GROWING is hardwork. Especially in Nigeria. I do not know about you but, I come from a country and a community where the growth of the other is treated with scorn, dismay, apathy and regarded as a threat.

You do it. I do it too.

Someone will deliberately begin to see you as a stumbling block and a source of potential risk to his or her own potential growth.

It is my intention to deal a deadly blow to this destructive mindset tonight.

Dear, the progress of your friend is not anathema to your own growth, it doesn’t in anyway hinder your own advancement.

Life is in phases, and men are in sizes we know.

The path to the top is laced with pricks and bricks. It is deliberately designed to hinder any resolute mind, determined to scale the heights and achieve success..

In times past and in the very recent time, you might have come across statements and initiatives like, community initiatives, progressive unions and the likes.

This underscores, that, Africans in part understand the context of a true progressive community but are not convinced that GROWTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND MICRO GROWTHS is the nitty gritty of COMMUNAL GROWTH & A PROGRESSIVE society.

The BEST INVESTMENTS BEGINS with THE INVESTMENT to SELF.

It is until the individual is built, that the society is built.

It is also along these thought lines, that I draw my premise as I attempt to unveil the CONCEPT OF PERSONAL GROWTH & HOW IT INFLUENCES SOCIETY.

We must have the checks that also measures these GROWTH.

Growing as an INDIVIDUAL IS THE HARDEST WORK EVER.

Like, how can you, hold the hammer and knock yourself to shape.

How possible is it for you to walk yourself into the furnace, and become refined as gold.

Personal Growth results from stretching and sometimes exceeding your elastic limits. It is not just going the extra mile, it is going beyond the extra mile.

Personal Growth also results from daily learning, practices and sharpening and improving your skills set.

Personal Growth ensues when you give to learning, unlearning and relearning.

The overall objective of PERSONAL GROWTH is encapsulated in the words of scripture quoted in parts from James The Chapter 1 and verse -4, 

”And let endurance have its perfect result and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfect and completely developed, lacking in nothing.”

PERSONAL GROWTH AIMS @ 3 Cores of DIMENSIONAL GROWTH, which I will discuss briefly as I closely cruise home.

When, you are given to growth; the result becomes a PERSON GROWN AND GROUNDED IN:

🎯 Character

🎯 Capacity

🎯 Competence

Whatever you do this week! 

Take #20mins daily to mull over these tripod.

The heights of greatness are  attained by GREAT MEN, Who through their dexterous attention to DEVELOPING GREAT CHARACTER, AFFECTED THEIR SKILLS AND COMPETENCE & Made them into people of competence and agents of social good. ”Mathama Ghandi”

The Parable of GROWTH is the story Of The Seed, in the hands of The Diligent Farmer.

Who through patience, demonstrated the necessity of endurance in the process of GROWING THE SEED, into a mature, useful and productive crop.

It is my desire to unveil the ordeal of the seed as a similitude to the PROCESSES of GROWTH required to grow ourselves into a PEOPLE OF CHARACTER, CAPACITY & COMPETENCE who will become celebrities  tomorrow.

(IMPORTANT NOTICE: 

 The use of biblical quotation is signaled first by the books authority and deep roots in profound wisdom found in all founds of today’s psychological, physiological, etymological and ethnological exegeses and thoughts. Its moral instructions are as valid today as it were 2,000 years ago and therefore a suitable reference).

In the Parable of the Growing Seed, Jesus tells of a man who scatters seed on the ground and then allows nature to take its course. As the man who sowed the seed goes about his business day by day, the seed begins to have an effect.

First, the seed sprouts; then it produces a stalk and leaves, then a head of grain, and, finally, fully developed kernels in the head.

This is not all to the parable.

Please NOTE; Your INVESTMENT in the GROWTH of your CHARACTER is exemplified by the  farmer, who sees, The SEED GROWING PARADOX as an INVESTMENT with the end in MIND.

He Determines The best ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE & SOIL that will help the seed to sprout.

He also places premium on the QUALITY OF THE SEED to be planted.

He TREATS the soil. Fertilizes it, adds manure and waters it.

All these processes are the necessary conditions responsible for the Natural Change in nature of the Seed.

Like a SEED.

We make the necessary sacrifices required for GROWTH.

Each of these when we  conscientiously give attention to daily have capacity to INFLUENCE our CHARACTER, BUILD our COMPETENCE and ENHANCE our CAPACITY.