Thursday 25 July 2013
Dr Wale Akinyemi On The 6 Thinking Blocks That Hinders People From Being Successful
By Dorcas Karuana,
I recently attended a talk by Dr. wale Akinyemi at Parklands Baptist Church in Westlands where Dr wale was speaking on “Effective and Purposeful Thinking” and got thrilled by an upsetting statement that he made, “there is more money on earth than people.” The key thing is ‘your thinking’.
“As a man thinks so is he.’ Your life is a reflection of your mind Dr wale asserts. “Look around yourself and see. Thinking if free, though people think they are thinking but they are not. A lot of people who are mentally sound are mentally sick, especially those whose brain has a high value of second hand.
Some people are so consumed by what they are going on around them that they do not think where they are going. Bitterness does not change your situation so try another approach. “This consumed level of thinking brings generational inheritance. Dr Wale adds. “I do not understand why it is so easy for people to say ‘I am poor,’ instead of saying ‘I am rich.’” If you cannon t say it when you do not have it then you cannot get it.
Every country has a national average level of thinking. “Unless you think out of your national Average level of thinking, you cannot achieve beyond the national average level of achievement.” Wale asserts. You go into every country and there is a way of life there, thus you often hear these words “This is Kenya” or ‘This is England.”
As long as you are subscribed to “This is Kenya” philosophy, you cannot achieve beyond Kenyan level of acheicvement.
Successful people get out of these thinking blocks and leave a legacy.
Thinking Blocks form the basis of our thinking and they include:
1. Parental Block – This is what you inherited from your parents. “As he grew up, I would look at a nice car and my mother would say, ‘you do not even have a job to buy that car.” My mother also feared water in a swimming pool, and I also feared and even transferred it to my children. If you grow up with parental block that money is difficult to come by, then you will never even look for ways of making money.
2. Teachers Block- This is what your teacher told you. For example, you are taught that; “you cannot start a business if you do not have capital.” All you need to start a business is your brain. “Nobody told me of my intellectual capital and social capital to do presentations and motivational speaking.” You need to start questioning what you are told.
3. Heroes Block- “Be careful who your heroes are” Wale says. We walk into the heroes’ footsteps and what they consider their limitations or strengths we adopt them. “A study conducted on pastors revealed that pastors who mentor others have the same limitations and died at the same age.
4. Peers Block - This is where you compare your friends. “Do not look others. Do not look what they are doing.” Wale asserts. “When will you have time to think about your own self?” He further demonstrates this with a referee in a football match. “A referee goes everywhere all the players are, sweats but at the end of the game, nobody remembers him. The referees’ job description is to look for faults in others.” There are people who are referees and only keep looking for faults in you. “Refuse to be a referee, be a player,” he adds
5. Professional Block- Thinking that a certain profession is better that another. “In every profession there are champions. No profession is perfect; am sure you have seen poor lawyers and rich lawyers, poor accountants and rich accounts, poor teachers and rich teachers.” Be the best in your profession by staying on top of your game.
6. Societal Block- This is what society dictates is right or wrong to do. For example, some people will say that, “nobody in our clan has done ABCD.” If you fall for this belief then your mind will be limited there.
I recently attended a talk by Dr. wale Akinyemi at Parklands Baptist Church in Westlands where Dr wale was speaking on “Effective and Purposeful Thinking” and got thrilled by an upsetting statement that he made, “there is more money on earth than people.” The key thing is ‘your thinking’.
“As a man thinks so is he.’ Your life is a reflection of your mind Dr wale asserts. “Look around yourself and see. Thinking if free, though people think they are thinking but they are not. A lot of people who are mentally sound are mentally sick, especially those whose brain has a high value of second hand.
Some people are so consumed by what they are going on around them that they do not think where they are going. Bitterness does not change your situation so try another approach. “This consumed level of thinking brings generational inheritance. Dr Wale adds. “I do not understand why it is so easy for people to say ‘I am poor,’ instead of saying ‘I am rich.’” If you cannon t say it when you do not have it then you cannot get it.
Every country has a national average level of thinking. “Unless you think out of your national Average level of thinking, you cannot achieve beyond the national average level of achievement.” Wale asserts. You go into every country and there is a way of life there, thus you often hear these words “This is Kenya” or ‘This is England.”
As long as you are subscribed to “This is Kenya” philosophy, you cannot achieve beyond Kenyan level of acheicvement.
Successful people get out of these thinking blocks and leave a legacy.
Thinking Blocks form the basis of our thinking and they include:
1. Parental Block – This is what you inherited from your parents. “As he grew up, I would look at a nice car and my mother would say, ‘you do not even have a job to buy that car.” My mother also feared water in a swimming pool, and I also feared and even transferred it to my children. If you grow up with parental block that money is difficult to come by, then you will never even look for ways of making money.
2. Teachers Block- This is what your teacher told you. For example, you are taught that; “you cannot start a business if you do not have capital.” All you need to start a business is your brain. “Nobody told me of my intellectual capital and social capital to do presentations and motivational speaking.” You need to start questioning what you are told.
3. Heroes Block- “Be careful who your heroes are” Wale says. We walk into the heroes’ footsteps and what they consider their limitations or strengths we adopt them. “A study conducted on pastors revealed that pastors who mentor others have the same limitations and died at the same age.
4. Peers Block - This is where you compare your friends. “Do not look others. Do not look what they are doing.” Wale asserts. “When will you have time to think about your own self?” He further demonstrates this with a referee in a football match. “A referee goes everywhere all the players are, sweats but at the end of the game, nobody remembers him. The referees’ job description is to look for faults in others.” There are people who are referees and only keep looking for faults in you. “Refuse to be a referee, be a player,” he adds
5. Professional Block- Thinking that a certain profession is better that another. “In every profession there are champions. No profession is perfect; am sure you have seen poor lawyers and rich lawyers, poor accountants and rich accounts, poor teachers and rich teachers.” Be the best in your profession by staying on top of your game.
6. Societal Block- This is what society dictates is right or wrong to do. For example, some people will say that, “nobody in our clan has done ABCD.” If you fall for this belief then your mind will be limited there.
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