{"id":829,"date":"2018-01-25T12:43:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T12:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/iigl-wp\/?page_id=829"},"modified":"2018-01-25T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T12:43:14","slug":"amemowoto-philip-edem-assessments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/amemowoto-philip-edem-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"Amemowoto Philip Edem &#8211; Assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>As a Man Thinketh<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #ff0000;\">Assessment by Amemowoto Philip Edem (Ghana)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The author\u2019s idea in the book \u201cAs a Man Thinketh\u201d is based on how as humans our thought affects our doings.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> The entirety of a man\u2019s thoughts is his character. Man\u2019s character sways the conditions and circumstances of his life. Every action that we as humans take starts from our thought. Our thought being the central pillar of our successes, need extra guidance to avoid its break down with negative ways of thinking and negative ways of addressing circumstances rather seeing the possibilities in all trials. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why?\u00a0 List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you.\u00a0 Use personal examples from your own life.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">a.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> That A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">Most at times when people are behaving in strange ways, we find it very disturbing and even have the wish to criticize their actions. People mostly use the excuse that they did not know what overcame them that they are behaving or have than what they have done. An instance is someone has murdered or stole from a friend, brother, or a neighbor. They then cast the blame on the fact that the \u201cdevil\u201d came into them which made them act the way it happened. Be it \u201cdevil\u201d coming or not I have tend to realize that if you give way to negative thoughts because you even had a grudge with the victim or not sometime back, the \u201cdevil\u201d knowing your negative thought will help you produce its result through your character. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">b. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">I have learned that as humans we have the liberty to make choices from the best to the most rotten ones. Whenever we have the means to make a choice, we have to make sure its worth. After making all our good choices, we should not sit with our arms folded but rather we must apply the thoughts in its rightful ways so as to reap its beautiful and bountiful harvest. But if we do not make the right choice as a foremost error and secondly we do not apply the right choices we make then we can never be assured of achieving anything good. Making right choices nowadays have become a problem for most people because some do not have the right guidance or to the other because people try to pay evil for evil. A worthless choice is the most dangerous thing a person should encounter in his thought or decision making and to the extent of reflection in his characters for others to see. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">c. Thought and character are one and as character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cWhat you like most is what \u201ckills\u201d you\u201d is an adage in one of the Ghanaian Languages. As it implies, what you mostly think, be it good or worse is what is to be exhibited as a character for others to see. One\u2019s character cannot be hidden, it will surely be manifested. Our environment is another major factor that influences our thought and character. If you live in a peaceful environment, the possibility of you having a good character even if you have a worse one would not be the same as a person with a bad character and living in a bad environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">In Ghana for instance, some environments or places have been considered or tagged as communities having the worst character. One of such communities here in Ghana considered having notorious character notwithstanding has a political party flag bearer living there. I have also come to realize that even though our environment is a factor in building our thoughts, it should not limit us from achieving our goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">Finally, a person\u2019s character is known or exhibited if there is a problem or situation at hand. That is where you will see those that will start focusing on the problem than looking for a solution. Those that will talk about the problem without doing anything about it. Most humans are good at criticizing during problems because that is what they are in their respective thoughts and showing it off as a character.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">d. Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results. Bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettles. As humans whatever positive we may think about and do will be return back to us as the returns. Likewise if we think in a negative manner for something or a situation we get the end results of negativity. There should be an action in the process before what you wished for may happen, because you just can\u2019t wish for something and without working on it you will get it. It\u2019s no magic situation here. You reap what you sow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">e. