Take a U-Turn on Life Approach

"It's about Time"-
Writing this post  is finally putting a matter to rest. An issue that has been burning in the back of my mind for sometime. Looking at our surroundings and the country, it is no doubt that we are a people who are lacking in terms of how our perspective towards the world is. Too many of us are easily thinking negative, and we don't see any hope at all, in our daily lives, national lives and community lives. Most of us out there are making life a hell of ourselves by thinking and attracting the things we don't want! Perhaps this is the reason we haven't made much progress as a nation, 50 years after achieving independence. Mind Transformation remains our only last option if we want to make our people free at last from the evils created by lack and deprivation, so called poverty.

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same result is insanity, The Great Inventor, Albert Einstein is quoted to have said such wisdom. Reflecting on this, you will find that most of us are trying to accomplish different results with the same old ways. This is because we are limiting ourselves to the data that we receive. when we operate on new data, we can make different processes, to achieve different results.
This blog is here to help your mind feed on new data concerning the universe and the spiritual realm where you can use your mind to attract to yourself only the things you wish to experience in order to live a fulfilling life. Most beliefs we hold in our country are retrogressive, to say the least. We only look forward to the physical reality without looking at the spiritual connection we all have to the everlasting supernatural force in the universe. The all-knowing force, the Alpha and Omega. Making a connection with this force, whatever you may choose to call it in your world, is the key to creating and manifesting extraordinary things.
The beginning point of all this is to let go of your old self-limiting beliefs, which is a characteristic common in the streets of Malawi. Let us stop complaining of situations and finally find lasting solutions to them. This is one of them; change how you think!
As we all proclaim our love for our country, 50 years on, it is time to make a U-turn on our mindset. We have to finally accept that it is the way we have thought that has been contributing to our stagnation. Don't blame it on illiteracy, you can change how an illiterate person thinks, even if he knows not how to write or read.

Lets  help one another in the spirit of compassion and selflessness, so that we can foster goodwill within our land, and let go of all ill feelings of resentment, jealousy and begging! We need to take a shift from this Mediocre way of approaching life.

Come back again ; we shall discuss on several intriguing topics that will make your U-turn worthwhile.

10 PLEASURABLE THINGS TO COME BY

In life, there are some things that would bring pleasure and bring some satisfaction and a greater sense of goodwill and well being. If you focus on the next list and attract any of these onto your life, you shall experience something great in your life. Some items from the list are extracted from my personal diary, so i really value what i am about to share with you. Please feel free to add on to the list, as you realize and begin an awareness of how you can live a fulfilling life so you can step into your greatest potential.

1. Respect
Respect is earned, so make sure your actions and words are consistent with your personality, values and  beliefs. In this way, you will earn respect as a consistent person.

2. Love
Love is a universal concept that we all need to embrace. We were made to love one another, so says the bible and most spiritual teachings. Learn to Love unconditionally and without any boundaries. Let go of all love phobias you may have or any bad experiences about the same.

3. Wealth
Accumulating wealth is a pleasurable thing. Not only will being wealthy make you have a better and enjoyable life, but you can also get whatever it is that you desire because you have the wealth to make things happen.

4. Joy
You can find joy by doing the things you love and doing less of the things that you don't enjoy. Locate the things that you easily do with little or no effort but you enjoy the most. Do the things that you are passionate about the most and Joy will surely follow! Follow your passion.

5. Honesty
Being blunt and straight forward saves you the most precious commodity on the universe, Time. Avoid beating about the bush and you will get the things you want quite rapidly and in a timely fashion. Honestly will also make people value you as you will be a genuine character.

6. Honor
Honor the things you love; your family first and all those other people in you life that bring a greater emotional and spiritual fulfillment.

7. Tithe
Tithing is one sure way to make sure that your wealth increases. Tithe at a place that you feel brings spiritual fulfillment to you. This can be a church or a charity organization.

8. Understanding
`Putting effort to understanding things will pay a great deal to you. Devote some time to understanding a particular field. This could range, for example, from stock markets to the natural laws of the universe. Whatever you do, devote some time to understanding some things in the various areas that could be of interest to you.

