GHANA’S DILEMMA

In the midst of all this madness we are supposed to make ends meet. What do they take us for? After learning all these years in school, you stare unemployment in the face. You wonder how the future is going to be like for you. Will you be able to further your education? Will you be able to get married in a very comfortable way? Will you be able to take care of your wife and children without being corrupt or doing something illegal? Those are some of the questions that run through the minds of graduates who complete their university education and realize they are better off in a foreign land in Europe or the United States working menial jobs.

GHANA’S DILEMMA

In the midst of all this madness we are supposed to make ends meet. What do they take us for? After learning all these years in school, you stare unemployment in the face. You wonder how the future is going to be like for you. Will you be able to further your education? Will you be able to get married in a very comfortable way? Will you be able to take care of your wife and children without being corrupt or doing something illegal? Those are some of the questions that run through the minds of graduates who complete their university education and realize they are better off in a foreign land in Europe or the United States working menial jobs.

A BETTER GHANA BY WHO’S STANDARDS

Tudor Bismark said once, that sometimes an abnormality can become normal. This is the situation where you find the wrong being taken as right and no one is able to point out the flaw in that situation. We have gotten used to this situation that no more do you find people feeling ashamed for doing the wrong but rather confidently defend their wrong actions.

It may well be a fact that sometimes you have to mind your own business. But I am sure if you examine your life very well, you will realize that you know someone or maybe have found yourself in an abnormality which has been taken as normal. In that situation, were you able to speak out and point out the wrong? Or were you so comfortable about the abnormality that it didn’t mean anything to you to speak out?

LEADERSHIP THROUGH THE LIFE OF MY MENTORS

I have mentors that I look up to. I study their lives and pick the invaluable traits they have and add to my life which is under construction. These mentors of mine have attained life’s greatest feats and yet there is this air of simplicity about them that makes me aspire to be like them or even better. They have influenced my life in the most profound way that it is only when I start bearing fruits that I would be able to measure the impact that they have had on my life. This is not to say that I haven’t seen any fruits yet but that when publicly everyone begins to see and feel the impact of their life on mine privately.

There is this one thing that I have realized about them which I want to talk of today. It is that all my mentors started small. They started small in their talents and passions for life. Many of them after realizing what exactly makes them tick focused on those things and worked on themselves. One of my mentors will tell you that; “don’t wish life was easier, wish you were better”. Most of my mentors haven’t had life easy after discovering their passions and talents. But in the difficulties of life they have learned to be better. They have learned to influence their own lives so they can become their life passions and dreams. Doing this is not easy. It is a difficult process of discipline and focus. Focus in the words of Robert Kiyosaki being; “Follow One Course Until Successful”. They didn’t give up even when it seemed impossible to make it.

HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT

Most of us have wondered why some relationships don’t work. Well, I have done same several times and I find it interesting that most times the reasons for which they do, have basic similarities. May be you should critically examine your broken relationships and those of your friends and loved ones and you will realize that these basic similarities run through the break-ups.

What intrigued me however, are the measures that were either taken or not taken to salvage the little that was left of such relationships. It is either one party felt too hurt and proud to compromise or didn’t want to feel like the fool. It could have been that the guy didn’t give the woman he says he loves enough guarantee for her to hold on to him no matter the situation that they both found themselves in. Generally, our individual personality types do affect our relationships and how we communicate with others.

Egyptian Uprising: Any Lessons Learnt?

One of Africa’s longest serving presidents has just been pushed out of power. Egypt has shown that power lies with the people. The people have proved to all political tyrannies that their continuous stay in power is just a matter of time. But did the people of Egypt have to go through all this protests to drive home their frustrations? Wasn’t their leader, Hosni Mubarak sensitive enough to know and feel what his own people were going through? Zig Ziglar in one of his books wrote that, “People don’t care what you know until they know that you care”.

I believe that Mr. Mubarak didn’t care enough about his people to listen to and address their concerns in the best of ways. Rather he resorted to doing things his way and in his favor. And that is obviously not leadership. I believe the people of Egypt did not have to start those protests for them to have their concerns addressed. However, they have thought us all a lesson in leadership; that each and every one of us is responsible for our future (whether collectively or individually).

YOUR FUTURE STARTS WITH YOU

What do you do when you miss an opportunity? Most especially one that could make life better for you? It’s amazing how opportunities come knocking on our doors and we let it pass sometimes. It may not be your fault directly that it passed you by or may be it might. The most important question you need to ask yourself is what you will do now? Live a life less satisfying if you had taken the opportunity that came your way or prepare for another opportunity that will certainly not pass you by? Do you decide that because it wasn’t directly your fault that you missed the opportunity, you have an excuse to live a mediocre life? Or do you see your inability to take that opportunity as a lesson to be prepared next time? This is just a little of the many decisions we have to make day-in, day-out.

AT A LOSS: I THOUGHT DEMOCRACY WAS THE BEST

Have you wondered why we are finding it so difficult to make life what we really feel deep inside us what we want it to be? Well, I have and I’ve done that several times. The most unfortunate thing however is not the fact that things are the way they are; rather it is that we have learned to live with that as being normal. We are now used to hearing the bad things happen and feel like the victim of whatever mishap was fortunate not to have gone through what we or someone else did go through. We are now numb to the fact that whatever is going on around is not normal and that there is something wrong somewhere. For example, we have gotten used to hearing that relationships just don’t work because we all have differences and as such do not see anything wrong with the rate at which marriages and relationships are falling apart. We seem to now have become used to hearing that a relationship or a marriage did not work just because we have lost sight of what really is important.

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