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">The people who live in fear of disease are the people who get it. In life we are mostly faced by two major things which problems us in making our decisions. These two major points is Fear and Desire. One may desire for something in life but out of the other factor being fear cannot go on in its achievement. An instance is that most students do not have the desire to learn in school but rather because of their fear of failure in the examinations ahead of them they learn. What if there was nothing like examination? Then probably the student will not show interest in the schooling that will give him knowledge to build himself, his family, society and the nation as a whole. I have also learnt that in order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">f. To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">When we are in a dilemma, we need not to give up but rather think of great things during the problem. In so doing we become very strong and able to overcome all other minor failures that may come our way. I have been a victim of failures several times in my education starting from the junior high level. I passed in all my subjects in the second cycle institution in the year 2012 but one subject brought about my failure again after I have applied to two universities as an awaiting student. I could not get my admission. I failed again in 2013 when I applied to another university. Finally I sat again for the paper I could not do well in in the year 2013.It was not an easy task during the paper but knowing myself as a strong person I sailed through though it was even moving to the worst. I applied again to two universities in the year 2014 again; fully assured and prepared to enter into the university I was not admitted. I laugh at myself because I realize it was not for me to go at this time. Throughout all this I have only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">g. Victories attained by right thought can only be maintained by watchfulness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure. It bound to happen that we celebrate our victories in our various achievements. We need to be extra careful on how to celebrate it. Though you attained the victory by right thought needs another thing which is to maintain the victory for others to emulate. I have also noted that though I would like to celebrate my victory sometime to come, I need to be as well careful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">As we all want the best things for ourselves, we also forget that getting them come with a lot of responsibilities and sacrifices. Having known all of the above points I will then use them as my guide in whatever I may find myself doing and wherever I may find myself as well. I have to always make the best out of every worse situation, I will as well offer myself in building others in the form of motivation that they should not look at their circumstances and give up. Out of problems come opportunities if and only if we have the right thoughts. It also will help me to realize myself and upgrading myself from one level to the other. Finally it will help me to know that it does not matter where you are coming from, be it a rich, middle class or a poor background there is something in you that you can give the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4. Quotes:\u00a0 Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention?\u00a0 If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">How lucky he is! How highly favored he is!How chance aids him at every turn!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">As humans generally we are in the position to attribute someone\u2019s hard earn successes to the fact that the person had a chance. I have realized that during someone\u2019s struggle, toils people do not recognize it. I have had some people telling me that as for me I am really lucky. Whenever I hear such comments from them I just laugh it off because in me, I know what is really going on. The sacrifices I have to make and the good thoughts I need to get so as to struggle through before reaching where I am now and hoping to be some time to come. Good things do not come out of luck, favor or chance but through hard work and determination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cA strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">This quote really got my attention because it was one thing that was disturbing all the while as I made all effort to help some people around my vicinity in their education and motivating them to choose a career. It has even got to a point now that I am teaching someone and anytime we schedule a time for the person to come and study the person starts to give excuses of all kinds. I saw that maybe she was not interested in the lesson and the only thing that can make her interested is when she is willing to be helped. It could be cited even of someone drowning in a sea or pool. If you are making an effort as a helper to rescue the person and has given directions to the person of what to do and not whiles coming to rescue the fellow, and after you jumped in the person started doing the <em>don\u2019ts<\/em> you just have to back off for your safety. I have comprehended that you cannot help everybody unless the person is willing to be taken out of his or her current situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cDoubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. Fear has always been one of life\u2019s greatest enemies. Fear has been a feeling of discomfort whenever we are up to make a major move in our life. Fear has the power to make or unmake humans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">I have learned that fear was created to serve as a check on us as we battle into achieving greater heights. Finally I have again recognized that no matter how great you may plan your life you will surely meet failure in your life. So it will be up to us to celebrate our failures as a learning process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cFinally on the topic Effect Of Thought On Circumstances, I learned three things from a little passage about a man who is wretchedly poor, a rich man, and an employer of labor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">The first thing that got my attention from the first part of the passage was about the fact that we should avoid making excuses in our circumstances. We mostly try to justify ourselves with some mentally created instrument that help us assume we are right by making excuses. The second thing I learnt was that we should learn the principles of making sacrifices. At most times we want to give up on one or two of some behaviors that isn\u2019t helping us but fear of sacrificing worth ourselves. Without making some sacrifices we can get out of certain circumstances. The last thing was that we should avoid cheat. If anyone wants to progress in what he or she is doing then the key to help is to avoid robbing peter to pay Paul attitude. Some give instances like cheating someone from a business deal to pay offertory in church thinking it can be so. In all my doings I have learnt one key to personal success that if I avoid cheat, everything is going to work right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">I read but was not clear about certain three points made in the book:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">I read that suffering ceases for him who is pure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">I also read that \u201cone man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Finally was <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the afterworld, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete?