Building To Last: The Architecture of Wealth & Legacy Framework

I want to start with a question that most of you are afraid to

ask yourselves. Why is it that every December

you feel like you are starting from zero?

You had the goals, yes. You had the hustle, you had the

energy in January. But here we are at the end of

the road at the end of the year and you feel so tired.

You feel like the progress you made was just a patch up job.

On the 20th of December, a Saturday, I left Abuja for

Okene, Cookie State. I was in a convoy with a chef,

was going to Kogi State with a client which we normally call

Alhaji, A wealthy man. We had a plan, a four hour trip

to do a CCTV installation and me back in Abuja for Christmas

latest on Sunday. But before we even reached the

real traffic, the car I was in just quit.

He stopped so the other drivers in the convoy had to stop as

well and the other passengers that his family also alighted

from the car. And then the people around me

said something that changed my entire perspective.

They said we knew this car wouldn't make it.

It always stops. Can imagine.

They knew the foundation was broken, yet they pushed it onto

a journey it wasn't built for. This is the state of mind that a

lot of people have. This is the state of the

temporary generation. We push 40 mindset into high

pressure years. I wonder why we break down

before the finish line today. I'm not just talking about build

to last, I'm talking about building to last.

The ING is the most important part.

Building is a process. It's a step by step sequential

way of doing something and if you skip one step, you don't

just miss a part, you reex the integrity of the whole process.

By the time I got back to Abuja on the 24th of December, after

12 hours in the red dust of Lokoja Bush, after driving

through the sand because the national route was a graveyard,

I realized that wealth is not about money.

What is about structural integrity?

In this episode, I'm going to walk you through the five stages

of building and notice any type of building.

But building to last, I'm going to show you how your mind links

to your body, how your body links to your community, and how

your community creates the institutions that will

eventually fix this nation. If you're ready to stop patching

and start pouring concrete, then listen close.

This is the morning gear with Danny, and I am Danny, your Gen.

Z educator. I'm just here to transform your

identity by refining your mentality.

Let's rewire. Hey, find one.

Happy holidays, we've come to the last episode of the first

season of the Morning Gear Podcast.

And if you are returning listener or an ardent listener,

welcome and thank you for embarking on this journey with

me. Also, if you are listening for

the first time, welcome to the space of the refined ones, the

refined generation. So let's quickly dive into

today's topic, Building to last. You see how the topic says

building to last? Last.

That's the word. We aren't just gonna learn how

to build, but how to build something to last.

Be it a business, be it an enterprise, be it a start up, be

it an idea, anything at all would be entering into a new

year in a few days time. And the worst thing you can do

to yourself is going into this new year.

It's the old version of you, the one with the struggles, the

version with insecurities, the bad habits and above all, a bad

mindset. And that's why I'm here to help

you prep for the new year. So our Ella mentioned that

you'll be learning the five stages of building to last,

building wealth to last. But here's the catch.

You must follow the step one after the other without

excluding any of them. And that's the only way to

ensure you get the absolute benefit from the process because

not carrying out one of these processes will affect the next

stage. And I'll tell you how.

Let's start at the beginning. Stage 1, the mind, building the

mind to last. Most people think a mindset is

just a positive thought. No.

In architecture, the foundation determines the height.

If you want a skyscraper, you don't look at the sky, you dig

into the dearth. Building the mind is a process

of neural hardening. Building the mind is the

foundation of that house you want to build.

Your mind is the core of whatever and what happens when

your your foundation is faulty, the house will eventually

collapse and when the house collapse that means it has not

carried out the aim which is to last.

So that is why basically if you want to build anything to last,

you need to build your mind to last.

When I finally reached Okene after installing the PTZ camera,

PTZ has pan tilt zoom right? Yeah, pan tilt zoom camera

actually gave me kind of I had to delete or bring work because

of SHA stay for another deal. So after installing the camera,

it was brought to my notice that there was another indoor camera.

This is just like an analog camera inside the residence that

was naturally coming up. So it was showing blank on the

monitor and also showing blank on the phone, right?

So I was asked to come and check it.

I know what's actually wrong with it.

I went there, took my ladder, I went into the house, and then I

climbed the ladder to check the camera.

I saw something that perfectly explained this, which I'm going

to let you know. I detached that indoor camera

from its base on the POP ceiling.

