Rebranding your mental attitude is not a natural metamorphosis! It’s a challenge. Your head is the timeline.
WHERE ARE YOU?
Some times I recall a childhood incident that I’ve had. My father was riding
me in his Yamaha 100 motorcycle, I was sitting on the tank and my two hands
rested on the legs of the front mirrors. Something overwhelmed me. It came from
the inside of me, and I asked my self "why are we moving faster than others,
immediately, i discovered that we were riding on something. Then I asked myself
again, am I not the one riding this?" that was the day I took control of my mind
because I discovered that I was thinking. That night as I went home, I became
restless; thinking is not friendly with time wastefulness. I could not control
my self. I had to ask my father "papa, was I the one that rode us home?" that
was the day God endowed in me a challenge, not to think, but to have control
over my mind. The style of things I think about and my inquisitiveness in
knowing the secrets that are related to the things I think about is what is
known as my own mental attitude. I’m not a philosopher or highly learned but I
have to teach you this phenomenon as I see it in my mind’s eyes. I plead to use
any word that may seem appropriate in explaining this because it is a separate
mental culture. Your mental attitude is not interrelated with your age. Though
age may give you experience and wisdom, but the channeling of these experiences
towards enhancing your personality, both personal and society wise is what comes
from your mental attitude. It can dominate; it has a lot to do with discoveries
and adjustments.
Why some youths finish their university degree program without having knowledge
of how to send an e-mail, or browse through goggle, other youths in the same
environment already has a BlogSpot where they post their weekly class
experiments. Even if the former was more brilliant in other class works, the
later ends up getting a better job; this is because he has rebranded his mental
attitude to revolve with the speed of information technology revolutions. He has
become more advantaged with information that will definitely affect his job
status. These other young Nigerians that have failed to have a rigid mental
attitude, they complain of unemployment, poverty and lots of nonsense. In a
society where young men refused to think; They refused to invent ideas, they
want to feed on other people’s inventions, what do you expect, more jobs? We
need to sit down and heal ourselves. We are suffering from poor mental attitude.
We need to rebrand our mental attitude. The bank you expect to work after
graduation was conceived by a young man that may still be alive. He has tried in
employing the much he wanted. Even if he looked faces before choosing his
employees, it’s good. Do you expect him not to favor his family and friends with
these opportunities that he has created? If I see you as a graduate, complain of
lack of connections to get a job, I morn your existence. Your generations were
poor but they left this only valor for you to pick on. That is the knowledge you
acquired in school. Another generation is coming behind you and please don’t
make them vulnerable to unemployment.
To some youths that abuse drugs and do violence, I may not say it’s hopeless but
you have a small problem and that, makes you a fool. Your problem is that you
primarily had violence at the sub-region of your active mind. The drug only
catalyzes. You are not man enough to take control of what belongs to you. I
suggest that you cut off your testicles with your little kitchen knife. Maybe
you are not a fool aft all, because the drugs that you abuse did not catalyze
your mind to cut off your manhood. Risking yourself doing violence in this level
of security revolution is as good as getting you into jail. That is another way
of cutting your mental testicles which is worst than doing it with your kitchen
knife. Why should you reject something yet go back to do it again? Are you a dog
that eats what you vomited? Consecrate your mental sub-region and plant good
seeds that will grow to be the mustard tree of our time. That is all about
rebranding your mental attitude.
Where are you mentally? You may have a good job, a car and a flat for you and
your family. It’s your mental attitude that makes you believe you are
comfortable. You are just a baby monkey in a mango tree with two ripped mango
fruits. No cashew, no apple, no orange, yet your hands are filled up that you
cannot even swing around. That is the state of your mind. Don’t you have a taste
for diversity? You filled your mind with linear information. Why are you
lavishing the storage chambers of your believing mind? You have a wife and five
children. You believed that you are ok because all your children are in school
and your wife is doing her MSC. Haven’t you heard that there is high rate of
unemployment? Even if you’ll retire and put your son, will the six work under
one opportunity? You have to sit down and heal yourself. That is what rebranding
is all about. You have to war before you deliver those behind you. Don’t only
sleep with your wife and produce children. Expand the boundary of income in
Nigeria so that this increase in population you are participating in should not
be a threat to the younger generation.
WAKE UP FIRST.
