Why You Should NOT be Afraid of being Different

You are at your possible best when you do things differently from others; as long as they are the right things. Most times, people hate you not just for being different, but because they are so jealous of what you stand for and they can't meet up.

Maintain Your Difference: Its a Right Mindset

A different approach is not possible without a different mindset. If you want to do things differently from the crowd, you need to think differently from them. Not only did David separate himself physically, he also separated himself mentally. He wasn’t thinking like others were thinking. He wasn’t afraid of the same things that scared them off. He wasn’t moved by what moved them. 

When everybody in Israel was afraid of Goliath, he stood tall and said “since I could kill a lion and a bear in the bush, I can bring down Goliath” (1 Samuel 17: 34-36). That was a totally different mentality. It wasn’t David’s physique that killed Goliath, it was his mindset. He was probably the smallest physically, but was obviously strongest mentally. He first won the battle in his mind before he won in physically.

When late president Umoru Musa Yar’Adua stepped into power in 2007, he announced that he came with a seven point’s agenda that was supposed to transform Nigeria. And make no mistake, these agenda were good and in fact, if properly implemented, they would have helped the development of Nigeria a great deal.

However, something crucial was missing in that agenda. There was no program in place to transform the mindsets of the citizens that will ultimately culminate into generational transformation.

The average Nigerian already has a negative mindset. He believes that due to the fact that the government is corrupt and that money is hard to come by, prosperity is also not possible unless one has to get involved in bad practices. He believes that nothing can work well in any sector of the country’s economy anymore. And he has also conditioned his mind to believe that if he will ever be prosperous, then luck will really need to be on his side. This is bad for personal development.

What am I saying? If there must be a positive transformation in our lives, societies, states, nations, regions and even the world at large, then there must first be a reasonable transformation going on in our minds and in the minds of all people across the nations of the world