[Kings & Queens of poverty]

'Respect them, but fear none' [1] we all have learnt. You'll have that shine in time and but when grace falls, great becomes the pain from the laugh at your failure to finish with retirement of the sun. So, to you, what's the shine you've lost in your life? Is it of your doing or by design? The way to you won't be said straight as it is, for truth is an agenda.

What Africa is swimming in currently, a tip no utterance can afford it its supposed solace. The daily attacks are coming from all angles and on the other hand is the long lost shields they keep fighting over as if they got no answer of where and whom to they lost them. How we feel about the 1884 conference, the Arab betrayal through slave trading, together with many other gatherings of like is of no use and significance to them, a worse stair to disharmony to one's inner.

The education we received from that day a continua to self-destruction. Living in a global village but made to pay the price for your innocent curiosity so you find it better rested in diluted inquisitiveness as what suits your kind. The treatment meted out to this humble nation a shame that is unfortunately a trophy of belonging out there. Africans, why are we still ashamed to act out what their project has resulted in us? Let's keep intensifying the taste of their architecture ignorantly back to them. So proud of Morocco over their latest move. It should be loud to the Spanish civilians that it's actually not against them but their government.

Ecuador has for the past 11 days or so being voicing out their disgruntled feeling against rising energy and food prices, though media elected to turn a blind eye on. Examples like these are vivid to you Africa, rise against the tide and rely on your wisdom and strength to make new shields to protect oneself with. Wake up, see how this system of theirs slowly keeps us strewn in generational curse after the other. Africa, cut chasing after the charismatized rhetoric of timeless change for it's not for your today or tomorrow, but for them and their coming generations. Be worried of who you've become after who you were, so as to shape your future generations.

In conclusion: whether you give respect to champions of your poverty design, entirely up to you and your conscience, but their doings had a generational rippling effect on dignity, confidence, identity, self-based worth, etc, as a people, as they through their instrumentation went straight for the crown via a humanomics quadradia against your financial triquadia. And like my brother and friend said "know your why" [2], I then say "Africa, ask to know your why" and you're to know why you're lost unto self, why you lost your purpose, why you lost to false promise, why you lost your possessions; and clawing back your power will be a realized eventuality when children of the soil start questioning all these Kings and Queens of poverty...dp

[1] by copyright control.

[2] by Mr Mohlatlego Mokumo.

[What's important about impact?]

What's important about impact? I've been on a loop mode around this question. Is it maybe I am stuck on something that's not even worth mentioning? I kept asking myself until I decided to jot something about it.

Impact is used in many cases and in many ways. But then, how do you use it in your case? Impact can affect economy by word, act or say, can affect your course of life through an experience or occurrence, can also be a good or bad takeaway, it can be in many ways. It but feels good if it's in you and having a positive effect on the nexts through its possession.

You can find impact in almost anyone and anything. What matters is what one does with that of theirs. You can grow the next person through it, influence a result through it, build a nation through it, and, how one does that remains a subject of importance.

In conclusion: when you think of impact it brings feelings, hopes, future, age, and any other subject attached. This subject is attention seeking but not given much if not none, and reason why, I still struggle to comprehend that. This necessitated by the way governments and business are run, which leaves us with a lasting impact from those results, hence this subject is important.

What impact is, is power, influence and possibility in one. For those who recognize impact for what it is, knows how to use it to gain respect as well as give it to others responsibly...dp

[Life in the normal lane]

Who gets excited when you arrive? What do they say when they greet you? How do they feel when your name is called? It's not a question of boasting or self importance or any of that, but rather about you being the statement sans saying or doing any of the above. It's about presence, about being the center of their craze, the proof that they are important just by your gracing of their space.

None follows what doesn't move, none changes tune for one sans feelings shift, as a personal brand you ought to factor such as you build your aura. Get into the thinner frame of your thicker things and you'll understand what tabloids, social media and those influencers are after. Be interesting to be, to be seen, to touch, to be heard, to think of and talk about. The value of you lies in your carrying of self.

How many times have you been up to no good? How many times were you looked at in a certain way? How many times did they misunderstood you? How long if it's ever been? This should be the staple of your brand in it to be relevant. Try being irrelevant to the normal range you are used to, and do spontaneity for once and trail your log. Think of everyone that you follow, think of everything you want to be, think of nothing you've done before and imagine a totally different you, and you'll get your lane.

