Start To Finish - #IdeasStation 3

Avuxeni!!! 

Oh yes, greetings from Sunnypark, East of the Tshwane CBD. It's a lovely day this side and I'm so thankful to still be breathing! Glory Be To God!

I hope you are great on your side of the world and I'm going to immediately get stuck in to the matter at hand, "From Direction To Action"

As per our last post, we've been talking about Your Role at #IdeasStation where you run the 'Direction Department' there.

We discussed the fact that most of the thoughts that bustle around there are actually ideas and the importance of writing these down and scheduling a time to attend to them.

It's critical that I advertise this disclaimer to you 'real quick':

'The decision to record and schedule ideas in order to bring them to fruition, is A DAILY ACTIVITY'. This is not something you do once a month and it's all good. Just like waking up and having breakfast is a daily decision, it's no different with thoughts and ideas.'

With that out of the way, let's continue with what to do next.
Once you have written down your thoughts-turned-ideas, and have scheduled a day and time to deal with them, then you need a vital component in this mix. It is called, 'COMMITMENT'

A quick google search reveals that the definition thereof is, 'the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc'

For those that have written down a lot of ideas before and just ended up forgetting about them will understand the importance of this quality. Just as you are committed to charging your phone whenever it loses enough battery life, or to ironing the clothes you need to wear tomorrow, commitment to those scheduled ideas is pivotal!!!

If you are ever going to get them done and truly change your life, you MUST commit! That is a decision that you must make everyday! Without it, you might as well stop reading right here. The way that you value yourself will inform the value that you give to these ideas and getting them done.

What do you think? Join the conversation and let's talk about this.

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#IdeasStation - From Direction To Action Continued

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Gabriel Mothobi

Start To Finish - #IdeaStation 2

Hela Hela Ngwana Mme! Kgotso Ya Jehovah E Be Le Wena!

I hope you are having a great day ladies and gentlemen. It's pretty hot here in the Capital City of South Africa and one needs to take care of the skin yeah...

Let's move on with the next part of our clarification of our role at the bustling #IdeasStation.

From our last post, we came to an understanding of our Role as the one giving direction to all these thoughts that come through our mind every single day. We discussed that many of these very same thoughts are actually ideas that could potentially launch us into the history books. Changing our current circumstance is ever so dependant on how we deal with our ideas. Once we pay more attention to them, we need to put them down on paper, right?

Now if you are wondering what happens when you put something down on paper, or record it or schedule when you are going to deal with it on your phone, that very same thought behaves like a client seeking attention at a bank.

You see, thoughts have a life of their own, individual organisms that need to be noted and attended to. Try this out...

Ever wonder why a particular thought keeps popping up in your head and it triggers other thoughts that you had forgotten about almost everyday or when you look at something specific etc?

If you are busy at that time and you don't jot it down, it can pop up again and again and almost become a nag. It can sometimes just let you be for a while until you hear someone's voice and it comes up in your mind again. What is happening is that it's acting like this because you haven't noted it down and acknowledged it.

For this reason, I have a small little A6 book that is mostly in my trousers back pocket and whenever a thought comes up that is something that I have to do, I take it out and put it on paper. It's amazing how that thought doesn't just keep popping up all the time because I have jotted it down and scheduled a time on my phone to attend to it.

Part 2 of your Role is not only to record your ideas somewhere, but also to set a time on your phone or calendar to get it done. For most people that can actually calm things down a bit in the station when everyone is directed somewhere and they know that they will be attended to at a particular time. 

What do you think about this? Join the conversation, leave a comment and let's talk about it.

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#IdeasStation - From Direction To Action

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The Messenger

Start To Finish - #IdeasStation

Lumelang Kaofela!

I hope you are doing "moja" where you are!

Let's get right to it.

From our last post, we found ourselves in a very busy Train Station and we happened to be the busiest person there, right?

So let us deal with our roles in this crazy place. The reality of the matter is that our minds are just unbelievably busy, every single day, heck even when we are asleep. If we take the time to pay attention to our thoughts all day, we will be shocked how many there are.

Of these incredible amount of thoughts, have you ever wondered which are ideas?

Have you ever passed by a house and looked at the garden and thought, "They should have moved that ornament closer to the door and it would have looked fantastic."

Or perhaps walked into a restaurant and thought, "You know, I love the food in this place and the service, but their uniform is just so unappealing"

Throughout the day we are constantly generating ideas, both new and renewed, and we hardly take notice. Yeah, just out of the above two examples, there are at least two business ideas. Wanna guess what businesses these might be?

Your role in this busy station is to take notice, jot down, record etc so that the ideas that you can identify can be brought to book, so to speak. It's important that you write them down because that is the only way that you can take the next step.

Any thoughts on this from your side? Go ahead and comment.
Let's hear what you can add to this.

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#IdeasStation - Understanding Your Role 2

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Start To Finish - Introduction Continued

A Blessed Day To You My Beloved Family!

Hoping that you are doing awesome where you are, let’s take on the first Station in this Fantastic New Series – From Start To Finish.

For those of you who use the train system to get to work and back home, you will understand this very well. In fact, any public commuter will relate to this.

Imagine, if you will, that you arrive at the station as everyone is heading off to work and there are no indications or directions showing which train goes where.

In this example, there is only one person designated to give everyone direction. Think about this. Everyone has to go to one person in the station who has to tell each of you which train to take. I can imagine there would be a lot of chaos!

One will want more urgent attention because they are getting late for work, while another is in more of a hurry for an interview and feels she is more entitled to that same attention and sooner or later, even the direction giver will start to panic and even shut down.

