Effective Living

By FREDERICK AKINDEMOWO

Attitudes form a lifestyle. According to "wiktionary", lifestyle is a style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person. In this regard, what is habitual with a person is a lifestyle, a religious orientation is a lifestyle, a person's way of dressing is a lifestyle, a person's approach to treating other people is a lifestyle, a person's approach to handling responsibilities is a lifestyle, a person who has a habit of getting drunk has a drunken lifestyle and the list goes on.
Your values, which are informed by the quality of your knowledge and thus your mentality, as well as your feelings, which either motivate or demotivate you to action or reaction, precipitate your attitudes and sustained attitudes form your habits or lifestyle. A person’s lifestyle determines how effective he or she can be in living a successful life.
This book is essentially about how to cultivate an effective disposition to life, and make steady progress through taking positive approach to some basic factors by which the quality of a lifestyle is measured or assessed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: FREDERICK AKINDEMOWO
• Release date: Mar 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005795443

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EFFECTIVE

LIVING

Frederick I. Akindemowo

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations in this book are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Published by:

Frederick I. Akindemowo (DDiv)

Rabbi Bible Schools

Plot 564, South Korea Street, Queens Estate, Karsana, Abuja

Phone: [phone]

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Copyright © 2022 Frederick I. Akindemowo

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced except for the purposes of private study and research, without written permission from the publisher.

"These things write I unto thee…that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself…."

(1 Timothy 3: 14 - 15)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I am greatly indebted to all my fathers in the Christian faith, my mentors, my colleagues in the ministry, my partners, my friends, my dear wife Bolatito and all my children for counsels, encouragement, support, love and inspiration. I love you all.

CONTENTS

Lifestyle Foundation

Let Your Appearance Speak

What You Say

Stand Up for Your Mission

Be Good

Be a Positive Influence

Dwell in the House of God

Instructional Guide

PREFACE

Your attitudes form your lifestyle. According to wiktionary, lifestyle is a style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person. In this regard, what is habitual with a person is a lifestyle, a religious orientation is a lifestyle, a person's way of dressing is a lifestyle, a person's approach to treating other people is a lifestyle, a person's approach to handling responsibilities is a lifestyle, a person who has a habit of getting drunk has a drunken lifestyle and the list goes on.

Your values, which are informed by the quality of your knowledge and thus your mentality, as well as your feelings, which either motivate or demotivate you to action or reaction, precipitate your attitudes and sustained attitudes form your habits or lifestyle. A person’s lifestyle determines how effective he or she can be in living a successful life. Your lifestyle is about how you live every aspect of your life. Aspects of your life include your feeding patterns, work patterns, relationship patterns, etc. The main things to consider in the assessment of a person’s lifestyle are:

Beliefs

Disposition to appearance

Communication style

Disposition to work

Disposition to social work, services and handling of human affairs

Reputation

Social interactions and community life

This book is essentially about how to cultivate an effective disposition to life, and make steady progress through taking positive approach to basic factors of lifestyle development as presented here.

Frederick Ifeoluwa Akindemowo

February 2022

CHAPTER ONE

Lifestyle Foundation

Introduction

The lifestyle of a person is a product of his or her attitudes and Values. Values come about as a result of the interplay of a person's mentality and his or her feelings. In order to develop the correct mentality, it is important to seek knowledge, and when he acquires it, he must be ready to apply it correctly whenever he has to deal with the issues of his or her life. Seeking ethical knowledge is seeking a moral or an integrity foundation for your mentality. If you are a Christian, the ethical knowledge that you need is the knowledge of God beginning with the knowledge of Jesus Christ and the counsel you need comes by the Holy Spirit. Feelings or emotions may be triggered by environmental, psychological or physiological influences. The new birth and the work of the Holy Spirit help you to attain emotional balance towards effective lifestyles. In this chapter we shall be concerned about the process of developing the correct mentality and emotional stability leading to positive attitudes, and expressed as acceptable behaviours or conducts, which when sustained lead to effective lifestyles.

Knowledge

In order to develop a correct mentality aspects of life that an individual may be involved, he or she needs knowledge. These include, his or her appearance, how he or she communicates with other people, how he or she goes about his or her work, his or her family life etc. Whatever aspect of life a person wishes to cultivate a lifestyle on, he or she needs knowledge about the right things to do. For instance, if you have a responsibility to receive people on behalf of your organization, how can you pay your role well such that through you, all the people you have to receive may develop greater confidence in the capacity of the organization to meet their expectations? What are the basic things you should know in order to