Purpose Driven Living

Purpose Driven Living

Without purpose, success will ever remain a dream. Without a clearly defined purpose for any endeavor including a chosen career, defeat may be inevitable.
A life that has no purpose is a life that has no direction and a life without direction is worse than meaningless as it is destined for disaster. No purpose, no living!
These are simple facts but with eternal consequences.

In ‘Becoming the Purpose Driven Achiever’, we saw purpose driven living as having a “positive reason for living or doing something.” We defined it as having something good and worthwhile you stand for, a cause you are ready to pursue to conclusion. But that is not all.

More importantly, purpose driven living is discovering the reason for your existence, your God-given assignment and deciding to pursue same with all that you are and with all that you have. You must discover your reason for living. Your vision or dream of what you want your life to be is the foundation of a fulfilling, rewarding life.

Also, you need to recognize your gifts, talents and begin to develop them for your own good and of others. When your talents jam with your purpose, dream or vision, you are bound to break forth. Mike Murdock’s counsel comes in handy here, “identify the problem God created you to solve; therein lies your breakthrough (greatness)”.

How to discover your purpose for living

7Ps of Purpose Driven Living
3Ds of Purpose Driven Living

MAKING THE RIGHT CAREER CHOICE

MAKING THE RIGHT CAREER CHOICE

Making the right choice of career has been identified as one of the most important decisions in life. This is so because, decision they say determines destiny; this is even more true as far as career choice is concerned. The career you choose now may dictate where you will spend the rest of your live. It may go a long way in determining your future happiness
or otherwise. Also, whether your life will be fulfilling or not has much to do with the choice you make. Your choice will either help or hinder you.

Inability to make a well informed career decision is a fundamental problem. For a lot of people finding a career that will give joy or satisfaction is a big task. Yes, there are many courses or career out there to choose from, but how do you know which one to choose. This is what I shall attempt to address in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. At the end of this piece you should have achieved the self-understanding and self-direction necessary for making informed career decision and so move towards the realization of your dreams and purpose for living.

MEANING AND PURPOSE OF CAREER

To start with, what is career and what is its purpose? Career is a way of making a living, a profession or work which may require certain levels of learning or training. It is a life-long job, professional progress, a vocation or occupation that a person goes into and therein makes a living. 

You can for instance have a career in education, law, music, engineering, medicine, military, piloting and so on.

The purpose of any career simply, is to meet societal needs. This means that the various courses and professions available are designed to solve one problem or the other in the society. There are many needs around us waiting just to be met. Identifying those needs and meeting them may turn out to be a career for you. It is good to note that no career is good or bad in itself. What is important is the individual and what he/she can do with the chosen career.

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CAREER IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Why is it that most multinational companies, well organized businesses owners and industries generally do well in their various enterprises? The secret is in business administration.

Business Administration, which is one of the social science courses like accounting, marketing, banking and finance, etc, could also be grouped under the management sciences. It is viewed as the life-wire of any organization as it deals with the interrelationship between human beings, accounting for the managerial oversight of business which to a very large extent determines success or failure in business enterprise.
The course aims at harmonizing managerial functions of planning, controlling, coordinating, directing and organizing of people and materials to meet organizational objectives.

Business administrators are trained and qualified in business administration. They often work as personnel managers and are in urgent and increasing demand in every organization. This is because as people are employed, they must be efficiently managed for good results. The personnel management office is also responsible for the payment of workers’ salaries, handles as well as process staff promotion, motivation, training, development and discipline.

Education and Training

Business Administration could be studied both in the polytechnics and in the universities. Those trained in the polytechnics earn National Diploma (ND) or Higher National Diploma (HND), while those trained in the university are awarded a Bachelors Degree.

The university education takes a minimum of four academic years while ND and HND run for two years each, one after the other with a period of one year industrial training in between.

To gain admission, credit passes in Mathematics, English Language, Economics, Accounting, and any of Government or Commerce is required. The usual entrance examination is the UTME, where a high aggregate point is highly desirable with a very good performance in the Post-UTME screening. Having two ‘A’ Level passes chosen from Economics, Accounting, Government, Business Management, Geography or Statistics may qualify you for direct entry admission. Some polytechnics run Pre-ND programme which does not require UTME.

Prospects in Business Administration

Business Administrators are vast and very knowledgeable based on their training and exposure. They, therefore have very good job prospects. Anywhere business is run for profit and good result is a potential place for business administrator to work. These include: industries, companies, private business, banks, etc. They are employed in government services especially in the personnel management department. They also may choose to set up their own business which they usually manage well.

Personal Skills Required

Qualities required of Business Administrators include: forthrightness, problem solving skills, speed, people skills, proactiveness, good time management, ability to think and prepare in advance. Finally, Business Administration is very dynamic as such; versatility is highly required for one to be able to cope with the demand of the ever changing course in our ever changing world. You are welcome as you begin to think of how to book your space in the world of business administration. The top is meant for you and you should demand for nothing less.

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Profitable Time Management: 7 things that could make you a time-waster

Profitable Time Management: 7 Things that could make you a 'time-waster'

Most failures in life and career are time-wasters. Time, a simple four letter word, is as important as life, another four letter word. Waste your time then and you would have succeeded in wasting your life. Time is freely and equally given to all but utilized in different ways; some profitably, others contrariwise. The big question is: how do you spend your time?

