CHAPTER THREE
Power of the Mind
The mind is the gateway to life. Success and failure are rooted in the mind. The hand
cannot hold what the mind cannot comprehend. The reality of life is settled in the mind
and the height attained in life is a function of the quality of the mind.
Life pays for value. The value you attract is what the world around you attends to. You
have to be conscious to build a value system around your life. The price on your value is
what then determines your worth. Life relates with us according to our worth. What you
do to raise your worth is down to how your mind functions.
It is the level of the engagement of your mind that defines the brightness of your life.
The value life place on you is in proportion to the quality of your engaged mind. You will
enjoy life better if your value is boosted. Give ventilation to your mind to redefine the
direction of your life.
3:1 Mindset
Your mind is the go-between you and what will dominate your life. Your mind set the
pace for your life. The distance covered in life is largely determined by the level of the
operation of the mind; every human functions by the position of the mind. Channel your
mind to produce for you the gains of being alive. There are too many people that are
living a dead life. It is not enough to be alive, sound mind is of high importance to being
successful, relevant and respected.
The mind is the platform to project a winning life. A dull mind cannot attain relevance
and produce a sound life. What is gained and lost in life first happened on the soil of the
mind. The positioning of the mind predicts the direction of life. Mike Tyson, the most
dreaded boxing heavy weight champion painted a picture of the mind that made a lot of
sense to me. The iron man said, “Your mind can be your best friend or your enemy.
Control your thoughts and control your destiny.” The flow of life is formed in the mind.
3:2 Thinking Strength
The result we attract is the baby of our mind structure that defines our thinking process.
Your thought process is a function of how your mind works. The quality of thought
process determines the output of life. Your life will naturally take the route of your
strongest thought pattern. What life prints out for you is often the content of your
thoughts. The expression of your life is coordinated in your thinking make-up. You will
experience what dominates your thought frame. Great and failed lives begin with a
thought pattern. What dominates your thinking will dominate you. Your thoughts affect
the outcome of your life. Faulty thinking ruins life. There are people that can’t be helped
unless their thinking process is altered; it’s like taking a jump into a widely open hole.
The fall to the bottom is certain if the flush down is not intercepted. The damage of such
is often brutal.
The quickest way out of a damaged life is the repair of faulty thinking pattern. The
enhancement of thinking quality is the turning point to the direction of a blissful life.
Your thinking capacity goes a long way to determine the shape your life will take. It is in
the wealth of quality thinking that charming ideas are birthed, refined, and positioned
for gains.
The worth of the mind is what has separated men from men in the race journey of life.
The strength of thick thinking has catapulted some individuals to being institutions and
mighty influencers the world take orders from. The products of the thinking process of
bright minds direct how our world flows and in return they harvest enviable results that
make them larger than life and wonders too precious to toy with. This height in status is
not exclusive to a few. Invest in the brightness of your mind. That is where your
goldmine is. Shape your life with your thinking.
You are rewarded in accordance to the patronage you attract. The worth of your
thinking determines the traffic of patronage you create and the weight of what is
brought to your feet. If your thinking command meet needs in high note, bountiful
reward will flood towards you. The higher the world around you is attracted to your
thinking strength, the better the reward you earn. Your life is settled on the
commanding strength of your thinking quality.
3:3 Fear of Failure
What holds back a lot of people from running on the strength of their mind is the fear of
failure. That is a garbage excuse. There is nothing in failure to be afraid of. Everybody
that ever attempted something great failed a number of times at different stages.
Failure is common to all and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. You can still greatly succeed
in whatever you failed at. As a matter of fact, it is succeeding at failing that births
success. Failure is not failure if you don’t quit at that juncture. Raise your mind above
your fears; break the link to fear in your mind and drive yourself to achieve great
success. Do not give in to fear. Conquer in your mind the fear of failure. Dare yourself to
hold in your hand the content of your desires. You can command the result you desire if
you are willing to flap the wings of your mind to soar in the boundless world of
possibilities.
There are folks that stop attempting great heights because of the injuries of past failures
they suffered and the chronicle of failure they have recorded over time. In this world,
we journey through rough roads and we are bound to slip, fall and get injured navigating
through life. Those that stay back licking their wounds never emerge as champions.
