YOUTHS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD--- Beware Of Potholes
We coach youths and students to harness the resources within them, beware of and fill up potholes, navigate challenges and blossom. Our books displayed under books in this blog, particularly the A COOL GUY have been described as classics for youth development. Come on board!
The Inner Resource
a.
Character – Describe good character
b.
Vibrancy – energy and drive, good food, good
lifestyle
c.
Knowledge and education
d.
Adventurous spirit
e.
Family support and network(Richard Benson had to
fall on family when there was need )
f.
Camaraderie and no dividing nuances
g.
Others
·
The Stepping Stones
a.
Good pre-puberty upbringing(That’s when values are habituated , pruned
and entrenched)
b.
Resilient teen-age – know who you are (core values, defend principles)Decision
skill critical
c.
Emotional Intelligent skills: Know self; impulse control; relationship
skill; decision skill; social awareness.
d. Imagination and creativity (Focus on dream
and goal, don’t waver and work towards it)
e. See through Character
·
Banana peels
a.
Faulty upbringing
b.
Victim to unschooled emotions – that is misused
sexuality energy; challenging pursuits
c.
Drug and alcohol abuse: effect on self and
society
d.
The missing link in job creation
e.
Sexuality misuse and abuses;
f.
Inability to navigate social challenges
g.
Inability to connect to the core and tap the
limitless resources
·
Re-scripting self
a.
Acknowledge your failings/weaknesses
b.
Stop abuses – drugs, sexuality, whatever it may take.
c.
Build up your core values and defend them (copy
the gazelle)
d.
Recreate your dream and focus on it
e.
Incorporate the missing link why you have not
achieved them
f.
Know the rules of making and keeping money. You
are not comfortable until your money starts working for you.
g.
Acquire all the knowledge and skills you need.
h.
Constantly prune your character, clutch at your
principles and be firm in decisions
i.
Study your society – the social climate – build your
team and be heard.
j.
Reverence, love and obey God.
Reference
A Cool Guy; Youths addictions, Change,
Job and the Missing Link.
Education and wealth without character is like good food
served in a refuse bin.
CONFRONT
THE RYTHMS OF OUR TIME
A rhythm is a regular or repeated pattern of events and in our
context, they have become almost a way
of life especially for our children and youths. And they are not a lifestyle to
be indulged because they are not positive and constructive for growth and so
they have to be confronted for change by change agents. Some of those events or
habits include:
(1)Lackadaisical attitude
to, and less time for work and learning;
(2) Greed and materialism;
(3) Moral relativism and
docility;
(4) Low virtues of
integrity, respect for age and institutions;
(5)Sexuality misuse and abuses;
(6) Cultism and violence;
(7) Drugs, Alcohol and
Codeine abuses;
(8) Low grip on Character
and Principles leading to easy and pervasive negative peer influence; (9)
Global bastardisation of home grown values, traditions and culture;
(10) Low aspiration to the teaching
profession
Youths who want to play a role in changing this
retrogressive rhythm must know how to be change agents.
Barack Obama says; ‘’Change will not come if we wait for some
other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been
waiting for.’’ Finger pointing and
blame game have never solved anything; young adults must speak out in an
appropriate non violent manner to the hearing of many, if things are going
wrong. You must be self confident enough to acknowledge that part of your right
as a citizen is your right to vote right, to demand for your right when it is
violated, and to demand for good governance. The crime of most people in sub developed
or developing country such as ours is not that our brains are any inferior to
anybody else’s (after all many of our people are trail blazers in other climes
where the environment is more conducive for innovation),but the inability to rise
above frustrating situations and let our voices be heard.
Features Of A Change Agent:
1,
Clear vision about what needs to be changed
2.
Capacity to read the social or community climate and know how best to relate
3.
Patient but persistence,
4.
Persuasive and engages in tough dialogues;
5 Knowledge
about general life principles,
6 Leads by example,
7. Can build relationship built on trust,
8 Has high Emotional quotient.
9. Can
resolve conflict effectively
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