There are many people out there having great ideas and visions, they are gifted and talented, they fail only in the area of time management. For, “He who wastes an hour a day has not discovered the value of life".

Take a careful look at the under listed, one or more of them may well qualify you as a time waster. The list is however not exhaustive.

                                                                                                                                                                                                 

        1.  Living from day to day without planning. 

This is synonymous to leaving ones' life to chance. It is too expensive to be experimented not to talk of it becoming a life style. Planning is the first antidote against time-wasting. 

        2.  Oversleeping.

If you sleep for ten hours a day, by the time you are age 24, you would have slept ten years of your life away. Oversleeping indeed can rub one of precious time and opportunities. 

  3.  Putting off till another time, another day, what should have been done now. This is a vivid description of procrastination, which has long been identified as the number one self-made enemy to success. Procrastination is as rightly described, 'thief of time'. There will never be a perfect time to do anything in this life. The best time and the time we can always be sure of  is 'NOW'. 

   4.   Not having priorities. 

Doing what comes our ways with no regard to our priorities in life may be an unmistakable sign of confusion, lack or loss of focus and lack or loss of a sense of purpose. There are so many tasks begging for our attention and it will be practically impossible to attend to all of them. The principle of profitable time management will teach us to attend to the most important task first.  There are tasks that are important but unnecessary. There are those that are necessary but not compulsory. Wisdom demands that we tackle first those that are compulsory, necessary and most important.

  5. Habitual idleness. 

When you are habitually idle, you not only waste time but squander priceless opportunities. It is one of the commonest saying that 'an idle mind is Satan's workshop'.  

  6. Engaging in unnecessary phone discussions, frivolous visitation or aimless internet browsing. 

When  you involve yourself in any of these, you may unknowingly be enlisting in the 'association of time wasters'. The  time conscious person will clearly define the goal for all time spent particularly surfing the internet, visiting people and in phone discussions. 

    7.   Addiction to television. 

As I write about this, the story of a great achiever, Ben Carson, readily came to my mind. I recall in his book, 'Gifted Hands', Carson, did narrate how his mum limited the number of television programs he could watch in a week to only two; and he was to invest the  time so gained on his studies. Amazingly, that single step lead to significant improvement in his academic success. Today, he is a celebrated neurosurgeon. This is enough to teach us what havoc addiction to television can do.  

No doubt, there are profitable programs on the television and I am not suggesting doing away with them. However, I dare say, very many programs on the TV are not meant for our consumption. How many hours do you daily spend before the television box/screen? It may be one thing frustrating your effort on profitable time management.

Continue reading .....  5 Indispensable Steps to Profitable Time Management

    Living on Purpose

• BECOMING THE PURPOSE DRIVEN ACHIEVER
• PURPOSE DRIVEN LIVING
• 3Ds OF PURPOSE DRIVEN LIVING
• IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
• 7Ps OF PURPOSE DRIVEN LIVING

IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP

Importance of Personal Relationship 

"The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships."
Anthony Robbins

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
Anais Nin

To become the achiever you dream about, it is important to examine who your closest associates are . We need around us people who can inspire us to achieve our dreams. This idea is perfectly captured by Sonya Carson. “You become like the people you spend your time with.
You have to be careful in selecting friends. Sometimes people think they can hang out with a certain crowd and are sure they won’t become like them. They think they are immune from the influence. But, they’re only fooling themselves. After a while they begin to act like them and absorb aspects of their personality without even noticing it."

The other perspective of personal relationship is that of respecting people for who they are. The importance of treating people well particularly people you are meeting for the first time can not be over-emphasized. Believe it or not, the most important asset in realizing your dreams  and becoming the achiever that you dream of, is human beings. That is why you need to relate well and respect people whether you think they deserve it or not. You will be the better for it.

On your journey to greatness, you will surely meet different kinds of people, some will particularly prove difficult. Learn to get on easily with them without compromising your principles.

“We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.” 
― Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."
Joseph F. Newton Men

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Relationships 101 by John Maxwell 

TRAINING TO BECOME A PHARMACIST

Education and Training of Pharmacists

Pharmacists must earn a minimum of a bachelor of pharmacy (B. Pharm.) degree from accredited schools or faculties of pharmacy. The bachelor’s degree is however fast becoming replaced with a new degree known as the Pharm. D degree (doctor of pharmacy) which already is the minimum acceptable in many parts of the world,
for instance in the United States. In Nigeria, only the University of Benin offers the Pharm. D programme at the moment, while many are expected to join the list soonest.

For admission, applicants must possess five credits in English Language, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, and Biology in WAEC/NECO at not more than two sittings. The entrance examination is UTME. Applicants must obtain reasonably high points with a very good Post UTME scores. Direct Entry admission is possible for those who possess three ‘A’ Level passes in chemistry, biology, and physics or a good first degree in related fields.

Bachelor of pharmacy programme lasts for a minimum of five years for UTME entrants, and four years for direct entry students. Pharm. D programme however runs for a minimum of six years with particular emphasis on patients care, clinical rounds and pharmaceutical care. During your training to become a pharmacist, you will take courses in the basic sciences (biology, mathematics, chemistry, physics); basic medical sciences (biochemistry, anatomy, physiology); and the various pharmacy departments of pharmacognosy, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical technology, clinical pharmacy, and pharmacology.

The training is rigorous and demands high dose of seriousness, hard work and focus. Generally, you need to score 50% and above before you are deemed to have passed a course; while there are courses where the pass mark is 60%.

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