Well, we all see things differently but I have seen that many people that I have spoken to experience this on a daily basis in their minds. At the station of ideas, all kinds of thoughts seek your attention and one thought is always trying to draw your attention more than another.

One seems more urgent than the other even though it came after others and due to the incredible number of these thoughts looking to get direction from you, many times we come to a place of frustration and end up just shutting down. It’s a busy station and YOU are the designated person who has to give direction.

Can you relate to what I’m talking about? Do you have something to add to this? Join the conversation and let’s talk about this.

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#IdeasStation – Understanding Your Role

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Start to Finish - Introduction

HOLA HOLA Batho Kaofela!

I hope you are all Ever-Rising and Pushing Higher and Higher!

It's Time For a New Series and this one is called, "Start To Finish"

Oh Yes! You will be amazed at how many people today suffer from 'the in-between'. What am I on about? 

Well, for those who go past the first hurdle of actually starting something (an idea put in practice), it seems to be the hardest thing in the world to bring it to completion!!!

I know this ever so well as I am a culprit as many of you reading this are... right? We have great ideas and things, we get excited, tell someone about it and if the idea is lucky enough, we'll get started with it, but somewhere along the way, we lose momentum and just never finish.

If you will join me on this New Journey from Start to Finish, we will be exploring some of the key stumbling blocks that we encounter when we have something potentially great, suffering from our lack of sustained, VOOM VOOM!

I hope this series will help us change the way we do things and also put us on course to becoming more enterprising with ourselves and each other, particularly when it comes to business and entrepreneurship.

However before we get to all that, we need to start the assessment in front of the mirror!

Please feel free to engage with me here and let's participate together in this discussion in order for us to learn from one another and develop a stronger force of action for the future.

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#IdeasStation

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Jehovah Rocks!

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Built To Build 12

Hello Guys! The way things can change!

I hope you are all doing very well!

Let’s take Rose’s story to its conclusion today and get to know what has been bugging her so much.

Rose, “So I was confident when I came back because I knew so many pastors who were so supportive in me doing my missionary training which I paid for with my package from my last company. I called each of them asking for a meeting which was gladly accepted because they wanted to know how everything went.”

Gabriel, “I see”

Rose, “All you’re seeing is the road right now. I don’t know what you are on about.

Anyway, as I get to the part of needing a sponsor, their facial expressions changed in an incredible way. You could literally feel them pull away from the conversation and tell me that they are very happy for me but in terms of finances, it’s just a struggle all-round. Others said that they couldn’t help me because it was not in the budget of the Church and it’s not possible.”

Gabriel, “Well, aren’t they just like family members and friends who do that? Times are pretty tough for a lot of people akere?”

Rose, “That is not the point you see. What you just said makes sense and it’s exactly what I had been thinking with every meeting. My issue was that they didn’t seem to show me any desire to help me outside of their financial woes. Several the church members in some of the pastors’ congregations are businessmen and businesswomen to whom I would have thought they might speak to on my behalf and stuff like that. I felt that they were just so unwilling Gabriel. Do you understand what I’m on about? It’s not that I am complaining or wining about it. I know that I will have to make a plan. It just baffles me how people will be behind you until it actually costs them something.”

Gabriel, “Hmmm, you make an interesting observation Rose. I guess at the end of the day, there comes a time when you realise that regardless of your support system, it’s going to be just God and you at some point.”

Ready?

All Relationships have a cost to them and the weight of that cost can be a huge determining factor to how worth it, it is. Often a big part of that cost is sacrifice. Jehovah gave His ALL to have a Relationship with you and me. How much value to we give back to Him?

Coming Next…

A New Series AND an Introduction To The Life-Changing Tsoha Campaign!!!

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TGBTG!

The Messenger

Built To Build 11

Greetings My Beloved! Wow, it’s been a while.

Tracking my history with my previous blog, it’s clear Jehovah has had to be quite patient with me and I would hope that you have been the same as well.

I won’t make too many promises this time around, I will just prove myself!

As I go back on the Series from just over two years ago, it seems I have left it incomplete. I plan to continue with the series immediately. I’m so sorry for leaving it like that, but I am back now!

Let’s look at my acquaintance-turned-friend Rose again and conclude her story.

Have a look at my post on Tuesday the 5^th of May 2015, where we started her story. She had tried to hide behind a smile and a simple description of how things had gone, down South for her Missionary Training.

Gabriel, “What’s up Rose?”

Rose, “You know, a great part of the things that I learnt there was truly frustrating. I grew up from a very strict home with Christian principles embedded in us as far as I can remember. All these years I’ve been trying to work out this whole thing of being called and you know all this prophecies that you hear when you go to conferences and prayer meetings.”

As I kept my eyes on the road, I simply nodded and remarked, “Yeah, I hear you.”

Rose, “Now I get there and the one thing I wanted to know is what I’ve been called to do. Since He sent me all the way to the Eastern Cape to do this training, you would think that being a missionary is what I need to do now right?”

Gabriel, “Right.”

Rose, “In order to succeed in this venture, I would need to get sponsorship because we don’t have salaries there and therefore would have to ask anyone who is willing to support me financially every month to do that so that I can do what I’ve been trained to do.”

Gabriel, “Fair enough.”

Rose, “I prayed and asked The Lord for help with this matter and took the step of faith to make the calls. Gabriel! You won’t believe the things that I heard!”

To Be Continued…

Ready?

The Bible says that my ways are not your ways and my thoughts are not your thoughts. This can either be re-assuring or very frustrating depending on how you see things. So how do we see it in order to let that secure us, rather than irritate us?

Coming Next…

Rose goes deeper with us and explains something that we all experience at some point in our lives.

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TGBTG!

The Messenger

King of Glory

Messenger Encouragement - Meditation

Messenger Encouragement