[Post Covid-19 nympholepsy]

Today's gloom a glimpse of a melancholic tomorrow, lending a cup full nostalgia of my lovable yesterday. Lockdown a militarist approach that instills recalcitrant behavior in some. Worse made by recall doses of extensions that are injected by clueless leaders who are only eyeing profits over our well-being.

The pulsating throb we used to experience of economic opportunities now a song sung in reversed reverb. The now catchphrases are sanitization, fumigation, inoculation, herd immunity, social distancing, vaccine, stay at home, vaccine passports, and the likes, that have suddenly changed the way we live and do business.

What lockdown does is the enforcement of a new world order. Post this pandemic, the behavior won't be the same. What we used to do socially and commercially will be a brand new exercise. One thing I can't wait to see though is the mushrooming of new industries resulting from a sponge squeeze of niche markets lying untapped. I don't anticipate a host of them but a sure variety. Remember that in every downturn there's a chance of making money from downtrend losses better than in uptrend gains. And also that, 'post-depression an ocean to a drowsy eye, but an untapered perennial stream to a wakeful eye' [1].

The downside of it all is the rapid growth of joblessness. Many companies won't manage to get back to their levels of prior to the pandemic. Some creativity will be sought to revive the economy with a mind open to the need for new markets generation and new business models that will align with those trending developments.

There will be new and version updates to courses in academia and to lawmaking as well to curl into the snug of new industries. New courses and modules to respond to the new order a necessity that'll bring uniform standards and legislative measures. As for some industries, a wave of reform will be in phase-out of their existence driven by peddled transformation, thus extinction of job security for others who qualified solely for that defunct industry. This, saying to us that it'll be wise to employ a versatile workforce, meaning either a person academically qualified at more than one fraternity, or a person experienced in a specific industry and but academically qualified in another, or be a person with a multi-faceted academic qualification.

A game-changer for those going to school going forth, and a sorry state for those recently graduated in soon to be defunct industries. Executives should too wise up by using this window period to start saving and planning for refresher courses and upskill courses to put them at the fore when the revolution kick starts. 2020 should be declared a global gap year and pity so seems to be 2021.

In conclusion: 'readiness a dying breed to the aging preparedness convict' [2]. Saying that you're getting ready for post-Covid-19 an understated lateness. Be in already, that's the only way your mind will start waking to opportunities of an early start tomorrow. The pandemic is in its late hours, so, don't idle in waiting for what's to be come tomorrow. People are raring to launch tomorrow morning and those who'll start planning by then will be off-railed by those launching mid-morning and midday, thereafter latecomers painted as nothing more than nympholeptic followers.

[1, 2] by KgeleLeso

[Target mating: chopping male score out of business]

Men have power that women hold for control. This is a striking statement to opening a chapter in a business book I must say. It took me days to digest the contents and by the time I got it, was when I read the last page. Both the title and the authors are feminists, and they selfishly got away with it seeing that it's been long yet heard nothing of it to this day. The book is good, I wonder why it didn't get revered in business circles.

The book is written by two women, a clinical psychologist and a sex therapist. One is a divorcee mother of two teenagers while the other single with one beautiful daughter. Let me sum it up by chapters interesting to me.

What's his star sign? This one, I'll never forget 'cause it said quite an ink full about a lot of horrible stuff concerning it that it made me feel somehow as if one of the authors is either hurt by or failed to net a Gemini. They say you can tell by the man's star sign if you will last or not (talk about compatibility) with them. Jumping straight into my sign, said a lot of them are flirty, kinky experimentalists who should be leashed. One other issue being that because of their foursome divided nature, this sign is the capital of extinction in alpha males. Said also at length that they desire freedom even in times of need for the opposite gender. Though one positive section I loved was when highlighting that there's never a dull moment with a Gemini, and but expect a lot of drama with them (that I salute).

