Hi all!
I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everybody who spent his or her valuable time reading my blog. It's been a pleasure trying to keep you informed about issues as well as giving you information that can make you life better.
As Christmas is a time of sharing and caring, I entreat all of you to be kind not only to your family and friends but also to the people around you, neighbours and strangers alike. Share whatever you have because sharing is caring and caring is love.
Just make sure that you make maximum use of your time. Enjoy every single bit of this glorious moment that Christmas presents us with. And don't forget to give thanks to the Almighty God for life and good health. He is the reason we live.
I promise you that next year is going to be more exciting than this current year. There would be more articles to cover a variety of topics. I will overwhelm you with relevant information to educate and entertain you.
Before I sign off, I want thank you once again for everything. God richly bless you. MERRY CHRISTMAS! AFEHYIA PA!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
What DRIVES You?
Fear of failure vrs Pleasure of Success
What Drives You? What motivates you? What keeps you going when you feel like giving up?
For some of you, this may sound like a trivial question but if you think about it critically, you’d realize the relevance or essence of a driving force. As human beings with ambitions, aspirations and goals, it is imperative that we have an impetus that would compel or more importantly propel us toward the achievement of whatever we set out to do. In difficult times, when you feel like you cannot continue any longer, when you think your ambitions are absurd and not leading anywhere, it is this strong force that can keep you going.
Just as it is vital to have a driving force, it is also of great consequence that you choose a very strong thrust that would not snap under the weight of persistent set backs. For most people either the fear of failing and being branded a failure or succeeding and enjoying the benefits of their success keeps them going.
So what drives you? That is the focus of our discussion today. You may be using any of the above as a driving force, consciously or unconsciously. The other purpose of this discussion is to
• help you identify which of the two forces would be stronger for you, to
• help you tailor/ streamline it to suit perfectly, and
• help you fortify the force to make it much stronger.
Let me bother you with another trivial question. If you had to choose between avoiding pain and gaining pleasure, what would you choose? Or let me put it this way. If there was something you could do to give you great pleasure, as opposed to doing something that would spare you great pain, which one would you love to do?
There is no right or wrong answer and no option is better than the other. It depends solely on the individual. In any case the most important thing to bear in mind is that the desire to avert pain or to gain pleasure should be so strong that nothing can stop you from attaining it. That is the quality of a good ‘driving force’.
At the end or the beginning of every year, we make several resolutions geared at making our lives better in the ensuing year, but sometimes as early as halfway through the first month, we find ourselves helplessly clinging to our old ways. If we are very strong, we may follow through to somewhere in the middle of the year and then the driving force would snap. Very few people are able to follow through to the last letter. We will talk about resolutions at another time but what I’m trying to send across is that most of us are not able to keep our resolutions simply because we don’t have a driving force or the driving force is too weak to withstand the pressures that troop in from the four corners of the world. The few people who are able to follow their resolutions are able to do so mostly because they have a very strong driving force that does not stagger under the weight of of strong antagonism.
....To Be CONTINUED...
Highlights for next week
*This is Pain. Hate it or Fear it!
*The Fear factor... etc
What Drives You? What motivates you? What keeps you going when you feel like giving up?
For some of you, this may sound like a trivial question but if you think about it critically, you’d realize the relevance or essence of a driving force. As human beings with ambitions, aspirations and goals, it is imperative that we have an impetus that would compel or more importantly propel us toward the achievement of whatever we set out to do. In difficult times, when you feel like you cannot continue any longer, when you think your ambitions are absurd and not leading anywhere, it is this strong force that can keep you going.
Just as it is vital to have a driving force, it is also of great consequence that you choose a very strong thrust that would not snap under the weight of persistent set backs. For most people either the fear of failing and being branded a failure or succeeding and enjoying the benefits of their success keeps them going.
So what drives you? That is the focus of our discussion today. You may be using any of the above as a driving force, consciously or unconsciously. The other purpose of this discussion is to
• help you identify which of the two forces would be stronger for you, to
• help you tailor/ streamline it to suit perfectly, and
• help you fortify the force to make it much stronger.
Let me bother you with another trivial question. If you had to choose between avoiding pain and gaining pleasure, what would you choose? Or let me put it this way. If there was something you could do to give you great pleasure, as opposed to doing something that would spare you great pain, which one would you love to do?
There is no right or wrong answer and no option is better than the other. It depends solely on the individual. In any case the most important thing to bear in mind is that the desire to avert pain or to gain pleasure should be so strong that nothing can stop you from attaining it. That is the quality of a good ‘driving force’.
