You are not an African because you were born in Africa but because Africa was born in you.
Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates?
You are lifted out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from any fear.
You are elevated and you see it all from above.
Africa is humanity’s center of gravity, its cultural and spiritual mother and father.
Africa is your beating heart, no matter where you live on the face of this earth.
Those who have visited Africa finds it hard to leave;
Africa is always with them, there inside their head.
Our rivers run in currents in the swirl of their thumbprints;
Our drumbeats counting out their pulse;
Our coastline the silhouette of their soul.
Africa is beautiful than the combined beauty of all continents.
Here are SEVEN ways on how to ULTIMATELY UPGRADE your awareness on this matter!
ERG Theory affirms how we seek to fulfil needs of Existence, Relatedness and Growth.
Distinguished Developer: American psychologist Clayton Paul Aldefer (1940 - 2015). - UPON satisfaction of needs in a certain category, an individual will invest more efforts in the higher one.
- PEOPLE will invest more effort in the lower category, in the event the needs in a category are frustrated.
- GOING by the name of EXISTENCE needs, are the most concrete one’s, which relates to physical survival.
- RELATEDNESS need entails a sense of community, or having good interpersonal relationship with others.
- ALL GROWTH need, relates to personal development, fulfillment and a sense of achieving one’s potential.
- DUE motivation may happen at multiple levels of need simultaneously; and the vital level can change.
- EVENTUALLY, priorities and motivations may be fluid; they can move upward, or can move downwards.
Timely Therapy: - If you are not content with what you have, you will not be satisfied even if it is doubled.
TIME HAS COME WHEREBY WE MUST REALISE that, our fight should never be against each other, but for each other. We must unite and construct a future which is worthy our future generations. We must stop pointing fingers at each other, and start pointing each other towards the right direction. If we cannot stand together, we will be conquered forever. In the end, our real enemy will stand on the mountain top and claim victory. The key pillars of the African renaissance are socio-cultural, political, economic regeneration and improvement of Africa’s geo-political standing in world affairs. Stand out and be counted as one of the first Africans to pioneer this process.
Do not be among those who whines and complains about what happened to our ancestors, living deads, grandparents, and parents. You can only do justice to them, to yourself and to your children, or even your grand children, by starting a VENTURE that will ensure that you will be counted to be among those who participated in lightning the continent.
The most critical manifestation of this responsibility, is forming and leading a REALITY group. And so, as the leader of a REALITY GROUP, you need the ability to focus on the larger picture and the overall goals that matter. You have only so much mental energy, and you must marshal it wisely. The greatest obstacle to this is your fear of delegating authority. If you succumb to micromanaging, your mind will become clouded by all the details you try to keep on top of and the battles among the courtiers. Your own confusion then filters down through the group, ruining the effect of the first strategy.
What you need to do from the outset is to cultivate a team of lieutenants, imbued with your spirit and the collective sense of purpose, whom you can trust to manage the execution of ideas. You also give great consideration to their character. Some people can be brilliant, but in the end their poisonous personalities and egos make them a drain on the group’s spirit.
SEVEN therapeautic tonics to loftily LOCATE your LIFE’s BASIC BEARING: - B
ASE the selection of your lieutenants not on charm, and never hire friends. You want the most competent person for the job. You must have the right standards of performance. EACH individual should bring on board unique strengths; particularly those skills that you lack. This team of lieutenants should be diverse in temperament, background, and ideas.
ACKNOWLEDGED well, they show a willingness to speak up and take initiative, all within the framework of the group’s purpose. They can even challenge some outdated rules.REVELLING and feeling a part of a team but able to bring their own creativity to the tasks will bring out the best in them, and this spirit will spread throughout the group.IN your team of lieutenants, no one has special privileges; rewards and punishments are doled out fairly and evenly. If some individuals are not living up to the ideal, you get rid of them.NOW if you bring in new lieutenants, they naturally are absorbed into the healthy dynamic. You are also leading from the front. If there are sacrifices to be made, you share in them.GENERAL spirit of democracy and equality will go a long way in making it harder for people to feel envious and resentful, which can sow divisions and make people political.The call to form a REALITY group weighs so heavily on you more than ever. As a person who prudently partakes in dispelling the current cloud of misery upon the PSYCHE of our people, this is the most critical solid starting point. Let your original and creative IDEA be productive enough to be emulated by fellow creatures.
Get up NOW and get MOVING with what you have. This is so URGENT and exremely INDISPENSABLE.
