Winning Attitudes to Adopt on NYSC Camp
2019 Corps Members: Top 10 Winning Attitudes to Adopt on NYSC Camp
Now in a more precise, conversational style here are top 10 best attitudes to use while in camp.
- Sow seeds and learn to share
Share. Share. I repeat for the fourth time—SHARE. Don’t be stingy! Be very willing to share what you have no matter how little of whatever you have left.
- Up your tolerance level.
Don’t be the testy, angry type. You are in a different zone. If you are one who is testy and is angered easily, learn to be thick-skinned. If you are one who cannot stand opposition or contradiction, hack it. If you are one who is overly anxious and finds coolness or introverts objectionable, you got to calm down, chief.
- Show some class
Learn not to act brash or naughty because you probably have the mindset of ” am from the great Osun State University or Great IFE and I’m so intelligent. You are wrong. Be mature. Everyone is hot in their own lane. Stay in yours. Show some class. Everyone is comfortable with a person who has class because they are comfortable with themselves.
- Maintain physical and mental agility
Endeavor not to laze up in camp. Don’t be a couch potato. But in fact, you should be less weighty with a hotter cerebellum than when you just arrive camp. Try and pursue every activity that adds a plus to your physical and cognitive well being.
- Watch your Spending
SAVE. SAVE. SAVE. No matter how little you receive. In camp you will be tempted to burn it all- everything you have in your possession the first few days you arrive. Don’t listen to that voice. The days are going to be hard and long- with mixed episodes. You need resources to keep you breathing and OK. Large money doesn’t fly down all of a sudden. The money, it is SPIRIT. If you don’t understand it or aren’t disciplined with it, you won’t see or feel anything for the whole year that you received allawee. The money will just go like a breeze.
Mr Innocent Once said, your allawee can be magical. Don’t play your life around it. Save what you can. If you got 18k, save 9k, spend 9k. If you got 5k, save 2500, spend 2500. That’s how to accumulate wealth.
- Break out of your shell and be open-minded
You can cultivate open-mindedness where a lot of ideas are presented and collide, and people are having arguments, and people are testing each other’s theories, and over time, you learn from each other, because you are getting out of your own narrow point of view and having a broader point of view.
- Be compliant
Many of us probably find rules and regulations to be annoying especially when they are too many of them. However, rules in the society are essential. Without rules society breaks down. So while in camp, ensure you understand every single rule and regulation guiding the conduct of Corpers in the field. Obey constituted authority.
- Discover yourself to the fullest extent possible
Our potentials are limitless. But not only that, we all possess creative minds- ingenuities to make, to produce, to transform, to design, to form, to recreate. Camp will provide further opportunities to find out our individual sparks, including what makes us come alive.
- Endeavour play and relax
Camp is not a jungle to act too serious and puritanical. Chuck ascetic lifestyle and embrace a more spontaneous, relaxed one. You are encouraged to have fun. But when you do, make it reasonable and cautious.
- Learn to Pray
If you have a great sense of destiny (you’ll know if you are like Joseph), you are at war, a big one! Be sober. Always pray! Prayer works! It truly does. You’ll be putting a lot of heat on your adversaries. With prayer you’ll discover more. But the more you’ll recover.
In conclusion, NYSC camp is filled with plenty of fun and adventures. But it can eat you up if you lack information and the right attitude. The purpose of the NYSC, unlike what a lot of us erroneously understand isn’t just to transmit attitude, skills and grit. The scheme is purposed to widen your horizons; to make you a better citizen; to help you to evaluate information; to help you to be prepared to make your way through the world; to help you be more creative.