Many characters gets lost due to them being fronted through personalities that are punchless. A personal brand is about you and your all, be ready to bare all out there with no shame. The challenge with a lot is their less pressure to their course and allow pressure to their course, and as a result then be diluting their purpose. To connect the two sides to your person, it requires you to know your equilibrium first, else you're doomed.

In conclusion: why should you be followed? Are you a being of worth? That should cross your path when creating you to become what you project of self as envisioned. To the nexts, what are they finding pleasurable of you? If you don't know what people think about you, you're lost. Why do you want to be a brand? Do you want to be emulated? Are you ready for such? How many shames have you dealt with for your chorus of life? Who has let you in on the secrets of that which you want. Life in the normal lane fails interest...dp

[The pains of development]

At times we clearly are on the fence when it comes to growth. Your immediate environment and its surrounding areas are not the same as then, thanks to development. The challenge we all are faced with now is that of an influx of foreign nationals into our central business districts. The numbers are alarming. Some may lament opportunities they lose of employment due to that fact, high crime stats, and so forth, but I’d like to touch on rather a different subject we choose to turn a blind eye on.

Language and lifestyle dynamics

Due to them being on every corner, our young bloods tend to be too close to them and results are teenage pregnancy, drug abuse and high early school drop-out rates. In some countries, people do that in order to qualify citizenship status and social grant claims, the thorny issue often put in hind is the question of language the child will speak at home.

If a child is born out of wedlock, which language should be the first to the child? Also, even if the foreign father marries the mother, it still remains puzzling if we don't have the father's language among the official languages in the respective territory. Then, if the mother lets that pass and let the child speak the foreign language, how will the child cope with having to switch from speaking that language to that of the mother’s when out at school and when playing with friends?

The other challenge which I struggle with is that of squatting. Just imagine this: a girl meets a foreign guy who works at the local mall building construction site. As we all know, construction on such sites takes long to reach completion. They elect to squat in the girl’s one-roomed shack and in no time sire a child. Within a short space of time they welcome another one. After completion there is no other job to do and the man stays on and together at a later stage they get blessed again with another child before trotting to another place to work on another construction project and leaving them behind forever.

Ask yourself how old the first born will be when they try for the third child, bearing in mind that all the sensual activities happening in that very same shack in presence of the child. What that child witness at that delicate stage of development will never escape their mind. What does the future holds for that particular child? What such a situation brings about is the next generation of rapists, wanton youths and mentally scarred hoodlums.

Early childhood development scuppered

Three or four years of age, the scenes a child grasps in their head will linger for a long time to come. What as parents should be doing is shield them from bad and negative occurrences to their upbringing. 

It is not that I’m xenophobic or otherwise, but just bringing to the fore one of the contributors to our nation’s social ills. What needs be told is that this also is the case with our own locals who migrate from province to province doing temporary jobs. On daily basis things happen that in future will impact us in a big way unimaginable today, be them done by foreign nationals or by our own locals.

In conclusion: 'If it’s from the heart, it’ll touch other hearts'[1]. Denying a child a decent environment to grow from is an injustice. Failing a child with a stable language to grow speaking, is a slow poison to both esteem and self-knowledge of the child. Giving a child a habitable and stable home is any young one’s dream and a birth right. Thus will ensure our nation’s moral fibre stays intact, in balance and defensible at all costs.

And, the next time you consume a sippet and flashing to all those who care to look at your expensive horologe, think of the shortcomings of others and appreciate your background. Think of what you can do to help another sole to better a child’s life so as to can avoid recurrences of such mishaps from being experienced further. Develop your local economy with your people being truly empowered, and your country will be the envy of many out there...dp

[1] by KgeleLeso

[Financial adolescence]

The primary price to pay for learning about finances is losing it. When you win, you learn less than when resulted in loss. The value of money is mostly appreciated after it's no longer in our possession, and you starting craving this and that, or wish for this or that want or need.

Money is tied to one's DNA and it in itself is too found. The DNA in money is in its planning for it and it's spending thereafter. Your behaviour unto it is what makes it, keeps it, grow it, and attract it, and if you're too much of a loose cannon, same will apply with it. Money is made to be spent it's no lie, but then again it's no secret that it needs accountability in its wasting. Allow yourself to waste it in that it ends up eroded at times or coming back multiplied. So, no matter how good you may have spent it, it remains not that good to someone, hence it's a waste.

The money waste is either good or bad, but either way it runs the economic activity regardless. Now, one of the DNA characters of money is financial adolescence. This triggers the dopamine more than any other receptor in your helixed system. Everyone knows, there's no better fun than that of spending money and same is no bigger pain than that of losing money. Only the greedy odd feel pain in spending money if plenty. The danger of too much spend therapy is cocooned in its addiction.

