From Poverty to two academic degrees
Inner- resilience can help anyone to break certain barriers of poverty which can affect succeeding generation.
Despite the fact that Ms. Jody-Ann Pottinger was pregnant twice before the age of 21 growing up in a rural community, facing daily hunger as well as a period of homelessness. She worked assiduously to gain two university degrees which has lead her to her career path of being a teacher and an entrepreneur.
Aspects of Ms. Pottinger’s resilience included:
Facing herself despite family and community backlash
Hard work and determination
Trust in God
Having neutering support where “one hand washes the other” and being part of a supportive church community.
Our circumstances don’t have to define all of us. All of us have inner potential for success.
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The best way to help enable self-empowerment by other persons is to add value to their lives through personal development coaching .This is exactly what Althea Laing, past teacher and one of Jamaica’s previous outstanding models has done.
Being a coach and role model helps to give others the tools to do well in life. Very important aspects include building motivation, confidence as well as skills such as public speaking, posture, poise, social speaking and etiquette.
The truly empowered person will have the grace to talk with kings and the humility to be the brother or sister of the poor.
Althea Laing has devoted much of her life and her personal finances to empowering young women through these means.
The article below shares about her methods and the success of persons who have benefited from her contribution.
May each one of us find someone whom we can coach to make a better way in life.
Dr. Turner Pryce who recovered from Stage 2 invasive breast cancer did not go under in despair. She turned adversity into service to help others in similar situations. The lessons we learn from her experiences include;
Being Solution Oriented
Being prepared to do one’s research for better service even to the point of gaining suitable qualifications if necessary
Sharing the positive results of healthy lifestyle changes with others .
Dr. Turner Pryce made promoting healthy lifestyles into a business. She showed enterprise and innovation in sharing. All of us do not necessarily have to go into businesses but we can still display these qualities in other ways as we help others.
Developing her own lifestyle changes including attending self-help or gymnasium-based classes.
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