AFRICA IS A CONTINENT ON THE MOVE AND HER YOUTHS ARE HER GREATEST RESOURCE."We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future."Franklin D. Roosevelt. MentorAfrica looks to help youths, through various life transition mentoring topics, to prepare youths for development and leadership that will help them change the African narrative whenever the opportunity arises.
Monday, 28 September 2015
MentorAfrica: GREENER GRASS - LE PAYSAGE PLUS VERT
MentorAfrica: GREENER GRASS - LE PAYSAGE PLUS VERT: We need to sit still, think and discuss. The grass is not always greener on the other side. A nigerian proverb says "what an old man ca...
Thursday, 24 September 2015
MentorAfrica: AFRICAN SUCCESS STORY
MentorAfrica: AFRICAN SUCCESS STORY: A 22-year-old Nigerian has emerged one of the top graduating students of John Hopkins University in the United States with a Grade Point ...
Monday, 21 September 2015
9ja Green Arena: UPCOMING EVENTS
9ja Green Arena: UPCOMING EVENTS: START SMALL TODAY FACTS! "Over 70% of Small and Medium scale business crumble within the first three years in Nigeria. ...
Saturday, 19 September 2015
MentorAfrica: THERE IS NEVER A PERFECT TIME - IL N'YA JAMAIS UN ...
MentorAfrica: THERE IS NEVER A PERFECT TIME - IL N'YA JAMAIS UN ...: I asked someone who used to do early morning walks this morning why he no longer does them and he said his canvas shoes were bad. It reminde...
THERE IS NEVER A PERFECT TIME - IL N'YA JAMAIS UN MOMENT IDEALE
I asked someone who used to do early morning walks this morning why he no longer does them and he said his canvas shoes were bad. It reminded me of an experience I had last year when I went for a conference in one of the West African country where I stayed in a friend's house who worked in that country. After all the welcome formalities, we retired for the day and the first thing she said when we got to the house was that she now had a personal trainer and we were going out at 5am for the morning routine. I made all the excuses possible but she insisted, then I said I didn't have the proper outfit but she said she had something I could use. As a last resort I remembered that our shoe sizes were different but when the trainer came he said I could go with my flipflops, they would only limit the type exercises that I could engage in. The story had an happy ending because I thoroughly enjoyed my sessions throughout my stay. A lot of us wait for the perfect conditions and they simply don't exist. In life, if you look for excuses you will find enough and if you look look for opportunities you will find them even in areas where you least expect to see them. The most important thing is to make up your mind to begin your journey and as you go along what you need will become available. On the other hand, if you decide to wait for perfect conditions, excuses will be all you see around you no matter the corner of the earth in which you find yourself. Are you waiting or you have decided to begin against all the odds of life?
J'ai demandé à quelqu'un qui avait l'habitude de faire les promenades tôt le matin, ce matin, pourquoi il ne les font plus et il a répondu que ses chaussures de toile étaient mauvais. Cela m'a rappelé une expérience que je devais l'an dernier quand je suis allé pour une conférence dans l'un des pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest, où je suis resté dans la maison d'une amie qui travaille dans ce pays. Après toutes les formalités d'accueil, nous nous sommes retirés pour la journée et la première chose qu'elle a dit quand nous sommes arrivés à la maison était qu'elle avait maintenant un entraîneur personnel et nous sortions à 5h du matin pour la routine du matin. Je fis toutes les excuses possibles, mais elle a insisté, alors j'ai dit que je n'avais la tenue correcte, mais elle m'a dit qu'elle avait quelque chose que je pourrais utiliser. En dernier recours, je me suis souvenu que nos tailles de chaussures sont différentes mais quand l'entraîneur est venu, il m'a dit que je pouvais aller avec mes tongs, ils ne feraient que limiter les types d'exercices que je pouvais engager. L'histoire a eu une fin heureuse parce que j'ai vraiment apprécié les séances pendant mon séjour. Beaucoup d'entre nous attendre les conditions idéales et ils n'existent tout simplement pas. Dans la vie, si vous cherchez des excuses vous en trouverez assez et si vous recherchez des opportunités vous les trouverez même dans les zones où vous y attendez le moins de les voir. La chose la plus importante c'est de faire le choix de commencer votre voyage et au fur et a mesure que vous avancez ce qu'il vous faut sera à votre disposition. D'autre part, si vous décidez d'attendre des conditions parfaites, vous verrez seulement des excuses tout autour de vous, peu importe le coin de la terre dans laquelle vous vous trouvez. Est-ce que vous attendez ou vous avez décidé de commencer à l'encontre de toutes les défis de vie?
Friday, 11 September 2015
MentorAfrica: CYCLE OF DEEDS
MentorAfrica: CYCLE OF DEEDS: I have always loved the story of Winston Churchill and Fleming. Once upon a time, this poor farmer was off to his farms when he came acr...
CYCLE OF DEEDS
I have always loved the story of Winston Churchill and Fleming. Once upon a time, this poor farmer was off to his farms when he came across a drowning boy. Swiftly he jumped in and saved his life. Days later; the farmer had an unfamiliar visitor. This wealthy noble had come to thank the farmer for saving his son’s life. While the noble talked to the farmer, he noticed a boy feeding the hens.
“Is that your son?” the noble asked.
“Yes sir, that is my son,” the farmer replied.
“A boy like that should be in school.” the noble said.
So the noble decided he was going to send the farmer’s boy to school alongside his own son. Years passed and the two boys became great men who left their names in history. Winston Churchill the noble’s son became prime minister. Years into his Adult life, he fell very ill and was dying. It was then his friend Alexander Fleming (the farmer’s son educated by Winston Churchill’s Dad) discovered the miracle pill(penicillin) which saved Churchill’s life. Alexander Fleming left his name in the books of time.
Life is like a machine. It keeps recycling the things we do. If we put evil into it, it will be recycled and multiplied. If we put good in it, it will be recycled and multiply. All we do in this world sets up a chain of events we sometimes do not realize. The abused child, who abuses and grows a kid who later abuses other kids. There is a cycle of good which can be interrupted by evil and there is a cycle of evil which can be interrupted by good.
As we live our lives, we should be conscious of the chain of events our actions will create. If you are a victim caught up in a cycle of evil, you have the power to break that cycle by doing the reverse. Do not recycle evil. Sometimes we have to let go and forgive whatever wrong was done to us so that evil is not recycled. Be a contributor to the cycle of good…Lets spread our hands across the world with little humane acts which go a long way…
Feed the good inside of you!
God Bless!
Stay You!
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