Who initiates sex? Men who are afraid to sweet talk you into mating are not a rare find and are a turnoff. Women shouldn't be the initiator in the beginning, a man should. If a woman does initiate mating it means she does really adore the man and but wouldn't appreciate it if she has to be doing that almost all the time as it feels like it's a forced activity to you and also to others at times hinting how unwanting of you a man is.

How he plays with you. A woman wants a man who draws a map of his intentions about his woman on her bare tender skin. How he advance the sensitive parts says something to her about that man. Is he gentle? Is he rough? Is he focused or nervous? How is his hand corresponding to the rhythm of his breath? Does he breath through the nose or mouth? How is his tone in his talk? (Does it serenade or annoy?) Such tells the woman how seasoned you are in that territory. It informed me how thorough a woman is when she wants or if she is interested.

His positions. This is personally my favorite (not that I'm a pervert but just couldn't believe how mating is used against a man, even in business). A man is gauged by the positions he make love with. Whether he is spontaneous, or bold, or safe? A lot was said in this chapter. The spontaneous type is a catch to be kept. Their versatility a welcome to any woman out there for they are a gem, and with them expect fireworks and a bliss that kicks embarrassing situations out the insensualization window. Positions with this type an infinite trail. Then the bold, these ones are good for some days and not every time as they tend to be too sure of themselves and at times using vulgar in their dirty talk, a huge bore. These ones are the spankers (makes most women feel cheap) and never apologize after being reprimanded. They tend to stick to what they know and satisfy themselves always. The latter, the safe type, is loved by the church-going ones. They are the one-lane type when it comes to mating, the always make it in the bedroom types with lights off. To seal it, said the spontaneous type is the high-risk takers who knows to walk away easily after a loss, and not the one who's grudge-holding. Said the bold are good negotiators but they are bad at reading between the lines in the process of it all. They also are dominant, and taking over not always a necessity in that it's the surest and quickest route to creating enemies. The safe type, they said, are risk perverse and calculating each of their moves and that is timidity. Because of their apologetic nature, they tend to take longer to get what they want, and that in any set up a clear sign of weakness. So, as a corridor banger, I kind of got it and was fascinated at the result I am.

His walk aftermath. How he turns and face backward or stares at you with that magical gaze a statement on its own of his stance with you. How he jumps out of bed to the toilet or off in a rush to somewhere after mating, tells you the kind he is. How he crawls out of bed after mating, bare or clothed, is how he'll be whenever there's a win or loss or challenge in the business relationship. The walk of a man to and from bed informs her of your gratitude or arrogance before and after laying her. The same applies in how you approach the table in negotiations or how you handle your position corporately and socially. But, what is most important yet dangerous is your attitude after every event that has you printed allover it.

His commitment scale. Women can tell from smallest of things if a man is the type to commit or not. A simple and innocent thing as typing a text message or taking his time to read her writing patterns and tell her moods, it all sounds too much for some but all worth it if you do care about her. Your dedication and care to many unnoticeables a separation of a man from others since it highlights your scalability of commitment in future endeavours with her.   

Her commitment scale. Women are a different species. Everything about a man is on the checklist and the metrics of each scorecard a dynamic pattern only a man will take forever learning. Men are strong physically but women directing the power they possess. A man who fails that test ain't worth keeping, so might as well cut him and pass on to others until you find the one who is an omnifit, whom you can plan around and groom to your own taste. Any woman is attracted by a man who is feared or respected by other men. She positions herself guided by that, before physique and other features, pity for the man a blinding game of grey denomination that leaves him strutting his stuff all for nothing. A woman has her ways around a man's body, and how she strokes it done in such a manner that's to her taste, slowly evoking a man's muted features to life and muting those known to him for those are the ones he'll use against her like he did with his pasts. Once he responds to her to how she wants, can she be his. A woman knows from that point that you are the one or just a random fling.

In conclusion: the last chapter, "the step-out lesson", is short and clear; You suss a man out first before you lay with him, and gauge him when you lay with him, then conclude on his behavior after mating if you are to commit to him or not. If he doesn't cuddle your culture then a miss. The same case with business.

