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The most important item in your room is neither your TV nor your refrigerator. It’s not your bed and never your ceiling fan, tables and chairs. The most important item in your room is YOU. This is because if you lose everything, but still get YOU, you can bounce back and get everything you lose again. However, if you lose yourself, but get everything, the “everything” cannot bounce back and get you.

For this reason, the 2017 Edition of Success Spring Summit is not about bed linen or car batteries; it not about TV remotes and not about shoe polish. It is simply about YOU. You will have the opportunity to know yourself better and stand on that well discovered YOU to change your world. Anything about YOU, take it serious!

Let’s meet again.

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A disciple means “a learner” or “a student.” Anyone who does not learn cannot lead and anyone who is not trained cannot reign. Anyone who is humble to know will become prepared to grow. Leadership is discipleship.

You can’t give what you don’t have. If you have little, you can only give little. If you have more, you can give either little or more. What you have will determine what you will give. This is why a leader needs to load himself with knowledge and skills and be at the top of affairs in all things.

One major characteristic of a good disciple is the ability to love what you were being disciplined to learn. If you hate the work you do, you will do it with a heavy heart. You will hate your trainer and you can’t be a sincere disciple. No wonder some leaders become manipulators. The simple reason is that they were found at places they’re not happy to be; it’s a place they’re not supposed to be.

The greatest leader ever in history, Jesus Christ demonstrated leadership skills and gave us the grace to go in the footprint of these principles. His message is about love.

Be willing to learn. The more you learn, the better you lead.
Do what you love. You can’t improve what you have no sense of passion for.
Walk in the footprint of leaders and make many more disciples.

When you practice all these, “men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another”, said Jesus Christ (John 13:34-35). Love everyone including those who drive you crazily.

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The goal of a leader is to contribute to the improvement and growth of the organization he leads. If your knowledge and attitude rather impedes the growth of the organization you lead, you are a misleader.

As a co-operate leader, ensure that the organization you lead does not remain as it was when you were given the mandate to lead it. Make it better than it was. Improve and increase; don’t demote and destroy what was rather working already.

Leadership is about action, never about position. While you occupy the position try to find an opportunity to make a change. A person who would not make a positive change is not fit to lead. If what the group you lead achieved last year is what it maintained this year, where are your skills?

To change the world, decide to change yourself first. If you change, your family is changing. If your family changes, your community is changing. If your community changes, your nation is changing. If your nation changes, your continent is changing. If your continent changes, the world have changed. Look to yourself first.

Begin to lead the change; others will follow you. That’s the power of influence.
Don’t keep doing same things; innovate and improve. Leaders grow day by day.
You can change the world one man at a time.

Remember, the real work depends on you. “Be the change you wish to see in the world”, said Mahatma Gandhi. I believe when you begin to be the change, everyone will want to learn from you about how you are doing it. There and then, you teach them to know and you are called a leader.

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Cowards don’t lead; they will infect their followers with the germs of fear. When this happens, work output reduces and failure becomes possible. People may not physically die due to fear, but their dreams do. Fear is a dangerous infection!

A group of sheep led by a lion will defeat a group of lions led by a sheep. Success of a group depends on the person who leads it. That is why no organization can grow above the knowledge, skills and attitude of its leaders.

Leaders are not afraid of what might go wrong. They are always daring to see what might be right. Cowardice confines people in a narrow corner of mediocrity. Bravery exposes the leader to stronger territories for extensive dominion.

To be brave does not mean you will not encounter failure. It does not mean you are immune to adversity. “Brave means knowing when you fail, you don’t fail forever”, said Lana Del Rey.

Leaders approach every dream with a positive mindset. That is the winning power.
Never see a challenge to be stronger than you; else you increase its power over you.
Try doing what others say cannot be done and you’ll surprise everyone including pessimists.

Courageous leaders inspire their followers to believe in the seemingly impossible. One thing you should know is that, your obstacles are like thick walls with no strong foundations. Their fall is just a matter of your blow striking them down. If you fear the size of the wall and do not consider the weakness of its base, you cannot bring it down.

You can overcome any challenge at all provided you are bold enough to go after the difficult thing.

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Leaders make things happen. Things happen when people move into actions. When actions are taken, things change. When better actions are taken things change for the better. Leaders don’t harbour problems and challenges for too long. They work on problems and overcome challenges with their inherent strengths. It is only mentally lazy people who sleep together with their problems and wake up together with them unsolved.

Nothing changes until your actions change them. The size of your hips may change; the strength of your muscles may also change, but your life will never change if you don’t act!

In taking actions for the success of the team, leaders know who to assign to which task and why. They assign duties to capable people and delegate competent staffs for jobs.

In order for the organization to achieve its goals, the leader must put his team members at relevant posts. They must study the skills and talents of their staffs and avoid giving responsibilities to people who cannot handle them. To lead better, stop talking and start walking. Move and make things happen.

When you do nothing, you get nothing.
If you aren’t moving, you haven’t dreamt yet. You only had nightmares.
Don’t watch things to happen; they won’t.

No matter how slow you walk, you are doing better than the person who does not walk at all. Lao Tzu said; “an ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.” After making the plans and setting your goals, don’t wait for a whistle to blow before you make a move. Start immediately. That’s the spirit of leadership.

