Show The World That You Can Do It
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It's a beautiful Saturday here, the sun is shining so bright with a clear sky. How are you enjoying the weekend at your end. Don't forget to use this free time to plan for the coming week.
As we are planning for a new week, lots of goals will be set, and we also hope that we will achieve those goals. Sometimes we share it with our roommate, or a colleague and the response you get from them is not encouraging. They know very well that those goals are achieved but the will be so serious and bold enough to tell you that you can never achieve any of those goals you've set for yourself. This could discourage you for working towards achieving those goals, you see it as impossible at that moment.
This is not a new thing that if i should ask now, almost everyone of us here will agree that they have come across this kind of situation before. Some months back, i set a goal for myself that before the end of the next month i will own an android phone, not just an android phone but a good one, Samsung was on my mind as at that time and i need $220 to get the phone. I shared it with my friends, they in turn told me that i will never achieve such goal, coupled with the fact that i needed it in a space of two months. I was discouraged at some point, and i began to think of making a change in the goal, maybe go for a cheaper phone that i could afford before the set day elapse to avoid looking like a joker.
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A day after, i was on YouTube with a friends phone when YouTube suggested a video to me, it was a documentary of one of Barrack Obama's speeches, i decided to watch it since it was a 2 mins video. In the video, he said something that brought hope to me immediately, "YES WE CAN". I personalized it so fast and said to myself "Yes I Can". It is so possible that i can get the phone of my choice. I stood my grounds that even if it means i don't buy new clothes for myself that i was going to get the phone. Initially i was so afraid of failing, but after that word sank into me i promise myself not to go for the less. Today i am so happy that i was able to achieve that goal even if it wasn't at the expected time, but it finally came. If only you can see it, believe it, then it is possible.
You could imagine how you life would be if you had decided to shy away from those goals that has brought you this far. Never settle for the less, whatsoever you are dreaming, work towards achieving it, don't let people tell you how to do your own things. If you allow people to dictate every of your moves, you will never go far in life, your life will never get better. If in any way you share your dreams with people, and few of them gives negative feed backs like that dream of yours is never attainable, prove to them that you have strength within that will help you achieve those dreams.
If you know what you want, and where you are heading to, they opinions of others shouldn't weigh you down. It shouldn't make you to stop your journey halfway. Whatsoever gave you the morale to have that big dream, trust that thing. Don't be afraid of going extra mile in following your dreams. Whatsoever dream you have, be patient enough and stick to it, trust your feelings, have a positive mindset. All of these will help you to see how strong and capable you are in pursuing that dream to the very end.
Bye for now...
Don't Panic If It Does Not Work Out As Planned
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Hello everyone, hope you all are doing fine, as for me i am doing perfectly well. Trying to do what you guys do here, making sure to drop write articles everyday. That is one of the things i promised myself i will don in the remaining part of this month. This is my second article, and i hope i continue what the same energy i started with.
Today we will be looking at a great topic that has somehow made people loose hope on themselves. Almost everyone of us here do make plans for ourselves but those plans don't work out the way we wanted. Don't panic if it didn't go the way it supposed to go, don't panic if you are not aware of the next thing or step to take. To be very sincere with you, it's not every time things are going to work out the way we wanted, and it is so okay like that. During the period i was ghosting here, i came across few articles related to planning, the were so nice that i enjoyed reading them. I learnt a lot from those articles also, how important it is to have a plan for our lives. I don't know for anyone else, but to me making plans ahead of a task is always scary, like will it fail or work for me.
Plans can choose to go a different direction which we never thought of. Using myself as an example, the plans i had for my life academically has changed over the years. At age 12, i always wanted to become a banker after graduation. I was so ready for it. Few years later, i was in an entrepreneurial seminar which was organized for young people, our eyes were opened to a lot of things and i was enjoying the seminar. My mood changed the moment the facilitator deviated somehow from the topic and landed on something that i would never have wanted to hear. He said in the next 5 - 8 years from that time, a lot of people will be jobless, not the the job won't be there anymore, but a better replacement will be made. He went on to use the banking sector as an example, that very soon robots will take over some sections in the bank. I don't want to gone into deep details of everything he said, but what i heard from him that day ended the the plan i had made some years ago. After some days, i opted to study another relevant course in the university.
