DELTA STATE: PROSPERITY AND RISING TO GREATNESS

It has been established that one of the finest brands of leadership is motivational leadership. Motivational leadership is the ability to inspire people to perform at their best. It is the leadership philosophy that charges group members to action, boiled out of conviction and inspiration. That aptly explains why Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as a leader in that mold is inspiring his people to greatness through the Prosperity for all Deltans.

The mind is a reservoir of ideas and dreams. It is a safe house of everything that can ever be imagined. The mind is the greatest motivational microcosm in all humans. Nothing comes to be without receiving the amazing touch of the mind. Everything that was, that is and that will be is conceived in the mind. One of the greatest achievements a man can bequeath to his people is the mind power.

 It is in that light that the Prosperity philosophy comes to play. The greatest tool in changing primitivism, unproductivity and complex is to transform the mentality of the people through inspiring and motivational best practices. Inspiring leadership is not approximately based on economic and infrastructural development alone, but is also a contrivance that breeds attitudinal change and spiritual rebirth.

Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State, the progenitor of the ‘’Prosperity’’ initiative, is an inspiring leader who is poised to revolutionized the psyche and personality of all Deltan persons at home and abroad. His wish is to inspire his people to become successes in their chosen careers.
The principal factor that slows down the growth of many nations is the mind –power to be able to think out of the box. When a leader thinks out of the box of what has been the tradition of a people. Such move engineers his people’s self-development and hence changes their economic and social advancement.

Governor Okowa’s primary aim of inspiring the people of Delta State is to change the mind-set of the people. He wants to move the State forward by encouraging the people to look beyond the stereotypes into the realm of owning industries and that will make them captains of industries. The aforementioned are excellent business ideas but there are more grounds out there to cover.

Humans are only limited to what they can envision and accomplish by what they think. What you believe, feel, perceive, imagine, or achieve is based on your thinking. James Mores says "You are what you think." This is a truism of life.

Making positive changes to your thinking process that last over time is not easy. Everyone is programmed, positively or negatively, throughout their life starting from the day they are born. Those patterns are engrained after years of practice. Altering such patterns is not exactly an easy task.

Dysfunctional behaviour and feelings caused by old thinking patterns result in unsatisfying associations in the way one performs with self, career, esteem, others, and health. What is programmed into your mind affects how you think, feel or behave in life when you interact with life events.

In most localities in the State, there is a general belief that if you become rich, witches will terminate your life. Because of this fear, most of the successful sons and daughters of the State desert their villages to avoid being killed. Some of those who also rich refuse to neither buy expensive cars or build palatial houses which they can afford, to avoid being attacked by unseen forces. 

Governor Okowa’s prosperity is not just a mantra, but a call to change, a call to do more to achieve greatness, a call to move away from the past ideologies that are unproductive and lame. The governor wants to see every Deltan child achieving more by breaking academic records.

The Prosperity concept has been misrepresented by politicians who see it as a campaign slogan of the present administration. Time has come when politicians in the State should stop politicizing the goodwill of the leaders, by trying to ridicule an initiative which is capable of turning around the fortunes of Delta State.

If there is one thing we desperately need in Delta State today, it is for our people to be continuously transformed. We need to see change in a lot of areas in this State. All of us should recognize that need. We need the status of the State economy to change from a civil service State to a private sector driven economy. And a corporate change starts with a personal change.

Governor Okowa wants Delta people to adopt the mentality that concludes: change begins with me. The world will change as we change, because it is men who have changed the world in times past. And we as believers need to always guard against letting the negative vices to influence our doing. The Prosperity initiative is a call for total reorientation and attitudinal transformation from unemployment to being captains of industries and employers of labour. 

This is the kind of culture the Governor wants all in Delta State to embrace by letting go of their mentality of small thinking and beginning to think big and work hard to gain greatness in all sectors of the economy.
Governor Okowa wants his people to hit the highest goals of becoming leaders in their chosen career not playing second fiddle and also become outstanding men or women who are looked up to, admired and respected by other people in Nigeria and the world over.

No one is greater than God!