Error of the past

Either positive or negative past, what is worth remembering is that the past is like a used check. It never and will never exist. It is better to preempt one's own future because it can give a platform to prepare myself better. I believe in being guided by my forecast of the future. I find it appropriate to try visualise my future in order to see where my life is trying to go, thus amend where I find irrelevant.
Thinking mainly about my future gives me much power to prepare for what is to come or prevent what is not desirable. I am convinced of a better future. I know that my life will not be the same today as it will be tomorrow, therefore I want to turn my future to my advantage by thinking, talking, visualising, working and planning things, situations, environment, people and resources for it betterment.
This is the future I know, love and trust.

Doing things

In my rather immediate society, there are perceptual inclination that others are expected to do things in order to remain conssciously clear from their criticism. I have found my thoughts going through some of them. After slight deliberation, I have thought it wise to do these things in order to:-
-To prove a point
-To have my social conscious clear of these things
No one can say that I should do things for my hearts content because that's not the way my experience with people have shown. I will live my life, achieve success to prove every criticism made about me, wrong. These are some of the things that I will do to prove my critics wrong:-
1. I will have a roundvel built in my former village built.
Doing things in this way is a balanced way that I have seen my life evolve thus I embrace it.

Psychological change

In my knowledge, a man's life's need to evolve in order to fufill his destiny of higher self is paramount in his genes. I have realised that some of my interests do not serve my self proposed direction. Things like music, which is known to have great psychological effect on one's thinking. I have seen that listening to classical music blends perfectly well with my way of thinking, which is directed towards deep intellectual direction. Loving and listening to classical music shape my thinking to the way of marketing genius.
This music help me concentrate. This music shapes the positive flow of my free flow thinking.
I will ensure that I listen to it more often than not.

Constructive nature

The mind is known to be the most powerful force of humankind. I do not want to shy away from the fact that it is also the most untrustable source of direction. I could not remain constructive if I have not seen much that my mind can achieve in its own. Sometimes it thinks negative things while my direction has been to think, act positively. I have told my mind that I want to be a millionnaire at the age of twenty eight.
I am twenty seven, still hopeful.
Now I have found a backup to this organ of mine. I have instructed my heart to take over the reigns because I have used my mind so often that my hearty self have let through. This is my time to think with my heart. This is the time to focus on the current than anywhere. This is the time to ensure that results are not that important than the way to them. This is to say I want to think about results as a miracle.

Current reality

I am rather ashamed to write about what my current situation is because I need positive change to happen. However, acknowledging my current situation is a sure sign of need to change.
I am currently sitting home unemployed while I apply for a job. I do not know why it is taking long to get that job becuase I am also unable to pay my bills. My wife is pregnant and is due in two months time. I do not know what else to do in order to generate an income.
I want to get out of this situation. I want to work. I am unhappy to be in this situation because it stresses me. I want change to take place.

My adventurous life in writing

I want to get ahead in my career. I want to know that I can live a well balanced life through my career. I want to know that I can have a remarkable career I yearn for. These I am not ashamed to express in my entire outlook where my life could gain more recognition, prestige and fame. I want my successful career to be a shining example of my life's responsibilities. It's an obsession that I never shied away from. I care to minimise negative patterns that potentially tend to harm my life's observation. I want to base it on guided thinking. Letting myself be in the least negative light. I know I can do it, I know. I believe I can do, yes I do. I know I will keep my smile up, without hesitation. I will bank good memories in this condition. It's amazing, yes it's amazing. I never felt this free in my life. I want to keep this feeling of freedom to my career, yet adventurous life.

Dealing with people.

I have made a mistake in my dealing with people. I don't want my thinking when around people to focus on them. I want my thinking to be about exploring a subject with proper emphathy and respect for both parties. I want my business relationships to be about negotiating an agreement. I want the exploration, or negotiation to be based on channels of understanding, fairness, finding common ground and reaching a mutually beneficial solution. I intend to feel the warmth and respect of people by dealing, communicating, or exploring with them. I want to feel that there's proper and genuine appreciation or recognition for my remarkable work. I want to feel my true self when dealing, exploring or communicating with people. I want to seriously work with people who I can trust. I want to trust people enough to share with them wonderful ideas, working relationship, passionate service and memorable business and life experience.

Going forward

After applying for the position of my requirements I have been called for an interview to gauge my confidence and my knowledge base. However, I have noticed that the only way to measure my success at an interview was through getting confirmation that I have been successful. In doing so, employers would have gained my confidence about my ability to perform exceptionally well on the position. Either way, I know that that judgement will come at a price becuase it's hard to gauge someone by talking alone. That's why I would want them to employ me because I am confident enough that I would do a great deal of work, day and night, to make sure I exceed their expectations.
From hereon I am looking forward to getting a call that confirm my appointment to a position I have applied.

Feeling of success

There are various ways in which one could describe the feeling of success. I have my unlimited ways of feeling successful in my life. This has made me realise that I'm not necessarily pursuing for achieving my vision, but I am pursuing for the feeling that accompany the achievement. I want to feel a persevere when I land that job. I want to feel calm and clear when I become a marketing genius.
I want to feel vindicated and wise when I earn R25,000,00 per month.
The feeling that I have when I think about myself is exciting.
Turning my dreams into reality in a short space of time have made feel as though I am the most wisest men on earth. Living my values in my life give me the feeling of accomplishment.
Having abundant financial backing feel sooooo wow!
I want to wow myself by believing that I am the controller of my feelings, thus my destiny.

Spirited prayer

Oh powerful goodness, bountiful father. I come before you with repented heart. I am a new spirit, with new heart. I am a new body, with renewed soul. With you beside me nothing will fail. With a sense of direction you give to me on each day, success is long overdue.
Bless me, ooh Lord. Bless my family, thus we will be jubilantly united. Give to us one spirit of success and helpfulness, at all times, to all of us. With you giving direction to our hearts to see one thing and commit to our defined success. Bring our hearts together for a common goal.

Privilige

I am priviliged to have had an opportunity to write an innovative business plan. A business plan is a benchmark in which the business writer intend to base his success. It is sign of committment, vision and willingness to take the risk to become abudantly financially succesful.
I had people who thought about starting a business, but could not get to writing the business plan. This plan will hopefully give me the stage where I could plan my life around. It is more of a ten year vision for my overall
life. There was no way I could not have tried to ensure that my plan are at least on paper for the lookout of potential success that could motivate me to get to.
The understanding that implementation is the challenge that would need to be overcome with great force and initiative will serve as the stepping stone to pragmatism.
Let there be success!

Priority change

The current change in my life could not be denied that they bring with them my changes in priorities. I want to get a job not because I want to earn R25,000,00 per month or earning this amount of money because I will match it with my excellent performance but because my paying my mortgage, my car, my loan requires me to be employed. My private life involve my baby, her mother and their needs.
These priorities will form part of my motivated, consistent hard work. I will be professional because of the addition of my new priorities. I will go the extra mile because of my new priorities. I will base my luck on the change of my priorities. I will become an articulate communicator because of my new priorities. I am desperate, although I do not show it, to get a job because I want to get priorities straight.

The power of will

In any well intentioned men, there's undying will to make happen a vision that suits his purposes. I am the kind of men who has a vision I wish to see happen. The reason I wish to see my vision happening is because I am in a stage where the only thing that could happen is vision.
I wish to have the willpower to release my determination in ensuring consistent hard work.
I wish to have consistent harmonious relationship within my circles.
I wish to utilise my energy where necessary, earn much money making my vision come to fruition.
It is my wish to be progressively assertive without fear or reservation.
I would like to ensure that I remain abundantly successful in my finances.
I wish to remain consistently hard working.
My wish is to get a job where I could earn at least R25,000,00 per month because that's part of vision.
I wish to have substantial willpower to ensure I work through my vision.

What might I be

I may not be an individual holding popular views and screaming about them. I may not be your kind of a leader. But I know a vital strength that I think
tend to bend to in order to identify with myself. I am a task master. People understand my pragmatism than my casual conversationality and that's what I think
I might be: a taskmaster.
I do not seek to motivate, inspire when I smile, get excited or cheerful but I am merely solving an emotional situation which I could hardly face directly.
I am a problem solver who find himself more at home with systems, seemingly complicated data and insight than with people for mere casuality. I only
find myself getting along with people when there's a common cause we are both seeking a solution to. I do understand the nature of human thinking and continuosly
seek to do so. I am tolerant but not internally patient.
In conclusion, I love challenges more than people while undersanding and being human enough to pick their brains. It would be wise to think that I prefer
picking people's brains than anything for my random program in motion or to be in motion.

Underlying life direction

Out of the flash I decided to write about the way my life has voluntarily patterned out. I do not like the way my life stop and start after every two years.
My dislike is that after my very first attempt on any challenge ends in disappointment. Thereafter, I have to battle to get myself back on track. This
frustrated my progress at times. I want my life to be a smooth ride because I always give my all in making all opportunities work.
The thought of my life making progress with ease excite and motivate my hard working nature. In all honest, the reason that this 'after two years' backlog
should end in this 2010 year. I want to rest after three years or so when embarking on another career upheaval. If things go my way, the next job should afford to pay me R25,000,00 per month, for three years. Thereafter, I will be making plans from the beginning to kickstart the foundation of my business.
That's why I do not want to have any stops from there on. I want a straight run. I want a straight run because I will commit myself fully to the coming
position.