For me, what an unorthodox ending. Never in my life had I read a book with a three-lined chapter. And, trying to find the reason why this self-published book is scarce, couldn't win. Is it maybe those who bought it hid it away from their spouses or partners, or what, since it ran low print numbers? Your guess, isn't as good as mine...

 

[Redressal]

Anybody familiar with the umbrella story? It is a story of patience, opportunity and redressal. It's about a man who had ordered many umbrellas by mistake and struggled to sell them. Instead of returning them for a fraction of their cost, opted to keeping them.

Rainy season came and out he went with his umbrella and living his life normally. Every day reports came in about the rains not going to break soon, and the solution was for everyone to have an umbrella, and up went his sales and when the season came to pass was a happier business person.

Success is not always about you, it somewhere needs luck and favour, and sometimes a result of a mis-check. The golden ingredients of success to date remain still in approach, people, patience, product, positioning, and redressal. What i want to emphasize is the importance of redressal. We never factor that whenever we talk about elements of success, and that is wrong.

We daily make mistakes and constantly rectify them. It doesn't matter in which side of your life that mistake is made but fact is after its commission there's a rectification. In business, the mistake we keep making is failing to call a mistake as a mistake and opt calling it by many nice names to make it light and acceptable, but truth is we only kill our chance at redressal.

What we lack is honesty in pointing at selves and allow being pointed by others for our mis-checks. We instead blame those below us, to make selves feel better. Why don't we visit the truth room in our minds during such times? Why don't we navigate our souls for answers in isolation? Reality is we won't because it'll only make us realize we are nothing different from the next below us and we too should be told how wrong we are.

How many truth telling advisors do you know who are rich? Reason is, the bosses don't keep the type too long on their payrolls. Bosses want those who make them look good and take their falls so they experience no stoppage to their earnings streams. Bosses want no person who reduces them to their level or below, it's called disrespect not advisement. This tells you one thing and that's that those we call leaders aren't ready for redressal.

Redressal is about self knowing of errors made, self admission to role of self in the erring, concurring with the next's blame on us and their solution for amendment, saying it out where you erred and apologize, and being active from the front in rectification thereof. Redressal is not about damage control but rather reputation protection, not about shifting accountability but rather individual and collective responsibility, it's not about cost cutting but about looking beyond numbers, not bullying the victims but being human enough to engage the wronged and restore their dignity before your image restoration. It's about you humbling self and being given a second chance before you forgive yourself. It's about a healing process of both you and the next involved.

Let's learn to schedule sessions with our egos, learn to stand afore our achievements in acknowledgement of others' roles in making us, learn to be more patient with others' mistakes same way we expect them with ours, learn to take heed of our past miscalculations as lessons into our future, learn to be honest in being open about our wrongful convictions, learn to want those seeing us for persons we are around us to aid our groundedness, let's learn to allow for us to be shaped as we forge ahead and shaping others for our growth and theirs, let's learn the value of redressal because it's a good basis for our success as leaders.

In conclusion: business is personal, and needing the courtesy you expect unto your person equalled to it, reason enough you need your all before it gets your all in redressal in order to beat any hurdles in your way of success. Patience a vital virtue to your entrepreneurial spirit that but without redressal like adding water into a dried paint container and expect it to be revived,,,useless...

[Empathy]

'Little less known strangely safer to too known for nothing' [1]. Going through the pages of my past I struggle to find where I did same mistakes just because they will understand my reasons. With you I fail to now comprehend as I feel there's a point in life where you feel somehow you're being taken for a ride, and it doesn't sit well with me for I don't want to give it space in me but you busy helping it dig in anyway.

If you show it to someone out there that it's good creating your own rules as you're free to do and entitled to do so as you're being you, there's no way that person out there won't be doing same as you: if you're disrespectful in another's home then the next will follow suit as you led. It's unfathomable being me at times because I don't know why I'm subjecting my self to this disappointing space I find myself in. So painful being shown the middle finger for ardently trying to help a partner out.

