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.
Tuesday, 20 February 2018
MentorAfrica: LET IT DIE. - LAISSE LE MOURIR
MentorAfrica: LET IT DIE. - LAISSE LE MOURIR: One of the most fascinating seasons for me is after the harmattan when we begin to have sporadic rainfall. All vegetation begins to grow ne...
LET IT DIE. - LAISSE LE MOURIR
One of the most fascinating seasons for me is after the harmattan when we begin to have sporadic rainfall. All vegetation begins to grow new leaves and blades while the brown, dead leaves are falling off to make room for new life. It is quite an interesting sight, life and death exist side by side but in real life situations, this is very difficult for us to grasp. We often do not like to see things die even if we do not have any more use for them. Most people will hold unto unproductive associations and situations that have lost relevance in their lives just because of an unhealthy emotional attachment or fear of an unknown albeit better future. It is not the trunk that is affected by the seasonal changes, it is the leaves that die to make room for new ones. While all else evolves in your life, your core values should be the foundation and the pillars on which your life is established. Let what should die, die. Stop holding unto people and things that are no longer adding value to your life. Stop seeing life from the with the same lenses that you used ten years ago. Your core values should always be the structure but always try to remodel and adapt to new ways of understanding life and getting things done. It is very disturbing to see people who either hold on to a fading past or who change their core values, holding on to the past just to avoid change. So long as we live, we will always have to let go off the dead in order to accommodate the new for us to be successful. Do not fear to let anything die because that is the only way to make room for the new. Enjoy your day!
L'une des saisons les plus fascinantes pour moi est après l'harmattan quand nous commençons à avoir des précipitations sporadiques. Toute la végétation commence à pousser de nouvelles feuilles et de nouvelles lames d'herbes tandis que les feuilles brunes et mortes tombent pour faire place à une nouvelle vie. C'est un spectacle assez intéressant, la vie et la mort existent côte à côte, mais dans les situations de la vie réelle, c'est très difficile à saisir pour nous. Nous n'aimons souvent pas voir mourir des choses même si nous n'en avons plus besoin. La plupart des gens s'attacheront à des associations improductives et à des situations qui ont perdu de leur pertinence dans leur vie simplement à cause d'un attachement émotionnel malsain ou de la peur d'un avenir inconnu, quoique meilleur. Ce n'est pas le tronc qui est affecté par les changements saisonniers, ce sont les feuilles qui meurent pour faire de la place aux nouvelles. Tandis que tout le reste évolue dans votre vie, vos valeurs fondamentales devraient être le fondement et les piliers sur lesquels votre vie est établie. Laisse ce qui devrait mourir, meurs. Arrêtez de vous tenir aux gens et aux choses qui ne vous apportent plus de valeur dans votre vie. Arrêtez de voir la vie avec les mêmes lentilles que vous avez utilisées il y a dix ans. Vos valeurs fondamentales devraient toujours être la structure, mais essayez toujours de vous remodeler et de vous adapter à de nouvelles façons de comprendre la vie et de faire avancer les choses. C'est très troublant de voir des gens qui s'accrochent à un passé qui s'efface ou qui changent leurs valeurs fondamentales, se tenant au passé pour éviter le changement. Tant que nous vivrons, nous devrons toujours laisser partir les morts afin d'accommoder le nouveau pour que nous réussissions. N'ayez pas peur de laisser mourir quoi que ce soit parce que c'est la seule façon de faire de la place au nouveau. Bonne journée!
Monday, 19 February 2018
MentorAfrica: THERE WILL ALWAYS BE GIANTS - IL Y AURAIT TOUJOURS...
MentorAfrica: THERE WILL ALWAYS BE GIANTS - IL Y AURAIT TOUJOURS...: Everyday is a new opportunity or a new obstacle, it depends on how you decide to see it. No matter how hard you try, there will always be p...
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE GIANTS - IL Y AURAIT TOUJOURS DES GÉANTS.
Everyday is a new opportunity or a new obstacle, it depends on how you decide to see it. No matter how hard you try, there will always be people who have made up their minds to see only the negative side of things. There are Africans who will never see any good in this continent until her development becomes so obvious that even the the blind can smell it. No matter the arguments you put forward, their eyes are outside this continent and you cannot really blame them. However, life is always a mixture of opportunities and obstacles, the one you magnify determines what you can do with what you have, how far you can go and what degree of success you can have no matter where you live on this planet. There will always be giants, but it depends on whether you see them as insurmountable mountains or conquerable elevations from which you can help yourself and others get a better view of our world. Giants of racism, corruption, bad leadership, oppression, terrorism etc will always be in the land so long as human beings exist. You must realised that all those who have done remarkable things that history honours today, had to overcome these giants and stand on top of them to change the world. For those who wait for the land to be free from giants, they will go their graves without any legacy to be remembered. As you make up your mind to pursue your dreams in spite of the giants in the land, they will become smaller because most of the time, the magnitude of the giant is really in the way we see it. Enjoy a great week!
Friday, 9 February 2018
MentorAfrica: YOU SHOULD BEFORE YOU COULD - VOUS DEVEZ AVANT QUE...
MentorAfrica: YOU SHOULD BEFORE YOU COULD - VOUS DEVEZ AVANT QUE...: There is a popular saying "where there is a will, there is a way" The reason many of us turn a blind eye to challenges around us ...
YOU SHOULD BEFORE YOU COULD - VOUS DEVEZ AVANT QUE VOUS PUISSIEZ
There is a popular saying "where there is a will, there is a way" The reason many of us turn a blind eye to challenges around us is the fact that we do not think that we should do anything about them. It is always someone else's duty to fix a certain problem. Until you see yourself as a part of the solution, you can never be a part of the solution. If it is your cup of tea you will drink it. When you are concerned about any situation, you will begin to see what can be done to make it better as you take steps to do something about it. Until you get to this point, you will only see what is wrong, who is wrong and how they should do to fix it, you are never in the equation. While some are constantly analysing the problem others have moved on to see what they can contribute to be a part of the solution, you have to believe you should before you can see how you could. While some are complaining about traffic, others are thinking of how to dig tunnels underground to ease the traffic. While some are complaining and analysing the invasion of plastic packaging others are putting them to productive use. If you change the way you see challenges, you will discover a power to change things that you thought belonged only to the Wright brothers, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or other "super humans" in that category. Everyone knows what the problem is, what we should all be looking for is the solution, be a part of that. Have a great day!
Thursday, 8 February 2018
MentorAfrica: THEY WILL TAKE YOU DOWN - ILS VONT VOUS RAMENER AU...
MentorAfrica: THEY WILL TAKE YOU DOWN - ILS VONT VOUS RAMENER AU...: There will always be people who try to shoot down those that dare to be different. It is not because they are doing something wrong, it is ...
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