PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 101

BOOK READING CHALLENGE

BOOK TITLE…….. The Big Picture

AUTHOR………… Dr Ben Carson

Review Presentation Day 7

By: KFUH Kingsley KAN

Good morning Beautiful people. Are you excited as I am? Today is hot already, all you need is some cold water coffee. Let’s ride!


Getting perspective on what really matters. It’s what the whole book is engraving in our hearts , using different approaches. Let’s continue from where we ended.

The strategies of improved parenting .

Parenting can be a group effort. Not only the family is involved but the community too. Parenting is best effective if you master your child -especially on disciplinary techniques. Not every child will be corrected by spanking. Set high standards for them, with rewards to be achieved if met. Make time together-they get to open up, not just being passive. Try the easy way at times, listen , then talk. Lastly, make parenting a priority and pick a good help mate when settling down. You two need to build the children together.


‘Children are the greatest natural resource in the world. Our God-given job as parents is to develop those resources to their greatest potential. In the Big Picture, it is the most important job in the world.’ Ben Carson


As I read through, Carson takes some time to dwell on the concept of delayed and instant gratification while speaking to a college of students at Wendell Philips High school. He describes two groups of students- the *cool* and the *nerd* .


The cool guys in every school are the ones who have earned a varsity letter in some sport, they wear the latest fashions, know all the hit tunes, latest films, skip classes to party, drive expensive cars and parade a bevy of beautiful girlfriends. As graduation draws near, the cool student has performed bad , because he lived on the concept of instant gratification. He is barely managing flipping hamburgers.


The nerds on the other hand are the guys always hauling around an armload of books, with more in their backpad, they wear clean clothes, leave classes late trying to finish off assignments, trek to school the next day and literally have nothing to offer. After graduation, the nerd does so well in school and gains a scholarship, later gets a very wealthy job. That’s delayed gratification. Here his admiration starts(now he has something to offer).


Priorities, my friend is the next talk. People always find the time and means to do what they really want. Priorities get done, coz they are priorities. What is your priority in life?

‘I am convinced that the average person spends more time planning his or her next birthday party than planning his or her life. Most of us are wasting those amazing frontal lobes.’

Maybe you haven’t prioritized that thing you are doing at all, there’s no way it’ll get to your big picture. Rethink your priorities and invest in them.

Thank you for Reading