As a man thinks in his heart

I read the account of a national convention of the barber and hairstylists of the United States in a book. You can go up by bill and does string fellow. The barbers and hairstylists wanted to give Americans a better image of their profession. so they hired a young public relation executive to handle the job. The public relation executive went to the work immediately and here is what he did. He went to the slum of New York City to pick up a young man who was a tramp with soiled and faltered clothes, his hair was unkempt and his beard was dirty. After his toning to the executive officer, the tramp agreed to a deal since there was some cash to the bargain.

The young executive took the tramp straight to a photographer shop and had some snaps of him the way he was dirty and unkempt. Then he gave him a face lift, a steam bath, a shave and a hair cut, and took him to the photographer for another round of snaps. But he was not finished. The PR executive took the young man to town and got him professionally made suits, shirts, ties and shoes. Then he had a third round of photographer snaps.

On the day the convention started, the young executive positioned three life size photographs of his subject of the lobby of the hotel. And he were of the top those pictures, “see what the barber and hairstylists of American can do to a man” the story immediately hit the headlines across America. For effect the well surfed tramp was positioned at the hotel lobby to shake hands with people as they came in for the convention. The gambit worked. The campaign was a success now the assistant hotel manager was bunched and decided to do something. He got the tramp a job, and waited for him to resume work. But the young man did not show up. What happened? The man was changed outwardly; inwardly he was the same old tramp so, he had gone back to his old sham lifestyle.

The barbers and hairstylists of America may change a man's interior, but until the man is changed inwardly, the change is the wrong type.

Dear reader, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. A man cannot rise above the level of his thoughts “and do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

This verse simply states that we alter our lives only to the degree to which we alter our thoughts. Thoughts are powerful. Whether a man succeeds or fails; rises or falls [depends basically on the use of his mind']. A man's life will always move in the direction of his dormant thoughts. As a man thinks; so is he. As he continues to think so he remains. If a man thinks he is poor he'll remain poor, if he thinks things are difficult for him, they'll remain difficult, If he thinks anything is impossible for him, it'll remain difficult for him.

As long as a man thinks he is the victim of circumstances, he will be harassed by those circumstances. The moment he takes control of his mind and exercises his power to create new circumstances, he breaks free. Henry Ford said “whether you think you can, or think you can't you are right” think about that.

 Psychologists tell us we are literally what we think. Every measure of progress that man has experienced started from his mind. The airplane, the television, the radio, buildings, even landing on the moon started as a thought in people's minds.

My question to you today is what is on your mind? Are they thoughts of failure, or lack of impossibility, or fear or defeat? Are you worrying about one thing or the other?

We must break free from thoughts that will not move our lives forward. When we pray to God to change our circumstances, we must first learn to change our thoughts. It is when our progress agrees with our thoughts that our prayers are answered.

You do not pray and fast for you to print photography of yourself in attire, if you were a different one while taking the picture. All you have to do is to take a new snap. This is true of our country lording.

My dear readers let us begin to see our country as a righteous and prosperous nation. Let us begin to develop in our minds, new dreams for our lives. Our country cannot change until we change our thoughts and our attitude towards ourselves and others.

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“The men that achieved greatness today didn't achieve it at a sudden flight… while my friends are in the parties with woman of loose virtues, I'm in the house burning the midnight oil looking for a solution to my country. Why won't I boast of a superior knowledge”?.

                                                                                                                 By Obafemi Awolowo.

We are living in the knowledge era, peter J. Drucker, the great management guru prophesied it many years ago. He said, and I quote, “the time is coming when  men won't need a formal education to solve their problems, all they'll do is to get their problems solved informally by seeking informal education”. I'm glad to tell you that this is the time. It's called the era of the “knowledge worker”. Knowledge is light and ignorance is darkness, it beat me hollow when men try to succeed with and in darkness. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and men who seek to govern their lives must seek the power which knowledge gives. The ancients succeeded by books, and founding fathers leaned on the information they gained from books. They burned the midnight oil rubbing their mind with information that made them immoral. They are dead yet we still quote them. They have turned to dust in their graves yet the solution they proffered is what we are still using to solve our problems. To quote some of them, I start with Obafemi Awolowo, Awolowo said, “the men that achieve greatness today didn't achieve it at a sudden flight, while my mates and friends are in the parties with women of loose virtues I'm in the house burning the midnight oil, looking for a solution to Nigeria, why won't I boast of a superior knowledge”, Awo as he was called then built the fragile economy of the western Nigeria into a formidable force to be reckoned with all over the world. He built liberty stadium, which is still in use till today. He built Cocoa House, the first sky scrapper in West Africa; it's still in use till date. He started the first T.V station in West Africa, that TV station is still alive till date. He started the tribune Newspaper, its' still being read and circulated till date. He was a man of achievement, yet he was a man of books that burned the midnight oil. Permit me to mention the late F.R.A Williams, one of the brightest minds in the legal profession Nigeria have ever produced. This was a man that judges feared and even the brightest judges hated to preside over any case that involved him. Before he died, he called one of his sons to take him into the library, sat down, looked at the books, smiled and gave up the ghost. His last respect as it where were to the books that made him what he became.

