One of the biggest secrets
that transformed casual worker turned steel merchant, Andrew Carnegie into unequaled success was the power of the mind application. Same was Napoleon
Hill who became a colossal success too. “What
the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve”
What
exactly is the MIND?
The mind is a spiritual
power, a force that resides in every life. It builds up anything and the body
of man can then manifest it. It stands between the physical experience, the
spiritual experience and the source of man.
It is a processor working
24hours everyday. With the mind, man can build, advance the earth, perceive and
experience his source. It can also destroy.
The mind feeds the body with
emotion to trigger frustration or happiness. The mind will make a man merry or
sad.
The mind is the power house
that can start the destruction of a relationship, process and accept hardship,
setbacks, and career failures; financial challenges as temporal or permanent
phenomena.
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Every physical occurrence is
a final manifestation of the build up of an issue in the mind.
Let
us look at creation and the mind. In just six days, God
created the world and man. In His mind’s eye, He has created everything, but
the physical manifestation was just an act of spoken words to bring the world
and man into reality.
First, God created the sun,
moon, earth and man in the spiritual and saw it was good before the spoken word
for the physical manifestation.
The mind has been a tool
that has been mastered as an art by successful people. It helps you to think
positive, to persevere, learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, to
have courage and push the extra miles towards achieving our goals, to have a
focused effort and see our ideas and desires, and be it negative or positive comes
to reality.
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Our mind will give us
conviction that we are not consumers but contributors to this world. It will
give us conviction that a higher being created us and that there is a purpose
for our being here on earth and we can begin to pursue it. The same mind will
build up and develop resentment and anger, hate, fear, apathy and other
negative emotions.
The mind when used
positively gives us faith in God and the ability to bring products that nature
has purposed us to. We are then able to bring products or services out first
before asking for payments as an overflow or benefits from out creative works.
Man also uses the mind to
love and in return he is loved. He also uses the mind for deception, helping
humanity for good as well as destroying humanity depending on where his mind
vibration tilts to and what he keeps dwelling on.
A man of sense is one who
thinks and process life experiences with his mind. He is able to control his
thinking to a positive application and reject negative suggestions that could
lead him to destructions. He is able to see opportunities even in adversities.
He does not blame happenings
and wrong choices he has made on others. He takes responsibility.
“The more important things
in life are not to capitalize on our gains. Any tool can do that. The really
important thing is to profit from our losses. That requires intelligence; and
makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool” So says the author of “Twelve against the Gods” William Bolitho
Those who have been taught
early in life about finding God’s purpose are first convinced in their mind and
they keep pushing on, till success comes to the amazement of the world.
When your mind is focused
that there is a God or source of your life, and you are convinced of it, every
element that is required to make you a success in life will just fall in place on
their own as if you had a Midas touch. Note that I am not saying there will not
be challenges on the way, but you will take and accept them as stepping stones
when you know the purpose and focus on the ideal. This is only possible if your
mind is positive. Buddha says life is suffering but not everyone understands
this.
As Del Smith, an infant
adopted from the Sacred Heart Orphanage and raised by his grandmother in
Centralia, Washington DC, United States of America after the death of his
foster father in an accident puts it, “regardless
of money, life is filled with rich if it is filled with love”. Most of
life’s problem is centered on lack of love if you go deeper.
The mind can be used for
good or bad. To love or hate. Let us look at one example of the power of the
mind at work.
Hotmail.com
Success Story
You know HotMail.com. What
you may not know is that it was derived from the computer language acronym html
(hyper text markup language) and was originally spelt as HoTMail. This company
became a house hold name shortly after launch. And the success came as a result
of mind application and belief in the founders. Sabeer Bhatia and his partner
Jack Smith had great idea but no capital to fund it. This was a setback enough
for them to quit.
This was challenging and frustrating as it may
seem at first. Unable to fund their dream, they resorted to approach a venture
capitalist Steve Jurvetson with an estimate of revenue to sponsor the hotmail
project but he dismissed it instantly as not workable. However, Bhatia with his
optimistic mind refused to drop what his mind told him will work.
He may have failed in his
bid to get funding from Jurvetson, but will not give up as he was seeing light
at the end of the tunnel which no one else was seeing. In that meeting he said to his would-be
sponsor who thought the idea was not feasible “You don’t believe we are going
to do that”, meaning he will not give up.
Finally, Hotmail was started
as a company on July, 4th, 1996 with borrowed money of $300,000 after series of
setbacks. With the power of the mind which gave birth to courage, determination
and faith, Bhatia raised the subscriber base of hotmail from 100 in the first one
hour to 10,000,000 (ten million) in one year, becoming the fastest company in
the history of the whole world to do this. This was mind power in positive
action.
On December, 1997, Microsoft
bought hotmail for $400 million dollars.
Do you see it that Bhatia and his partner though, went through setbacks
but came out growing as champions.
Flip the coin to the other
side and see that the same mind if not handled well could be used for negative
too.
The same mind power applied
above is being used for deception, poverty, anger, jealousy and a host of other
negative things. Most people are poor in mind. They want to be rich and
successful, but in their mind power, they push for poverty and lack.
