Dr. Jeff Bassey, an Executive Director of Graduate Training Institute at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) has urged the youth to be focused in order to succeed in their chosen careers.

He said: “Every young person or individual should have the discipline of defining a purpose and direction in life and harness all energy to achieve it through hard work, commitment and a positive, positive mindset.”

Dr. Bassey, who gave the advice at the end of a three-day leadership conference organized by Prophet Michael Andoh Ministries at Adenta in Accra said the youth should not look for success without the God factor.

He said the youth constitute a critical mass of the population, who would take over the mantle of leadership in the future and it would serve a good purpose if their leadership perspective were directed to meet the demand of society.

He advised them to take their time and build themselves academically, morally and physically and pursue their goals passionately, saying they could only meet their aspirations with proper focus on the life they choose to lead.

Dr. Bassey said life was tallied with vision and not age and that the age at which one succeeds has not much relevance and therefore the young ones should not allow the African belief and value systems that life begins at 40 or the female child was not as important as the male child, among others.

The Director implored the youth to have faith in themselves and resolve to succeed in their homeland and should erase the notion that one could only make it outside the shores of Ghana.

“We should be responsible in building our own continent and for that matter our country because no one else would do it for us.”

Prophet Michael Andoh, the Founder of the Michael Andoh Ministries said he was passionate about the youth and that the event was organized to give them skills that would enable them assume leadership role with competence.