This is a basic fact that you must realize. "In one way or the other, you
have been sleeping" imagine how hopeless it is to a man when his body lay to
sleep. Certain unconsciousness overwhelms him that he cannot contribute in his
existence. The body is one such physical that is controlled by the mind. How
much more, to the mind? When your mental attitude is poor, it means that the
mind, which is the generating source of all human coordination, is asleep. The
realization of this fact is a step forward for us Nigerians. A problem
identified is half solved. You are welcome to the world of opportunities. You
were once suffering from an illness that was worst than madness. Your
attitudinal mentality was not functional. You were not coordinating your natural
potentials and renting it out for the enhancement of human comfort. How will you
feel for a cow when the little Fulani cowboy counted his father’s cows and
refused to add one to their number, arguing that it is too slim and may die
soon? Won’t you advice the cow to eat more grass and drink more water. That’s
the only obligation you may owe it. Can’t you see how ridiculed that cow may
feel. What about us humans? Sometimes the government brings up some programs
like the poverty reduction exercise, agric loans, free vaccination and lots
more. The problem is that those with low mental attitude will not get involved
because they may not even seek for information. For those that receive the
information, they may conclude that other employees in the government, has
embezzled the money. Why are you sleeping so deep like this? Why can’t you get
involved with some good deeds that are going on in nigeria? You keep complaining
that the rich diverts the entire national fund, the politicians are bad, goods
in the market are too costly in the country….you have a mental attitude that
should be rebranded. We are the government. I am governing my own in this small
piece that I’m writing. Some of you that may see me with a good car while I am
still an undergraduate will conclude that I stole money or my politician father
bought it for me. Stop all those gossips and change the way you think. Let your
mind be for your own use alone.
If you are not counted in your society, you are the slim cow that belonged to
the Fulani cowboy. Money is just one factor. Some Nigerians that are respected
today, never revealed their financial status, even if they did, they were not
counted in the society with respect to money. They influenced with their
instrument of attack. You have to think like an army some times. This world is
war. The society you find yourself is the warfront. There’re lots of soldiers;
each, with a distinct weapon of attack. Don’t jealous my machine gun because you
may have an anti rocket bomber. Start using your instrument in the area that
will be helpful to mankind. Bill gates may not have been a good singer if he had
tried. He had his vision and that was in information technology. God did not
cheat anybody can’t you understand? He gave us different gifts and visions to
guarantee equilibrium in existence. If you have not thought of just one thing
you can do that is not frequent in your society, you may not have woken up yet.
If you think of evils that may fetch you fortune, you are cutting your mental
testicles. I think you should rather use your kitchen knife.
Some people become so rich in Nigeria, yet they are not heard of, people of that
category should donate to orphanages and sponsor good foundations. Others that
may not have money in their account, yet they have concepts that needs little
funding, please pursue your concept. Think over it and you will realize that you
can use your concept to generate money that will sponsor your concept. I’m not
saying that you should not seek for money from your relations but in most cases,
your efforts could just be so frustrating if the people you ask for money do not
understand the skeleton of your concept. You can also start up by applying to
cooperate bodies and foundations but I assure you that the most valid step is in
you.
Your vision is your own instrument of war. There is a great difference between
vision and fantasy, vision has a supernatural driving force while fantasy ends
in your mind. It doesn’t have a motivating factor that lifts your spirit of
pursuit. For the fact that you have a vision, sit down and create the concept
which is your pattern of mental success. If you take a wrong step to actualize
your vision, you may have committed a mental suicide and that goes a long way in
making your life miserable.
To some youths that want to be good politicians tomorrow don’t be thugs as a
starting point. If you become a thug, you are going to be a good one because of
that political ingenuity in you. Whilst you are a good thug, your god father
will not want to expose you again to any political opportunity because he may be
loosing his dear thug. Secondly, he may wish to take your life if you decide to
change environment because you have known a lot about him and politicians are
information jealous. Why should you go to market only to buy a rope and tie your
two legs in front doors of your new home. I’m not preaching young politicians
not to be bad. All I am saying is that being bad is not the shortest way now.
Don’t follow some of the old stories of political struggles because they are too
cheap and outdated. Poor mental attitude leads one to crime. Some of the things
you kill people to acquire are just yours by nature only if you can apply
strategies that will penetrate the old standards of our time. Let’s not allow
technology to advance alone. Even the flow of blood in our systems should be
advancing because we have the key to this greater world. Jesus Christ did not
die in the cross because he does not have a strange power to escape it but he
only developed his concept of being the most worshiped God and today, I think
even people from other religions has felt his deeds. If you are a Christian, I’m
not saying that you should die to actualize your concept but pursue yours in a
breathless dimension. Of course if you die on the cross to be like Jesus, I may
wish to say that you are just a little creature swimming in an ocean of
imitation. Please open your eyes wide. Nobody has done your kind of concept.
Anything that is into existence, which inspires you to achieve your concept, is
just a guide line now. Do the one that is inside of you and you may not be
affected by the jingles of economy and financial meltdown? You may be trying
your best but the stress is high, I won’t tell you sorry because I’m not the
cause and nobody will either. Take heart but please go ahead. If you loose hope
before your death, then I will not classify you as a human being because even
our smaller creatures are proud to eat the yam peels on the eve of their death.