\u00a0 If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">The book As a Man Thinketh did not contain any exercises for the reader to complete. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions?\u00a0 If so, please comment.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">I would like to comment on other things I encountered in my reading that the body is a servant of the mind; it obeys the operations of the mind. It\u2019s just correct as the way machines or computers work, when you issue a command to the computer, it brings back the respond based on the command issued, nothing more and nothing less. I also remarked that as humans we should devote our selves with much concentration on our goals so as to achieve them. Also we have to learn how to motivate ourselves in achieving a height in life because everyone nowadays thinks only about their own problems. Motivation is a key factor in our life. No progress without sacrifices. If we make little sacrifices we get little achievement and vice versa as well as having a clean thought always so as to get a clean habit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10.\u00a0 Ten is good and one is poor.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A.\u00a0How interesting was it to read?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">10<br \/>\nB.\u00a0How helpful were the contents?\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10<br \/>\nC.\u00a0How easy was it to understand?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9<br \/>\nD. Would you recommend it to others?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10<br \/>\nE.\u00a0 What is the overall rating you would give it? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Jonathan Livingston Seagull<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #ff0000;\">Amemowoto Philip Edem (Ghana)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">The author\u2019s idea in this fable is the fact that the path for us to follow is already written within us, that it is for each of us to find our own adorations, and live them brilliantly for ourselves. Others (people) may watch, they may admire our perseverance or despise it, but our one freedom is for us to love and to choose every day of our lives, as we desire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why?\u00a0 List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you.\u00a0 Use personal examples from your own life.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">a. After having been expatriated, Jonathan was full time practicing on the wing and made great progress. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">He was not overcome by the influence of the majority report, the popular opinion, and the &#8220;common&#8221; sense. He stood firm by his convictions. To learn what he desired most. It is not what everyone wants that we should also follow. We normally call it the popular opinion as I stated earlier. There is more to following the majority to us and it demands of us to explore it better than the others. Jonathan in the fable was doing amazing works with his feathers that the others were not making any good use of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">b. Therefore, besides finding his own meaning of life, he eventually returned to the place that once had flush out him, and help the fellows there to find their purpose of life. Love, warranted respect, and forgiveness all seem to be equally important to the freedom. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">c. \u201cYou don&#8217;t love hatred and evil. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">Jonathan was unselfish and lenient. He wasn&#8217;t hostile to those who forced him out of his homeland, on the contrary, he learned to love them and help them. To forgive and love your enemy is even more difficult than finding the meaning of life, but Jonathan, a little seagull, managed to act it out. &#8220;Keep working on love.&#8221; Through his teachings, Jonathan understands that the spirit cannot be really free without the ability to forgive, and that the way to progress leads for him, at least through becoming a teacher, not just through working hard as a student.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">d. Jonathan succeeded, because he was extraordinary, he was gifted. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">For ordinary people, we all have limitations. It&#8217;s not possible for us to turn a blind eye to our actual ability. Otherwise, we would only repeat trial and failure thousands and millions time. Let us do something. Let us do anything. Get on with it! Repeat to yourself: \u201cIf it\u2019s to be well, it\u2019s up to me!\u201d<em>\u00a0<\/em>Our success in life depends more on the person we become than on the things we do or acquire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">e. Making something totally different from what we are now having is a harsh task, not only to the advocate, but also to the rest of the society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s hard to change what has been defined as convention, what you have believed in for so long, and you may not even want to take the trouble to change. Even at the peak of trouble, he made a new discovery in breaking a myth that had been preserved for nothing for so long a time. \u201cA seagull never speaks back to the council flock, but it was Jonathan\u2019s voice raised\u201d. It does not mean we should be disrespectful to leaders when we have problems with them but rather us making a humble plea just as Jonathan did. We have to be ready to pay the price of being great, so we must think beyond our environment, because great things have unpromising beginnings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">f. Jonathan seagull discovered that boredom and fear and angerare