[Maybe you know]

Push hard or try hard. Unsettling honestly about what you're going through is nothing worth achieving any peace and happiness that freedom can't find anywhere else sans exposing your soul to choice of reality vs fiction.

Nothing is as rewarding as transparency with who and what you are, and the same could be said about asking for love back or forgiveness, if you're genuinely sorry about your wrong you'll find no fault in you showing it. Telling yourself that you are wrong and admitting to it is the first major break, and saying it to the next a step towards your reclaiming of self.

The confusing rigmarole of true lies and false lies an entangling discomfort. We all got that but behaving as if we're doing better. Everybody has a situation in their lives that they want none to know about and that's the deepest root of ill in that for some secrets one could kill to conceal their reveal. The veil of secrecy a shame to cover up but a robe of honour if you go down alone should it hit the discovery lane.

In business and church there're codes that govern relations within their fraternities. For you wanting support and unwavering commitment to your success will require you to affiliate into the program. How in this age we see the use of the bible and religion to advance human nature and its supposed freedom a worrying trend. All the bads happening are versely cited somewhere in the bible to reel people in. Today our ark is the vaccine and the flood is the pandemic, and the revelation of our era is the new world order.

Just ask any random business graduate or businessperson to explain to you how publishing can build their business and suffocate it, they won't say anything real to that. How psychology, public relations, law and religion gets used in all spheres of our lives a display of disregard for those not in the know. The education we pay for a tool that is owned by the elite to condition us.

For interest sake, ask yourself which book is the most sold and still to sell sans any direct marketing ever paid for? Who actually wrote it? Who gave the rights to its publishing? Lastly, who is collecting its sales as its owner? If your answer to the first question is correct, what about the other questions? Again, this very book brought us the first world order and prevailed since, and now ushering us into the third world order.

In conclusion: no amount of training can tweak one's failing common sense. Truth is uncomfortable and same goes for a lie, and but each can't exist sans the other. Questions are a waste to your curiosity if there aren't any answers forthcoming. With this saying meaning that I'm defeated by the vacuum of silence from the truth concealers, and passing the baton to you...dp

[Working with the wrong TEAM]

The first question to mate with this heading is: what would you do if you were to realize that you're working with the wrong TEAM? What to do with the weakest link? Nothing is as painful as finding self in a situation where you have to constantly remind people why they're there with you and doing whatever it is that you're doing together in an organization.

Nothing demoralizes more than a team that does not work on what it's supposed to be doing, and be doing what they please to do. As a leader of such a collective, what are you to do? If your team isn't performing as per your mandate, you need to understand the dynamics of your space in the market with relation to their skills set, their hopes and dreams, their individual backgrounds, their sole personality and character, their product knowledge, their understanding of the brand and vision, and their support for one another.

After that, you'll have to interrogate your style of leadership, your method of recruitment, your mode of operation, the business model, and your relation to them both individually and collectively. A lot goes into making a team succeed and in some cases what leads the pack being how you make business against how you get business.

Together Each Achieve More, that's the mantra any leader should instill in their respective fields and organizations. One expert once said that there's no such thing as a wrong team in her vocab. She said a leader of an organization should know what kind of personality traits would be suitable for their objective and organizational culture for their entity. But that made sense to some extent, leaving vacuum for the leader who has no luxury of building a team from scratch. When you inherit a team it'll be thrice as hard directing that team to prospection.

In police force you are dead certain that if you're to get your desired result as a leader, the most effective solution is suspend the investigating officer and in their own time out of proving their mettle will solve the case in a timely manner even with limited resources. Though yielded good results, it says a lot about the stress the leader had until ending up resorting to such an angle, and that works only if you're having someone who is a fighter not a self victimizing quitter. But then, if it's in the corporate space a different story.

One good thing though that is a positive about a wrong team is that if given enough support and time with the correct tools they can turn out better. What a team as such needs is someone that'll guide it to where they're supposed to be, and but one certain is they can be best if put their energies on working at it.  

In conclusion: leadership is meant to be a circumquint experience that anyone in lead should feel, but if it is the opposite a sombre and exhaustive affair. And when faced with the wrong group you call a team, having to just be honest to self how much you're to lose should you force to keep it 'cause all it takes is correcting the wrong you've done, though should be sure where the mistake is.

