Many of us humans admire other people who have achieved much in life to the extent of calling them our mentors. But the question to be asked is, who really is a mentor? And is it only successful men that deserve to be mentors?
A dictionary definition for mentor states that,"a mentor is an experienced person who helps someone who has less experience, especially in their job". Reflecting on the above definition, it is obvious that any person at all is qualified to be called a mentor when experience can be seen as a cloth around him/her and not the successful alone.
There are a number of well-known mentors across the globe, some of which include; Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther, and many other qualified personalities. However, these people where all chosen as mentors based on the varied but unique characteristics they portray, and the experiences they have acquired in order to be successful, not only to themselves but to society, nation as well as cosmos. In spite of all the above mentioned individuals, Christ Jesus is the ultimate mentor, for He was before these humans were.
It is worth noting that, we have to be vigilant and obsessive when choosing people as our mentors. The reason being that, these mentors tend to inflict some sort of influence over our lives, particularly on the behaviour forum. Folk, being a mentoree of someone does not subdue you to everything practiceable by the person. I solely think that, each person has to immitate only the positive attitudes of his/her mentor and not the negative ones. Else he/she will suffer a double portion of the misery suffered by the mentor.
I suggest in view of how the world is moving that, each and everyone willing to be prominent, successful and live long on this earth should have Christ as the number one mentor, if not as the only mentor in his/her life.Why? Because, He is the only one who has great experiences to teach us in order for us to be triumphant in life. He was able to withstand all obstacles and despise the shame, counting it joy to die for our sins on the cross, that we might be saved. What an extraordinary mentor He is! I will always cling to Him as my mentor and strive to walk in His way as the grace abound on me.
My dear friends, who do you choose to be your mentor? Who are you looking up to this moment to move on with life? Never make a mistake and regret. Be wise and choose the right people at the right time as your mentors.
MORE THAN RUBIES
Friday, August 6, 2010
WHERE IS OUR STAND, FUTURE LEADERS?
While the old are crying with regards to their maintenance and prolonging of their working years; the young,vibrant and energetic are yelling for opportunity to pipe into the field of employment. What should be done?
It would do the entire nation a great deal to open the door for the right things to be done at the right time.Gone are the days where people would say "let the experienced do the work to improve productivity". Experience in the light of productivity is good but with all sincerity, do you think the rapid innovations accompanied by technology can sustain the efforts of only the old in transforming the nation towards total development? I don't think so. It is only when the old give room for the youth who have acquired basic knowledge on the various aspects of business into the industries, in order for them to acquire new skills and training as they make use of the knowledge they've acquired, that the dream of total development can be achieved. Because this is not happening, the nation's future leaders with all enthusiasm and zeal to work to transform their motherland are found stranded and wandering about aim-shortened. I say the educated youth are aim-shortened due to the fact that, they are endowed with the knowledge and ability to make the nation's dream as well as their personal dreams come true but are hindered with the circumstances surrounding their implimentation.
Despite the nut between the old and the young when it comes to job opportunities, the presence of imported goods into the country is also impeding the smooth navigation of our future leaders into the manufacturing industries. For example, the Ghanaian market today is filled with Chinese products branded with fine packaging but inferior. The presence of these products as a matter of fact is causing great financial loss to the entire country due to the low prices they come with but with similar materials. With reference to the above issue, most of the Ghanaian industries are closing down at the expense of the large number of university and polythecnic graduates who come out of school with the expectation of gaining employment. What a blow to these ambitious youth!
Where really is the stand of our future leaders? What then is the value of all the education? Are we the youth to toil and suffer to study for nothing? There should be answers to the above and many other questions relating to the development of our beloved country, Ghana.
As a concerned citizen but a naive youth, I recommend that our parents who are in the industries but are almost in their due season to go on pension should try hard and give way for the energetic youth to make best use of their knowledge and build up more skills to improve the nation.
Also with the issue of imported goods impeding national industries, as the biting of the gong has being sounding always, import duties should be increased on imported goods. This I think would limit the flow of inferior foreign goods into our country and save our local industries from economic death. As the local industries would get the privilege of producing more quality goods
to increase demand by local and foreign consumers.
However, the youth should make good use of their knowledge as they build up spectacular entrepreneural skills and establish small scale industries. This would as well contribute massively to national development.
It would do the entire nation a great deal to open the door for the right things to be done at the right time.Gone are the days where people would say "let the experienced do the work to improve productivity". Experience in the light of productivity is good but with all sincerity, do you think the rapid innovations accompanied by technology can sustain the efforts of only the old in transforming the nation towards total development? I don't think so. It is only when the old give room for the youth who have acquired basic knowledge on the various aspects of business into the industries, in order for them to acquire new skills and training as they make use of the knowledge they've acquired, that the dream of total development can be achieved. Because this is not happening, the nation's future leaders with all enthusiasm and zeal to work to transform their motherland are found stranded and wandering about aim-shortened. I say the educated youth are aim-shortened due to the fact that, they are endowed with the knowledge and ability to make the nation's dream as well as their personal dreams come true but are hindered with the circumstances surrounding their implimentation.
Despite the nut between the old and the young when it comes to job opportunities, the presence of imported goods into the country is also impeding the smooth navigation of our future leaders into the manufacturing industries. For example, the Ghanaian market today is filled with Chinese products branded with fine packaging but inferior. The presence of these products as a matter of fact is causing great financial loss to the entire country due to the low prices they come with but with similar materials. With reference to the above issue, most of the Ghanaian industries are closing down at the expense of the large number of university and polythecnic graduates who come out of school with the expectation of gaining employment. What a blow to these ambitious youth!
Where really is the stand of our future leaders? What then is the value of all the education? Are we the youth to toil and suffer to study for nothing? There should be answers to the above and many other questions relating to the development of our beloved country, Ghana.
As a concerned citizen but a naive youth, I recommend that our parents who are in the industries but are almost in their due season to go on pension should try hard and give way for the energetic youth to make best use of their knowledge and build up more skills to improve the nation.
Also with the issue of imported goods impeding national industries, as the biting of the gong has being sounding always, import duties should be increased on imported goods. This I think would limit the flow of inferior foreign goods into our country and save our local industries from economic death. As the local industries would get the privilege of producing more quality goods
to increase demand by local and foreign consumers.
However, the youth should make good use of their knowledge as they build up spectacular entrepreneural skills and establish small scale industries. This would as well contribute massively to national development.
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