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A Part from recognizing GOD as the giver of
purpose and master planner of our lives, there is another part of knowledge
that is of vital importance in the school of discovery, which is the role of
the mind, the central system of man. Ideas flow from the mind. The mind works
with the brain to manage every resource (thought and idea) that are broadcast
or projected into it. The senses receive the information and send it to the
brain for interpretation. The brain then transfers them for decisions. This
process transfers both negative and positive influences to our mind s each day.
It is now left for us to do the analysis and sieving of the information we
received before deciding on whether or not to act on it.
The ability
for us to shut off the negative influences is what gives us the edge in ideas
management. I what you to understand that everything we wish to become begins
it journey from the mind. Thus, the mind is the leading power in any of our
discovery. You can attain your utmost heights with the right use of the mind.
And you also crash-land with the wrong use of the mind. As a matter of fact,
all of man’s successes, and all of his failures and frustrations are the direct
product of the manner in which he uses his mind.
As NAPOLEON
HILL noted, “It may not be true that ‘’thoughts are things, ” but it is true
that thought create things, and the things thought create are strikingly similar to the nature of the thought from
which they are fashioned.’’ The bible says long ago, “For as he thinketh in his
heart, so he is” (proverbs 23:7). Discovery has to do with intense application
of the mind power. You can expect to have uncommon ideas when you dive only
ankle deep in thinking. It takes enormous task to create and then conserve a
thing. As it takes an archeology time to excavate the whole of a city just to
have an idea about ancient past, discovery require digging deep by using the leading power – the mind. You should
develop you mind to the extent it will be receptive and powerful enough to
catch the full extent of you life purpose. As BILL NEWTON said, “small mind
discusses person, average mind discusses event , but great mind discusses
ideas.’’ Dare to have a great mind. Insist on thinking great. You can either
make or mar your life depending on the attitude of your mind. So be careful how
you use your mind.
To make the
most use of the mind and use it to create wonderful ideas, the following will
be helpful:
SEPERATION
AND LONENESS
Separation
is important to anyone who wishes or desire to discover real good ideas about
life. I believe it is the start-off point and the most significant because that
is when the mind goes into real working condition. Naturally, the universe is
unsettled, because of natural and industrial detractions. The environment is a
whole lot of noise and detraction, both internally and externally. I say
internally because most of our detraction is generally from our emotions – the
feelings of tension, resentment, grief, anxiety, and distress, which make the
mind to be unsettled. This somehow poses a barrier and distortion to clear
thinking and the right use of the mind-power. So, to attain serenity and
sensibility, separation is rather needed. I believe that when tranquility is
secured, employing and incorporating the mind with the ability to reflect and
analyze lucidly will be evident in your thought pattern. This time, the mind
will be put to work as it ought to be. In an interview with a popular
literature author from the eastern part of Nigeria, he was asked when and how
he drew his inspiration. He responded, ‘’the “when” is when I have I relaxed
mind, and the “where’’ is when i am in the graveyard where noise is reduced to
the barest minimum. “ This is not to say that the cemetery is the best place to
achieve quietness. It should be noted that through self- discipline in prayer,
fasten, studying and meditation of the word.
He further
stated that he seldom got inspired when in rattle environment adding that
without separation, comportment of the soul and body will not be achieved, but
when solitude is secure d, ideas springs up and well-up in his central system -
the mind - for procession ; most of
which may be negative, but by discretion and being sensible, he gain mastery of positive ideas. I believe that a
relaxed mind makes room for fresh ideas, but to be rowdy in mind create rattle
ideas. In fact, when one’s mind is
organized, an inlet is produce for
creating and projecting organize thoughts. To be organize, however one need to
be separation and be alone in a calm environment. This will help you to
discover something new about yourself that you may not have known.
Separation
and solitude enhances one’s creative abilities and lea to great discoveries.
Great adventures and inventors in history have been known to spend time alone
in solitude. They spend time alone to
get the idea that will turn their generation around and spend time with people
to sell the idea to the public. MIKE MURDOCK, one of the greatest motivational
speakers and best- selling author in the world confirmed this when he revealed that all of his inspirations are drawn from
God as he had most of his hours spent in a secluded room with God. BENNY HINN
also confirmed this when he said he get his anointing from being alone in
fellowship with the Holy Spirit.
