Give Life a Meaning

7 Ways to Become More Focused

2011-11-20T10:34:00.004+02:00

GPS. Microwaves. Satellites etc. Our world has recently become populated by devices and methods which promise to make our lives easier. Although they do make our lives easier, they also promise humanity the much needed ability to multitask. We can now do a lot of things at the same time that a few generations earlier would have thought impossible.

However, because we have the promise to do much at one go, the quality of our output has deteriorated. We are achieving more results for less quality. This plague that is plaguing our generation is called lack of focus.

Wiktionary.com defines focus as the ability to concentrate on one job until you get the desired results. So therefore the lack of focus can be defined as the lack of concentration. What is however interesting about the definition of focus is that the primary definition is not concentration. It is rather the point at a lens at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge. This definition of focus although exhausted by many motivators still is the most apt. Focus therefore becomes the point where you put all your talents, abilities, resources and concentration for the attainment of a greater result.

World renowned Leadership guru, Dr. John Maxwell classifies focus as the director of talent. In his book’ Talent is never enough (ISBN13: 978-0-7852-8896-1), he argues that despite the magnitude of your talent, if you do not have focus, you are as good as a person who is doing nothing. Focus directs you to your area of specialty and when you concentrate on it, you can achieve greater results.

Take this example. Towards an exam, one person studies in a quiet place, holds their book and sit there for hours ingesting the data the book has to offer on the subject. The other person sitting for that same exam plays loud music on their iPod; they are texting friends and attempting to study at the same time. When it comes for exam time the person who concentrated on their studies is more likely to pass than the other.

I have put together 7 ways that will help you focus more.

1. Focus Needs You to Know your Purpose.

Purpose defines who we are. Why were we created? What are supposed to do? When these questions are answered, a person can therefore know where to put their focus. I for a long time didn’t know what I was really supposed to do and therefore my focus was divided between a number of things that I thought I had to do. However when I found out my purpose, who I was meant to be, I began to concentrate my time and abilities there and the results I have been getting are tremendous.

2. Focus Needs you To Be Grateful.

Gratitude is an attitude that often evades humanity. People want more. They want to receive more. When you are content with your talents and abilities you will know that you cannot do all. When you realize this, you will start to focus on those things that you can do best those things that you have.

3. Focus Needs you To Determine Where You Are Going and How you Are Going To Get There.

This is called integrity. Write a set of goals and plans and the way you are going to achieve them. Systemize them starting from most difficult to less difficult or from more important to less important. What is you action plan. When that happens keep to it. Do what you said you will do when you said you will do it. Do not mind what the media or your friends are saying. What do you want? Do it. This is however not to say you mustn’t listen to advice as you aim to get to the top. Listen to all the advice you can get and only take that which is constructive.

4. Focus Needs you To Forget Yesterday and Focus On the Future.

A lot of people lose focus when they think of how things were in the past. Were you better than what you are today? Did you apply certain principles to achieve your goals in the past and got tremendous results? Worse still did you fail? How did you fail? A lot of these questions limit a lot of people from achieving what they should today. They are focusing on the past instead of the future. Today is a different day with its own needs and opportunities. So is tomorrow. Do not be like the people who drive their car while engaged on the rear view mirror. You will fail to reach you destiny.

5. Focus Needs you To Focus On your Strengths Not your Weaknesses

What can you do best? When we focus on what we can do best, we are more likely to succeed. What you can’t do has no place in you areas of concentration because you simply can’t do it. Focus on those things that you can change instead of those things that you can’t. When you do so, you have more time and energy to produce exceptional results

6. Delay Rewards

M Scott Peck, the author of the Road Less traveled says that the reason why most people never finish a task at all is because they give themselves the rewards earlier on before its time. The thing that drive human being s is the promise of rewards so therefore, when the promise of rewards is constant, we are likely to work even harder to finish the task so that greater results can be recognized.

7. Stay Motivated

Constantly remind yourself why you are doing what you are doing. What are the rewards that await you when you are through with the task? Find an accountability partner who will keep you motivated to do the job and will nudge when you begin to slacken.

Focus is an important yet often overlooked way to success. With it, you can go place you never thought possible. When you focus on lighting a single match stick, you can ultimately light the whole jungle. Similarly when you focus on a task and successfully implement it, you ignite a lot of opportunities for yourself. If you succeed in one thing you are good at, all those other things you would love to do will succeed as aftershocks of your previous success.

To give your life a meaning today, start focusing on the results rather than the task. Do what you said you will do when you said you will do it. Be grateful for what you have and focus only on those things you change.

Surviving the Curse of the Rut

2011-10-28T08:58:00.005+02:00

At one point or another, we all get into a rut; those situations that are unwanted and undesired that each one of us tries by all means to avoid. These may include lousy jobs, bad friendships, abusive marriages, educational failure or spiritual emptiness among others. Sometimes it may feel like we are stuck in the rut more times than we are out of it. The rut can be defined as a vicious cycle of stunted growth or lack of progression.

Take me for an example, over the past few weeks I have been battling with every creative person's dread; the block. I have been stuck about what to write. Ideas have not been coming to me as easily and despite frantic searches on the internet on topics that I could write about, I still haven’t been able to write because if I failed to establish an emotional connection with any of the writing. Gone are the days when I would wake up in the middle of the night hit with so much inspiration that I could write for hours at end.

I have been frustrated, cooled down and got frustrated again. Yet the block has remained. However last night I decided to put together ways in which I could improve myself and get out of the bock soon and as they have pushed me forward to come back to my passion again, I believe they will show you how to get out of your moment of stunted growth.

1. Be Discontent.
Being discontent means wanting more and never getting satisfied with your current state of mediocrity and growthlessness. Many people are satisfied with they are even if they live worse than pigs and dogs. Some of this contentedness is a result of fear; fear of the unknown. Some people are stuck in bad jobs because they fear that because of the recession and the high unemployment levels, they may end up on the streets. Some really bad marriages and friendships have been held by fear, the other partner fearing that they may end up alone. Be discontent with your bad situation. You were meant to be better, to have better and to do better. Go ahead and escape the furrow of growthlessness.

This however not to say that we should always be discontent with what we have. We should in actual fact be grateful for whatever we have but be discontent at situations where we are not doing our best and fulfilling our purpose and destiny.

2. Be Grateful
In recent years, science has discovered the strong relationship between gratitude, a positive attitude and spiritual growth. With a positive attitude, one tends to see the more positive things and therefore opportunities are more likely to be seen. When we are grateful for where we are, we are thankful for where we are at while being hopeful for where we are going. We are most likely to move the spiritual to grant us the freedom we want. Like a father who buys his child a bigger toy when he has shown gratitude for a smaller one, so does the God grant us more success when we have thanked him for the little we currently posses.

3. Seek Help.
Being stuck in the rut sometimes is as a result of not having contact with the outside world. Ideas are known to pass form one head to the other. Go and see friends, counselors, shrinks or religious leaders who will objectively show you the way which might take if you want growth. These people will help you see a possible way out or open your eyes to the opportunities that are embedded right in your Situation of stunted growth moment, things that you can utilize to enhance yourself.

4. Learn.
You should continuously seek knowledge because the current position in which you are stuck will not last forever. If you are in a dead-end job, seek skills that will not only make you competitive when you re-enter the job market but will also make you invaluable to your new employers thereby nipping the cycle of dead-end jobs right in the bud. Take lessons that will make you a better person and those that will make you better at what you do.

5. Patience.
Patience acknowledges the fact that we live in a world which is run by laws of seasons where everything has its time and space. A tree goes through cycles of leaf shedding, flower growing and re-growth of leaves before it bears fruit. For humans likewise, patience knows that when growthlessness hits us, we are likely getting pushed forward to start bearing fruit and do good things with our lives. Patience therefore leads you to gratitude.

6. Be disciplined.
When stuck in the rut, it’s most likely that you will begin to doubt your abilities, doubting yourself. You should be disciplined enough to keep focused on what you do and are passionate about. It’s easy to take up a new hobby but it’s not easy to maintain it. Ask yourself why you are stuck where you are stuck. Who do you want to be? Where do you want to go? Why do you want to go there? When you have answered these questions you will have a clearer view of what you should do to free yourself from the rut.

7. Push yourself.
A lot of times we sit down and expect things to happen to us. I have always emphasized on the need for action. To get out of the non-growth zone you need to stand up and push forward. Push yourself to the limits. Writing this article for me has been a real hard push as I try to get out of the un-creativity zone. I usually write out of inspiration but today I wrote out of necessity.

At times, the lack of action is what will gradually lead people into the rut. The question you should ask yourself is whether you have done what you are supposed to do when you are supposed to do it?

Although we can fight off moment of non-growth, sometimes we can’t and when we find ourselves in there, we should understand that there is something that the God wants to show us and therefore should open our eyes and ears to see the lesson the moment carries for us.

This is to your best life

Imakando Musho

Wealth Magazine-October Issue

2011-10-11T20:04:00.001+02:00

In this follow up to the first edition, we have more articles and more interactive content. This is truly a magazine for those who are seeking to enjoy true wealth that does not come for get rich quick schemes but rather fundamental principles of personal growth.

This is to your growth

Imakando Musho

How to Identify Opportunities Everywhere

2011-09-23T08:38:00.009+02:00

A friend of mine recently mentioned that a relative of his grew up in the gemstone rich Chiadzwa area in Zimbabwe's Manicaland province. She used to play games with some of the stones which were lying around everywhere. To them, these were ordinary stones which were extremely beautiful and yet of no value. It was only after the prospecting mining companies came and started hoarding these stones that they realized that the stones that they had used in children's play, the stones that they had used to decorate their homes, the stones that they had kicked everyday on their way from the hard work at farms were in actual fact some of the best
diamonds in the world.

Finding Opportunities Everywhere

No matter where we live, who we are there is always an opportunity for every one of us to get something to improve our lives with. There may be a need for telephone services or a coffee bar in your area or some thing as simple as a cleaning services company. Every time we are moving, everywhere we go, there are opportunities on which we are stepping on. It is up to to us to take them or leave them.

