Flipping Grand Bahama

Graduation season once again and just this morning I read an article from a young Bahamian woman who said that the professions that a young Bahamian can return home and find employment in are: law, medicine and accounting. I smiled to myself because she is right in a way. For many years I have been very concerned about the youth especially at this time when the world can begin to feel so vast and a future so very unclear. However everyone and so did I at first, have the notion that finding a job is the only way to go. In the industrial age that was most important and set you off on a career path that was easily tracked, but we are no longer in that age. We have reached the age of technology and in another few years it will be even more defined in robotics. We need to stop thinking of today only and prepare ourselves for the tomorrows: they are only a day away. Was it less than 20 years ago most of us were introduced to mobile phones and lap tops. How have those things chang...

Back in action with the new programme to help, I was reading "Before 5am" a page I subscribe to on Instagram and it had a message that said, "Inspiration+Motivation=Action. Just was was needed as I began this journey to help others... as Zig Zigler says, you can get what you want if you help enough people get what they want. What did the article say? It stated that we all have moments of inspiration and for may of us it can even occur numerous times throughout the day. But, it said, most people never act on their moments of inspiration; that those great ideas and solutions and products just go to the grave with them or these persons later see someone else acting on those ideas. The article said we do not act on our inspiration because we have no reason to act, that there was no desperation to move. However it said, when you put Inspiration with Motivation then we are moved to action and we hear stories of rags to riches or people...

The posts on this blog over the past two weeks have seen a lot of page views, despite a lack of response. This blog began was a way to reach out to find like minded persons and to influence the minds of residents to bring back the old days. After much writing I realized that going back is not the solution but a way to move forward steadily progressing to where we should be .... comfortably. I have found a lot of readers and still there are a number of negative persons who feel that nothing can or will change. I am not deterred. There is hope not matter how dismal a situation may appear and I appeal to that small glimmer of hope each and every time. In Grand Bahama I have found persons who feel that we can and should change but question how. That to me is a start. I moved away from Grand Bahama for a number of years but on my return the devastation I saw was depressing. Speaking with others who had left and returned they expressed the same sentiments. Speaking with persons w...