We have a
vivid picture of the power of separation and seclusion in Genesis 32. If you’ve
been getting busy with everyone around you, then, perhaps, it’s time to
take some time out alone with yourself
and open you mind to the great possibilities that are available to the right
use of the mind. To be candid, you will hardly come across any great achiever
relating to how he stumbled upon success and
greatness without making mention of how he spend time alone at one time
or another. It become necessary that for one to think through ideas and issue
and have visions and dreams that are coherent, one must give one’s mind to
quality thinking in a secluded place. No doubt
you will lead a coordinated life
with coordinated ideas void of confusion when you silent your inner outside
noise through the simple but miraculous tool of separation and loneness.
Such was the
case of Jacob in the chapter of the bible noted above. It appears to me that
one of the most significant encounters Jacob ever had occurred when he decided
to spend time alone. That night he had the most dramatic experience that
brought a great change in his life. God gave he a new name symbolic of how he
had change his life. This encounter
change Jacob life forever. Jacob would had have conflicting thoughts and be distracted had he not sent his family
and servant s away so as to have time alone.
The truth
is, there is always a time to be around people and a time to be alone. The
Bible tell us, ‘’there is time for everything. ‘’ There is time to reason with
people and there is time to reason alone. Always set a time for you to reason
alone, a time for you to discover
yourself. You could call it “Time for
discovering.” If you will make time to put your brain to work, I assure you,
you will be able to perch your fragmented life, settle the undulating financial,
business, family, career, marriage, ministry and health problems that are
draining you of your energy and vitality.
SYSTEMATIC REFLECTION
Reflection is a potent and sensitive
tool which, when employed, can produce
wave of uncommon discoveries. It is systematic in the sense that it take the
reflector his metal power to sieve those crowded thought and ideas. That you
secure a quiet time and ideas popped up your mind is no guarantee that those
ideas are all from God or that they will end up making you to do the right
thing. You most put your ideas to test, probably more than twice. So reflection
is like putting the ideas you have gather during your quiet time into the
laboratory test of your mind, which is the leading power. Earlier, we
recommended the idea of spending time alone as a way of gathering your
thoughts, but that is not enough to catch and also be able to harness the
thought you’ve gathered. It seen that the first step is inlet, a gate that
allow the flow the ideas, most of which are either positive or negative as can be observe in every human being. As
the negative and the positive ideas pop up in your mind, what you now do is critical reflection. Both
ideas may be difficult to distinguish, but as you take a long and careful consideration
of each one that flow in on your mind, you will be able to tell which is the
best and suitable to be processed for your desire result. This careful
reflection may reveal the line of action to be taken for a positive outcome.
Let me
illustrate. Years ago, a ten-year old boy was given two options by a fisherman
in a certain village. The options were
either to be given a fish or be taught how to catch fish. After a deep
and long ponder, he said, “I what to be taught how to catch a fish so that when
there is none to give me a fish I could catch one myself.” When you don’t
carefully reflection of the ideas that come into your mind, you may jump into
unnecessary conclusion and do the wrong thing. And do not conclude that you
have failed because you encountered some little problems alone the line without
first reflecting to really see whether that is failure.
Every
failure is a pointer that you didn’t do the right thing. It avails you an
opportunity not to give up but to try it
another way with a different method of approach. It make you learn new things.
Although, when you encounter failure ,
your mind may tell you, ‘’You cannot make it ,“ wait and reflect you
will see there is another way to do it right .
that’s the reason you need not to
be rash in drawing conclusions. More also, I advise, never reflect too much on
failure, resentment, grief, and hatred as that will live a mark on your
subconscious mind and drain your capabilities. You are a reflection of your
thoughts, so have a systematic reflection with the ability to ascertain possibility
in lieu of impossibilities.
PAS A RESOLUTION
This is the last to be adopted and affected following our discussion. We will talk
more on this later, but you need to know that after gathering you ideas and sieving them, you must pass a resolution,
that is, take a firm decision as to what to do with the idea you’ve got. A lot
of people fail to make it in life not because they no ideas but because they
never act on them. Taking an action is what get thing accomplished. Like I
said, we will talk more on this later
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