When your mobile malfunctions you sometimes have to reset because there is a precept that determines the “mindset” of that mobile phone. Precepts will form a mindset but it usually gets to a level where mindset begins to kick against the precept that is needed for the next level of our lives. If you are ever going to keep succeeding in your life you must understand when to allow your mindset give in to a new precept so that your mindset would be ideal for the next phase of your life.

It’s amazing to see how close people are to their big breaks in life and the only thing that’s just not allowing the available precept launch them is their mindset. It may now be important to take a look at the other words that explain the word precept for a clearer picture of the message here. Precept means teaching, principle, rule, guideline, instruction and law. The last few words from Thesaurus are not words that a lot people like to hear anymore and those are words that can help a man create a shape for his life, maintain the shape and as well continue to adjust where necessary so as to continually fit into the society.

On the other hand, mindset means state of mind, frame of mind, attitude, approach, way of thinking or outlook. Of all the synonyms that I got I must confess I am surprised to see outlook as a synonym for mindset. What that means invariably is that what we think like will eventually determine what we look like and what we look like is determined by the things that we have been taught, the guidelines that we have abided by so far, and the instructions that have confined us to a structure or taken us out of one.

Now that you have a better picture of the two words compared I think I can boldly speed up to the point where I was supposed to have begun. We all have come this far by the precepts God gave us and those precepts have formed into the mindsets that we all carry but it’s amazing to see that today a lot of people are beginning to kick against the precept that is needed for the next level. They have stuck to the precept in their minds right now and they are not will to renew their minds or reset their minds.

Remember I started with a mobile phone being reset. If the phone will continue to be relevant to you there may be need to ‘restore factory settings’ or better still ‘reset.’ What you are resetting in the mobile phone is the instruction that you have given to the mobile phone. There are instructions that came with the phone to make it usable for anybody and there is the opportunity for you to add your instructions for personal use. Human beings are like phones with basic instruction from the manufacturer (GOD). The basic instruction determines how all human beings behave in certain conditions but the good news is that there is the opportunity for additional instructions just like that of the phone. This additional instructions are not the same for every human being and that is so because we do not all have the same purpose in life. Just like different mobile phone users will have different purposes for their mobile phones, human beings have come to achieve different things here on earth and what they have come to achieve will inform the kind of precept they must not allow.

From time to time you must you must reset your mind because the precept that brought you this far will not be the precept that will take you to the next level. From time to time you will need a new mindset for the next level. A few years ago your current mindset was absolutely necessary to bring you to this level but it will not be good enough to take you to the next level.

Lessons:

1.) We need a mindset – state of mind, frame of mind, attitude, approach, way of thinking or outlook – to succeed in life.

2.) The mindset will be shaped by the precepts – teaching, principle, rule, guideline, instruction and law –
that we accept or reject.

3.) The mindset must be flexible – don’t pick a precept and expect it to be a multipurpose precept applicable in every situation. There are no multipurpose rules. That is why there are exceptions to rules.

4.) You must constantly remember there are exceptions to rules and other rules will make up for that exception.

5.) Adopting the appropriate precept for every phase of your life is the meaning of the “right mindset”

6.) The mindset that brought you this far will not take you as far as you need to go!

If we were picked on the streets of Nigeria
And brought into a home as orphans,
Nobody would be Hausa!
Nobody would be Igbo!
Nobody would be Yoruba!
We would simply be Nigerians
Speaking one one language,
As thought by our custodians.
Nobody will be son of the Minister!
Nobody will be daughter of a civil servant!
Nobody will be children of farmers!
Nobody’s devil will be bigger,
Nobody’s angel will be smarter!
we will just know we are Nigerians
United by diversified complexity.
We will dream of a world
Where we all form a chain
And the long lost love will be the link.

Fola Daniel Adelesi, ASM
05/10/2009
From the Talk Academy of The Debaters.

One of the ways to live life is to consciously remind yourself that opportunities will not book appointments before they come and when they come, they may not look like the visitors you want to see. If opportunities were properly dressed everyone will recognize them so you need hindsight, insight and more foresight to recognize the fact that what is in front of you is an opportunity and not disaster.

