“You don’t get in life what you want, you get in life who you are”. (Less Brown) God endowed man with a lot of potentials which when maximized will amount to greatness. When God sent Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, he did not leave them with any material things; they only exploited their natural ability and provided themselves with their primary & secondary needs. Food, Cloth, Shelter, Money, Car etc. were man’s inventions to meet his Comfort .Those were products of man’s mental strength and knowledge about his environment and what it contains.
Apart from mental strength (the power of reasoning), God left them with the physical strength (good health), and energy of mind. Mental strength includes reasoning; knowledge, wisdom, creativity e.tc and Energy of mind include burning desire, determination, persistence, diligence, hope, faith, optimism e.tc.
These abilities are equal but of different functions. Without physical strength man might not live to creates wealth. Therefore health is wealth.
Also without mental strength man might not find solution to his problems and would therefore die off and without energy of mind, man might not have continued to work out solutions to his problems and above all provide for himself.
It will be difficult and a mistake to place them in other of their priority. It were said and I quote
“Health is wealth” (Physical strength)
Our future is shaped by our thought (mental strength)
Energy of mind is the essence of life (Aristotle). Following the above assertions, it will be rarely possible to attain greatness in life without these natural abilities been combined and channeled towards an expected end.
Arranging them in the ascending other, mental strength could be placed first followed by the physical and finally energy of mind.
This is because you cannot feature (mind factor) what you have not pictured (mental factor)
This mean that you can only act to your level of knowledge and you are limited to your knowledge and you also require good health to follow up your dreams doggedly and passionately. Apart from the fact that they are interwoven, they have advantages over the other in success actualization.
In demonstrating the advantage of mental strength over physical strength in success actualization, we can use this common experience – A barrow pusher and a banker.
A barrow pusher uses more energy than the banker but gains lesser than a banker .here the input is far greater than the output. A banker in the other hand will be in his office doing his mental work under a cozy and conducive atmosphere and at the end earns a reasonable salary. Here the output is greater than the input.
Apart from gaining less, a barrow pusher uses more or less of his income in buying drugs to easy off pains associated with stresses – tears and wears characterized of barrow pushing and other associated duties .
This shows that success requires more of positive thinking, initiatives coupled with determination and diligence than physical strength.
You are therefore required to think, to create a mental picture (dream) and work hard towards transferring this mental picture into visible concrete things. The title of this book shows that you don’t get money / wealth rather you create wealth.
You don’t get something when you have nothing to give for that. Success is therefore using what you have and get what you don’t have. Professionals / Artisans are paid for their services (Knowledge) and not for any other things. Lecturers/ teachers are paid for the knowledge they offer limited to your level of knowledge. You can only create wealth out of your initiatives, positive thought, and knowledge e t c.
No wonder the scripture said that “your future is shaped by your thought” (As a man thinketh, so he is). Hence success is a product of constructive and functional reasoning. Napoleon hill in his book titled think and grow rich depicts how positive thoughts could yield success.
Take advantage of your natural endowment and exploit your potentials. Your future, your luxurious home and glamorous cars you hope for are in you. You cannot find them any where.
Think! Think! Think! , create a mental picture, have a dream goal today and follow it diligently. Try to isolate yourself sometimes and think over your future. Whenever an idea comes to your mind write it down and access its workability. You are a product of your thoughts.
The best thinking has been done in solitude and the worst has been done in turmoil. (Thomas Edison). There are lots of multifarious factors that affects total exploit. Some act as catalyst and some as Inhibitors. Your reaching to your expected ends depends wholly on your ability to make effective use of your potentials and ability to overcome your weaknesses.
Determination & purpose will drive you safely across all odds. Embrace them. Most of the preclinical hedges to total exploit are Doubt,
Discouragement and Despair (3D). Never get discouraged, never doubt your ability and say it is over until it is over. (Despair)
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