How I want to think

If the state of mind contribute to the attitude of person's behaviour, therefore, a way of thinking is the idiosyncrasy of the precedent. I would like to think more about the future than the present. I want to think about things that develop my sense of direction. I want to think in English because of the survival of my career. I want to think definitively.
I want to think informatively. I want to think about my views. I want to be able to defend, informatively, my viewpoint. I want to be able to know what my thinking mean to both myself. I want my thinking to be based on my thinking, experience with other people, circumstances and knowledge. I want to rely more on my instinct than on anything else. I want to think, with great belief, that I deserve the successes that I have worked hard for. It would be my
greatest achievement to think, therefore, I become. I want to think that I am right in my own way. I want to believe in myself through my thinking. I want to speak English with great articulation and eloquence. I want to think about a vision which could make me calm and successful.

Sex in relationship

It has become an accepted norm that good sexual performance in a relationship is vital for a lasting relationship. I have no founded evidence on that matter. However, my view on good sexual performance is positive. I think it's important for anyone who engage in sex to ejaculate after more than ten minutes.
Doing so requires one to focus on long lasting erection, body performance other than ejaculation. It is important to concentrate for more than ten minutes if one is to have long lasting erection. Being mentally strong when having sex could make the intercourse long lasting.
I am not impressed by my recent sexual performance. My wish has been to make a women scream and feel the pleasure of having sex. I wish to improve this performance by concentrating longer, having my mind on long lasting performance. I want to be able to ejaculate after more than ten minutes. I want my to drown in remaining erect for longer. I want my mind to be strong to sustain my body for longer. I want to keep my body strong.
I want to believe that long lasting sex is the best sex. I want to make my body to retain its stamina for more than ten minutes while having sex.

How I want to be seen

Before I list the qualities that I want to associate with me, I want to make clear qualities that I do not want to be associated with. I do not want to be seen as some foolish, and stupid person. I do not want to be seen as weak, neither be seen as always compromising. In conversation I do not want to be seen as loud mouth with no substance of what is being said.
Now that I have mentioned qualities that I do not want to be associated with, it is time for me mention qualities that I want myself to be associated with.
I want to be seen as the right person, a person who always say the right thing at the right time. Owen Mabasa who does the right thing. I want to be known for my articulate self, my eloquence in speaking terms. I want to be known for my planning, smart working nature. Someone who builds trust
among people. The part of me that want to be revealed is my intellectual communication, the airyness in my manner of speaking.
This is how I want to be seen.

Looking for peace of mind

Having a job to pay my bills gives me peace of my mind. Earning my expectant salary gives me peace of mind.
Performing well in my job gives me peace of mind. Knowing that I'm making the right decisions gives me peace of mind,
Living my ideal life gives me glimmer of hope.
Being in the right place, at the right time create a feeling of warmth. Achieving most of my goals leave me feeling better.
Having a relevant attitude across different situations increase my feeling of self worth. Being truthful, and wise in my life increase the sense of
being self directed and more inner peace.

The relationship

How do you make of a relationship where there's no trust? It is a popular norm to stay away from your partners' phone or email. But when you find
something in his/her cellphone that shake your trust would there be any dispute to the truth of such findings. Could you pretend that such information contain
a potential act of infidelity? Hell no! Anyone will remain sceptical of their partner.
Why do we promote this norm of staying away from your partner's information resources while their acts might betray the value of a relationship?
No one would, in their right mind, want to be cheated on. It hurt me badly to have found an sms sent from another source expressing love for my wife.
It brings doubts to her very utterance of being committed to this relationship. I am not better myself but being cheated on does not make me forgiving in
any sense. From now on, I would like to look for signals to her infedilty acts. My pride would be tainted if I do not take action to eliminate infedility in
my relationship. I do not deny my concern about her past relationship, my jealousy about it but I am willing to forgive and forget the things she has done in the past. I am willing to freely pursue our life's journey together. I yearn to help fulfill her wishes. See things from her side

Passionate yet controlled

I would talk with self controlled passion.
Be able to accurately judge people's true intentions.
Circumvent unscrupulous people's intentions to exploit me.
Find ways to retain my passion for being a perfectionist worker;
Yet not letting anyone exploit my weaknesses.
Achieve great results through giving enrgy to my work.
Maintain high momentum from start to finish.
Always expect to earn more, due to my passion.
Bring forth well thought, documented ideas to improve productivity

En route to employment

It has become imminent that I make this bold plan to employment. I am in need of work to sustain my life. To take care of people I hold dear to my heart. Because I have made a plan to make at least two applications each day for a job, there's a supplementary plan that need to beef up my alrady succesfull plan.
In line with the application plan I would add the interview plan. It would be a success mesurable when I am able to secure at least two interviews each week. This will give me an overview of whether my communication has a validity when my skills, experience, and vision is being shared with prospective employers. It will also give me a platform to improve on my communcation while in employment. Further develop skills that I have seen to necessary when communicating. When able to secure these two interviews per week, it could mean a good balance in landing a position as early as possible. It is a good plan
for job hunting I am currently embarking.
I have hope that this plan will work accurately with a bit of luck!

One passionate couple.

Not even our illdiscipline could stand on our way. Our fears does not derail.
Our differences seek to be understood. Our hearts are divided, while we
somehow want to get along. We know each other but couldn't find the matching of our ideals. We look on the outside when we should be looking on the inside, look in the inside when we could be looking on the outside. Sometimes we look different ways altogether. If I am not dreaming, we yearn to have characteristics that enable less volatility in finding common ground.
We want to live a life that our should be the sticking point. We want to know why we
can't be ourselves and still be fine with it. We want to make each other better, but
but we are corrupted by the virtuoso of our societal nature. We think it's fine,
think it's not fine while never wanting to face the reality of such thinking.
Are we there yet? Did we know we will get here? I s/he proving herself accurate by
doing or not doing this? Can't I fulfill more questions than looking for more answers?
Have my world changed in the manner that I idealised, has it changed really? Is it the same old actions with different script, can and can't I live to the reality of blind but not so blind faith? Faith on what? 'Faith on the blindness of our own rational thinking'
Do we even know what our rational thinking in relaistic perspective really is? Do we know reality?When did we see reality, is reality even seen. Who is who,why do we even ask the questions. Are we combined but not having a clue. Is one of us ever going to be at the forefront of what true happiness is. Are there people who want either one of us to be unsuccesfull. Should we rule out the power of other people to take us out. When do we get to answers thess questions, do we really,really need to answer the questions really! Why do we ask the question. Can there be a chance asnwers coming everytime, everyday but we had made up our minds by then. Do we all want believe biliefs about certain myth. Are that unique?
Can we see and appreciate our uniqueness, or do we see no need to but admiring in secret. You ask whether I am any genuine representation of your side. Doeas everything above make any sense. Could he be looking at the
wrong side of me. Tricking me into believing him. Do I need to believe him. Is he negative, can he really change, Have I made up my mind about my needs but not seeing the biigger picture. You hear his voice say,'Have I made a mistkae by not going. Do I really know where to go, for what, for whom. Am I not missing the point,
is there a point. Why do I think all this. Am I carzy. Am I imgining a life I could not live becuase I imagined it.
Why am I writing this piece, what do I want to prove, to whom, for what, don't I care, do I care.
Is the arrogance of my knowledge. Have I become too bad for my knowledge. Do I know anything about anyone.
Can't we wait and see, do we really need to be the same, is sameness a perception invented. Do we know differences. are there differences, Do we want differences, what will happen when become same in success and heart, but easy enough to bear the weight of success. Is there more to ask? Are we a telepathic team, can we be telepathic? Has it not been a beginning of change in attitude and denouncement. What if we were all millionnaires, what if you and I were perfect for each other. Can we see the achievement of perfcet being from each other in different ways. Can we fill our hearts, quietly, and privately our love foe each other without loosing our ideals. Is the more to ask? Could I say I love you? Could you do the same? Should I believe you?
Do you expect that question? Are you open enough to see that I might not know anything or know everything.
Is there no kiss goodbye?
Am I dreaming?

En route to self discovery

I have had this thought flying in my head for quite some time. By letting it out I hope to achieve one of two things:
- Total freedom.
- Gain new, positive perspective to my love life
My regret to having married the person I married led me to think about what to do in order to break free from the regret. After getting a job in which I earn at least R25,0000,00 per month I would seperate with my current wife. I will concentrate on my job, studies, finances and personal values. I will leave our current house to her after deleting my name from the contract. I will then take items I bought, and the car.
Thereafter, I will take it to my stride to pay off my car within twelf month after being employed. After that I will look to buy an apartment, which has been my goal. But before leaving her I will convince my wife to ensure the car, which we sold to my cousin, has been changed to register under my cousin's name.
Somtimes it's hard following one's heart but I hope my heart will decide for me which is good for it and which is not.
I have no intention of harming anyone, but I am trying to find myself by all this.