Many of us have dreams but the bitter truth is that we honestly do not recognize the opportunities that were meant to birth those dreams so there are times when we all have walked past the opportunities we were looking for. Opportunities are very rude.

Just like that rude young man or the saucy young lady you would have sent out of your office or house, I hope you have not sent opportunities away like that. Some people ignorantly send opportunities away in the name of setting their priorities right but a closer look reveals that they did not really set their priorities right. What they did was to set their priorities upside down by sending Mr. Rude Opportunity away.

I remember a time in my secondary school days when I was expecting the results of promotional exams like every other person but what I got was an advice to repeat the class. We all probably think that we have very strict parents but I can start a debate at this time that my parents were stricter. I didn’t know what to expect but I obvious didn’t contemplate suicide though I wished I could disappear. Let’s leave the story for my biography but I didn’t enjoy that holiday and the Christmas that followed because I was returning to school to seat in the same class with my juniors.

The irony of the situation was that just as I was beginning to settle down in class the class, the class needed to appoint leaders and I was appointed as one of the captains of the class. Here was a class where more than 70 percent of those seating in it were retaking the class so I thought, ‘well you are now a captain over repeaters. A captain of the so-called ‘dullest.’’ Going by the visible situation that was true but going by the way Mr. Rude Opportunity behaves that was not true. That year became my best year in school because that was the year that I improved my speaking and writing skills so much. It gave me the opportunity to build rapport with my teachers and build confidence in myself. By the time I bouncing back fully I was already the Senior Prefect of the school. Becoming the Senior Prefect of the school was my dream as a first year student but it looked as if the hope slipped into the tunnel. There was no light in that tunnel until I had gone through that phase where the thick darkness was almost touchable. The hope was rekindled after I had failed. When I reminisce those days I can smile and say thank God I failed that session because it was the session that brought to limelight the leadership potentials in me and I bounced back academically. At least I got the award for the best Literature-in-English student before I graduated.

Every new phase of my life in one way or the other has been ushered in with what looks more like a rude interruption of my plan. My success in life so far can be referred to as opportunities that first interrupted my life disguised as failures.

If the only challenge is that opportunities will not book appointments before they come that would have been okay because you sometimes accommodate the people you were not expecting but it does not just show up without notice, it will put you off balance if you are not careful. When I listen to the stories of some young people the only thing I can deduce is that they did not know when Mr. Rude Opportunity came to their house or office. He obviously came disguised like the masked Nigerian Musician whose real identity is not known but adopts “Lagbaja” as stage name. Interestingly this man has been to several places without masks and has spoken with the people who know his works but don’t know his face or any other thing that can reveal his true identity.
Many people know what opportunities can do for them but they are sincerely ignorant about the characteristics of opportunities. There are people living inside opportunities and they are looking for it. There are people looking for opportunities and they seat on it on daily basis. There are people looking for opportunities and it just follows them around. I remember visiting a friend of mine who was, at the time we were both undergraduates, a graphic designer because I wanted to publish a magazine. My “planned mission” was to get the quotation for a publication but when I got there I realized that there was the “original mission” as presented by Mr. Rude Opportunity. I remember it was 9pm on a Sunday evening and examinations were starting the following day. I was also supposed to be preparing for two papers so those papers who have preoccupied my time.

The student union president of Olabisi Onabanjo at the time who was referred to as ‘AWO’ just said, ‘tell this guy about it. He does stuffs like this.’ In that moment I didn’t know what was presenting itself to me. All that mattered at the moment was that the group of young men who were there were looking for a few people who would represent the university in the Nigeria International Model United Nations’ Conference held annually at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. They wanted me to write an essay and it must be submitted by 12 noon on Monday. My first paper was scheduled for 9am to 12pm and my second paper was scheduled for 3pm to 6pm and now I have to produce an essay which must be submitted in an interview at 12noon.

