Start To Finish - #IdeasStation5

Molweni iFamily Yami E Ntle!

Greetings from Tshwane on yet another blazing hot day! The heat is really coming down these days here and it is something to behold.

I pray that you are awesome where you are and growing with me as we continue this fantastic series.

In the last post, we were introduced to yet another important ingredient to add to our mix of success, being 'Delight'. 

We also discussed that the lack thereof in oneself is really unfruitful and won't yield the kind of results we should attain.

Let's go a little deeper into this and then move out onto the deck to catch our train.

The ever-present google search engine gives these results for the definition of 'Delight"

'Please (someone) greatly', when seeing it in the perspective of a verb; and
'Great Pleasure', as a noun. The noun is the one we are talking about here.
'Pleasure' in its own definition is, 'A feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment'

It is rather hard to genuinely commit to a cause that does not delight you in any way. In fact, frustration becomes a constant state of mind and daily activity includes the search for something else.

Now, remember the theme we are dealing with here. Turning thoughts and ideas into channels of prosperity and fulfillment. Where we are now is called #IdeasStation and we are exploring how to bring them to life. For more on this, go ahead and read the previous posts in the series, "Start To Finish"

As you wake up every day to an influx of thoughts and ideas, remember that you are a human being and there are things that delight you and others that you do but they don't bring a smile to your face and fulfillment to your heart. Identifying those that delight you is going to be very important as we continue.

Don't forget about it as we now move out of #IdeasStation onto the train.

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#CatchingTheTrain - Decide To Move

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Start To Finish - #IdeaStation4

My Beloved Fam!

Greetings to you on this rather hot day in Pretoria.

I thank God for yet another day to share with you as every day passes by.

We have a series to push forward as I hope you remember, and we need to keep at it.

On this train ride, we are still at #IdeasStation and we are getting ready to make our way out onto the train. In the last post in the series, we spoke about the pivotal importance of 'Commitment' to the fruition of our ideas. Without it, there will be no success in getting things done.

Now then, let's add another ingredient that I believe is so key to fueling our commitment to the cause of bringing our ideas to life.

I know many people who go to work, seminars, even visit certain friends and do it because of nothing more than 'Duty'. I have heard some of these phrases a great deal, "I hate my job but I have to pay the bills" or "I would rather be at home watching soccer than to go to this seminar, but if I don't, I will lose my job" or even, "Well, this guy is a pain to be around, but he has a lot of money and I need him to invest in my business"

Although commitment exists in the above examples, it will be pretty short-lived once something else comes along and can provide an alternative to them. Therefore we need to have the addition of "Delight" to our mix.

If you don't 'Delight' in yourself, then committing to anything that comes out of you will be difficult to impossible.

You must find Joy in yourself and therefore in your application to Ideas becoming something more. 

What do you think? Join the conversation and leave a comment below. Let's talk about this?

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#IdeasStaton - From Direction To Action Conclusion

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#Progression

A Blessed Day To You My Beloved Family And A Glorious New Year!

2018 has come upon us and as is custom with many people around the world, taking stock of the victories and losses of last year need to inform necessary progression for the this new one.

I continue to come across more and more people who shun the notion of “New Year’s Resolution/s” and are increasingly conforming to another, “Whatever Comes, Comes”.

The general reason for this change in ideology is the protection of oneself from dissatisfaction and possible despair from a dashed expectation. Others look at the matter of aiming for the moon and even if missed, they could land among the stars, with a more negative outlook. Instead, what is said today is along the lines of, "Aim wherever you can reach and leave enough room for disappointment".

One can blame this on an ever changing social status quo and the ills that we are facing as a country, or even the families that we come from or our own physical challenges.

The truth is that we can NEVER go beyond our own unique ability to cage ourselves inside of our own perception of ourselves. There are far too many stories of people who overcame their dire circumstances and gained life-altering victories to change their lives, to deny this fact. For this reason, I challenge you my dear fellow human being to take stock of your own perception and opinion of yourself and work out what limitations YOU have placed on YOURSELF that keep you from one of life’s most rewarding state of being, PROGRESSION.

Then take action and remove these from yourself!!!

To God Be The Glory!

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#DiligenceIsTheWay

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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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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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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