Here is BEYONDISM FORMIDABLE FORMULA for SELF-ACTUALIZATION
(The ‘head’ and ‘tail’ of Activating your SELFHOOD) in regard to:
Compiling the necessary information for making your TEAM better.- F
AILURE to understand the information in variation, is the problem in management and in leadership.
Core Choice #52: Democracy is at the seat of the best management process for today’s environment.
Sure Score #52: It is solidly founded on participative management, based on covenantal relationships. OF all the things DONE WELL, the most vital is co-ordinating the talents of those who work for you.
Solid Stance #52: It is pointing them towards a certain goal of productivity.
Catalysing Consideration #52: Utilising them for personal end, and owner’s.REALLY, straightforward as it sounds, there are some subtleties and requirements, that go with MBWA.
Mighty Mission #52: If (Management By Walking Around) is done infrequently, it precisely will not work.
Vivid Vision #52: It needs to be frequent, friendly, unfocused, and unscheduled—but far from pointless.MOTIVATION is not monitoring and reviewing all the processes; this style turns experts into novices.
Gaining Ground #52: “I want you to get good results; but I also want to review you along the way,” is bad.
Capturing Clouds #52: “I want you to tell me how you are getting those results,” is absolutely dangerous.UNTENABLY though not invalidly ‘Professional management’ is the great invention of this century.
Lofty Leap #52: It is an invention that produced many gains in organisational efficiency.
Merry Momentum #52: So great that it eventually destroyed organisational effectiveness. LEADERS work essentially as they always have; by utilising verbal information and intuitive processes.
Holy Hearken #52: They keenly operate on the emotional and spiritual resources of the team.
Divine Distinction #52: They work on consolidating its values, commitment, and aspirations.ACTUALLY, this is the most important single problem of economic organisation on the efficiency scale.
Prudent Planting #52: To find people capable of managing business efficiently.
Hoped Harvest #52: And secure to them the positions of responsible control. Therapeautic Takeaway #52
Cardinal Concept #52: As substantially scribed FOR YOU. ..............
Move BEYOND partiality, so that all possible factors are included within the net consideration.
Critical Canon #52: As candidly cracked BY YOU. ..............
To BECOME clearly distinguished, by acting from an instantaneous apprehension of totality.
Renaissance Rehearsal #52: As purposively partook BY YOU. ..............
REFUSE banality and staleness, by arousing and honing CREATIVITY in motives and ideals.
#52. In as much as I aspire to transcend the current mist of Africa’s DARKNESS,
How must I arouse and hone CREATIVITY in my MOTIVES and IDEALS? AFRICA is dying for bolder ideas, for people who are not afraid to speculate and investigate.
Creativity is an act of boldness and rebellion; abscording the status quo or conventional wisdom.
It is learning to play with the very rules you have learned, experimenting and testing the bounderies.
Do not allow creeping conservatism to narrow your searches, and tether you to obsolete theories.
This will unfortunatelly create a downward spiral - as the creative SPARK will simply leave you.
You will find yourself clutching even more forcefully to dead ideologies, and the need to conform.
Make creativity rather than comfort your goal, and you will ensure far more success for the future.
#52. I, ___________________________, sharpening my insight to see through the mist of current Africa’s DARKNESS, do DECISIVELY DECLARE that, theory cannot equip my mind with formulas for solving the critical problems of modern TIMES, nor can it mark the narrow path on which the sole solution is supposed to lie by planting a hedge of principles on either side. But it can give my mind insight into the great mass of phenomena and of their relationships, then leave it free to rise into the higher realms of action. There my mind can use its innate talents to capacity, combining them all so as to seize on what is right and true as though this were a single idea formed by their concentrated pressure - as though it were a response to the immediate challenge rather than a product of thought.In this reference, as a BLESSED BEYONDIST, I hereby, make an ABSOLUTE AFFIRMATION that, I have learned from researchers and scholars that, impatience is a vice that may continually haunt me, no matter how disciplined I might think I am. I will convince myself that my research is essentially over and well done, when really it is my impatience speaking and coluring my judgement. I will tend to lose the energy I had when I was thirstier and hungrier. Unconsciously, I will veer toward repetition - reussing the same ideas and processes as a kind of shortcut. Unfortunately, the creative process requires continual intensity and vigour. Each exercise or problem or project is different. Hurrying to the end or warming up old ideas will ensure a mediocre result. For every project I will involve myself in, I will attack each one with the same vigour and tenacity. I have understood that, the best way to neutralise my natural impatience is to cultivate a kind of pleasure in pain - like an athlete, I will come to enjoy rigorous practice, pushing myself past my limits, and resisting the easy way out.
