ABOUT RESOURCES FOR ENRICHMENT

A Publication by Alex Nosa Ihama

The key to growth and survival is focused learning. As the world becomes more and more sophisticated and insecure, only those who are steadily growing in wisdom, understanding and knowledge are bound to survive the increasingly growing complexities, as we must consistently upgrade our thinking by reading and learning in order to make things happen in our lives.

At The Exhortation World Outreach, we STRONGLY believe that financial stress is more due to the lack of DILIGENT financial planning than it is about insufficient income; marital stress and regrettably, divorce, is more due to the lack of marital WISDOM, UNDERSTANDING and KNOWLEDGE than the statistical claim of incompatibility; lack of career advancement and business growth is more due to the fear of taking risks than the general claim of limited opportunities; and unruly children are results of parents raising their children without the WISDOM, UNDERSTANDING and KNOWLEDGE required to raise AWESOME children in troubled times rather than today’s violent environment.

Sven Birkerts, in his book, The Gutenberg Elegies, wrote: “To open a book voluntarily is at some level to remark the insufficiency either of one’s life or of one’s orientation toward it. When we read we not only transplant ourselves to the place of the text, but we modify our natural angle of regard upon all things; we reposition the self in order to see differently. When we enter a novel, no matter what novel, we step into the whole world anew. For the space of our reading, and perhaps beyond, changes our relation to all things”.

This is why we continue to search and identify resources that have been instigated growth in the lives of people in who are may be in similar situation as our members. Broken down into categories of areas that matter most in life, Your Resources is a collection of books, websites and articles that have helped many people face their own GIANTS. Like Alec Waugh said, “there is so little time for the discovery of all that we want to know about things that really interest us that we cannot afford to waste it on things that are only of casual concern for us, or in which we are interested because other people have told us we ought to be”.