So I checked the camera. The infrared light was on, the

current was flowing, but then it was not showing on the screen on

the monitor. So it was basically two things

that could be the problem. One, the BNC connector is bad, 2

the camera is bad, or probably the wire, the cable is bad.

So I immediately changed the BNC connector with the one I bought

because I brought the new one because I had really thought

about it before coming. So I brought a new one.

I had changed it. So after changing it, I plugged

the camera back. I plugged the BNC connector to

the place it's supposed to be plugged in, plugged the power

plug, then I still attached the camera back to its base.

Then on the process of attaching it, I noticed the base was

shaking for sure. I left it like that.

I went into the house and saw that the camera was still not

showing. So now I have a second option.

What do I do? So then I decided to take

another working camera and then test it on that same point.

If it comes up, then the camera is BI.

If it does not comes come up, then the cabling is actually the

problem. But on the process of wanting to

detach that camera now on the process of wanting to detach

that camera now from the biz again, guess what happened?

The camera pulled down. That means the camera and the

bass like all of them kookama 4 down out of the roof.

And after everything, I had to try to separate the bass from

the camera itself. I gave a different persons to

try and it still did not work. But later on, later on, the

camera was changed to a new one. I mean, it's like plugged it to

that same points it came up. So the camera was actually bad.

It was like the camera was already telling us, ah, I don't

tire change me. But no, that's not the point.

That's by the way, that thing that happened, that the camera

pulled down the bass, that the bass came off is exactly what

happens when you try to install wealth, a wealth deck on a

poverty mindset. Listen, open your ears very

well. If your mind is soft, if your

mind is made of the POP of insecurity, you cannot, I

repeat, you cannot hold the weight of the camera.

You cannot hold the weight of the vision.

Building the mind means using neuroplasticity to myelinate new

pathways. I don't know if I got that

pronunciation well. Myelinate.

It's a step by step process of repetition.

Repu. What tissue repetition?

Just like my Duolingo streak. I think I'll be approaching the

40 district on Duolingo learning German.

And it is not just about the language, it's about the process

of teaching my brain that we do not quit when it gets boring.

So if you skip the discipline of the mind, you are building on a

shaky ceiling and eventually the tech and the ceiling will fall

together. So now if you don't want that's

that, that's your building to eventually collapse on the way

on the process, then you have to build a very strong foundation,

which is your mindset. You have to build your mind to

last. Now here's the linkage.

Why does stage 1 lead to stage 2?

Listen, it's because a strong mind is just the software.

But the software needs a hardware to execute.

So if you did computer in school, you should know what

software and hardware is. So now your mind is that

software. But now for software to operate

or become functional, it needs a hardware to execute.

You can have the best blueprint in the world, but if the truck

carrying the cement breaks down, the building stops.

And that brings us to the vehicle Stage 2, the body.

Let's be ultra realistic here. We spent 10 hours in traffic on

that cookie route. We're breathing red dusts.

The AC in the car was in darker dust for itself.

It was not working. But thank God the new one I

entered was working. Huh.

Or more. That aside.

But then it was hot. It was exhausting.

It was soul crushing. If I had not spent one 5150 plus

hours working out this year, I don't think I would have had the

stamina to even climb the ladder in Okene.

In fact, there was a point I even fell for the ladder.

But it's not like I fall. But I've been not kind of fall

right. I still had the stamina to

stand, stay for another day, but then I would have been too body

tired to think clearly. In science, we call this the

God's brain access, guts brain access.

Your brain doesn't sit in a vacuum, it sits in a biological

soup. If your body is inflamed because

you treat it like a trash can, then your mind, which is stage

1, cannot, I repeat cannot execute the blueprint.

You produce something called BDNF when you exercise.

It is basically brain fertilizer.

When you build the body, you are actually reinforcing the mind

because they are intertwined. Think back to that car in the

convoy, the one that everyone knew was faulty.

That car is a metaphor for a neglected body.

People knew it would not make the journey, but he pushed it

anyway. Just like you knew that that

your God for seeking mindset. Sorry, I'm just telling you the

truth that your mindset would not take you anywhere in 2026.

Just the same way you know that that mindset is not going to

take you where you want to be, where you want to go die.

