[Invisible influence]

'Worship of ashes a quiet art for the usually colourphobic loud' [1]. Being a yes man an annoyance to the power wrestler if you're to make the cut. The aim is transformation of one's flaws more than it is about focusing on personal quantitative assets.

Layers of low self-esteem a comfort for a zoned sole, but the end result a killer to the dream hidden behind pounds of excuses. Many shades of dense self criticism does none any good for their better outlook on life. What you need is an assurance that you are, and you will be that once given the tools to make you feel good and confident.

With owning up yourself, you open up your world to team playing, success seeking and self-growth, and with that comes offers for a piece of you. Everybody wants to team up with someone who exudes an aura of confidence. It all starts with you showing respect to the game and its players.

In conclusion: take a risk and do something that will make you experience your full potential, and honestly, that's the invisible influence that awaits your gut to unearthing your full YOU and living your dream. Go on, take the globe, turn it and put your finger anywhere and control how your mind think of it and, voila,,,you found your subject path to your success 'cause at the end you got to be something somewhere some day. As long as you can keep reminding yourself that the very invisible influence you sought all the time has been there in you, and you just need to understand how much it wants to feed off you. Good luck making your life interesting...dp 

[1] by Kgele Leso

[Split unity]

Some things sometimes make you forget who you are, at times make you act like you don't care, but what matters is why you do it and whom for. Anger is not hatred and tough love comes from a good place, and that's a caring heart.

Every family has those heated moments and what gets said during them not to be taken to heart. Enemies use many ways and people to get their way into breaking others. The quickest example is that of divide and conquer, and the divider all of the time wins because those involved are cut off from each other. But then, what if a family employs a different approach in its strategy to fight back the divider.

If a family does allow for the divisive element to divide them, and through the factions formed within their home, do form separate units of strength against the divider, the battle will be returned to the agent of division.

Finding one's own voice and thought a result of looking at the world in a different way and acting in an unconventional manner. When there's some bad vibe that comes in between you and your family or team, build smaller teams to fight back the negative energy. To uproot disunity you have to be deeply rooted in unity, and the only way to achieving that being through positivity and common love advancing built one smaller group into the other until it's a whole collective again.

In conclusion: playing bad against the bad guy not a bad idea, the end goal here is split unity. Coming back stronger from a divisive phase not an easy task to win as other minds already eating out of the divisive element's palm. To win back your family or team from a divisive realm is to balance your criticism of the divider. The trick is to do as recommended and but with reservations so you be able to revert to your stance once tested your compatibility to their approach.

So, if you're in lead, do listen and carefully observe, and but if not bearing the desired result to simply pro-act against the force to counter its next move. Life is a game, and so is leadership; just know how to play it...dp 

[Etisha pele bao ba go beago pele]

Season's greetings; filled with hope for a better start this time around as we dub 2021 the year of vaccination, and a year to remember those who were there for us in our darkest hour. After a past year of misgivings, I hope we will spread the message of "Etisha pele bao ba go beago pele" in SePedi or in English "Put to the fore those who place you first" in this times of shared limited resources.

Circumstances shape mindsets, no matter the outcomes being good or bad, and that's what's happening now going forth. There's no doubt that the pandemic has come with it an opportunity for new markets and a new way of living (or should I say New World Order?). The same did happen a thirty odd years ago via HIV/AIDS. Before then, people were mating differently from how it's done now with condoms. Fast forward to today, the world's population is going to live and behave in a fashion unlike in pre-pandemic times, and the true fact is that our lives will never be the same ever again.

In this trying times we join hands with one goal of defeating the pandemic. What needs be said and taught should be the message of forging new lasting relations for post-pandemic era. It shouldn't be a secret that whoever not on your side in this time will not form part of the future inventory of your beneficiation cycle. If they are not here with you now they're simply not there for you and best you remember that when the situation gets better.

In conclusion: if I fail you now I am failing our future and as such I am erasing myself from your life. The person you surround yourself with now matters if they're sticking with you. Truth is, that person who is there in your down moment and assuring you time and again how it's okay and about how soon it'll be better is very much important to you even if they have nothing to offer than those with gold and diamond who promise them should you make it or wanting you after you've made it. So, treat that person with love and respect, and put them first...dp