Developing A Mindset for Success (2)

              Our minds and thoughts have been said to be the determiner of our success in any area of life, be it financial, marital, spiritual you name it. However just mere knowledge of the fact does not change anything but the effort in putting acquired knowledge to work that matters. A famous football couch said, "its not the desire to win that brings victory but the desire to engage in the training that brings victory". There two important ingredient in the development of a success mindset

1. Faith; Napoleon Hill in his book, Think and Grow Rich described faith as the head chemist of the mind and I agree. Faith has the ability to treat the mind whenever it is 'sick'. Faith is calling real what we cannot see. A friend recently on Facebook described faith as taking the first step without seeing the end of it. However the best definition was done by God in Heb 11:1.
               Faith can only be gotten through our ear gate, what we hear determines the kind of faith we have. we develop faith in God by hearing the word of God, we develop faith in our selves by hearing what we and other say about ourselves. Faith is deceiving our subconscious mind to act and respond in a certain way. Faith is a pillar which support the mind to achieve success, remember that if you don't stand for something you will fall for everything.
             The whole teaching of the bible or Christianity is all about developing this all important virtue called faith. God can't help you if you don't exercise some faith. Heb 11:6
2. Forget The Past; Everyone of us can look at our past and pin point times when we experienced failures, made wrong decisions and so on. 

This is only normal and it happens to everyone, however it becomes a problem when they affect our mindset and destroys our faith on things in the present. Past failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. it takes delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. The cure for forgetting past failures is developing strong faith in God and yourself.

Developing a Mindset for Success (1)

        Everybody desires success, success is good, success is sweet, success is God's desire for you on earth, in fact he had to endure excruciating pain in order to deliver it into your hands, therefore if you are not succeeding, that means you are wasting the grace of God upon your life. God has done his own part what are you waiting for?
        Success is not achieved by external accomplishments such as obtaining a College degree, getting married, having a promotion or securing a visa to the United States. Success is a mindset, and until you develop that mindset, you can't be successful.

         Your mind is the ultimate determiner of success, you must first of all achieve success in you mind first before it can begin to manifest to other people around you. The Bible tells us " as a man thinketh so he is" prov 23:7. This simply means whatever we achieve or accomplish is a direct result of our thought and our thought are made in our minds. Our brain has a way of becoming magnetized with our dominating thought which we hold in our minds, these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts. In other words, you become what you think about most of the time. someone said something amusing, he said, " you are not what you think you are but what you THINK, you are". Got it ?