Mind management and career success

Mind management? What exactly is this? How can someone manage her mind to excel at her business and career?  Can this be achieveable in this stressful life style we are living?

Every adult understand what mind is and how we use it but i guess not all adults understand what it means to manage their minds well to achieve success in life. I do not want to sound too religious but i discovered that people who are spiritually built and who have strong faith in GOD have more understanding of this. This does not mean that they also do not struggle with managing their minds. It does not matter how you look at it, if you believe in God or not, one thing is clear when it comes to our minds, that one must be really deeply rooted in life psychology and Philosophy one way or the other to achieve  this well.

The mind is not something we can see or touch so if you feel you can toy with it anyhow, you will be a wreck. Nothing you venture into will work well. I also do not believe anyone reading this can say, he/she gave him/her the  mind he/ she has.  Our minds has a lot to do with spirituality depending on your spiritual level as well.

My concern today is that, our minds has a lot to do with our success and failure in our life activities which ofcourse includes our career and business and i am going to discuss how we can make sure we use it well to our own advantage.

The group of people that have serious issues with their minds are those who just feel, they do not have to make extra efforts in life and what they do to survive.  I do not see how someone will wake up each morning and not having a plan of what to do in a day, how to achieve already made plans. I am not talking of you carrying a huge Diary/journal if you are not the type that keeps to things you write in your journal and Diary. There are people who will list out all kinds of activities and plans to do in a day but by the time they step out of the house, they hardly open the diary.  They do other stuff which they did not plan to do. We can not rule out emergencies each day we go out because no one controls unknown circumstances  in life at any point in time till they happen.

Mind management has to do with what you feed your mind all round the day as far as you are awake. What kind of news feed do you enjoy hearing and seeing? What group of people do you love to hang out with on daily basis? Which places do you love to visit and go when you want some time of your own? Whom do you emulate or rather who is/are your role model(s)?

I tell you folks, if you are always surrounding your self with negativity, your mind will be filled with all kinds of garbbage. Just like the physical garbbage we dispose, there is nothing good or decent about garbbage huh? A mind cluttered with all kinds of smelly garbbage can hardly function well not to talk of being successful in the areas of career and business.

There are working females or worst, jobless women you will see and they will give you all the names of the ‘bimbos’ in the print/electronic media, the latest relationship gossip wide world and who is sleeping with who in Africa.  These ladies spend so much time looking out for such stories and feeding their minds with them. This they do on daily basis even at work places.  Ask such ladies what stock market is and they will walk out on you. Ask them to write or create a project proposals for the company they work, they will go and pay someone else to do it after work.  Ask them to do a project presentation to prospective clients, they will tell you they are sick and doctor told them not to go to work for some weeks. They are not sick but simply avoiding the task you gave them. Such ladies minds are all filled with irrelevant issues that has nothing to do with the job or business they are doing so how can such ladies be successful or grow their business?  How can a female executive spend more time on net looking out for what Kardashin, Beyonce, Jim Iyke etc are doing rather  than enriching their minds with business,books, ideas,  and happenings? What value can these people add to your career and business? Are you really aware that you are busy promoting their own business rather than yours?  There is nothing bad in checking out such entertainment stuff once in a while but not feeding your mind on them as if you are feeding your stomach. Once these are all your mind crave, your life/work/business  actvities and style will channel towards them. You will not have much time to concentrate on building up your career /business success and  business creativity time.

The ones who are not working yet but keep crying and complaining of no job spend more time visiting people who are busy working in various offices and discussing small/petty talks that can not really add value to them. You are jobless and you went to an office, rather than find out if they are  recruiting, you spend all the time you are visiting talking about Mexican TELE-NOVELAS. You know all the names of the cast and who is who in the films and you forgot that these actors were paid for you to watch them. I love soap operas and i watch them when i am done with my career duties and tasks and they can never take up my priority list as well. Which time of mine  will they take over? The time i am busy researching for articles to write or,  my Consulting/coaching time? No way!! Infact the ones i watch has something i want to pick from them career wise.

On the contrary, if you feed your mind and channel it towards reading motivational books by powerful men and women in the spiritual and business world, you will see how healthy your mind will be. Most life/career/business problems will be solved easily.  You will develop great and new business ideas and innovations for your career/business growth.  How about newspapers and Business Magazines? How many women do you see on paper stands buying newspapers? They always wait for their men to buy.

There are Business CDs and DVDs at bookshops that can also enrich a working woman’s life and catapults her to great success. Buy them and enrich your mind.

JACLYN IWU