As I stepped out of my friend’s house I thought about nothing else but the essay till I got to my residence on campus. I needed to set my priorities right. The bill board in my head had a sign like, ‘Two papers tomorrow! They are not elective courses! One opportunity here for you!’ Before my fears could get hold of my reasoning I had taken a decision. As far as I was concerned the exams and the opportunities were important so I settled down immediately to start writing the essay.

There was a twist the following morning after deciding that the exams and the essay were important to me. I took to my essay to a typist before going for the first paper so that the essay would have been typed by the time I was done with the paper and I could confidently walk into the interview room with my essay. I could barely think about another thing during my paper. I just wanted the examiners to come for their script as soon as possible. I probably was the happiest student when they eventually started collecting the papers. I dashed off to the typist’s office for my essay but I got ear-itching news rather than my essay. The typist had not typed my essay when it was already a few minutes past 12noon. I could take consolation in the fact that they were fast at typing so they started looking for the essay and then there was another news. The typist couldn’t find my essay. I could have raged and just go back to the main campus for my second paper. If I had done that I probably would not have been able to concentrate on that paper but I decided to try the interview without my essay.

Amazingly I was allowed to do the interview without my essay and the panelists never asked for it. That was how I was selected to represent the university but I would have narrowly missed that opportunity. Today as I write I have had the opportunity to represent the university three times and the last time I did I was the secretary General of the Nigeria International Model United Nations’ Conference.

I went to a friend’s place with a plan in mind but Mr. Rude Opportunity was waiting to interrupt my plan. If I had not allowed him to interrupt my plan I would still be struggling with some of my personal projects right now. The last time I spoke at the Model United Nations’ Conference I shared the platform with the Japanese and Botswanian ambassadors to Nigeria. There are other leverages I have enjoyed that I will not talk about because the message is not supposed to focus on me. I only want to draw lessons from telling you personal stories.

Another person in my shoes who, by divine orchestration, needs the same leverages that these conferences have provided would have chosen just the examination and the person would have been right going by logical reasoning to do that. The most important lesson here is that opportunities force you to go beyond logical reasoning and if you choose to stay within the confines of logical reasoning you will never get what Mr. Rude Opportunity has to offer you.

December 2008 was another time when I was visited by Mr. Rude Opportunity. He came to my house without an appointment and entered my living room without knocking. He was right there beside me in front of the 21 inch size television as I pressed the power button. For the first few minutes I didn’t know I was watching a programme that would eventually change my life but I was able to switch because I recognized the whispers of Mr. Rude Opportunity. I heard him whispering into my ears, ‘go and talk to that lady about your book and I followed all the instructions. Again I would say let’s leave the details for my biography but as the time I decided to write this for you I had done 50 presentations on television week after week without paying a dime. There were times when I had a presentation in a week and there were times when I had two or three presentations in a week. If I did not recognize the whispers of Mr. Rude Opportunity I would have been looking at how much it would cost to be on television for 50 presentations but he was there telling me but to do. When I started out with the presentations there were a few voices that spoke against what Mr. Rude Opportunity told me to do. There were times when I walked for two hours to the studio to make a ten minute presentation that Mr. Rude Opportunity told me to do. It didn’t sound reasonable but I learnt my lessons.

Lessons from leveraging opportunities

1.) Opportunities show up in the least circumstances and are only visible to those who do not just “look” but make deliberate efforts to “see.”

2.) Opportunities will stand outside the spheres of your logical reasoning and will beckon you to step out but will leave you to relish your mediocrity if you are not willing to.

3.) Opportunities whisper so that only those who have trained their ears can hear what Opportunities have to say.

4.) If you always want to verify what Opportunities tell you with people you may never follow what opportunities say because in the world of opportunities logical things are presented in illogical manners. There are certain things Mr. Rude Opportunity will tell you that must not be shared with anyone.

5.) Mr. Rude Opportunity will guarantee a safe trip but will not guarantee a smooth trip so you must be preparing for a serious business and not a roller coaster ride.