How to Identify Opportunities

1. Be willing to learn

The greatest man is he that learns because in learning, we have new ideas, pattern of thoughts revealed to us. When new ideas are revealed to us we can find ways in which we can improve ourselves. For example, before going to college, I had never heard of the word blogging. But after reading a lot about blogging, I decided to take it up and today, my articles published across various platforms across the internet.

2. Change your circle of friends

Our circle of friends always influence what we become. Likewise, they also affect what we are exposed to. What would you like to become? Find people who are in your niche market and those people will tell you when new opportunities arise. If you want to be a singer, befriend people who are involved with the music world. A soccer passionate friend circle will not help you break into the music industry. You can't expect to find information about an industry when your circle of friends is not in anyway involved in that industry.

3. Change Your Surrounding.

When we are exposed, we develop greater ideas than we could have developed when we were stuck in our little shelves. Take the train and go to a new place you have never been. Change your route to work or school. Do things differently and you will discover there are many great opportunities in your area that you may have never thought were there before leaving your area.

4. Be receptive to change.

Change is one of the most constant forces in the universe. Whether we like it or not, there is change going on around us. Ask yourself what the current trends are and implement them as they long as they do not interfere with your co-values. Of course it is rather stupid to be jump on every wagon that comes despite the fact that it may be going far or not. It is however wiser to align yourself to change so that when the best opportunity comes, you are the first to jump in the wagon before everyone else does.

5. Be at the right place at the right time.

When we are at the right place at the right moment, opportunities fly to us effortlessly. Most of the people who have made it have not only made it because of their talents and abilities but also because they were at the right place at the right moment. Are you going to seminars, workshops or events that are related to your industry? Here is where most people discover new trends, ideas and thoughts that they can use to catapult their lives ahead. Are you a person people can talk to when inspiration hits? Do you offer valuable advice to people who are in need of advise? Chances are when they come with a great idea, they will contact you and you might benefit from their idea.

Wherever we are, there are a lot of opportunities for us to improve our lives. Had the Chiadzwa people known about the rough diamonds that were in their backyards before, I believe they would have been some of the richest people in the world today. However because of lack of skills of identifying a great opportunity, they have been chucked of their land and now mining vultures are enjoying their wealth.

Today, start finding how you can improve yourself using the resources that are around you, and give your life a meaning.

This is to your Best Life

Imakando Musho

Listen With Your Heart, not Your Head

2011-09-18T08:13:00.001+02:00

What is the biggest communications challenge my clients face? The simple answer is listening. My clients struggle with listening because their heads get in the way. They grapple with ways to communicate their messages and often ask me about how to go about saying what they want to say the best way. As we work through this question, the logical next question surfaces: What is the other person saying? In answer to this question, my clients say things like, “They want me to do something I don’t want to do” or “They have different values than I do”, or “They don’t care about anything except their own agenda”. These kinds of responses tell me that my clients are not listening with their hearts. They are listening with their heads.
When our heads get in the way, we cannot hear. When we cannot hear,we cannot Say It Just Right.

Our heads say things like, “The other person isn’t interested in what I have to say,” or “The other person is only concerned with their agenda,” or “The other person doesn't like me.” Our heads tune out the real messages and reinterpret what we hear. To listen with your heart requires a different kind of listening. The Say It Just Right Model includes “inviting” the other person to talk. That part of the model requires you to really listen.

Before you can listen with your heart, you must decide you want to hear what the other person is saying. You must stop whatever you are doing and allow your natural antenna help you out.
Here are the steps you need to take to listen with your heart:

• Really focus on the other person. What emotions do you hear? How does the voice sound? Lively, sad, angry?

• Don’t take what the other person says personally. Get out of the way of the message. Instead, ask the person what he or she really means. Ask open, probing questions to better understand what might be going on.

• Get next to the other person. Instead of trying to solve the problem - that’s above the person — listen for where the person is. If your friend is hurting, feel the hurt with him. Don’t try and fix the hurt. If your teenage daughter is angry at you, feel her anger rather than defend yourself.

• Use your intuition to hear the messages behind the words. If you feel something inside, you are probably listening with your heart. Take a risk and share what you are feeling inside. “I sense that you are afraid of your boss.”

• Practice using metaphors to explain your intuition or to explain the other person’s feeling. Putting what we feel into a visual image helps us cope with it. “As you talk, I keep getting this image of a deep, dark well. Tell me how that works for you.”

Listening with your heart takes practice. The next time you feel frustrated with the way your communication is going, get out of the way and let your heart take over. When your heart listens, you have a better chance of Saying It Just Right.

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Joan Curtis, EdD is founder of Total Communications Coaching whereshe specializes in helping smart, capable professionals move ahead intheir careers by becoming skilled communicators. She also provides personalcoaching to empower people to be dynamic public speakers. She is theauthor of the newly released book, Managing Sticky Situations at Work:Communication Secrets for Success in the Workplace (Praeger Press,ABC-CLIO Publishing, Santa Barbara, California), learn more at http://www.managingstickysituationsatwork.com/.

The impact of Leadership

2011-09-16T11:40:00.001+02:00

There are still others who argue that leadership is of little essence hence at times leadership would not be necessary. They contend that, for instance, at times the group's performance has to be attributed to the group's talent to perform and to economic conditions than as opposed to one's leadership style. According to this line of thinking, many organisations have substitutes for leadership that could come in the form of closely knit teams, computer technology, professional norms and intrinsic satisfaction.

(a) Closely Knit Team of Highly Trained Individuals

DuBrin opines that when members of a cohesive, highly trained group are focused on a goal, they may require almost no leadership to accomplish their task (pilots and policemen and policewomen). In such cases, directive leadership seems unimportant and when danger becomes the highest priority, these groups rely on each other than the leader.

(b) Intrinsic Satisfaction

The concept follows that employees engaged in work find strong self-motivation, or they are intrinsically satisfied hence require minimum leadership. Partly speaking, this is a result of the fact that the workers' attention is grabbed by the task itself so long the process is smooth. It has also been found out that where there is production of quality products, there is need for less of leadership as compared to a situation that produces less quality products. Consequently, the latter requires considerable supervision or leadership.

Today, some enterprises use computer-aided monitoring and computer networking to take over many of the supervisor's leadership functions. The computer provides productivity and quality data and direction for certain tasks are entered into the information system. This is inclusive of the error detection and goal setting that are incorporated into the interactive system. Instead of asking the supervisor for aid, some employees use the computer network to ask for assistance from fellow workers. (We could argue here that computer is used to control than to lead workers).

(d) Professional Norms

Workers who incorporate strong professional norms often require a minimum of supervision and leadership, for example, a group of qualified and certified professional accountants may not need visionary leadership to inspire them to do an honest job of auditing a client, or advising against tax fraud. Leader Irrelevance

The Relationship Between Pain and Growth

2011-08-24T03:50:00.005+02:00

Every one of us hates pain. We go to great lengths as we attempt to avoid pain sometimes costing us large amounts of money and time. Today, Pharmaceutical companies are among the blue chip companies worldwide with their stocks trading high. Why? If one gets a headache they run to get the aspirin. Likewise if one gets marriage problems or business problems they run. The rates of suicide have always been high as people feel the pressure to take away the pain.

A few months ago I went to the gym with such a strong determination to tone my muscles and grow every guy’s dream; a six-pack. I passionately hit the routines with my trainer and it all felt very easy lifting fifty kilos on my muscles. However the next morning I was in such pain that I could hardly lift my own hands. That was the last time I saw the gym and the membership.

Pain: Friend or foe?

Weeks after the gym ordeal I shared with my fitness enthusiastic friend who shared with me that had I gone back two three times and overlooked the pain i would have been fine. In fact, the pain was an indication that my muscles were ready to expand into my dream body.

Despite its unbearable nature of pain, it is an important aspect of human growth says Scott Peck, author of The Road less travelled Road. The most successful of humans are those who went through certain ordeals in their lives and managed to get out of them whether scathed or unscathed. Pain develops our muscle so that we can face the greater battles. For example a child has to feel the effects of fire by themselves to understand the devastation it may bring.

Most world leaders from politics to art have all gone through a certain ordeal for them to be where they are. Oprah had to endure years of abuse and poverty before she could be recognised as one of the most influential persons in the world. That pain prepared her for the great battles that she would face in show business to become the most influential person of our century. Strive Masiyiwa the Zimbabwean telecoms mogul went through a fierce battle with the Zimbabwean government that spread over five years before he could get his first license. This was just a preparation for him to endure even fierce license battles with governments and corporations across the world as he attempted to globalise his company.

However a lot of people have refused pain and failed to see the benefits thereof. For example, take a cousin of mine who refused to face the fact that she lived in a poverty stricken part of town and attempted to run away from that face by living a fake life. Right now she is alienated from her own family, has no friend network left and has a daughter who she hasn’t seen in months now unaware of her whereabouts.

Although pain is undesirable I believe it is important to growth and therefore should be faced head on. When we go through pain we work hard to get ourselves working hard to get the pain away. I believe that if my cousin had accepted her impoverished background she could have work hard in school as her gateway to success.

Tudor Bismarck, a Zimbabwean spiritual leader says that before anything grows, it has to be stretched from its original dimension into a new dimension that represents the growth. The new dimension may be uncomfortable at first but then when we begin to realise the new amount of space allowed in that new dimension we will come to the realisation that the stretch was an important step to growth.

This however is not an extreme approach to life that borders between sadism and asceticism. It is rather a law of the universe: WITHOUT PAIN THERE IS NO GROWTH. That’s not to say we must go and look for pain but rather it means that we should accept all the pain and problems we will go through at one time or another and see what we can learn from them and quickly fit ourselves into the new role that the pain may be attempting to prepare for us. For example, a child who is being weaned will have to start preparing for a life without breast milk, whilst an abused housewife who is being divorced may have to learn to be independent and self-assured.

Today, remember

· Pain brings Muscle

· Pain brings knowledge

· Pain birthes wisdom.

Quotable Quote:

Soldiers are not heroes until the war has been fought and won – Imakando Musho

4 Easy Steps to Find Your Purpose

2011-07-24T15:07:00.000+02:00

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly without fear for newer, richer experiences- Eleanor Roosevelt

Being a multi talented person brings with it the issue of purpose and for most people the road to finding purpose is hard. Take me for example; at one time I thought I would be a singer and the next morning I woke up feeling I was going to conquer the world of Voice Acting and before the day ended I was going to be the next best presenter. Science has proven that these roller coaster senses of passion are what cause most multi talented people to be non achievers.

