The Human Mind 4
The mind of a man is like a garden. He reaps what he plants on it. I welcome you to this Thursday edition of Leading Right. I am Abiodun Fijabi
Picture your mind like the garden beside your house, office or school. How does it look? Is it filled with well trimmed roses that brighten the environment, creating beauty? Or is it unkempt, unwieldy and unattractive? Who do you hold responsible for the either the beauty or the ugliness? Now, I hope you will not say, “No one”. That is what man has been saying for years, shifting responsibilities away from him and in the process becoming a victim of his environment rather than the creator of his environment.
Roses do not just appear on a garden. They are a product of a deliberate effort. The mind that is deliberately exercised to generate ideas for change will bring the desired change that will astound the world. Great leaders recognise this fact and cash in on it. They are very conscious of the garden they want to build – an attractive garden that leads to a fulfilled life for them and impact the lives of others. So, they deliberately choose what occupies their minds. When they want victory, they plant the roses of victory on the garden of their minds. When they want to make a great contribution to the society, they deliberately choose those thoughts that empower them to break away from the pack and affect their generation. In the end, they reap what they sow. It might take painstaking work spread over years, but they always get there. It might be tough and rough, stretching and tasking their patience to the limits, but they always get there. It is impossible to land elsewhere except where their minds point. We are all beneficiaries of the inputs we make into the garden of our minds. For no one sows a corn and reaps a yam. It is a natural law and yet it is lost on many.
And that explains why many people sow thorns in their gardens. They allow limiting beliefs to dominate their minds. They think of hurt, weakness and failure and they reap plenty of these on their garden of life.
Each thought that we permit in our mind is a seed. And you know there is life in every seed to produce its kind. I do not know about you, but I am overwhelmed by this truth. Now, the seed we sow is a choice. It is a deliberate act. With our hands, we sow the seed we desire on our minds and through constant contemplation we empower the seed to produce its kind. I know some will ague that some thoughts are non-deliberate. The same way we can say some thorns are not deliberately sown in the garden. But the thorns cannot just take over unless empowered to do so by the gardener. Non-deliberate thoughts are as powerful as deliberate thoughts. Each is a seed capable of producing its kind. Great leaders take responsibility for their thoughts and they constant tend their garden to weed out such thoughts that are not consistent with their life’s vision. You need to go ahead and do the same.
Picture your mind like the garden beside your house, office or school. How does it look? Is it filled with well trimmed roses that brighten the environment, creating beauty? Or is it unkempt, unwieldy and unattractive? Who do you hold responsible for the either the beauty or the ugliness? Now, I hope you will not say, “No one”. That is what man has been saying for years, shifting responsibilities away from him and in the process becoming a victim of his environment rather than the creator of his environment.
Roses do not just appear on a garden. They are a product of a deliberate effort. The mind that is deliberately exercised to generate ideas for change will bring the desired change that will astound the world. Great leaders recognise this fact and cash in on it. They are very conscious of the garden they want to build – an attractive garden that leads to a fulfilled life for them and impact the lives of others. So, they deliberately choose what occupies their minds. When they want victory, they plant the roses of victory on the garden of their minds. When they want to make a great contribution to the society, they deliberately choose those thoughts that empower them to break away from the pack and affect their generation. In the end, they reap what they sow. It might take painstaking work spread over years, but they always get there. It might be tough and rough, stretching and tasking their patience to the limits, but they always get there. It is impossible to land elsewhere except where their minds point. We are all beneficiaries of the inputs we make into the garden of our minds. For no one sows a corn and reaps a yam. It is a natural law and yet it is lost on many.
And that explains why many people sow thorns in their gardens. They allow limiting beliefs to dominate their minds. They think of hurt, weakness and failure and they reap plenty of these on their garden of life.
Each thought that we permit in our mind is a seed. And you know there is life in every seed to produce its kind. I do not know about you, but I am overwhelmed by this truth. Now, the seed we sow is a choice. It is a deliberate act. With our hands, we sow the seed we desire on our minds and through constant contemplation we empower the seed to produce its kind. I know some will ague that some thoughts are non-deliberate. The same way we can say some thorns are not deliberately sown in the garden. But the thorns cannot just take over unless empowered to do so by the gardener. Non-deliberate thoughts are as powerful as deliberate thoughts. Each is a seed capable of producing its kind. Great leaders take responsibility for their thoughts and they constant tend their garden to weed out such thoughts that are not consistent with their life’s vision. You need to go ahead and do the same.
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