Everyone has the innate ability to unlock his or her own potential to achieve personal, dynamic success in life and to have a better standard of living and a happy progressive life.
The most important innate abilities are to:
• Be creative and to come up with new ideas
• Decorate your dreams
• Appreciate and re-invent yourself
• Face your challenges with confidence
• Believe that you are the only one who can do it better with a return on investment
• Believe that you are more than a conqueror in life
Shy away from doubt and laziness and believe and have faith in your creativity.
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According to the World Dictionary, creativity means to:
• Invent
• Act of coming up with new ideas and making products that are affordable
• Develop strategies to serve yourself and the community
• Determination to be a thinker of new ideas
• Use creativity to revive your dreams
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Self-reconstruction and development programme
This time of year, people get engaged in making resolutions for the coming year.
The question is ‘how many people stick to their resolutions and achieve success?’.
There are short-term, medium- and long-term resolutions.
All students need to make their resolutions for the new year.
The following are important tips in making resolutions:
• Firm strategic thinking about what you desire
• Determination and consistency to work on your desire for achievement of goals for the year
• Action plan and organising your schedule
• Prepared to sacrifice pleasures and entertainment
• Further reading of books that are in line with your dreams
• Eagerness to revisit your resolutions daily
Student holiday self-development programme
Holidays are an important opportunity to:
• Read novels
• Improve vocabulary skills by reading newspapers
• Read magazines and paraphrase short stories, expressing opinions using your own words
Doing the above will help a student to develop language proficiency skills that will enable one to read and listen with effective understanding in all subjects.