However, the search for purpose must not be a hard one. I have in my search for my very own purpose come across ways to define one’s purpose and I am still using these principles as I attempt to find out what is my reason of being.

Acknowledge God

Without an acknowledgement of God, a greater power outside this world we cannot know who we truly are. However when we acknowledge Him and have a close relationship with Him we find our footing our eyes opened and His purpose for us illuminated in our hearts.

Get Out of the Comfort Zone

As my purpose became clear, I knew I had to do something drastic and that drastic something for me was to do away with my then circle of friends. These were people that I had had god and bad times with, people I knew would stand for me. However they were refusing me growth to be the person I wanted to be and thus they had to be changed. For most people the reason why they haven’t made progress in finding themselves is because they do not want to let go of their comfort zones because they make them feel good and secure. However there is no self growth in comfort and security.

Find out about your interests

I listed the things that I liked to do and the things that I am talented in. Many people mistake passion and talent; things they like to do and the things they can do. I did away with the things I liked to do and kept those that I am talented in. Talent defines our passions. I Left my wacky acting and stuck to the music.

Correlated my passions to my talents

I am deeply passionate about helping people find themselves an even as I strive to my best self, I endlessly search for ways others can find joy and peace. This passion culminated in this blog where I could put my writing and my passion together. I looked into my music and found out that I can sing and write songs about proactivity, about healing the world and motivating songs that can show people that they can make it.

Finding purpose is not suppose to be hard but as we attempt to make it towards the top, to the reason why we were created, we are faced with many difficulties including being reminded of the ‘niceness’ of the past mediocrity and frustrations.

I have not fully recognized where I am going but I have a sense of direction and so can you. That in itself is the very first step towards a meaningful life.

This is to your success

Imakando Musho

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Wealth Magazine; Trial Run

2011-07-15T08:42:00.001+02:00

I have been talking about launching a magazine since time immemorial and recently, I decided to put together a small magazine (13 pages) to see if I had what it takes to do it full scale. This is the result. If you have ideas, please forward them to me. Download by clicking on the image

Blog Special: The Zimbabwean Economic Mess

2011-07-12T20:17:00.001+02:00

By Sikhanyiso Masuku

In his book The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future, Robert Guest, the Africa editor of the Economist for seven years, wrote: "In 1980, the average annual income in Zimbabwe was $950, and a Zimbabwean dollar was worth more than an American one”. This can now quite easily be dismissed by anyone of a younger generation who was not fortunate enough to have been around in these more fruitful times, as a mere farce because by just 2003, the average income was less than US$400, and the Zimbabwean economy was in freefall. Although now in the relative stage of convalescence, the country`s economic predicament can best be described as that of a horribly injured animal, whom although in the process of recuperation still hemorrhages from the many decades of gross maltreatment. From an unreliable and shady banking system, unsound economic policies, an inhospitable and economically detrimental foreign policy, the poor nation has desolately endured it all under the hands of its callous statesmen.

One thing of significant interest in the macroeconomics study of Zimbabwe is how the country`s economic ailments are not only synonymous with but also a direct attribute to the indigenous politics of the national land. It is only in Zimbabwe where everything has been systematically and maliciously politicized, from the national flag, national anthem, national heroes’ acre and even the much celebrated term of “patriotism” has been catalyzed down to mean political correctness in respective spheres of identity. In the same manner, the ruling parties political “enemies”, robotically also became the nation`s enemies, regardless of the ruinous economic effects this was apparently tantamount to. Synonymously the rampageous 2001 land reform programme was of a significant detriment to Zimbabwe`s predominantly agrarian based economy. The crimson nature of the exercise dealt a gravid blow to the country`s international relations and marked the genesis of a sustained plunge into economic dilapidation. At independence, the country had a GDP of Z$6,7 billion. Although some short spells of economic decline were experienced over the years, the economy generally grew to a GDP of Z$8,4 billion in 1997 and needless to say, after the “revolutionary” land reform exercise, in 2009 the national GDP plunged to an undignified Z$4,4 billion.

The Correct Use of Power

2011-06-29T08:08:00.000+02:00

The promise of power to humanity is as old as humanity itself and the lure of power as old as the creation itself. Genesis tells us that man was given authority and dominion over all the creature of the earth and therefore one can conclude that we are constantly practising power consciously and unconsciously thus making the issue of power an integral aspect of humanity.

Power is the capacity to influence the behaviour of others, the emotions, or the course of events. One of the simplest definitions of power is it is derived from different sources. The source however is largely determined by the circumstances in which it has to be applied. Moses derived his power from God to lead the children of Israel from bondage, Alexander the Great got his from the might of the sword, Hitler capitalised in the remorse state that characterised most European leaders towards Germany. Strive Masiyiwa and the Econet brand were jettison by the emotional capital that surrounded the formation of this Telecomms giant.

In a world that is not receptive to overtly open expressions of our aspirations to power, we find ourselves backsliding more than moving as we try to be cunning and constantly become duplicitous so as to hide our intentions. The thing that hurts most relationships be it social, professional or otherwise is deceit. Apparently power games are littered in our lives to absurd levels and this has been the cause to the degradation of healthy human interactions. For instance, in a social relationship one partner wants to subdue or control the other leading a defunct association. Examples that quickly come to mind include office politics, sibling rivalry and Bullies in our schools.

The quality of our lives in this information age is now dependent on the quality of our relationships. Human beings by nature are social beings henceforth the way we relate to each other is of paramount importance. However we oftentimes find ourselves in conflict. The cause of such maybe we are either not listening when we are suppose to be listening or nurturing relations that makes us who we are. This in essence is Hunhu/Ubunntu. Virtual social networks, phones, procrastination and backbiting, jealousy, conflict, segregation and all these deplete this vital human quality.

To understand the principle of power a person needs to understand its three basic dimensions which are the Spirit, Body and Mind. Spirit is the intention behind power; it’s real meaning. The body then becomes the central part which makes the exercise of power possible and mind the being the faculty of consciousness and attention of power. Mahatma Gandhi understood these three basic dimensions and he successfully engaged the people of India and their colonial masters to a violent free resolution of their crisis. On the other hand, Adolf Hitler lacked the mind of power and this ultimately led to his demise.

For an individual to be powerful he does not necessarily have to hold office and this type of leadership has been dealt with in management and leadership literature in substance and form. Most people associate power with viciousness and heavy handedness, but the exercise of power in such a manner is but abuse in the vainest of forms. It exposes the vulnerabilities of the perpetrator. It is a well known fact that weak people are cruel people. They attempt to amplify their muscles by abuse of the ‘weaker’

So power comes to us in different forms and sizes; the power to choose a wrong from a right, the power to respond to certain stimulus, he power to change our paradigms. Growing up we are conditioned to react to certain ways to certain situations, and that in itself is the first step in understanding power

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Ian Ngondo

Ian is passionate about changing people and changing the world around him. He is a passionate reader reading diverse topics. This article is his first and with it the entry into helping people realize their best potential.

He is in the process of setting up his own website and can in the mean time be found on his Facebook Profile.

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The Eight Unbreakable Rules of Speaking

2011-06-20T10:57:00.001+02:00

There is nothing in the world that is as powerful as words. You have probably heard it before and I am here to emphasize it. Sometime ago, we looked at the power of the mind and thoughts and how they attract circumstances. That discussion led us to the conclusion that thoughts are attractive. Today allow me to forward to you another dimension; words are creative. This is to say, if the thoughts we allow to dominate our minds attract circumstances, it is our words however that will those circumstances into reality. Given the close relationship between words and thoughts, this is a given.

I am not a theologian but if you may, allow me to interpret the biblical narration of the creation story. God looked at the desolate place that the world was and he had a wild imagination. He saw light in his mind; trees, rain, water and all the other natural things created then were all presented into his mind. it was however after he had said these amazing words 'Let there be' that there was. Had he not said this, his ideas might have probably disappeared in his head and we would not have this wonderful world that we live in today.

Although we are not as powerful as God, similarly we can create whatever we want with our lives, steer them in the direction we want and creating the lives that we want.

Words have been likened to a ship's radar. Although I have never seen it, I have been made to understand that it is a tiny component of the ship which does not amount even to a percentage of the ship's entire size yet it the very same thing that drives ships into opportunities, gloom or untapped lands. Similarly, the tongue is a tiny, seemingly useless part of our body yet it is the most powerful too that we possess, a tool that can drive our lives towards greater heights.

For us to understand the true meaning and importance of words I compiled from the teachings I have had about the power of words, The Universe's Commandments on words

1. Speak the truth

There is nothing as important as truth. Truth tells us where we are as individuals, tells our loved ones where we are thus enabling us to chart the way forward to the lives that we want. Truth creates trust and an open rapport for communication and support.

2. Do not joke

We all like telling a mean joke and yes jokes are encouraged as they make people laugh which is one of the ways that humanity can maintain healthy lifestyles. However jokes should not belittle anyone. Laughing at other people's weaknesses only points to how weak we are as individuals.

3. Affirm

Affirmations are short positive statements that are put into the present tense. For example, when I am reading for an exam, I do not tell myself that I hope to pass the exam but rather tell myself that I have passed the exam. That way, my actions are aligned to those words that I speak and therefore my results come back in the pleasing range.

4. Encourage others

It has often been said that he who teaches learns twice. Essentially, he who encourages others is also encouraged twice. When you constantly help others, you are equally motivated to do the same. Sometimes as I type away on my Keyboard preparing articles for this blog, I get some of the most awesome ideas and I know that they come to me because of my passion of helping others improve themselves.

5. Speak positive words

Positive speaking means focusing on that which is positive. It is not however running away from the truth. It is facing the truth and understanding it and then seeing the positive alternatives of the moment. It is a pronunciation of the which you want. When that is done, that which you want zooms in to the bigger picture while that which we do not want zooms out of the picture.

6. Think before you speak

Oh how we have all fallen to this weakness. We often speak things that we later beat ourselves about, asking ourselves why we even said it. Words can make or break people, nurture or destroy relationships and they sometimes do it immediately. Before you speak, weigh out the implications of your words because somethings are better left unsaid.

