The Five Ultimate Factors That Determine Destiny Fulfilment pt. 3
A mindset is a mind that is set. It is the sum total of the information and configuration of your mind that determines your approach to life and circumstances.
It is a paradigm, a way of thinking, your world view and your perspective about life.
A mindset is the product of many years of information an individual is exposed to which has formed his ideology about life. A mindset is the basis with which you evaluate life and things around you.
A mindset is an auto pilot system. When an aeroplane is on auto pilot mode it automatically goes in the direction that it was programmed to go with the pilot left with little to do. The same thing happens when you set your phone to ring with a particular tune, you do not have to keep reminding the phone to ring with that tune anytime someone calls. As long as the phone remains set to that tune it will stay that way forever unless you or someone else changes it. Mindsets work in the same way.
All this definitions have been presented to debunk the erroneous belief that by simply reading a book in six months or by randomly watching videos on YouTube it will automatically translate to the transformation of your mind.
The transformation of your mind will require consistency and intentionality. Please look out for our course MASTERING THE FIVE ULTIMATE FACTORS THAT DETERMINE DESTINY FULFILMENT. (coming soon).
A mediocre life is sponsored by a mediocre thinking pattern. A successful life is sponsored by a success mindset. Abundance is sponsored by an abundance mentality. A scarcity is sponsored by scarcity mentality. And a mind that is not informed is deformed.
The African experience is a typical example. Africa is the richest continent yet a large majority of her citizenry live in abject poverty. This is largely due to the fact that the average African only sees potential overseas. He is not informed about the immense potential and possibilities in his immediate environment.
It reminds me of the adage that says the "grass is always greener on the other side". The average African is trying to flee his country to go overseas, yet those with the right information are battling for the very soul of the continent.
The ignorant man will always be at the mercy of the man that is informed.
To change your status in the path of destiny you must subscribe to the requisite information that brings about the transformation of the mind.
Refusal to consciously, intentionally and consistently develop your mind is to sentence yourself to an endless circle of pain, frustration and ultimately slavery. You put yourself in deep torture if you refuse to renew your mind. Scripture call this "Rejecting knowledge."
The worst hell you will ever face on earth, second only to getting married to the wrong spouse will be created by your refusal to engage in the transformation of your mind.
It is not enough to surround yourself with so many random information on various subjects. There is a form of accuracy and internationality required in sourcing for the right information that leads to the transformation of the mind.
That is one of the reason this blog/website was designed. One of our goal is to help you simplify the search for relevant information and materials by providing you with recommended materials on various subjects. Materials that are time tested and that add value to your overall being. From books, book reviews, podcasts, audio messages and their reviews. There is no excuse to remain ignorant anymore.
4. OPPORTUNITIES
Opportunities are special moments or events where all the factors for your advancement are in place. These are moments when there is a genuine demand for your refined talents, gifts and potentials.
The three factors that convert time into opportunity;
a. A demand: The fulfilment of destiny is about meeting needs and solving problems.
Whenever there is a need for your gifts and potentials it means opportunity is about to be created.
b. Accuracy of timing: It is a perfect sync in timing. You can refer to this as the right time or the acceptable time. The Greeks refer to this as KAIROS.
Merriam Webster defines this as a time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action.
This has nothing to do with favorable circumstances. In fact, opportunities can disguise as problems or difficulties. Therefore, the responsibility is on you to identify such moments and deploy your potentials.
Being able to identify your KAIROS is significant to the fulfilment of purpose. Those who only follow what is trending will always be at the tail of trail blazers.
Trail blazers are able to identify opportunity in adversity, treasure in earthen vessels and future possibilities in little ideas.
They have trained their minds to look beyond the periphery into the true essence of things.
c. A refined talent, gift or potential: This is the conversion of dormant potential into active potential.
Between DORMANT POTENTIAL and ACTIVE POTENTIAL are the words PREPARATION and PRACTICE. These are the tools for maximizing genuine demand in the acceptable time.
Whenever this three factors align, (a demand, timing and a refined talent) it means the door for actualizing your destiny has been opened for you. Your responsibility is to be able to know when and where there is a demand, when the time is right and to consistently refine your gifts and potentials.
This is why service is powerful. The system of apprenticeship and volunteering is powerful. These are opportunities in disguise.
Service, apprenticeship and volunteering are platforms to sharpen and deploy your potential without sustaining any collateral damage because you have people watching over you.
The challenge is that most people start searching for genuine demands too early when they are yet to refine their talents to the degree that it can be rewarded.
The only thing you can do with a talent in its raw state is to refine it. Nobody eats raw yam so don't expect people to reward your unrefined talent.
The truth of the matter is that opportunity comes to everyone of us but only those that have refined their gifts, talents and potentials will have the capacity to take advantage of that opportunity when it presents itself.
So, your job is not to go around looking for opportunities, focus on refining your talents. Refine it so much that whenever it is deployed people will not only say that you are talented, they will also know that you are valuable. And at that point people will go to any limit to reward you.
While developing your potentials also find opportunities to serve, volunteer in an organization that captures what you want to do in the future, subscribe to mentoring, be patient with your growth process. These are the ways to prepare and position yourself for genuine opportunities.
Another mistake most people make is that they treat their potentials as an hobby and not as a work, a job or a business. They don't see it as something that they were born to do therefore they don't develop it in any way. People only applaud them and never consider rewarding them.
To further discuss this subject please look out for our post PRIORITIZING YOUR POTENTIALS. (coming soon).
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