Introduction

I am someone who is very interested in the Nigerian dream. This is because of the fact that I am a Nigerian no matter what I do. Because of this, I have given the development of this country very serious consideration and have discovered that the journey towards the ‘new Nigeria’ we all want must start in the minds of the citizens of this glorious country. This is only when we can achieve a development built on a solid foundation. For instance, survey shows that despite the numerous multi-national companies present in developed countries say America, their economic growth depends on their small and medium scale enterprises. This means that there is evident development in the minds of their citizens. Until we emulate such ideals, we may never achieve all the grandiose plans we have for the economy of this country. The political arena in this country mostly needs the mind revolution I am talking about because it would spill over to every other aspect of the Nigerian project. If you doubt me, endeavour to listen to political aspirants in developed nations and compare their thinking pattern to that of their Nigerian counterparts.

Having said that much it is imperative to identify the thinking patterns in the minds of Nigerian citizens harmful to the actualization of the Nigerian dream and the ones that enhances the actualization of the Nigerian dream. No English word better encapsulates the needed thinking pattern than ‘Success’. When individuals develop the thinking pattern of people who have achieved lasting success, the cumulative effect would be that the Nigerian nation would be successful. Helping Nigerian youths develop this thinking pattern thus became an overwhelming goal for me.

In the course of pursuing this noble goal, I discovered that people have been attempting to speak to the conscious minds of Nigerians without considering their subconscious minds. This has achieved little result because change begins with the

sub-conscious minds of the people. We are talking about abolishing internet crime and we still have songs that eulogizes the vice playing on our airwaves. In addition, so much affluence is displayed on the streets everyday with reckless abandon. We want to abolish immorality and even our leaders flaunt immorality in the face of the youths. Entertainers are the most affluent ones in town these days as such they become automatic role models. However, the dressing and behaviour of some of them is such that even the devil will shout blood of Jesus if he encounters some of them. All our movies talk about is rituals, prostitution, violence, hate, betrayal etc the list is endless. Are we not the undoing of ourselves? My submission is this; if people dress in a certain manner because our role models they see on TV are doing such, we can as well use this means and other ones available to project success through hard work and other virtues to them, and gradually, we will begin to notice pleasant results.

This resulted in Success Magnets International, an organization dedicated to promoting the possibility of success and its requirements through campaigns, TV and radio programs, books, movies, songs e.t.c. We are also involved in capacity building to empower youths with information and everything they need to achieve success in all areas of their lives. It is a newly proposed organization but the founders have been partaking in programs aimed at achieving the aims and objectives of the proposed organization. We also have projects that require sponsorship that we would share with you in subsequent blogs. Contact me to contribute your own quota to the actualization of the Nigerian Dream