Being in the wild

Being out there in the world is not a child's play. It's the world where you
come to realise that your survival depends on your wits, determination and strength.
You learn about independence. You realise what it means to be self sufficient. You encounter challenges to your view of the world.
I am talking about myself because I am all alone in my struggle to liberate myself. In respect of people and the world. I come across situations that make me think about myself. I come across environments that challenge my thinking about the world. This enhances my independent view of the world. The world which we hardly know but love living in. I'm in the world where I need to be who I am. The world where I would like to be as influential as I dreamt to be. This is my world of purism, the world of intelligence, the world of discovering myself. I do not what else constitute my being but would curiously need to know.
The truth about myself should be what it's meant to be. In the wild nothing seem permanent but your views about it.
To be successful in my world I would remain as stubborn as I could be to achieve my vision, direction, and ideals.

Why I want to...

My world revolve around me. My world doesn't necessarily infringe the rights
of others. In my world I understand others', although I do not necessarily agree
with them. It is easy for me to let others have their way about their lifes. I hate
controlling people. My only motivattion for being with people is to exchange
inspiration.
Why I want to communicate when given an opportunity is because of my belief
in bearing great inspirational ideas. I value my world because it's challenging.
There are no strings attached in my world. In my worldly dreams I have material,spiritual,educational, and harmonious relationships to fulfill. My ideal world revolve around being outspoken, and beautifully influential.
Why would anyone not want to believe in the positive power of my world?

Finding peace of mind

The could not be remembered unless one need to stay behind. I don't want to stay in the past. I don't want to know about the bad past. What I want to find is to look inside myself and see the art of my creation, the power of my insight, my vision to shape my future.I want to be able to use my brains, I want to be able to speak clearly. I want to look into people and see their bright side. I want to forgive and forget what people have done in the past.
I want to forgive and forget myself for being fallible. I want to feel normal for
everything I do. I want to admit and forgive my fear of not being liked. I want to stop being jealous. I want to stop preempting what others' might think about things I do or say. I want the strength to respect other people, no matter what they,or how they say it.
I want to see an independent, free soul when I look within myself. I want to think positive things, even when I appear stupid. I want to appear positively smart.
I need to control my life. I want to be my fateful, destinic self. I want to be able to achieve my goals within my prescribed timeline. I want to be who I would
like to be. I want to have strong views about my world and be able to live upon them.

Inner conviction

In my world, the way I see it, there's not much oral articulation in the form of a promise that could culminate into fulfillment via actions. I can't seem to be what I think or say I am in my relationship. On the hand I dream of this sweet, harmonious relationship with the person I hold dear to my heart. Whenever I promise myself to
become a better, loving and peaceful husband I somehow lose my temper. More especially when I am drunk. I could love to stop drinking, smoking or going out with my wife but I tired of promising myself of restraint. I need help to get over my bad actions. I need help to keep my promises by taking the right actions. I can't argue the fact of my dreaming of a perfect marriage because that's what I'm doing. Sometimes I tend to believe that I need some form of outside validation that what I do right is worth continuing, but I could not help but force myself into convincing my heart that what I'm doing right is worth continuing.
By putting this information into pen and paper, I hope to become the change that I want to be. I wish to start a journey of emotionally, humorously mature communicative relationship with my wife. I wish to begin the road to peaceful,healthy, harmonious and quiet relationship with the person I made an impulsive choice to make my wife.

Employment prayer

Ooh powerful goodness, bountiful father. Increase in me that wisdom which
discovers my natural employment. Stregthen my resolution to perform exceptionally
well in an interview. Accept my kind offices to thy other employers. Give them power
to employ me, thus I can earn enough money to start my own business, whilst
being able to sustain my lifestyle. Increase my wisdom to understand,perform,and perfect the responsibilities of my employement. Open my eyes to the concentration, comitment,and determination of working my way up to successful career.

Why I keep quiet..

Actions speaks louder than words. But at times we hardly concur the manner of speaking as an action speaking louder than words. It is further debilitating to hear about the power of influence. I would like to think that influential people are listened to when communicating. That's how their influence is measured.
If action are louder than words then why do people talk more than they act?
Healthy communication has been a vital tool in human evolution for ever. Why then
do saying like the one in this paragraph remains a discouragant to communication.
Quite a contradictory world I think.
I, personally have a cast in stone need to be of influence in my chosen cycle. I am not, nevertheless who would battle to be heard but have a substantial need to prove the validity of my subject matter. Other than that I keep quiet. I back off from emotional conversations.
Not necessarily that I keep my thoughts to myself but because emotional conversations have are borne in the need to be right. When I, on the other hand, open my mouth to talk I do so to influence the direction of the subject or the action that should be taken.

Taking the management hotseat.

The information I am about to give out has questionable areas of integrity. The race to become a manager in an office setting remain obscure to many of us. However, we are told that the ability to delegate and lead would get you there. But when you look around you could see perfect fitting managerial individuals working under another
manager. I could not agree more with what management books would attempt to teach me. I have convinced myself that making strategic friendship with companies capable of making me a manager would be ideal. Being actively involved in the politics of the office gives added benefit. Identifying potential managerial competitors and shamelessly backstab them will get me ahead. Manipulating, backstabbing and outsmarting my opponents is something I would shamelessly do, even when they could see how am I going to the top. Ambition has liberated me. The confidence to perform the above without much shame is adorable. Even psychological mind games would be a weapon.

The power of talent

Most of us seem to be less talented than other people. They got all
the grades in school, graduated on high grades from university in
recognised subjects. Then went on to work for an internationally reputable
company on a prestigious job, earning high income. Within those talented came
others who were just natural born businessmen, footballers, marketers, communicators
and etc,etc. We, as the average, battle to make it to management positions.
We passed our grades on average. We went to an average college. Got average marks.
Went to work on an average job. Our jobs were the first to be on the line when the company decided to lay off its staff. Why? Because we were average.
In hindsight, we could read, laugh, eat, come to work early and many other things, which the talented could do. Yet they are always ahead of us. Gain more recognition than us. Yet, some speakers on motivation, excellence and other performance determinant factors come with their garbage, telling us we could perform as best as the best. But when you ask those who have recognised talent in the field, they would tell you the same thing but you know about those factors. You have known it for many a time, yet nothing seem to satisfy you. They would further tell you how you are not
following the instructions to implement these factors into your working advantage. I personally think it's a ludicrous claim to tell someone they are not following the instructions. I don't think anyone would pick up a book on practising their desired craft better than most in the field and never want to follow the instructions on how to. It is clear that we could say, confidently, that others are just born with it.
The claim that we can be better as much as the best is a superficial claim. A claim by those who want to sell their books, lecture and so forth. Anyone in their insightfully right mind would not agree with these claims.
The best of those we have in different fields are natural born. The best marketers, footballers, sales executives,businessmen, leaders and many others' are natural born. The rest of us are just average and we have to accept it.
The disguising reason that the talented practice or study like the rest of us is to keep the existing, inborn talent intact. They are not developing it like the rest of us. Another added advantage is their unique gift of identifying what they're good at at an early stage of their lives. We could never be like the talented, however hard we could try. We can gain knowledge about these factors but we could never have the lasting power of applying them into perfection. The only hope is to cherish our average nature. That's the fortunate or unfortunate power of talent or lack of it.

Compare and contrast

You are a born competitor. The environment you live in is a competitive
playground. This nature applies to everyone from any economic, social, political or
demographical background. As a human being you have a tendency to compare
yourself to other people. Surprisingly, even those you like to copmare yourself
to do compare themselves to others above them. That literally makes life what you
have known it to be: a cycle.
I do not exclude myself to this human nature. However, there are certain comparison that we make. Some of them tend to unhealthy. Thus I would take it within my stride to acknowledge my limitless power not to compare but channel my contrasting to situations, circumstances, challenges or
successes that shape, positively, my handling of my relevant factors in my life.
This will strengthen my thinking in realising that others' situations does not
necessarily culiminate into my own challenges, circumstances and so forth. By applying this kind of thinking I would be at liberty of clearly reflecting, acting on my own defined terms.

Guidance from the Bible

It is called the book of life. Everything the universe encounter,
the great book has predicted. All truth is said to be in the book.
When you want to gain wisdom, guidance and healing the great book has
all the answer. When you want try understand God's purpose for yourself
read the word in the book and you shall be blessed.
I have come to realise that I need to replenish my spiritual faith, while
keeping my burning desire to bring into fruition my value of wisdom. After
years of foolish utterance, I would now give up myself to the power of God.
This is because I have realised that some challenges in my life could not
be resolved by myself alone, but a little bit of faith in God would be a
resounding decision.
To keep in touch with the higher power, I have committed myself to read one
chapter of the scipture in the book of Proverbs each day and say my prayer
twice per day. Thus He will help me overcome challenges and achieve my goals.
Praise the lord!

Character of a...

