Yourself Is Best Investment}

One of the great masters of wisdom said: “To become richer, become wiser!” Acquire marketable skills and earn more.”

Manyoro: A sharp cutlass cuts more trees. A sharp mind attracts more money.

In Ghana, the youth want more pay but not more skill. The youth should rather increase their capacity and ability to earn more money.

ACTION: What one skill will you learn this month to earn more? Is it reading? Writing? Farming technique? The choice is yours.

THE FIVE LAWS OF GOLD – Clason Gold Rules For Ghana

1. Gold gravitates to the man who saves 10% of every income!
2. Gold works for the wise owner who finds profitable employment
3. Gold clings to the cautious owner who invests under wise counsel.
4. Gold slips from the man who invests in unfamiliar schemes.
5. Gold flees from the man who forces it to impossible earnings {sakawa, betting}

Ghana Lesson Gold is shy – treat it with respect!

THE MANYORO DEBT CHAIN – How To Break?

Dabasir was a camel trader who lived a reckless life. He borrowed to sustain his wretched life. At some point he became a slave.

Finally his senses returned. He went back to Babylon and promised to work and pay those he was owing. He worked hard. Lived with integrity and honesty. He saved, invested and earned more. Soon he became debt-free.

COMMON MISTAKES GHANAIANS MAKE WITH MONEY {Clason Diagnosis”

1. When you say money is evil. Money is neutral. Clason says, money is good servant.
2. When you spend all, nothing is left to save. Purse is lean.
3. Youth want the prize but not the price. No budget, no saving but want to live in own mansion.
4. They invest in the unfamiliar: crypto, betting, lottery – gold flees
5. No future plan: Spend all your earnings, cry tomorrow.

CONCLUSION – Manyoro Becomes Babylon – Richest Man in Manyoro

Challenge: 30 days Clason challenge. Save 10%, track spending, learn one or more skills.

CALL-TO-ACTION: Your purse is Ghana’s gold mine -dig it. It is true money cannot buy happiness, but it buys what the world has to offer: funds for child’s education, your own accommodation, and helping others.

FINAL QUOTE:
Clason said: “A part of all you earn is yours to keep.” In my own words: “Purse empty, life shaky. Purse fat, life steady. Pay yourself first, or always work for others.”

More From The Author

1. “It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best the world has to offer.” – George S. Clason
2. “A part of all you earn is yours to keep.” – George S. Clason
3. “Purse empty, life shaky. Purse fat, life steady. Pay yourself first, or always work for others.” – Abundant Robert K.AWOLUGUTU
4. “Money is governed today by same laws which controlled it when prosperous men thronged streets of Babylon 6,000 years ago.” – George S. Clason
5. “Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. First copper you save is seed.” – Clason
6. “Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings.” – George S. Clason
7. “Better a little caution than a great regret.”- Clason
8. “Manyoro says: Money is servant, not master. Make servant work.” – Abundant Robert K. AWOLUGUTU
9. “Gold slippeth away from man who invests in it in businesses he is not familiar with.” – George S. Clason
10. “The soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them.”” - George Clason

Yours in inspiration,
Abundant Robert K. AWOLUGUTU
Writer and Author – Golden Sunrise