Dr Kingsley Agyemang, Founder of the Time with Kingsley Series
Founder of Time with Kingsley Series, Dr Kingsley Agyemang, has challenged the youth to take risks and avoid the fear of losing in life.
Dr Agyeman said this during the opening of a month-long series of Time with Kingsley on Saturday.
The programme is intended to provide quality mentoring for students in the Abuakwa South Constituency of the Eastern Region, leading to improved academic, social and economic prospects.
He said the series is deliberately focused on enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education, hence the decision to have more speakers with such backgrounds.
Speakers at the programme were the Managing Director for State Housing Company, Kwabena Ampofo Appiah; a research scientist with the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Dr Stella Agyeman Duah; a medical doctor, Dr Benedicta Naa Suma Nii Layeafio; and Dr Fred Appiah, CEO of REAMC Engineering Consult Ltd, UK.
Mindset
He asked the students to have a positive mindset saying “everything is about how the mind processes it.”
“Therefore, if you put fear in the mind, you exhibit fear. If you put positivity in the mind, you exhibit positivity. Everything starts and ends with the mindset. What you feed your mind with is very, very important,” he stressed
Dr Agyemang indicated that all the motivational words from the various speakers will be meaningless unless the students put them to good use.
He again asked the students to form good and healthy relationships among themselves.
“Though we do not have control over who gives birth to us or the family we are born into or where we come from, we have control over the direction we want to go,” he said.
He continued, “Don’t take the relationship you build for granted. The person sitting next to you could be the next President Akufo-Addo, J. B Danquah or Kingsley Agyemang. You have to keep working on yourself till you become better.”
He said the students have no excuse but to make it in life, urging them to develop their minds so “that you will be able to provide solutions to people’s problems.”
Skills enhancement
At Apedwa Senior High School, Dr Stella Agyemang Duah said the students should not allow their backgrounds to obstruct their success.
She asked them to get a career plan in their course of study, adding that the career they choose must be driven by passion.
“Don’t say someone wants to do medicine so I want to do same when you know that is not your field. Identify what you want to do,” she stressed.
She again asked the students to develop a general skill by joining other groups in their school such as the reading clubs to help them polish their reading skills.
“You need to be engaged in critical thinking. Have conversations and arguments that involve the brain,” she added.
Dr Agyemang later presented 2500 exercise books and a multi-purpose piano to the school.
The headmaster, Eric Hanson Adjei-Sarpong, commended Dr Agyemang and his team for the good work done to enhance education in the Municipality.
Other schools that will be having their turn with the Kingsley Series include Kibi Senior High/Technical School, Asafo Senior High School, Kibi Technical School and St Stephen’s Senior High School on October 15, October 16, November 5 and November 6, respectively.
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