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DARE TO BE DIFFERENT

ATTITUDE, A MATTER OF CHOICE

BY ABRAHAM BENSON AKPALU AUGUST 13, 2011



DARE TO REACH BEYOND

YOURSELF

• The desire for safety stands against every great

and virtuous dream

• Security, many times is the first step towardsstagnation.

• Boldness in vision is the first, second and thirdmost important thing. If you dare nothing, youshould expect nothing.



DARE TO REACH BEYOND

YOURSELF

• Make yourself to be used for somethingsignificant.

• Choose a goal for which you are willing toexchange a price for of your life.

• E.g. Be a doctor, lawyer, accountant, businessmerchant

• Don’t be satisfied with these goals. Dream

bigger



SELF ACCEPTANCE

List 5 things that you like about yourself

List five other things that you don’t like about

your self

List reasons why you don’t like those five

things about yourself

E.g. I don’t like the fact that am not working,

making the grades I want



HAVE STRONG CONVICTIONS

ABOUT YOUR DREAMS

Remember your Childhood; you never gave- up to stand and walk

Take on of your goals and list all the reasons you thing you can be or do it.

Separate your dreams into strong and weak

ones- ones you are sure and too sure




ABOUT YOUR DREAMS

This is what a man who failed at climbingmount everest(the tallest in the world)

“ Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but

I will beat you the next time because you

have grown all you are going to grow…..and I am still growing”




ABOUT YOUR DREAMS

Take one of your dream ideas either from childhood or adulthood that you couldn’t

achieve but still have strong convictions to succeed and redraft the statement to

Mountain Everest



DARE TO HAVE PURPOSE.

In your heart there is a sleeping lion called purpose.

We must have a definite sense of direction

for our lives. The world makes room for a person of purpose.

His words and actions demonstrate he knows where he is going. You are built

conquer circumstances, solve problems and attain goals.



SET YOUR PURPOSE FOR LIFE

• Ask yourself: why were you born in Ghana,Africa and not in Europe or why were youborn into that family and not others.

• Define where you want to be in five, ten years.

• How do you want your family, peers and society to seeyou in five ten twenty years.

• What are you passionate to change in yourgeneration?

• A purpose is a defined vision or a vision in action



BE YOUR SELF

• If you want to stand out to be different, then you must be yourself. Don’t be a copy be original

• What you say to yourself matters the most

• It is better to fail at originality that to succeed at imitation.

• Ask yourself what do you want to be recognize for being the first to celebrate it?

• You are destined to be different, dare to be different.



DEVELOP SELF CONFIDENCE

• Action Plan for Developing ConfidenceSay “Yes”

Look in the Mirror and say “I Love You” to

yourself

Love and Accept yourself as you are

Start your day with a Smile

Give a Pat on your back

Think, Feel & Talk Positive

Count your Blessings

Spend time with Self Confident People

Make mistakes & Correct it

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