At the end or the beginning of every year, we make several resolutions geared at making our lives better in the ensuing year, but sometimes as early as halfway through the first month, we find ourselves helplessly clinging to our old ways. If we are very strong, we may follow through to somewhere in the middle of the year and then the driving force would snap. Very few people are able to follow through to the last letter. We will talk about resolutions at another time but what I’m trying to send across is that most of us are not able to keep our resolutions simply because we don’t have a driving force or the driving force is too weak to withstand the pressures that troop in from the four corners of the world. The few people who are able to follow their resolutions are able to do so mostly because they have a very strong driving force that does not stagger under the weight of of strong antagonism.
....To Be CONTINUED...
Highlights for next week
*This is Pain. Hate it or Fear it!
*The Fear factor... etc
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Welcome! Activation Session 1.0
Hi Everybody!
Let me take this opportunity to welcome all of you to my blog (Activation Sessions), where you'll be motivated, activated and challenged to achieve your purpose in life. I know its been long over due but like the saying rows and goes, 'better late than never'.
My name is Isaac Osei-Bonsu or OBI for short. I thank the Lord, God Almighty for the gift of motivation and now for the ability to cause activation of your inner potentials and capabilities. I have created this blog for the purpose of challenging status quo and keeping you in 'action gear'.
I guess you've all had enough of motivational speakers who claim their ideas will make you successful if you are able to practice them, knowing very well of the highly impracticable nature of their ideas. And there are those who keep repackaging old information in new vessels hoping to lure over those who are less vigilant or better put, ignorant.
One interesting thing is that they have such charisma and convey their message across in a special way that makes you feel like an ignoramus. At that instance, you resolve to go live your life according to their recommendation only to realize that what they said is very impracticable or extremely difficult. Well, I must admit that sometimes its due to laziness on our part too.
We have all listened to some of these 'motivational speakers' or have read their books or even both. I agree with them on one point though, that the success of an individual depends on the conditioning of the mind and a lot of sacrifices. But I think they have to do more than just merely laying bare their most times impracticable ideas and to help you get 'THERE'.
THAT IS WHEN I COME IN!
I hope to help you to handle your own destiny (or in other words 'put your destiny into your own hands') by making the right choices and helping you to take ACTION! Take actions that will lead to the realization of your dreams, the fulfillment of your heart desires and make you a better person by the time i'm through with you.
In this welcome note I guess I don't have to say too much. Meet me here next time for ACTIVATION SESSION 1.2.
Thank you for reading.
CAUTION! YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE ACTIVATED!
Regards,
Isaac Osei-Bonsu ( obi )
Let me take this opportunity to welcome all of you to my blog (Activation Sessions), where you'll be motivated, activated and challenged to achieve your purpose in life. I know its been long over due but like the saying rows and goes, 'better late than never'.
My name is Isaac Osei-Bonsu or OBI for short. I thank the Lord, God Almighty for the gift of motivation and now for the ability to cause activation of your inner potentials and capabilities. I have created this blog for the purpose of challenging status quo and keeping you in 'action gear'.
I guess you've all had enough of motivational speakers who claim their ideas will make you successful if you are able to practice them, knowing very well of the highly impracticable nature of their ideas. And there are those who keep repackaging old information in new vessels hoping to lure over those who are less vigilant or better put, ignorant.
One interesting thing is that they have such charisma and convey their message across in a special way that makes you feel like an ignoramus. At that instance, you resolve to go live your life according to their recommendation only to realize that what they said is very impracticable or extremely difficult. Well, I must admit that sometimes its due to laziness on our part too.
We have all listened to some of these 'motivational speakers' or have read their books or even both. I agree with them on one point though, that the success of an individual depends on the conditioning of the mind and a lot of sacrifices. But I think they have to do more than just merely laying bare their most times impracticable ideas and to help you get 'THERE'.
THAT IS WHEN I COME IN!
I hope to help you to handle your own destiny (or in other words 'put your destiny into your own hands') by making the right choices and helping you to take ACTION! Take actions that will lead to the realization of your dreams, the fulfillment of your heart desires and make you a better person by the time i'm through with you.
In this welcome note I guess I don't have to say too much. Meet me here next time for ACTIVATION SESSION 1.2.
Thank you for reading.
CAUTION! YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE ACTIVATED!
Regards,
Isaac Osei-Bonsu ( obi )
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