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Personal Growth Blueprint
When it comes to doing anything of high significance in life. The type of mindset you adopt is very critical to the outcome you get. Your mindset is the way your brain is structured and wired to perform in certain ways or accomplish specific tasks unabated. The high point of the accomplishment is following predetermined neuropathways to form a neuro-connection that will lead to a definite outcome.The principle that holds for everything in the functionality of the brain is the same that holds for your personal growth. Brain functions have their own distinct pathways! So, is also the pathway you create for your personal growth. In that sense, personal growth does not just happen because you wish it would happen. No! Personal growth strategy follows a predetermined pathway called mindset, which, once set in motion, is bound to deliver the expected result in its preset order.
The Facade of Virtue
In today's society, it's not uncommon to encounter individuals who present themselves as paragons of virtue, justice, and equity. However, beneath the surface, their actions and behaviors often reveal a different story.The consequences of hypocrisy, eye-service, and pretense can be far-reaching and damaging. Anyone who engages in these behaviors risks losing the trust and respect of others, which in turn damages their reputation and compromises their integrity. Moreover, these behaviors can also lead to feelings of guilt, shame, and anxiety, which can negatively impact mental and emotional well-being.
Finding the Courage to Lead
No matter what anybody tells you, it takes courage to lead. Different people want to lead for different reasons. Whatever it is that is propelling your desire for a stake in leadership cannot be effectively achieved without a measure of some dose of courage.Courage is an amplifier! It magnifies your actions more than what you are capable of doing ordinarily. When you have it, you will overcome obstacles. When you don’t have it, life will be drudgery. Courage helps you to act with swiftness, while you unleash terror against every opposing force that is out to trap you. To state it even more clearly, courage in itself is not the absence of fear as some people conceive it, but acting with audacity even in the presence of your fear.
Empathy: The Core of Modern Leadership
Leadership as an organizational management nuance has been debated among leadership experts as an art or a science. Leadership as an art is built on relationships and excellent communication skills that are inherent in a leader. It is the ability to apply leadership principles in a flexible, intuitive, and creative manner that reflects your make-up as an individual. Leadership as a science is based on the fact that there are methodologies, systemic approaches, processes, and models to follow for leadership performance. Regardless of the side of the divide that you belong to, it is important to know that leadership is a combination of both science and art. You cannot have the science of it without its artistic approach. That is why leading with empathy demonstrates the overlap that exists between the science of leadership and its art.Sometimes, people just need to be heard, not requiring their problem to be fixed. Accommodating their feelings and being present with them is often more powerful than giving them advice on how to fix their problems. Being with people is more important than working for people. Working for people is often too transactional, creating a parallel of a superhero and a victim, while being with them is the offering of our presence to them in their most difficult time.
The Virtue of Work and the Making of a Fully-grown Person
The virtue of work validates the idea that engaging in work is ethically responsible for building good character and dignity, which are essential building blocks for economic progress and stability in life. In most world cultures, work is seen as a way of achieving personal growth and success.There is no other virtue that defines the quality and the beauty of our personhood as much as the concept of work and our attitude toward it.
Redeeming Love – A Conversation with Francine Rivers
I am an avid reader. When I was growing up, books were my solitude, and I devoured every…
The Value of Collaborating with Others
n today's business or organizational setup, there is a strong emphasis on team building and team solidarity. The days of individual superstars are long gone! You cannot afford to live your life in isolation from people who can make you better. You must learn to collaborate to have a healthy and balanced life.
Teamwork always makes the dream work. Elect to join a team of like-minded people today and see how much your life will blossom for doing so. Stop hibernating in your cocoon and let the genius in you metamorphose into a colorful greatness.
The Extent of Humanness and the Dignity of a Person
In recent decades, there have been vast misconceptions about gender roles, differences, and definitions. The more traditional way of conceptualizing a person's humanness and dignity is by understanding what people mean when they talk about dignity and humanity. Dignity and humanity from time immemorial are a person's inherent virtues. Of course, this can be stated more clearly concerning a person's self-worth or self-respect. Virtue, stated differently, is about the person's intrinsic character content that reveals their personhood. It is the very essence of a person that makes them a unique individual or virtuous being.Have you ever sat down to ask yourself what it means to be human? Every day, I try a little here and there to ponder on this for the sake of justice and equity for everyone who crosses my path. I often ask myself, what are the basic features or characteristics to watch out for to conclude the extent of the humanness of a person? Is it because one can talk, run, walk, and work or engage in intellectual discourse and co-exist with fellow humans? Is it because of our physical body structure? Or is it because we possess a memory that keeps details of our past behaviors?How do we want to differentiate or define a human from other primates, for instance, since many primates could perform some of these essential functions mentioned above?
Why Do I Need to Live My Life with Purpose and Meaning?
The question that comes to my mind every day I wake up from my bed is: What legacy do I plan to leave after I am gone? The answer is what inspires me every day to work with people with mental health disabilities, and that is one of the areas where I derive meaning for my life. It is why I took Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Units 1 – 4. It is the same reason I have become a Certified Mental Health Coach and Certified Mental Health Advocate.I dream of radically transforming the mental health sector across Sub-Saharan Africa, hence my intentional immersion in how it is done in a more advanced society like the US. The effort here is to concentrate on my future legacy so that when people remember me, they will remember me as a worthy example to emulate.
What is a Good Life?
The virtues constituting a good life have been an age-long debate among philosophers. Socrates argued that a good life must be cultivated and chiefly valued. Aristotle conceived it as eudaimonia, the highest human good, the only good desirable for its own sake (as an end in itself) rather than for the sake of something else (as a means toward some other end). Generally speaking, eudaimonia is a Greek word for well-being, living well, happiness, and flourishing.Undoubtedly, everyone desires a good life or eudaimonia, but our challenge is how we might attain it without hindering the flourishing of other people around us. You can achieve a good life if you focus on developing a growth plan for yourself, decide to collaborate with other people, and give a good portion of your estate for others to benefit.