7. Do not let people speak negatively about you.

Although it is very true that the words we speak are very much responsible for the course our lives take, it is also true that the words you hear people speak about you are as creative. Take this example, a child who has been told over and over that they will not amount into anything are most likely not to achieve anything as an adult unless if they undo the map that was created for them by whoever it was that told him/her that they will not amount into anything and they start writing a new one where they believe they are capable of anything they put their mind to. However this does not succeed in many people because it involves facing truth and most people do not want to face the truth.

8. Pray and meditate.

Words cannot be tamed. Even one of the greatest men whoever lived, Solomon said some things he could have said better. Without prayer and meditation the attempt to speak positively is to no effect at all. When we pray and meditate we are often saying positive things to God and the Universe and therefore our tongues are aligned to such kind of speaking and thus negativity will soon become a foreign object on our tongues and in our words

Your words have power to build or destroy. Today, take your words and align them to what you desire in your heart.

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Have yourselves a great week

Imakando Musho

The Jairos Jiri Campaign: Your Chance to Better Someone's life

2011-05-20T16:34:00.000+02:00

From January to April, I took up a job as a Religious teacher in a remote place called Silobela in the Midlands province. Although the Government has in the past attempted to develop the area, the project fell on the way side during the ten year economic recession that that Hit Zimbabwe in the 2000s. As a result there is a lot of unemployment for the locals most of whom who when they find a little opportunity run away to South Africa where they mostly end up taking prostitution as an alternative source of Income. When they come back, STIs are spread to innocent wives and husbands boyfriends and girlfriends who would have remained behind. As a result, This is one of the most affected areas by HIV/AIDS.

In seeing the Extreme poverty that the people of this area suffer, I teamed up with my 182 Students to launch what we termed the Jairos Jiri Campaign and Help the poor in that Area. Our target was the Jairos Jiri Center which lies four Kilometers from where I was teaching a place set up by the Visionary and National Hero, the late Jairos Jiri for old disabled people who cannot take care of themselves. Although there was great development in the late 80s into the late 90s, this institution also fell to the effects of the recession.

Now today the 20 residents of the institution sometimes go for days with no meals and when they happen to come by from the rare well wisher, they can only afford to eat one meal a day in the afternoon and often its far from nutritious and bodybuilding. With only a staff of 2 people to take care of such a demanding group, the situation is even worsened

Sekuru eating a meal prepared for the residents by the students. It was his first proper meal in a month

The Group of Students pose for a photo with the Residents of the home

One of the residents whose lower limbs do not function at all

part of our donation

One of the houses that accomodate the old residents

We collected what we could among them cooking oil, bathing and washing soaps, clothes, petroleaum jelly and Gryceline and bags of rice with the help and generosity of Wailing Women International Trust and visited the compund with a 100 member strong team and gave out what we could but it was not enough. I rarely cry, but the exremetiy of the poverty we witnessed there was unwithstandeable and belive tghat there is more we can do to help these poor people whose livelyhood greatly depend on us.

What they need mostly are blankets, corn, rice, cooking oil clothing, maintenance on the buildings and relishes.

Although I have left the school, today I am pleased to let you know that i left a legacy in Silobela with my students greatly inspired that they decided to do it again this quarter with the help of teachers and project managers with whom I befriended during the course of my stay.

I am therefore pleading with you to do what you can do to help these vulnerable people. I have gotten into talks with an organization that deals with vulnerable people across Zimbabwe and they have been so happy and eager to take up the challenge. We have come up with a five dollar program where you can deposit 5 dollars or more if you so wish into their account and they will chanel it towards July 18 when my students are going to go and put into practice what their teacher showed them.

To help Please go here and donate your best. Donations are acceptable in cash or kind

The Biblical Book of Proverbs says if you take care of the poor, God will take care of you. Go Ahead and do the best you can to better the life of one person and see the universe reward you greatly.

This is to you and your Success

Imakando Musho

Sharing a Lighter moment with one of the Residents

Create The World With Your Thoughts

2011-05-10T17:22:00.000+02:00

The very first step towards living your best life is by changing your mindset. The mindset is the domain that creates. It has often been said that all wars begin in the mind and that if we can contain them to the confines of the mind, the world can be at peace.

Thinking right is directly proportionate to the words we speak, the characters we mould and the actions we take. These are the main drivers of the human life and lie at the core of our existence. In other words, thinking is attractive. It attracts to us the words, words and characters all which take hold of our lives and direct it towards a direction we would have outlined in the minds.

Take this example: When you are constantly thinking about rightful living and a healthy lifestyle, your words become more aligned to the profession of health, your action become more health oriented and you kick away any character traits or habits that hinder your healthy lifestyle. Thoughts about rightful living have attracted actions, character and words all leading you to achieving your dream
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When we realize the power that the mind has, it becomes clear that we should mind what we let dominate our thoughts. I use the word dominate because we can't control what comes into our minds but we can control what stays in there.

The life that you want begins with right thinking, positive thoughts about the dream you have and the life that you see at the end after the dream has been fulfilled. It is learning to listen to that still small voice inside your head that says you can and repeating it over and over. Once it dominates your mind, the negative is outdone and blanketed.

Positive thoughts create positive circumstances and negative thoughts will in turn create negative circumstances.

One of the greatest ways that I have found that helps maintain a positive outlook, is the art of meditation. This means focusing on those things that you want, creating your own utopia in your mind seeing it and clearly outlining it in its entirety. This will keep you in constant touch with your dreams.

Better still, meditating on the word of God as found the Judeo-Christian Ethic will keep you positive and thinking right attracting to you even more positive circumstances.

Reading good literature that inspires and motivates is also important as it constantly remind you that you can do whatever you choose to do, providing inspiring stories of how others made it to the top and how you can too.

As much as our thoughts are powerful, it is important to also note that they are contagious. This then stresses the importance of being wary of whom we befriend and spend most of our time with. In my 2009 article, 'Are Your Friends Building you or Breaking you?' I boldly declared that if your friends are negative, you also tend to become negative as well. It is a natural law of the universe which I am may not be able to explain but I encourage you to surround yourself with positive people so as to cultivate good thoughts.

Proactivity is also another way to cultivate positive thoughts and right thinking. This is the art of using the present tense instead of future tense. This takes the future and brings it right to your door step. Thinking in the present tense and acting as such means possessing that dream and making it yours and bringing it into the present. For more on this please go to Dr. Stephen R. Covey's website.

Our lives are a true reflection of our thoughts. The rich man's mind is filled with I am rich, the thief's with Why don't I have enough while they more t spare and the gay's mind, I can't help it, It is the way God made me. What we think then we certainly are. To change we may need to fist change how we view ourselves and think about ourselves.

Our thoughts are attractive geniuses. They attract positive circumstances and opportunities. The vice versa is also true. We should be careful what we think because it can lead our lives to the greatest paradise ever or to a complete hellhole.

Today choose to think right because the life that you want is between you and the thoughts that you allow to dominate that little place called your mind.

Imakando Musho

Further Reading
As a Man Thinketh-Napoleon Hill
The Law of Attraction (Audio-Book)- Tom Deuschle
The Secret-Rhonda Byrne

Do Not Live Within Your Means

2011-02-10T12:40:00.001+02:00

I recently read a chapter in John L. Mason's, LET GO OF WHAT MAKES YOU STOP (Insight Books: ISBN 0-88419-373-X) that talks about living outside one's means. For the past month I have been teaching my 150 students that they should live within their means and to hear someone say the absolutley opposite and claim they are teaching something from the word of God aroused my interest.

Not living within your means according to Mason is to act bigger, to believe larger, to associate higher, and to do more than we can ask or think.

Tip therefore means getting out of your comfort zone, not caring about the Status Quo or being politically correct. It is moving forward and being extravagant, love and exuberant.

This is however not an encouragement to do away with boundaries or become reckless. It is not an invitation to spend more than what you earn for that is tantamount to lead you into the crippling effects of debt.

Mason encourages us to talk to people smarter than us, to listen to the spiritual more than we, to acquaint with those who are richer and more successful more than us and lend a hand to those who are less fortunate to us.

Do not be comfortable where you are. Get us and break free from yourcomfort zone. Dare to dream wild. Respected Zimbabwean spiritual leader and author, Tom Deuschle says that he your dreams do not scare you, you are not dreaming enough.

Abandon your search for security. Successful people thrive because they take risks. Wayne Dyer says only the insecure strive for security. If your shoe fits them you probably should not year it. Do not let the future be that time when you wish you had done what you are not doing now.

Today, remember that if we do not take the risk of failing, we wont get the chance to succeed beyond our dreams. You great life is a few [Calculated] risks ahead. Be enthusiastic, extravagant, stupendous and enjoy your life.

Imakando Musho

Caution: Your Great Year Ahead

2011-01-06T11:52:00.000+02:00

Welcome to this New Year and congratulations for making it. I believe that this is a sign that you still have more work to do, more business deals to seal, more doors to open and more souls to win and help. I have prepared the following 50 strategies that you can use to propel yourself ahead and live your life to the fullest this year. Go ahead indulge yourself, it is your year.

1. Be the master of your will but the servant of your conscience.

2. Never discuss your personal development issues with anyone. You do not know who likes you and who doesn’t.

3. Do what you planned to do when you planned to do it.

4. By doing good today, you ensure your happiness tomorrow.

5. Get into the habit of reading something positive every morning. This helps you focus on your abilities, increase your confidence and hence your entire day will be more productive. For this exercise I recommend the biblical book of Proverbs.

6. Seek out wise men and learn from them.

7. Some top performers read a book a day, so seek out knowledge and information and constantly read.

8. Become physically relaxed yet mentally engaged.

9. Think right. Just as valuable energy is lost and wasted on useless activities, energy can also be lost on loose thinking. Allow in your head only those things which matter.

10. Positivity overrides the negative.

11. Keep an updated list of all your contacts close at hand. Rich relationships are the DNA of the rich.

12. Set realistic goals yet keep your mark high.

13. Place greater importance on staying happy than amassing material wealth.

14. Be committed to what you are doing.

15. Avoid needless worry over useless matters.

16. Act like a winner and you will become one.

17. Have a sense of humour. It enables you to take measure things that are worth of your worry.

18. Have a genuine interest in others.

19. Build a mystique around yourself. Do not let people too close but not too far.

20. Listen actively with your entire attention. You will be amazed at the thing you will learn and how your counsel will soon be sought by others.