You're going to achieve in 2026. You know that that your mindset

is not going to take you or this your body now the with your

heartbeat is not going to take you to 2026, yet you want to

carry it like that. Are you pushing a faulty car

body into 2026? Are you hoping that luck will

keep your heart beating and your brain clear while you grind for

18 hours? It didn't stop.

Building the body is a process of physiological resilience.

Resilience. It is the infrastructure that

allows the mind to stay on the ladder when the job gets tough

because the job will eventually get tough eventually.

So you have to prepare your body after the mind now your body.

Imagine after building your foundation now now leave it like

that maybe now pull Rd. Rd.

Rd. around the house. Now go and build a roof.

Even in four it went at the house.

If sunshine it will beat you. Whoever I have in that house

will be stolen in the next two to three hours because you're in

Nigeria. That means the, the, what I call

it the aim of building the house, which is for shelter.

It has been beaten. It no longer serves its purpose.

And that is how your mind would be or that is how the process is

going to look like. If you build the mind without

building the body and then move to building another stage.

After building your mind, you need to build the body.

Another analogy, for instance, you have a car and there's fuel,

fuel in that car, there's fuel in that car, but now the car is

not working. The car is parked.

The fuel in that car is your mind.

That car now is your body. Will you move?

No, it will not move. So this is how it looks like

when you are building then you build 1 and you you jump you

have to build to the you have to build in a step by step process.

After building your mind, the next thing to do is to build the

body. And here is its linkage to stage

3. Once the architect, which is

your mind and the very cool the body are solid is that time now

you realize that. You can't carry the stones

alone. You can't carry the stones

alone. To build big, you need more than

just one set of hands. And this being goes to stage 3,

what I call community. Come what unity.

There's even you inside. It's plenty.

Which means that you, Steph, you know what you need to build

yourself even before you even get that community.

That's why there's community. That's why there's youth there.

Community. Listen, in my field, if I'm

doing a massive CCTV installation for maybe a hotel,

I cannot read alone. I need a team, but not just any

kind of team. That's my problem now.

I need people that I can trust. I need you that.

I know that, OK, I'm going with this person because I'm going

with this person. This job is going to be done on

time. This job is going to be done

well. This job is going to be done

right. I will not have any

complications. I will not have trust issues

because what? I have the right team on that

route to Kogi. We were only safe because we

were in a convoy. We had the influence in front.

We had people who could ease the traffic.

Building a community is the process of creating social

capital, Social Guinea. Social capital is the step by

step assembly of people who share your structural integrity.

If you have not built your community, you are a lone wolf

in a world full of lion. And here's the blonde truth, you

cannot escape. You cannot skip to stage 4,

which is the institution, if you haven't built the trust of stage

3. Why?

Because an institution is just a systematized trusts and then

they're all interconnected, They're all intertwined.

You cannot do without this. You cannot do without that.

And that is why it is called a process of what building.

Building is a process, and processes are fundamental.

You cannot cut corners. You must follow them.

That's why it is called the process.

And if you want to grow, if you want to build to last, then you

must follow these processes. And when I say community, I'd

not say 10 people, I'd not say 150 people, I'd not say 1

billion people. No committee, just a trusted

clique, a trusted group of persons, people You can confide

it even. It's just two.

Even if it's just one person, the person, you know that no

matter the situation, this person can go all in for you.

You can trust them even though no 100%, but at least 80% trust.

You have 80% present. You know their capabilities, you

know their limitations. You need to build your community

because you doubt that building a community you cannot last

because to last after being your community, you need to build an

institution, and an institution is a structure that outlives

you. I've been doing the morning gear

alone, everything in the morning gear alone, starting for my

loans, not me. Do everything, not me.

Design my artwork, Nami Ricordo, Nami edit, Nami do script

information, Nami plan script, Nami do topic research.

Nami the post, Nami the edits, everything.

I handle my social media page on my own.

I drive the traffic, I let the word out, I did the

advertisement, I did the marketing, everything.

But in January, I'm going to hire a volunteer specifically

for my social media management, and I'm moving from Divine the

Worker to Divine the Architect. I am building a community of

refined ones because if I disappear, the refined gem must

continue. If you disappear what you are

building, will it stay? Will it last?

Will it be there? That is how we appeal to last.

I just remembered the my what's one of my WhatsApp podcast

episodes, what I talked about only remembered by what you have

done. What have you done of Benny, you

are getting old. What have you done?

