Scaling The Mind

By Danmore Mutumbami

SCALING THE MIND; is a self-help book for personal development and scale model focusing on the mind. Everything we do or have in our lives is a product of our mindset, therefore for change to happen in our lives we have to SCALE OUR MINDS UP to a level where we realize the potential, power of creation and the dominion deposited in us by our Creator, the Almighty God. This book draws inspiration from the Holy Bible in an attempt to highlight fundamental truths about our minds as crown creation of God. SCALING THE MIND is not there to give you easy steps to quick cash or quick riches, rather it provides simple steps and wisdom which are often taken for granted today as people race after riches and fame but at a great cost. There is no shortcut to greatness. WE ARE A PRODUCT OF OUR MINDSET, including all the things around us. It might be money, success, failure, wealth or poverty; all these are fruits of our own thinking. So, embrace the simple truths shared in this book and also put them in your daily practices and start experiencing who you are meant to be, A CROWN CREATION OF GOD.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Danmore Mutumbami
• Release date: Nov 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463832721

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About The Author

Danmore Mutumbami is a personal development coach, who specializes in psychology in the quest to determine how the mind works. After going in circles for more than three years trying to make it in life, Danmore was forced to identify why everything he was doing at that time was failing to work in his favour. He was dedicated to try and find out the determining factor for one to achieve success in life, whether it is hard work, background or just luck. Like most people, he fell prey to the quick cash schemes and lost most of his savings which made him even more determined to find out why things were not working as he thought they would. He wondered why do people even those in the same profession do not produce same results; some prosper and some fail? All these questions made him stumble over the subject of the mindset and he decided to dig deep, trying to understand what shapes the mind, what makes our mindset different, and what the mind’s contribution to one’s success. Subjects studied include; neuroscience, behavioural science, education systems and financial literacy (how to handle money). All these researches took almost two years and still going on but they led to the scripting of this book as Danmore was trying to share what he found, because he realised that what he was trying to solve was not only affecting him but it was also affecting a lot of people especially in Africa.

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Introduction

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nd then God said, let us create man in our own image, after our own likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth…. Genesis1 vs 26

Now, this is a very common verse and I know most of us heard it even from Sunday school, but, if I may ask, what did God meant when He said, in our own image, after our own likeness? Have you ever give it a thought what it meant or we just sing along with everyone else. We take it for granted but little we know that this verse holds the fundamentals of our being and destiny. Allow me to elaborate; God’s image is the spirit within us because God is a spirit, John 4 vs 24 says so, and we are not our bodies, we are a spirit, our bodies were made of clay but came to life when God breathed into them. So God put His spirit in us during creation, meaning to say we have a piece of God in each of us, we are little gods. Then when He said, in our own likeness, he meant; ability, power, and capabilities to create; govern and manipulate everything that He put at our disposal.

On verse 28 of Genesis God then said, BE FRUITFUL. These were the first words to enter and occupy Adam’s empty mind after coming to life. The first information man received was to inform him that he was fruitful; he had the capacity to be productive. This was the first instruction to man because God knew and trusted His investment he had deposited in man. God depended on His investment called BLESSING. Now, most people when reading this verse only think of one way of production, that is, making babies, it’s not wrong but I want to open your mind to this. Adam was tasked to name all the animals and everything God had created which was the first production of the mind, the first fruit of being fruitful as commanded by God, this is on Genesis 2 vs 19-20. This seems like a little task but think of any creature you know and there is so much more you don’t know, from the biggest animal to the smallest creature, the birds, the fish, big to microscopic, all that, he named them all and God was pleased. This only proves that we are more than what we think we are. This task only proves a lot of things. It proves the intellect, the essence of our being that was deposited in us right from creation.

We are alike to our Maker but not in the physical but in the MENTAL AND SPRITUAL NATURE. The verses we read above mentioned that God crowned man with glory and it is God’s purpose that, as we live we should reveal His image and His glory within. In simple terms, if God can think of something and make it a reality, so can we. He created the heavens and earth just from His imagination and believe it or not, so can we. Look, I am not telling you this so that we boast and try to be like God, NO, but my idea is to let you know that we are more than just mere creation. God invested so much in us and it is in His delight that we realize and express all He put in us and become which we are meant to be. It’s a pity that we are living in mediocrity, dying in poverty but with some much power and vigour in us. Our Maker is no mediocre

Psalms 8 vs. 4-5 reads, what is a man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou that vastest him? Then vs 5 goes on, for thou hast made him a little lower than ELO HI (latest version said angels but ELO HI, means God Himself) and has crowned him with glory and honor.

We are special beings by creation. Of all the things God created, He chose to make us in His image, His likeness. And my question will be, in what way exactly? Certainly not physically because I don’t think you look like GOD in the face or appearance and certainly He doesn’t look like me either. He created all of us in His image, meaning to say we can’t all look like Him, with our difference in race, colour and all that.

