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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. MORTIMER ADLER

The mind is not just man’s seat of feelings or thoughts. As a success seeker your mind is the key to the achievement of a worthy goal and the experience of growth in any area of your life. Consequently, there is a need for mental enlargement and the acquisition of knowledge through study, research, seminars and mastermind groups.

Winston Churchill remarked, “…only the empires of the mind endure.” One of your most valuable assets today is your ability to use your mind to access, communicate, and creatively evaluate information. In our world in which the main item for consumption is becoming information, it’s what you know and how quickly you can learn that matters and not your status quo.

Success is the product of the appropriate use of the mind. Your mind is one single factor that determines the value of your life and socio-economic relevance to your generation. Your mind is the residence of your thoughts and your thoughts hold the key to an excellent and extraordinary life. It is imperative to understand that the ability to progress in any activity embarked upon is highly impacted if your mind is incapacitated in any shape or form.

The condition of your mind determines the condition of your life, thus your mind is a critical key to your success in any area of your life. One of the main reasons why success is an illusion to most people in their personal and professional life is because of the state or condition of their minds. Often the mind is cluttered to the point that it hinders any meaningful progress of any worthwhile endeavour embarked upon.

Bishop David Oyedepo in his book “Towards Mental Exploits” outline four major functions of the mind that will produce outstanding success. viz:

• Learning – Knowledge is what you acquire in the process of learning.
• Understanding – Your depth of understanding determines how outstanding you become in life.
• Reasoning – Reasoning enhances the quality of decision you make.
• Imagination – Your imagination sets the pace for your destination

To start with, you must emancipate your mind from the things that are causing it to be unproductive and your inability to take congruent action toward your anticipated expectation for which the following elements are invaluable:

• Feed your mind with positive and uplifting materials.
• Surround yourself with positive people
• Stay away from the naysayer
• Belong to a mastermind group
• Change your focus from problems to solutions
• Attend seminars and conferences
• Enlist the help of a coach or mentor
• Prayer – this is my favourite it works all the time.

E.W. Kenyon stated, “Make your brain work; it will sweat, but make it work. Then it will improve, it will develop, until you become the envy of those around you.” Go to work today the results will be immeasurable.

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