1. The Productive Mind...
How to Move Your Mountains
Bolaji Okusaga

2. What Do You See?

3. Who are You?
Are you an Optimist?
• Do you look out for the good
sides?
Are you a Pessimist
• Are you always afraid things will go
wrong?
Faith Vs Observation

4. Let’s Begin a Dialogue
What does Life mean to
you?
Where do you think are
heading?
What’s the place of
Productive persistence
in this race?
Are you on the race
track?
Who are we running
with?
What will it take for us
to win?

5. The Conversation Between the Optimist and the Pessimist

6. Let’s Connect
What are your
Values?
• Everything fails or
succeeds based on
values
Do you trust too
much in your own
abilities?
• A belief in God helps
with meditation
before action
Do you give up at
the first try or you
persist?
• Nothing good or
great comes easy

7. How Do We Turn Words to Action?
Do I understand the
demands of productive
living?
What potentials do I have
to make the change?

8. What Has Life Got to Offer?
Finite Days, Infinite purpose
• Psalm 90: 12 - Teach us to Number
our days –100 years is just 36,525
days
• Jesus lived for 33 years, yet the
purpose of that the work he did
has lasted over 2000 years
The Duality
of Life
The good
and the bad
Opportunity
and loss
Everything
has a
purpose

9. Finding an Answer…
"Cursed is the
ground because of
you; through painful
toil you will eat food
from it all the days
of your life”
Your work determines
your survival
"Cursed is the
ground because of
you; through painful
toil you will eat food
from it all the days
of your life.
Your work defines
your goals and
aspirations
You shall not eat of
it,’ cursed is the
ground because of
you; in pain you shall
eat of it all the days
of your life;
Your work defines
your future
The Curse of Adam… (Genesis 3: 17)

10. Building a Career – The Biblical Context
The Beginning
of Work
– Gen 3:17
Cursed is the ground
because of you;
through painful toil
you will eat food
from it all the days
of your life”
The Wisdom
of Work
- Ex 31: 1 - 11
And I have filled him
with the Spirit of
God, in wisdom, in
understanding, in
knowledge, and in
all manner of
workmanship.
The Benefits of
Work
- Job 1:10-11
You have blessed
the work of his
hands, and his
possessions have
increased in the
land
The Goal of
Work
- Philippians 3:13-14
Forgetting what is
behind and straining
toward what is
ahead, I press on
toward the goal to
win the prize for
which God has
called me

11. Toning the Mind – To Learn is to Work…
Mindset Upgrade or
Undermine Motivation
Growth Mindset +
Values Affirmation
Setting the stage for
productive struggle
Its All About
Discipline
Self-regulated
learning
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12. Mindset and Skill-sets: Innate Tools for
Success
Constantly ask
questions when in
doubt.
Strive to develop
yourself on the Job.
Stay focused on
delivering the
goods.
Be prompt and
punctual at your
duty post.
You have the
freedom to be
constructively
creative.
Think up new ways
of improving the
process and make
suggestions.
Don’t be a laggard.

13. The Game is in Your Brain and Mind
You can grow your Brain like you
grow your Muscles
• When you learn new things and acquire
new skills, part of the brain grows larger
You can tune the Mind to a Positive
Frequency
• Control and Perspective
• Values Affirmation and Growth Mindset

14. Workflow Process
Collect
• Gather
Information
Process
• Turn
information
into
knowledge
Organize
• Use
knowledge in
preparation
for execution
Review
• Go over the
details
Do
• Take Action

15. Rule of Engagement
Procrastination
is a cardinal sin
Do it Now!
The Risk taker
ends up
employing the
Risk Averse

16. Perspective – Taking Control
Current actions Current projects
Areas of
responsibility
Yearly goals
5 year vision Life goals

17. The Role of Faith…
Faith is an essential ingredient for success.
YOU’VE GOT TO
BELIEVE THAT THERE IS
A DRIVING FORCE FOR
SUCCESS
I will go before you and will level
the mountains; I will break down
gates of bronze and cut through
bars of iron. - Isaiah 45:2

18. Thank you.