Have you noticed that nice but extremely intelligent person in your
surrounding. This person is hardly social, yet nice person to live with.
He greets you when he passes you by. He doesn't seem able to hurt a fly or
have many words to say. Somehow shy, reclusive. The only thing you know
about him was his dedication in his studies where he stood out from many
of your close friends. You were further introduced to his persona through his work colleagues. They pronounceed his remarkable strong work ethics such as coming to work 15 minutes early.
Hardly set a foot wrong. Focus on work during working hours. He has at least one older friend, yet he communicate admirably to his colleagues. He is focused on the issue at hand. The kind of person you respect his need of personal time while he has not done or said anything to give you that impression. He's mostly neat in what he does. He's able to initiate and complete a task.He's that cool, smart guy you feel sorry for but you don't know why. He's the type who seem to get things he want without causing any stir. You could guess that he work hard to get those things but it seem he got it rather
easy.

Positive expectation

No one would lie to herself by stating they have no expectation of good things happening in their life.
I am no exception!
However, being positive about your expectations has its own repercussions. Negative things still happen while you're only looking out for the positive. Some advise that one should plan for bad things, but I could ask you to look realistically into yourself and tell me whether you have really planned for disaster.
I could tell that many don't. This is because mankind is wired to think about the benefits not the loss. When your expectations do not occur the way you wanted them to, the irritating advise of being realistic is brought to light. I personally do not think any person within their reasonability would overdream themselves. These dreams that came to your mind were within your potential to reach them, otherwise they would not have popped up.
Being positive is not an easy state to be in despite society's constant promotion of positive thinking. My mind is totally overwhelmed by focusing on how I am thinking. It's hard knowing you're not being positive.
Here are my findings: When I am positive about a particular situation due to happen, I get impatiently tense thus the resultant expectations happen slower than the challenges against the expectation. The irony is that when I get negative, nothing changes. Things seem to be moving the way they would if I were positive,
but, still it's deemed unhealthy to be negative.
It's a psychological rollercoaster, indeed!

Presidential personality

With good notice of current president's persona in articulating issues,
challenges and opportunities that South Africa has,, it is worth noting
the difference between him and his predecessor. The former president has set
a precedence of presidential expectation in the manner which issues, challenges,and opportunities are communicated. Thabo had a different tone of voice compared to Jacob. The former's
tone of voice gave an inpsirational perspective in the form of communication. While the latter has no voice of note, which many of us have associated with his lack of knowledge in the matters ommunicated.
With Thabo, your blood pressure rose with inspiration while Jacob's does not make want to listen. This difference may be used by many others, that Jacob does not exhibit presidential personality. Let me borrow from one utter subject: astrology. Gemini rule the voice, nervous system while Aries rule action, adventure.
Thabo is a Gemini while Jacob is an Arien.
When looked at, it is worth noting that Jacob inherited corrupt, poor service presidency. You may assume there was no action but mercurial communication. Our subsequent dislike of Jacob could now be on his lack of inspirational vocal communication, but we could not discredit his potential of inspiring action that avert poor service delivery and corruption.

Why you lie Question

Question:Why you lie?
Answer:Because it's human nature.

Wait a minute! Lying because it's human is the least answer you
would give to anyone asking you why you lied, isn't it? Let's examine
some of the reasons people lie to you or you lie to them.
Think back from your youth days how you told someone a lie. You knew it was
wrong, but you continued lying to this date. You know older people who
have lied to you. So why mankind lie, although he knows it's wrong?
It is undeniably true that lying is human. According to my findings, people lie mostly when they are caught doing something unacceptable, or desperate to get
out of unsettling situation. You lie because you want to feel worthy. Yes, lying
to feel worthy. Recall your social gathering where the conversation almost compelled
you to say something deemed worthy of others' ears. You knew it was not true but would be most welcome in the conversation.
You lie because lies could be used to fill a gap that the truth can't. However, most
of us who lie deliberately are universally aware that we'll regret having uttered a lie.
Lying make us feel bad. We examine our lives so often, only to find that our experiences does not match the Joneses'.
You lie because you want to get ahead. You lie because you want please someone.
Society may continue denouncing the lies you utter, but lying will remain part
of human culture until extinction.
Sad but true.

How gossip shapes perception

Many of us are not in total control of our minds. However much we think
we are. There's always that untamable little receptor hard fixed in our brain.
You might tell yourself not to lie or the opposite but find yourself to have hinted
on the truth or the lie.
When your colleagues, friends, family and others you come into contact with give a certain opinion, a particular issue or person, your brain receptor automatically store that information into your subconscious mind. That information will come into play when you come into contact with similar or person. That's the main reason why some of us don't like certain settings or people. Our initial denouement are none other than the idiosyncrasies of how chit-chats, gossip, opinions and perception
shapes our way of thinking.

Fatal career mistake: working for money

Think about your circle of friends. When you're hanging out, conversations
about someone successful often crops up. Success measured by how much money the person have. You unconsciously affirm to your mind that money will lead you to the same league as the next person. You work extremely hard to earn that monthly salary. Open a business to prove how much money you can make. What you don't realise is that your 'working for money' mentality is your self originated recipe for disaster.
I am not trying to say that you should work for free. Yes, you must get rewarded for your efforts.
The most critical reason anyone should wake up in the morning, prepare themselves for the working day ahead,is that inner, undying, burning desire to express oneself.
The reason I want to be celebrated for my crafts is not because I earned lots of money, but because I worked 12 hours each day perfecting my craft. Learning to be the best everyday.
Lesson of them all: work for self expression and to be the best in your chosen field. Money is the aftermath, not the main reason.
Not even the reason.

Marketing as details

Have you noticed how different companies from same industry give details of their products?
Immeasurable amount of information is fed on what makes a specific product/service. Furthermore,consumers are shown how the product/service help them save money. How healthy the product is, how efficient the service is. Different mediums are used, apparently in line with market segmentation, to reach the audience.
Complex human beings are classified as target markets based on demographics, income, lifestyle, preferences and many utter garbage.
This is all wrapped under the name. The name that was coined to psychologically twist the mind our vulnerable society.
Marketing?
There is no such thing as marketing other than accepted classification of other form of living. General population organise events, spend money as per their impulses and live among the hybrid of the population.
Yet no one hardly mention what we call 'corporate world' is in fact a segment in itself. This brave society brand itself in communication skills, time management, and the now famous,'stress management'. In today's seasonal generation of careerism,
being part of the corporate 'market' is seen, both by the aspire and those close, as determination. Utter garbage!
The kings and the queens at the top are looting all the money while the rest are slaving about, getting into debts and suffering from fatigue, yet can't stop to work.It's the world of anti-family, anti-personal value. Erosion of individuality.
You conform or you stay out. Staying out would be seen as being poor.
Being humble is preached but hardly practised. Being goal orientated, value living, and so forth is preached, but check on the surface, with an open mind. What you realise that it's utter talkmanship while the only values, goals that matters are the goals of the company.
Bullshit!

Life's drama rehearsed

I am not sure whether there are people who are completely detached from themselves.
Someone who sees her/his self from a completely objective viewpoint. Human being has been found to be an emotional creature. Influenced by emotions more than logical thinking. Every person is totally interested in themselves, in some way or another. However much we try to articulate otherwise we remain interested in some sort,to our true self. This has made negotiation more unpredictable and in requisite of specials negotiation gifts that lead to a compromise.
As for me, due to this realisation I would outline below the actions that I would countertake when thinking,relating to other human beings.
I would constantly remind myself that no one has my interest at heart thus I must find out their truest interest that I could use to get mine met. Acknowledge that no one owes me anything and I should wake to smell the coffee. Remain a listener,
a questioner while in negotiation. I would not expect people to like me but would make them like me by being in their side of thinking. Never be afraid to think differently even when it appears costly. Remember that people would be critical of me thus I must remain firm in my views.
It's the drama that each one us rehearsed as per our scripts or others'. The scripts that we run through our minds when in our shell, unconsciously,reviewing our recent,past experience or thinking about our long term goals.

Personality defects

It is widely understood that mankind is fallible. Most of them are rooted in personality.This is because people are mostly judged by their character. With empahsis on strong character.
Although we celebrate strong character, they are defects which even the strongest show, rather unintentionally.I would like to point out some weaknesses in character that have shown themselves.Mostly to my regret. It is hard not to regret having done something you would not do under normal circumstances.
My inability to say no when I should.
Rushing to agree with some people when in negotiation.
Losing patience at times
Being overwhelmed while it seems unnecessary
I am not trying to promote these defects but exposing my mistakes which are not within my liking.Although I have come to understand that I am blindly measuring myself according to accepted standards communicated via all human medium, I understand my limitation in forging my own character without measure.

Sales vs rocket science

In many areas of my career interests, I have come into contact with information that depicts sales as one of the financially rewarding. To my surprise, no one has ever mentioned how difficult sales. It is so difficult that many people never like sales. It is difficult that people do not trust sales people. I agree with the universal knowledge that emotions always stand in the way of smooth agreement. I am yet to see, hear or read about a men who say, with conviction and evidence, s/he mastered fear during sales presentation. Sales becomes so difficult that sales managers use positive thinking theory. But, what make sales so difficult to master? In my own opinion, I the reason behind the difficulty of sales is the near-impossible and ungovernable human emotion. It is not necessarily the emotion of fear that hold salespeople back from closing the sale but the failure to relate with a client in an ivory tower, employer's inflexibility-to get quick profit- through rigid rules towards employees. It is a generally accepted view that sales people are part of creative people and that rules can be interpreted differently but creative people; thus stifling flow of ideas. Lastly, it is very difficult to ask someone to invest in your service or product. You could not be expected to control the conversation with anyone you would like to persuade to spend their money on your service or product. These are some of sales' harsh truth that I found worthwile highlighting. Sales more difficult than communicated and it can be equated to rocket science.