21. Go the extra mile even if it means you are not remunerated for it. Work longer than others. That way you will stand out and have balance both in your personal and professional lives.

22. Remember people’s names and constantly refer to them in conversation. Remembering a person’s name means that you have their interests at heart.

23. Appreciate nature. Every once in a while take strolls in parks, gardens and just enjoy nature. There is more we can learn from the beauty and harmony of nature.

24. Exercise more. What is the point of a rich man without good health?

25. Foster good friendships.

26. Get in touch with the spiritual.

27. Read my EBook, ‘Giving Life a Meaning’. It will challenge you into becoming a better you.

28. Become a person of initiative. Dreams will remain dreams until they are acted upon.

29. Become more punctual. It most important for great success.

30. Toss the TV. In most cases TV is a waste of time and a waste of money as well as ability and capabilities. Instead, enjoy quality time in conversation with family and friends.

31. Push you yourself a little further and harder towards your success.

32. Find a mentor, someone who can inspire you and guide you to become a better person.

33. Remember the power of prayer and meditation.

34. Learn to breathe properly. When the breath is strong and calm so is the mind.

35. Listen to good inspirational music.

36. Become more passionate and enthusiastic about what you do. Opportunity flows out of a passionate and enthusiastic heart.

37. Slow down the pace of your life and take a few minutes a day to relax and do nothing. That way, you will have more energy to carry you into your old age.

38. Fasting is an important Strategy of success used in the Eastern world to maintain peak health and mental clarity.

39. Become grateful for the thing you have. That way, the universe will open up more doors for you to conquer.

40. Turn you weaknesses into strengths.

41. Toss away bad habits. Bad habits include smoking, excessive drinking wrong thinking, negativity, watching television, ETC.

42. Sleep less. Most people need only six hours of sleep daily to maintain great physical health.

43. Draft a mission statement. This will help you to stay on purpose.

44. Remember that none can hurt you without your permission.

45. Declutter your space. You will be amazed at how many people keep things they do not need. And you will be amazed by the joy you will see on the faces of the people you would have given that which you no longer want and the peace you will feel thereafter.

46. Read Joyce Meyer’s 'The Love Revolution'. It will remind of your responsibility to the human race.

47. Read ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’ by Steven R. Covey. It is a wealthy souse of knowledge and wisdom.

48. Forgive others and yourself. It is the only way you can run the race faster.

49. Do what you do best. You will make your services invaluable.

50. Love life and live like there is no tomorrow.

This year, I wish that all of you can take the initiative and become better, richer and happier people

This is to you success

Imakando Musho

Portions of this article were reproduced from Robin S Sharma’s. ‘The Top 200 Secrets of Success and the Pillars of Self Mastery. © All Rights Reserved.

Living a Principle Centered Life

2010-12-09T18:44:00.001+02:00

What is the reason why some people live without principles? What can we do to have principles?

In this audio program I explore some of these things can be done to answer these questions.

This week, live your life there is no tommorow bu continue holding on to your principles!!

This is to your success!

Imakando Musho

Turn Your Weaknesses into Strengths

2010-11-12T14:59:00.002+02:00

Every one of us has an attribute to our characters that we do not like and are constantly trying to change. Sometimes we go to great lengths buying ourselves stashes and stashes of self improvement books, attending seminar after seminar and paying outrageous consultation fees for psychologists, psychiatrists and life coaches just to change and improve ourselves. The desire to be better people, better husbands, better colleagues, and better workers even better employers is natural to us as humans. We all want to change for the better.

At the beginning of last year as I was writing down my affirmation, resolutions and formulating my mission statement for the coming year, I came across one aspect of my character that I had resolved to change five years prior. Every year I had written it as the fundamental issue that had to be attended to, giving it the priority tick every year and yet in all my diaries for the past years it had not only resurfaced every time, but it had retained its position as a high priority issue.

Frustrated at my weakness of talking too much, I listened to tapes of Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar and Kerry Shook about the power of the tongue and yet I did not come close to change and become the person that I had wanted to become. I even got more frustrated as I realised the power that the mouth that the tongue has and the trouble mine was likely to lead me into.

Tired, I said heck, this is who I am and let me not change for anyone. Most people want to change because they want to please someone, fit a certain social status or please their friends. It was only after I had packed all the tapes and books I had bought or borrowed on the subject and put the box away that I discovered the amazing mine of possibilities that this weakness held for me; things that I could do for myself improvement. I discovered that I could take my motivational career to the next step and include motivational speaking to my resume, take up radio, acting and voice acting and voice overs (amazingly most people who talk too much have amazing voices).

Most of us want to run away from who we are because of the belief that that the other side is greener and better that where we are. However the acceptance of who we are is sometimes the only way that we can move forward. Whatever our weaknesses, If we search deeper, there is always an upside to them, things we can use to catapult ourselves into the forward zone.

My friend leading Zimbabwean comedian and actor, Carl Joshua Ncube has always been a character known for his jest and was usually referred to as the class jest. But today, because he has realised the power that he has over people because of his jest, he has created an empire of comedy in his home country with sold out gigs countrywide. As I write this he is embarking on a historic national tour bringing comedy to people who have been worried over the past decade about food and security.

The first step to realizing the power of our weaknesses is by first acknowledging them. If you are a generally weak character admit it. Do not run away and take refuge at the gym, yoga classes or steroids. Rather embrace it and acknowledge it! The fundamental mistake most of us make is closing ourselves from us; away from who we are. That will only lead to further frustration.

Respected life coach, Bob Proctor on the TV program, 'The Secret' narrates the story of one young gay man who came to him frustrated because he had refused to acknowledge that he was indeed gay. As a result, he had a low self esteem and confidence, pulled away from people who showed interest in him which resulted in intense loneliness. The fact that he was regularly picked up on at work and in the streets for being gay before even coming out of the closet, plunged his confidence further down. And yet today because he has embraced himself through Bob's help, today he is an award winning comedian who has made straight people laugh at his queerness. That is an almost rare scenario worldwide.

The moral of this story is that when we choose to embrace who God made us to be, then we open up to the plan that the universe has for us ready to receive with open arms the blessing of God.

The second thing we have to do then is to discover the positive opportunities that our personalities and characters have for us. A friend of mine once complained about his obsession with movies, a rather wild passion that he was afraid was going to become rather addictive. When we sat down and I helped him explore the potential that this love and passion has for him and as we did so we found one. Today he is the movie reviewer for an online publication where he is paid for his 'addiction'.

We have to explore ways with which we can transform our weaknesses into strengths. The perfect example is that show that once aired on Music Television where a gang of professional conmen tired of how they had ruined many people's lives decided to turn their weakness into strength and decided to share with the vulnerable public how they are usually conned. Besides this show fattening their bank accounts I believed it also helped a couple of people avoid losing their wealth to conmen.

The third aspect is using you newly found strength to the best advantage of every human around you. When you do that, your life can move into the forward zone because its power and strength lies not in manipulation of people but in aiding humanity improve itself. We should however understand that even though we should embrace our weaknesses, there are aspects of character that I believe people should deal with and try to change. Such character attributes as gossiping, excessive lying, paedophilia, drug and sex addictions, abusiveness in relationships, quick temper, rape and low self esteem should be addressed and people who have these problems should seek professional help.

The art of turning our weaknesses into strengths requires a high level of discipline and focus. Often times one is tempted to think that hell well his is my old way of life and they are bound to remain the same person they were before. If you want to change your fortunes, develop an art of self discipline that will not allow deferring from the very progress you might have made. Find an accountability partner or practice the Eastern forms of meditation such as Yoga which have been proved to aid the mind focus.

When we look deeper into ourselves, we will find great and amazing people that we have might have never realised were there. We will discover amazing opportunities that may have never opened up for us before. Today embrace who you are and start finding ways on how you can change your life and those of the people around you.

This is to your success.

Imakando Musho

The 5 Habits of Losers

2010-11-05T11:15:00.001+02:00

Society has created its own definition of who a loser is and who isn't and although sometimes our parents and community leaders have tried to teach us the very habits of the people who are unlikely to make it in life (please note that this is my working definition for a loser), most of us seem to have either forgotten these valuable lessons or completely had the wrong orientation. No offense to your parents though, I am sure they tried their very best.

Below are the five habits of losers and if you want to be a winner, please avoid these habits and you will see yourself elevated to the top.

Wrong Habit 1. Doing Nothing

Through deep learning of all inspirational material from the bible to the Koran we have learnt that the biggest mistake one can make is doing nothing, either sitting idle or just sheer laziness. When we do nothing we don't grow and Humans are not a constant animal. If you are not growing, you are shrinking

Wrong Habit 2. Watching Television

Or at least a lot of it. Most of us spend a lot of time in front of the tube watching people doing what they are passionate about and getting paid for it while we do nothing and fork out money to watch them. Think of that huge bill for Cable and television licenses. Instead of watching a lot of TV (and playing video games) grab a book and read about a subject you had never explored before, go and volunteer at the neighbourhood homeless shelter, take out that project and do what you are supposed to do. That way we spend our energies on more meaningful stuff, things that can catapult us into the forward zone.

Wrong Habit 3. Worry

Too much worry takes away our ability to do anything meaningful because worry results in fear and fear results in no action thus stifling us and refusing us growth. Instead of worrying why don't you meditate, pray, and find solutions to your questions? Often times you will be shocked at how much the things we worry about are just our imaginations and not anywhere near reality.

Wrong Habit 4. Having too much on your plate

Of course we have been taught that being involved is the key to becoming who we were meant to be but sometimes too much involvement can render the individual stationary unable to move into new zones. Multitasking is the in thing. If you can multitask then you are a more efficient individual. However I believe that very old and timeless saying, 'the jack of all trades is the master of none'. It's true you can't chase two birds with one stone. It's almost impractical!!! Instead choose your projects wisely and do only that which you really have to do and not what you must do.

