Konnected Minds Podcast

Segment: You'll regret what you didn't do more than what you did - Moses B Arthur

• Derrick Abaitey

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Greatness demands more than talent—it requires honor, obsession, and unwavering discipline.

Moses Barthur joins us for a profound conversation about the forgotten values driving exceptional achievement. He articulates a powerful definition of honor as "your ability to design, celebrate, and reward men for their distinct, different, and unique contributions to life." In an age where gratitude—the simplest expression of honor—is increasingly rare, Barthur challenges us to recognize that while spiritually all may be equal, our contributions and sacrifices in pursuit of destiny vary significantly.

We dive deep into the concept of "positive obsession"—that driving force behind all remarkable accomplishments that some might call passion or hunger. This obsession, particularly regarding financial success in one's early years, creates compound benefits throughout life. Barthur brilliantly contrasts motivation and discipline: "Making money is an action, maintaining it is a behavior, multiplying it is knowledge." While motivation initiates the journey, discipline sustains it through challenges and setbacks.

The conversation reaches its emotional peak with Barthur sharing wisdom received upon his mentor's 40th birthday: "You will regret what you didn't do more than what you did." This perspective illuminates the pain of unrealized potential—opportunities declined, books unwritten, businesses never launched. As Barthur eloquently states, better to stand "in the arena whose face is marred with dust, sweat, and blood" than to never have entered at all.

Ready to transform your mindset and approach to success? Join our Konnected Minds community, grab Moses Barthur's insightful books, and remember: the greatest honor to our creator comes through creating as He did. Subscribe now and become part of a movement dedicated to unlocking human potential through honor, discipline, and positive obsession.

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Speaker 1:

So I look at the good, I look at the good, I look at the good. Now, I said there are points where the person will cross, and when you cross you have to act. But your action should also be in love. Wow, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Wow. I said in previous episodes, on the 29th of August at the British Council, we're doing our first Connected Minds Live and it's only limited to 250 people. Now I can't begin to talk about some of the teachings that you guys are going to have in terms of your mindset transformation. If you've been following my Instagram and the things we've been talking about, and if you love exactly what we've been doing here, we're not doing it exactly for a certain group of people. It's for people who think that they can cross that path to greatness. That's why we're doing this. That's the first connected minds live and then also the four pillars to success. If you haven't read that book, I'm gonna leave that link below in the description and then you can get access to it. If you're listening to the audio, then you can go to connectedacademycom and enter your details. Today I have got three books here, three amazing books. Very quickly, I know which one is going to be my favorite book. Me, I love thinking, so this is my favorite book, right.

Speaker 2:

I love thinking, so if I see anything that comes to thinking, I know it's going to be great. But look, this man has got three books. This is the most recent one. Now, anytime I pick up a book and I recommend a book, you know, I do say that there is no benefit to reading and not acting, and one of my favorite quotes by Aristotle, that the purpose of knowledge is action, not more knowledge. Grab a copy of this, read it and highlight it, don't see. You know, as a matter of fact, don't read, study the book, study the book, don't just read it. So if you're looking for it, I'm gonna put it in the description as well, or you can go to mosesbarthurcom right, yes, that's the website.

Speaker 1:

That's the website, because I checked it out yeah, and then you can.

Speaker 2:

You can grab the book, but yeah, let's carry on let's carry on, let's carry on wow mba derek, is there any question that I could have asked you today in this conversation that I didn't, that you still think we can talk about?

Speaker 1:

They should muse on this one, they should muse on the conversations that we've had, and I think, probably to wrap it up, would be how that, as a generation, we should love process, should be patient love process and our people. I always say that and I is such a very important and powerful thing and true, anna, honor someone, it's your ability to first of all design, celebrate, reward men for their distinct, different and unique contributions to life. So your ability to design true honor starts off with discernment. So your ability to design, your ability to celebrate and your ability to reward men for their distinct and unique contributions to the lives of people. So, and anna, is not human worship, that's what a lot of us may say. I always say that, um, in christianity we teach that all men are the same. In christ, it's true, in christ we are all the same, but when we come to life, as far as the sacrifice and the pursuit and the push of destiny is concerned, all men are not the same. So, honor men, and the easiest way to show honor is gratitude. The easiest way, the easiest way to honor a man is gratitude. You don't have to, and it's something that is missing in the generation. We don't know how to honor. We don't know how to show gratitude. We think that the fact that you have a big man's number means that and there are little things that speak this honor.

Speaker 1:

Somebody was telling me that they have this person's contact. They message a person. The person doesn't mind them. When he showed me the chat, he has added the person to his broadcast list. I said how would the person mind you? Do you know what it means to wake up and be broadcasting? Do you know what it means to wake up and be broadcasting your whatever to such a person, you have abused access.

Speaker 1:

So there are things that are missing in the generation that I think that with time will become better. I think that with a platform like this, people's perspectives and life will also be shaped, and I know that, with relentless focus and unshakable discipline and an obsession to be the best, anything that anybody is doing has the power to lift them up. They should just stay focused, they should just have a certain discipline and, most importantly, they should have a certain obsession to be the best. It's very important. You look at all great people. They have an underlining obsession. You may call it passion and the Nigerians will say your passion will determine your portion you know, so your obsession will determine how much you that's right make out of life.