the reasons that a gull\u2019s life is so short and with these gone from his thought he lived a long fine life indeed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">Don\u2019t worry be happy, laugh at your own flaws, have fun, don\u2019t take things too personal in this world we are living .I learnt not to be angry as well as to be fearless in making vital decisions at the peak of life journey. We have to take negative and toxic thoughts from our individual minds and live a free life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">g. \u201cDon\u2019t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">In most times we normally give up a good work because of what we see. This is when man ceases to accuse others as the cause of his conditions but rather build up himself strongly so as to use as a pillar for real progress. \u00a0The challenges we go through are just preparing us to make a great change in our country and personal development. Our eyes, mind and thoughts are mostly the main deceptive that come our way to reach our set goals. Let us all work hand-in-hand to break such barriers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">These ideas are so important to me because mostly in my setting as an African I mostly come in contact with people who \u201ckill\u201d our dreams and encourage us to give up. Whenever I try to bring about an idea of how we can in our small way be great entrepreneurs to help ourselves and the nation, the majority of people who I might think off that can make a difference rather tells me to find a different option than the one I have proposed. Still with that I try as much as possible to link up with others who share similar views just like mine and give them my proposal and it works. I never give up, I personally think also that even though people look down on us, it does not mean that we should not lend a helping hand to them in times they need us most. If we have the means to help our people or our society and we try to pay back evil for what they did to us when we were beginning, it would not make our successes any better. It will rather generate hate and evil in our midst. Hatred and evil as well do not make a nation or society to progress likewise the individual. I have had several discouragements from my friends, mates among other people I might not even think of even in tempting to offer any extracurricular activity. I know they are there for a reason in my life because they will serve as a check for me to be more hardworking and dedicated in achieving my set targets or aspiration. We must as well as try to be extra ordinary in other to succeed; I have had so many failures in my life long ago till now, people wonder how I cope with all those tough failures in the life of a young and coming man like myself. Failures in my academic life, financial difficulties and a lot, the only thing I tell them is that \u201cthough times don\u2019t last but extraordinary people like me do\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>4. Quotes:\u00a0 Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention?\u00a0 If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cIf anybody can show someone on the ground how to see a thousand miles, it will be Jonathan Livingston Seagull.\u201d This clearly tells me how a great leader like Jonathan was known for his spirit of motivation. As leaders I have learnt that we should have a listening ear for people who have problems and try our best to encourage them through. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">Another statement that got my attention was \u201cIt Works!\u201d \u201cWell of course, it works Jon\u201d it always works when you know what you are doing\u201d. At certain points in our life we tend to look for other available alternative because we don\u2019t plan what we want or better still because we don\u2019t know where we are going. If we know what we are about, it will help making realizing our dreams so easily. An instance is of two students who are\u00a0\u00a0 offering a particular program; one knows what the program entails likewise the other who does not have a slightest idea of even the profession involved. Such a person will just be missing things up if he\/she does not have the right reason why they are offering the program as compared to the one who knows. Therefore let us first know the task ahead of us and work towards its making.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Finally <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">the memorable tune, the words in the beautiful book gave me hope. Jonathan gave me courage to learn to wing. \u00a0I can learn and grow, becoming better with each upward curved and in so doing I have confidence in myself that I am becoming an example of what it means to live. \u00a0Jonathan gave me an affection of flying. No limits, Jonathan?\u201d I think to myself from time to time when I need to remember who I am. \u201cNo limits, Jon? Very well! It is only a matter of time I also say to myself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">There was nothing in the book that I do not understand, unclear about or disagree with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete?\u00a0 If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The book Jonathan Livingston seagull did not contain any exercises for the reader to complete but I found its contents extremely helpful in several ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions?\u00a0 If so, please comment.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">I would like to comment on another thing I encountered in my reading that, as individuals we should take responsibility and give no excuses. Often it\u2019s challenging to make the most excellent choice, especially if there aren\u2019t many others joining you. Sometimes it may feel as if our desires and freedoms have been suppressed. Whichever way it may seem, Do it or don\u2019t do it but don\u2019t make excuses. We have to stop using our unbelievable brain to think up elaborate validations and defenses for not taking action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">The second thing was that learning is a stage. Every day we have to do something that will inch us closer to a better tomorrow. We should not be comfortable or content with the level we are but rather focus on improving ourselves to higher levels than our current one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;\">The last thing I also liked was about the element that we should show love and be kind. We have<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;\">to<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;\">make the choice to live a life filled with Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, and self-control. The little choice we must make will chart the course of life we take; we either choose the path of light, or wander off in darkest night. We have to make an exceptional choice and watch the ripple effect of blessing.