Powerful but Lazy – Your Mental Power!

The laziest man is the physically strong but mentally weak. (Alagbara ma mo ero, baba ole )

An African adage

It is good to be spiritually sound, but when your spiritual soundness is in variance with your mental capacity, you will at best be a prodigal son, wasting spiritual resources. To maximize your spiritual soundness, you must be diligent to become mentally enhanced as well. Sound spirituality plus enhanced mental power equals uncommon life performance! – Femi Adediran, July 2021.

Mental PowerOne of the key ways to enhance your mental power is by reading, by educating your mind, by exposing your brain to the “scribed power”. Unfortunately, not many people like reading. But there is no alternative to reading, other than to read. It is good to watch videos but it is better to read – Femi Adediran, July 2021.

Don’t read because you want to pass an exam, read because you want to pass in life – Femi Adediran, July 2021.

Check the records, the mentally empowered have always been the leader of the so called physically fit, the world is built around mental delivery and then physical engagement – Femi Adediran, July 2021.

How do you invest in your own mental Development? Read, research, observe, ask questions, be in class all your life, learn new things regularly, follow the news, be informed, know something about everything and everything about something, make contribution in a group, offer to do a rather tough job, meditate, memorize, engage in intellectual discussion, write; however little it is, learn and play keyboard if your time permits and above all let your mind be opened to possibilities – Femi Adediran, July 2021.

When we become mentally engaged, it is easy to focus and do our work. If you want to get the best out of your employee, don’t just train them physically , train them mentally as well, train their “muscle for the job” and their “mind for the work” and wait to see the explosive result! – Femi Adediran, July 2021.

The difference between the leader and the follower is in who is thinking, it is about who is engaged mentally on behalf of others. What makes a leader is not his portfolio but his mentfolio (Mental folio). If you are not thinking and cannot think, you dont have business being a leader! – Femi Adediran, July 2021.


The mentally derailed is not just the man who is no longer able to coordinate his physical functions. A higher level of mental dysfunctions is not being able to harmonise, coordinate and untilize obvious surrounding opportunities due to weak or low mental capability.

It is good to be spiritually sound, but when your spiritual soundness is in variance with your mental capacity, you will at best be a prodigal son, wasting spiritual resources. To maximize your spiritual soundness, you must be diligent to become mentally enhanced as well. Sound spirituality plus enhanced mental power equals uncommon life performance!

One of the key ways to enhance your mental power is by reading, by educating your mind, by exposing your brain to the “scribed power”. Unfortunately, not many people like reading. But there is no alternative to reading, other than to read. It is good to watch videos but it is better to read.

Our capacity is not in our bicep muscles but in our brain muscle

Becoming mentally empowered is beyond community or government sponsored programme. It must become your own personal life programme in a personal quest to be mentally sound before it can be effective.

How do you invest in your own mental Development?

Read, research, observe, ask questions, be in class all your life, learn new things regularly, follow the news, be informed, know something about everything and everything about something, make contribution in a group, offer to do a rather tough job, meditate, memorize, engage in intellectual discussion, write however little it is, learn and play keyboard if your time permits and above all let your mind be opened to possibilities.

When you are mentally strong and physically fit at the same time, you become a formidable force. To be physically fit and mentally ill is to end up being stupid. And when you are mentally fit and physically weak, you’ll be a misfit

Check the records, the mentally empowered have always been the leader of the so called physically fit, the world is built around mental delivery and then physical engagement

The laziest man is the Physically strong but mentally weak. (Alagbara ma mo ero, baba ole – An African adage)

To enhance your life opportunities, invest in your mental capacity

Don’t read because you want to pass exam, read because you want to pass in life

If you know, your deliverance is halved

Powerful but lazy - Your Mental Power!

When we become mentally engaged, it is easy to focus and do our work. If you want to get the best out of your employee, don’t just train them physically , train them mentally as well, train their “muscle for the job” and their “mind for the work” and wait to see the explosive result!

 Work is a mental engagement, job is about physical activity.

  • When we are mentally disengaged, we can at best perform minimally physically.
  • When you are not mentally engaged, it is very easy to get physically exhausted

The difference between the leader and the follower is in who is thinking, it is about who is engaged mentally on behalf of others. What makes a leader is not his portfolio but his mentfolio (Mental folio). If you are not thinking and cannot think, you dont have business being a leader!

 No nation is delivered until her citizen is delivered both spiritually and mentally

Every singer, every writer, every Speaker, every leader and anybody who desires to make a difference must first and foremost seek to enhance their mental capacity if the world must not continue to be the dumping ground for junks from “mentally ill leaders”.

To enhance your life productivity, enhance your mental power

Femi Adediran…olufire Naani
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