Many years ago two salesmen were sent by a British shoe manufacturer to Africa to investigate and report back on market potential.

The first salesman reported back, "There is no potential here - nobody wears shoes."

The second salesman reported back, "There is massive potential here - nobody wears shoes."
A single situation can be viewed differently by different people. To some, their current situation may be seen as a problem and disadvantage while others may see it as an opportunity and benefit.

The two salesmen both agreed that nobody wears shoes, but their interpretation of what that holds was starkly different. Africa, the most endowed continent is the least developed. You could look at it as underdevelopment or an opportunity to leapfrog the developed world so called.

What you see influences what you say and ultimately what you do and how you do it. The salesman who sees great potential will certainly go about mining that potential with greater passion and optimism. When you look around you today, do you see Ghana sliding into an abyss or you see a Ghana with the potential of rising to a status befitting the land of warriors?

Pause for a moment and consider what we have done to our nation, by resigning our optimism and ability to see potential instead of challenges, by seeing things within the context of political colors and mantras, by justifying the unjust, and touting the actions of louts as rebels for a cause.

When we opine that Ghana needs a cognitive reorientation, do you say it as though a mystical rain of new thinking must fall on the nation to see change? When Moses sent spies into the promised land, it took the thinking of two men; the 85-year-old Caleb and Joshua to see that though there were giants on the land, they could take the land.

We are plagued by corruption, lawlessness, despondency, dangerous polarization but have you thought of it as opportunities to work together, to put Ghana first, to rebuild this great nation of ours?

What do you see? What do you want to see? Today, allow the scales to fall off your eyes, see the beauty of our nation, its glorious future lies in your eyes and tongue.

What you see, you will say and what you say, you will see.

Go Forward, Make Rain.

I am Nhyira ADDO - THE RAINMAKER

SHALOM