MY ROLE MODEL 2

Before i choose a role model I look deeply and closely into the life pattern of that person yes i have lots of people i respect all over the world but I am very careful choosing any of them as Role Model. The best role model I ever had is Jesus although its not kinda easy living his lifestyle but day after day i pray to God to help me. Therefore our youths should be very careful in selecting role models or mentors, particularly if they do not have direct acquaintance or knowledge of the mentors.

Everyone should adopt a mixture of admiration and critical attitude towards a role model. In addition, whenever possible it is best for a protégé to interact personally with, or do a thorough background check on, the mentor. That way one would likely avoid the embarrassment and disappointment occasioned by the realisation that one had been admiring the wrong person all along. Human beings are incurably fallible, which means that it is a grave mistake everywhere and every time for anyone to admire another human being to the point of becoming blind to that person’s weaknesses.. Clearly, the number of genuine and spiritually enlightened role models is declining very fast, and there is increasing proneness to hero-worship in most people.

Just imagine how Prof. Achebe rejected the national award twice. Every society needs men and women of exemplary character to serve as mentors and role models for members of the community, especially the youths. This is because the human the brain is a model-creating and model-seeking biological machine. To act rationally and sanely we need, in addition to good models of the world around us but, very importantly, adequate exemplars of good conduct to model our behaviour as social beings. That said, it is essential to have a good idea of the qualities we should cultivate through emulation.

Kimora Lee is someone I love washing her program because of her love for fashion and the quality of leadership she exercised when her former husband made her the President of his fashion PHATFAM, she turned it into a home of reality because it was already in her.

Kimora Lee Perkins was born on May 4, 1975 in St. Louis, Missouri,USA to an African-American father and a Korean-born Japanese mother. Her father, Vernon Whitlock, Jr., was the first black deputy Federal Marshal in St. Louis, while her mother, Kyoko Perkins, worked as a Social Security administrator. Due to her height and mixed ancestry, some of her schoolmates teased her and even cruelly nicknamed her "Chinky giraffe." Her mother, however, saw a potential in her daughter and enrolled her in a modeling class at age 11. Simmons was discovered two years later by a fashion agent who sent her to Paris. When she was 14, a fresh-faced Simmons received an exclusive modeling contract with fashion house Chanel. As one of Karl Lagerfeld's four muses - nicknamed "the Karlettes" by Women's Wear Daily - Simmons was handpicked by the designer himself to close his 1989 couture show. Among the models Simmons met during that time was Tyra Banks, who also happened to be her roommate in Paris. Banks later served as the maid of honor at Simmons' wedding to Def Jam Records founder and fashion mogul Russell Simmons.

The couple first met in the early 1990s when Russell spotted then-17-year-old Kimora walking the runway during New York Fashion Week. They married on the Caribbean island of St. Bart's in 1998, with his brother and hip-hop legend Reverend Run (of Run-DMC) officiating the ceremony. The following year, Russell created the Baby Phat line, an offshoot of his successful Phat Farm line geared towards a multiethnic female audience. His confident new wife took creative control of Baby Phat and turned it into its own multimillion dollar fashion and lifestyle brand that included denim, handbags, accessories, and later children's apparel. Baby Phat catered to an urban audience with its mixture of high fashion with casual street wear. While running her business alongside her husband, Simmons also raised their two daughters Ming Lee (born 2000) and Aoki Lee (born 2002).The family owned a mansion in East Hampton, NY and lived on an expansive property in Saddle River, NJ that housed artwork by Warhol and Basquiat, and Simmons' personal collection of Louis Vuitton luggage. Simmons made no apologies for her flashy and expensive way of life, and often credited hard work and dedication for living like royalty. Yet even success could not prevent the demise of Simmons' marriage. She and Russell separated in 2004, but remained close friends for the sake of their daughters.

