The Best of You

By Gladys Alesike Adevey

Gladys has over ten years experience in marketing, sales, and customer service, which has enabled her to achieve the highest sales in Hewlett Packard (hp) 1st Launch Photo Smart Kiosk in London. She received her diploma in psychology with distinction; she has a BSc in accounting, MSc in business management, and a Prince2 Project Management Practitioner Certificate.

She is a member of the Association of Project Management and the Chartered Management Institute.

She is a project manager and currently working with the Institute of Consulting on how the Olympic Legacy might be used to stimulate economic growth and social well-being in the UK.

Gladyss experience in the Market Place, Profit Organisation and Non-Profit Organisation makes her uniquely gifted to teach people that becoming the best they can be is far more possible than they think.

The Best of You teaches you to understand a more meaningful way of living a purposeful life. It helps you attain the power to recognize that you do not always need to have resources before you become the best of you.

The Best of You motivates you to start making commitments and teaches and encourages you that wherever you are in the journey of your life, you have a choice of making it beautiful and the ability to have a more constructive mental power.

Do you just spend years hurt, wondering in silence what life has for you?

Are you scared of a fresh start or know what you want but do not know how to get it?

Do you just live and grow and accept what life throws at you?

NOTE

Your choices today determine your tomorrow and you make your life through the power of choice.
(Kathy Smith)

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as consequence of what we have become.
(Dr David Hawkins)

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: May 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468504217

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Excellence

We All Have Issues

Quality in Lieu of Quantity

Realism and Reasonability

My Desires Are Unattainable

What Is My Blue Plaque?

Change

Growth

How Fast Is the Pace?

Failure

My Trying Times Are

My Best Moments

The Act of Creativity

What Part Do You Play in My Life?

The Act of Giving?

The Business Case of

My Goal

Think Alike, the Way Forward

The Art of Learning

Me and My Circular World

Be in the Know!

A Step up or a Step down

How Much Are You Worth?

In Future, I Will Buy a…

Are You in the Know?

I Am out of the Game

I Am One in a Million

The Spirit of Problem-Solving.

Who Am I? An Eagle or

a Chicken?

Do You Use the

MoSCoW Technique?

Tell Your Dream to Someone You Fear and Respect.

I Want It! I Want It Now!

Human Nature Is That

of a Chicken

My Listening Habit

How Rich Is Your Vocabulary?

The Power of Visualising

How Healthy Are You?

Sources

The Best of You is dedicated to the ALMIGHTY GOD.

Thank You, JESUS!

To You be the glory!

Acknowledgements

The Best of You is dedicated to my dearest dad, Mr Rapheal K. Adevey, for his great works and to my mum Victoria for being a mentor in my life.

To Reverend Michael Connell—Joe for believing in me, and to Reverend Steve Armah (Sureway International Church) for the great advice and for looking after my interest.

To Comfort, Godsway, Derrick, Esinam, Esime, Elorm, and Delali for their great love.

Introduction

Over the years, I have seen how people work hard to achieve their best or to be the best they can be. I have also seen how parents give their children the best to bring out the best in them and to become the best they can be.

I remember how my mum and dad worked so hard to make sure that their children had the best in life. It is the desire of every parent to want the best for their children. Despite all that, I have realized that there is a fine line between giving the best and becoming the best.

People follow in the footsteps of successful people. They do what they do, talk the way they talk, walk their walk, and hope to become as successful as they are.

Being the best is not about these things; it is about having a formula that works for you as an individual. It is something you have to search for, not the opinion of someone else or the advice given to you. It is a stand that requires a strategy, a deliberate act of bettering yourself.

The Best of You reassures you that the best is possible for you. You can be whatever you want to be. It does not matter where you are right now; there is hope for everyone. You do not have to be somebody else. Always remember that you are created as an individual and are therefore responsible for your life. Whatever bad things have happened to you—write them in the sand—write the good ones on a piece of marble. The Best of You teaches you to understand what you want and what you need to do. Moreover, in doing it, you have to understand that:

• you can get there if you are willing to work;

• and secondly, there is nothing like ten simple steps to riches; it is a process.

Albert Camus, the second youngest recipient of the Noble Prize in literature, said that all great deeds and all great thoughts have ridiculous beginnings.

Let’s Begin!

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Definiteness of purpose

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one want, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

You have the key to your own life

A man is as great as the dreams

he dreams, As great as the love he bears; As

great as the values he redeems, And the

happiness he shares. A man is as great

as the thoughts he thinks, As the worth

he has attained; As the fountains at

which his spirit drinks And the insight

he has gained. A man is as great as the

truth he speaks, As great as the help he

gives, As great as the destiny he seeks,

As great as the life he lives.

C.E. Flynn

D1E

Excellence

‘Confuse activity with accomplishment.’

I am excited with this word because I personally find it challenging just to hear it. It is a state of excelling or being exceptionally good in whatever we find ourselves doing at any particular time, be it cleaning, gardening, childcare, or whatever. Our creator is an example of excellence. He created the world and made it good and perfect. You can see persistency and excellence in his work. He promised us that we are created in his own image; therefore we are just like Him, and therefore we should exhibit excellence in our work. He created us specifically for a particular purpose and has given us all the right tools to accomplish all the desires he has for us as individuals. Therefore, my question to you is, Why settle for mediocrity, a substandard life, a life below par, a life of which you cannot boast or be proud—simply put, merely a coping kind of life?

His creation has instilled in us great qualities, but realizing them depends on you as an individual and is not a collective decision.

A lot of us think people who make it in life owe it to some bonanza or an inheritance or whatever you may term it. I am not excluding myself from this sort of