<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10.\u00a0 Ten is good and one is poor.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A.\u00a0How interesting was it to read?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">9<br \/>\nB.\u00a0How helpful were the contents?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10<br \/>\nC.\u00a0How easy was it to understand?\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8<br \/>\nD. Would you recommend it to others? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10<br \/>\nE.\u00a0What is the overall rating you would give it?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Keys to Success<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Assessment by Amemowoto Philip Edem (Ghana)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><em><strong>1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The author in the context of the book is motivating all individuals to realize our potentials, dreams or aspirations and believe in ourselves by making plans to attain the goals we want and finally enabling\u00a0 us to understand that we can achieve success in anything we do by following the right steps or measures to the accomplishment of our goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><em><strong>2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why?\u00a0 List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you.\u00a0 Use personal examples from your own life.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">a. Under the developing definiteness of purpose, one idea that was most important to me was the alertness to opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The starting point of all achievement is the Definiteness of Purpose-knowing what your goal is fills you with a success-consciousness and protects you against failure. If you do not have a definiteness of purpose on earth, everything thing that comes your way will carry you to where it wants. It\u2019s more like you are living a life like a sheet of paper around that is carried away by a little wind to a place it has no idea of. As individuals cleaving for success, we need to have this definiteness of purpose to help us accomplish our dreams in life. We have to decide on a major goal and the amount of time we need to achieve this goal. We have to note in the goal setting process that the goal is measurable and can be achieved. We have to write out our goals in a strong, brief, and progressive manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">b. Creating a plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">We have to stop living the life without a Plan. This is the most important part of the life of every individual. Before making a dream you have realistic, we have to take time and make a plan for our everyday living here on earth. From that onset we have to start to watch the development of such plans, whether it\u2019s changing positively or not. If we do not write down our plans, they may escape us in the course of our period of achieving. We have to also be discipline and create a time bounded proposal we want to achieve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">c. Go the extra mile-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The benefit of doing more than you are paid for, I was touched by the fact of self-improvement. We have to learn the attitude of rendering more and a better service even for free. I am usually rendering services to people on a free based because I want to learn more of whatever I am doing for that person. A friend of mine never understands the reason why I should offer various services for free. I tell him I am building myself by learning from the various field of duty I am been given to offer. As successful people, we should not allow money to influence us in doing something that even at the long-run is also going to broaden our horizon. When money becomes the dominant fantasy of the mind and its pursuit becomes the only bait to trigger one to work, man becomes a prey to his fellow man and society loses it humane spirit. Let us remember that most successful people are those that served a great number of people even unpaid for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">d. Overcoming procrastination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">This is one thing that most people are victim of whom I am sometimes part of. It mostly happens to me when I am supposed to pack my things to school with a day or two. I tend to procrastinate till I get stuck. As the popular adage goes that procrastination is the thief of time, it is nothing but true. I started to turn away from shifting to tomorrow what I had in my capacity to do today, and it has helped me a lot of which I have started to apply it in my various activities with other colleagues everywhere I find myself.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">e. Inspire Teamwork.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Whichever achievement one aspires to attain in life, it should be talked to someone in the field or already having an idea of what we want to achieve so that the person may guide our steps to the right path. This could even be said of a good football team. They rely more on the contributions of all individuals\u2019 effort than a single player. An instance could be said of A. Robben of FC Bayern Munchen that he could not have been a best player without the harmonious effort of his team mates. There is no best of any impact without the cooperation of others. We therefore have to know that helping others solve their problems will also help us to solve our own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">f. Build a Positive Mental Attitude<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The rewards of a Positive Mental Attitude. To administer your life, you must be able to manage your mind, and that is the starting point of all treasures. complaining, gossiping, fearing or doubting, criticizing are all negative attitudes that do not make a successful individual .We are to make an effort to wipe away these from our life.