The Power of Meditative Thinking

By Bode Akindele

The Power of Meditative Thinking by Bode Akindele will change you. It is filled with numerous stories of ‘men of like passion’ who by tapping the enormous potentials of the human mind, investing time, energy, and skill, have changed our world for good. This book will open you up to the world of thinking; will inspire you, enlighten you and equip you with the wisdom you need to guarantee a life of impact and distinction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jun 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781365153143

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The Power of Meditative Thinking

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THE POWER OF MEDITATIVE THINKING

Cultivating a Life of Impact and Distinction

‘Bode Akindele

Copyright ©2016 by ’Bode Akindele

ISBN:  978-1-365-15314-3

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PRAISE FOR

The Power of Meditative Thinking

Common to every exceptional achiever is the ability to reach into the gold mine of their thoughts and tap the creative potentials within, the answers hidden in the depths, solutions waiting to be unearthed and wisdom yearning for application. ’The Power of Meditative Thinking’ by Bode Akindele will challenge you with numerous stories of ’men of like passions’ who have changed our world for good because they invested time, energy and skill at tapping the enormous potentials of the human mind. This book will inspire you, enlighten you and equip you with the wisdom you need to guarantee a life of impact and distinction.

Rev’d Victor Adeyemi,

Pastor, Global Harvest Int’l Churches,

Nigeria

In this book, The Power of Meditative Thinking, Rev Bode Akindele clearly shows us that a great leader is a great thinker and a great thinker is a great leader. It is true that thinking is hard-work because it involves the discipline of creating time for solitude and capturing thoughts in a busy world, yet no successful accomplishment is possible without deep thinking. This book will open you up to the world of thinking.  It will impact our microwave generation and the generations to come.

Dr. Olayinka Dada

Author, God’s Coaching Methods,

The innovations in all spheres of life that we enjoy today were brought to bear by great thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth century as clearly shown by Pastor Bode Akindele in his expository book titled The Power of Meditative Thinking. The advancement that will lead our present world out of disorder and chaos will also be birthed only by those who have received the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ. It is to those minds that this work is targeted.

Arise, shine, for your light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you! You will definitely shine with brilliant ideas from above to impact your world as you embrace the teaching in this easy to read book of Pastor Bode Akindele - a great friend of more than twenty years. Get ready to be a Change Agent!

Dr. Kayode. S. Adedapo

Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Pathology

University of Ibadan, Nigeria

By and large, all great thinkers proffer solutions to human needs and solutions to valued problems. Thinking is rich and a gift from God, but deep and resourceful thinking requires discipline on the part of man. Bode captures this essence succinctly with relevant passages from the scripture and examples of great thinkers, both from the world of classical thinkers and contemporary achievers.

Yemi Hamid-Oke

Hammco Engineering Works,

Lagos, Nigeria & Hammco BTB, Canada.

This is another showcase of Pastor Akindele’s special gift of incubation, depth of the Word, intellectual exposure and preaching prowess. I find the book not only interesting but profoundly educative, informative and inspiring. Every success-driven person should read and share the contents of this book.

Oyekunle Oyediran

Communications & Publishing Consultant Winnipeg, Canada

DEDICATION

To the Glory of God

and to my lovely wife, ’pie’ & friend of over 30 years,

Florence Olukemi Ajoke

As we celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary.

Thank you for continuing to be my friend and partner.

You are just unique!

CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgment

Introduction

1.The Divine Mandate

2.Great Leaders Are Great Thinkers

3.Your Thinking Corner

4.God’s Word: The Source of All Light

5.Invest Time; Think Deep

6.Get It Right the First Time

7.Avoid Negative Thinking

8.Think Your Way to Success

9.The Wonders of Possibility Mentality

10.Put Away Childish Things

11.Strategic Thinking

12.The Mulberry Experience

13.More Thinkers Wanted

Bibliography

FOREWORD

The rains had started and folks came to church on this particular Sunday morning during the rainy season with their umbrellas. Everyone dropped their umbrellas at the lobby before entering into the sanctuary to join other saints to worship God.

The service was soon over and everyone came to identify and fetch his or her own specific and respective umbrella. Several umbrellas looked alike and this posed a big challenge.

Apart from the challenge of each person identifying their own umbrella, the whole lobby was also wet with the water draining from the many umbrellas. The floor became slippery and even messy, posing a big risk to children and the elderly in particular.

What is the way out?

Someone came up with a suggestion: ‘Let us pray that God would not allow rain to fall on Sundays. This will hopefully, solve the twin problems of umbrella identification and a wet and slippery lobby’.

Another person quipped, ‘If it doesn’t rain on Sundays, the twin problems would be solved in church on Sundays quite alright; but what about Mondays to Fridays? Won’t people still need their umbrellas when they go to work Mondays through Fridays? Will the same problems not occur week in week out at the lobbies of various offices across the country? Should we then go ahead to pray to pray that it would not rain seven days a week?’

Of course, that would create an even bigger problem – drought, hunger, a national crisis, and so on.

So, what would be a more plausible solution?

Someone then thought of a better idea – a device, an invention, that would afford all umbrella owners who arrive at public facilities to slot in their folded umbrella and lock it in, holding the key with a unique number that would help identify their respective umbrellas whenever they wanted to leave the facility.

The added advantage would also be that no one could steal someone’s umbrella because the umbrella would be locked in a place and would only be released when the key is put in to unlock it.

Also, the device would have a water-collecting base into which water from the umbrellas would drain to prevent the lobby from getting slippery. Thus, this device would solve three problems all at once. Simple, but functional idea. Today, that device is already in the market: the product of someone’s quality and productive thinking.

This is the sort of thing that Dr. Bode Akindele has expounded upon in The Power of Meditative Thinking. The whole idea of deploying the power of quality thoughts is a very fundamental concept in human and global development. Imagine where the world would be today if nobody thought deeply!

Meditative thinking has transformed the face of the globe and the way we do things in the world today, compared to a few decades ago.

There was a time when we posted letters at the Post Office and waited for days, if not weeks, to get a reply. Today, e-mails, text messages, WhatsApp and other Social Media platforms have made this possible in split seconds. It is the product of someone’s deep thinking.

If all of us would grasp what the author has elaborated upon in this book and we would begin from today to engage in this art, life would definitely keep getting better and businesses would be transacted at the speed of light. New inventions would emerge almost every second; national economies would be bolstered, and what was once considered