Speaker 1:

Somebody will call obsession passion, somebody will call it hunger or urgency, but you need it yeah, you definitely need a positive obsession about life success.

Speaker 2:

You know, I was telling the boys this morning that they have got to think of solutions, problem solving it's, it's very, very important but, there's something that makes me so happy for you. You know what it is no, it's the fact that since I've been young I've always been positively obsessed about money and I thank God the position I am now right, I mean my 30s, and if I didn't, if I wasn't that positively obsessed? About money from my teenage age 20s. I would have suffered now.

Speaker 2:

So seeing you younger than I am and the path you are on. My brother, you've done well.

Speaker 1:

I'm very happy for you.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, and all I just want to say is that the young people that are listening in their teens, they should not soak themselves in masturbation, pornography, lottery yeah, because it will take a lot of.

Speaker 1:

Manage your time wisely. By the time you realize you are 30 years, 40 years, you're on pension and you're struggling absolutely my question is motivation or discipline, the famous connected minds question motivation or discipline.

Speaker 1:

You need a good blend of both. You need a good balance of both. Your motivation is usually what will get you started. Your discipline is what will get you connected and stayed on it. It's like let me use money Money, motivation or discipline. You need a certain motivation and drive to move towards making money.

Speaker 1:

So I say this making money is an action, maintaining it as a behavior, multiplying it as knowledge. Making money is an action, maintaining it as a behavior, multiplying it as knowledge. And what you do to make money is not what you do to multiply money. So making money is an action. Your action is always motivation inspired. You want to make money is not what you do to multiply money. So making money is an action. Your action is always motivation inspired. You want to make money. Something must inspire you to start making that money. But far beyond making the money is behavior. That's where discipline comes to play. So you don't make 10,000 Ghana CDs and you wake up and you tell me that you got some two odds. So you took 8,000 Ghana CDs and you placed it on that tool. It doesn't make sense. Your discipline is where we're able to see your character and your habits come to play. So at that point you make 10,000 Ghana CDs.

Speaker 1:

Wisdom teaches you that maybe 20% of this should go into an account for emergency. Maybe 20% should also go into an account for savings, should also go into an account for savings. Then 10% should probably go into maybe my recreational account for vacation or for my mental health. Then 50% should go towards expenditure. So out of your recreational 10%, you can probably take a portion of it to go and do your gambling or your bet or whatever. It's discipline Other than that, that that's where a lot of people lose out on it.

Speaker 1:

So then, multiplying it. Then now will come to knowledge. So ask for knowledge there. You need it every now and then. But you look at it. Motivation will always start the journey, but I won't keep you there. You can't tell me that, oh, I feel inspired and motivated to do real estate. It's true, we were all inspired once. But when you jump into the arena and you are doing it, you realize that motivation is not what to buy the cement, it's not what to buy the iron rods. So the discipline will now come to play, and the discipline is where a lot of people feel. Most people are inspired. Few people come to the place of discipline, and discipline is commitment my god, what's the best advice you've ever received?

Speaker 1:

hmm, best advice, best advice. You've asked a hard one because I've received this question always guess.

Speaker 2:

I really guess, you think I have received a lot. So many, because give us one instead of being the only councils, so many councils I have received.

Speaker 1:

So, so, so, so many councils. I think that I'd give a recent one. I sat with an elder brother of mine who is past 40. So he's been very instrumental in my life for the longest I've known him, since I was in SHS2. So it's like I'm the firstborn of my dad, so he's like the big brother I never had. And he turned 40. And so I messaged him and I said I'd like to hear from you.

Speaker 1:

Life lessons are 40. And then he was like let's not discuss this over phone, let's meet in person. So we met and he said something to me. He said when you are 40 and above, you will regret what you didn't do more than what you did. You will regret what you didn't do more than what you did. The opportunities you didn't take, the projects, you didn't start the books, you never wrote the podcast, you never recorded the song, you never sang the painting. You never recorded the song, you never sang the painting, you never completed. Because truth of the matter is that if and I thought through this I said what he's saying is true, I prefer to be the guy who stands in the arena whose face is mad with dust, sweat blood. Dust sweat blood. Failing, failing forward, having my life up to something than not doing anything.

Speaker 1:

At least I would understand what it means to try and succeed than to have not done anything. My place in destiny and eternity will be with the cold and timid souls who never created anything and would not be an honor to god, because true honor to god is to create like he created, is to do as he did. He woke up and he created. He's the greatest entrepreneur I know. He built a business in six days. He retired on the seventh day. He's been two thousand plus years. He has eight billion people working for him and his system has him filled.

Speaker 2:

Yeah wow, wow I was gonna ask you to recommend the book, but I won't because I've already got the books here, but thank you so much, I've definitely recommended it. I know you will. I know you will, but thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate you coming in and indeed it's good we didn't record the first time I have been blessed my viewers and my listeners are definitely going to be blessed.

Speaker 2:

As a matter of fact, if they are not blessed, then they have not been watching Connected Minds, because this is definitely connected. My name is Derek Abayte and I thank you so much. If you made it to the end, let the comments flow. I want to see that in the comments section. Thank you so much. If you made it to the end, let the comments flow. I want to see that in the comments section thank you and I appreciate you for being here. Subscribe and become part of the family, stay connected. I'm out.