The society has conditioned
your mind mentally from upbringing that you think you do not deserve to be rich
or that success is not a reality. Your mind has been polluted with a wrong
belief system. This is why many use the mind for immediate gratification rather
that on enlightened causes that will better humanity and the world in general.
Negative mind goes to war; blame mistakes and life setbacks on others. They apportion
blames.
Let us look at one such case
that shook the world with the power of immediate gratification with negative
mind power.
In 2004, Time Magazine in
its annual list of “People who mattered” featured among others a South Korean,
Seoul National University Professor of Theriogenology and Biotechnology, Hwang
Woo-suk.
Prior to this honor, Hwang
had received several honors for his scientific breakthroughs and researches. No
doubt, he was a great intellectual and everyone knows and acknowledges this.
In 1999, he announced that
he had successfully cloned a diary cow which made him a national success and
celebrity in South Korea. To crown this, he announced in 2004 that he had made
a breakthrough in creating human embryonic stem cells through cloning too. This
was a colossal success as most experts in that field believed before then that
it was impossible to clone any primate as a result of the complex nature of its
genetic components.
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Surprisingly to many, Hwang
went further to feature an article in the science journal as a media
announcement about his new breakthrough. As if this was not enough, he
announced an additional breakthrough of his being able to clone an Afghan dog
he called Snuppy. All these gave him a pride of place in his country and the whole
world. He was regarded as the top expert in stem cell.
All these added together,
gave him the opportunity of holding several appointments, including the
prestigious Chairmanship of POSCO (Pohang Iron and Steel Company).
He was also appointed to
lead world stem cell hub with his title being “Supreme Scientist” under the
ministry of Science and Technology. Financially, he got millions of dollars
equivalent as financial support for his work.
As Hwang was enjoying his
new status, an American Scientist who was a member of his inner circle team announced
that he was pulling out of his team giving reasons as a result of the way
Hwang’s research was done through a wrong collection of eggs unethically.
As this was raging, another member of his team
and colleague Roh Sung-il also announced a pull out too. While pulling out, he
admitted that he had collected eggs from their junior researchers as well as
paid donors for eggs and this ethically violated the standard. Till this time,
Hwang claimed ignorance of all these.
There were criticism but he
was still supported by his people. However, as the process of investigation
started, he offered to resign all his appointments and stated that “he was
blinded by work and drive for achievement”. He defended himself and absolved
himself of wrong doing.
The Seoul National
University was to set up a panel to investigate Hwang’s works just as the science
journal that published his “breakthrough’ retracted them through the same
medium.
Suddenly, the truth came and
the burble busted. The cat was let out of the bag…
On January 10th,
2006, the panel made a conclusive announcement that shook the whole world.
Hwang had cooked up and fabricated big lies about his stem cell research.
And suddenly, all other wrongs about his
research were sprouting. Hwang had forced one female researcher to donate her
own egg. In the ensuing process, issues were raised on how he spent $2.6
million dollars out of $40 million dollars support fund that was given to him
for research.
Finally, on the 12th
of May, 2006, Hwang was indicted on embezzlement of research funds as well as
violating bioethics law. It turned out that his claim for stem cell researches
were all fabricated lies. Hwang was sentenced to a two years suspended prison
sentence at the Seoul Central District Court on 26 October 2009, after being
found guilty of embezzlement and bioethical violations
Hwang had a great
intelligence and mind power, but used it negatively to deceive his country, the
university and the science world globally.
Just like Hwang of South
Korea, in 1999, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation returned to a democratic
dispensation after an era of the military. A Young vibrant, intelligent and
well focused man, Salihu Buhari contested election to the lower house of parliament,
the House of Representative and won.
He was outspoken and had
political clout. He was influential and above all had leadership ability. This
also accounted for his contesting for the speaker of the house which he won.
His leadership style was exceptional. He led older people smoothly and carried
them along.
However, Buhari never lasted
as a member of the house let alone as the Speaker because he was thrown out of
the house constitutionally and disgracefully.
This was because he used his
mind power negatively.
What
happened? While filling his papers to contest election, he forged
and submitted a certificate showing he attended University of Toronto, Canada.
From his constituency, the issue of his certificate was raised by political
opponents and the house had to set up a panel to investigate Buhari. The
University of Toronto when contacted submitted that he was never at any time a
student of that University. This ended Buhari’s political career.
Does he have a great mind
power? Yes! Does he have great leadership acumen? Can he change the world? Of
course yes. But he used the power of his mind negatively.
A positive mind power
application, an enlightened mind power will bring a lasting success in finance,
relationship, career, marriage and business and value to man, his environment
and the world in general.
Ponder on this. Would you
like to have a lasting gratification through mind power like Bhatia of Hotmail
or you want immediate and short-lived gratification like Hwang. The choice is
yours and I know you want it positive.
Chose from your mind what
you want to be and then pursue it with positive mind and see yourself achieving
it in your mind’s eye and it will come to pass.
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That marriage, career and
goal will certainly come with frustration, challenges, and setbacks as well as
mistakes but it is the mind that will make you a champion or a victim.
“People are like iceberg.
There is much more to them than meet the eye” says American author, speaker,
and pastor, John Calvin Maxwell
Nice and informative... If people could learn to use their mind positively, the world will be better
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