Now that we are living in the 21st century, the story has not changed. We can't build with ignorance. We can't move forward with empty brains and to try to do that will be suicidal. Alvin Toffler, the futurist that wrote the book the third wave said,” the illiterate of the 21st century is not the men that cannot read and write, but the illiterate of the 21st century is the man who refuses to learn, unlearn and relearn”. Please my friends, I beg you with all the mercies of God, don't try to succeed without books. Don't go the journey of life on your hand, a notepad and a pen, your day is made. We have 21st century examples to learn from, I'll start from   Oprah Winfrey.

Oprah was taught to read by her grandmother at the age of two and half. However she was raped at the age of thirteen ran away from home at the age of fifteen, she gave birth to the child but the child died. She was destined to doom until her father came to her rescue. At sixteen her father made her read at least a book, she was to write a report on the book, she was also to memorize the new words each day. Books and information stretched her minds beyond the bounds of gender and racial discrimination. Today she is the wealthiest black woman on earth and the woman on TV.

Let's look at Dr. Ben Carson, the most celebrated pediatric neurosurgeon in the world. The first neurosurgeon to successfully separate a Siamese twin without side effects. He is also the first black neurosurgeon to successfully carry out a hemispherectomy without side effects. However, he didn't start out like that, he was the dumbest boy in the class until his mother mandated him to read at least two books a week and to write a report on it, and she stopped him from watching TV and to memorize the time tables. That decision was what brought the turning point in his life. He became the youngest director of pediatric neurosurgeon at the John Hopkins university hospital Baltimore.

These are living examples we can feel and touch, friends lets wrap up and go for books. We can't and won't go far without them. Books have made mere mortals immortal, the power of the printed word have given finite man the power of infinity. It has turned losers into winners, failures into success and they are here to move us forward if we will just embrace them. Some have argued that the cost of getting knowledge is high-arguably true, but how cheap is ignorance? The burden of ignorance far out weighs that of knowledge. Please do not be deceived. Jim Hohn the foremost 21st century business philosopher said; we must not be afraid of empting our pockets into our brains”. Mike Murdock said, “The reason some people's stomach is more obvious than their brains simply depends on what they invest on”. Knowledge will defiantly cost you something, but the reward definitely outweighs the cost. Don't be scared of buying books the same way you go for shopping, step into a bookshop and shop for your mind. Never forget this: we are where we are based on our current knowledge and ignorance. Everything we do not have was lost simply because of our ignorance, stay with me.

The power of vision

"The journey toward destiny always begins with vision.Vision is the roadmap to your destiny.The picture of your purpose without it,you may find yourself off course,going nowhere"

DEFINITION

VISION:is a comprehensive sense of you are,where you are going,how you are going to get there and what you will do after you get there.

VISION:is feeling challenged by the world around you and being compelled to make a mark on if through the force of your own ideas,personality's resource and desire.

VISION:is being driven to meeting needs

  Helen Keller was said to be blind and deaf and mute said "that the greatest tragedy that befall a person is to have sight without vision"SIGHT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE EYES WHILE VISION IS THE FUNCTION OF THE MIND.eyes that look are many but eyes that see are few.

THE LAW OF VISION states that "what you see is what you get"......WHAT DO YOU SEE OF YOUR FUTURE,YOUR FAMILY ,COMMUNITY,COUNTRY..what you see is what you become.

A wise man sad "imagination is everything" engage your imagination to create a better future for yourself..someone said God gave our imagination in order for us to visit our destination....I SEE YOU AT THE TOP OF YOUR CAREER,PROFESSION.....I SEE YOU AS A CELEBRITY .SEE YOU AT THE TOP. you are blessed and highly favoured