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Recently I have started a new business venture that I am both excited and a bit nervous about because it’s something I have never done before. And I was reading a book by one of the great leaders in this business Jim Dornan, and in his book he touched on an interesting subject of Forgiveness. It was interesting so much for me because it reminded me of the incident back at my house between my mom and brother. They had a squabble over something that I think was trivial but of course if one is determined to be right, even the smallest of things get blown out of proportion. So after they had their misunderstanding (often that is just the case between arguments), I noticed how my mother was affected by her inability to just let things be and let it go. She was just adamant to inflict some emotional blackmail upon my brother by continuing to choose to cling to the poison of grudge. (Often times this is a mechanism used by parents and even us at times, to get people to do our will instea...

“As soon as you are born they make you feel small. By giving you no time instead of it all. Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all Working class hero is something to be” These are lyrics from John Lennon's song “Working Class Hero.” I recently posted on Facebook that for most people, job title is the only thing they can boast. And that most people they don't even enjoy the jobs that they hold but will use the titles as a "glamour" front to appear as established and having it made... It’s sad. In the current society that we live in, we have been institutionalised to denounce our creative geniuses for the promised land of job security and comfort. As attractive, and surely comforting this is, what it does it stops growth and creativity. It is actually a penitentiary used to imprison everyone throughout the spectrum without any regard for gender, age or colour. We have been taught, quite literally, on how not to be individual and creat...

"Wealth is a product of a man's ability to think." Ayn Rand Often in the news we are shown constant images of how a number of the population is struggling while probably only one tenth is swimming in riches they don't even know what to do with it. I will not assume a position of denying this present situation. "Wealth" seems to be monopolised and to some degree it probably is and there has been outcry for “redistribution of wealth”. However, it would be liberating to remember and acknowledge that the “wealth” that   is monopolised is only the erroneous idea about wealth that most people have been blinded with, which is mainly monetary. It is only a fraction, or a pot of gold, of the mountain of gold that lies unnoticed or explored. This mountain of wealth is invisible to many of us because we have our eyes set on the small pot of gold that only a few have gotten their hands on. We are in an era of a paradigm shift where we are resh...

Recently in one of my favourtie Facebook group called “LETS TALK”, which is about getting South Africans to post and discuss issues that are on their mind, there has been recent and consistent update that seem to have one sentiment and that is, constant attacks on Christians or believers. It is so interesting to observe how people who do not like or believe in something invest so much time and energy in bashing it, thus they remain captives of the very thing they are not in support of. The irony is that as they are busy condemning it, it in turn condemns them. (Read the comments from the Christians and you will see what I mean. “ What you do to another you do to yourself,” as the adage goes.) No one knows the bible better than the atheists, and the irony is that this makes them no different from the people who actually believe in it. And the reason is because, pushing against something makes you a match to it. The more you push against something, the more you cement it i...

Positive thinking doesn’t work for most people because of one simple truth and that is – Thinking is a skill. And most people haven’t mastered The Art of Thinking. Just because you can inhale air in an out of your lungs doesn’t necessarily mean you know how to breath effectively, remember how as a  kid when the doctor instructed “breathe in” and you would actually make a whizzing sound when in haling because you wanted to indicated that they are breathing, because you clearly knew there was more to it.  So you see, it actually is a skill. I was inspired to write this article tone because of a post someone had forwarded to me. It said… “…Positive thinking is offered up in the U.S. as a cure for cancer, a path to untold riches, and a sure-fire way to engineer your own success. Indeed believing that success depends upon one’s attitude is far preferable to Americans than recognizing that their success is the outcome of the tilted scales of race, class, and gender. As Eh...

As I woke up early in the morning and prepared to go to a mining site in Moatize Mozambique, my colleague was already up and sitting in the living room with the CNN news on. And in the news I heard about the recent attacks on Christians and other religious minorities by the Islamic jihadists and also about the recent news hype on the unrest about the police force and the citizens of Ferguson Missouri in the United States of America. I went on about preparing for the day and making my lunch, I tried to do my best to ignore the negativity of the news that was on. I am not really a fan of news or television at all. With the news being on, I heard commentary on how the attacks on the religious minorities ,particularly Christians, is "genocide", a bit of an exaggerations though, and with regards to the Ferguson unrest that this incident now was seen as a racist unfolding of a white police officer shooting an unarmed black teenager. I couldn’t help but still wonder on how th...

I am at the airport waiting to board a flight going to Mozambique and i had a sudden burst of inspiration.  I believe that for us to work and livean inspiring Life we ought to be in constant awareness of inspiring insight or information. and so as I am about to board an airplane, I want to share with you insights about the seasons. The insight I wish to share comes from Jim Rohn which is about the Four Seasons Of Life (he wrote a book on this subject), and here is the wisdom I got from him. He says: “Life and Business are like the changing seasons” , fairly obvious but also easily forgotten because of its simple nature. But its true, Life is like the changing seasons (the business cycle in economics or entrepreneurship as it is often referred to). After fall comes winter. After winter comes spring. And after spring comes summer. All with regularity and pray tell how often. Is this a reliable way to look a life and business? After night comes day. When the sun goes down a...