MINDSET
INTRODUCTION
Mindset or set of mind is a set of belief system that shape how we attract whether good or bad, positive or negative into our lives. It forms a set of attitudes or a ways of behavior concerning our values, culture, ideology, frame of mind. A way of thinking…to buy into our mind either good or bad, health or sickness, prosperity or poverty, strength or weakness…Bill Gates interjected: ‘if you are born poor, it’s not your fault, but if you died poor, it’s your fault.’
Joyce Meyer in one of her books, ‘The Battlefield of the Mind’ reiterated that the real battle is fought in the mind. If you win your battle in your mind, you have won the battle physically or in your life. Meaning that the MIND is the battle ground where the winners or the losers of battles of life emerged. Therefore, if one can conquer his mind, he has succeeded to conquer his life. The mind is like a farmland, whatever one plants into that farmland grows whether good seed or bad seed. Be careful the kinds of seed you plant in the field of your mind. To remain on the conquerors side of life, keep renewing your mind with the truth of the word of God.
WEALTHY MINDSET.
The law of the mind is a fundamental law of financial abundance. Poverty is evil, a chronic disease, an orphan that no one in his right mind would want to associate with. Don’t believe it for your children or even your enemies. No one wishes another ‘Long life and poverty’ during festive seasons. There is no blessing in it. The mind of man is a powerful tool that God gave to man to use it to navigate the journey of life.
You never enjoy financial abundance without possessing some required set of belief system. There is a set of believes that makes for wealth, there is others that make for poverty. Everybody believes: what you believe, you will eventually attract into your life… poverty, tragedy, failure, sickness and disease. In the same vein, you believe in success, good life, abundance, health…you will also attract into your life. The choice is your to make. ”WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS WHAT YOU ATTRACT”.
If you’re tired of the negative belief system, you don’t drive them away just like… something that formed with you over the years cannot just go, except you change the belief system. When you change your belief system into positive one, the result is not automatic. It takes sometime to reshape the mind to imbibe the new belief system. ”AS HE THINK IN HIS HEART,SO HE IS”. Your thoughts or belief systems literally create your possibilities and your realities. The Holy Ghost is the one that helps us to transit from the old belief system into the current superior mindset and sustain the ability to change our lives.
The millionaire is not the man, the millionaire is the mindset. The poor man is not the man, the poor man is the mindset. As he thinks in his heart, so is he. No one will mind you until you mind your mind. Anything that refused to live your life is in honor of your mindset. There is something about mindset: it has the power to attract good people into our lives or repel them away. You cannot be richer than your mindset.
Just like a mango tree cannot produce an orange fruit, a poverty mindset cannot produce a rich life. Like begets like. Poverty is not a function of the work we do, it’s much more the frame of our minds. A man’s mind is his life’s factory where he manufacture what he want into his life. Poverty is of the mind; prosperity is of the mind, and whatever comes out of the mind comes out of life.
5 REASONS WHY MANY PEOPLE ARE POOR
1, They have not made up their minds to be wealthy. It’s purely a choice and a decision to make. If you are not tired of poverty, then you are not ready to enjoy prosperity. Poverty is a decision and prosperity is equally a decision: whichever one you chose becomes your lot. It is decisions and choices that determine destiny. Decide today to free yourself from the clutches of poverty. Poverty has no blessing in it, no relation.. pains and penury were its characteristics.
2, They don’t have goals to be wealthy. You never become wealthy by chance. It’s with clearly defined goals that you achieve your financial goals. What’s your financial goals for this month, in 5 months time and in a year? Goals are roadmaps and without roadmaps, your journey into financial abundance may end up in frustration. Define your financial roadmaps and give it all it take to achieve your goals and you will arrive there in grand style.
3, They lack the understanding of the formula of abundance. There is a know-how to everything in life including financial abundance. What you don’t know, you don’t know. What you don’t know and you seek to know is wisdom but what you don’t seek to know may be a clog in the wheel of financial abundance. Read books of financial abundance from proven authors, look out for their wisdom and their steps or ask them to mentor you on financial abundance. Take the steps they took and you will arrive there in no time.
4,They lack the mental transition from the realm of poverty into the realm of abundance. To go from grass to grace takes mental transition. There is no overnight success except through crooked means which may result to falling into a ditch. Rewire your mindset and rewire your life. Change your mindset, change your life.
5, They lack the attitude to work. Nothing works until you work including financial abundance. Work is not a curse, it’s a blessing. The richest men in the world have busy and tight schedule of work. They are workaholic. Some of them put in 16/18 hours of work in a day out of 24 hours. The problem of this generation is indolence and idleness; to get-rich-quick but ended up being entrapped. There is no easy way to financial abundance except through work.
5 MINDSET SHIFTS
1, Acceptance of where you are now. Where you are now is the best place to start to where you are going in life. Accepting where you are per time in your mind. Life is in phases, men are in sizes. You never start running until you have learnt how to stand. No tree grows from the top.
2, You are absolutely responsible for the outcome of your life. No one owes you any explanation for your failure, nobody owes you anything. The world owes you absolutely nothing. You are the sculptor and the designer of your life. Stop looking for pity-party and look forward to what you can do to help yourself. Stop blaming your family members for not helping you to become somebody in life. Think of what to do to better your life.
3, Understanding that budgeting and consistency is not for the wealthy people alone, it works for everybody. Budget before spending is the rule of the game. You earn before you spend. Budgeting is simply an intentional spending plan of your hard earned money. ‘You don’t grow big to start small, you start small to grow big’. Similarly, you don’t grow big to manage well, you manage well to grow big.
4, Develop a wealthy mindset. Find out what the wealthy people do and start doing it. You can fake it until you make it. How do they think? They think strategically. Wealthy people don’t save, they invest their savings to multiply their capital for more investment. Wealthy people know how to grow their money. You too can learn how to grow and multiply your money. They read and invest in knowledge and wisdom. They equally do networking.
5, Wealthy people know financial freedom numbers. They know how much they need per time and they go to achieve it. Nothing fires one up like clearly defined goals. A goal not clearly defined, is a goal that can not be achieved. Document your goals or it will fizzle out in no time.
5 MYTHS ABOUT WEALTH AND ABUNDANCE
1, Many people in the world think that money is carnal, evil and unnecessary. This is stupidity in its highest level. With money you buy your groceries, pay your bills and you are thinking that it’s evil. That is insanity!
2, Very many other people think that if God really want them to be rich, He will make them rich. God cannot make you rich or make you poor; it’s your choice and decision to make, not God’s.
3, Many also thought that tithing is the only key to wealth and abundance. Fallacy! There are other forces that combine together to make for wealth.
4, Some other people thought that if all they have is idea and business capital, they will be rich.
5, Entitlement mentality.
Transformation is the miracle of the mind. If you are not informed, you cannot be transformed. To remain uninformed, is to be deformed. Every transformation is actually the active use of the mind. Someone said ‘wealth is a product of wit’. And wisdom is what begets wealth. Wealth is not pursued, it’s primarily attracted through growth and transformation much more than what we do. It’s who we are that that attract wealth not what we do.