A Builder Understands that What you Believe Influences What You Attempt, What You Attempt Influences What You Become, And What You Become Eventually Changes Where You Are.

BELIEVE AFRICA MONDAYS

THE BUILDERS MINDSET: CHANGE YOUR MINDSET, CHANGE YOUR LOCATION

There is a powerful lesson in the journey of the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land. God brought them out of Egypt, but Egypt had not fully come out of them.

They were physically free, but mentally they were still slaves.

They had left the place of oppression, but they carried the memory, fear and mentality of oppression with them. When challenges came, they wanted to go back. When they saw giants, they forgot the God who had delivered them. When they faced uncertainty, they preferred the familiarity of slavery to the responsibility of freedom.

Sometimes God can change your environment, but you still have to change your mind.

The Israelites wandered in the wilderness for forty years. A journey that should have taken a much shorter time became the journey of an entire generation. The old generation that continually doubted, complained and refused to believe did not enter the Promised Land.

The lesson is powerful: your mentality can keep you in a location long after God has opened the door for you to leave it.

God can deliver you from Egypt, but you must learn to walk away from the mentality of Egypt.

You can leave a bad relationship, difficult job and still think like a victim. You can leave poverty and still make decisions from a poverty mindset. You can graduate from university and still believe that your only future depends on finding someone to employ you.

Freedom is not only about where you are. It is also about how you think.

In the biblical account, Joshua and Caleb stood apart because they saw the same challenge as everyone else, but they interpreted it differently. While others saw giants and concluded, “We cannot,” Joshua and Caleb believed that the land could be taken.

“The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.” — Numbers 14:30

They had a different spirit. They believed differently.

But there is an important correction to how we sometimes tell this story: Joshua and Caleb were not born in the wilderness, and they were not the only two Israelites left alive because they had no memory of Egyptian oppression. They had also experienced Egypt and the wilderness. What set them apart was their faith, courage and mindset. They refused to allow the thinking of the crowd to become their thinking.

That is the real lesson for every builder.

Leadership begins with thinking. Builders are thinkers before they become builders.

Why is it that before many people even finish school, they are already looking for an aunt, uncle, relative, friend or connection who can help them get a job?

Why is the first question often, Who will employ me?

Why don't we also ask:

What problem can I solve?

What can I build?

What can I create?

What skill can I master?

What company can I start?

What system can I develop?

How can I create employment instead of only searching for employment?

There is nothing wrong with having a job. Employment can be a powerful place to learn, grow, build experience and develop mastery. But your mind should never be limited to believing that someone else must always create your future.

A builder can work for someone and still think like an owner.

A builder can study and still ask how that knowledge can solve problems.

A builder can start small and still think globally.

A builder understands that what you believe influences what you attempt, what you attempt influences what you become, and what you become eventually changes where you are.

Your mentality determines your location.

Your mindset shapes your identity.

Your ideology influences how you show up in the world.

What you repeatedly tell yourself about money, work, success, leadership, business and your own potential will eventually shape your decisions.

If you do not change mentally, you may remain physically where you have always been.

And sometimes the greatest prison is not the place you are in. It is the philosophy you carry inside your mind.

The Israelites had seen miracles. They had crossed the Red Sea. They had experienced provision in the wilderness. Yet when it was time to possess the land, many of them still saw themselves as small.

They said, in effect, we are like grasshoppers.

That is what limiting beliefs do. They make you reduce yourself before anyone else has even rejected you.

You disqualify yourself before applying.

You decide you cannot own a company before trying.

You decide business is only for certain people.

You choose a path only because it guarantees employment, without asking whether you could also build, innovate, solve a problem or create something that did not exist before.

Why?

Because sometimes the hard drive is stuck.

And before your life can change, your thinking must be rewired.

Inspired by the teachings of the late Dr. Myles Munroe, we must begin asking deeper questions about purpose, leadership and potential. We must stop defining success only by the opportunities someone else gives us and begin considering the possibilities we can create.

This does not mean everyone must become an entrepreneur. It means everyone must become a builder in their thinking.

Be uncomfortable with a location that no longer reflects your potential.

Do not settle simply because where you are is familiar.

If there is a constant nudge inside you telling you there is more, listen to it.

More to learn.

More to become.

More to build.

More to contribute.

More problems to solve.

More people to serve.

Be relentless in your pursuit of growth. Be disciplined in developing your mind. Read more. Learn more. Build more. Challenge your assumptions. Change the philosophies that have kept you waiting for permission.

Because less waiting and more building begins in the mind.

As you begin this new week, challenge your mindset.

What do you believe about yourself?

What do you believe about Africa?

What do you believe about money, leadership and opportunity?

What philosophy has been quietly controlling your decisions?

Are you thinking like someone waiting to be chosen, or someone preparing to build?

You do not have to remain mentally in Egypt when your future is calling you forward.

Change your mindset.

Rewire your thinking.

Believe that possibilities exist beyond what you have seen.

Because before you change your world, you must first change the way you see it.

AT MN COLLECTIVE, WE BELIEVE IN TRANSFORMATION.

We are building more thinkers. More leaders. More problem-solvers. More creators. More builders.

Through our three philosophies:

BELIEVE — Transform the mindset.

BRAND — Discover, develop and position your value.

BUILD — Create, solve, scale and leave something behind.

Africa does not only need more job seekers.

Africa needs more thinkers.

More innovators.

More people willing to see a problem and ask, “What can I build?”

Less waiting. More building.

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