9. Wisdom
Seek wisdom, and you shall surely find it.Wisdom is the greatest pleasure that you will find. The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction, so says King Solomon in Proverbs. Surely you will find great pleasure in seeking wisdom.

10.Improvement
Constantly seeking new levels of knowledge to improve yourself brings good pleasure. Always be on the look out for information that will help you be the best version of yourself than yesterday. Be better today than you were yesterday. Devote some time to improving your personality and your strengths. Capitalize on the strengths that you know already about yourself and grow fully into what you would like to become.

Taking Action and Finding Life's Center

Sometimes, things seem pretty hard until you have the necessary courage to take action. Action is a powerful weapon that we can all use in the process of empowering ourselves and our well-being. Seriously, the only thing that separates our ability to be and have whatever that it is that we wish to be, what separates us is the one action. This makes all the difference, because all wishing, thinking and writing of what we wish to become will not take place until we have taken action. Passion alone without any positive action will achieve no results.

 Now, this might seem like common knowledge but the point I want to impress on you today is that you can be that person that takes the action. The Action Taker, as I may call you. What differentiates the average Joe from his successful friend Johny is that the latter applies a little action to his rhetoric, wishes and dreams.

 Also, not taking action makes you pay a higher price procrastinating on things that you would have easily finished if you only took one simple first step towards its completion. When you make the first step, the rest comes easy, it flows smooth like a river and it is soon natural and effortless.  

You can start initiating action today by making sure you aware of your priorities. Various tools exist to track your priorities and you can find most of these on the Internet today so i urge you to do so. Let that be your first action step and research further on the topic.

                            FINDING YOUR CENTER OF LIFE

Everybody has that thing/ variable in life in which their lives revolve around. Some people’s center is themselves; we call these the self-centered people. Some people are centered on their families and their spouses; some are centered on their jobs. It is important to know what your center is in life so that you can know what direction you should take towards any particular situation you are facing. When you know your center, you are better able to locate your motivations and your priorities. You can also shift this center if you think it is not in your best interest. However to shift your center, you have to know your current one.

You need to create a life that centers on the things that you want to achieve. Do you want to be motivated by personal interests? Or by your family ties? Maybe your job? You need to take a deeper reflection on your core values and ascertain what comes first in your life, there just has to be that one thing that comes first no matter what, and that will give you a clear picture of what your center is!

 Just like a GPS system, you need to locate your inner compass and determine what it is that you value the most in your life and you are a step closer to realizing what the center of your life is. No matter what it is, if it helps you to be a better person then its best that you make sure your center of life is continuously growing and it offers the most positive results. Take action today by evaluating your inner self with the following Five key questions:

•  What drives me the most? Why do I do what I do?
•  What things or people do I put first before anything else?
•  What is the one thing that I cannot go a day without crossing my mind?
•  What am I mostly scared to lose?
•   What is the one thing/ things that I can’t compromise my care for?

When you find your center, you will feel amazing to have found out that one thing that you just weren’t aware about yourself!   Self-realization will lead to growth, spiritually and in the physical reality.

THE SOCIAL RED CARD

In my last post, I promised to talk about social dynamics, groups and how they can affect your life. Firstly, let’s start with who you hang out with. The people you hang around can and will continuously shape your character. It is estimated that you earn the average of the five people that you usually spend most of the time with. Les Brown, one of the most avid inspirational figures in the world, once said that if you hang around 9 broke people, you will soon become the 10^th one. It is important to be aware of the people who you choose to spend time with.  One important thing to remember is that it is important to be around ambitious people, people who have bigger dreams and aspirations that will make you to seek to elevate yourself and your being. People who have goals and dreams are the people who know their purpose on earth. These are the people that face life with determination and positive energy in the attainment of a better and prosperous life. It is in your interest to increase your aspirations so that you aim to be successful and live an abundant life. However, you can’t do this if the people you hang around with bring you down or they are not for your highest good.

Sometimes we might stick in social groups despite the fact that we are not comfortable when we are around those people. Some people may continuously bring up your negative defects or some other negative aspects of your persona. You need to digress from such groups and seek only those groups of people who appreciate your positive aspects so that you may continually focus on developing those positive traits.

