Wonderful Experience

It's a wonderful time to be alive, don't you think so? With all the hullabaloo going on in the political terrain of this great nation, we should not just be comfortable analysing why we deserve a great leader who will make significant changes but we should begin to demand one.

However that's not what I want to talk about today. Today I want to tell you about my wonderful experience on Saturday December 16, 2006. I had a meeting (Mentorship session) with Adeolu Akinyemi and Gbenga Sesan. By the way, Adeolu Akinyemi is an HR Manager, with specialist skills in Talent Management, Learning and Development and Gbenga Sesan was Nigeria's first Information Technology Youth Ambassador. Presently they are both Managing Partners of Generis Solutions, a budding consulting firm with a vision to become the leading global company that helps people and businesses succeed.

We were about six mentees present at the Mentorship Session. I discovered there is a lot to learn from these great young guys. Gbenga started the session by giving us a 'wake up' call.

Deolu challenged us by letting us know that "a day will come in ones life when you will meet someone with equal potentials & opportunities, the differentiating factor is how much you have developed that potential in you".

There was a lot of questions from the mentees and answers were flowing from these two great guys like a water fountain. I will tell you that it was an inspiring session and when we were through in the evening, I felt like Peter when he saw Jesus at the mountain of transfiguration and asked for tents to be built for Jesus, Moses and Elijah 'cos' he did not want to come down from the mountain.

I will just briefly share with you few of the things I took away from this Mentorship Session.

Take Home:

Your network is a determinant of your networth. The essence of power is not for control but for opening doors and granting access.

Your strength cannot stand between you and your greatness but your weaknesses can.

That change is not occurring the way we want it is probably because we are asleep.

Three questions you must ask yourself:

1. Why am I here? (Purpose).

2. Where do I want to be ten years from now? (Planning).

3. What are the things I must do to get there and what are the skills required? (Preparation).

No matter how much talent you have, if you don't spend time developing it, it will remain dormant.

What you have that you don't use is not yours.

The most important part of you will always be what is inside of you.

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I hope this is enough to stir you, if not, then you have to climb this mountain yourself.

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