How to influence the direction of your future

Here we go….

I hate to admit it, but this is one of the most difficult articles I had to write. It is supposed to be my first article in 2021. Most of you might be wondering why I find it difficult to write this article, but it’s because  for the first time I didn’t trust myself. I got myself entangled with toxicity for the most part of 2020. My belly drove me to a job that was so toxic that I nearly lost myself. It is true that “You are an average of the people you associate yourself with.” What more if you are working under a “toxic boss”? Yes I said a “boss” because that’s what she is. She’s not a manager. That’s all I’m going to say now, because fortunately I managed to move away from that “toxic environment “. I am a firm believer that sometimes the solution to a problem is not to participate in it. That is why I chose to walk away..

With all that said, it is true that we are the thoughts we think. What you think, and how you feel create your state of being. It sounds so easy that one morning one can just wake up and change the thoughts we think. Get it from me, it’s not that easy…

I remember seeing no way out, the sad Sunday afternoons, the lonely nights and early morning doing work for a woman who never appreciates anything. I couldn’t see a way out. I thought of quitting many times, but I thought of my bills. I will sit in meetings with her and my emotions will be triggered by her negative rhetoric. I was always in a state of fear and panic. Just the mention of her name caused me stress. 

Coming back to the topic of the day, thoughts that you think when magnetized, attract corresponding thoughts. I was spiraling in those emotions and feelings that I created more of the corresponding ones.

The way we think has some effect on our lives. Our thoughts in a way create our reality. They are intimately connected to our future. Our brain is the record of the past of all we’ve learned and experienced throughout our life.

Most people spend the majority of their life wondering why they never arrive at the vision of their future.  It is because of some experience they had in the past. They live their life based on past memories. Feelings and emotions are the end product of the past. You can remember experiences better because you remember how they felt. Once you feel an emotion, you create a long term memory. It is for that reason that you have to be defined by the vision of the future instead of the memory of the past.

How many people have a clear vision of their future? Everyday we wake up thinking the same thoughts, making the same choices, demonstrating the same behaviors, reproducing the same experiences, that produces the same emotions and we are secretly expecting our life to change. 90% of the thoughts we think are somehow the same thoughts as the day before. The same thoughts always lead to the same choices. The same choices always lead to the same behaviors. The same behaviors create the same experiences. The same experiences produce the same emotions, and those emotions drive the same thoughts.

Our thinking and actions create our personality , and our personality creates our personal reality. So if you want to have a better future, stop, pause, and ask yourself “what am I thinking and how does it make me feel?” If you’ve been thinking thoughts that don’t support your future, then replace them with thoughts that support the future you want.

Is it easy? NO. Not at all, but it’s doable. It needs daily practice. You have to consistently practice for 90 days or more until you see a change.

Be aware of your thoughts, replace them with those that support your future, and start to experience abundance in every area of your life.

Good luck in creating your new future.

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God deliver South Africans from looking for a job

My prayer to God is to free South Africans from thinking of earning a living by getting a job. I know a lot of you would not even to hear what I’m trying to say..

Here me out. Here’s the thing

Employees trade their time for money and work in a system that is created by entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur creates a system that brings together people and (ideas that adds value to others), thus providing jobs for employees. Employees are paid fixed salaries because they are not paid to create anything. They are just paid to work with a system that is already created.

Entrepreneurs create work and employees look for work because they can’t create it themselves. Entrepreneurs create a number of clients that the can tap into at anytime. When one client leaves, the business owner still has other clients to tap into. Mean while if the employee loses his/her job, there’s no other options to tap into, except to stay home without a job. Entrepreneurs create value and a system to distribute that value to other people, while an employees within that system.

For that reason employees will never get the freedom to earn an income they want, at whatever time they  desire for themselves. Their time is controlled by an already existing system, and most employees get stuck in this system by creating debt in the form of mortgages, cars etc.