Sometimes people we choose to partner with need to ask selfs how they'll feel if you were the one doing bad to them. Being a business partner to someone is a choice not a birthright, and there's a difference between being close to a person and being near a person, and frankly am now on the fence about where to put you given your sorry ways. Just never thought freedom could be used in your fashion but it's okay albeit at times a patience killer.

Nowadays am nothing but a beggar for your appreciative deeds, situational understanding and good behavior that never show up. Mind you; just like in my case, I got here through other people's liking of my behavior, constant self-improvement and my shift of mindset. It ain't different with you but why act like that? Who'll keep forgiving your "feel good" random stunts? I too am human who deserves to be treated fairly and afforded respect, much as you get same from me and others.

If only you knew how hard it is to give up your own comfort for someone who in turn gives you "I don't care attitude!!" I had gone against my principles to try for your being, but look where it left me. Step into my life just for once and you'll find no joy and comfort you benefit from.

Tired of being a fool. I too want to have growth and happiness, so choose which role you want to portray in my life, a business partner or a friend. Then do also launch your own commission to look into your fitness to contain your own goals and aspirations. It's supposed to be your assignment as you ponder into your rest at each day's end. But remember that too much self-motivation did none any good for they kept lying to selves that their time will come forgetting their days are falling sans any value extracted out of them. Dare to be different and thy difference will guide you differently to your unique path of quest for your glorious destiny.

Lastly, be the empowerer of the empowering source to your life. Do right by you, live right for your existence, and you'll be right to your purpose. Cease being the plethoric decelerator of your success. It really has nothing to do with stress, depression, and what you are, but rather about your choice in faux cheerers of self. Your conduct a rife pathetic telepathic demic that'll never bear any fruits for your future. Enough for the day, and, do think not of me but for me as well, maybe you'll feel how too hot my shoes are to wear. Hopefully, you won't be the same you...

[1] by Kgele Leso

 

[Competing with a non-contender]

Throwing a curveball into an open field hoping for an opponent player to surface and play it back to you? That's the case with someone who competes against you while you are not in it with them.

For many it's easy to say I'd do anything or go anywhere just to get by, but they don't know what it is but just the meaning thereof, that's where they end up; only with the meaning and no deeds. Laughable how they want success but not knowing how to make it. True that: 'Garnered success before achievement a smog in a long winding tunnel' [1]. Stay with me here on planet earth black one and do your generation a favour. School me on your street life and I'll teach you on my street level. Funny how we live on the streets but surviving out of the streets. Cream to me a delicacy that to you only a colour, wonder why still in my face and ears as I gave up my space for you to pace solely in. Unlike you, I'm a businessperson, someone who lives for the hope of his family dream, company vision, partners' expectations, staff aspirations and, consumer growth, and retention. I'm tired of tiny starts, I do small, things that are to small people like yourself seen as mega. Sometimes the correct path is the hardest one to chart, hence my being here and you there though yet competing with me. To be honest, competitor not making an appearance in my desideratum. Yesterday I placed you in the "has been" group, look today found you out flung into a long time ago category.

In conclusion: if death to you the end it all, to me a well-deserved rest. Lifetime achievement award not an ambitious peak, rather a recognition of more still to be done. Great I'm not but best compared to ones goggling at life; keep following me and you're to witness the greatness of the mighty one paving way for me. Please do underline 'way' for I trod alone and if it be 'ways' would mean you're invited, not this time I'm afraid. I am your non-contender, pledge that to peace of your disappointment and pick your peers elsewhere for I'm not in for competition with you but in it for comparison against evolution steerers of industries...

[1] by KgeleLeso

[Trying to escape my individualism]

How many a times have you felt like you are lost in the midst of a morbid topic? Got you,,,yeah right; just came out of a debate I didn't begin with but got cajoled to express my yarcorve sense to it. "Do as the inner voice tells, and the mind will follow to your wakening of crippled epic thoughts"; what's your take?

