"Life is not a straight line.
It has ups and down.
There are bad times and good times and you need to build resilience to be able bounce back when you are pushed down."
That was the message fromFlorence Addo-Quaye, head of personal banking at Prudential Bank Ghana, at the second edition of the Dreamers Conference in Ghana, which was held on the theme, "Innovate to elevate: unleashing the power of experience."
The CEO of Dream Focus International, Daniel Appiah, who spoke at the event, noted that "you don't need to start with huge amount.
You also don't need to be great to start, rather start to become great later."
He added that "the first resource available to the human resource, and that is you so start with what you have and propel along the way."
The Guardian reports that other speakers at the conference stressed the importance of resilience in achieving success, noting that "Problems and challenges may come so the problem is not really the challenge that comes.
It is about your attitude to the problem or the challenge."
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