They fade with time and bury their potentials alive. That is the worst tragedy to suffer. It
is the height of insanity to be dead while alive. Buried in you is the treasure to make
you great. Be bold to dig it out. Stop tormenting yourself with the failures of the past.
Release your mind from that self-created prison. If you keep dwelling in your past
failures you will never do anything better. Raise your mind above the injuries of the past
and channel your energy towards the possibilities of the future and go for it.
If you develop your mind to the point of soundness, you will suppress fear. This is how
great minds deal with what failed individuals call failure. If champions fail on an
attempt, they don’t quit on themselves, they keep going back to it a better person until
they win. When they fail in an event, they quickly dust it off and go in search for the
next one. Everybody fails but what individuals do with the experience of the failure is
what makes champions and losers from the back of failure. When you fail over anything,
don’t call yourself a failure, talk to yourself to get better and make another attempt. It
really does not matter how many times the attempt would roll in, just keep at being an
improved person and you will rise over it. If you keep feeling like a failure, you will
always produce more failings. You will never get anywhere cool with such defeated
mindset buried in failure.
3:4 Perception
Life is lived through perception. If perception is low, the turn out of the life lived would
be low. If perception is bright, the projection of life would be colourful. Perception is the
interpretation of what is seen or experienced. The champions’ perception of failure is
not the same with failed individuals. When a champion fails, he doesn’t see failure, what
he sees is a process, an opportunity to do the stuff again, and a chance to get better. In
the run of this perception, the champion is not overwhelmed by the weight of failure;
he learns from it and gets better. The failure then becomes a stepping stone to attaining
success in the long walk.
A failed individual sees failure as final. The person is defeated in the perception of the
experience and so unable to rise from the defeat. The person’s mind closes and his or
her life responds to that by shutting down. The victims of such poor perception never
break the ceiling. They are trapped in a closet, with their wings clipped never to be
spread to soar; mourning through life. They complain about everything, angry with
everything and blame the failure of their lives on someone else. If nothing changes in
their perception, they would have lived a fatal life before death comes knocking. Is this
all they can get? There is an available chance to encounter a better life than the tripe
script of being buried in the mud. It’s down to the brightness of the mind in sound
perception.
The mind is the trade place for greatness. God in His Almightiness designed the mind to
function with the capacity to define the genius of men and the brain box of the human
capability projection.
3:5 Creative Mind
Engage your mind in creative thoughts to see the ‘you’ the world craves to have. God
gave us a mind to function by reasoning and for creative purposes. God has a creative
mind that functions in high thought pattern. The creative wonders of creation are the
model God has given to us to create our world. There is no one born into the world to
be a liability. You were given a mind to engage to create your world. Step out on your
brain child. Think creatively, it produces result.
The Facebook Social Media platform has over a billion people actively engaged on it.
Steve Jobs redesigned the world system with the runs of his classical creation of the
Apple range: iPad, iPhone, Apple laptop, iMac and others. Smart phones have taken the
world to the next level making easy tons of what the world would never have imagined
possible. The power of mental accent!
The world waits on bright minds to set the tempo of flow. If you ignore the products of
their mind power, the world will leave you behind. The fast pacing radical development
the world is running on will soon make mindless individuals slave in a world that is free.
If the world is far ahead of you, you won’t go beyond the garbage space the rejects
would be dumped in. Nobody that is restricted within the circle of this demeaning life
ever rises to significance or measure up to the worth the human value naturally would
attract.
The giants that rule the world today are mental champions. In the world’s global
market, mental products command higher returns than mineral resources in the real
sense of it. The continent of Africa is vastly blessed with abundant mineral resources but
characterized with poverty and stuck in underdevelopment. On the other hand, several
Western nations and some Asian giants don’t have any deposit of mineral resources but
mentally fortified. In the reality of life outcome, Africa doesn’t rub shoulders with those
parts of the world. Africa, despite her huge deposit of natural resources depend on the
articulated mental strength of the West and Asian powers for her survival. The United
States of America is the world most powerful economy, closely followed by China, then
Japan, Germany and England coming in the distance. None of these world super powers
are reputably blessed with mineral resources. The world’s wealth is not under the feet
of men but in the mind.
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