One minute is worth leaving with enthusiasm. You are important in the society
and for that, I never wanted to tell you that if you die a careless death, we
may feel the loss but there are millions of your ages in existence and it’s not
a zero moment for us if we loose one.
AIM BIG, SHOOT SMALL
"I was very curious to understand a certain topic in my physics course. I
did series of overnight but did not record much progress. I knew my problem was
integration. I had a stunted knowledge of integration and it was seriously
featured in the topic. Before I could understand integration very well, i will
have to go back to my secondary school mathematics and read up other topics that
will enhance my understanding of integration. I wanted to do well in the course
because it is three credit units, so I called my little brother and borrowed
some secondary school math books from him." What mattered to me was not going
back to read up those forgotten materials, what mattered was that I had to read
them well and be continuous in this my mission of achieving the extra ordinary.
Aim big but shoot small. If your dream is to read international law in Europe,
if you have a viable mental attitude towards it, you could do that. Even if your
father is late and your uncle refused to help you, you could still achieve it.
You have to seat down and break your moves down. Conclude at first that you want
Europe. Not Europe, or Asia, or America, if you lack mental coordination and
focus, you may not achieve a challenging vision. Don’t let situations determine
your future. Pursue with sincerity and have a defined target. I so much advice
focus. I believe that any normal creature can solve the challenges that come his
way. Ok, "I advice you to bring out the most expensive cloth you have, sprinkle
a little kerosene on it and burn it" why are you not so happy now? Maybe you are
not a fool aft all, maybe you can coordinate yourself. You know what is good for
you and what is not. Then you can solve your problem. Make up your mind on what
you want and have a picture of it drawn close to you in your mind. Build this
castle of yours closely in your mind; go to work first by disengaging it. Keep
the nails separate, the zinc and even the blocks separate. As they lie separate
in your mental sketch, start maybe with the nails. When you actualize one, move
to the other. People around you may not understand you but when you get the
parts set and couple your castle, they’ll come to celebrate with you. It has
always been a phenomenon. Most of the people that hit it big in Nigeria never
got supports from their loved ones because in Nigeria, we lack the eyes that see
skeletons of success. Everything here is show us first. That is the character of
the economy here; so don’t hesitate to welcome them the day of your celebration.
They loved you.
If reading law in Europe is your castle as I mentioned earlier, you may first
start by buying law books and equipping your self with the most recent
information in law. Then use your pocket money to buy air time in good
cyber-cafes and search for scholarship exams on net. I assure you, you may see
pending opportunities which only your earlier knowledge of law will pull you in.
one of the problems Nigerians have is that they expect magic to happen most
often. You may be begging your uncle money for the next fifteen years. You may
have even started behaving like a barrister at home while you have not made any
headway. That is another work of fantasy. Your mental existence is affecting
your physicals before actualization. There are two realms of existence; the
mental existence and the physical existence. They are two realms that should be
left separate. The mind for conceiving, while the physicals for actualization.
Don’t be faster than your movements. You have to use your head to correct such
misconducts, which is why I said that your head is your timeline.
Some upcoming artistes in Nigeria should take note. Why should you get yourself
arrested in streets as hood lumps because you are trying to dress like bob
Marley, you dress like a rasterferian all because you have a reggae track you
wrote which you have not seen the sponsorship to record. Why are you counting
your chickens before they are hatched? Why Nigerians don’t do well in
international competitions is because we’ve been swimming in the ocean of
imitation. We are living under the shadow of the western world. That is not how
to behave independence. Let’s take a case study of entertainment in Nigeria. We
had an initial concept of music. We invented musical instruments that even the
westerners’ jealous. It’s our earlier style. People like Fela and Sunny Ade were
respected every where in the world because they refused to compromise the
African style. If we really want to introduce product that will bring income to
our country, then we must think back to the old Nigerian styles that seduced the
missionaries to come into our country. Why are we all dying over oil money in
Nigeria? We have millions of other natural endowments that we should process and
export to the western world. Some Nigerian paintings worth millions but we
ridicule them all because it originated here. How on earth will you compete with
the westerns’ and win them on instruments they invented. It’s their local
instruments and they made them. They don’t struggle to play a violin guitar
because it’s in their blood. Let us specify a succeeding dimension. Let respect
the ingenuity of our forefathers. It’s because of our intelligence that we even
achieved this little. Let’s start developing our own national existence. Only
our cultural costumes can fetch a national income for us. Let us stop adopting
the total lifestyles of the western world. We have the best down here but we
under look it. I may not have more to offer but instead of telling you to behave
like the whites; I’ll advice you to die behaving black. Sleep over this
question. Why is sun bathing one of the major events of foreign models? Good
night.
Published
June 24th, 2009