 That same year, Russell sold Phat Farm to Kellwood Company and stepped down as CEO. Kellwood named Simmons President and Creative Director of Phat Fashions, which meant overseeing the entire fashion and lifestyle empire. To document her life as mogul and a mother, Simmons signed on to star on her own Style reality series "Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane." Cameras followed her as she tried to balance running a company with taking care of her two daughters. The series also showed a softer side to the "Glamazon" businesswoman, especially when she was around her daughters Ming and Aoki. On the show, Simmons coined the term "Fabulosity" for her luxurious and carefree lifestyle, but also used it to describe how her brand made women look and feel their best. In addition to her business ventures, Simmons also dabbled in acting, landing small parts in the comedies "For Love or Money" (1993) and "Beauty Shop" (2005), and published a self-help book titled Fabulosity: What it is and How to Get it (2006)

No doubt that I like her so much but this part of her is what i didnt like............

''While her divorce with Russell was not finalized until January 2009, Simmons began dating Academy Award-nominated actor Djimon Honsou two years prior. The couple had a son together, Kenzo Lee Honsou (born 2009). In 2010, Simmons parted ways with Kellwood and gave up control of her passion project Baby Phat, but was named Creative Director and President of personal shopping website JustFab.com the following year.

Oprah Winfrey Quotes about life, success............

Quotes about Life

"All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment."

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear."

"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

"What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine."

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around."

"If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit."

"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control."

"You are responsible for your life, and doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

"If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good."

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment."

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

"The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free."

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility."

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

"You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once."

Quotes about Success

"I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."

"What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives."

"Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have."

"For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out."

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it."

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher

"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."

Personal Life Quotes

"I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life."

"I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes."

"I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me."

"I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly."

"When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes."

"I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull."

"What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come."

"The reason I get what most don't is because I am willing to do what most won't!"

"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good."

"If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are."

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

"It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth."

"There is a vision for my life that is greater then my imagination can hold."

MY ROLE MODEL 1

This month of June I want to dedicate it to my role models and mentors. I would be talking extensively about that life and success. 

The first person is Oprah Winfrey................“Oprah is a person who has become successful and spread it around to those who needs it the most. That is why she is my hero, mentor and role model”.  She is such a fashionable woman, who looks her best at every occasion.
 
Oprah Winfrey is a very important philanthropist who created a remarkable school for girls in South Africa. Of course, all celebrities start from somewhere, But Oprah’s childhood was an unfortunate part of her life. Once she started to become famous, she gathered her money and pushed it toward the greater good of the world. Oprah wanted to create a charity of her own but in the form of a school.
 
Her school in South Africa is the new part of her life. She dreams that these girls (it is all girls’ school) will become Africa’s future leaders. Oprah’s childhood helped her to be strong and become an amazing and successful person. It also told her that she does not want others to suffer from terrible things like she did.
 
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29th 1954, to a pair of unmarried teenagers in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She was born into a Baptist family and her mother, Vernita Lee, originally wanted her name to be Orpah, a name from the Bible, but she accidentally misspelled her name and spelled it Oprah, but her Dad, Vernon Winfrey, liked it so she was named Oprah Gail Winfrey.
 
Oprah’s parents were having a tough time figuring out what was going to happen to them and their new baby Oprah. So, Oprah lived with her grandmother until she was six when her grandmother died. After the tragic death of her grandmother, Oprah moved in with her mother and three half brothers. They lived in an inner city ghetto in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

After living with her mother for a few years, Oprah was being abused by close relatives that her family trusted. This abuse started at the young age of nine. Being mixed into these unfortunate events, Oprah was also becoming a tough to deal with teenager. She ran away from home numerous times. She was the type of who teen that would break her glasses in order for her mother to buy her some newer, more stylish pair of glasses. And to top it all of, she got pregnant at the young age of fourteen. Sadly, the baby died after birth.
 
Her mother could not take it anymore so she sent her daughter to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father was a lot stricter than her mother. In fact, he made her learn five vocabulary words each day or else she would not receive any dinner. This was an important part of young Winfrey’s life because from this point on she was very successful.
 