I do not know who you are.
I do not know who you are not.
I do not know what you do.
I do not know what you do not do.
I do not know where you live.
I do not know where you have not lived.
I do not know what you have.
I do not know what you do not have.
I do not know what you like.
I do not know what you do not like.
I do not know what you look like.
I do not know what you do not look like.
I do not know what appeals to you.
I do not know what will not appeal to you.
I do not know what turns you on.
I do not know what turns you off.
I do not know what inspires you.
I do not know what makes you despair.
I do not know what keeps you going.
I do not know what gets you stuck.
I do not know if you have dreams.
I do not know what your dreams are.
I do not know if you have a passion.
I do not know what you are passionate about.
I do not know if you read.
I do not know what you read about.
I do not know what country you came from.
I do not know if you are patriotic.
I do not know who you know.
I do not know who knows you.
I do not know who wants to know you.
I do not know who you want to know.
I do not know what you are running after.
I do not know what is running after you.
I do not know where you are coming from.
I do not know where you are going to.
I do not know what you see.
I do not know what you cannot see.
I do not know what you have heard.
I do not know what you have not heard.
I do not know if you grow.
I do not know what makes you grow.
I do not know if you groan.
I do not know what makes you groan.
Lest you take me for a nobody for what I do not know
Since I seem to know nothing about what you know
Let me confess what I know.
I know that no matter what you know
How to make impact you must know
And the world you live in your impact they must know
For what you know I do not like to know
But what impact you make I like to know.
Your life is a combination of others’ impact, I hope you know.
What impact you have for others I need to know.
How you want to do it I do not need to know
Why you have not done it I do not need to know
What you need to do it I do not need to know.
All I want to know is not what you know
Because when we seem to know
Without making a mark then we do not know.

Fola Daniel Adelesi © 2009
23/10/2009
Written while in the Talk Academy of ‘The Debaters’ TV reality show

There are so many people who have the potential to succeed at everything they do but they end up not succeeding as much as they want to or not succeeding at all simply because of squandered or misguided passion.
In my few years of teaching business, motivation and leadership, close to ten (10) years, at the time I sat to write this piece, I have seen so many people, some of them younger than I am and some of them older than I am, who have dreams and really want to achieve their dreams. They do not only have the dreams they are working on they also have the passion to accomplish the dream but as soon as they begin to talk you can tell that they have a misguided passion that they will squander sooner than the whole work begins. When you have projects on your hands it is important to be happy about those projects and it is necessary to talk about the project passionately because you should be informed that there are times when people buy into your passion before buying into your vision. What’s the essence of having a vision that does not convey your passion?
Despite the need for people to sometimes buy into your passion before buying into your vision it should also be noted that that passion could also be a reason for them not to buy into it when the passion seems to be overblown. When you talk you have to ensure that your passion is not separated from reasoning. Your passion should be amusing but not confusing. Your passion should convey your depth of knowledge about the project you are working on and your willingness to start. Your passion should potentially help people in the interpretation of your commitment to the work. When you passion leaves people wondering if you are a realistic person then you are beginning to squander the passion because it is already working against you rather than working for you.
When you talk passionate you are not allowed to leave out details and the relevant logic need to convey a message. You should also put to consideration if what you are passionate about at the moment will be useful to you. I have seen a lot of young men argue passionately about the career of other people who do not even know anyone is talking about them. I have seen young men argue passionately about football, footballers, football clubs and the fortune that the footballers will never share with them if they argue from now till eternity.
Unfortunately some have gone as far as fighting each other and sustaining injuries over what is not going to bring a penny into their pockets because they want to make a point. Whatever point you have to make without any positive impact on the listener or the speaker is in the first place not a necessary point and you may end up being hurt when your point is not accepted. At the end of the show you become hurt because it seemed as if your passion was not strong enough to win the opponent over.
Stop squandering your passion on projects that have a lot of activities but does not have one thing you can point to as the productive result you have from it! You need your passion for more important things than arguing about people who do not know you and will never share their money with you except you have something to offer. Refocus your passion by checking yourself to make sure that everything you are passionate about is a positive thing and in a way directly affects the life of the listener and you.

