Personal viability book inspires

BOOK REVIEW

PAPA Sam’s book Be Inspired has been acclaimed as a vital life skills manual for people who battle with mediocrity and struggle to add value to their lives.
A number of Papua New Guineans including educators have read the book and commented positively about it.
Papa Sam, for those who don’t know, is Samuel Tam the founder of Human Development Institute which teaches Personal Viability (PV) and business class knowledge.
The book will be launched at the Sione Kami Memorial Church in Port Moresby next Thursday.
Incidentally, it was at this church that the concept of PV was launched about two decades ago and so far over 40,000 people have undergone PV training.
Below are some comments on Be Inspired:
THE story of how PV training came to be is one of the most inspiring and motivating life stories in both life and business. Life because PV affects every aspect of one’s life irrespective of status and challenges. Business simply because everyone needs money to survive in the world we live in today. PV is mind development to create the pathway for transformation to happen to bring forth positive changes to lives. Be Inspired through PV is the practical application of the Bible.
-Rev Sir Samson Lowa,
Former Moderator of the United Church of Papua New Guinea

THE book is an attempt to help people solve their own problems, challenges and failures through personal power and thinking skills whilst presenting the argument for a unique, inclusive, innovative, alternate, performance-based action learning education system that provides equal opportunity for all to learn how to prosper in life physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally and financially – hence education for life.
Through Human Development Institute’s home-grown, unique, inclusive, innovative, action learning, performance-based, business class, alternate education system provides a unique learning opportunity to develop resources into assets, to prosper in life and to change the current status of this great nation of Papua New Guinea where everyone is able to contribute to nation-building and to become self-reliant and financially independent.
Papa Sam demonstrates that whatever you believe in and want so bad, you will get it if you believe it to be so.
-Prof Steven Edmund Winduo
UPNG

IT is a wonderfully written – and powerful – book. It is a statement of Papa Sam’s passion and continuing commitment to improving the lives of people whatever their station in life.
It has the potential to eliminate poverty and maximise personal fulfilment in life. The truth of the messages that give the book its greatest value can, if carefully, patiently, and faithfully observed, cure impotent thinking, heal economic cripples, and rescue social and financial destitutes. It is a power-pack toolkit everyone can utilize to their great advantage. Liberation awaits all, in an increasingly confusing, aggressively competitive and difficult world.
An anchoring premise of the book is that everyone, without exception, is born with all the ‘ingredients’ needed to succeed in life. The book provides both the inspiration and the tools people need to experience personal viability, satisfaction and contentment hence success in the social, business or other ‘space’ for which s/he has been created.
It can help you release your full potential, whet your appetite for success in life and propel you forward. It is wired never to fail you. It is wired to inspire you. However, as Papa Sam notes; “Inspiration is the seed, but the seed must be sown, germinated and grown before we can harvest the fruits.”

-Prof John Luluaki
School of Law, UPNG

THE message in the book is timely in view of the Marape-Steven Government’s vision of “taking back PNG and making it the richest black Christian nation on earth.” Presumably, this vision is about making PNG become economically independent. If it is so, the book contains the philosophies upon which effective home-grown strategies can be developed to help our people – from those in villages to students, professionals, business people, bureaucrats and political leaders – to become viable people first before they design and implement viable projects aimed at making PNG a rich nation. According to Papa Sam, a viable person is “one who knows how to acquire everything he needs in the attainment of his main purpose without violating the rights of his fellow men.” Unless the country is managed and led by people who are viable, the country’s leaders and bureaucrats will become the greatest impediments to making PNG become economically independent. I highly recommend this book to be the subject of in-depth study because in it can be found the solutions to the many of the problems and challenges buffeting the country.
-Tiri Kuimbakul
Economist/author/speaker

BE Inspired starts and ends with the individual person as a complete unit in determining his future and everything that he is involved in. The Book offers a new perspective to an old fact. The future of a person is in his hands. He decides his future. Everything outside of himself either increases or decreases his ability to attain what he decides for himself. The person determines how the situation he faces in life affects his life, be it bad and good situations. You can do it if you want to. And you cannot do it if you tell you so. The book offers an alternative model for personal, community and national advancement. It all begins with changing of one’s mindset from you cannot, to you can. Potential remains potential until it is used. The mindset must first change for real development to take off.
It reminds me of the words of our forefathers: “Mi lukim tasol mi no lukim. Mi harim tasol mi no harim. Mi tokim tasol mi no tokim.”
It all boils down to seeing what is happening around us from a set of new eye glasses. The Book is not only inspirational but it also offers the way forward for the individual and whatever he does, be it individually or collectively with other individuals to realize the full effect of the aspirations of the founding fathers captured in the five National Goals and Directive Principles. Get a copy of Be Inspired and read it to satisfy your curiosity.
-Stephen P Pokawin
Senior lecturer
School of Law, UPNG

BE Inspired through Personal Viability is home-grown, relevant, action learning, inclusive, alternate education system. It is a social innovation that will not only prosper Papua New Guinea but the wolrd.
-Emmanuel Rausi
HDI coach

BE Inspired is truly a way of rediscovering yourself, your hidden potentials, natural talents, skills etc. and ensuring that you make full use of it to bring forth blessings to your life. It is all the about the inspiration that one needs in order to make a positive change in the world we live in today. The Value-Added principle is truly the pathway to the Age of Wisdom.
You can only be viable when you make up your mind to be viable. There is no room for second guessing and doubts, etc. The moment you make up your mind there is no turning back and you are always on a forward momentum whether you like it or not. The measure and the status of one’s viability depends entirely on yourself. Now isn’t that a blessing in itself? You have the ultimate power to make a decision that will transform your life in ways you never imagined possible. Your mind is the ultimate gold mine; you can create things in your mind and make them come to life.
All Papua New Guineans should be proud of PV because it is a unique, PNG home-grown, inclusive, innovative, business-class, performance and action learning education system, which we should export to the world.
“Thank you” will never be enough compared with the priceless gift of PV that Papa Sam has given to the people of Papua New Guinea and the world and for this he will forever be cherished in our hearts for his “work of love.”
-Aileen Kaiulo
HDI student