\u00a0 We therefore need to apply the time we have to something positive. Successful people are those that Replace negative words-can&#8217;t, won&#8217;t shouldn&#8217;t-with positive ones, just as president Obama said \u201cYes we can.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">g. Joining the 2 percent club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">After I went through the various requirements of being a member of the 2 percent group, I realized that I have fallen short to some petty principles I could have done or be doing so that I will be part of the succeeding 2 percent group. I have started applying these principles of the succeeding 2 percent in my life and its working right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><em><strong>3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">These ideas\u00a0 helps me in my everyday life by applying its principles\u00a0 to my education, relationship with others ,in my community and everywhere I find myself to be. The ideas therefore crops up to me whenever there is a situation at hand and various options are been weighed to help solve them. If it is an issue of encouraging someone to do something, I then refer to my previous lessons learned and use it to solve it for the mutual benefit of the person and those around him.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><em><strong>4. Quotes:\u00a0 Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention?\u00a0 If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u201cWhatever your mind can conceive and believe, your mind can achieve\u201d-W. Clement Stone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Things that happen in our everyday lives are not automatic-they just don\u2019t happen, whatever an individual believes in and have in mind to get, the mind can achieve it because the brain is a powerful weapon that listens to the command given it and acts upon it-be it a good or bad command. I understand also that hard work with effort applied to the agenda conceive and believe in the mind will produce the outcome of what you want the mind to achieve. Moreover learning from adversity and defeat, one has to know that every successful person of which he\/she may look up to as a role model or mentor has gone through some kind or the other of failure in life<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The same way I understand as they were able to learn from their defeat rose up to be who and what they are in this present time just like the way Thomas Edison failed so many times before perfecting the light bulb. Likewise, all individuals face similar conditions. We need to remind ourselves that adversity brings a greater blessing at the end. Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Our attitude towards defeat tells of who we are because I have learnt that the greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will fail.\u00a0 Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough. Failures are bound to happen in every aspect of human living. You would not get everything in the perfect sense. How to react to failure even causes people to fall without rising again. We tend to complain most of the times about what has already happen instead of looking into the future with greater aim and hoping for the best. I am a victim of educational failure in my second cycle education after I noticed I could not be admitted to further my studies in the tertiary immediately after my completion. I then began to explore the various opportunities available that can help me to get to where I want to get to. With Prayers, commitment, perseverance and hard work I was able to get everything in the right time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u201cWhat one is supposed to do in a failure is to develop positive attitudes towards the situation rather than the negative attitude which include blaming someone, giving several excuses among others. One is never a failure until he\/she accepts defeat as permanent and quit trying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Failure is to be viewed as a challenge for all that go through it. We have to master courage to pass the test of failure because every failure has a greater seed of benefit.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Finally, the idea of budgeting time and money. This is another idea I fall short of. With budgeting my time I am ninety percent okay with myself but money. I often think of how as a student I can do a perfect budgeting of my money. Though I don\u2019t spend extravagantly on unnecessary things, I deem it a great joy if I start at this stage to budget my monies. If I do not budget the pocket money given me on books and other stuffs, I will be short of money in a month or two if I was to spend the whole money on a semester. Like someone one learning to be a successful person, I need to cultivate the habit of budgeting my time and money because I learnt that this two things are the greatest secrets of most successful people today. The use of time and money are the most vital of becoming a successful individual.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><em><strong>5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">There was nothing in the book that I do not understand, unclear about or disagree with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><em><strong>6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete?\u00a0 If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The book Keys to Success \u2013The 17 Principles of Personal Achievement did not precisely contain exercises for the reader to complete but I found its contents extremely helpful and useful because it gave a portion which served as a review base and provided me with slots to make a commitment that will in the long-run help me to achieve success for myself and to others as well. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><em><strong>7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions?\u00a0 If so, please comment.