I have learnt through my challenges that what God has for me is bigger than what I often run after. So my question is why are we stressing ourselves? I also remember trying to get just one TV interview but I got 50 TV presentations! In that same year I was selected for a TV reality show (‘The Debaters’ organised by Mo Abudu, the presenter and executive producer of Moments with Mo) which aired on Three television stations at the same time. Two of the stations were cable televisions and had their coverage reaching out to 46 countries of the world with an estimated viewership of 3.5 million people.
I have bothered so much about what God has already planned out and tried a lot of times to meet some of the people who are positioned by divine order to see me and help me. Some of the issues that readily come to mind include times when I look for money to get on radio when God really had planned out to put me on radio without my resources going into it. I came to the shocking reality that most times the challenges we are going through may not absolutely be what is necessary to go through but we are going through them because we do not yet possess the understanding that the experience of those challenges will offer. When I am faced with the issues of media I no longer get agitated because I have been through the challenges of being rejected by media men who have no reason to reject my presentation. I go to people and try to talk them into buying my idea but I don’t seem to understand why those people will not see the big picture that I could see which should make them jump at me?
At the end of the thought processing about the challenges I came to the understanding that reason some people did not understand what I was trying to present to them was because if they had understood it they still would not have been able to handle it on the scale at which God would have wanted that dream fulfilled. Even if the people I talked to had understood my vision some of them would have stolen the vision if they saw clearly the potentials in the vision. Some of the people who kept turning me down were actually the right people who should help me with some of my dreams but God did not want me going to them as a beggar so they will turn me down. In the time of turning down God begins a process of reorienting me and pushing me to higher cadre such that when God is done with me the people to whom I would have looked like a beggar will now come running after me. At these points I realize that some things did not work earlier because God did not want these people to come back to say they were the ones who helped me to succeed.
To every young entrepreneur reading this and is going through challenges right now I want you to understand that you will be rejected by people for no just cause but some of these people will later wish they had taken up the ideas you tried discussing with them. You would have looked like a beggar and they would brag that they raised you from the slums to the eye-brow areas but God does not want that. God, in the midst of your challenges, wants to single-handedly brag that you are his idea, his product, his handwork and his project which can never fail. To sum up my words, I just want to say I have learnt how to give God the chance to brag about my life.

Take for an example I know you are not going to call the telecommunications company when your wrist-watch is faulty. A faulty wrist-watch has gone beyond their scope of relevance to you. You are not going to call a barber when you personal computer malfunctions because that is outside his scope of relevance.
You must have heard that leadership is influence according John C. Maxwell but your influence in leadership, I must add, is restricted to the scope of relevance that you have built for yourself while rising through leadership cadres. If everything rises and falls on leadership then it must also be said that a leader is effective with the maximum use of his scope of relevance.
If you have ever wondered what scope of relevance means then I should save you the stress of any suspense because the meaning is not farfetched. Your scope can literally be interpreted as area in this context and some may be more comfortable using the word ‘coverage.’ Having told you what scope denotes in this context, it may now be clearer to you if I ask you what your leadership coverage looks like. The intention here is to make you put yourself under a consistent leadership check with the kind of questions I will ask through these pages.
Let’s begin with the personal skills that you have built into yourself. As a leader how many skills have you identified and are using effective as a way to profit yourself and consequently impact on the society? If you have one skill then your scope of relevance is limited to the area that one skill can cover. When your refrigerator goes faulty you do not call a glass cutter to fix it! You will not call a man to come an address a professional business meeting of engineers simply because he is a pastor. You will rather look for a pastor who is also an engineer. What this means is that you have to broaden your perception and consequently increase your skills as often as possible. You cannot choose to stay with one thing and expect to be ever relevant to people in several areas of their lives because you are a leader.
If you intend to be a truly relevant leader you have to build skills in some of the areas of the people you are leading or that you are likely to lead. Some leaders have a challenge with followers who do not seem to be approaching them all the time for help but they do not bother to check their scope of relevance as far as that person is concerned.
It should also be noted that to relate effectively with anyone the person must be under your scope of relevance. Some followers don’t trust your counsel well enough because they know that you are not skilled in their fields or because they think you know next to nothing in their field. Apart from having specific skills that people following you already have you can increase your scope of relevance through information in diverse perspectives. There are people who have been able to increase their scope of relevance simply because of their versatility.
Your scope of relevance as a leader is also as important as understanding that leadership is influence so you must not struggle to lead people you know next to nothing about. It is very important to also know something about the capacity or specialization of the people you need. You will agree this is true because you always get excited when you meet people from your professional field or people who share similar talents and skills or any other interests.

