The Modern Miracle

By Nqobizitha Mkandla

Behind every visible manifestation of external success is a complete sequence forming a defined pattern of internal preceding events. In his book The Modern Miracle, Nqobizitha Mkandla identifies the pieces of this internal puzzle that precedes success as the 12 Pillars of Positive Thought Towards Success.
He takes the reader through an explorative journey using simple modern parables, strategies with daily exercises and thought-provoking poetry. It is in realising these underlying 12 pillars; their diligent application in real-life situations and the eventual manifestation of actual success that the modern miracle will lie.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nqobizitha Mkandla
• Release date: Mar 2, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215251867

Nqobizitha Mkandla

Nqobizitha Mkandla is a South African-based Certified Life/Personal Transformation Coach, Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, Transformational speaker and content creator. He founded and hosts (as Nqoba Win) the YouTube channel I Am Wealthy. While a long-time entrepreneur and serial enterprise-builder, he is a self-proclaimed “healer” who subscribes to the belief that self-knowledge is the starting point towards self-healing, while a healed self is the starting point towards a healed and transformed world. This is his first book, with more planned under the I Am Wealthy series. Nqobizitha Mkandla is a South African-based Certified Life/Personal Transformation Coach, Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, Transformational speaker and content creator. He founded and hosts (as Nqoba Win) the YouTube channel I Am Wealthy. While a long-time entrepreneur and serial enterprise-builder, he is a self-proclaimed “healer” who subscribes to the belief that self-knowledge is the starting point towards self-healing, while a healed self is the starting point towards a healed and transformed world. This is his first book, with more planned under the I Am Wealthy series.

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Nqobizitha Mkandla

To Miriam and Kaboentle

Foreword

How My Breakdown Led To My Breakthrough

Have you ever imagined how life would be if we all accepted the occasion of the death of our beloved the way we accept life in general? Honestly, imagine yourself, at some point, saying, Well, death goes on...

According to one ancient proverb, It is the living who close the eyes of the dead, while the dead open the eyes of the living.

In the middle of the process of working on this book, I lost my father to a stroke. You can imagine the upset; shock and pain caused by the sudden passing on of a family member, a parent, for that matter.

This heart-wrenching eventuality got me probing deeper into my higher self. It is not that this was the first member of the family that I have ever lost in my adult life; for five of my siblings have since passed on.

However, the one puzzle is that no matter how many of these people that have been dear to my heart I had lost, the experience of having gone through it before had not made the pain of the later losses any lesser; instead, the pain would always get worse with every next experience.

When some of my beloved ones passed away after what could be called a long illness, everybody tended to quip with the wish of, If only they had died without having suffered for so long. This would be to say that sudden death, though still a bad experience, would have been a lot better or at least better acceptable than the one that comes after a long struggle with a certain ailment.

On the other hand, when some of my siblings, just like my good old dad, transcended to the other side through what could be called sudden death, all and sundry would still wish to have seen them go through at least some form of a long illness and had enough time to say ‘goodbye’.

Now, which one is the best way to die or to lose a beloved one; that is if there is any good way to die or lose them?

After much soul-searching, I have come to one conclusion: there is no better or worse way to die or experience any situation that you have no control over, but there is a better way to deal with the experience when it is at hand. It is all about the meaning you give to the experience.

It all boils down to how one takes control of their thoughts which affect their feelings and hence how the experiences affect them.

I would be lying to claim that I was not upset to the point of my heart being shattered by the demise of my father and of all the other beloved ones who followed. But I am happy to tell you, right now, that I am beginning to meet these experiences with that inner calmness and acceptance, which sometimes surprises even my very self. All I always tell myself is the proverbial, This too shall pass.

On top of these occasions of death and bereavement, I have also been through harrowing personal experiences that could have easily impacted negatively on my psyche: I have spent time in prison cells (specifically, three different jails in two different countries, in the space of a couple of weeks); I have made shattering business losses; and I have, at some point in my life, lost business to an economic meltdown. Also, if I had to show you the primary school that I attended, you would not believe that the alumna of such a battered and failing excuse for an institution of learning could be the one you are now connecting with through this book. Yes, I have experienced the pain of not being with the in-crowd.

