Konnected Minds Podcast

Segment: The Path to Becoming: How Rich People Think Differently - Moses B Arthur

• Derrick Abaitey

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Rich people think about becoming in order to have. Poor people think about having in order to become. This fundamental difference in mindset determines who achieves their dreams and who remains perpetually stuck in wishful thinking.

Your mind is God's biggest gift - functioning like a garden where whatever you plant eventually grows and bears fruit. Through powerful personal stories, we explore how someone can transition from merely admiring luxury homes in East Legon to actually building and owning property there. The journey isn't magical; it's methodical, following three distinct levels of desire: wanting (initial desire), choosing (research and planning), and commitment (decisive action).

Consider the powerful example of Dubai. Before ever setting foot there, our speaker researched extensively about Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, reading his books and understanding his vision. This mental preparation, combined with practical steps like creating payment plans for travel, demonstrates how vision shapes reality. The transformation from watching buildings from outside to owning property in those same neighborhoods illustrates the power of mental elevation.

We examine how all three dimensions of our being must grow proportionally for true success: body, soul, and spirit. By shifting from "I can't" to "how can I?" your mind begins finding pathways previously invisible. This isn't merely positive thinking—it's strategic mental positioning that creates tangible results.

Ready to elevate your thinking? The house in Trasaco with your name on it is actively looking for you. The question is: who must you become to not just acquire it, but maintain it? Listen, apply, and watch as your mental transformation creates physical manifestation.

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Speaker 1:

You want to buy a car. A car also is looking for you. Or you want to buy a house in Trasako. There's a house in Trasako with your name on it, but the question is, what version of you must you grow into becoming to be able to buy that house in Trasako so that you can be able to maintain that house in Trasako? So a rich person. When a rich person wants to do something, he thinks of how he can become in order to have to do. But when a poor person wants to do something, he thinks of how he can have in order to do, to become. They are not the same. So a rich man wants to go into business. You are a rich man. You are doing amazingly well. Yeah, you're a pharmacist. Did you think of how you can have a pharmacy in order to operate a farm, a pharmaceutical business? No, you went to school. That was your process of becoming. So you have to become. So you became in order for you to have, and you are doing which part of our being do we use to become?

Speaker 2:

I think every part of you, right, every part of our being do we use to become.

Speaker 1:

I think every part of you, right, every part of you, forms part of your becoming. And if you think about it very well, man is a spirit, he has a soul, he lives in a body. So man is a spirit. The real Moses is spirit, the real Derek is spirit. You have a soul, you live, live in the body. How do I know Genesis, chapter 1 God creates, but he are not formed. Then he comes to chapter 2 and say and the Lord God formed man. How do I know man is a spirit? He said when he had formed man. He said male and female, created he them. So man as a composite entity is made up of male and female, created he them. So man as a composite entity is made up of male and female. Then in the formation we see it expressly. So, if you think about it very well, for you to become, your body must become.

Speaker 1:

When a child grows up, a child is born, they have to learn how to crawl, they have to learn how to sit, they have to. They go through a process. One. The next thing as that child is growing, you take that.

Speaker 1:

When you're taking that child to school, yeah, what are you trying to develop with that child. You're trying to develop their soul, make. They are trying to make them appreciate color, they're trying to make them appreciate speech, all of those things you are trying to make them understand, their temperaments and all of those things they make up the soul of the person. You take that child to church. You let them understand that there is a deity, you let them understand that there's a supreme being that rules and controls their life. This morning you and I are here because probably on the list of people who are supposed to make the day, we showed up. He gave us breath and we're here. So you let that child understand their spiritual investments or their spiritual growth. So there's your body, there's your soul, there's your spirit. For you to become all those three dimensions must equally grow.

Speaker 2:

So I want a house in trasaco. You said that, that house in trasaco is also looking for me exactly, but I'm a truck truck driver I don't even make 200 cds a day to even start accepting that that house in trasaco. How does my viewer conceptualize this thing you're saying?

Speaker 1:

It's this way Now. Your mind is God's biggest gift he has given you. The thing about the mind is that the mind is like a garden Whatever thing you sow in the mind you reap, the gateway to the citadel of your mind is your eyes and your ears, which is why I'm very much excited about the podcast, because by means of what people watch from this platform, by means of what people hear on this platform, they become so. As you are watching and as you are hearing, it shapes your perception. So you are coming from that poor background. You may be listening to us today, um, you're in that single room somewhere, but you are watching videos in Dubai. You are in that single room somewhere. You are dreaming of that house in truss aku. What actually is happening is that your physical state may not reflect what is in your mind by your mind may be living years ahead of you. So I give you a case in point.

Speaker 1:

I started my entrepreneurship pub Africa in Kumasi. I completed KNST in a place called Juniasi and here I was. I would come to Accra from time to time. I realized that there was a kind of possibility, there was a kind of living in this place, so I'd go back. And then I'm like, okay, now that I go to Accra I see all the things that are doing it, but I'm also an engineer, so how do I move the business to Accra? So I decided that, okay, whenever I come to Accra on visits, I would make sure I come to the place where rich people live, which is East Ligon for starters. So those times I would come, my friend would drive me around and then we would drive to East Ligon. I remember we would go and park by the Spice House. Then I would ask myself did a man build this? I would watch that thing and I'm like, if a man built this, irrespective of where I'm from, I can do that. So I said, okay, I went back.

