The Mind-set

I woke up one day in the middle of the night and I ask myself, what is there to change? A change that can transform oneself and create a great impact on the individual. So at that moment so many things keep coming into mind but one thing that continuously comes to mind is our mindset.One may ask why the mindset?. Is there a need at all? What role can it play to transform and create a change on the individual and the society at large? The mind is a very powerful tool which I called the ‘’central administration’’ of our wellbeing. Most decisions we take in life whether as an individual or a group first comes from the mind. That is the main reason why we need a sound mind to go about our daily activities.

Success in life is not determined by how beautiful or handsome you are or how strong you can be but about the choices and decisions you make in life. These decisions or choices do not drop as manna from heaven but it all boils down to our mind and the things we feed our mind with. So therefore to be successful in life there is a need to feed your mind with positive things and do away with distorted and unhelpful thought.

There is a need to realize the concept that our thoughts are link to our feeling and behaviour, hence what you think affects your feelings and behaviour. If you think positive you feel positive which leads to a positive behaviour. The same way with negative thought which translate to negative feelings and behaviour.

In Ghana, poverty I think emancipate from the mind. We think poverty and we feel poor and leave a dejected life. Most people in Ghana live a life believing they can never make it in life because they think the generation before them lived a poor life, so therefore there is no way they are going to succeed in life. It’s really sad when you visit a remote community in Ghana, and you get to certain household, you will find out that a particular household is blessed with so many resources such as a big farm with so many produce, and even cows and other livestock yet these people consider themselves poor because they are not leaving in the city to enjoy most of the facilities it has to offer.

What really sadden my heart is that, their children are not in school even with all their resources they have, all because they think they are poor so even with what they have, they still see themselves as inferior and living in abject poverty.

I know in Ghana, certain conditions are not favourable but we can still transform our life with the little available. It all depends on the choices and decisions we make with this limited resources we have at our disposal and all these is based on our mind. There is a need to condition our mind in the positive direction and when we do this, we will always feel good about ourselves.

But as human as we are, I know some negative or distressing thought can come to mind which can really break us down but when this happens we just have to challenge this negative thought and move on with our life. I challenge all of us as citizen of Ghana to come out from the mental slavery of negative thought and when we do this, Ghana will be a better place for all of us. Most of us usually think that, Ghana can never move forward and with such a thought, it affect our work to serve the nation properly because our mind is made up already, hence no amount of our input can move this country forward.

Let’s control our mind and not the other way .I will end by saying our mindset is what separates the best from the rest so know what you think about.