Meaningful capitalism

The current political state of South Africa, as depicted by media reports, is characterised by opportunism to self enrich. It also went further to the coining of the term 'tenderpreneurship'. Political connection is valued to offer a leeway into getting government tenders through providing basic service to majority of poor South Africans. Through circumstances I cannot fully understand, people, more especially poor majority are seen taking to the streets protesting against service delivery. This results into a logical conclusion of those having been offered tenders as comprehensively incompetent. Many other situations of this sort are reportedly occurring, everyday.
However, some blame this on free market state.
The blame should be nothing other than an excuse of not having a clear solution to the underlying problem. Capitalism is far from being the cause of this incessant greed shown by the politically connected tenderpreneurs. Capitalism work in quite the opposite. In an ideal capitalist state, service delivery is the benchmark of the system's success. Capitalism is the end result efficient of service delivery.
In his wealth of nation, the father of capitalism, Adam Smith, stated 'the greed of an individual for more money would make him produce more in order to serve his needs.' This systematically change the practice of 'politically connected for financial gains' as corruption. Every economic system is corruptible, thus it's utter stupidity to blame capitalism.
Perhaps I might not be well versed about the politics of economic systems but I hardly heard capitalist advancing their cause byverbally attacking the other system.
I remain pro-capitalism under its basic values.

Promise of financial freedom

Please bear with me if you have been successful in below.
Point one, positive thinking does not work. I have come to notice that
failing sales department use the motivation or posisitive thinking talk
in order to appear genuine. That's what we call cop out in marketing. They do so
because they are scared to death that their department might fail. You see in sales position adverts,they say 'positive thinking'. Bollocks! That's their strategy of hiding their insecurity.
Any successful organisation would not question your state of mind if they believe in their services. Strong people could never be demotivated by someone's negativity. Most of them offer commission based only salary while stating the earning potential as limitless or up to so much amount. Yes, it's limitless because you'll hardly make money.
They only tell you about their commission structure once you are there. Why? Because they know their structure is shit.These organisations are run on con artists principle. They are a group of dedicated individuals in drive to increase they pocket share.I would never work for a commission only job. I still love my sales career but there should be a compensation of some sort that anyone could use as a benchmark for working extra hard thus I earn a commission. Those organisations hardly admit making mistakes. They either blame their employees' incompetence.
It's time I put this into perspective next time I go for an interview.

Retracting from taking....

I set out my goals in the open. They do not materialise within the time I want them to. I speak my thoughts but someone interpret them way out of my line. They are my thoughts, dammit! Why don't you interpret them the way I do. I expected her to respect my well thought-out financial plans, she used her ego to ruin my plans. 14 months down the line, I'm jobless. See! You must listen to my wise pessimism. I can't afford to take your out, now. Forget all that! She's still hopeful. But can you afford to pay the bills? Hope doesn't pay the bills. Neither does love. My weakness let me down big time. My lack of sexual discretion disappointed me. A dream deferred? I have stopped taking myself, everything I do, I see, I know, I hear or I need, seriously.

What an...

He adheres to the thinking of others. A pushover. Weak. He doesn't even know who he is. Let alone what he wants and needs. He's easily persuaded. Yet, in his corner he claims to be ambitious, goal orientated, or independent. He's self-delusional. He's indestructable because he was hardly constructed. Fearful but claim to be brave. The undisputable fool who gets weak, loose focus when he meet people. He hides his lack of opinion under listening. Neither speak against people in the fear of conflict or emotional debate. Can't make out whether what he's doing is right or wrong; whether his rights are being violated or not. He can't do much when pushed by others other than give in. He writes because he can't tell someone in their face. Read horoscope to hide his lack of self esteem. What a shame! Ladies and gentlemen, please prepare your wildest laughters. For a fool, who claim to be wise but lack the spine to get what he wants. An idiot who aspire to be a marketing genius but lack measureable people skills. For your convinience, welcome Owen Tatani Mabasa!

Desperate fantasies

It's an ironic world, isn't it? So-called experts on motivation write books, give
lectures and many other forms of communication, to inspire us. You jump and say 'wow!', that's great!
Ironically, these very same motivational speakers do articulate in their lecture, books or website, etc that humankind is a complex species. To add to that they would mention that human beings are innate goal seekers.
Are motivated by different things such as money, status, security and so forth.
They are called motivational speakers but they go on and mention what motivate people. Shouldn't they be called psychological speakers? I was reading a book that spoke about belief that one can do something if they can put their mind into it and
believe that they could do it. I have read quite a couple of them. Now you must be asking, why are you writing this?I am taking my valuable time to declare my alienating myself form these desperate fantasies. If I'm not mistaken, majority of the people I know in person hardly read. The world of reading is totally different from the actual world. I would rather read these books in order to get the ruthless advantage of identifying people's real motives other than using the rather impractical information to benefit myself.
I sing my goals everyday, surrender my goals to the God. Claim to be his servant.
Yes! I am gullible, but I never claim to have control to my life. Who ha control of their life while half their time is spent with people who have differnt
motives, ways of seeing life and sometimes you regard them mere hold backs.
Folks, I just wish my vision, direction, values and ideals are being taken care of because I, at times, feel I can't.
Hold on! Did I say 'wish!.'Or I'm not infallible though.
I'm finally using my independent faith to achieve something special rather quickly. When I say 'quickly' I mean quickly.
Watch the space over the next seven days!

Middle class on merit

Discard the facts of overindebtness associated with people earning
R25,000,00 per month. the opposite of the middle class are the merited qualities
that would serve as a good indication and motivation of falling within the class.
The ideal middle class exhibit the following qualities:
-Work twice as hard to support their family, either as midsenior/senior employees or entrepreneurs.
-Earn at least R25,000,00 per month or more.
-Drive top of the range car which they are able to maintain.
-Started investing,R1000 per month, at their twenties.
-Bought a house at their mid twenties.
-They have a disciplined method of financial freedom.
-They are addicted to learning.
The ideals above are unarguably the best that anyone would aspire to. I am no exception. I aspire to the defined type of lifestyle.