What are you building? Because at the end, that's what

matters, Kiniko. That's what matters, though.

What have you done? What are you building?

If you disappear, will your legacy still remain?

And this is what an institution is.

It is basically a foundation that is so solid that other

people can build their own houses on top of it.

If I hire a social media manager today, I've basically given this

person the foundational platform to build, to grow, to thrive.

The platform now is the morning care.

It's an institution. I'm giving them now it a

platform to thrive. They look back now in in the

coming years and say, OK, the first account I managed was

actually the morning Care podcast and he gave me

flexibility to learn on learn. We learn and everything.

I've given someone a process. I've given someone a foundation

to thrive on. Who are you giving foundation

who can see that build from you? Who can see this person is the

reason I am where I am today. If you have not gotten to this

stage, then you have not started building to last this podcast

you're listening to now. It is an institution because I

know I have impacted live in such a way that people would

look back and say, in fact, there are people, I say, OK,

I've been getting reviews, getting reviews, OK.

The reason why I do this, because I listen to the Morning

Gap podcast. The reason why I do this, the

reason why I do this is because I listen to the Morning Gap

podcast. I am getting institutions and

they are doing something. So they are building on what I

have really built. This is what an institution is,

and this is where wealth is born.

Wealth is not income. Income is stage 2, that's the

label. 4th is stage 4, the systems.

If your money requires your physical presence, you are not

wealthy, you are just well paid. We build institutions so our

names last longer than our breath.

And then after institutions, what else?

What do you do next? Stay with me.

This leads us to the final, most painful stage.

The nation. That's stage 5.

The nation. The nation.

As I sat in that red dust watching cars drive through the

Bush because the Lokoja Rd. was a mess, I felt a deep

frustration. That road is rebuilt every

single year. Why?

Because it is built with a temporary mindset.

It is built with sand so it can be recontracted next year.

It is a nation of patch up jobs. But a nation is just a

collection of its people. A nation is just a collection of

its institutions. 3 institutions make up a nation 2 to 3.

Two or more institutions make up a nation the same way two or

more communities make up an institution.

If we are all shaky POP ceilings, then the nation will

always be a shaky building. You fix the nation by fixing the

stages. Listen, if I build my mind stage

1 then I strengthen my body stage 2, then curate my

community stage 3 then establish an institution stage 4, I have

effectively fixed 1 brick of the nation.

If 1000 of us do this, we create a road that doesn't wash away

every year like Lokoja Rd. A strong nation provides

stability for your wealth to compound compounding interest.

It's plenty. Oh God why you build a nation.

You are protecting your own legacy.

So I'm talking nation. I'm not just I'm not, I'm not

limiting nation to Nigeria. That's no nation it's, it's part

of. But in this context, nation in

this aspect can be a collection of one or more institution.

I'm writing my e-book, which I'll be launching by this time

by next year. Rather, I'm launching my ebook.

My ebook now is a part of my institution because basically

what is in that ebook is going to help somebody build.

So I basically given someone a foundation to build on.

This podcast is what a institution we listen.

I'm giving a foundation to build on something, right?

We are rewiring our mindset, rewiring our sense of self

through the right mindset. And now I would also be having a

yeah, my community would be coming live by next year.

Basically, I'm building a community of young adults of

Gen. Z's, refined ones, where we have

the luxury of people with the same mindset as you, right?

You come to the end of community, you have partners,

you have accountability partners.

You discuss. We set monthly goals, we help

ourselves grow, we share opportunities with each other.

We we hold ourselves accountable.

I'm not trying to do something large because for every

community, the the goal there is quality over quantity.

So you'll be meeting quality people in this community and

that community is going to show surely turn up into an

institution. Collectively.

Now I have built a nation of refined ones, which I called the

refined generation. So that is basically what a

nation is. I did not get the clarity

without starting. No, I started somewhere, right?

That's why I have a clarity and and it's going to improve.

So you actually need to start before even, OK, clarity.

Clarity comes in action. So you need to start some.

But yeah, that's the breakdown of what a nation means.

But then how do we start? How do you start?

How do you start building? What do you do to build them?

Or how do you be to? What do you do to build a party?

What do you do to build your community?

For one, the first step to building your mind is auditing

your foundation. Where is the insecurity?