PROPOSE: - I should run away from all challenging situations, keep off any sort of conflict with my Comrades, and follow the dictates of the authority figures (academic, social, or political) without questioning.
OPPOSE: - Without Constructive Conflict, human beings stagnate in comfort and affluence and lose the capacity for great thoughts and feelings, they become cynical and subside into barbarism. Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended. In this world, where the game is played with loaded dice, I must have a temper of iron, with armour proof to the blows of fate, and weapons to make my way against rivals. LIFE is one long battle; I have to fight at every step; and Voltaire very rightly says that if we succeed, it is at the point of the sword, and that we die with the weapon in our hand. If I count on safety and do not think of danger, if I do not know enough to be wary when enemies arrive, this is called a sparrow nesting on a tent, a fish swimming in a cauldron - they will not last the day.
DISPOSE: - I should cultivate what Robert Green in The 33 Strategies of WAR calls the ‘Presence of Mind’. This is a kind of counterbalance to mental weakness, to my tendency to get emotional and lose perspective in the heat of confrontation. My greatest weakness may be losing heart, doubting myself, becoming necessarily cautious. Being more careful is not what I need; that is just a screen for my fear of conflict and of making a mistake. What I need is double the resolve - an intensification of confidence. That will serve as a counterbalance. In moments of turmoils and trouble, I must force myself to be more determined. Call up the aggressive energy I need to overcome caution and inertia. Any mistakes I make, I can rectify with more energetic action still. Save my carefulness for the hours of preparation, but once the confrontation begins, empty my mind of doubts. I should ignore those who quail at any setback and call for retreat. I should find joy in attack mode. Momentum will carry me through. Establishing control in advance might not seem like presence of mind, but it actually takes that quality to its zenith. It means facing LIFE’s turmoil feeling calm and ready. Setbacks may come, but I will have foreseen them and thought of alternatives, and I will be ready to respond. My mind will never go blank when it is that well prepared. When my colleagues barrage me with doubts, anxious questions, and slipshod ideas, I may nod and pretend to listen, but really I am ignoring them--I will have out-thought them in advance. And my relaxed manner will prove contagious to other people, making them easier to manage in turn. I have realised that it is easy to be overwhelmed by everything that faces me in a challenging situation, where so many people are asking or telling me what to do. So many vital matters press in on me that I can lose sight of my goals and plans; suddenly I cannot see the forest for the trees. I should understand: presence of mind is the ability to detach myself from all that, to see the the whole picture, with clarity. All great generals have this quality. And what gives me that mental distance is preparation, mastering the details beforehand. Let people think my Buddha-like detachment comes from some mysterious source. The less they understand me the better.
As a charmer, I will lull my victims into ease and comfort. It is apparently clear to me that, charm is like the hypnotist’s trick with the swinging watch: the more relaxed the target, the easier it is to bend him or her to my will. The key to making my victims feel comfortable is to mirror them, adapt to their moods. I have learnt that, people are narcissists — they are drawn to those most similar to themselves. I seem to share their values and tastes, to understand their spirit, and they will fall under my spell. This works particularly well if I am an outsider: showing that I share the values of my adopted group or country (I have learned their language, I prefer their customs, etc.) is immensely charming, since for me this preference is a choice, not a question of birth. I will never pester or be overly persistent — these uncharming qualities will disrupt the relaxation I need to cast my spell. As a charismatic, I will practice eloquence. I have learnt that a charismatic relies on the power of words. The reason is simple: words are the quickest way to create emotional disturbance. They can uplift, elevate, stir anger, without referring to anything real. To bring off this kind of eloquence, it helps if the speaker is as emotional, as caught up in words, as the audience is. Yet eloquence can be learned: the devices to use are catchwords, slogans, rhythmic repetitions, phrases for the audience to repeat — can easily be acquired. I will make myself a dynamic speaker, both through my style of delivery, which will be slow and hypnotic, and brilliantly use imagery, alliteration, and biblical rhetoric. In this way the crowds at my rallies will be moved to tears. It has dawned upon me that, the slow, authoritative style is often more effective than passion in the long run, for it is more subtly spellbinding, and less tiring.
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