When no other person has your kind of relevant competence in a group where you are supposed to be working together as a group what happens is that you are at first monopolistic and then the people get weary until you go from being monopolistic to being irrelevant despite your competence. We often think that what makes us relevant in a group is what we can do that others cannot do. While that may be true it should also be noted that that when a skill is pivotal to the existence of the group it will no longer make sense when only one person in the group has the skill and is not passing it on to other. You want to take pleasure in having other team mates wait for you before they can move on with the things they need to do even when there can be emergencies.
One day, and probably sooner than you think, they will grow tired of having to wait for you all the time and they will find another person who can replace you. For men of understanding, they realize that what makes them relevant in a group is not only what they can do but what they have passed on to the other members of the team to make them a more productive team. We always have the tendency to want to stand out in a group by taking advantage of our special competence sometimes because we have found people who seem to naturally stand out in the group.
Stop striving about the competence of other people and focus on your competence. Make sure you are not the only competent person wherever you find yourself and make sure you impact some knowledge when you find yourself being the only competent person in an area and there is constant demand for you. If you do not pass this competence on to other people you are going to be in demand all the time. That will seem like a good thing to you but let me be quick to say that you will be getting irrelevant demands and you may think that the demand is helping you. This demand rather than help you diminishes your competence. The reason it diminishes your competence is because you are constantly in demand over every small issue and this does not allow you take time out to improve yourself or to stretch into new areas of your life.
It is through ignorance that some think they can dominate a team or an organization by making sure nobody knows what they know. In a place where someone in a team strives to keep other from knowing what he knows it is certain that the productivity of that organization will be affected. In a situation where there is a high demand and there are several hands on ground to help, there will only be several useless hands because there is only one capable hand. At the end the time that should have been compressed by leveraging on human resource available will be unduly stretched. It will take you more time to deliver and money will come in slower than it should. When there are several capable hands the job will be faster and you can move on to something else.
Above all the strategies involved in the essence of replicating your skills in others you should know that it is important to reproduce who you are in others. That will mean you are building other people’s lives and helping other people to build or increase their earning capacity. Consequently, the people who have increased their earning capacity through you will make more money and feed a family which means you have been instrumental to feeding a family.
It is necessary to equip others and you increase your knowledge when you do. Pass on the competence!

