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The Power of Vision for the Next Generation
By Pauline Gathuri Mbugua
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Pauline Gathuri Mbugua has great experience of more than 25 years in the corporate world; the insurance industry in Kenya. She has held senior positions gaining great insights around the importance of the strategic planning process and vision which is the lifeblood of every corporate organisation. Unfortunately, the power of vision is foreign in most peoples lives. Having experienced first-hand the transforming power of vision in her life, Pauline is now dedicated to empowering others. She runs a mentorship program named ‘The Power of Vision for the Next Generation’ dedicated to empowering and inspiring young people to have a Vision for their lives and live a life of purpose.
Pauline has a special passion for teaching children the Bible and has been teaching and empowering children on a voluntary basis for the last 15 years in church school ministry of her church St. Andrew’s Church in Nairobi. She has also taught children the word of God in the school program of one international Bible organisation for the last 15 years.
Her vision for the next five years is to empower and Inspire one million teenagers and young people to have a vision for their lives and live a life of purpose.
She is a Chartered Insurer with the Insurance Institute of London & Chartered Insurer of the Insurance Institute of Kenya. At her position she has been involved in Corporate Strategic Planning and the execution of corporate Vision. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Kenyatta University and is at the tail-end of her MBA from the same university. She is also pursuing a Diploma in Counselling Psychology from the Institute of Psychology.
Pauline is married to Gerald Mbugua and is the happy mother of twins Angela and Gabriel.
Contact AuthorNEUROSCIENCE TELLS US that everything happens in the mind first before it materialises in physical reality, so I have made it my life’s work to help myself and others create, articulate, and animate their goals. Young people need to enjoy the boundless possibilities of youth, dreaming big, being excited and motivated about what is out there, regardless of the difficulties that we find ourselves in. Vision and support will create excitement in their lives. It will energize them, guide their friendships, attract the resources they need, and it is the best antidote for overcoming the multitude of temptations that face many youths. They are our future; they will be making the decisions that influence the world. It all starts with belief and vision.
What is vision? It is the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom. So, vision involves thinking, imagination and planning. Vision is a mental image of what the future will or could be like. Proverbs 29:18 says: “where there is no vision the people perish. People cast off restraint where there is no vision” ... Vision draws boundaries in our lives. If you don’t have a vision your life will flow in all directions; your energies, resources, and time will flow in all directions and you will be destroyed. Someone once said that a person without a vision is a person without a future. This reminded me of an illustration of this notion.
A story is told of three masons who were laying bricks. The first one was asked: “What are you doing?” And he says, “I am laying bricks.” The second bricklayer is asked the same and answers: “I am building a wall.” The third man, to the same question responds: “I am building a beautiful cathedral for the glory of God. People will gather here to worship, weddings will be done in this cathedral, people will socialize here. It will be a beautiful place that will change this society.”
In essence, out of those three men, the first one who didn't have a vision was just laying bricks. For him giving up was very easy because he couldn't see ahead; he was just engaging in an activity. The second one was building a wall, but really, he couldn't see where the wall would end or what it could become. This also made it very easy for him to give up. But the third one who had a vision of the cathedral that he was erecting and what it would bring to his society, had a vision and would not give up until that cathedral was completed.
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The power of vision for the next generation was written with every teacher and parent in mind. Nurturing teenagers during this challenging phase of their lives can be a thought-provoking task. The sad fact of life is that many consequences of errors committed during teen years last a lifetime. That is why with the help of the life principles in this book, your teenagers will have a more focused vision and be able to withstand the challenges of peer pressure and societal stereotypes.
Life is a gift. We enter this life with an allowance from God: genes, gifts, talents, and an innate drive to connect, learn, keep growing, and find meaning. Some get it right at during their earlier years just like you, and some spend the greater part of a lifetime wandering aimlessly from one activity to the next. In the power of vision for the next generation you will be given direction, lessons from someone who has been where you’re to learn from so that you don’t make the same mistakes but rather choose an informed path for your life.
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