“HOW many times have you heard someone say, that’s impossible? What they truly mean is, ‘that is going to be very difficult to achieve’. Most people live in an average world that demands average performance of them, given average circumstances” By JONAH NYONI
(Vusi Thembekwayo (2017: 53) in his book The Magna Carta of Exponentiality)
THE word “impossible” might just a big word
Does the above statement by Thembekwayo describe you? The human mind is imaginably big and as Eric Thomas usually says, the word impossible is just a big word with a small meaning. What would you feel, after you are dead, as someone comes to you and tells you that what limited you was nothing, but your mind? Most of our impossibilities exist in the mind.
Talent vs drive
I have seen less talented people who are determined and willing to give it all for their personal success and they get awards. On the other hand, I have seen intelligent people who live like they are dumb. Why? Their minds have been informed wrong things. The biggest demon resides in the mind. And this demon leads to penury and poverty.
Today the good news is, you can live your life by design, shape your results and determine your happiness. The unfortunate statement is that you can choose to spend your short stay here on earth miserably, struggling and stuck in limitations. This is indeed, self-imprisonment. The question is: Is it because of the genetic makeup that some people are able to make it in life? Or it is predestined that some people shall forever be poor, wallow at the bottom of the ladder and be controlled by circumstances?
Those are questions warranting a strong investigation and a serious consideration. First, let us make an investigation into the mind. The mind is for all purposes limitless.
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Dangerous creations
It can invent all the dangerous weapons like the gun, yet it can superbly knit and bring together all the minute pieces to make the computer and build all amazing structures we see around us.
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Most people have limited their mind; they wake up on a daily routine, to report for work. We naturalised and nurtured to do the easy thing and not right things.
They master their work so much that they don’t even need to think when performing their duties at work, but their life has been stuck in that rat race.
As they report for work, they have left the great duty that humanity that is to engage in deep thought.
Thoughts have energy
Your thoughts have energy, power and limitless prowess and potential. Your thoughts can even surprise you because of what they can produce. The writer can attest to this.
Being born in a sorry and poor state he made up his mind almost a decade ago and today most people would not agree that he was the same person that was controlled by all winds of life and bogged done by innumerable excuses.
People that have made it in life have proved that the mind is the masterpiece that God has given to humanity.
The mind is underused
Joel Osteen says that neurologists have discovered that the average person uses less than 10% of his mind (Become A Better You, Page 5).
As cited by Bob Proctor in the book, You Were Born Rich, Elexander Rich a professor of biophysics at the MIT has estimated that our central nervous system contains from 10 to 100 million cells each one of which has a storage capacity equal to that of a large computer.
In the same book, Proctor further quotes Ross Addey of the Space Biology Laboratory of the Brain Research Institute at UCLA who said: “The ultimate creative capacity of your brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.”
Drive your mind
Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich wrote: “We are what we are because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.”
A local author and motivational speaker, Rabison Shumba says: “Your mind is the engine room and the assembly plant for life processes. If you manage your mind, you can manage your life.” (The Greatness Manual, Page 53)
The Anthony Robbins factor
Anthony Robbins, who boasts of having been a janitor with no college degree, but to rise to a place of influence by selling tens of millions of books, speaking to mega crowds and at one time advising the American President because of a made mind in his book Awaken The Giant Within that the brain “is capable of processing up to 30 billion bits of information per second and it boast the equivalent of 6 000 miles of wiring and cabling. Typically the human nervous system contains about 28 billion neurons” (Page 115).
The Solomonic Factor
Finally the world’s top-selling book, the Bible says: “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he,” (Proverbs 23:7 KJV). Need I say more to prove the power of your mind? There is no excuse to live a life of mediocrity.
I would think it’s a crime to live a life below your potential because you have deprived and robbed humanity of the great resources that they could have benefited from you.
lJonah Nyoni is an author, success coach and certified leadership/business trainer. He is the author of Inspiration for Success and Success Within Reach. Contact details: Tel: 0772 581 918. Email: [email protected]. Twitter@jonahnyoni.
