*CREATING THE SUCCESS MINDSET*
There is
nothing more productive, significant and impactful on human nature than
‘mental conditioning’. Even animals used for home security,
entertainment in circus events etc., undergo some level of mental
conditional through training in order to fit into the role expected of
them. Mental conditioning is one of the reasons behind being
disciplined or wayward, cultured or uncultured, decisive or indecisive
and most importantly, successful or unsuccessful. Once the mind has
been conditioned or configured to reason or act in a specific way, it
is almost always difficult to alter it. As long as you can mind it, you
can have it! So it is with success. In creating a mindset in sync with
success, I would be examining five (5) key issues under the following
headings; Definition, Self-integration, Information, Adaptation and
Motion.
DEFINITION:
Success, just like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
What success is to one may be a sharp contrast of what it is to
another. However, in this discourse, I categorized success to be of two
forms; Success as an Individual & Success as an Incident. The mind
happens to be the senate house of the whole being, where decisions are
made. Like I always say; ‘Decisions are as delicate as destiny.’ Once
decisions and conclusions have been passed in the mind, the effect of
such decisions, tend to manifest. There are many who carry about this
feeling of being successful as an individual everywhere they go, even
though they don’t or are yet to possess the wealth, influence, power
and all it takes for society to describe them as successful. For such
people, the social-structure in which they have found themselves, do
not in any way define their personality. These people are potentially
successful and often times society view them as exuding a mediocre
attitude. But if they are intrinsically-motivated and self-driven by
set goals, purpose, vision and work towards achieving them daily, then
they are successful! On the other hand, success as an incident or an
event is when you set out on a particular mission and everything works
out as planned at the end of the day. One thing you must note from
these two definitions is that; your personality as being successful
should never be altered by either success or failure in any incident or
event! In other words, failure in a particular mission shouldn’t change
your opinion about the nature of who you are as a success. One of my
mentors in this field of motivation and writing, Pastor Sam Adeyemi in
his book; ‘Success is Who You Are’ made it clear that: ‘…your library
is incomplete if you have many books on success and none on failure.’
As much as you constantly learn to create a personality and mindset of
success, you should also learn how not to fail.
SELF-INTEGRATION:
Research has shown that the environmental, external or
outside force accounts for only 20% of reasons on your inability to
attain your goals and succeed. The rest is inside, mental and internal.
Therefore to create a mindset of success you must first begin with
yourself. It is very necessary to acquire indestructible assets, I mean
knowledge and skills. This couple equips you with the right composure
and feeling that what you have inside of you is enough to create the
right internal environment necessary for success, just as the invisible
controls the visible and the spiritual controls the physical. This
leads us to the second issue- Information.
INFORMATION:
The word- Information is as popular as the diverse levels
of understanding people conceive of it. Information gathering involves
constant learning, renewal and improvement. Your unwillingness to learn
and improve yourself from within would only move you further into the
depths of stagnancy. The answer to the question of how you feel when
you have learnt something new, especially something positive and
productive, no matter how minute is the sweet therapy information
provides you with. It alters the stereotyped nature of your mindset.
Personally, I view the mind as a tiny golden box of excess treasures,
the more you get informed, the more you increase the level of its
inexhaustibility! Information does to the soul, what food does to the
body. Information is both an entry point and exit door for all forms of
ideas. Success in business most times, if not all times is a product
from feasible and workable ideas and such ideas would only come when
you have at your disposal, a large reservoir of information that
produce them. Hence, the strength and workability of your ideas is
directly proportional to the level of information you have about them.
Whichever way you look at it, information is key to developing a
mindset of success in all facets of life’s endeavours; academic,
financial, career, relationships, marital etc. Therefore, as much as
possible, stop to get informed and you can move on! I hope you enjoyed this... Stage three is just few days away. Feel free to leave your comments; commendation, contributions and criticisms.
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