Speaker 1:

Then my then mentor, dr Ubon King of blessed memory, asked me to come nigeria. So he calls me and he says that he didn't say can you come? He says, be in nigeria tomorrow at six, which is to speak to a lot of young people. You want mentorship? Are you ready to pay the price? So he calls me. I'm like, okay. So my then girlfriend, who is now my wife, I called. I said the man said I don't have money. So she works in the bank. So, um, she gave me some money, entered the bus, came, came to a car, entered another bus straight to Lagos.

Speaker 1:

So, on the top of Echo Sutan Hotel, he said something to me. He said your vision shapes your life. Do you realize we're standing on the very top of Echo Sutan Hotel? I said yes. He said what do you see? Is the vision the same as when you're on the ground floor? I said no. So that day he spoke to me about vision and in our conversation he said I want you to make a vow to me that, to buttress this conversation about vision, you will go to dubai and you will go and watch the place it has, what it will do to you. Now, brother, I had a passport, but now how will I go to dubai? So, just to buttress that point, how do you marry the two?

Speaker 1:

I came back to ghana, went to my junior. I say I I had a laptop, I had internet. The internet is one of God's biggest gifts to our generation. Today you use the internet as a tool. Don't let it use you. So I go back and I started watching videos of Dubai and I realized the ruler is called His Royal Highness Sheikh Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum. So I found his book, my Vision. I started reading Before I ever stepped foot in Dubai. I had read the history of the place, like I knew about Ghana. I had read the man's books, everything that was available in Ghana. In fact, the first time I got to Dubai, the first thing I did was to go and buy books about the ruler of the place, because the thing is that when you meet a man and you're able to get what is in his head, you can produce what is in his pocket. So I went after the.

Speaker 1:

Something inside of you begin to rise. So there are three levels of desires. The first level of desire is that you want a thing. So to that trotter driver, he wants a thing. To me who wanted to go to Dubai, I wanted a thing. Now that you want a thing, a lot of people want things. Very few people manifest the things they want. So I want a thing.

Speaker 1:

Then we transition to the second level of desire. When you want a thing, you move to a place where you choose the thing. The place of your choosing is where you do the research. The place of your choosing is where you now begin to realize that, okay, I may be a trotter driver, but I need to start changing my circle. The place of choosing is where you go to a place, go like, okay, I may be a trotter driver or I may be a mate, but I need to do it with excellence. I need to build character, I need to build capacity. I need to learn what that current stage of my becoming and process is teaching me. You need to choose a thing. That is when I begin to ask okay, dubai, how much is ticket? Brother? Until I asked that question, all that why I thought going to dubai was a hundred thousand cities. Then, when you are now beginning to choose, that's when you realize that, okay, to go to dubai you need a visa. This is how much the visa will cost to go to dubai. You don't go to a visa office like the way you do for the united states, you don't feel applications like the way you do for canada. So now you are beginning to understand.

Speaker 1:

At that point you are meddling in the second realm of desire choosing. Then you move to the third realm, commitment. Because when you choose, your choosing will help you siphon out your, your wants and help you to come to a place where, okay, this is what it will take. So can you imagine me coming to akra those times, and when I come, I was, I started asking the cost of house rent in this neighborhood in East Ligon.

Speaker 1:

This was me working on my mind. This was me getting okay. Okay, this is what it will take. Now, the thing with a lot of people is that when they think about their dreams, the first thing they've been programmed with their mind is that their mind shuts them out. So you can't do it. The moment you allow, you can't. You will never manifest it. But I moved myself from a place where I stopped looking at things, from I can't do it, to now asking myself how can I? The thing with the mind again, when you ask how you can, it will find results for you. How can I? You will now begin to look in, so you're in the choosing realm.

Speaker 1:

Then you get to know that your third realm of desire, commitment.

Speaker 1:

So now this is what it takes to go to dubai. So, brother, at that time there was a company called travel planners. I realized that they have to package so you could pay in installment till you are complete. Then you go to dubai. I said, ah, so there was a way out of this whole thing. So I said okay, I went to them. I said how much they gave me the amount. I said okay, now I went to them. I said how much they gave me the amount. I said okay.

Speaker 1:

Now I went back. I said okay, this is my current realm of living, this is my current level of income. How do I allocate savings and pay the susu, small, small, till my total amount is complete? That was how I went to Dubai for the first time and that is how I did the same thing and came to this place and I realized, okay, to live in a place in East Ligon, you're about to pay rent of about maybe five thousand, six thousand. So now how do you bring yourself to that realm of living where you can be able to afford this, that, that? And we came to East Ligon as people who would come and watch their Spice House. Today we rent in East Ligon and today we are building in East Ligon. So we came here as tenants who leave this place to airport sales and every part of the world as landlords.

Speaker 2:

This is some serious mental elevation. Yeah, and my god, I've seen this work in my life too. It's worked several times. The same place you went to park your car, I parked my car the same, the new building, when, despite finish that new building, I watched it too. As a matter of fact, I learnt a few designs from there to apply to my own project hmm, it works like magic it does it?

Speaker 1:

does it really?

Speaker 2:

does? I usually say that the God in us sits in the mind so that if you choose to use that mind, you can become anything you choose to be Absolutely. But why is it so difficult for people to harness the power of that which the Creator has given to them?

Speaker 1:

the mind. Interesting question, speaking about the mind, our mind is again. Why is it difficult that people are able to? People struggle to harness that power. Your mind is like a bank Whatever you deposit into it, that is what you withdraw.