Owen’s art of financial independence

In the midst of economic recovery, statistics from knowledgeable economist becomes an intense creation of economic debate. By the time of writing this article, SA economy was signalling a recovery of 0.9% for the third quarter. This growth was the first for the duration of twelve months. However, further debate, speculate that the economy may have shown this sign of recovery but it is still early to celebrate this recovery because of the massive job losses that incurred in the period of one year. An estimated 400, 000, 00 jobs have been lost for the past one year.
In the midst of economic recovery, I happened to be in the crucial stage of my life’s success. During recessionary period Owen had prepared himself, unknowingly, to weather the economic storm. Although the preparation was not sufficient to fully cover all the requirements of activities that happen during the period, it made him proud to have shown a little bit of foresight in his finances. It is something he would draw his wisdom from. By the time of writing this article Owen was running up and down looking for a job that would fill the void left by retrenchment. The company he worked for the past three years had decided to offload some of its staff, due to restructuring. He was, unfortunately, listed on the staff that the company had wanted to leave out in the new structure. This had brought him under immense pressure to find another job or income generating means rather quickly. He gave himself at least forty days to find another job. This pressure was due to the fact that he had two critical credits that he did not want to lose, i.e. the house and the car. However, it was towards December that the retrenchment had happened, thus the pressure and the worry of not getting immediate response. As a timeless individual, he never stopped running around his deadline. This had made it difficult and challenging for him but he knew that through hardship he could achieve the status of success serendipity. He made it his point to make at least two applications, everyday, for the job. Despite the rejections that he encountered Owen knew that the only way to realising his wishes was to keep applying, following up and going to interviews. He also had an arrangement of looking for an exciting venture that would give him a breakthrough into realistic entrepreneurship. The more his plans come to mind, he thought of them directing him towards their realisation. He thought, handsomely, that he could only take action at a pace which enables his desires to come into fruition with painstaking care. His was merely an act of his Godly nature, to further the purposes that he had outlined himself to achieve. In the instance of careerism, he had learned a great deal from retrenchment. From now on, he would give his best shot in terms of dedicating himself and ensuring the high level of efficiency and accuracy. Excellency! He yearned for high level of excellency, first in his strategic thinking and then, qualitative execution. He vowed to devote much time in his neatness and professionalism when in corporate settings, from the personal outlook. And for more practical purpose of being in the position he would relish the settings where it would enable him to discuss an idea where there are different viewpoints and he become the one who facilitate an agreement. It could not be denied that Owen was an obsessive careerist. He found happiness and sense of expression in working hard to achieve both his career and personal goals. He had dreamed, wrote down and planned several times to become extremely wealthy. He had undying desire for ever growing investment account and running a business that have initial profit projection of R15,000,00 on its first few months of operation, that would keep his wits happily awake the whole 24 hours , and drive his creative passion up high for the rest of his life. However, he was looking for a job by the time dreaming such fruitful dreams. Why look for a job while holding such good plan? The reasoning behind job hunting was due to the fact that he had not yet found or toyed around an idea that could give him his initial monthly projected profit. And furthermore, he was looking for a job with a hope that he would lend an advertising or marketing position. Either of the two would mean another dream having come true because he wanted to understand and master their practicalities. He had psyched himself to deal, successfully, with success when it presents itself. He knew that he was not the one to let good opportunities pass by. What might have been the detour to his yearning for quicker returns would be attributed to his need for quicker returns. There has never been anything wrong with quicker returns, although there is lot of scepticism around their reality, as long as they come into fruition. When quick returns are gained- wishfully lots and lots of money- Owen would not have minded taking advantage of them.
He believed that he had to push back boundaries in order to reach his goals. He also knew that people within power positions, where he was directing his searches for a lucrative job opportunity, were in sync with his qualities and work style. They saw in him an intrapreneur who has passion for what he does and could relate rather well within his team. That was the advantage beyond his understanding of the systems that the position required one to master. He was a strict disciplinarian, mostly to himself! He thought himself capable of achieving goals he has set himself despite his very own doubt. He could be reflective in his own way and he found that made him a stronger, independent person. His was a very risky life that he thought could result in great success. When he did something he does it with much energy, vision and dedication that goes beyond his own abilities. He believed in being completely honest to himself than with anything. His profound believe was that he should be able to make enough money to fulfil cause that bothered his conscience.
When he got the job at Procter&Gamble manufacturing, Owen knew that there was only one way to go: up. Thus, he would not repeat the mistake of not using his creative power, intellect and communication ability to ensure that he does make a great contribution within the company.
His image of himself was not an inflexible either. He understood and appreciated that people he relates with would not necessarily see him the way he sees himself. However, it was not their call to project to him their own view of him. His was an inner perception of himself that could be understood only by the person inside. That’s how he understood and appreciated when people see him different from himself because it’s the outer world that he interacts with. This was the man who could overcome rejection towards its knees.
‘You can’t borrow your identity nor buy it. You must! Listen! You must create it to your true satisfaction,’ he once said.
Owen prayed for money all his life, thus he had so much than he himself could have imagined. His prayers culminated into hard work which was rewarded handsomely. He saw a bit of Jewish principles in him. ‘Make more, spend and save’ was his philosophy in his creation of the most interesting lifestyle, while looking at his background. He was not ashamed of loving money let alone the risk of making money. His mind was conditioned to make as much money as he could, regardless of whether as an employee or entrepreneur. ‘It was within my variable interest to formulate a prayer based on financial successes’, he once said, while standing firm on his decision to formulate the prayer. He apparently practiced his prayer twice a day.
Through the studying of the habits of highly effective people, Owen discovered an underlying skill that would stand to serve his effectiveness in human relations. He discovered a unique listening skill. He saw the skill as unique because of his genuine need to listening with intent to understand than to reply or judge. He learned emphatic listening. This skill would allow him to communicate his purpose from the other person’s point of view. This did not mean he would readily agree to anything that the other party is proposing but sought to figure out whether what is proposed is genuine or within his values. Steps he would take first to put himself under another’s point of view is diagnosis. He would ask questions logically and refraining to get emotional about finding the root of the problem. However, he understood that emotions do get in the way, but the book taught him that when he sense emotions coming into play he would revert to emphatic listening.
There was no doubt that he has enough courage to question, even his own assumptions about the way he had come to develop them and whether they serve his higher purpose. The main love to his heart with regard to communication would have been the way he wanted to engage his mind in a specific subject; marketing being the state of engrossment in his mind. The learning of all things marketing gave him more imaginable curiosity. Although this limited his relations to his immediate people, but he would concur later, ‘It was the best sacrifice that I could have made in my entire life and let alone painful. I wanted to understand the subject beyond my imagination. I wanted to be renowned for being in the level of Theodore Levitt, John Sculley and many well known marketing people. I wanted to achieve this by being unique in my understanding of the marketing practicality. I was not necessarily going to be bound to theoretical understanding but further to measure my understanding and performance in marketing by being the most sought after marketing specialist in the area of service. However, he did not remain complacent in thinking that he was fallible. He has inner humility, which could not remain visible to the outer world but a rather genuine humility. In comparison to others close to him he saw no reason of being in a state where his siblings or cousins have ever been. He wanted to be in a sustainable financial position more than them. Despite his will to achieve more than his relatives he did not see this perspective as competition with them, but it was a reasonable view that he held dearly. He yearned for life of abundance thus he would not be in the position where he had to ask anyone for money.
He was well read that sometimes his speech would not complete a sentence without stuttering or gasping for air. Sometimes, some people would see him as nice or soft, emotional or illogical, while he would only think that people saw him differently to himself. This did not mean that he was the self important person in his communication but he had the desire to see himself, as he would like other person to see him, thus get motivated to behave in the projected view.
He likes to see himself as a think tank kind of guy. One who does not have much concern about how the other person would see him. A contrary view for someone who was viewed to be in a survival mode- as per one reputable marketing director who once interviewed him for a job. However, he was not only in survival mode but he had dreams as well as goals. He wanted to achieve them with great pace and skill. The many parts that saw him want to achieve mainly financial success were very secretive to him and are perception during the course of achievement.
He was the most critical person to himself when he could not do something to the best of his abilities. Owen demanded the best out of himself. Although he had his own doubts, it did not stop him from believing in his abilities to become the best that he can be. Although there were moments where his interactions with the outer world he would question, he kept his head above waters that he would find, in him, the opportunity to rise above human relations challenges for the better. He believed his professional personality will grow to the higher standard realistically possible. He did not shy away from showing wisdom, truth, wealth and science in his day to day conduct of his life. He repeated these values over time in his head. He did not deny that he was hard on himself, but he also believed that being hard was the correct means of being on top of his game. Beauty in his personal life, beauty in his social life, beauty in his professional life, and he dreamt of anything beautiful to achieve. His timing for achievement was admirable. He believed in his charming and witty personality to get things done. He made it to himself that he will work on beautiful personality. Owen’s love and prayer for money gave him the commitment to realise his goals within his defined term.
As an eager learner, he believed in being willing to learn from the high achievers and yearned badly to associate and be at home with them. He would adopt their fruitful strength for his own usage.
His ideals for livings were in association with his earning potential. Below is the brief overview of what he needs to earn in order sustain his living standard and his professional career.

For business activities he needed at least R10000.00 set aside each month AND the spending breakdown was as follows:
R3000.00 for fuel
R500.00 for airtime
R6000.00 for roadside emergencies

To sustain his name and his other commitments he needed at least R15000.00 set aside each month and the commitment breakdown were as follows:
R3553 for home loan repayment
R994 for personal loan repayment
R2212 for car repayment
R315 for home insurance
R1455 for car insurance
R1000 for retirement annuity
R3000 for medical aid
R1000 for other investments
The remaining balance of R1971 was for other usage other than any planned situation within the home.
The amount he needed to earn in order to cover these costs living was at least R40000.00 per month, consistently. This was in consideration to the high taxation that was around for high income earners. He gave himself forty days period to begin generating this income. This was not only a man who wanted to just survive but a man who yearned and willing to sacrifice for realistic and concrete financial freedom. The association of people was not of very much concern to him but he had an undying willingness to find relevant people who had the courage and ready financial means to invest in the product that he was offering to them. The ambition that he had was indestructible. His wife has tried persistently, to no avail, to make him be human but his ambitions did not allow him so. Owen wanted his life to be really well balanced and its obstacles being immediately manageable. He believed that by selling he stood a chance of being really wealthy. That belief he held despite the view that people had about selling. He saw in selling an opportunity to be both an employee and an entrepreneur. His other strength was in him wanting ready commitment from his client because of his conviction that he was honest in his dealings and did not harbour unsavoury intentions. Owen was never the person who liked sharing his opinions about other people’s life or sense of direction, let alone his wife’s. He had maintained his neutrality in her decisions. This was not because of ignorance but because he understood human relations and the need for one to be right in their very irrational decisions. He knew that he must remember the art of psychology in dealing with people but use its practice to gain an advantage in communicating to people for his benefit. He was not necessarily about profit first but he was about excellent service then profit.
Beyond servicing his debts Owen also had progressive material ideas. To follow his after payments of two of his debts he wanted to trade in his Mini Cooper for the new version of Mini Cooper. He wanted to upgrade to another same difference of car. This would only happen after he had paid off his car and the personal loan. As reiterated in this piece of writing he understood the hard work lying ahead in order to complete the set targets. His new house was also in need of beautifying. It needed to be tiled inside and a wall built for further safety and completeness. He also held an idea of paving his yard for gregarious aesthetics. There was another small project back in Limpopo which he had to complete in order to venture freely around there.
On a deeper level Owen was psychologically aware. Aware, in a sense that he knew basic, general human thinking and perception. He did not initially understood how to utilise the psychology advantage but his continuous learning has taught him to use what would benefit him while not leading others’ to marginalised position. He was in no need, contrary to the view of others, of approval. He earned his approval. Or the unfounded perception that he appeared weak. His appearance was deeply founded to disarm human tension that brew when he meet people. Although he left his job as a Sales Consultant at Maxidor after the shortest stay of his career he remain loving to a career in Sales. He left due to their system of penalisation which he personally thought to be hampering one’s financial progress. Money was the great motivator for him. Not because he was greedy for wealth but because he had financial obligations to fulfil.
In his stance for super gifted communicator/orator he had integrated the idea of personal branding to enhance the message he encoded towards persuasive yet truthful conviction. His battle remained to be calm, composed and creative while in communication with decision maker. Although there was no evidence that no one is totally peaceful, calm inside while in conversation he was adamant that he could achieve feet with pragmatist trial and error. Having achieved this challenge would move him much closer towards accomplished personal branding. Marketing was seen as people’s career. It was Owen’s greatest desire to master the greater art of marketing as a career. His way of succeeding in the challenge was diverse in a sense that he remained open to others’ view. However, he had his own held view. Below is the list of some of them. Some he has achieved thus far:
1. To get a code 10 driver’s licence. Passed
2. To get a job as an Account Executive.
3. To earn at least R10, 000.00. Passed
4. To drive/own a red and black 2008 Mini Cooper S. Not fully done but Mini Cooper he has achieved.
5. To become an effective and efficient communicator of information, ideas. Achieved but not fully
6. To strategically network his skills.
7. To earn at least R40, 000.00 per month before the age of 28.
8. To become a marketing manager before the age of 28
9. To become a millionaire before the age of 30
10. To plan, execute marketing plans effectively and efficiently.

