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| You need just one talent to become world-class - Rev Albert Ocran |
After following the regional sessions of the Springboard Road Show, patrons of the annual event took time off their schedules to sit under the feet of the likes of Pastor Mensa Otabil of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Mr Yoni Kulendi, a legal practitioner, Mr Franklin Cudjoe, the Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Mr Eric Nsarkoh, Sales and Distribution Executive of MTN, and Iddrisu Nashiru of Star Assurance, whose life stories inspire.
The event, which was the National Convocation of Springboard Roadshow, was aimed at exposing participants to their potential and guiding them to exploit it for their personal and societal advantage.
To help reach out to more people on the day, the programme was divided into two sessions; one for junior high students and another for tertiary students and young entrepreneurs.
It was under the theme: ‘Dare to Dream.'
Speakers of the event, which marks the 10th anniversary of the Springboard Roadshow, took turns to encourage the youth to take bold steps needed to change their lives.
One talent
Rev. Albert Ocran of Legacy and Legacy, organisers of the roadshow, urged the participants to dream big and work towards achieving such dreams.
Speaking on the topic ‘Nurturing a World-class Talent,’ the motivational speaker challenged the youth in the country to carefully nurture their talents in order to be successful in the future.
He said contrary to perceptions out there, every human was born with a talent and further advised the youth to discover their potential by first noting what they enjoyed doing.
Doing that he said was necessary to discover "the one talent everybody is gifted with."
"You may be blessed with many talents; multi-talented but out of the many, you need just one talent to succeed. If you identify that talent and you work on it, you will just be fine," he said.
Barriers to talent
Despite the abundance of talents in every human being is endowed with, Rev. Ocran said many people had not been able to develop their talents because of negative mindsets.
He mentioned comments such as "I am not good at anything; how do I find my talent; I am confused; there are giants ahead of me; I should have started earlier; nobody believes in my talent; and there is no money in it," as some of the mental barriers that discouraged people from realising their God given talent.
But once an individual is able to rise above those comments, he said that person will be on his or her way to turning his/her God-given talent into a tangible venture, which would take that person to places.
He urged the youth to be passionate about the development of their talent, develop ideas and feed on their intuition in order to execute their God-given talent successfully.
Be innovative
Mr Eric Nsarkoh, for his part, encouraged young people in the country to be innovative by developing new ideas to meet the needs of their communities and country as a whole.
He observed that it was innovation that sustains nations, hence the need for people to continue to innovate.
“We must dare to dream because dreams serve as the catalyst that spur us to greater achievement,” the MTN's Sales and Distribution Executive said.
- Source: graphic.com.gh
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