I never knew that this is honey its going to be. The plans we make is likened to a journey, you don't know what is in-front of you, and somehow this is what makes they journey interesting and beautiful. Don't panic about anything, make plans for yourself and be patient and focus enough that you wouldn't let what people say bother you. It's always a trying time, it is so okay to feel that way, even if you know how your life will be in the next few years from now, or even if you are not aware of it at all, don't panic. Just enjoy the process.
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Some people have been embarrassed several times when they are been asked "where do you see yourself in the next 7 years, or what are your plans for the next 7 years". Sometime the people asking this question wants to make you appear as an unserious fellow especially when you are around your parents. I don't think there is anybody that can correctly predict the future, one can barely predict what will happen the next minute no to talk of 7 years time. Don't let this people make you look like you are not serious with your life, it is so good to plan our lives for the next 7 years, but i will say you take it bit by bit. Start from somewhere, visualize where you will want to be in the coming days, week, months, and even a year. Focus on this small term plans first before thinking of long term plans.
I will submit by saying that you should make plans for yourself and also follow your passion. Don't panic if the plans don't go as expected. Don't stop, continue doing the things that will bring you more closer to achieving those goals you had in your plan. Even when the plans you had fails you, be patient with yourself, and believe that as long as you have not given up on your dreams, you will surely arrive at that beautiful destination you have been dreaming of.
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Know This As A Parent
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Teach your child to focus more on their strengths rather than their weaknesses
Before i begin anything, i want to say that i am happy and delighted to be part of this great and awesome community of BCH lovers. This is going to be my first article here, and i hope the lessons i have gotten from others here will help me give out my best. I am so much impressed by what i see here, it's not like other platforms where there is limit to something. I got to like the fact that the freedom to express oneself is allowed here.
Naughty me, i forgot to introduce myself. The joy is so much here, i will just say my nickname, maybe with time y'all will get to know my real names. I am seeing myself becoming a blogger after now, i thought of this last night and it made me laugh for long while. Before now i will always top the list of people that are always lazy when it comes to writing long articles. You shouldn't blame me for that, it just happened, and i am happy that i have been able to deal with the laziness right from the first day i registered on this platform. Everything here motivated me that i was hoping for this day to come when i will write my own articles.
Going back to the business of the day, what i will share with us today is something that is really happening in our society today. New parents do seek for advice from other successful parents on how they can raise their own kids the proper way. And sometimes if they don't want to show their weaknesses to other parents, they will talk within themselves how to bring up their kids, and equally how build their self-confidence as they grow. You see as a parent, you will always begin from somewhere, before you play on building their self-confidence, you must first of all know what they are afraid of, those things that makes them look small, those things that makes them doubt their abilities.
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This problem could come from the environment they find themselves, places where other kids intimidates them, or it could be they are not so good with mathematics. As a parent who is opting on building the self-confidence of their child will start from here to address the issue, what you say to them after discovering all of this can make them feel better thank before. Where you help them even at their young age to understand that whatsoever they are going through can be dealt with can help boost their self-confidence.
A parent who doesn't have time for their child can never raise a good and confident child. Have time for your child, maybe during the weekend and try to talk with them. Ask them what is bothering their life, from here you can know exactly how to help them build their self-confidence. Tell them that no matter what they face outside shouldn't limit them in any way, but rather they should focus on their strength. And if you are giving this kind of advice to your child, ensure that you are always there to celebrate them for their strength. This will help build their self-confidence.
Your child might always appear small in size when they are with other kids, encourage them with position words such that they will seize to depend on their size for anything. Tell them that their strength is not based on their size or the kind of clothes they wear. Always congratulate your child for their small wins. Also remind them that they need to be happy and proud of who they are even when they make mistakes. While building your child to become better person, tell them that you have equally been through tough times when you were trying to build your own self-confidence like them, and you were able to do gradually you were better. Everything that gives your kid hard time, try to give your support.
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If you have tried all of this and it's still not working, employ the service of a teenager councilor to work with them. This is the best thing you would ever do to you kids.
**Thank you for reading....**
@Emarah