When Oprah went to a new high school in Nashville, she became an excellent student. She was an honors student and she was voted most popular girl. She was also academically successful too. She joined the school’s speech team and placed second at a national competition. Her skills of being an incredible speaker won her first place at an Oratory contest and earned a scholarship to Tennessee State University.
 
From this point on, Oprah started to become the celebrity that we know today. Starting with her freshman year at Tennessee State University, she won herself the titles of Miss Black Nashville and Miss Black Tennessee. With all her publicity and her background on being a good speaker, Oprah got a job as the first African American female co-anchor at the age of nineteen.
 
After graduating from Tennessee State University in 1976 with a degree in communications, she took the next step in her life by becoming apart of the news anchor business. Her first place as a new news anchor was in Baltimore as the co anchor of the six o’clock news. Then she was recruited to the local talk show People Are Talking, and she hosted the local version of Dialing for Dollars there, too.
 
After doing some local business in Baltimore, Oprah Winfrey became the head anchor of AM Chicago. She went from bad reviews to the highest rated talk show in Chicago! Then, in 1985, due to the popularity of the show, it was renamed the Oprah Winfrey Show. By the next year, the show was broadcast nationally. It soon became the number one talk show in America. Now she has fully transformed into the Oprah Winfrey that we know today.
 
Due to her success, Oprah has her own book club, magazine (“O” Magazine), and (as I said before) talk show! But, she still felt like something was missing. So, she went to the Nelson Mandela Foundation and started one of the three Christmas Kindness’. She felt that the children that she helped were just like her when she was at age nine. Young, helpless, and, nowhere to turn, so, she helped out with other foundations such as, Moorehouse College, The Harold Washington Library, The United Negro College Fund, Tennessee State University Fund, Nelson Mandela Foundation, and, Christmas Kindness’. This was the beginning of Oprah’s philanthropy.
 
Oprah felt that she did not feel apart of the organizations that she wrote checks to. So she made a school in South Africa called Oprah’s Leadership Academy. She began to choose girls for her school - mostly orphans and girls that she met from previous Christmas Kindness’. She wants the girls that attend her school to grow up to be Africa’s future leaders. She also wants them to be successful just like she is. 


For more information about her life, you can click on his link..............http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey

PLANNING

It is the process of setting goals, developing strategies, and outlining tasks and schedules to accomplish the goals. Planning can also be seen as a profession,with the primary purpose of improving the communities in which we live. Planners look not only at existing conditions and problems, but also develop a vision, with goals and strategies, of what a community could be in the future. Planning deals not only with physical development, but also social and economic improvement of our society. It looks at the issues of urban cities and rural communities, housing, environmental protection, historic character, economic development, improvements to our transportation system and social policies. Good planning gives direction to civic leaders, businesses and citizens to make meaningful decisions for the long term and how best their communities can grow into that future, while allowing for essential services to be provided in the near term.

A plan is like a map. When following a plan, you can always see how much you have progressed towards your project goal and how far you are from your destination. Knowing where you are is essential for making good decisions on where to go or what to do next.  Another reason why you need planning is again the 80/20 Rule. It is well established that for unstructured activities 80 percent of the effort give less than 20 percent of the valuable outcome. You either spend much time on deciding what to do next, or you are taking many unnecessary, unfocused, and inefficient steps. Planning is also crucial for meeting your needs during each action step with your time, money, or other resources. With careful planning you often can see if at some point you are likely to face a problem. It is much easier to adjust your plan to avoid or smooth-en a coming crisis, rather than to deal with the crisis when it comes unexpected.

Planning is done not only by trained professionals working in the public sector for planning departments or in the private sector for developers; planning is also done by lay persons who volunteer on local committees or commissions, including a planning commission, zoning board of appeals or historic district commission.





LEARN TO ALWAYS.......................................IF YOU FAIL TO PLAN THEN YOU HAVE PLANNED TO FAIL......
PLAN AHEAD FOR YOUR EXAMS, ANNIVERSARY, PROJECT, WEDDING, CHILDREN'S EDUCATION, etc.