Owen had other million plans in his mind and the idea of achieving most of them kept him energised and determined to move ahead successfully.
He was not completely happy with his way of thinking sometimes. He had the tendency of thinking that other people are wrong. He was basically judgemental of people’s attitude. It was not necessarily the good of attitude he saw but his by-the-book way of life has taught him that it’s quite unhealthy to focus on other people’s life with the purpose of judging harshly. He yearned to focus solely in the success of his life, through his way of thinking. It was a saying, ‘your true connection to your success or talents comes from understanding, fully, the person within yourself.’ He wanted to be impeccably aware of his own strength and weaknesses, be able to do something positive about it. It could not be forgotten that Owen had a reserved personality, something which was misjudged as selectivity or anti-social. He valued his life challenges to focus on the behaviour or preferences of another. Although he could get carried away at times, he was relentlessly in search of that resolute inner guidance to steer him clear towards an accomplished sophistication. He would measure his accomplished sophistication by his ability to communicate it clear through his writing. Through his good listening skills and gullibility Owen discovered an interesting motive that people have when communicating. Through hindsight he noticed that some people talk in order to make themselves heard other than getting the point across. It was also a pity that others were talking because they wanted to prove their worth. Although it was hard to pick up these motives while in conversation he devised a plan that would help his listening psychology to keep his mind off these circumstances. He would just listen but never say a word. Before he could answer people’s question he would check the motive by asking the question ‘why’ and try as hard to sense the con of the answer, because others are so smart enough to realise that you picked up their connives. He did not want his mind to be overwhelmed by useless information. He was generally quiet, shy and reserved but did know the art of genuine human relations. His first sign human relations understanding was to stay away from arguments as soon as possible, stop talking to anyone who doesn’t share his values of win/win relationship. Although Owen believed in gentle art of persuasion he hardly understood it in practice. He wanted to understand the words resembling gentleness. Gentle persuasion was useful to him because he thought himself obligated to influence his immediate world.
His financial situation, by the time of this writing needed a big boost like previously related in this piece. He wanted to make a change to ensure there’s enough stability in his life’s prospect. His way of dealing with this challenge was, in personal terms computer program like-no emotions while he was still in hope of that break to save his reputation. He could do anything to save his financial reputation. It was not anything that he would be foolhardy about reality but in a sense that he believed that the energy he was giving to his situation would see him towards successful outing. When dealing with a challenge Owen had the tendency of applying his energy wholeheartedly. That was his main strength.
‘Perseverance and pragmatism would carry me towards his achievement’, he thought.
Hey, do not be fooled by his strong side exposed in this piece, Owen endured the bad side of life’s adventure. He had to go through the period of unemployment, ran through the risk of losing his strength, his possessions. It was not after all, all-system-go. He was lucky enough to find a job at the right time to save his blushes. He kept his unemployment a secret from his closest family and some friends of his. He did this because he did not like to them nor had anything against them but it was because of his belief that he would bounce back into the world of work rather quickly. ‘Damage control,’ he called it. ‘Keeping it private matter also enabled me to give my energy on finding another job sooner than they would note the difference,’ he went on. That was the same strategy that he applied to the creditors as well. ‘We did not find out that he was out of job for so long, until you told us,’ were the words from his three main creditors. He did manage to bounce back rather quickly, it seemed.
Despite his shortcomings, he yearned for diplomacy in dealing with people. The reasoning behind working on improving his diplomacy was his incessant obsession to realise his genius as a service marketer. His need for analytical reasoning was in the form of learning about a subject of concern and be able to make out whether there is any discrepancy that does not fit the ideal of that subject. That required his lateral thinking to match with the analytical nature. Still in the subject of mental ability, he also felt compelled by being in an excellent marketing state to structure his way of communication towards being recognise as a formal yet soulfully impactful way of communication. To achieve this, Owen would have to ensure his communication comes from the inside where he is very articulative when communicating from. The inside in this instance meant he would have to speak strictly from his nerve centre of his nervous system with regulated speech: from it rate, volume, words and tone. Furthermore, it was worth noting that he was gradually finding his core point of communication strength. His knowledge of knowledge was to know what to do with the knowledge that he had. ‘I found it rather useless to know something but do not have the capacity to use it for some benefit,’ he reiterated. He did not really believe in only talking about theories. He yearned for being able to put them into practice. ‘Most of the ideas I thought talked about were implementable. That’s the main reason I did not believe in much talk,’ he went on. Right actions speak louder than words!
In the quarter leading to April 2010, the employment index ran by Adcorp group was signalling employment growth estimated at 3%. It was a good sign for being in a position to be employed. However, he stopped short of trying to second guess himself and others. The only effect the index had on him was to remain prepared and pragmatic.
He was sometimes concerned about his being insecure but an ideal he once read calmed by stating, ‘the future belongs to the discontent’. ‘I was so discontent with myself, my achievements and my failures as well.’ How did his discontent affect his way of thinking? ‘My way of thinking was very much outside the psychological comprehension. Although I had in-depth knowledge of psychology, it only helped me to clear our unwanted way of thinking in my mind. I had a simple philosophy that would carry me above all things that I did. My philosophy was to keep to my vision, direction and values I have carved for myself. The most important of these were the ones I had formulated in 2005 after I had left my first job,’ he deliberated. Was there no regret in his ‘formulated vision, direction and values’? ‘Yes, a big regret. An error had I realised earlier I would have been in the bigger scheme of things,’ he said. What that might be got me more curious. ‘When I formulated a career vision I should have chosen to be in business for myself. I was blinded by the lack of resources and thought I could not make it.’ Wow! So he had no idea there was a way to rise above his lack of resources? ‘The thing is, I never thought myself resourceful or intelligent enough to achieve the feat,’ he said with his eyes still in awe. Was there still any hope of changing the career direction? ‘I think there is because currently I am busy with a business plan. Although, I think I would have been far had I went through with being entrepreneurial. I have set myself time to reach the entrepreneurial stage,’ he reassured. And looking at above financial plans, it was clear that he wanted to be an entrepreneur.

It was not a far cry to challenge the audacity of his being a people’s person. He felt himself lost at times when with people for pure social pleasure. How, though, did he plan to achieve his marketing genius or his killer sales executive status without high social skills? ‘I adhered to a thought: being with people does not mean talking your points all the time. Thus, I could be comfortable with my being reserved around people. At times I would be a probing conversationalist. I would brush up my people’s skills in that manner,’ he combatively said. It was not hard to comprehend, when looking at the evidence lying out of people achieving things in a different way. When he looked at the brand he realised that there were differences in the way they are positioned. ‘That should tell you something about the thinking behind brand. It’s people with different mentality who devise those branding strategies. So are we still blind to say there set ways of being a marketing genius? No. That has been proven overtime,’ his argument was valid.
He saw himself as a limitless individual who was bound for good things he saw worthy to work hard for. Although Owen was not fully in connection with his true talents he did try come into distinction of his original expression. He really loved to listen to writing. In that way he would come to ingrained habits of finding unique gifts that gifted people had he would relate to without much difficulty. It was his undeniable belief that ‘to think I am at the point of finding my true calling would literally means the financial rewards that come with answering the calling is beyond human imagination.’ What a rather bold observation anyone would make, considering they are just at the middle age of their youthful years.
In conclusion, the financial independence that Owen has artistic yearning to expression is no less ordinary.