                                    THE SOCIAL RED CARD!!!:

The term borrows from the obvious football game where a player is shown the exit from the game after committing a serious offense. The Red card therefore can be used in social dynamics on friends who have pulled out a move that is in breach with good faith or something that is really disconcerting. People do all sorts of wrong against each other, but if people do certain types of conduct that is not in line with your moral values, religious values or things that you condemn or don’t believe in, it is time to pull up a red card on them! When I just discovered Mr. Les brown’s material, he advised to look into my circle of ten closest friends and evaluate how each one affects my life whether positively or negatively. This was a hard thing to do at first, I did not even have the motivation to start listing my friends down and start evaluating them. But trust me, after doing this exercise, I was more aware of who made the most positive impact around me and who did not. I encourage you to do the same, it is an important exercise. It’s better to keep people who are assets rather than liabilities. Evaluate your relationships! You can use the red card therefore to eliminate sources of negative energy that come in many forms including acquaintances, friends, colleagues or neighbors. You need to build on creating a circle that is valuable. Valuable connections matter in life and you can build your social capital from there. The vast field of Development theory and practice, also talks about social capital. This means social capital is critical for individual and national development alike. Social capital is basically the connections that you make over life which can be used to further develop yourself. Social capital allows you to grasp opportunities fast, allow the steady flow of information and can facilitate your business engagements.

Good Living. #Elevate.

Emotional Intelligence and Mental Poisons

It’s such a great evening! Today feels like one of those days where Miracles happen all day long.  Having epiphanies that transform your process to having to share you some of the day’s miracles so far. First, the almighty has let us wake up again to shine is his glory. It’s wonderful to be alive because there are so many things that we need to do here on our life on earth that requires us to take a certain responsibility towards the things that we are able to create and to bring into manifest our material world and reality.

There are a few things however that would seem like prerequisites to achieving what we can essentially manifest. This brings to fore the essence of being emotionally intelligent. Emotional intelligence helps then in determining the source of your emotions. When we feel angry, frustrated or down, it’s good to keep track of recent events in order to figure out the source of how you are feeling. To attract good and pleasant things in life, we need to have a “good” feeling. Seek good feelings, when you are feeling good, know that something is right and the universe is working for your greater good. It requires you therefore to be emotionally intelligent to trace your way into having this good feeling.

As you begin to realize this, you will soon be in a form of control and this will empower your life. When you are in control, you can avoid some mental Poisons. Mental Poisons are toxic thoughts that can destroy your normal positive thought process and will eventually lead to unpleasant feelings coming up. There are a variety of these so-called Mental Poisons that being aware of what they are and how they come about is also of utmost importance to you. Mental poisons include; Hate, resentment, regret and the most dangerous; violent thoughts. I don’t intend to go into further details into these mental and emotional toxics, I believe my purpose ends at making them aware to you.

On a last note, I just want to touch on a topic which is not so new in social dynamics. Assuming we have all come to face the fact that the world is a place full of gossip. People will always gossip, and its gossip that has made some rich people in Hollywood through magazines and shows. You know them, since we are very westernized in this part of the world! But the point is who or what do you talk about when you are in circles; at the bars and the lounges, is what is most important. You see, if you talk about Millionaires, you are surely not wasting your time as you will be talking about how they made their money and for obvious reasons, you will surely start studying their methods and the like. Thing is, people talk about those that interest them. It’s therefore good to talk about the people that we seek to be like. For example you could talk about personal inspirational figures who make you wish to achieve greater heights and realize a higher degree of self actualization. This is not bad, as it will lead you to seek better objectives through positive talk rather than Negative. A small book from one of my early tertiary school said at the back; “Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events and great minds talk about ideas”. Choose which one you want to be and make choice of the things you and your circles talk about. Aim to improve the whole team! Do not aim to be the only ‘smart’ or better one among the group, aim to make the whole group improved or just hang around improved personalities altogether. Choosing improved personalities to hang around should be one of the best moves you can make if you want to improve yourself and the things you attract into your life.  I rest my case for the time-being, more posts to follow where we shall discuss social dynamics and the key roles social groups have on individuals.

Living in the New Age

Ladies and gentlemen please let me welcome you to a new age, an age where we should all see through a common vision. That vision is a better and prosperous Malawi to live in.