Wrong Habit 5. Having the wrong kind of friends

I believe it is better not to have any friends at all than to have friends that do not build you. The art of friendship is that all parties in the relationship should gain something whether positive or negative. We cannot choose not to learn anything from our friends. We have to learn something and we cannot choose what. Who our friends are, we are going to model ourselves to them. There are no two ways about it, its how nature operates. So instead of hanging around people who lead you into worry, doubt, negativity, disbelief, idleness, begin to shift to those people who will build you, support you dreams and help you achieve those dreams!!!

This is to your success.

Imakando Musho

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Wisdom And Knowledge Give Your Stability

2010-05-07T09:43:00.000+02:00

Hello

In the last article we identified Spiritual Roots as key for success in life. The second root is the root of knowledge and wisdom. This root gives you anchorage and stability as you navigate your success ship through life. No amount of challenge, storm, caveat, barrier, oppression, depression, suppression or repression can stand against knowledge and wisdom. Really, Sower? Oh yes! I want to share with you an incident that just came to my remembrance as I sat down to write this.

In 2009 the pilot of an Air Bus A320 did a masterful landing of the plane in the Hudson River in the US. The crew and the pilot in particular earned an award after that. The award citation read, "This emergency ditching and evacuation, with the loss of no lives, is a heroic and unique aviation achievement” It was unprecedented in aviation history.

The pilot’s name is Chesley Sullenberger. In an interview afterward he said something so remarkable I wrote it down, "One way of looking at this might be that for 42 years, I've been making small, regular deposits in this bank of experience: education and training. And on January 15 the balance was sufficient so that I could make a very large withdrawal” Wow! This is deep. In other words he had acquired the KNOWLEDGE through education and training, and his ability to make the withdrawal was the intelligible application of this knowledge which is WISDOM. The procedure that he performed after the plane engines had seized requires uncommon levels of calm and self control. This calmness only comes from someone who knows what, why, where, when and how they are doing…in other words someone with knowledge and wisdom.

The Formula For Success

Knowledge, wisdom, understanding and mindset are a continuum, and you need all in order to experience lasting and impactful success. Knowledge comes from the Greek word “gnosis” which means awareness of everything under the sun or familiarity with science (the way things are done). Wisdom comes from the Greek word “sophia” which means insight into reality or the ability to connect the dots and apply knowledge in an intelligible manner. Wisdom informs your actions and decisions. Understanding is “sunesis” in Greek which means a high amplitude of comprehension or perceptual ability. Understanding is also the penetrating consideration which precedes action. The last on this continuum is Mindset, translated “phronesis” in Greek. Mindset is also known as practical wisdom, prudence or fixed mental attitude which predetermines your response to situations. Your mind is set or fixed to do things a certain way. It is a mental model or paradigm embedded in your consciousness which becomes a force which makes you do what you are supposed to do. These four gives us a formula for success as follows: GNOSIS+SOPHIA+SUNESIS+PHRONESIS=GREAT SUCCESS

Let’s prove this hypothesis with our pilot. Chesley Sullenberger gained knowledge (gnosis) about planes and safety through education and training. Using wisdom (sophia) he had insight into reality as the plane’s engines failed, he was able to intelligibly able to use his knowledge within split seconds and under conditions of great instability and panic. His 42 years of experience gave him complete understanding (sunesis) of what to do when things go wrong. He didn’t just ‘ditch’ the plane into the Hudson River. He had penetrating consideration of the options which included going to the nearest airport or force landing before he took the action to land in the Hudson River. 42 years of learning and application of knowledge had built a huge deposit into his consciousness (phronesis). The knowledge and learning had become part of him, and it forced him to do the right thing in a moment of severe test. He is a great success. Hypothesis validated!

But how do I increase in knowledge, wisdom and understanding? To be continued in next article…

To your inexplicable advancement!

Lovemore Nyatsine

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Inspirational Qoutes to get you into 2010

2009-12-13T20:23:00.000+02:00

Hey there. Twenty-ten is here and 2009 is another year faded into the distant past. These thought by successful writers and speakers will help you get through 2010

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Gandhi

Try a little harder to be a little better.
Gordon B. Hinckley

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart, this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
James Allen

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.
Richard Carlson

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
Mason Cooley

Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs.
Michael Levine

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Northrup Christiane

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcolm Forbes

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Gandhi

Try a little harder to be a little better.
Gordon B. Hinckley

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart, this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
James Allen

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.
Richard Carlson

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
Mason Cooley

Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs.
Michael Levine

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Northrup Christiane

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcolm Forbes

Happy New Year
Imakando Musho

NB: Dont you unsubcribe from this blog because when 2010 arrives, I will be unveiling my newly, totally overhauled blog. See you then !

Developing the right center to find balance

2009-11-18T09:16:00.004+02:00

As we sail through this journey of life, we all have something that controls and motivates us to take action; our centers. These may be our friends, our spouses, our jobs and any other materialistic thing we may think about.

However, people change, you may be laid out on a job and the economy may change which will leave us dis stabilized and unable to find our way.

You can imagine how I felt and how my life spiralled out of control when a friend I had been centered on decided to break off ties with me. I had been an insecure and low self-esteemed teenager who had little friends if at all. As I matured and decided to break out of my shell, made friends here and there, friendships became my center. They controlled my emotions, my actions and my thoughts. I felt to leave on of the friendships would be going back into my early teenage years and I was not keen on that at all.

Often times, physical materialistic centers are developed due to insecurities. A formerly poor person will develop a center on their newly found riches whilst a person who was formerly jobless will obviously do anything to keep their job. These people are insecure about the past and the future fearing that what happened in the past will repeat itself in the future if they move away form their currently comfortable positions. This ends up creating comfort zones which consequently hampers human growth.

Materialistic centers are also as a result of low self esteem and confidence, the -I-CANNOT-DO-THIS-IF-I-DO-NOT-HAVE-THIS syndrome hence our confidences are built on those things. These may be our cars, the latest fashion, make-up, things which if we do not have in our possession, our confidence levels slump. However, when these centers crumble, and they are bound to, our lives crumble with them. When you can no longer afford to keep that car, by all the latest fashion, you are rendered helpless. You cannot take action to achieve your dreams, your decision making skills shrink and our talents and abilities are depleted. Our lives go on a free fall and if the parachute is not released, they will end up in horrific crashes on the earth below.

The Principle Center

A center is like a mission statement, a personal mission statement. This statement should be modelled after that of an organization. Organizations are not based on their assets, partners, investors or customers, but rather what they really want, its goals and expected results and performances. This therefore becomes the driving force of the organization. Even in economic instability, when everything falls apart, the organisation is still strongly footed on its mission.

Likewise, we as individuals should develop a center that is strongly tied on what we want, where we would like our lives to be. This therefore reveals the difference between materialistic centers and the principled center. Where the principle center says, 'I am going to live to make my family happy', the material center says, 'My family is my life'. The principle center shows a balanced individual whose mandate is to make his family happy, whilst the material center shows an individual whose family makes him happy and consequently breathe.

When we center our lives on a principle, we have a firm foundation. Our dreams are well articulated and our hopes and needs are well defined and this becomes the driving force for us to take action. The clear cut advantage of these is that they do not change. Of course, we can modify them as we go ahead but it pretty much remains the same. This means that the center becomes a stable source of balance when the ground below is violently shaking.

Principled centers are however, not self centered. When you have balance, the people who eat off your hands will also have balance. Think of your spouse, your boss, your sub-ordinates, children and family. An unbalanced manager leads to an unbalanced employee and ultimately the organization itself which may lead to its fall.

Today, search within yourself. What do you want? Where do you want your life to be? When you have had this clearly articulated, put it in writing and post it somewhere where you can be constantly reminded about it. For a guide on how to write powerful mission statements, click here. [link provided]

Till next time

Imakando Musho -

Act your way to success!

2009-11-01T12:35:00.003+02:00

"... A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back and take it easy-do you know what comes next? Just this: You can look forward to a dirt poor life with poverty as your permanent house guest.' Proverbs 24:30-34(The Message Bible)

The most horrendous temptation that haunts humanity today is the temptation to sit back, relax and let nature take its course. Sadly, some of our spiritual leaders have also come to accept this and are always claiming “God has ruled”. As a result, this has inhibited humanity's ability to grow because when we don't act, we are bound to shrink.

Each one of us has dreams, dreams to be successful, dreams to be healthy, dreams to have a wonderful marriage, to be loved, to love, to have wonderful kids, the list is endless. Dreams are a natural gift from God and he gives them in huge proportions. It is however up to us to act on those dreams and bring them to fruition. It’s a two way thing; God gives you dreams and you act upon those dreams

Our nature as human beings is to act. Its natural to us. Kids who aren't even aware of their surroundings understand this secret. When they are hungry, they make all the noise possible to prompt their mothers to feed them. It is pointless to have dreams when those dreams are not being worked on. You have to go all out and literally catch those dreams and force them into reality.

When we don't act, nature will act upon us and impose on us things we do not want. It works the way breathing works. When you stop breathing and fighting your way through life, nature will act on you and decompose you. In the same way, when we don't act, we are bound to decompose and shrink. There is no way humanity can sit comfortably at one level: we are either growing or shrinking, period.

Contrary to popular belief, acting on our dreams is not being pushy, arrogant, rough or obnoxious. It is knowing exactly what you want and acting get it. Organizations look at this quality as much as they look at the qualification themselves. They do this because despite an individual being highly qualified, if this quality is non-existent that person cannot act on the organization’s mission hence the organization will be wasting its resources by hiring that individual.

We, however, should align our actions to right thinking and motives. When we don't do so, we end up being pushy, and obnoxious which at the end of the day compromises other aspects that lead to a meaningful lives such as successful human relationships. Remember, someone said “no man is an island unto himself”!

In order to turn your dreams into the physical and present, you need to take initiative. Initiative is tied strongly to knowing your strengths and talents. You have to know what your capabilities are and act in line with them. You can't take action on things that you cannot do. A friend of mine seems to have understood this principle. He has had dreams of becoming a popular musician and went from one record company to the other looking for a record deal and couldn't find any. After deep self-searching he found his true calling, producing music. Judging by the achievements he has had today, I can safely say he is on the road to becoming the popular musician he has always dreamt he will be.