If you're a visionary you need other vision bearers not revolutionaries to realize your dream materialization. Having such in the middle a risk to your success given the approach to execution. The bottom line is it's hard working with the wrong TEAM and what you choose to do with them left entirely to you in lead...dp 

[Cut the bad roots]

Any plant is a beautiful creation. What should also be mentioned is the soil that holds the plant and the roots that runs wide and deep to keep the plant firmly grounded and nourished. When we talk of a plant, we never care to put both the soil and the roots in the very same sentence because they aren’t important to some as at most never even thought about. The same could be said about working relationships.

In business, generally the public looks at the plant as the star attraction, and that translating to them overlooking the operators (soil) and workforce (roots). Nobody ever cares about the soil and roots because they never scream for attention, hence if they do, gets dealt with immediately. How you deal with bad soil is tilling it and with roots you simply cut them. This applies too in business front and personal front, and one of those ways is being separated from them.

Separation is a touchy subject almost all the time and but a necessary move at times. When a group disbands it is never pleasant, and but better as you’ll have others to lean on, while with a split between two individuals a harder affair. If you feel that someone is no longer serving your life interests in good faith or causing you disrepute, best you discard them before they cause you further damage.

The act of cutting someone out of your life is not a wrong thing as long it’s stemming from reasonable and justifiable circumstances. Some people are just not ready to align themselves with the set rules and terms of governance and, that a test to those in lead. Whether it’s a partner or staffer, cutting out a negative energy element a must if you’re to restore positivity and realize productivity. Never forget to think about you first when dealing with uprooting the bad element as they don’t think for you when they wrong you. But, be diligent when executing such a move in that you need to be sure it was not a mistake what they committed in the process to avoid retracement on your part. Thing is, any permanent move should be a faultless implementation.

In conclusion: closure after pain is necessary for your healing and, if the root cause doesn’t go away so will the lingering agony hover longer; so, deal with the source of your pain to its finish. It’s also important to be specific on what you’re protecting self from in the process and also what you’re protecting for yourself. Is it from shame, or from danger, or from loss, etc, or is it for power, or for respect, or for career, etc, as it should be clear before ridding the element off. The challenge with cutting ties is that some roots are hard to die, they keep growing long after the cut-off, and should you allow them to continue growing with you attached to them a dire consequence for your personal brand. The key take away here is that you should never associate your brand with some people or entities once you cut ties with them. To cement your stance you must publicly state that and keep your distance ever visible between you and them as being on the fence not going to do you any good at the end. Simply put, treat them as cut stories that are worth nothing more than just unusable material to discard...dp

[Foolproofed user-friendly]

'Who said "in simplified terms" isn't the new fool-proofed user-friendly?'[1]. It's up to you how you decode a message they deem hard to comprehend to the level of an average person's understanding. Whenever you hear a person mention "in simpler terms" or "in lay man's term basis" or the likes, chances are they feel you're below their level and trying to tone down to accommodate that lower level of yours or vice versa.

So then, if someone does go to your assumed level of your understanding, how does it feel and what to do to show your level or standard without offending them back? In many a manual the directions for use are in a language that even a primary school going child can understand. What this says is that it's important to simplify your communication by conveying information that is easy to grasp.

Today we live in a world where simplicity isn't the opposite of complexity but rather spoon feeding. Everybody wants to be given everything on a silver platter. Availability of information via a myriad of today's platforms and channels makes it easier to churn out information as long as it's easy to eye and ear. But then again, to what extent should things be simpler?

The danger of too much spoon feeding is that most of vital information about many subjects gets left out for the sake of sounding and appearing simple. Again, this robs people the process of learning as they know they can always find anything they want to know online at any given time. This is done in the name of accessibility of information. What must be passed to the public should be that the easy pick information they receive is a glimpse guide of what is left for them to seek further knowledge of.

The other danger of that is also the throttling of culture of learning. This doesn't say I'm opposed to anything made simple, but just not happy with how it shapes the thinking and behavior of our society. In order for society to grow, naturally they must be challenged and not be put in the comfort zone all the time. The norm should be to go out and seek help and knowledge, thus they be empowered.

One positive benefit of simplified communication is clear and effective message conveyance. With end-user experience it makes sense and making life easier when using appliances, devices and all other products. Anything you use needs to be simple to understand in order for it to be practical. 

In conclusion: foolproof doesn't mean you don't have to be witty to be a user, but rather very easy to use, hence user-friendly. The only thing to be aggressively against is the notion that everything has to then be easy. We need to understand that easy to understand doesn't build quick thinking. We aren't wired same and as such we can't be treated same, and so should be the case with information and usability of things. Simply put, let's think about it...

[1] by Kgele Leso

[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