NOURISH
AND NURTURE YOUR MIND!
(You are your mind’s farmer)
Weekly
Motivation for 27th October – 30th October 2015 by
Ndimofor Aretas
Good
Morning dear students;
Today is the start of another
wonderful week. I can tell by your looks
that you are ready for another round of great motivational words to take you
through this week.
In my write-up for today, I will be
revealing to you some important sources of your thoughts, how they affect your
success and why you should select what you put into your mind or expose your
mind to. This is step 1 in the process
of washing your attitude window.
If
you can recall from my previous write-up (volume 5), I said many great things including
success start from the mind… the fact that so does failure….
A
great success writer broadcaster and speaker called Earl Nightingale, revealed
that the key to success and failure lies in the following six words:
WE
BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT
The Bible contains numerous
references to thinking, including these:
“According
to your faith be it unto you.” (Matthew 9:29)
“As
a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7)
But where do our THOUGHTS
come from….?
In
summary, our THOUGHTS come from our daily interactions. All what we take into our minds through all
our five senses, especially what we see and hear…!
With
this in mind, I will like you to understand that you can control your thoughts by
controlling what you allow into your mind.
If
you want your thoughts to be success inclined, then nourish your mind with
success related things. Another thing to
do is to NURTURE success thoughts (that is find the smallest thought of success
in your mind and help it to grow).
But why is it important
to nourish and nurture our mind…?
This
is simply because….. Thought comes before action… this is how it goes…
Our Thoughts grow into Words,
Our Words grow Beliefs,
Our Beliefs grow into Actions and after every
action, there is a Result.
The
sad part is that we hardly control what we feed into our minds… we expose our minds to negative things that
only help to “dirty our attitude windows”
and can even make us feel like we will never succeed…!
One
student came up to me and complained saying… “Sir, you said we should listen to
our minds… well, during the just ended first sequence evaluations, I tried to
listen to my mind, but all I could hear was loud music and when I close my
eyes, all that came up were images of my favourite series….”
I
am sure many students will agree that this has happened to them and is still
happening…..!
The
simple truth is that the mind is like a
piece of farm land and YOU ARE THE FARMER….
If
a farmer wishes to harvest corn, maize or groundnuts during harvesting season,
then he or she must plant and cultivate corn, maize or groundnuts seeds during
the planting season.
YOUR
ARE YOUR MIND’S FARMER….!, If your wish to harvest good and positive thoughts,
words, beliefs, actions and results from your mind, then you must start and
continue planting positive seeds into your mind….!
Just like in any farm, grass usually
grows and may disturb the crops on the farm from growing properly or at all….
That is why the farmer needs to constantly weed their farm and get rid of the
grass.
We too must constantly weed all
negative thoughts from our minds…
The main lesson I will like you to
learn today is that REPETITION IS THE KEY…
If
you wish to master any subject or subjects, expose your mind to them as much as
possible; plant seeds of each of those subjects in your mind through constant
repeated reading, solving of past questions; explain what you have studied with
others and listen to what others can say about those subjects and you will be
able to remember the points during tests or exams…!
Dear
students, now that you know this; I am encouraging you from today onward; to
start feeding your mind with positive seeds so that in the nearest future, you
will start harvesting positive results for yourselves. In my next write-up, I will tell you how you
can use your words to improve upon your success.
The student I told you of earlier
could only think of songs and films or movies because he had exposed his minds
to those songs and films repeatedly….!
In other words he had planted songs and films in his mind.
Our
minds cannot select what it takes in by itself… we need to guard what we put
into it because what you put in is exactly what you get out…!
It
is summarized as GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT..!
Apart from your book work, I am
encouraging you to also Nourish your mind with God’s word. Remember that He made you including your mind. There is nothing more important to any
society than Educated and God-fearing citizens….!
An example of thoughts you can use
to constantly weed negative ideas of failure from your mind are these ones I
read from the Bible:
Luke
18:27: “… what is impossible for man, is possible for God.”
Mark
9:23: “If you can believe, all things are possible.”
IN
JESUS’ NAME….., AMEN.
By
Ndimofor Aretas
Monday,
27/10/2015
(For the week of for 27th October – 30th
October 2015)
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