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.
Wednesday, 4 August 2021
MentorAfrica: THE FIRE OF PASSION AND THE INTEGRITY OF COMMITMEN...
THE FIRE OF PASSION AND THE INTEGRITY OF COMMITMENT. - LE FEU DE LA PASSION ET L'INTÉGRITÉ DE L'ENGAGEMENT.
A lot of emphasis has been made about the passion to pursue our purpose with a little on the importance of commitment. Passion will fire you up and get you started but, when challenges come and your resolve is tested, it is commitment to your dream that will stand and see you through. Commitment will definitely carry you farther than passion because the integrity of commitment is far more potent than the fire of passion. There will be days that the fires of passion will just be embers and it will take your commitment to fan them back to flame. The road to the actualization of a vision starts with the adrenalin rush of passion and this is a good beginning, but we know that for fire to achieve desired results, it has to keep burning. Passion has to be maintained until the vision is realised and that is not a small fit, so we need to constantly add the fuel of commitment in order to keep the fire burning even during seasons of rain and wet weather that try to slow us down or completely quench our fire. Resilience can only be born out of the degree of commitment we have for the achievement of our set goal. Many fires burn out and dreams die because there was not enough commitment to create the staying power to keep them burning. Stay true to your vision by keeping the integrity of your commitment, that is the only area in which you will find it difficult to get help. You can get all the help you can to make you continue until the job is done, but you are the only one who can decide to stay committed no matter how much you waver. When the chips are down, all you will be able to totally rely on only one person and that will be yourself. Do have a beautiful day!
Tuesday, 3 August 2021
MentorAfrica: LEARN TO SAY WHAT YOU MEAN AND MEAN WHAT YOU SAY. ...
LEARN TO SAY WHAT YOU MEAN AND MEAN WHAT YOU SAY. - APPRENEZ À DIRE CE QUE VOUS VOULEZ ET DE VOULOIR CE QUE VOUS DITES.
The number of people who truly listen what is being said is so minute that we would be silent most of the time if we paid much attention to that fact. People really hear only what they want so, it is incumbent upon us to be truthful to ourselves about the subject matter of our conversation and hope that people will understand us. If you want to please people always by saying something they would like to hear, you will end up never having an earnest opinion or feedback about anything in life. In order to get honest feedbacks, you have to be honest with yourself and make sure you actually want to engage in a sincere conversation and not having a conversation for the sake of wanting to just hold a conversation. There is so much light talk and promotional conversation going on these days that many people are becoming weary of having serious conversations. Listening is difficult on its own, then adding frivolities to a serious conversation just turns people off. Deep, heartfelt conversations that require serious deliberations and evaluation are no longer “in vogue” most especially because the average attention span has been greatly reduced in a digital world like ours. The only way to get the responses that you require would be to take your chances by being constantly true to yourself and hoping that someone will listen and truly understand what you are trying to communicate. You can talk all you want but people will only hear what they want and if that is the case, you have to say what you mean and only mean what you say when it comes to having conversations from which you intend to get feedbacks that are really important to you. Enjoy your day!
Le nombre de personnes qui écoutent vraiment ce qui est dit est si infime que nous serions silencieux la plupart du temps si nous prêtions beaucoup d'attention à ce fait. Les gens n'entendent vraiment que ce qu'ils veulent donc, il nous incombe d'être honnête envers nous-mêmes sur le sujet de notre conversation et d'espérer que les gens nous comprendront. Si vous voulez toujours faire plaisir aux gens en leur disant quelque chose qu'ils aimeraient entendre, vous finirez par ne jamais avoir d'opinion ou de commentaires sérieux sur quoi que ce soit dans la vie. Afin d'obtenir des retours honnêtes, vous devez être honnête avec vous-même et vous assurer que vous voulez réellement vous engager dans une conversation sincère et ne pas avoir une conversation pour le simple plaisir de tenir une conversation. Il y a tellement de discours légers et de conversations promotionnelles en cours ces jours-ci que beaucoup de gens se lassent d'avoir des conversations sérieuses. Écouter est difficile en soi, puis ajouter des frivolités à une conversation sérieuse ne fait que décourager les gens. Les conversations profondes et sincères qui nécessitent des délibérations et une évaluation sérieuses ne sont plus « à la mode », surtout parce que la durée d'attention moyenne a été considérablement réduite dans un monde numérique comme le nôtre. La seule façon d'obtenir les réponses dont vous avez besoin serait de tenter votre chance en étant constamment fidèle à vous-même et en espérant que quelqu'un vous écoutera et comprendra vraiment ce que vous essayez de communiquer. Vous pouvez parler autant que vous voulez mais les gens n'entendent que ce qu'ils veulent et si c'est le cas, vous devez dire ce que vous voulez dire et ne dire ce que vous dites quand il s'agit d'avoir des conversations dont vous avez l'intention d'obtenir des retours qui sont vraiment important pour vous. Profitez de votre journée!
Monday, 2 August 2021
MentorAfrica: SOMETHING IS ONLY AS VALUABLE AS THE POTENTIAL YOU...
SOMETHING IS ONLY AS VALUABLE AS THE POTENTIAL YOU ASCRIBE TO IT. - QUELQUE CHOSE N'EST AUSSI VALABLE QUE LE POTENTIEL QUE VOUS LUI ATTRIBUEZ.
When a lion sees an elephant, it says 'LUNCH' when an
elephant sees a lion, it says 'EATER' - Mlyes Munroe
Quand un lion voit un éléphant, il dit " LE DÉJEUNER " quand un éléphant voit un lion, il dit " MANGEUR " - Mlyes Munroe