Where is the red sand? You can only build your mind by

learning. You read books, read books air

read books making your pirates next year read books starting

when today read books because somebody will share his 50 years

of experiences in a book which will take you at least less than

24 hours to read. Combine the hours these are read

that book is less than 24 hours, but somebody will share his 50

years of experience in that book and you're telling me you're not

reading book and you want to grow, you want to build

something that lasts. It is not possible.

You need to read books. You need to listen to podcasts

like this. Yes, you need to listen to

podcasts like these. Things that help you expand the

way you think. These help you see life on a

different perspective. You need to invest on them.

Invest in knowledge, attend talk shows, attend seminars, buy

courses, watch videos, tutorials, attend workshop free

and paid. Yes, meet people who are

building your mindset, explore the world, go to new places.

With this you are building your mindset because you don't build

it. Whatever you're building, again,

we know we not stand is going to fall.

Your mindset is the basic for whatever you're building next.

Your body. How do you build your body?

You need to stop pushing the faulty car that I spent 150

hours in the gym or in workout this year.

It is not just for a photo or taking pictures though.

My body is is actually is tea. My body is tea or not meets 5

God no, I'm not copying my body is is body in is ripped at this

point. Like I'm literally proud of

myself. I know we have body goals, but

yeah, that's beside the points. But then you need to build your

body to last. Like I said, your body is like a

car and your your mind is like the four in that car.

If that car is faulty, deep car can normal.

So you need to build your body for your mind and your body to

work in in alignment. The hardware need the software,

the software need the hardware. Both of them need each other,

right? How do you beat your body?

Exercise, exercise, exercise, exercise.

Even 10m days, something, even skipping, even taking a walk,

even dancing is exercise. Exercise your body.

Move out. It's good food.

I can over emphasize on this. Eat good food.

A lot of you spend your time eating drunk.

Some of you will drink 50 CL of coke. 10 of them in a week.

And you're telling me you want to live long?

You want to last? How Eh?

Start what they told you. They're literally killing

yourself. You need to invest in your

health by eating good food, by exercising, by sleeping well.

There's difference between the amount of time you sleep and the

quality of your sleep. I'm going to talk about any I'm

going to talk about the only different whole topic.

But yeah, it's there's, there's the particular time you sleep

and you know that you rested very well and is the particular

time you sleep. No matter the number of hour you

sleep, you're not going to achieve rest.

Different topic. But then you need to build your

mind and then your body. Next, your community.

Look at your convoy to even have a convoy, huh?

Who is easing the traffic for you?

Who is actually easing the traffic for you?

Do you have a collection of people that you can go back to

now no matter the situation and you know that these people cut

your back? Do you have the people that

inspire you? Do you have people that you work

together with? Do you have a tribe?

If you're alone, find your people because find your people

who help you to build trust. I need to build trust before you

even need it, because you're eventually going to need it.

And you want to build to last. You cannot be the lone.

You know, the court says if you want to go fast, you go alone.

But if you want to go far, you go with people.

You have to go with your community to go far and to the

mean and to last. Now, your institution.

How do you do that? Start with writing your Sops.

How do you do what you want to do?

You need to build a system that works for you, not just solely

relying on you system that can work without you being there.

That is how you building stations so that when you're out

of the game, your system can still continue.

If you need to delegate, delegate it, but you need to

build a system that works. If you need to hire, hire, you

need to move from me to us and for the nation.

If you viewed your mind, your body, your community and your

need and your and your institution, then the last thing

you need is actually technical integrity to do your work.

It's a build a nation that will last.

It's not the one that will be needing funding every year.

Don't have to be doing the route every year because if you're if,

could this state governor was the person of integrity go that

day. It was the person of integrity.

They will not be building that road every year.

And if you can be able to build successfully to your

institution, then nation building will be easier.

Be way easy for you, right? And this is where you attain the

ultimate wealth. You attain ultimate wealth, the

core wealth, right? If you're installing the camera,

make sure that the bees never shakes.

And that is how we save the country.

Listen, don't just enter 2026. Don't just enter 2026 build your

way into it. I'm divine Daniel the chance the

educator and I'm saying a big thank you for your for at least

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Yeah, thank you. So before we I go, I want to

leave you with one of the quotes that actually stuck out for me

today. One quote that actually stuck

out for me today. I just saw it randomly in one of

my chapters. And it is the best way to

predict your future is to invent it.

Remember, I just want to inspire you Peace.

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