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If you don’t acknowledge excellence openly, you are sponsoring mediocrity secretly. That is why we seek to create a list of 50+ Inspiring Volta Youths who in one way or the other are contributing to the growth of the region and the nation. If you know a native of the Volta Region, resident in any part of the world, who is doing amazingly in his/her field of endeavour, you  can nominate this fellow. Perhaps, he or she is a candidate for the list of change makers.

Take note:

Your nominee must not be above 40 years.
You must tell us briefly about why you nominate the fellow.
The fact that you have nominated a fellow is not a guarantee he or she will make way to the final list.
Shortlisted nominees shall be interviewed before finally making a way to the final list when they obviously prove they deserve the recognition.
Select the category in which your nominee is making remarkable contribution in the past 12 months.
You can nominate more than one person. Another nomination means, you need to fill another form.
Anyone who has not been nominated has no chance of being selected.
Two out of the 50+ individuals who have made it to the final list shall qualify for the Volta Youth personality title through vetting and secret balloting.
The closing date for submission of a nominee is 20th March 2017.

To nominate, please fill and submit the form below;

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You can down the manual for  the 2016 Edition of Better Life Coaching Conference organized at Keta in the Volta Region of Ghana (Africa). The manual will serve as the guide for the life changing encounter and provide a framework for the progress of the coaching project.

Participants who have registered for the 2016 Edition of Better Life Coaching Conference can download this document, print it and bring it along to the event for their use on 3rd September, 2016. However, the organizers have made provision for supplementary Coaching materials that will be needed to lead individual into creating a one-year personal growth plan as an objective of the coaching session. This includes a Writing Pad, Note Pad, Motivational Book, Files, Tracts and other helpful inspirational literature and resources.

To download the manual, click BLC2016

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Israelmore Ayivor

CEO, Moretalks

 

Join us at the 2016 edition of Better-Life Coaching Conference for a three hours teaching, training and Coaching themed; “Become a Better You”. You can’t afford to miss this. Resource persons for this empowerment encounter are young entrepreneurs who will share their experiences with you and challenge you to become better at what you do.

Admission is free. However, participants will be required to pay for their certificate (optional). Snacks will be available for purchase at a subsidized. You will also be required to pay GHC 1.5 for inspirational tracts from Success Spring Initiatives (S.S.I). You will receive free coaching materials for use during the conference.

Date: 3rd September, 2016

Time: 9:00am to 12:00pm

Venue: Min. Of Communications, Near Keta Police Station.

Registration closed on 31st August, 2016.

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The birds dare to break the egg shell

It does so in order to get out of that Hell

When it finally succeeds, it’ll then fly

To its comfort zone it’ll say bye

Are you being confined in a small space

How long will you remain at that place?

Before you can explore more territories,

Break away from the former glories.

Yesterday’s excellence is today’s average

You must strive to be better age after age

Never accept the available mediocrity

As the only preferable opportunity

Decide to grow from below to hero

And make it a point to vacate level zero

Reach out and arise with power

God’s blessings on you, will shower

Agree to grow, never attempt to be slow

Be not afraid. Never doubt. You’ll flow

The grace of God will be your guide

Taking you along, side by side.

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Israelmore Ayivor

1. We think there is enough time: After all it is easy to take for granted whatever is marginally available for free. In our day to day lifestyles, anything we have in abundance is what we take for granted. Whatever is scarce is whatever we are careful of losing. Because it seemed tomorrow has “more time”, we are likely to let today’s time slip away. I have learnt that people whose days are estimated by the doctor to be short seem to work harder than usual. This is because they know there is not enough time on their sides.

2. The punishment is always at the end: We are not punished for a wasted time; we are punished by a wasted time. We miss opportunities we look for and never get and this alone it a regrettable punishment. However, the punishment never comes at the beginning; it always at the last end and this accounts for the reason why we are good at wasting time.

3. We don’t learn time management: Everything you can do must be learnt; if you learnt it better, you will do it better. If you refuse to learn, you will use wrong methods that won’t give you the right use of time. Time management is a whole concept that everyone must learn. You will be happy managing your time because you will discover that you could do a lot at a limited time.

4. We give our jobs to others to do for us: It is obvious that when you depend on others for them to do your work for you, you may end up delaying your time for success. Everybody is busy with something and you got to be busy too. Your actions may not be regular and consistent when lay your hopes on the laps of other people. Do it yourself and rescue your visions.

5. We don’t plan our time: If you don’t plan your time, you will end up wasting a big chunk of your life. How you spend each day will determine how you will spend your years and how you will spend your years will tell what you will achieve in your entire life. If you live each day unplanned, you will end up wasting your lifetime. If you waste your lifetime, your dreams won’t survive.

6. We get distracted easily: Events, entertainments, social media and other stuffs can eat up our major time. Silently, less important tasks can also entice us to waste our time in the sense that they hook us unto doing something that won’t create any value for us. Time wasting is not a synonym of “idleness.” Some people who are up to some tasks even waste their time more because those tasks play no relevant roles in saving their dreams from dying.

7. We wait for perfect conditions: Perfect conditions never exist. If you wait for things to be right before you begin, you will die and carry your big dreams to the silent cemetery untouched. Desire for “perfection” before you start is an illness that can take your dreams to the grave untouched. Swallow this pill from Martin Luther King Jr.; “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

“Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at right time; it is also about taking actions at right time.” – Amit Kalantri.

Be circumspect and make good use of time; when it is wasted, it can’t be regained!