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">I would like to comment on self-confidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Having confidence is believing in yourself and your own abilities; knowing exactly what you need to act upon in order to succeed. Confidence can be acquired through faith, knowledge, preparation, implementation, resilient beliefs, repetition and determination on taking actions to achieve one small success at the time. And with small successes comes the inner feeling of \u201cyes I can\u201d which ultimately leads to building super-awesome confidence! We should never doubt our capabilities, we should believe in ourselves and strive to always go far beyond our own capabilities and gain more control of our destiny. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The second and final thing I want to reference on is for us to Stop living someone else\u2019s dream for ourselves and live the life of our own dreams. There are so many people in the world that live unfulfilled life\u2019s because they are living the life someone else created for them. Unfortunately we have been wired to make sure the success of others and never our own success. This is unfortunate because we will put all of our time and energy into other people\u2019s achievement and hence allowing our visions to die. A typical example is when you see most youth discussing the salaries of other people especially football players and in the likes of wealthy musicians in the world. This argument takes on for longer hours of which that hour or two could be used by such a fellow to discuss something of greater benefit to him and society. This makes the life of such people controlled because anybody that can control your attitude or mood has power over you. We need to take control of our life and live it for our today and the future.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10.\u00a0 Ten is good and one is poor.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">A. How interesting was it to read? \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 6<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">B. How helpful were the contents? \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 10<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">C. How easy was it to read? \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 7<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">D. Would you recommend it to others? \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">E. What is the overall rating you would give it? \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a09<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Success through a Positive Mental Attitude<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Assessment by Amemowoto Philip Edem (Ghana)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>1. What is the main idea that the author is trying to convey in the book?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">The author suggests that we have been bequeathed with an immense power to transform our lives. This is the power of positive mental attitudes, thus by using certain characteristics of faith, hope, integrity, love ,courage, generosity, tolerance, and also the usage of the talisman of the mind coupled with the right attitude towards whatever aims we wish to gain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>2. What were the seven ideas which were personally most important to you and why?\u00a0 List these seven ideas followed by an explanation after each one as to why it was important to you.\u00a0 Use personal examples from your own life.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">a. Every adversity has the seed of greater benefits. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">The things that sometimes seem like a disaster turn out to be blessings in disguise. It all depends on how we regard the troubles that come our way. When I was about entering into the tertiary institution, it wasn\u2019t easy for me because my applications had been already rejected for several times. Things began to seem like all was lost until I read and discovered the secrets of what I coined as \u201ckeep trying\u201d and that I could succeed and truly I did succeed. Here I am now of which I have started enjoying opportunities in my university education. I believe in the Idea that we need to Re-arrange our attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another. Similarly, we also need to learn from defeat or setbacks and understand that defeats are part of life, but in those defeats, you may succeed in discovering something even greater, if you have the right attitude just as I did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">b. Our attitudes shape our future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">It\u2019s no doubt. We translate into physical reality the thoughts and attitudes which we hold. When our attitudes towards ourselves are great, and our attitude towards others is liberal and compassionate, we attract big and generous portion of success. I do believe in this natural law that whatever you make the mind to think of is what you get in the future. It is the same way as how computers are been programmed. The message you key into the computer through say the keyboard is the exact result you will get as displayed on your monitor screen. Touching on generosity toward others, it also works automatic looking at the successes of some people that I have come into contact with and the generosity they show and the huge some of successes they have chalked and continue to attract. We therefore have to make others feel important with our right attitudes and the more we do that, the more important you begin to feel ourselves. In the same vein, we need to surround ourselves with people who are interested in making our attitudes shape the best of our future out, as well as those who can help us to reach our goals. When we make each of these principle a part of our life, we will begin to reap successes of various forms in the likes of blessings, wealth and greater happiness within ourselves. These will be ours if we don&#8217;t deny our fellow men what is in our capacity of doing for them for we can\u2019t have a positive life with a negative mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">c. Self \u2013discipline coupled with the budgeting of time and money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">We need to avoid procrastination and stay discipline towards our goals. We need to affirm ourselves with the \u201cDo It Now\u201d attitude. We need to allocate appropriate time and resources such that our actions and efforts are maximized towards achieving our goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">d. