Top Achiever's Mindset

Lennie Eseoghene Esomitoje

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The book, ‘Top Achiever’s Mindset’, has a mandate to set you on course to live out your purpose in life and be a top achiever while at it. This book of eleven solid chapters will set you on a destiny fulfilling journey and help you build a winning mindset that will take you to the place called ‘there.’
In this book you will find practical tips on finding your purpose, achieving phenomenal success and staying focused in the process. After reading this book, you will abandon a life of just existing and cultivate values of success that will help you live a life of relevance and purpose.
There are mind riveting sections, like the 4 ‘P’s that are required in the canvass of a goal getter’s heart, the, ‘7 Powers of a Top Achiever’, and sections on decision making and taking action that will greatly sharpen your level of effectiveness as a person.
From the instances of how ‘nothings’ became ‘some things’ you will indeed be propelled to take ‘that next step.’ The world is waiting for you to let loose your potential and take action and Dr Lennie is waiting too to see you at the top!
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Informations

• Publié par: AuthorHouse UK
• Date de parution: 25 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781728374697
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

TOP ACHIEVER’S MINDSET
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
LENNIE ESEOGHENE ESOMITOJE
 
 
 
 

 
AuthorHouse™ UK
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© 2022 Lennie Eseoghene Esomitoje. All rights reserved.
 
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.
 
Published by AuthorHouse 08/23/2022
 
ISBN: 978-1-7283-7468-0 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-7283-7469-7 (e)
 
 
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Introduction : Man your Mind
 
1       Finding Purpose
2       Principles of Purpose, Success and Achievement
3       Burn That Fuel
4       Focus!
5       The Top Achiever’s Mindset!
6       The Seven Powers of Top Achievers
i. The Power of Imagination
ii. The Power of Positive Confession
iii. The Power of a Positive Memory Bank
iv. The Power of Immediacy
v. The Power of Refusing to Quit
vi. The Power of Positive Believing
vii. The Power of Pressure Control and Management
7       ‘A’-Mindedness
8       The Only Bad Decision is Indecision
9       Be an Enforcer!
10     Only Healthy People Achieve Anything
11     When You eventually become ‘You’, help others be ‘Them’
 
Conclusion : Embracing Top Achievement, Engaging Top Achievement
About the Author
INTRODUCTION

