Being independent
It's good to follow instructions and also good to listen to advices but in the process of doing these things, don't live your life based on what you are told all the time, learn to think and create solutions yourself.
In the world today people take pleasure in pushing you around, they want to be part of the success story so that when you make it in life they will be able to say if not for me he or she won't be where she is today. But this only sounds good if you make it in life, nobody wants to be associated with a failure. There are some advices you will follow and will work for you whereas there are some you will follow that will land you in big problems that is why we must learn to reason ourselves, not all the time you will follow what you are told, there are times you will have to re-advice yourself before taking any action.
Many people out there today cannot create solutions on their own without depending on external advice on what and what to do which is not suppose to be, the world is growing at a very fast rate which individually we must be a solution provider. Taking Nigeria as an example, we are all complaining that the government are not providing any means of employment for the youths, why can't we sit down and think of a way we can provide means of employment for ourselves. There are lots of opportunities out there that we can maximize but we are not seeing it because we believe it's the government responsibility to do that, it's not a must we must be an employee, why can't we find a way ourselves to become an employer.
In Nigeria present situation, it is advisable that we learn one to two handiwork that we can use to support ourselves because of the economic crisis in the country which I see as the best opportunity to survive throughout this hard time but despite that there are still some people out there who are idle. They call on family members to help them whenever they are in need of financial assistance and if such family member refuse to help, they tag him or her as a stingy person not knowing what he or she is going through, they also have families to feed, bills to pay and you that can find anything sound will be waiting for them to assist you all the time which is not suppose to be. In conclusion, let's open our eyes to new opportunities we can make use of out there, don't wait for any body before you do what you are expected to do, be a problem solver, be a solution center, learn how to be independent.
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