In actual fact, this book is a result of the unprecedented darkness that I had been passing through due to the losses I experienced. Slowly, the world had been crumbling around me, but at that time, I had not been conscious of the crisis. It was until it all crystalised into this impassable barrier of darkness so thick that I could grasp it. The harrowing experiences of the different police detentions and jail cells, the business losses, loss of beloved ones, economic meltdowns, loss of love and being faced with total uncertainty in life for the first time had begun to fester into a cesspool of toxicity. With the benefit of hindsight, I realise I was clinically depressed. Spiritually, this would be called the dark night of the soul.

This toxicity within had also begun to attract its external siblings. Everything I touched crumbled into failure, some of it with even more disastrous consequences. No one seemed to want to touch me, even with a long stick. I was hurting. Naturally, I began to hurt others around me, especially those who were closer to the action. It got worse for my lover, who became the plain victim of my newly-found viciousness and a messy breakup.

However, total darkness has a funny way of exaggerating things; even a tiny speck of light can seem like a glaring bolt of lightning. It was that tiny grain of hope; hope that I live to tell the tale, that kept me going, even though I was in total despair.

My breakdown, surely, led to a breakthrough!

I have, however, since stopped masquerading as the alleged victim after the realisation that, instead, I have been the apparent perpetrator of those atrocities, riding roughshod over self and others that I love.

Clearly, circumstances do break some men while they can make other men break records; I triumphantly live up to the adage, I’ve been there, done that and brought the T-shirt. After all, what is the worst that could possibly happen?

All this is a result of years of my hard labour to train myself in the science of thought. I call it a science because it can be learnt and utilised by anyone as and when they please.

If I have managed to dive deep into this morass of life and resurfaced with a handful of pearls to show off, what would stop you, or anyone for that matter, from achieving the same feat and even better? At the back of your mind, always remember that I have been through the fire, maybe for your sake; and that it is not many who have been to hell and back.

I am happy today to serve you that treasure in the form of this publication. The offering is the first book of my I Am Wealthy series. In this first instalment of the many yet to come, I share with you the secret of the genie that brings wealth and happiness – conscious positive thought.

Though this book does not come with a cure-all claim (and neither do I claim to have a crystal ball), the recommendation is that it will go a long way in helping you realise your possession of the infinite power within and your ability to tap into the Universe and live abundantly ever after. In simple terms, the book is meant to help you learn how to think.

My hope is that this will bring you to the realisation that all your higher thoughts, or your awareness of that space beyond the commotion of that stream of your general thoughts, connect you to God (or Higher Being). This higher realm of thoughts is connected to Him, who is the cause of the first instance. Hence all you perceive and experience are just effects. What this entirely means is that being witness to the fact that you are aware of that which transcends ordinary thoughts merges you with the cause and the Source of all, which is God (or Higher Being).

Having managed to keep you reading up to this stage is already enough to make me stand on the high divine ground and shout, I am wealthy, for I am glad to be serving my life purpose through being a steward to the great store of abundance.

The profits are all yours to earn through the following pages because blessed are seekers of the truth, for along their paths, they shall inherit abundance.

Signed:

Nqobizitha

Part A

Chapter One

Intro: Thoughts

Our Most Important Tools

Oh Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches, but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth; consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

The Providence Prayer – Napoleon Hill

All my life, I’ve always been intrigued by why other people prosper while others fail, even though when the one that ultimately fails would have put in the same effort (or even more) as their prospering counterparts. I come from a family of what you call hard workers - the grafters, if you may like to call them. If I were to tell you the kind of chores that I was already engaging in at six, you’d scream child abuse. I was already doing stuff that would make the kids at the so-called sweatshops look like spoiled royal brats. What would only differentiate the environment I was born into from a plantation is that it was meant to be my way of chipping in the family’s communal enterprise, where everyone had to literally sweat for their supper, outside which there would have been no food on the table. There was livestock to be tended to, there was land and fields to be tilled, there were household chores to be done, and a bit of school to be attended.

It then never ceased to surprise me to realise that some of our neighbours, within the same environment, same resources, similar (or even