Upload
greatabraham
View
230
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
8/3/2019 Dare Tobe Diff
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/dare-tobe-diff 1/13
DARE TO BE DIFFERENT
ATTITUDE, A MATTER OF CHOICE
BY ABRAHAM BENSON AKPALU AUGUST 13, 2011
8/3/2019 Dare Tobe Diff
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/dare-tobe-diff 2/13
8/3/2019 Dare Tobe Diff
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/dare-tobe-diff 3/13
DARE TO REACH BEYOND
YOURSELF
• The desire for safety stands against every great
and virtuous dream
• Security, many times is the first step towardsstagnation.
• Boldness in vision is the first, second and thirdmost important thing. If you dare nothing, youshould expect nothing.
8/3/2019 Dare Tobe Diff
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/dare-tobe-diff 4/13
DARE TO REACH BEYOND
YOURSELF
• Make yourself to be used for somethingsignificant.
• Choose a goal for which you are willing toexchange a price for of your life.
• E.g. Be a doctor, lawyer, accountant, businessmerchant
• Don’t be satisfied with these goals. Dream
bigger
8/3/2019 Dare Tobe Diff
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/dare-tobe-diff 5/13
SELF ACCEPTANCE
List 5 things that you like about yourself
List five other things that you don’t like about
your self
List reasons why you don’t like those five
things about yourself
E.g. I don’t like the fact that am not working,
making the grades I want
8/3/2019 Dare Tobe Diff
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/dare-tobe-diff 6/13
SELF ACCEPTANCE
List 5 things that you like about yourself
List five other things that you don’t like about
your self
List reasons why you don’t like those five
things about yourself
E.g. I don’t like the fact that am not working,
making the grades I want
8/3/2019 Dare Tobe Diff
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/dare-tobe-diff 7/13
HAVE STRONG CONVICTIONS
ABOUT YOUR DREAMS
Remember your Childhood; you never gave- up to stand and walk
Take on of your goals and list all the reasons you thing you can be or do it.
Separate your dreams into strong and weak
ones- ones you are sure and too sure
8/3/2019 Dare Tobe Diff
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/dare-tobe-diff 8/13
HAVE STRONG CONVICTIONS
ABOUT YOUR DREAMS
This is what a man who failed at climbingmount everest(the tallest in the world)
“ Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but
I will beat you the next time because you
have grown all you are going to grow…..and I am still growing”
8/3/2019 Dare Tobe Diff
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/dare-tobe-diff 9/13
HAVE STRONG CONVICTIONS
ABOUT YOUR DREAMS
Take one of your dream ideas either from childhood or adulthood that you couldn’t
achieve but still have strong convictions to succeed and redraft the statement to
Mountain Everest
8/3/2019 Dare Tobe Diff
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/dare-tobe-diff 10/13
DARE TO HAVE PURPOSE.
In your heart there is a sleeping lion called purpose.
We must have a definite sense of direction
for our lives. The world makes room for a person of purpose.
His words and actions demonstrate he knows where he is going. You are built
conquer circumstances, solve problems and attain goals.
8/3/2019 Dare Tobe Diff
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/dare-tobe-diff 11/13
SET YOUR PURPOSE FOR LIFE
• Ask yourself: why were you born in Ghana,Africa and not in Europe or why were youborn into that family and not others.
• Define where you want to be in five, ten years.
• How do you want your family, peers and society to seeyou in five ten twenty years.
• What are you passionate to change in yourgeneration?
• A purpose is a defined vision or a vision in action
8/3/2019 Dare Tobe Diff
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/dare-tobe-diff 12/13
BE YOUR SELF
• If you want to stand out to be different, then you must be yourself. Don’t be a copy be original
• What you say to yourself matters the most
• It is better to fail at originality that to succeed at imitation.
• Ask yourself what do you want to be recognize for being the first to celebrate it?
• You are destined to be different, dare to be different.
8/3/2019 Dare Tobe Diff
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/dare-tobe-diff 13/13
DEVELOP SELF CONFIDENCE
• Action Plan for Developing ConfidenceSay “Yes”
Look in the Mirror and say “I Love You” to
yourself
Love and Accept yourself as you are
Start your day with a Smile
Give a Pat on your back
Think, Feel & Talk Positive
Count your Blessings
Spend time with Self Confident People
Make mistakes & Correct it