This is an age where Young people like me can actually feel that being a part of the political process can bring about significant economic and political stability if we were all to engage in meaningful activities that will in the end be for the greater good in society and for the country.

This is the time to be Time conscious. Let’s deal away with the ‘Malawian Time’ type of Mentality. Young  and old countrymen, it's time to drop the negative attitude we have towards our country. Malawi is our home, our Motherland. Let us help our nation be among the best in the world. Let us be a part of  a revolution to be good at what we do.Indeed time for business as usual is over.
 We need to produce more and add to national development. It’s time for us especially young people to look forward with determination that we will do better than our Fathers and Mothers, Grandparents and all the generations before us. It's time to see through the lens of opportunity and grab whatever is presented to us within our reality.
We also need to make collective efforts in dealing away with our vices in the society. National building is fundamental for any regime therefore it is not surprising to see the newly democratically elected President, H.E Arthur Peter Muntharika  call upon efforts from ordinary citizens just like you and me to help along in the nation building process. We can help in national building, whatever it is that you can do, do your part and stop complaining about situations. We need to breed a nation of pro-active young and vibrant men and women, we can do this, we just need to make collective efforts.

In this new time ,  there is a need to shift our mentality. Now this is a matter of urgency, it’s time to let our minds be expanded, time to look beyond the horizon! It’s a new age we are living in. We can’t afford anymore to be negative or let negative circumstances change how we feel. Remember the Law of attraction, Cause and effect. We cause in our circumstances the things that we continuously think about.
The laws are there, it’s up to you to follow on them and see what type of extraordinary life you could live. Lets shift our paradigms to empower ourselves through mind development. Skills are important to keep, and one skill you should acquire for life is to constantly be in control of how you feel and how you think!

Well anyway to wrap up this piece, we have seen how laws are necessary in any democracy. Thanks to the law and the independence that the judicial system demonstrated in handling the election impasse cases just a few weeks ago. In my opinion, the process had been fair to all concerned parties,including ex-parte and the general public as well.

Well I just hope no one is conspiring to serve his/ her selfish vendettas after this year’s election. The election has opened most eyes around communities in the country and it for this reason that I hope we are likely to experience a shift in the political culture among us citizens. Well this will be subject to research,and probably we could use such data in consequent elections in 2019. But for now, welcome to a new era! Say goodbye to the Old Malawi. This systems overhaul that we have all been crying about for decades should start from the bottom level up, and it starts with just you and me.

The Predictability of Stupidity

The Power of stupidity is enormous.  You pay a lot being stupid in life and sadly, most people have chosen to stay stupid in their life.  I don’t know why this is so, but really it’s too easy just to look the other direction. Anyway in life never underestimate the power of stupidity,as experience has taught so far. The thing is, people choose to  have that status. Maybe u have seen this, maybe u haven't. But this is an SOS call! It's calling out for you to avoid the wrath that comes with being stupid.

There are a few simple things that constitute stupid behavior, which i have summarized to save TIME .

First, being argumentative. Yes, disagreeing on everything colleagues bring up, even without concrete proof is regarded stupid,  going ahead and damaging egos while you are at it. Always hammering down  ideas and arguing all the way and time!

Second, have no goals. Having absolutely nothing to look forward to  in future. Having no clear, concise and specific written goals at all. Never Visualizing them every day, nor affirming them to thyself day in – day out!

We also find the habit of not  planning  activities. This means never being time conscious at all, ever! Always thinking God made all the time for you in the world. 

Never being corrected is also a bad habit. Yes, thinking you are always right is stupid behavior.  

Never learning from other people’s mistakes also finds a spot in being vice. Why learn when you can live a life of your own and learn from your own mistakes? Because you live once. 

And lastly always going with the crowd. You might think, if the crowd agrees, then it’s probably right I do it. Yes? After all, being different is hard!. But you have to be your own man/ woman, i encourage you to do that today! Stand for something that you believe in.

And i just have to say that you should Believe you can make things happen. The people who are making them happen aren't  lucky. They are just the same people as all of us, we are all the same matter.  They weren't born like that either.

 I wish you a successful mind transformation and development, because that is the way to true prosperity. Hopefully we can create Think-Tanks and  Master-Mind Groups while are at it.