The reason it’s hard to achieve greatness and really do awesome things unless you’re in your comfort zone is because your mind is only at rest and at peace when you’re doing what you love the most, and when you’re where you should be.
The world’s all time best selling EVER; THE BIBLE teaches that where a man’s treasure is, that is where his heart and indeed his mind will be.
But another concept struck my mind recently and I thought I’d share it: the issue of OUR MINDSET
Our mind is the tool with which we think and create, its like a massive engine, but our mindset, could simple refer to the state of our mind, kind of like what kind of fuel your car engine runs with.
The thing about the mindset is that it shapes the way we think. A positive mindset cannot but see things positively, and try at all cost to bring out the positive side of everything. On a more specific level, anyone who grew up in poverty and lack, will most likely have a mind conditioned to being helped, giving things for free, but never having to work. A dude like that had better not be on your pay check, they don’t have a mind conditioned to work, they have a mind conditioned to receive for free without putting any effort to it. Worse still, someone like that also tends to have a mind that expect little from life, they give up easily, and would never expect to win in life.
Of course someone who grew up in a challenging environment where his/her talents were deliberately developed would constantly see life as a challenge that can be overcome. These are just basic facts about our mindset.
Basically more specifically, I learnt that two very important things shape our Mindset, and as a result, affect how we think: these are our EXPERIENCE and EXPECATIONS
EXPERIENCE
Our experience in life over many years has a very strong effect on our mindset. An average Nigerian with little global perspective and world view tends to see life differently compared those who had the privilege or who took the pains to open their minds and expose themselves to knowledge and information. Why? How they have seen life work differs. A lady who just had a bad relationship will most likely see the next 1million guys to cross her path as heart breakers. Her mindset, her perspective, and her frame of thought has been skewed by what she has experienced, casing every future event to be analyzed in her mind based on her experience.
Another area we gain experience is from books and other sources of information like movies, music, and relationships. That is why reading is the one of the best cultures to imbibe as a person. The information and knowledge we gather from books and other sources affect how we think, because our thoughts are affected by the information we have. Someone with little knowledge of social media ad its benefits will see spending hours on face book or a blog as a waste of time, but anyone who knows a little better will think otherwise.
EXPECTATIONS
Expectations on the other hand are another matter entirely. The truth is our experience shapes our expectations. It is hard to expect something beyond our level of knowledge, information and exposure. Anyone who has only experienced pain and abuse will not be expecting anything better in life. They may desire it, but they will have no basis to struggle or fight for it, they won’t have enough drive or strength to press on till they get it.
We must be careful how we allow our experience shape our expectation, because we hardly get anything beyond the limits of our expectations, and our expectations are largely shaped by our experience.
The best we can do for ourselves is enlarging the scope of our experience through exposure, knowledge and relationships. When we see the world from different perspectives, through the eyes of various age groups and cultures, we have a broader scope of experience, and can then build a richer scope of expectations as well; Lack of experience leads to unhealthy or unrealistic expectations from life.
So there you have it; naturally, it is always up to us to make our choices and decision, but one fact remains,
DECESIONS MUST BE MADE DELIBERATELY AND CONSCIOUSLY.
As always, this is
TiOLUWA
Still living deliberately
