CHANGE, IS IT THAT EASY?

This writing is the corollary of an article I read some days ago. Though the writer’s  covertly relates to this (article), I believe nonetheless that  the subject, “Change” was the margarine that buttered his bread.

The Oxford English Mini Dictionary defines change as “make or become different” or “move from one to another” and several other meanings. I’ve chosen only this two to aid the fluent articulation and discussion of the topic, change.

The primary result of change should be the positive shift from catastrophic and liability-laden thinking to enhanced self-worth, confidence and assertiveness. Transformation of our mindset is necessary because it is what is within that manifests outwards. But the issue gets interesting when someone aware of the poison within wants to change, but it seems the poison has come to stay.

Ever wondered why a medical doctor can chain-smoke lavishly in public? Why a university student can dump refuse indiscriminately? Or why you and I can do horrible things without a glitch on our conscience? People, in burying circumstances want to change for better. But change, is it that easy?

Some of us have gracefully allowed our destinies to shaped by prognosticators and luck. In Africa, some of the stumbling blocks in the lives of the youth are fear, low self-confidence, low self-esteem, and my favorite one, an unconscious deliberate refusal to apply the positive things we learn. How can we break away from the shackles of backward habits and embrace progressive change?

Paradigm shift. That is what it starts with. Oh yeah, we’ve heard seven hundred and seventy-seven times, but that’s the fundamental of change. We must change the way we view and perceive events. Well, Ghana is a third-world economy, our unemployment rate is fantastic, our infrastructure unspeakable, and so on. Do you beleive that? And do you think the situation can be changed? Never allow stereotypes to direct your life. We should bear in mind that refusal to actualise our potentials results in excess fat of problems. God has given, each and everyone of us, black and white, beautiful and ugly, tall and short, educated and uneducated, special gifts to brighten the various corners we inhabit. To realise our gifts, we must change our thoughts, which births our personality and determines the materialization of our aspirations.

Many of us have kissed goodbye to many opportunities because of time indiscipline; some are esteemed subscribers of “Ghana Time (GT). A programme has been slated for a certain time, and you get there at the specified time, only to be called to help in the arrangement of chairs and others. You can’t do this in Germany! To change, time adherence is crucial.

Now, I pray I receive a sincere answer to this soft nine words, how many book so you read in a year? Dear, change thrives in an atmosphere of widespread reading. Cultivate the habit and I can bet my last one pesewa on it, that the proceeds would be positively over whelming.

What are some of the areas do we have to change to aid our progress? At this point, I’ve handed the keyboard over for your intelligent views and further articles on the subject of change.