WORK
ON YOUR MIND
“Work on your mind and the mind shall work for
you”
Washingtone
Oduor
There
can never be any greater resource that lies within us like the two spheres lying
comfortably under the scull. This is the most powerful weapon that can submerge
us to our hurt desires. This is the master key to our success and will only
land you there when you learn how to control all that goes in and all that
comes out. If you wish to change your life you better do it immediately and
flamboyantly and that change begins with the change of our mentality, about
everything that happens to us is a decision that you have to make according to
the resent studies a have done it is evidently clear that we become what we
think of ourselves, all am trying to say is that the result we get in our
external world is a reflection of our inner world. That means we are all guided
by our thoughts which is a representation of our internal communication. We can
only alter our external representation
by changing the state of our internal communication. I have grown to believe
that every human being is designed for accomplishment and we are engineered for
our success or we are endowed with the seed of greatness which makes us vulnerable
and capable of great achievement. These seed of greatness is our mind and can only
be exploited through its cultivation. An average man’s mind runs a total of
60,000 thoughts in a day that includes thousands of decision we make in a day.
This has brought has brought me to the realization that decisions actually determines the actions we take and the
direction we take together with the destination which shall be the end result
and by so decision shape our destiny.
I
view our mind as the battle field where, the major conflicts happen, explosion
of hard choices and tough decision take place in our mind, therefore it would
be important for us to take the initiative to learn to control our thoughts. Believe
you me when I tell you that the life you are living today at this moment is a
result of our making, it’s a product of our thinking for we only become the
visible of the invisible world. Get it right from me that your life is nothing
more than a creation of your own imagination. Wiston Churchil once said “we become
what we think of ourselves.” I want you to take a few minutes and examine the
kind of life that you have had to live is it not your own making. I bet it is
and that affirms who we are and what we do profoundly emanates from our thoughts.
This call for us to learn to make the right diligent decisive decision that
will shape who we are and we can only do that by taking charge of our mind. When
I was in high school I used to walk to school .every morning I had to cover six
kilometer for me to get to school. on my way I passed along a farm that was
ever green and it really cough my eyes to some extend I would stand and stare
at the beautiful farm, I kept on asking myself what does the owner do to
maintain the fresh vegetables and the green grass for the cows and this was
evident even during the dry seasons. This gave me an appetite of wanting to
become a farm one day in my life and it also pushed me to make a decision on
school to go for agriculture studies as a subject of my choice than the preferred
business studies. Well one morning .as I was walking to school. I was lucky
enough to get lift from a tractor from that farm that went round every morning
selling milk to the families and some small scale retailers driving the tractor
was an old man with a checked coat and was carried behind the carrier and with
me were some students from the neighboring school and a middle aged young man
dressed in a kaki trouser, white dust coat and white gumboots, he was the man doing
the sells. Curiosity got the better side of me and I began to shoot question
from all angles. Innocently I asked. How do you manage to produce so much milk
that merely feeds the majority in my village? The man look at me for a few
minutes amazed at my question while I was still contemplating where that was
the right thing to do or I should have never ask the question. Slowly I began
to shay away but fortunately after a few moments of silence the man replayed
back smiling “young man this is just the effort and fruits of our labor. That
made me confused and I exclaimed back “I don’t understand!” He looked at me held
my shoulder as if he was pissed off and broke his voice. “All that you see are
fruits of commitment, consistency, persistence determination and hard work. Look
at those men pointing at the farm where we were now passing by. Those men are
the reason for our massive production of milk and they work for my father. They
are paid so well so they work tirelessly day and night to ensure that the dairy
cows are well fed and that the fields are always green with nippier grass for
the animals.” As If I was not satisfied I retaliated in the middle of his
conversation, “actually my main concern was how do you manage to keep your farm
green all through the year? Within a twinkle of an eye he threw back another
question to me “If I gave you land and you were to make good use of it what
would you do?” Well this was getting interesting since now I stood a chance to prove to him that I was taking in some lessons on agriculture. Before
I could answer we stopped at a shop where he dropped some milk cans before we proceeded.
This gave me some time to think of the best answer that would not disappoint him.
I took a few minutes then I asked him “can I now give you my answer? Yes! He replied.
if you gave me land to make use of it I would ensure that it is properly maintained, well cultivated, try to
keep of the weeds so that they do not compete for nutrients with my crops. I
would also ensure that it’s well protected and I would do that by fencing
nicely and put a gate to it.” As if he was not satisfied by my answer he
questioned “and what else would you do to ensure the yields are productively amazing?”
“ooooh that,” I murmured then continued, “definitely I would use manure to fertilize
the crops and ensure that I have enough
water for irrigation and to some extent I would use mulching to prevent rapid evaporation
and by that my produce will not be
affected.” Suddenly he bust out loudly and that left me mesmerized, as I stood
glued on the spot wondering what was funny with my answer and finally his wards
from his mouth were friendly to my ears and the wards were, “young man I can
see you agriculture teacher has done the work so well. That is just what we do consistently with commitment and with great determination
let’s just say that we work very hard for the land and the land works for us.” I was a little disturbed by the answer and since
I had come to my destination I had no other option than to alight looking at
him smiling and he waved at me and shouted as they drove away apply that in your life. That day I went to
class with lots of question in mind how do I use that in my life? Little did I
now that that statement would make sense to me some years to come in my life
and that’s what I would wish to share with you. Take for instance the brain to
be your farming land and you want it to produce the desired results what would
you do. Well the answer is simple do the same thing that a farmer would do to increase
his yields, only that this time round the mind is the point of focus. If we are
to live a creative rich satisfying, enriching, fulfilling and full vital power life.
We have to put into consideration working to nourish our mind by feeding it
with the right materials that will help us get the result we desire. Some of
these things that we need to look into are just to mention them for I will
speak more about each of the in the next posting.
Stay positive
always and have the right attitude
Read positive
motivating and inspiring materials everyday
Listen or
watch motivational tapes/videos
Choose your
friends wisely they determine who you become
Pray every
day and create some affirmation and declaration
Have some quiet
time and meditate or visualize your future
By
doing this everyday with commitment it starts to change the way you see things
and when you are able to change your mentality you will be able to make the
right decisions that will determine the actions you will take, the direction
you will head to and the place you shall end up that’s the end result you shall
get that this brings me back that DECISION SHAPES DESTINY. For us to be able to
make the right decisions we must work tirelessly every single day with
enthusiasm to feed our minds with positive empowering inspiring articles that
will help us shape who we are what we do and what we become.
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