The Chief Executive Officer of Golden Future Promotions has urged the youth to draw lessons from the older generation for the country to rebuild some of its forgotten values. Charles Sam said this when he addressed students of the O’Reilly Senior High School in Accra on the topic “The rise of a new Ghana” – that touched on new strategies to harness new ways and ideas to create a better country. “The new generation has to draw lessons from the old generation, think and act big, have a revitalized mind and attitude and being practical,” he said. Mr. Sam said: “Education should train the head, hands and heart so the educated would have a renewed mind-set, a transformed life, a progressive attitude and a performance culture.” “The gap between the impossible and the possible lies in our determination to make the impossible possible.” The motivational speaker also urged politicians to use the power they have to create and promote policies that will benefit the entire citizenry. Mr Sam said political power should be a tool to “promote a great, widely accepted vision, create good and effective policies to transform lives for the better.…The previously invested energies in over-zealous political rivalry and excessive partisanship should be redirected into confronting the many objective challenges that face the nation and possibilities for the future.” This, he said, was a globally accepted practice. He said Ghanaians must unite to create an orderly society relegating to the background religious, ethnic and political persuasions. His thoughts on branding Ghana featured on value being placed on locally-produced goods. “The new Ghanaian should be innovative, creative, highly industrious, productive conscious, patriotic, dependable, efficient, exhaustively-analytical and hard working,” he added. “To survive and succeed, there is an urgent need to develop”, he said, adding that complaining and looking at the old generation must come to a halt as the new generation looks beyond the borders of this nation for hope. He stressed that the citizenry must define the future, not by past failures, but by a renewed spirit to create a brighter future. Credit: Benjamin Adu Boahene/Joy FM/Ghana