Financial adolescents are important to the economy yet bad for themselves and those close to them. Financial adolescence is covered if you spend from a regular basis income source than from a once-off income source. To lose salary through frivolity safer than on a lump sum payout, unless the wrecklessness is on a safer waste spend.

In conclusion: financial adolescence is a powerful phenomenon that brings about a leaf turnover on second encounter almost all the time, less in cases of those habituals. Money in your possession is always experienced differently from when in another's or in thought. Money brings change more than it brings a shift in one's conduct, we all pass through that, it's a non-coded rite of passage we all go through either sans fanfare or with it.

To be honest, it's a must for one's growth in developing a connection with it. Money is an entity, and getting fused with you a legal entity, a mess if discipline is not an order of one innate. Let's learn to allow a certain portion of loss in our incomes to limited and responsible wrecklessness for just the quenching of that desire for it and then start employing our minds going forth. It can't be pointed at as bad a thing but as a stage that's dependent on an individual's workings of maketh, and there for a reason more than it a purpose...dp

[Beneficial enmities]

They say, money buys you a different class of enemy, and I concur. For those of us who don't have much it won't make sense until the day we get there. Enmity doesn't just happen, it emanates from natural hatred, historic relations, family ties, and influenced disfavour. It doesn't matter the nationality, gender, religion, age, race, social status, it just gets subjected unto you.

Many a time you find that the main reason is jealousy. Jealousy stems out of a lot of stuff like success, likeability, life background, and many others that others just can't swallow easy if not at all. What's alarming though, is that, most of the times it's from people you consider close to you. Hate and jealousy don't like imports, they export to you their bad energies.

The crestfallen fact that you need to line up for its enema, is the fact that enmity gets inroads into your system through your very own akin, and that's the worst ever means of betreyal to anyone. So, to be safe, know how to use enemies agin each other. Be the cool stupid, and it'll be easier to deal them contra.

But, one cannot hide the pain that comes with finding out or witnessing a strong dislike from your akin. Thing is, it goes way too deep and having the potential to disunite a clan. A one good fabrication has the potential of crumbling a bonded family. Even though they say, it gets messed by a tongue and can be mended same, but it rarely wipe out the memory altogether sadly, it keeps lingering. There's just no pain like that, and I reckon you know.

In conclusion: people you have a history with are always a displeasure to rattle, so, savour your relations with them. It but should be noted that in business it's always about scores to settle, and being enemies doesn't last longer than rivalry. To have a class of that enemy a safe haven, unlike people surrounding you but with crocodile jaws after your skull to crunch. Better an open enemy to manage than one in your pocket busy sizing you up with every of your move. One secret I leave you with is, align your negatives with an enemy that benefits you, if it doesn't, move on for it's not worth the effort. Tag never an enemy that's useless, for that's a waste of your time and progress. Tailor enemies that gives you growth and success. Know how to invest and develop self around your enmities, that's class. Gauge your tensions, your gains lie in them...dp

  

[Role duty vs fiduciary duty]

What is duty? We need to question that first. Duty, an official or moral obligatory deed to undertake. In essence, by nature, there's a high expectation of one's conduct personally and professionally.

As a person, you serve and be served, and the capacity is for some not of same in that it depends on either the who side they are or the what side they are. But then, before you be the what you are you by default are the who you are, and same applies on duty.

The role duty isn't same as the fiduciary duty, fact being that, in role duty you play your part as the who you are whilst with the role played in fiduciary duty brought by the what you are. As a parent you play a role duty but as a business leader you play the fiduciary duty.

As such, we should remember the weight and responsibilities of the duty that we get to play in either case we find selves in. The responsibility that is mated to any duty at most attracts a consequence and so, one needs to bear that in mind whenever assuming any duty. Account for the success and failure of your play in your duty, that's what we expect out of a leader on personal or professional level. But then, above all, be accountable to self before the other, the core is in that.

In conclusion: therefore, in recordal, it doesn't apply to one side of the equilibrium, but rather a 360 to the entity's executive, self, and others' part to play. Either side of duty, you just have to deliver at your best as it reflects on your personal image still as you as an individual play your part as a follower or a leader in it as a partaker. It further should be noted that both sides of play in duty are equal, with consequences varying a bit. Do your part, we need you in the space for the difference you may bring...dp