Many people in South Africa are wondering how we, as a nation can continue the amazing spirit of Ubuntu that was so obvious during the World Cup. But how?
It requires that you take a personal investment in your surroundings and enact the changes that are needed. As an individual, you are fundamental to enabling the events around you and also responsible for correcting anti-social or criminal behavior of others. Any society is a sum of its parts: The individual is the core support of the group or community, not only its subject; The society is accountable to the individual for the effects of the environment that surrounds the individual as well.
1. Look around you and observe what is going on.
2. Investigate the factors that are effecting the situation.
3. Seperate the individuals from the social events, as enablers/participants or as spectators/victims.
4. Identify the cause of that provides the instigator and other accomplices to carry out his actions.
5. Look out for side-effects arising from the situation being resolved, like opportunistic individuals that might want to seek to gain some form of profit from opposing you.
6. Look out for and try to enlist the aid of other people that may want to help you bring about change.
7. Pre-plan your actions and involve interested individuals to help or assist you.
8. Take action to remedy the situation for the good of all those effected.
9. Doublecheck to make sure that the changes you have made are working or reassess the situation again.
There are many situations that we regularly encounter daily and we can make a difference, if we want to by becoming leaders in co-ordinating our surroundings...
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