The past in the present

From your knowledge of how uncontrollable your mind could be comes the memory of your past. It is well known that you can't change your past. But, what should you do about past memories creeping up?
Your reliable wisdom reminds you how past memories could help you better your judgement or life for that matter. When you get scared about going back to the unpleasant situation that you have been before, you are reminded that those thoughts are there to push you to do something about them. The past could never come to life again, never. Again, another pleasant reminder crop up. Your little subconscious regenerate the experience of abundance that you had when times were good. By now you know that the past will never be relived in practice, but you realise that there is much potential in you to live another life of abundance. You pick up good memories about this and learn from it.
After you have gone through good and bad thoughts, you got some light shed on your potential as a human being.
Finally, you take a stand and say, 'The past will remain the past. I must make certain that I learn from it to forge a path of choice in the current.'
Based on your values you formulate a path to live through and act on it.
That's the past in the present. Be open minded, flexible and daringly adventurous.

The pursuit of R950, 000.00

Have you ever noticed how much money drives one's life? From the first day
of school you were thinking about money. Oh, you think I am exaggerating!
Take this example. Your teacher asked you what did you want to be when you grow
up. You confidently raised your hand and said,' I want to be a doctor’. Some of you said something different. Did you think you would offer those services for free after all your teen years and early twenties' years of studying, just for an approval to diagnose people and give them prescription.
I understand that you are thinking, 'I was not thinking about money when I said that. ‘That’s true. You were not thinking about money, but let me tell you something, 'Before you went to your pre-school, for those who were lucky to have gone to one, you were taught that money does not come for free. You work for it.
I think you know by now why you choose to be a doctor when your teacher asked you in school. Money! One scarce commodity for human kind.
You might not have become a doctor due some unforeseen circumstances but did you lose your hope of working for money.
No! Despite your now improved knowledge of money as a scarce commodity and its need to be worked for, you trudged on. You went to register for another course in order to gain an advantage in the working world. You studied for whichever years that your course required and succeeded. The harsh reality! You realise that you have to market yourself through your skills, patience, planning, perseverance, experience and knowledge; you bear in mind the position matches your skills, experience, skills, passion and career aspiration. It is not an easy task but because that devilish motivator keep you going.
Eureka!
You receive a call asking you to come for an interview. You go to an interview. Well dressed, well prepared, having researched the company, arrive 13 minutes early. You meet the interviewer, who usher you to the interview room. You are asked questions which you answer confidently because you know. The interviewer gives an opportunity to ask questions. You do
not hesitate but ask relevant questions. Thereafter, you are told management will look at your profile and decide on your capabilities to meet their unique requirements on the job.
You are glad that at least you have been interviewed. You wonder whether you did well or not. After three to four days you get a call from the same company confirming your success on the interview. Bingo!
You now have a job. You choose to start immediately. However, you realise that, for you to remain successful, you must work extra smart and hard. Your salary
is of adequate means of realising you financial goals, which you outlined while in perfecting your career goals.
You need to drive a nice car, you need to live in a nice house, you need to wear nice clothes, you need to service your car, furnish your house, insure your car, yourself, your belongings, etc.
Of all pursuit, you courageously realise that you need to have at least R950, 000.00 in your investments to be financial secure.
Good luck to your pursuit, you said to yourself.

Beyond failure

In the adventure of life I could not accurately tell why things happen the way they
do. However, the only reasoning I could try articulate is to think myself being in the
position where I have fulfillment of some sort.
My version of fulfilment is seeing myself being called up for an interview to fill up a
position that would enable me to make a contribution. After the interview I get appointed to the
position. Thereafter employ all my energy, talent, skills and vision towards greater good.
Here I am, again, articulating the very same procedure that I have articulated before in this writing space.
In conclusion I am looking forward to indisputable survival as an individual.
I do not know my destiny but I know I must survive.

Anti-Julius

We have become anti-Julius to forget that the angle of reporting by our disrespectful reporters have been to shape our perception. google media practice or media law, then compare it to the reporting that has been presented. Oooh, we are blacks we don't read! Even when we read we don't understand. It's shame that when the media says Julius or Tiger we are quick to bring forth opinions we claim to be our own. Lest we forget that the media introduced us to Julius or Tiger we can not claim to know anything. Here I am not saying their behaviour is right but the lack, in imaginative perspective, of my fellow black people. Shame on us.

Living for a vision

The prospects of getting myself my ideal career job is seemingly closer than I realise. I have noticed a sense of progress in my quest for an impeccable exhibition of my talents. Talents! I have come to convince myself that I have talents could share with the world. They require my adaptability to corporate or working environment.
Some qualities I have exhibited and have proved worthwhile. My strong character would come into
play while advancing above challenges before myself.
The fact that I have inner perfectionism impel me to remain realistically confident that I have enough skills to gain immense, recognisable experience. I am unashamedly working to see through my vision. My psychological pragmatism will become the force with relations to perception that people have of me.
A vision at stake is worth working for

The power of good looking

I have not had convincing features to brag about good looking individuals.
Although my features have not changed much but I would take the risk of highlighting
the art of good looking individuals.
Before we dwell on the subject of good looking, please bear in mind that 'good looking'
in this context does not refer to body make up only, it also refers to the conduct of ones' life, thinking skills, communication skills and their values.
Being good looking has made me think I have the best character around. This has convinced me
that I could dress smart. It has built my confidence around people. Well groomed people have had
considerable consideration in their activities. I am no exception.
My communication becomes clear, persuasive while my good looks are hypnotically
capturing the imagination of the listener. I choose my words carefully and accurately while
communicating with people.
I would be extra handsome if I was no occasional smoker.
Good looks could take my presentation skills to its highest form.

Selling physical security products

Before I brag about myself in the way that I normally do in my blog.Today, I would be bragging about myself within the selling of Maxidor products.
There is not any evidence in this blog where I have spoken about myself being in the lucrative sales career. Although, my star sign, Aries(NB:I'm not totally convinced about the readings' accuracy)have indicated that have indicated that I have a talent for sales. And my new manager and marketing director has concurred that by hiring me in the sales position. I have become in love with selling for quite a while although I did not pronounce it.
I saw sales as a means of becoming a marketing genius that I want to work hard to achieve.
Quite exciting to me for accepting to work for maxidor is the opportunity to prove my business acumenship.
I'm glad that my paycheck will be determined by the sales transactions I make each month. It is more like writing your own paycheck. The mentoring that you get from the company management have also convinced me that I would realise the sales target that have been set, i.e R250,000,00 each month as a minimum. Take the ten percent of that amount and you get the idea of how much I would earn.
If you remember properly, I had made it my goal to earn at least R25,000,00 per month in one of my writing. Now the opportunity has presented itself for that to happen.
I am selling top of the range product in the market.
Within this salespreneurship, I am investing myself in doing the following:
Remaining boundlessly curious about the product I have made part of me.
Taking my passion for people to the next sales level.
Giving accurate, yet powerful presentation about the product I am offering.
Closing beautifully and easily, as many sales as possible, within 35 hours.
Remain a student that culminate into a genius.
Another interesting point about this opportunity is the paradigm shift that it given me.
I would remain aesthetically clean, exquisitely dressed all the time of my day, life.
I will be serving the market of high income, knowledgeable and rather upmarket people.
My communication skills will be at a natural high, professional and in line with the market I am serving.
Overall, I will remain humble, caring, passionate, committed and sensitive to the reasonable needs of fellow human beings.

Talking about my goals

It would be fair to begin this article by apologising for the past mistakes
that I have made in the past. It was a mistake based on the learning that I acquired via a book. Perhaps it was my mislearning that cost me dearly in rapid advancement. I read a book called 'Lazy man's way to riches.'
I commend the book for bringing to light my inner goals that I wanted to achieve. It was an eye opener in itself. What I did not really grasp was the meaning of, 'don't tell anyone your goals because it will bring doubts.'
However, other information came through about the power of sharing my goals for accountability purposes. I became wary of sharing my goals,
although I believed in them. Recently, I reflected on these two contradictory learning and my perception have taught me to choose to share information about my goals.I want to hold myself accountable by doing so. Even further, gauge them against the reality of the working world.
One crucial element is the perception that people, whom their trust I need so much, have of me. I have been feeling a bit weak in my
personality. Thus, I made it to myself to bring forth the image of sensuality,clear and eloquent communicativeness,and firmness.
Hope and commitment will ensure I bring to fruition a personality I hold dearly into my heart and mind.

Living the future

As a human being who belongs to a society of relationships and comunication.
These two qualities form the spiritual phases that govern me as an individual.
It is my wish and commitment to relate with people in a win/win conduct. Doing so, build a foundation for long term relationship with people. I recently got employed as a sales consultant at one of the leading physical security company. It is a well known fact that sales requires strong and contagious human relations characteristics.
Being able to give powerful,persuasive yet informative presentation.
I am committing myself to being a versatile and truthful communicator.
This has been my dream of being engaged with high powered people and coomunicating within their level of understanding. It is career qualities that I have committed my spirituality to further.
I will be in my best elements most of the time and, but remain firm and strong in my personality. In this human relations that I have learned so much about I will be inclduing the asking of a sale when engaging with qualified people, i.e people with means and needs.
I am committing myself to living a quality life and building a successful career.
Money,relationships and genuine interest in people will rule most of my daily life.
Genuine interest it is.