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A man should think of a legitimate purpose in his mind and set out to achieve it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">He should make this purpose the unifying theme of his beliefs. People who have no chief purpose in their life fall victim to fears, troubles which lead to failure and loss. We should make this purpose our supreme responsibility and should devote ourselves to its attainment, not permitting our thoughts to wander into imaginary things. We may frequently fail to accomplish this purpose, but we will soon overcome weaknesses and grow in character which is a degree of true success and the preliminary view for upcoming supremacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">e. Sometimes the \u201cso called\u201d experts claim a well plan goal to be impossible-and that it can\u2019t be done, which turns to discourage an amateur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">If we are working with experts and they say it\u2019s impossible, we have to command them to make a move-Or better to say that there is a better way of doing it of which they should find. We then have to go against all these odds and believe in ourselves that we can achieve the goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">f. If you know what you want, you can find a way to get it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">We don\u2019t have to wait for things to happen. We have to seek them out and make them happen. We need to have an accurate thinking .We have to clear the mental clutter including fear of failure, negative feelings, emotions, passions-habits ,belief and prejudices because good things come to those who wait but the best for those who seek for them in the right perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">g. We should use applied faith. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">If you are religious or spiritual, ask for divine guidance and help in finding the right solution. If you are not then you have to believe in yourself and that to help you find the solution. The bible by Christians is indeed an inspirational book to help the individual to achieve anything that he may desired to attain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>3. How will these ideas or lessons help you in a practical way, both in your daily personal life and in helping you to create a better world? If so, how?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">Knowing all of the above points, I will use them as my guide in whatever I may find myself doing and wherever I may find myself. I then refer to my previous lessons learned and use it to address any situation at hand with the assessment of the various options at hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>4. Quotes:\u00a0 Are there any statements which the author made that particularly got your attention?\u00a0 If so, please quote them and comment as to why they were important to you.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\"> \u201cIf a man is right, his world will be right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If we are unhappy with our world and we will like to change it then the best place for us is to with ourselves.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> This is because the sum of a man&#8217;s thoughts are his character. His character influences the conditions and circumstances of his life and the same way applies to his environment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>5. Is there anything in the book that you do not understand or are unclear about, or are there ideas which you disagree with and, if so, why?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">There was nothing in the book that I do not understand or do I disagree with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>6. Did the book contain exercises for the reader to complete?\u00a0 If so, did you complete all of the exercises and did you find them helpful?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">The book did not contain any exercises for the reader to complete but I found its contents exceedingly helpful in numerous ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>7. Was there anything you read in the book that you would like to comment on that was not covered in the previous questions?\u00a0 If so, please comment.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cWe are poor \u2013not because of God. We shouldn\u2019t be poor and we should not ever say that it is God\u2019s will for us to be poor. Many a time\u2019s people attribute various instances to religion. This people attribute their laziness and unwillingness to work to gain riches to the will of God to make them as poor as they are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">By the same token, we should keep our minds on the things we really want and off the things we don\u2019t want. We tend to be invoke thoughts that is not worth success in our doings than bringing out those that will help us to achieve our set target. It then requires of us to send our needs through prayer to God because prayer really works, that is if we are religious because if you know what you wanted and do not know how to get it then the only remedy to subscribe to is by reading the Bible and other inspirational books. Greatest inspiration comes from reading the bible. Remember that you were born a champion so you have to do your possible best to identify yourself with a successful image. Let\u2019s not forget the choice is ours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Please rate the following questions on a scale from 1 to 10.\u00a0 Ten is good and one is poor.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A. How interesting was it to read?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 6<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">B. How helpful were the contents?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">C. How easy was it to understand?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a07<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">D. 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