What You Focus On

You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.

~Hillary DePiano

What is is happening around you right now is a the result of what you have focused your mind on. Imagine you are going down a path and suddenly as you are about to pass under a big tree, you realize the tree is about to fall on you. At that moment, you can either focus on the tree as it falls on you or you can decide to move out of alms way and not get hit.

Many times that is what we do. We focus on the problem and feed it with more of how bad it makes as feel instead of looking at opportunities that are staring at you. When you go through trouble and you realise that you are complaining about the problem, just know that you are focused on the problem and the tragedy is that you are doing nothing about your situation. People think that complaining about something is doing something about it. When you complain, you waste precious time and energy that you could otherwise use to think of ways to get out of the problem. God created man complete with solutions encoded inside the man. The answers you are looking for are simply locked inside you. If you don't believe this, think of it like this, the children you have or you intend to have will not come from anywhere else but from inside you.

Look at nature, the rain you see first come from the earth as vapour and return back to earth as rain. If the earth does not give up vapour, then it should forget about receiving the rain. Therefore, that is the importance of conserving our environment. Get the picture?

Whatever you are looking for is right with you and you are just not aware of it. Put simply, you have been moving around with solutions and crying the loudest. It is time for you to realise this truth and focus on the greater that has been lying dormant within you. How come when people want to have children, they know what to do but stops short when it comes to creating value for changing their lives. If you are able to give birth to children, then you have the potential to give birth to anything

The Christian Bible records an incident at the Pool of Bethesda where Jesus found an impotent man and asked him if he wanted to be healed. The man had been sitting near the pool of solutions but according to him, he had no one to help him into the pool. It was evident from the impotent man's response to Jesus that not receiving help from others was where his focus was. The amazing side of this story is that even when Jesus points to the solution, it was inside the man. He simply tells the man to stand up and go. Here is the paradox, who did Jesus talk to that made the man all of a sudden to jump up and go his way? My guess is that Jesus realised that talking to the complaining guy (conscious man) who was gravely afraid even to try to stand up and through himself in the pool of solution was not helping, so Jesus turned and talked to the one inside the man. The man was sitting for 38 years with his solution with him.

Before you even waste much of your time, I say to the greater in you, stand up from that mat of worry and do something (business, look for a job, apply if you have to) in Jesus name and stop wasting prayers for things that you can do for yourself. Remember God did not create mountains for Him to come and climb them for you. Just Climb them and feel good doing it.

We all know that we are going through some problems but when it comes to the solution we turn our focus on crying about the problem hoping it will simply disappear. We have been doing this for a long time and we are so remote to the fact that it has not been working. Remember, Einstein said doing the same thing the same way and expecting a different result is called insanity. Lets get sane and begin to focus on finding solutions. Solutions come to those who think. Do not replace thinking with prayer, it is called laziness

Bye 

Its Not What You Do!

Hard work is not equivalent to being Rich, Work smart!

Most Africans are some of the hardest working people you can find on the planet but they are the poorest. Its not what you do that determines the progress up the ladder or your growth financially, But its what you are 'being'. The state of your 'being' is the biggest indicator of what is happening around you. We do not become poor just because life decides that we should but because we let poverty in through our mindset. Simply put, we have decided and its a matter of choice

Everyone is doing something and not everyone is becoming rich by what they are doing. You may be doing something with a poor mindset or with yesterday's thinking to solve today's problems. Albert Einstein once said "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result". When we were all born, our families and society set out to define us. Unfortunately we have become a product of our culture with strange beliefs on wealth creation and seeing poverty including struggle to have everything we need as being the only normal way of life. So far we have looked at life through the glasses of our culture and its time to change the lens in 2017 and see what happens

This is what is wrong with today's education system, people are still using 1900 models in the 21st century setting that is controlled by the digital edge. The education system is still teaching people what to think and not how to think like converting geography into Agriculture or computer science into computer industry. Students are being taught to pass the exam and not how to apply the knowledge to change their lives. The school system is preparing people to become good civil servants who end up as corrupt evil servants and not innovators. People are not told that working for others is selling time at wholesale price and expect them to live their dream life. This old school mentality does not develop a society or country. This is the type of mentality that kills innovation in the next generation, especially in a girl child. To become rich or abundant, your 'being' must upgrade to thinking, analyzing and acting as someone who has identified their purpose in life and are ready to act towards that goal. Just going to school to pass an exam is not equivalent to becoming rich otherwise all the educated people would have been rich by now. Is it not amazing that uneducated people have become rich and employed the educated ones as accountants and managers to mention a few. What's the difference? May be the educated become enthroned in working in familiar territory but those with humble backgrounds (I mean little or no education) only know that their lives must change and they need to go out and do something about it. The uneducated are willing to take risks.

Wealth lies in the problems of the world. If You find a solution to any problem, people will pay for that value. If you only find comfort in being a worker, every coin you earn is destined for problem solvers accounts (who are not you). Money is currency and it flows to where value is. Until you create value, money will never find a resting place in your life or account but will use you as a conduit to flow out to where value is created.

The solutions to your life's problems lies in the problems you are going through right now because every problem is packed with a solution and many times we do not want to act because we are afraid. Fear has been holding us hostage for free because no one is holding a gun at you and stopping you from acting. Sell air time if you have to because its not even heavy to carry anyway.

Your story can change starting today if you so choose