EVERLASTING INHERITANCE TO OUR CHILDREN

 

MAN-AMONG TRANSFORMATION SERIES

AN EVERLASTING INHERITANCE TO OUR CHILDREN BEFORE LEAVING THE EARTH: 

CONCEPT FROM THINK AND GROW RICH

Permit me to borrow a concept from a book titled “Think and Grow Rich, and I will present this extract as it was produced by a man of uncommon knowledge.

Aside from the bible, second only to the bible, I have been thoroughly blessed and transformed by the industry we called the Personal Development industry. Hallelujah, where we have men and women who have been able to shape our philosophy and approach to life. 

One of the stories that come very readily to mind was the story of a wealthy man arguably the first billionaire recorded in the United State of America when they became a nation by name Andrew Carnegie. Listen very carefully, Andrew Carnegie was a very successful man, history would tell us. 

And then one time it was said that he felt very disappointed that many of the wealthy people within his class and the blessed people and the great people were going to their graves and were never transferring the truth that made them wealthy and great. 

And other people who were failures or average people were just spectators and did not really know the secrets that control that level of excellence. And then he got a young man that many of you may have known or heard called Napoleon Hill.

A young man in his twenties, history would tell us, and a young journalist, he gave him an assignment. Listen to me carefully… the assignment was that I would give you letters of recommendations. Go and meet every one of these great and successful people. And I want you to interview all of them one by one. Piece together all their philosophies and put it together in a concise format.

So that when we are long gone, we will be able to live our convictions, for the generation that comes and Napoleon Hill took on that journey and for a period of about six(6) years there…. He went about interviewing all the greatest and brightest of the minds at that time and came together with thirteen (13) principles captured in a book that many of you have heard about called, "Think and Grow Rich”. 

That was the product of that research, vetting and interviewing all of these bright minds. What philosophy did they honour to have produced such an excelling life? Hallelujah, when I read that story many years ago, it was so instructive. Listen to me. You will never reproduce a man’s result until you are able to reproduce his philosophies, his belief system and his convictions. Never forget this.

No wonder that the bible says, let this mind be in you. You want to become like Jesus in experience, you need to find out his convictions, his philosophies, and his mindset. The first and most important transfer that needs to happen from one generation to another is not physical things. The transference of mindset, the transference of conviction, the transference of philosophies and the transference of beliefs. Believe me, the bible says for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he… is that in your bible? 

That means if something is wrong in your life, I have taught you that your physical environment is a reflection of the quality of your thinking and philosophies. 

Unfortunately, those who desire to receive from great men are not interested in receiving their convictions. They don’t focus on their minds to put together the quality of their thinking…THEY ARE SELFISH… But Please look up and hear these;

• What do you believe about God?

• What do you believe about Satan?

• What do you believe about failure?

• What do you believe about success?

• What do you believe about excellence?

• What do you believe about wealth?

• What do you believe about poverty

• What do you believe about challenges?

• What do you believe about victory?

These are the summation and these philosophies will frame your mindset and inevitably translate into the results that you have.

You can have two men of God, who love God sincerely, mentored under the same father or the same mentor but you will find out that their result becomes different. Impact is there. Several other things are there. But one may be interested in learning more than just physical things. 

For one he may be interested in holding the mic and making news, the other one to study. This is very powerful. So the first gift, please hear me. Any father here. Any parent, leader, business man and man of God. In thinking succession, the first gifts you can give your child and should give your children are a summation of your conviction.

 What made you great?

 What did you do?

            Why did you do it?

 What do you believe?

 What have you come to hold through that has translated into excelling life?

That is the first gift you should give to your child, not material things. But unfortunately they are many children that pride themselves with cars, houses and designer clothes. Nothing is wrong with that, except that their lives are empty like that of the prodigal son. Because the prodigal son had physical things but no convictions.

Are you seeing that? When the elder brother wanted to be sad the father said noooooo! Don’t feel bad. There is something that gentleman didn’t ask for. He asked for physical things. But there are other things that I have. One of them being my convictions. I was not born like this. So find out what I believed to be what I am today.

Let me tell you this, every parent here I challenge you and every father and every leader, make sure that you do not go to your grave without capturing and preserving your philosophies and beliefs in the most concise way. Give it to your child as a gift and you truly gave him an inheritance.

Hallelujah…! Your conviction, the first gift that must be transferred from one generation to another. Now please look up, do you know why there are so many people who are poor and mediocre. Sorry I am not talking about finances. But just to borrow a concept.

When a poor man, poor then meaning a description not an insult. When a poor man sees a wealthy man, the first thing he looks at is his pocket and not his mind. You know a poor man not just by the absence of resources but by his passion to see what is in the box.

Poor people admire physical things, the gilts and the glamor that come with great men. But any mind that wants to rise is focused on the mentality. What do you know and what do you understand?

Let me challenge therefore that in your quest to live an excellent and excelling life or to create succession to your result. The first thing you should look at are men and women whose minds are open and malleable to receive, not people whose hands are free to receive.

People whose minds are ready to receive……

JOSHUA SELMAN

MAN-AMONG HUBS

THINK AND GROW RICH