The Challenge before Us

By Erik K. Dzordzordzi Esq.

‘God introduces His will into nature for the purpose of revealing His power in light and majesty to constitute a kingdom of joy’. — Jacob Boehme.

Unguided, except by the caprice of the senses, it may be the unworthy helmsman that steers the ship directly onto the rocks; but exalted, trained, and consecrated, it may lead into the harbor of peace and safety.

Man is as he thinks he is, and what he does is the result of the sum total of his thought. The average person, however, thinks at random and therefore lives at random and does not know from day to day whether good or evil lies in his path. What he finds in his path is invariably the result of his own thinking, but as he does not know what results different kinds of thought produced he creates both good and evil daily not knowing that he necessarily does either of these. When he knows what each mental state will produce, however, and has gained the power to think as he likes under all sorts of circumstances, then he will have fate, destiny, environment, physical conditions, mental conditions, attainments, achievements and in fact everything in his own hands.
After twenty solid years of the coming into being the internet we in Africa and Ghana in particular ought to be asking serious questions. But any serious observer will predict that the dynamics of 21st century change that will gulf the world will be forced on Africa and Ghana will not be exception at all.
This writer comes to this conclusion based on certain facts not theories. I am a self educated individual for two decades I have been a student of life at the University of Hard Knock and I have learn many great facts including the art and science of thinking as humans. And I have recently comes to think that we can joined the global community on equal terms and be well respected if we can all learn how to think whether educated or not. It will cause a great movement across the country and even across the continent of Africa.

For some time now we have been celebrating the 100 years of the birth of the man Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, he is a Prime Mover and in Ghana what we have heard again and again over the past fifty-three years might be something. I want to be frank with all people who believe in the dream and works of OSAGYEFO Dr. Kwame NKRUMAH that we have not done anything yet and we should bury our heads in the ocean sand and forget it. We seem to be joking all this years. However, history has spoken of many great dreams that never get finish with its founders but let us not comfort ourselves.

One thing that always comes to mind is that only a major paradigm shift that can turn our greatness out from inside us. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah once said, “I have sow the seed it will geminate” That is a true statement. Ghana is so bless that we are celebrating the 100 years of the birth of a Prime Mover Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah when we have a government that have taken a stand to restored the greatness of OSAGYEFO KWAME NKRUMAH for good. This is also a good time to see and do great things.

But what will be the greatest restoration of his life and time and his works and his dreams for Ghana for all Africans is? I want to be very fair to the very Great man that at six I heard about his overthrown and at seventeen I begin to study his works and at twenty-eight I saw that terrible mistake that our people make, the greatest mistake ever. Now the past two decades was spent to find solid solutions with facts not theories.

As a graduate of the School of Thinking and currently one of the Senior Instructor of thinking worldwide I wanted to offer a very humble suggestion that we in Ghana should ceased this historic opportunity whilst celebrating the life and times of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah we should be a little smart to join the world community by introducing this subject. One big advantage this study will bring to us is that we shall not be begging for foreign money for our development agenda again and that they will see us to be serious and give us better and serious assistance. The quotation below will also bring the reader closer to the facts why we are where we are today. It is because of the mindset we have and not until we make a deliberate effort we shall not make much progress in the twenty-first century and if even we will move it will be force on us that will not make us a proud people. No follower is ever genuinely happy and free.

"Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it. God has so formed us that we are continuously impelled to thought; we must either think or engage in some activity to escape thought. The headlong, continuous chase for pleasure in which most people spend all their leisure time is only an effort to escape thought. If they are alone, or if they have nothing amusing to take their attention, as a novel to read or a show to see, they must think; and to escape from thinking they resort to novels, shows, and all the endless devices of the purveyors of amusement. Most people spend the greater part of their leisure time running away from thought, hence they are where they are. We never move forward until we begin to think."Wallace D. Wattles

When we understand the laws of thought and think accordingly, we have begun what may properly be termed scientific thinking; that is, we have begun designed thinking; thinking with a purpose in view; thinking in accordance with exact scientific system; and thinking for results. When we think in this manner we think according to those laws of thought that are required in order to produce the results we have in view; therefore all the forces of mind will be directed to produce those very results. In this connection we should remember that every mental process produces its own results in the human system; therefore we can secure any result desired when we place in action the necessary mental process.

You never think scientifically unless you think for a purpose; it is therefore purposeless thinking that you must avoid. And all purposeless thinking is wrong.

Every process of thought that works at random is wrong because it leads to waste, destruction and retarded growth. For this reason all thoughts that we may create at any time that have no special purpose in view are wrong thoughts and are detrimental to the welfare of the individual. But here we must remember that wrong thought is not simply thought that has base motives; it is also thought that has no motives. A right thought always has a definite motive with some higher goal in view. In fact, to be right a thought must have a motive and that motive must be constructive; that is, it must aim to build, and to build for something worthwhile. Wrong thought, however, is scattering and destructive and retards growth. This is the real difference between thought that is wrong and thought that is right.

The challenged we face today is a great one it is even painful that we don’t even know and above all we do not even want to listen to any other alternatives approaches. In education we can in fact reduces the time and cost of education by at least 55% and in doing so can we imagine what we can use the un-use resources for? If people can think clearly how to solve basic problem they are going to be more healthy and productive just two advantages for now. As to how it will cure us on corruption and other vices later we can talk on that. Today no one can claim that we do not have a problem far from that, however, I think the most critical need today for us to forge ahead have to be how we ourselves can help ourselves no foreign money or how much donors give us. When we do take the right action the donors will give us serious and the will give us anything we wants.

The School of Thinking is a powerful study only if one put in much determination as with the most important studies in life are so simple with determination you can un-earth the secret within such has been my personal experience over the past nine years of study. Send me your comments and let me help you along your child will be grateful and your husband and wife will respect you and adorns you. I look forward to meeting you. Send emails to: [email protected]

My candid agenda is that I look forward some day into the future to see Ghanaians doing great businesses across Africa more than we do today. I wanted to see GCB across every country in Africa if Dr. Kwame Nkrumah had a branch in even London why is it taking us so long to reach out across African. We relax not moving forward because of hatred and envy. Let us move forward.

Erik K. Dzordzordzi Esq.- He is the Publisher of Entrepreneur Magazine and a SISOT Society, (Senior Instructor at the School of Thinking Society)-Australia/USA Email: [email protected]
Also at my blog at www.erikkdzordziesq.wordpress.com


Dr.Michael Hewitt-Gleeson: Founder of the School of Thinking.org Austrailia/USA



Dr. Kwame Nkrumah the greatest thinker in the 20th century that Africa ever had.