What are your dreams? Are they aligned to your strengths and talents? Take action upon them and they will come to fruition. This week remember that taking the initiative on your dream solves your problems instead of making you the problem.

To a Stronger you

Imakando Musho.

Make The Right Decisions Today!

2009-10-06T10:01:00.001+02:00

Around this time last year, I made a decision which today, one year later, is proving quite difficult to undo. Despite my initiative, right thinking, gratitude and all the self help theories, I still find myself tangled in the aftermath of that very unwise decision

A decision made today, is like a tree that you plant. It will alter the terrain into a miniature paradise or a complete replica of hell. We make decisions every day, both minor and major, and it is those decisions that define who we are today. We are a sum total of yesterday's choices and our tomorrow largely summarized by the decisions we are making. Our tomorrow heavily depends on the direction in which we are steering our lives today. Our decisions are the driving wheel of our lives; if used properly they can take us to the right destination whilst the vice-versa leads to a hell hole and death.

The first aspect in decision making is the understanding that when we pick a stick we pick the one end, says self help guru, Stephen Covey Ph.D. we have no choice but to also the other end even tough we did not pick that end. Similarly, when we make a decision, we have no choice on the results of that choice.

Whatever choice we make, it is tied to a set of results-bad or good. For example you cant expect to have healthy lungs when you are a chain smoker. Likewise, healthy living, exercise and right food are all going to lead to a much healthier life which may result in a prolonged life.

But how does one know that the decision he or she is making is the right one and that it will lead to success? First, the chances of making the appropriate decision increase when one engages consultancy. The bible actually says in proverbs, there is safety in a multitude of advisors. Managers and leaders need to understand this aspect the way one see certain things may not be the same way an advisor see it. In Shona they have a saying “chara chimwe hachi tswanyi inda” literally meaning two are better than one.

As individuals seeking to change spheres in their worlds and to give their lives a meaning we have to understand this principle because the decision you make will not only affect you but also the constituency that you serve. Consult them.

Secondly, to make the right decision we have to tap into the spiritual realm either though prayer or meditation. When we do this, we tap into abundant wisdom of the supernatural. The Judeo-Christian Ethic in the biblical book of Proverbs stresses on the point that [the supernatural] is the source of strength and wisdom and without Him, no wise decisions are made.
Consequently, wisdom may dictate that we refer to the past in order to solve our current challenges. Solomon said there is nothing new under the sun. In business they talk of “reinventing the wheel”. Magistrates, judges and lawyers employ this method to achieve great and consistent results. We should not be afraid to follow what other people did. Hundreds of people have burned the midnight oil in order to pass and get into college. If one chooses to go to college, the surest way of doing it is copying the millions of people who utilized this tactic. We have to understand that there is nothing new on this earth and no matter how peculiar your situation may seem, billions of people dead or alive have gone through similar experiences.

Using the model of the Honey Comb that I developed for my upcoming book, Changing The Spheres In Your World, individuals can alter wrong decisions by counteracting them with a wiser one because, like a honey comb, situations in our lives are so interconnected hence opportunities will always present themselves for you to take charge of your life again. An example of this is when a kid who decided to run away from school finally is influenced to go back to school and he finally gets his High School diploma.

I am, however, not encouraging people to go and make wrong choices because they know that they can counteract them with right ones later; no! Wrong decisions, whether counteracted or not, are a waste of time and that in itself is a compromise to the aspect of Giving Life A Meaning (GLAM). What I am encouraging is that those people who have made wrong decisions should counteract them with the right ones as they can rein their lives back on course.

Till next time. Choose wisely because a decisions can alter your life completley

Imakando Musho

Do Your Best

2009-08-03T09:35:00.004+02:00

In the world today, because of the new 'helps' to humanity like satelite tv, mobile internet, cellular phones, microwaves, GPS, etc., we are all tempted to slacken our own input into our lives and let these machines take over our lives. Consequently, humanity is among the weakest of animals especiallythose of us who stay in the cities. Because someone chose to manage their finances through the internet, the recession caught up on them and today they are among the poor.

This life is too short, one of the greatest thinkers Solomon, says, 'whatever you find to do, do it with all your might'. I am very much impressed with Donald Trump's businees ethics. To him his business is his life and steadily he is rising to become one of the richest men in the world. On the other hand, Zimbawe's Jazz Maestro, Oliver Mtkudzi is also impressive. Because he refuses to release substandard material, and always masters his shows , he has become a cut above the rest in that country and is an international musical ambassador.

Doing our best means perfection. When we do something,such as engage in a job, we should ask ourselves if that is the highest level of our potential. As individuals, we all carry the same potential as that of the next fellow but it is up to us to tap into our right brain.This understandably is avoided by most people because it involves taking risk, creativity and hard work which is unattractive to many people. It is however these qualities that makes the better people who they are.

Consequently, doing our best can be broken down into three major components, proactivity, focus and hard work.

PROACTIVITY, Involves such things as right thinking, aligning our words to our dreams and goals and taking the initiative. The news in tv is crazy, the stock markets are falling and things seem to be spiraling out of control. It is up to us to continue holding onto our dreams and despite the risks involved, we should go ahead and initiate. Iniation means success especially when accompanied by thinking right(in business, this is called calculated risk).

FOCUS involves the ability to stay in touch with what we are doing despite facing pressures from outside, perhaps from tv, friends and the political situation. When new fads rise focus understands that to burn a paper using a lense one has to concerntrate it on the sun and when the heat climaxes, the whole paper is consumed in fire. Focus doesnot undermine adaptability to Change. You cannot jump to the next concept without mastering the first. All concepts compliment each other. In many education programs, you cannot go to the next level without achieving satisfactory results on the first level.

Hardwork. We all hate hard work. Actually we all hate work so often times we are temprted to slacken in our jobs. In most organizations there is what I term the "they will do it and cover for me syndrome", These are the people who want to load other people with their work and despite the short term relief it gives, the long term reppercussions are certain and include not being promoted, being fired or being demoted.

The Christian bible states that it is our mandate to work but I believe that we also have to work hard so that we can succeed in this competitive world. Our potential however,is affected by such factors as disability and sickness but we all have to go out and take our jobs seriously. Thus the saying,'make hay whilst the sun shines. Those who work hard eat the most. It is a simple rule of nature. Period. There are no two ways about it.

Today I encourage you to put your thoughts in everything you do. When you wake up to go to work, to pray, as you dress, as you interact with your child, friends or spouse, as you do chores, the question you should ask yourself is,"Is this my best?"

Do your best today and give your life a meaning.

Imakando Musho

Give your life a meaning

2009-06-12T10:03:00.006+02:00

Below I give you things that have been said by powerful inpsirational authors, things that have been proved to work, universal truths that have been applied since the day the earth was created. Your growth is in these words of the wisest man of our century.

Our tools of change

If You Can Whoop It In Your Head You Have Whooped It.Creation starts in our minds.Whatever is happening to you today is as a result of the thoughts that you are entertaining today.What it therefore means is that when we think negatively, our worlds are receated into that negativity.he same also applies to the positive minded. because they have chosen to think positively their worlds are turned inntto the positive. So instead of saying "I am not going to make it",start saying "I am going to make it" As you say that even in the most uncondusive you will begin to see the universe your world begin to change.---T.D JAKES, Pastor

Take Action!!!!Our nature as human beings is to act.Our nature is to make things happen an dnot to wait for things to happen to us. When you have a dream, act upon it. Align yourself and every action that you take to that dream and only then can we start to go forward.Inaction is for the reactive people who do not know what hey want and it often results in life bringing out to us things that we do not want. What the hell are you waiting for? Get up and act towards your success!!!---STEPHEN R. COVEY, author

Bless Your Blessing. Instead of complaining over what we dont have, we should start to bless what we have. That little TV,the uncool clothes, that small car are blessings. Start blessing them,embrace them and as you do so you will start to receive the things that you really want. Your blessing is out there and the universe is waiting fo you to acknowledge what God gave you and only then can we start to recieve the new things that God has in store for us----BOB PROCTOR, philosopher

Release!!!Life is about give and take, you breathe in you breathe out and to refuse either one of them is to risk death. The reason why we are not recieving our blessing is because we only want to recive and do not want to give. Giving works like a seed, what you sow is what you reap. How many children have you seen who are in desperate need and yet all you do is shoo them off? Look at those who are arond you who have made it in life. they have applie this law and things have begun moving for them. What you give is what you get. You want money give money, love then love it is and you will recieve them in propotion to the seed that you would have sown.---Dr ORAL ROBERTS, founding president of The Oral Roberts University

Reawaken Your Spirit.As human beings it is important to realise that we have a supernatural being whom we should honor and have a close relationship with.This relation ship is only built through prayer and nothing else. It is prayer that goes and fight those battles that we in the physical cannot fight. Prayer does your change your outlook to life and as you are changed, it moulds you to the wil of God which is for your growth and then can things start happening in your life. TOM DEUSCHLE, author, spiritual leader.

Imakando Musho

Are your friends building or breaking you?

2009-06-12T09:43:00.004+02:00

The Power Of Friendships

My best friend drives an X5, lives in an uptown loft in the city and has pioneered a successful career. All the other close friends range from young executives, entrepreneurs, actors, musicians, and pretty much everyone who has wild dreams of catapulting their futures into the forward zone.

Do not get me wrong. I am not bragging about my friends to anyone of you. I don't live a friendship centered life although truthfully, I have made conscious decisions to befriend each one of them. All I seek to share with you is how my relationships have put me onto the forward zone and how yours can do the same to you.

Whoever I am today is a result of the people that I spend most of my time with. Because I have consciously decided not to befriend losers, I am in the process of setting up my own magazine for the youth, finished writing my first book and have done some things people twice my age may dream of.

I believe I can do better than what I have done and so can you! Look around and inside yourself. Who are your friends? What are your dreams?Do your friends help you realize your dreams? Is that friendship building you or breaking you? Our friendships should benefit us and not destroy us and every friendship that is not building us is breaking us.

The reason why I have chosen not to befriend losers is because I know these people speak about failure every time and the successful people do the exact opposite. When we realize the power that is in the words we hear every day, we then realize the power that our relationships have on us and our success.