Looking at the bigger picture, are you really doing what you like in your job? If you are doing what you like, what not create your own freedom of how and when to do it?

Remember entrepreneurs create what they like doing(in a form of a business), and they run it at a time that suits them best, which means they have the freedom to do what they like at the time that is best suited for them.

Can you now see the benefit of being an entrepreneur?

You can however break from the rat race of a 9-5 job. Here’s a few tips of what you can do to start preparing yourself for taking the leap into business:

  1. Spend less than you earn and save 10% of your salary every month.
  2. Develop self control and keep your needs and low as possible. Instead of buying lunch at work, you can bring your own lunch.
  3. Get out of debt as much as you can. Do you really need a car? Do you really need to buy new clothes, or go out on a drinking spree with friends? If you have to sell your car, remember that it’s because you have a project you are saving towards, which is breaking free from employment and starting your own business.

This is just but a few tips I can give to break free from employment. People who start their own businesses get enough income to meet their basic and comfort needs and do whatever they like with their own time.

Of course it will take time. Anything of quality takes time .

This article is in no way trying to discourage people from looking for jobs. It is aimed at people who keep saying they want to be rich, or they want to create wealth for themselves. I truly believe that getting a job is meant for one to save from his salary so they can buy things they like cash, start businesses and never have to be engulfed in debt. As mentioned before, wealth can only be created when one is doing something they love and have the freedom to have the income they want to pay for their basic and comfort needs. Now note that the main variable here is Freedom. With employment, one does not have the freedom to manage their own time. Their time is controlled by their employer because they traded their time in exchange for employment.

I hope this Article will encourage you start thinking like an entrepreneur and to take risks to create your own work/business.

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How to be relevant even in hard times

As a leader, how do you Stay Relevant during Covid 19?

You have to “Add Value”. Period…

I can’t think of any other way to really stay relevant and stand out during this time.

 

  • During this time, do you support your clients directly or indirectly?
  • Are you keeping your prices fixed when times are difficult like now?
  • I know most business owners will disagree with me on this one, but I’m willing to take a chance. Are you one of the people who feel that this is the time to make money?

But supporting your clients during this time is when you provide them with VALUE. If you want to be relevant, you have to be seen as valuable at this trying time of the pandemic. People are facing different problems during this time, so are businesses. Some are closing down because “there’s no business”.

Why do some people and organisations give food parcels?

Do they give them at a price? Do they charge people for these food parcels?

For them to be relevant in this time, they are solving the problems of the day.

As a business owner, and you have to think of a strategy to be sustainable and to move forward in this pandemic and beyond. What is it that you need to do to be relevant?:

  • Work directly on problems facing your clients

What problems are they facing right now? What do they need for them to survive and move forward?

  • Introduce tools and techniques relevant for this time to solve their problems.

What methods do you need to introduce to them for them to move forward? Do they need an App? Are these methods relevant to solve their problems during this pandemic?

  • Don’t be generic. Be specific. There’s no “one size fits all”.

Rather than focusing on generic roll out of tools and techniques to solve their problems, focus on solving one problem at a time.

  • Find out what information or knowledge your clients need during this Covid 19 pandemic. Remember it has to be information that will help them survive the hardships of today and to help them move forward. For example if they need knowledge of how to design and sell a new product like (for example Masks), then get it to them.
  • Interview experts in your industry
  • Interview successful businesses and ask them how they got it right.
  • Hold knowledge exchange programs for your clients

Provide as much value as you can during this period.

Then after providing help and adding value to most people, can you imagine what will happen?

  • People will trust you as an expert in your industry and would want to do business with you
  • They will refer other people to you who has potential to be your clients

It all starts by helping people for Free. It will give you clients that you wouldn’t have been able to get even using the best strategy. This opportunity will expose your work to many people. That is the best way of showcasing your skills.

Don’t sit around and worry about the “What ifs”

Stay ahead of everyone else, by proving VALUE at a time of need.

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