We have a God part within ourselves, the power of creation. Our minds are the most powerful and crowning organ that God created. We create our own lives through the way we choose to think. Unfortunately, most people aren’t aware of that, if they are, they don’t believe it and some believe but they never exercise it. My pastor always says, we are not our bodies, but we are what is within, full of power and capabilities. So this book was written to scale your mind to understand that, what is out there are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. It was written to enlighten you to the fact that we are authors of our lives. In our minds we forge our own destruction and with the same mind we can build tools and equipment to build our lives up.

Now the job is to be PRACTICAL. One thing most people take for granted is, the gap existing between merely knowing what we are capable of and the steps to success and knowing how to implement them. Our educational system is exposing us to a lot of things such as, how to be logical, the ethics, the careers, all the things we can be and all the world has to offer, all trying to pinpoint where our potential really lies. The problem comes in when we are focusing too much on academic excellence rather than developing what is within, what is already in us. Instead of it being an eye-opener, we are using it to put blinkers on ourselves, blinding ourselves to all the possibilities that lie before us.

I am not discrediting anyone here but all I am saying is that WE HAVE SOMETHING WITHIN US WHICH IF REALISED AND EXPRESSED INTO ACTION CAN GIVE EVERYONE HIS/HER SUCCESS instead of following some mere code of rules and quick fixes being preached today. So I have written this book that I may SCALE YOUR MIND and make you realize what is within you already, to challenge you into reinventing yourself and to unlock the greatness deposited in you. We are unique in our own making; we have gifts, we have hidden talents and passions, so I am offering to take you on the road of self-discovery.

Each and every successful man has achieved his/her success in a different way and they all share their stories hoping it might help someone out there. Some even lay out some steps for their followers to follow but as much as their stories are true, we are all missing the bigger picture here. The success they attained wasn’t entirely about what they did or on how they overcame their obstacles, but actually, it was on the STATE OF THEIR MINDSET. Listen, nature delights in variety, there are no circumstances that are exactly the same meaning to say following step by step and trying to be someone is not going to do the trick but ATTAINING A CERTAIN LEVEL OF MINDSET THAT IS POSITIVE AND DETERMINED ENOUGH TO ADAPT AND CONQUER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE. A certain level of the mindset of believing in oneself, believing in the greatness God already put in us, all we have to do is to make the best out of it. We have knowledge; we just have to exercise it. We have plans; we just have to act towards fulfilling them. All the dreams we had since we were kids, we just have to make them come true. So this book was written to SCALE YOUR MIND to understand that your life is what you make it in your head, what we do is a product of our MINDSET. We don’t have to trot after someone or those we believe that they possess all about human success, power, and ability to think. We all have it in us, JUST LET IT OUT.

It won’t be fair to you if I let you guess why SCALING THE MIND title, so before we embark on this journey let me try to define and explain what I meant by the title of the book.

SCALING

In geometry, they define this word as a linear transformation that enlarges or diminishes an object. They call it a process of transforming\changing\converting or transmuting something into something different in terms of form and nature of appearance. Now, if we add the word linear to the definition (linear transformation), it will be progressing from one stage to another in a series of steps ending up with something different. The transformation I will be talking about is the METAMORPHOSIS OF THE MIND as it matures or develops, or expands progressing upwards to a better version. Naturally, we are work in progress, our mind is ever-growing and ever-changing but this transformation depends on us, which direction we desire to take.

In computer jargon, I like it when they talk about database scalability, which refers to the ability of a database system to perform additional work when provided with an additional processor, RAM, and storage. The database system here is your mind, as you are going to discover as I explain that your mind is a scalable database, a database

that can be developed into doing more and more given the right circumstances, a supporting environment. The mind is something that can be scaled into doing so much more than what we use every day. Given the sufficient positivity, attitude, determination, the right environment, the mind has the strength and ability which can be unfolded into ACTION and action that can lead to the realization of our most desired dreams.

It is a pity that everyone thinks that success and fortune and wealth belongs to lucky ones, the born rich and a certain group of people dictated in our beliefs and minds but actually, it’s not even close to that. It is simply a realization and manifestation of what already lies in us. Our lives as individuals either rich or poor, is directly proportional to what dominates our minds. We all have the mind to which I am referring as the database, so success depends on which direction you chose to scale your mind, that is, if you chose to scale it at all. Most people are in poverty because their minds are still the same, it never progressed anywhere, and it is still bracketed by our beliefs, a wall of self-doubt and lack of purpose.

Scaling an image in graphics is a digital magnification known as UPSCALING or RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT. This whole process is the manipulation of characteristics of an image and usually, people enhance it to a better version. Coming back to our subject, I have only

one question, when you close your eyes what do you see? What image of yourself do you hold in