MAN YOUR MIND
I was brought up in a large family (a polygamous family setting), and this had its merits and demerits. When I was born, Eku town, Nigeria was recovering from the Nigerian Civil War. At the tip of this, my parents separated 3 years after I was born, and I moved with my mom to her dad’s (my grandpa’s compound), but stayed more with my grandma.
The God-factor obviously played a great role early in my life. The divine must have planted the right decisions in the hearts of those in position to decide for me. Growing up without mum and dad together had its downside. However, this was drowned by several fun activities in my grandpa’s compound. I grew up with a ‘never-say-die’ mentality. Surviving in such a crowded home required some guts, but it was fun all the way and I could call myself blessed. Thanks to growing up with a strong character, in the shadow of Grandma Ubierie, a woman with a strong personality.
My mum, upon noticing that my strong-willed nature was turning me into a stubborn young man, sent me out of Eku to a nearby more industrialized town – Warri, at the age of six. She advised me to take advantage, especially of academic opportunities over there as according to her, “The future belongs to the educated.” She often lamented that her father did not allow her go to school. She perceived that I would be better influenced at Warri.
Another fun episode started immediately I got to Warri and it was about business. At the age of seven, the family’s kerosene business was entrusted to me by my guardian, and it turned out to be great. The benefit of such early exposure to trading made me good with money. I did other sorts of trading. Every season came with its own article of trade and I primarily traded in food items, aside my kerosene business. During the military regime of Mohammad Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon, times were so hard that I added menial jobs to the list of my businesses. I cannot forget my mother’s advice while she was sending me to Warri, at the age of six. She told me that I had better chances of getting ahead in life if I had an education and grew up outside the negative environment and influence of my hometown, as I was already derailing from her dream for me.
I had a mind of my own very early in life and did what I felt good and exciting then. Coupled with my inquisitiveness, I always tried out what I saw the other kids do or whatever came to mind. Nevertheless, mama prevailed on me, so I moved to Warri; a move that has proven to be wise and fruitful. Arriving Warri at the ghetto side also had its downside. Despite having a penchant for knowledge, inquisitiveness and intelligence, early exposure to street life was a major challenge. It did not take long for me to start acting like them, talking like them and doing almost everything like them, except that I just loved to draw and read.
Back then, it sometimes looked as though there was no hope. Money was hard to come by and I did not have most of what other children had. I had to borrow books to read. The only thing I had was my mind, my determination and my life in front of me. Amid these hurdles, I made it through secondary school, and then the university. It was hectic but all the while, I developed a strong love for books, thus all through my years in school, I was reading books about wealth, financial freedom and greatness. I knew that the position I found myself then was not my position to stay in forever; I knew I wanted to get out; I had to get out and books were my way out. By reading those books, I built my mind.
I started seeing the future. Talking the way I wanted to talk when I became successful, walking the way I wanted to, eating and dressing that way. Little by little, I progressed from the ordinary mindset to a great mindset. I started seeing things from a different perspective. Separated parents, poverty, hard times, rejection and branding were excuses I could have held up for reasons why I would not succeed but I did not. I let those things push me as I applied the principles that I had imbibed from over 200 books I had read at that time.
I trained my mind to be bigger than all the smallness I saw around me; I adopted a life of greatness and today, I am happy. I resolved to be the best at everything I did. Especially during my university days, when things seemed out of hand, and my results were not looking so good. I was not fazed by it because I understood that no matter what my results looked like, I was going to be successful if I set my mind on success and I did.
The books I read helped a great deal in controlling and managing my mind, my emotions and my life. I understood the importance of positive believing and confession in becoming a top achiever. Today, I look at my life and I am glad that I applied those principles when I did. Here is a true-life story to add pep to our gist:
Sometime ago, I was with a colleague and my boss at the office who asked the name of the universities we attended. My colleague first responded, to which my boss answered, “Great.” He turned to me and I mentioned Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma. His response was, “It must have been a poor academic history that led you to that school.” He said other derogatory things that are useless to the tone of this book. When I replied to his barrage of insults, I said, “If you had been part of my journey, you will know that my Ekpoma was Harvard, and even a Pass would be a First Class. Sir, you do not know my journey, reaching here is a great achievement for me. And even if it doesn’t proceed from this level, I am already a top achiever — but the journey has just started for me.” Under such circumstances, I have always had to talk back because keeping quiet would mean acceptance and that has a way of trapping one in unnecessary depressions. I was responsible for my mind (thoughts), emotions (moods), my mouth (words) and my life (outcomes).
When a man achieves control over his mind, there is very little he cannot achieve. Knowing how to ‘man’ your mind is taking control over your life because your mind is your life. If you listen or look closely, you will discover and agree that negative forces are always after your mind because if you lose your mind, then there is no life left for you. Take the psychiatric patients for example, the medical professionals in the field, work tirelessly to restore the minds of those suffering from varying sorts of mind dysfunctions. What is worse than this are those who move about normal in a sense, but with twisted, negative and limiting minds who do not know that they need help. There are thousands of people with screwed up mindsets all over the world, and this is a great deterrent to top living.
Taking a snapshot of your mind, x-raying your thoughts, eliminating hindering thought patterns (by dwelling less and less on them) and erecting thought patterns of the desired end for your life (making it your focus until it grows to take all available space in your mind), will lead you on to a better life. What I did and still do, is take a snapshot of the undesired thought as well as the undesired end it is taking me to, and imagine it burn up; such that when they show up again, I see them as ashes. I then snapshot a new, erected thought pattern and the desired direction it will take me to. I concentrate on it (or them), until I am, driven to take actions that will achieve the desired end. The principle that naturally backs up the concept of taking a snapshot of your mind is, “Whatever you give attention to (focus and concentrate on) grows.” It is equally effective in the opposite, so, “Whatever you starve (or refuse room and attentio