How To Develop Yourself "Wholistically" | Dr. Olumide Emmanuel | TEDxJibowu

foreign [Music] [Applause] the year was 1997. and I made one of the greatest mistakes of my life I got married as a poor man I fell to the Trap of I love you the way you are and that was a trap that trapped me I suddenly realized later that I love you the way you are does not mean I love you to remain the Way You Are I suddenly realized that when a woman tells you I love you the way you are she's opened that somewhere along the line your story will change and if your

story refused to change our own story about you will change why because there is no romance without trainers and love is not enough I should have learned my lesson but I did not the 1998 I made the second greatest mistake of my life I impregnated my wife and I was expecting my first child as the pregnancy was Rising so was my frustration so was my depression because I realized that I could not even take care of myself and the woman that loved me the way I am now I'm bringing a child into the world to

compound my problem but in that frustration I cried out for a change and that led me to eight months one of the most amazing eight months of my life for eight months I wanted to find out how do I break free from poverty and I realized that if you are not informed you'll be deformed if you're not inspired you expire if you are not updated you'll be outdated if you are not in the know you cannot be in the floor what you know determines how far you go and those who know rule over those who

do not know so I began to study I read well over 800 books within eight months I was like a madman I studied the biographies and autobiographies and all the rich and the wealthy people on the face of the Earth that I could lay my hand on all because I wanted to change because I realized that I had to become what I wanted in order to attract what I wanted a lot of people want things but they are not ready to become what they want to be a millionaire you must first of all be the

millionaire and then you attract the millions you must be a billionaire before you can attract the billions but within those eight months as a result of that discipline and that sacrifice and that insatiable desire to see myself transform I became somebody else even though physically the funds were not there but internally I was a different person and that is why I'm here today to talk to you about the role of personal development in maximizing your possibilities in life every normal human being that I know wants to be the best version of themselves every normal human

being that I know wants to maximize their possibilities in life but not many of them are willing to pay the price to see that become a reality not many of them are willing to make personal development a Core Curriculum of their life a core pursuit of their life so that they can end up becoming what they desire to become guess what dreams without action ends up as a nightmare so one thing that I have come to realize is if you want to maximize your possibilities in life you must take personal development serious you must make

personal development a core area of your life and you must be intentional you must be specific you must be consistent about personal development I did my second PhD um I completed my second PhD um early last year and I did my dissertation on leadership and the economic empowerment of individuals and my focus was on the role of personal and political leadership on the economic empowerment of individuals and I focused extensively on this aspect of personal leadership because in the world that we live in today A lot of people are not willing to take responsibility for

their lives and responsibilities for the outcome of their life they're always looking forward to blame because all over the world the excuses are the trademarks or failures when people succeed they take responsibility when they fail they shift blame many people are students in our world today and in this part of the world when the student passes say oh I passed but when they failed they failed me the lecturer failed me why because we are always trying to blame somebody for what we are going through you need to understand that personal development is that game changer

personal development is that which will change the game in any aspect of your life because for any area of life where you desire to become successful all you need to do is to get the knowledge in that area act on the knowledge be consistent in that and before you know it you're coming out on the other side but a lot of people have understood the importance of personal development yet they are not able to be the best version of themselves they are not able to maximize their possibilities in life because there is an aspect of

personal development that has not been fully understood by many and that is the core of what I want to drop for you today now listen when we talk about personal development a lot of people only think about it with reference to acquiring knowledge and increasing their intellectual capacity but that's not all there is to personal development if you are going to maximize your possibilities in life you need to go into what I call Holistic personal development and to understand holistic personal development you need to understand the holistic you now listen you are a spirit you

have a soul you live in a body you are a spirit being having a human experience you are not a human being having a spiritual experience your spirit now in your spirit there are three compartments and three parts in your soul there are four compartments and four parts in your body there are five compartments and five parts so the three compartments in your spirit needs to be understood and developed the four compartments in your soul need to be understood and developed the five compartments in your body need to be understood and developed many of us

know about the five Departments of our body because we call it the five physical senses not many of us know about the spirit and we don't have enough time to offload that but I want to focus on the soul now you need to understand that that in your soul there are four compartments because your soul is the central part of your being in your soul you have your mind you have your will you have your emotion and you have your intellects you have your mind you have your will you have your emotion and you have

your intellects now listen your mind is the central processing unit of your life your mind is the storage of your life everything that has happened or is happening to you is stored in your mind now your will is that part of you that helps you to decide is that part of you that helps you to choose so you have your mind you have your will you have your emotion your emotion is that part of you that helps you to feel but you also have the mind the will the emotion and then the internet and that's

that part of you that helps you to think so if you are going to become the best version of yourself and maximize your possibility you need to develop yourself holistically Spirit soul and body but since I'm focusing on the soul that means you need to develop your mind you need to develop your will you need to develop your emotion I need to develop your intellect and once you understand that that these four parts of your soul the three parts of your spread the five parts of your body all needs to be developed consistently and holistically

you now have a curriculum of how to be the best version of yourself guess what there are three windows in that same mind your mind has three Windows while you are developing all the different parts of your spiritual and body you also need to understand how to handle the windows of your mind now the three Windows of your mind are the one that opens to your past the one that opens to your future and the one that opens to your presence now the window of your mind that opens to your past is called the memory

window with the memory window you have the ability to replay the past the one that opens to your presence is called the contemplation window with that window you are able to analyze the presence in order to know what to do the one that opens to your future is the imagination window with the imagination window you are able to visit the future in advance and come back now to decide whether you want to go into the future because imagination is nothing but formation of images and when you form the Right image and you are able to

think well by contemplating accurately and you are able to look back at your past by looking at what you have gone through the power of insight based on memory and your track record the Power of insight based on your contemplation and Analysis of where you are and the power of foresight based on where you are going to will all work together and bring you into that place where you'll be the best version of yourself so everyone listening to me right now wherever you are all over the world you can be the best version of yourself

you can maximize your possibility but one thing you need to do is make personal development a major part of your life and once you go into holistic personal development it will play a major role in you being the best version of yourself go and become [Music] [Applause] [Music]