His Excellency, the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana has been calling on Guyanese to THINK BIG!!! 
He made various appeals to the Guyanese Populace and Minds of the people, for us – in other words to: ‘Be masters in the power of positive thinking’, which also in modern days is called ‘the universal laws of attraction’.  He asked and is asking us to Think Big.

I wish to agree with the President, as those who are big thinkers turn out to be big.  I recall in our days of poverty, and yes, my family also had its days of severe poverty. With ambition, positive thoughts, despite severe hardship, we became successful.  My Step-father (I prefer to call him Father), would wake early, go into the fields and work, and return late. 

He eventually bought an old truck, and would go out for days in the jungles, yes jungles and work an ordinary old truck as a tractor, eating stale cook-up rice with salt fish. Some writers think they have a monopoly on early poverty. 

I know the great Mr. Yesu Persaud grew up, like myself, in a ‘logie’.  Yes, my ‘father’, became a success with a massive lumber and soft drinks transport system from Corriverton to Georgetown and Linden, while teaching us to be humble, dynamic and ambitious, always to associate with positive thinkers, big thinkers.

I saw and knew in my mind’s eye that I will be a success.  I also suffered overseas, but never lament; I worked in restaurants, washing dishes; painting fences, etc., to make ends meet.  This is what the President was referring to that people must be like, when he opened Bakewell/RotiHut and Ritual’s House Coffee at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri – the grand opening of the magnificent  New Thriving Restaurant  in Main Street, and more recently, the King’s Jewellery outlet at the CJIA.

He wants ordinary people, students, farmers, cane cutters, writers, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs, whatever we do, to do it to the best of our abilities, make it a positive spin and flip it into success. We must turn every failure and disappointment into stepping stones to success.  I will say positive and good things about any President of any Party in power when they do and say nice things. I will never be a spin doctor of evil, turning good notes and points into evil and filth, as filth could follow me.

One particular intellectual, whom some refer to as ‘NERD’, took the President’s words and mangled, even tried to ‘defang’ them, just to embarrass him, to belittle him.  This was of course, with his usual putrid venom and horde of negatives. 

It must be understood that there exists also ‘Power of negative thinking’.  By this, those who whine and complain, nag, and ill-talk attract the entire negatives in the world.  The universe is electric and magnetic. Thoughts are electric and magnetic, just as cell messages, wireless radio, AM and FM radio and wireless transmissions, television shows, (eg. Direct TV and any such television stations) travel at vast speeds in the Universe, in the air, and the negative thoughts and wining, and pining attracts similar kinds of friends; negative thought, personal destruction, and failure.  Those around such persons become negativistic as well.
Emotions are powerful as are thoughts for they work together.  It was Mr. Ford, the inventor of the Ford automobile, who said words to the effect that:  ‘What the mind conceives, same can be made reality’.  This writer has done and proven this countless times in his life; from poverty, from childhood… always thought big, big, big.
He never complained about poverty, and periods when food was scarce, and periods without food, when things were nationally bad in the 60’s.  He never publicly condemned his parents or mocked them for food or lack of a haircut. 

When one is negative, see negative, eat and live negative, their achievement is negative.  If the thought is filth, they attract filth. The BK/Raj Yog Institution provides free training in positive thinking regularly, people – youth and adults, positive and negative -can benefit from this training, and this writer will volunteer time to meet peoples in groups, churches, Mandirs and schools to teach the art of Power of Positive Thinking and the destructiveness of negative thoughts.

It is always advisable to be around positive and dynamic people, who make the best out of what is there, than be around permo-complainants, who have failed, but blind to see that they have.

So as a ‘Big Thinker’, I am taking the President’s challenge to ‘think not only big, but bigger, more and best’.  Every dollar I make I reinvest in my country.  I take debts and take the risks; the President encouraged the entrepreneurs to take RISKS, when the New Thriving celebrated their first Anniversary recently. 

He said words to the effect that those who take risks are the ones who will see prosperity.  Of course when the risk takers – the entrepreneurs – are successful, all kinds of people are employed at various levels of education and talents, and the economy gets a positive spin, more taxes are paid, and the people and country gains.

Those with brains to think, but think only negatives, please think!  Use that grey matter for positivity, not negativity, and stop being jealous when you see successful and dynamic people.  Once, I was by the Bourda Market, near Orange Walk and the Merriman’s Mall, and there a man was talking to a street cigarette and sweets vendor, complaining about Toney’s third shop, and his big potato and onion business. The cigarette vendor told the man “Don’t be jealous man, I getting inspired by dem people, and I thinking of opening another tray with my wife in another place.  Dey inspiring me and a gun sell cool down too and she too, a looking for two ole fridge.”  These are words of ambition that the soothsayers and Masters of Negativism can draw from.  Not lamenting into these peoples’ ears negatives and more negatives, transferring their bitterness into hard working people’s hearts.

I will soon start up a new business, THINKING BIG; many will get employment, and I am taking the President’s challenge to import vehicles that is good for the environment, for poor people, and anyone else, that will provide independence of transport for families, workers and cheap transport for small farmers and entrepreneurs.  I am thinking big and working to help develop the country which will help our LCDS campaign of our President and government. In a two minute private conversation with His Excellency, at the opening of Ritual’s Coffee House/Roti Shop at the airport, the President was told I started my company with $7.50 (seven dollars and fifty cents) in 1979, which purchased one and half gallon of gasoline for my old, worn out Suzuki motorcycle. 

My first clients were Hong Kong Restaurant in Saffon St., CJ’s Thrift Shop, Charlie Khan and Company and M. Beepat and Sons, and a few others.

They saw the energy, the determination, the ambition, the POSITIVENESS, and ‘lended-a-hand’. 
It had to be the universal laws of attraction, ambition, the power of positive thought, and the rest is history. 
Many negative persons tried to destroy me, steal my motorcycle, rob my small payroll, ill-talked and predicted my downfall for I had no capital. They got destroyed and dwindled, and my company grew into a national security entity, investing in every county, and employing today thousands of people.  Many large companies robbed me, some got bankrupted and one owner died so terribly that I begged God for their forgiveness for my debt.  When I get, I am grateful and thank the Lord and his Universe, and when they go, it is the Lord’s and his Universe way of say
ing – “take a rest Roshan”.  I turned negatives into positives.

Those who wish to disagree and wish to curse me, by all means do, but try to be a little positive, so that you, your family, the country will benefit from positive thoughts.  The holy books, all holy books, teach:  ‘As a man thinketh in his heart so is he’.   Young people of Guyana, study the faces and utterings of those negativistic people you know everywhere – at school, churches, homes, etc, and observe the lines in their faces, the lack of smile, and the bitterness.  Positive thoughts come from a beautiful heart and mind, cleanses the soul, and raises people to spiritual and physical success.
Keep far from the negators, and close to the positive souls and body.