Opportunity comes for the PREPARED.

Never wait till the night before the interview before u start preparation.Never wait for that call before u prepare your passport if a visa had been available. Don't let us wait for opportunities before we prepare towards it. It may be in a haste or not complete. There is a saying that" if you take time to prepare there is believability".

Opportunity comes for the prepared, let's make our personal development the first priority. Take time to prepare yourself towards the uncertain. When you do that, you believe in yourself and value your contributions you give in every situation.Preparation is a tool to success. Take time to PREPARE and PREPARE very WELL .PREPARATION is NEVER a WASTE of TIME.

Thank u.

The more u know, the better it gets

As it goes 'its better to know something about everything than to know everything about onething".knowledge is power as we all know.What are u doin to improve yourself? Be self motivating and determined.

THE POWER OF READING

READ TODAY AND BECOME A LEADER TOMORROW.

There is no doubt we distinguished members of this Nobel group cannot reach our visions and dreams without reading and releasing the benefits of cultivating this habit.

Let’s take a look at these statistics, 1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college. 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.

57 percent of new books are not read to completion.

(Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

With this information we can then tell that most of the youth does not find time to improve themselves through reading of good books. This is one of my favorite quotes that keep me reading and it’s by Ralph Waldo Emerson, this how he puts it, “A man is known by the number of books he reads”. Then I can ask this question that how many books have you read so far?

I will like to throw more light on three facets of this subject. These aspects are

A. Power of reading

B. Improving your vocabulary

C. Applying what you read

Power of reading;

Reading is not just a process that is to be ‘achieved’ but is all about power- the power of imagination, the power of gaining messages through literature and the power to gaining ideas from the contemporaries and great forefathers of our time, that can change how you think. If you will want to meet the likes of the wise Confucius, the questioner Aristotle, the thinker Einstein, most revered Mohandas Gandhi, the valiant Martin Luther King Jnr etc. then you will happily meet them in their books.

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.”

- Descartes

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”

-A C Grayling Financial Times(in a history of reading by Albert Manguel)

Improving your vocabulary;

I believe, this is one the numerous benefits that one educes by reading. I found myself doing an attachment with a newspaper organization as a Proofreader and this really improved my vocabulary. When I am reading the papers before they are being published, I take the pain to check the meaning of all words I don’t know in a dictionary I have on my phone, for their meaning and write them down in order to memorize them. You can also try this and it will help brighten the corner you are. “The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” –Dr. Suess, “I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!”

Appling what you read;

Personally, what sense does it make when one does not apply what he reads? “The essence of knowledge is having it, to apply it, not having it, to confess your ignorance”-anonymous. From the onset I find a wonderful idea in a book I am reading, I then start implementing it. I remember, a friend of mine made a comment that, “don’t mind Patrick, he always comes and try to play with our minds by the things he had read”. Apply whatever you read from good books and you will be amazed by the results. “A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”

- Henry David Thoreau

In a nutshell, what we should know is to start cultivating this habit of reading and once we commit to it the rewards will follow. I have heard most of my friends made statements like, “when I finish school am done with learning.” I then laugh in my mind. I will advocate the idea of being a lifelong learner, Lets all continue reading towards our quest to become better leaders and create better societies. Let’s ponder over these quotes and reflect on them:

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read”. - Mark Twain

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” – Confucius

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Fredrick Douglass

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx

“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.”- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

REFERENCES:

http://www.readfaster.com/readingquotes.asp

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/reading.html#ixzz1L2ZuBYo

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/reading.html#ixzz1L2ZuBYo

http://www.personal-development.com/chuck/value-of-reading.htm

The author is a creative writer,poet ,self-motivated,God-fearing,social entrepreneur and a dynamic leader, who always communicate the idea of PEACE, the youth having a positive mental attitude and creating positive change in their communities. He believes, through our collective efforts we can make Africa(our motherland) and the world a better place.