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Tuesday, 29 July 2014

LIFE SKILLS. Thoughts 4 Action 4 PROACTIVE young people


Theophilus T. Aguda

AKWAABA!
 Dear friends
Today I wish to share a few thoughts with you. These thoughts are about my personal convictions on the capacity of man. I hope to expound on these elaborately on my subsequent WANcareerlife publications. We are going to be friends, forever, I hope. The people at WANcareerlife believe in life skills development programmes, particularly when it comes to the youth. If, for instance, your life skills are not fully developed then it is not easy for individuals to prosper adequately in their lives. This affects their life styles, the quality of life and of the economies of where they live. 

I believe in the latent power of God in man. This power is the capacity and ability to CHOOSE, THINK, CREATE and ACCOMPLISH a THOUGHT. It’s worth nothing that every thought has embedded in it all the necessary tools of accomplishment, and that man is the only creature with an innate capacity to discover and accomplish it.

Firstly, let us look at the element of CHOOSING. In CHOOSING, man is able to use the capacity of critical thinking to analyse and even predict the resulting outcome or outcomes of the options available to him. With proper use of this capacity, man is able to make the conscious and deliberate act of picking the option or options that would best and most likely guarantee the end result he seeks or desires. After CHOOSING, THINKING becomes the necessary next step in our quest to ACCOMPLISHING a THOUGHT.

When it comes to THINKING, we use all the faculties of the mind to carefully consider the processes, methods and tools necessary for the choice we have made, or are about to make. By using these steps to strategise, we plan and work out our choices into a plan of action. With an action plan or a to-do plan in hands, our creative juices spring into an effortless alignment to CREATE.

To CREATE man focuses on the to-do or action plan to bring a THOUGHT to life. It is at this stage that his resolve and determination to complete his chosen options, and to see or experience his desired results are realised. It is worth noting that in the two preceding steps before CREATE, CHOOSING and THINKING are done on paper and the THOUGHT remains abstract at this stage. Here we get our hands dirty and the THOUGHT begins to take sharp until it’s fully formed and functional. Man’s reward after the completion of the creative process is an ACCOMPLISHED THOUGHT.

Finally, in ACCOMPLISHING THOUGHT the abstract idea that seems vague and transient becomes tangible and useable. Then man is rewarded with income as people see the usefulness and need for the ACCOMPLISHED THOUHGHT.

REMEMBER, in CHOOSING, we think, in THINKING we create, in CREATING we ACCOMPLISH THOUGHT!”

These are the things that make man functional and empower him to be man.

Thanks for the attention.

My dear friends, next month we will look more closely at the process of CHOOSING, with theme: “CHOICE AND CONSEQUENCES”.

BYE-BYE Have an ACCOMPLISHED month!

The writer is the CEO and founder of POTENTIAL ABILITY INTERNATIONAL NGO (P.A.I.NGO)
He is a graduate in B.Sc. Psychology and Linguists from the University of Ghana
Connect with him at:
Facebook: Theo Aguda
Facebook Group page: Potential Ability International ngo
Website: www.paiablengo.yolasite.com

Aguda is also a pastor, teacher, writer, personality coach, motivational speaker and a counsellor.

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