A Brief Perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals

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WRITTEN BY: Asanya Boluwatife Ndidi The unanimous agreement of the 193 member states of the United Nations General Assembly to the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development in 2015 produced one of the most ambitious and inclusive global aspirations in history. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. Targeted at committing members states to ensure greater inclusivity, end poverty and push the world to a more sustainable path. The SDGs are broad and interdependent thus begetting the question as to how well these broad global aspirations are likely to result in implementable developments especially in developing countries. The inclusion of so many goals without a hierarchy of priority and without reference to inherent contradictions that are likely to result in conflict between the goals may have unintended negative consequences which may inhibit the timely/e
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THE PROCESS

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The process



There was a boy that was born and his parents throw him away to the ditch, a place where they were hoping that he could die because his parents were poor. So they had to give him up to the ditch. 
 After some days, a woman who was working at a waste management company saw the boy laid in a carton where he could have died. This woman took him and raised him has her son despite the odds she had in her family which basically means that she was poor as the moment she was raising the boy. She raised the boy throughout is kindergarten, teenage years, and till his adult years.
 When this boy was in his teenage years, his teacher calls him "a blockhead" basically because he didn't have a good grade. He was humiliated in school to the point where he started thinking that he didn't amount to anything.
 His adopted mother have always know him for his dream to be the best radio host in the whole of America.
 His mother saw him after school hours at home. She met him crying and sad. Then, she asked him; "what happened In school today". He said; "my teacher called me a blockhead and my friends started laughing" he cried. His adopted mother said "it is just a process you have to go through to achieve your goals but the fact is, you are not a blockhead. You are intelligent than you can ever imagine" she said.
 The next morning, the boy woke up with a smile on his face and he said "I'm more intelligent than I can ever imagine, I'm the best this world has ever have".
 After a session, his exam results came out and he was among the top 5 students in his class. "Waw, what a huge progress," his teacher said.
 The words of his adopted mother guide him through his academics life, that he was on scholarship throughout his college (University) and the words of his adopted mother also guide him throughout his adult life. He's not just the best radio host in America but three times a top ten public speakers in the world.
 From the story we could learn that whatever happens to you is just a process you have to go through to attain your goals. "There are no shortcuts in life"
 Life itself is made out of the process. Have you ever planted a seed and it grows immediately? NO. For a seed to grow it needs watering, sunlight, weeding, and all for it to attain its full potential, so as to achieve the goal we want it to achieve. 
 Are you going through a tough situation in your life, business, family, academics?
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: It is just a process
 "You can't avoid the process"
 "Whatever that is made out of shortcuts will lead to destruction"
 I know that the long path might look discouraging but it is the best way in achieving an everlasting results.
 John C. Maxwell states this in his book "21 irrefutable laws of leadership" in chapter 3. Law of process;"Becoming a leader is a lot like investing successfully in the stock market. If your hope is to make a fortune in a day, you are not going to be a successful leader"
 Process is a series of actions or steps taken in other to achieve a particular end or goal.
Trust the process

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