We often look to long on the things we cannot change and at the end of the day lose our power on the things we can change. The consequence of that is having too many things in your hands that you cannot change because your focus did not go quickly enough to the things you can change.
The problem with many of us is not what happened to us but what is about to happen that we are not paying attention to because we are still fixing blames for the things that happened. When you look to long on the things that have happened in your life you will often miss out on the things that are about to happen and I have learnt that when things happen and it looks as if I cannot change it then I need to quickly prepare for what I can change.
I remember being given an opportunity to take a television presentation in a station in Nigeria and at a time I was beginning to feel there would be a change. Where the change was needed I could not tell exactly but I knew there was going to be a change so the first thing I did was to prepare for that change and make sure I make the best out of it when the time comes. Sometime after I had the feeling for the change I began to make enquiries in some other stations about how much they would charge to put me on air but I still did not know that the immediate change which was approaching faster than I taught was not in that direction. I saw a tv commercial in the middle of the preparation for this change and I went for the offers of the commercial. When I had scaled through the first phase of the offer the tv station that had given me an opportunity was beginning to streamline and readjust their programmes so they taught my content – motivation, business and leadership – would no longer fit into what they were preparing for.
The news to me was not unexpected because I did not get too used to that level such that it would be difficult for me to move on. The news was not devastating because I was prepared for a change and when the change came I just took it as something I had seen. I did not even spend too much time looking back before I focused more on the thing which was ahead. I added more passion and faith to what was ahead of me and I eventually got into it. It offers bigger prospects that what I was holding unto and I had much more than I bargained for.
We need to understand that when we refuse to let things go at times we are bound to lose something bigger than what we are holding unto so it is important to prepare for what is about to happen rather than focusing on what has happened. There are people who have lives characterized by disasters but that is so because they lament too much about what has happened and never get to access what is ahead of then.
At whatever time you need to see what is ahead and use the experience of what you seem to be losing or have lost to maximize what is coming. Some of the things you are losing today are things you did not prepare well for so why do you want to lose what is about to come with all of the potentials that it carries. Some people may not want to willingly look into the future and prepare for what is ahead but circumstances will begin to unfold and force them to give up their current position. There are people who will never prepare for what is about to happen until certain things they cannot help happens and they have to move on. Don’t wait for disasters to redesign your life or move into the next phase of your life. When you get new offers and new dreams seem to be coming to pass you have to make sure you do not get too comfortable that you cannot see when it is time to prepare for the next level. Some people are currently breaking at their present levels because they were in a position where everything was rosy and they got so entangled in the celebration of a new position and never sense when their time to move on came and could not sense it.
What is about to happen is sure bigger than what has happened so you have to work at to ensure the steady progress of your life by preparing for new levels before you get there.

Why do a lot of people think that a great nation like Nigeria is poor when it is not only rich but has what it takes to make several other countries rich without feeling the impact of giving generously or lavishly to those nations? I would say that it is a problem to think that we have a problem when we do not have a problem in our hands and the problem is that we cannot see what’s in our hands despite the fact that what is in our hands is too much for us to consume alone. We often forget that we have to dig gold and not pick it on the floor but a lot of people do not want to dig the gold for their nations. They just want to pick gold on the streets.
When people do not know who they are they more likely to see themselves as people who have nothing so they start chasing after something so that those things they are chasing, it they ever get them will satisfy their inner desires. Unfortunately they realize that what they were chasing has no capacity to satisfy their desires and will not meet up with their expectations. First to begin to see abundance where people are seeing scarcity we must begin to see differently and often time look in different direction. When we do not look in different directions we are going to see the images that everyone else is seeing. In some cases we may be looking in the same direction and still have the opportunity to see differently but what we have to train ourselves to do is to make sure we are not looking because we have to keep our eyes open.
We live in a time when we have to look so that we can see the physical road but we look so that we can see a business road, a spiritual road, a road for national leadership and these things only surface when people begin to look insightfully. A talking nation will only have scarcity in the midst of abundance when there are no actions to back up the words. Apart from actions to back up the words that have been said the actions to be taken haven to be the strategic actions required. It is one thing to agree that going to school is important and it is another thing to realize that you have to plan the kind of school to attend rather than just getting into a school.
Those who are going to have abundance in the midst of scarcity are not the kind of people who will buttress the negatives of a situation needless to talk about being the ones promoting those ills of the situation. They are people who calm down the voice of the negative and help give the positive the needed voice. When you continually give the negative a voice rather than shutting your doors against it then you gradually begin to attract negative things and you conform to negative situation sin your life. When you begin to work with the mind of listening to the positive situation then you are likely to attract the positive situation and begin to create a different atmosphere for yourself because you have not entertained the negative situation in your life. This I what a lot of people have to learn to do so that they can move from being in a perpetually bad situation to a great situation that will always be a leverage for you.
You have heard that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and if you have not then I will say you now know it since you have just read it. It simply means that you have a chance to define what beauty means to you and whatever you call beautiful is what is beautiful. If that is true then you must begin to look out for the abundance deliberately when everyone is seeing the negative. Success understands a great aura and it is only attracted to those who have the aura to keep it around them. You can’t act like failures and expect that success will find you.