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Time to think|Time To Think - November 29, 2007 - Give them a sense of self Episode
Harry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote “Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time”. Now, having read those wonderful words of Longfellow, I wonder how many members of my reading audience really believe, that this applies to them. Well My Friend, unless a person has a true ‘Sense of Self’, he or she will not be able to feel, that their life will in fact amount to anything worthwhile , never mind leaving some footprints behind which will be noticed by generations to come.
In a previous article, I mentioned seeing Dr Jackson President of Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York being interviewed on Tony Brown’s Journal on PBS. He was talking about The Male Empowerment Center that he had established at the college. At this center he caters to the male students, who previously had not being doing all that well academically.
One of the phrases which Dr. Jackson used in talking about his work is in fact the title of this particular article, he said we must ‘Give them a sense of self’. In other words, we have to bolster their self-esteem, thus making them fully aware of their inherent greatness. When people know exactly who and what they are, they literally are reborn, and take off on a supersonic flight to that well known destination Success City.
Yes indeed, it’s all about knowing who you really are. Which is of course, as I have written about on many occasions in the past, Awesomely Talented and Very Special ‘Children of God’. With this kind of positive, real ‘Sense of Self’ a person is bound to have confidence in himself and thus succeed.
Patanjali who was the Author of The Yoga Sutras, lived in India three centuries before the birth of Christ, and is the person who first established the tradition of meditation. Patanjali wrote “When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new great wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be”.
Yes My Friend, once a person, any person, has a positive ‘Sense of Self’; once they really believe in themselves and their inborn ability to succeed; and when with genuine high self-esteem that person goes headlong after a worthy goal, believe you me, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams.
So, from now on, when you meet someone, why don’t you go out of your way to ‘Give them a sense of self’ and you’ll be helping them to succeed.
THINK ABOUT IT!
E-mail: dpr@humanri.com
[ Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:21:43 GMT ]
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