The Mediation Doctor
Success: The Winner’s Mind
By Karima “The Mediation Doctor” Muhammad, PhD
It is often asked, “what makes someone a winner?”. Is it how someone is raised or is it a product of their environment? How are successful people created? The answer to success is actually simple. Success is a mindset; a state of mind becoming congruent with the physical state of being. Your attitude toward your life and goals determine your success. How is success measured? Calculation of success is attained by the exploration of failure; or examining the trail and error factor. Failure is just life lesson learned while attempting to act on a thought; an substance that need to be tweaked for a more desirable outcome. The winner’s mind is a collective contemplation of contentment creating a masterpiece for self gratification, discipline, and value; while empowering others to do the same.
Lasting success can be attained by expressing gratitude in every act of daily living. Behaving in a certain way, and thinking in a certain way. Believing that all things are created by a Force which has no partners, nor was It created, nor can It be distinguished. This Force has knowledge of all things and permeates penetrates throughout the universe. This Force is the Master of all seen and unseen. This Force has always been and forever will be. This Force is God, Allah Almighty.
Holy Qur’an: Surah Al-A’raf 7:54
“Indeed your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, and then He rose over (Istawa) the Throne, He brings the night as a cover over the day, seeking it rapidly, and He created the sun. the moon, the stars subjected to His Command. Surely, His is the Creation and Commandment.
Blessed is Allah, the Lord of the Alamin.”
Our thoughts are important to our success. Be careful about the things you think about for they will shape you. Many have wronged themselves with thoughts of greed, selfishness, jealousy, envy, suspicion, conceit, competition and self loathing. We tend to attract what we think about most, because our thoughts manifest in the physical state of being. For example, you are a person that feels that the whole world is against you and nothing goes well for you. Your thoughts of self-loathing will manifest poor self-esteem which is personified by poor pasture, poor communication skills; and ultimately poor judgments and overall poor performance in life. You become stagnated by your own thoughts of self-loathing. In addition, you will attract people to you that have the same self-loathing concepts. In this state of self-loathing the person is ungrateful to Allah for the good things in their life and as a result are rendered blind to all that is good. One must be grateful to be successful; to be a winner.
Expressed gratitude is simply a way to communicate (in prayer) with Allah. Acknowledging that all that you are; and will ever be is due to Allah. You may express gratitude by doing good deeds, taking care of the things that Allah has already given you; see the good in all things. If you have committed
bad deeds, preform enough good deeds to out weigh the bad ones. If you are feeling bad about your present condition in life, focus on the good things in your life and feel good about the good. Be thankful for the good and you will attract more good.
Holy Qur’an: Surah Al- An’am 6:161
“Whoever brings a good deed will have tenfold like it, and whoever brings an evil deed, will be recompensed only with the like of it, and they shall not be wronged.”
Surah Al-A’la 87:14-15
“He indeed is successful who purifies himself, And remembers the name of his Lord, then prays.”
Surah Al-Ahqur 46 :15
And We have enjoined on man to be dutiful and kind to his parents. His mother bears him with hardship, and the bearing of him, and weaning of him is thirty months, till when he attains full strength and reaches forty years, he says: “ My Lord! Grant me the power and the ability that I may be grateful for Your favour which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and that I may do righteous good deeds, such as please You, and make my offspring good. Truly, I have turned to You in repentance, and truly, I am one of the Muslims”.
A quote from W. Clement Stone 1902-2002 Author and Businessman
“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”
Be thoughtful. Be grateful. Be successful.
I am thankful to Allah for the opportunity to share my thoughts with you all. Masalaama!
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