Friends release to us energies which may be positive or negative, says Dr. B Manjoro, PhD, author and spiritual leader. He takes into account the story of Elijah and Elisha. Elisha he reckons was highly anointed because of Elijah. Every time they spoke, ate, preached, male bonded, Elijah's anointing was involuntarily transferred into Elisha hence Elisha became one of the greatest prophets Israel and the world has ever Known.

Robert Kiyosaki, New York Times bestselling author agrees. He like me admits that he has consciously decided to befriend people who had money not because he was after their money; all he wanted was their knowledge and their expertise and today his bank account is testimony
enough to how powerful this friendship rule is.

Do not get me wrong; I am not saying one should one should not befriend the poor whom most of us mistake for losers. There are a lot of rich people who are losers. All I am saying is we should befriend people with visions people who have a positive outlook because 'with no vision the people perish'.

Below is a rule that I developed for my upcoming book,Changing Spheres In Your World.
I believe the rule will help each one of us to realize and harness the power that is in our relationships.

1) The Forty Percent Rule

In this group falls role models, mentors,people that have already made it and these should make most of our friendships. This however does not mean you have to stay in abusive relationships because the whole basis of power relationships would be eroded then.

2) The Thirty-Five Percent Rule

These are the people we have something in common with, the desire to live our comfort zones and move forward. The people are there for the motivation and are measuring sticks for our progress.

3) The Twenty-Five Percent Rule

Life is about breathing in and out, receiving and giving and to deny any of the natural law precedence is to risk stunted growth which ends up in death. To this group of friends you are the role model; the derrick to lift them up and believe you me, when you lift someone, the universe will lift you thrice as much.

This week I hope you make a personal trim on those individuals you call friends and leave out those that are the heavy weight denying you coverage of more ground and stopping you from giving your life a meaning

To a stronger you

Imakando Musho

Power comes to those who search for it.

2009-06-03T19:43:00.001+02:00

Mahatma Gandhi is the role model for peace building. Although his environment couldn't allow him to be what we know him as today, he went on and did what he had to do.

Today, I ask you, What do you want? What do you really need? Go ahead and get it. Your present situations do not allow you. Your boss is that tight passed chap who is earning all the money he does by crashing you. Even though you need to be a person of action because things don't come to us as humans while we sit. our basic nature is to act, to go forth and bring fruit.

Whatever you are after today, Take the initiative towards it and you will see the results and you one day may be remembered as a man who defied all odds and came out tops

happy week
Imakando Musho

बेलिवे इन youself

2009-05-27T21:29:00.000+02:00

As a young man still growing up, I always wondered why nobody ever seemed to believe in me. It always seemed like I was not good enough. I would relay business ideas to the people around me hoping to get financial aid but all I got were empty promises or be totally ignored. It didn't only end in family and business and family affairs only' but also got inot my friendships. I was used as a convinient friend where I was used for someone to get by.

After one business proposal and a friendship had both turned sour at the same time, Iwas forced to look t why my things weren't moving. A question popped in my head, "Do you believe in yourself?" As I sat there and dweelled on the reason i had failed, I realised that I did not believe in myself adn felt unloved because I wa salways expecting others to believe in me yet I did not in me!

Most of us spend our days trying to do our best for some to validate us. Wego all the way to buy th most expensive clothes, buy the nicest houses, get the nicest cars only for our friends an denemies to see that yes we have done well. A lot of people are living their lives for some one and that someone for someone as well and this has caused our world to come to a standstill.

The secret to your success is you! The secret to your stress free life is you. You are the center of the universe and all the answers lie within you. If you cant find the answers yourself, how do you expect others help you find yours? Chances are that they do not even know their own answers.

When we believe in ourselves, we are telling ourselves that we are the best, that we can make it there by giving our growth in all the aspects of our daily living and lining up our actions to God's will for us.

Most of you may think that I have taken the new earth ideology. no. I believe that god want each one of us to believe in ourselves because if we do a part of him is brought in the vicinity and he can begin to change the spheres in our world. Actually the bible puts it aptly in proverbs29:25, "[]Whoever trusts in the lord is kept safe."

When we begin to believe in our selves, others will start believing in us to. We will satrt walking with the confident gait and proactivity and positive ppower will be oozing from us naturally.

I have followed this principle and it has helped me a lot. I have got the best friendships i can ever get as well as a confident gait that has made me do things that would have been impossible with that self sorry young man that I once was.

BY NOT BELIEVING IN OURSELVES WE BECOME SUSPECTIBLE TO:
A:Our sposes, friends and society although nowhere near being psychic can always see through our weaknosses and when they find them, it becomes natural for them to take advantage of us.
B:Closed doors. Need I say more? Businesses do not need any one who does not believe in themselves. How can you believe in a multi national conglomerate when you do not believe in yourself?
C:Debt: because your life is lived to please others, you end up spending more than you can afford and end up taking comfort in a batch of credit cards which altough may help you today, they are going to make your problems even bigger tommorrow.

Today I ask each one of you to start living according to the scripts we give to ourselves and not the ones given to us by friends. Start believing in yourself even in the little things and you will see what differences it makes.

Imakando Musho

Ten steps to your success

2008-11-27T19:56:00.000+02:00

Hi there its good to have you back on this blog site

I want to share with you the five principles that I have discovered and
discussed in my up coming book, Changing Spheres In Your World(yet to be published)
I believe that if each of us can harness the power of the unchangeable truths and principle
That I discuss below, then we can begin to have our world change for us.

1)True success starts inthat little world called your mind!
whoever we ar today is as a result of what we thought about yesterday.
Your mind is a powerful tool of creating the world around you. We all know that the words taht we speak are so powerful in creating and shaping the world around us. Words happen to be the ouward exprexpression of what we feel inside thus if you feel poor in the inside, you can never begin to profess that you are rich. Today start thinking positive thoughts and your words will begin to match with what you are thinking and your world will turn round.

2)True success comes when we forget the rearview mirror.
When you are driving, all you do is look to the front becaus ethats where you are supposed to be going.When you look into the rearview mirror, thats when catasrophes strike. it is a simple rule taht most of us even non drivers know by heart yet sadly in real life we are hesitant ot apply it. How many of us are holding onto the past, the hurts that we suffered, the mistakes that we made and sometimes even the successes that we had? You know what? You are holding back your success and risking catastrophes in the process. Let go of the past and begin to live in the present with your drive towards the future.

3)True success is seen by the type of friends that you have.
Its a statement that has been over exhausted and I decide to do more damage to it. 'Birds of the same feathers flock together' Look around yourself. What type of friends do you have? Wjhatever you see in them is excatly an illuminatio of who you are as an individual. To avoid this, I have personally embarked on amissinon of befriending those that have got either the potential or htos ethat have already made it. I am serious! Because I want to be a successful young man so there is no way I can hang around with people who want to lead ordinary lives. Today trim down on your friends and start befriending those whose passions or statuses are in line with whom you want to be as an individual.

4)True success comes to those who seek it
Do you have a dream? Do you realise who you want to be? Take action to realise that dream. you are the one that creates your world and therefore go ahead and begin to create. when God created Adam, he also gave him the power and ability to create his world. It is a divinely recognised mandate'Go forth and reproduce' so today start making advances towards your dream. take that rich business masn that you have always idolise for lunch and learn from him what has made him as he is today. Just do something and I guarantee you, you will be seeing results in whatever sphere you decide to do

5)True succes is wrapped up in prayer.
The word of god tells us to remain in prayer and pray always. this not just another of the bible's unrealistic demands; it is extremley true and the only way true success will come to each one of us. I have heard people say that Jews are the richest people and do you want to know why they are rich? It is because of the importance and reverence that they put in prayer. If you dont believe me just do a research on the internet now and you will see what I mean. Prayer works as the enhancer of whatever you want to do, it is the drving force, a catalyst to what ever you set out do.

I hope that you will find my presentation as helpful as it was to me.

Till next time
IMAKANDO MUSHO
Harare

Use your Talents!

2008-11-27T14:51:00.000+02:00

Each and evey one of us ha sgot something peculiar to us. Its not the idea of different finger prints but the fact that you and I have different talents that we should utilise if we want to change the world around us.

One person has a good voice whilst the other has the ability to turn businesses right side up. We all have different things that we can do that the next person cannot do. Imagine where our world will be if we focus our energies on what we can do rather than what we want to do? Miles ahead!

I recently did an interview with one of my home country's newest and youngest singing sensation who at atender age of 19 has released a hit album, won numeruos awards and managed to perfom in the United states. The one question that he evokes in me is how could he achieve all that he has at such atender age when some who are way too older that he is have failed to do what he has done. His answer I know is not at all arrogant as some of you might begin to think. No, it was just a simple, 'I have focused on my talent a lot and did which I knew i could do.'

How true and impressive for that matter especially whaen its coming from such a young man. When we concerntrate on our talents, we are opening gateways to our success. We begin to change spheres in our world and begin to make positive advances in every aspect of our lives.

Mahatma Gandhi,Nelson Mandela, and Mother Theresa all focused on what they were talented in instead of what they wanted to do. I am very sure of the fact that there were a lot of lidicrous careeers that they could have pursued yet they gave way to their talents and today they are the most respected people who have made positive advances in the well being of us as Earth inhabitants.

The problem that we are facing today is that people want to to concerntrate and pursue things that they dont have any talent in. All people are after is the money thing and taht surel;y does compromise the quality of work taht we produce.Just because Will Smith exceede the 40million dollar mark a movie, that should not make it an excuse for every Jack and Jill get into the movie industry.

This as I said earlier it does compromise our abilities as individuals to reach our maximum levels and set the world into a non stop revolution. Because you have refused your energies precedence, you risk stunted growth and stunted growth is the last thing that we need in our lives.

Marcus Huckingson author of(PUT YOUR STRENGTHS TO WORK) concurs. He says that talents because they are our strengths, if we give them precedence we are catapulting our lives into the forward zone. He also adds that it cuts short the amount of time and effort that we put into a goal and the results will be quick.

If you can dance, dance nad you will see that your life will be in a much better position than the one it is in now. I certainly do not deny the fact that there are multi-talented people, all I am saying is your talent should be the driving force to whatever you want to achieve as an individual. Then that talent coupled with Passion will certainly catapult you into the forward zone and spheres in your world will begin to change.

Till next time
Imakando Musho
Harare