Living my dreams through others a chapter I tore out of my life's livery theme. It's saddening how many times I got a message from inside but choosing to not listen. How much I discouraged my mind from thinking freely a bucket full of disappointment.

Trapped inside cliques of my soul made me mate just about anything that related to self pity that got me joying attention from those with vague sources yet saying what my ears longed to be grooved with. Given the lines of their messages, peace never engaged my timeline as it wasn't that which I truly felt but listened to.

Frustration by the mysterious shine of their mastery of my problems saw my attitude turn to convex, capturing gained worries of why am I not understood. True that 'feelings aligned better than feelings attached' [1]. Alone I was in the company of familiar strangers all gazing and gaped speechless. Nothing eye saw borne hope to my independent thinking.

In conclusion: being so disconnected from everything and everyone made me stick to redefining my self discovery. Feelings of dreams awashed a cruel joke that is capable of leading a temperamental spirit to an early grave that only a strong wielded persona can evade. Thanks to that I finally figured out what paved circumstances can do to a sole with hope deferred. All those happenings shaved my personality to omnifit the character bestowed to my name. All that I stand for is a reflection of all that stood unshaken from within, and that is the shape gracing your pupils, me. What's left now is for you to decide on this figure...

[1] by KgeleLeso

[Power in nakedness]

When I was new at my current job, I had a problem of disrespectful staff. When you call a meeting they'll say nothing useful and worthy. Then one day I called a meeting and the same behaviour continued.

I then told my PA to organize for my team to come to my place and finish the meeting we held to no fruition earlier on. When that time arrived, I jumped into the jacuzzi and waited for them in my bedroom. The PA knocked and I called her in. To her surprise, I wasn't ready but I said she invite them in into the bedroom together with her of which she just opened the French doors and ushered them in, only for her to stay out.

Seeing the discomfort in their eyes, I told them to sit anywhere they feel comfortable for they outnumbered the seats available in there. In a sec, I could punch the density of their tense vibe morphed by their level of uncertainty as they couldn't tell what's next, of which I used to my advantage because they didn't take their time to know me at all. I asked them to give me answers and the room went dead quiet. To finish them, I got out the water naked to which they all looked away and I said to them, "answers now or I won't get dressed for the entire meeting". Haha, you should've been there to witness yourself. Answers came flying from all directions and then I got dressed. After that, I adjourned the meeting for tomorrow morning at the office and recused them. Going out, none wanted to be last.

Tomorrow morning, not even a single perverted eye could look me straight in the face. Days went by and they started with their petty behaviour and I said to them, "let's finish this at my place later today!!" and hey,,,,none wanted for that, instead they did more than I anticipated. And every time they showed signs of slack I said the wonder words and they deliver. This was the story by one divisional CEO of a multinational company, that to this day still respect. I can't recollect why he shared that with me but was a powerful story that still echoes in my head. The moral of the story was the power in nakedness.

Just like with transparency, nakedness needs to be controlled so you can manage the outcome. However you use it, it should be toward a gain. One philosopher once quoted my words to her when I said: 'you don't know a person fully until you've laid your eyes on them in their wholly bare natural form' [1]. And if you live too much in your head, you can even undress people to reduce your fear of them (that's what I heard but won't say a word further).

In conclusion: nakedness is power. Nakedness is freedom. Nakedness is bold. Nakedness is me. Whoever said nakedness is about your bare skin shown to the public or someone, was right only to some degree because the very skin I see on your face is bare.

Why is it that we block the view of this wonderful sight by those whom we label as nudists, calling their act of freedom and bravery as public indecency? What do we fear and hide in nakedness? Being naked is a display of one's enjoyment in their own skin, an exhibitionism for the natural form of art that is the body. But, above all, the power that comes with nakedness is unequivocally a jibboom statement...

[1] by KgeleLeso