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HEAR THIS ONE MORE TIME; PREPARATION IS KEY FOR BOTH PLANS & DREAMS ALIKE NO MATTER  THE STARTING POINT  "I will prepare, and someday my chance will come". These are the words of a man who belongs to the ages, an iconic man whose impact on humanity continues to reverberate through generations ad-infinitum, President Abraham Lincoln of the United States of America. Sometimes we know what we yearn for and have a fire within to move in the direction of that which we yearn for. However it is not always a straight forward or clear cut path linking our starting point and our envisaged end point. We may assess ourselves personally and our circumstances generally and almost  get convinced that we are merely dreaming to pass time because of the seeming impossibility of achieving the dream. No matter how dire or impossible it appears initially, we should always know that all thoughts that we entertain in our minds held and nurtured long enough nourished with encouragement, fa

WHY WE SHOULD FILL UP OUR SPACES - IT'S PRODUCTIVE AND PROFITABLE CITIZENSHIP Mother earth is a finite space of existence for the human race and all the flora and fauna around us. So all seven billion of us share this finite space with the plants and animals of the world which means there is a certain system of spatial allocation for those that inhabit the earth. A small tree coming through the ground from its germinating seed occupies a negligible amount of space, however as it grows getting the right nutrition, sunlight and water it grows and grows beyond this negligible space to be the giant baobab of the beautiful African bush-veld or the famous Biblical mustard tree which Jesus Christ describes in the gospel of Luke as follows; Mark 4:31-32 KJV [31] It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: [32] But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great

WHAT CONTRIBUTION ARE WE MAKING DAILY IN OUR OCCUPATIONS? - IT'S THE WHOLE POINT AFTER ALL Quite often at job interviews candidates are asked "Why should we hire you over other competing candidates?" Or "What value will you add to this organisation?" Maybe in not so many words but the bottom line is the interviewer wants to know your conscious CONTRIBUTION explicitly not as implied, assumed or read into abstract the job despcription. We stand as specialists and professionals in our fields of expertise wanting to be noticed and heard distinctly airing our educated analysis, conclusions and recommendations on issues concerning our respective organisations , as good and significant as that may be, the question that remains is " Are you making any direct contribution to the required results of the organisation for its continued success and efficient operation? Standing aloof as experts and specialists representing our professions limits our ability to co

WHO GIVES LEGS, WHEELS AND FLIGHT TO YOUR STRATEGY? - DEAR EXECUTIVES, IT'S YOUR PEOPLE TREAT THEM RIGHT! Strategists are sought highly everywhere, men and women who can assess, understand, diagnose, recommend and implement strategic plans for the success of businesses. However strategy alone is not good enough no matter how excellently articulated it is. There is need for it to be executed as tactics i.e. smaller tasks at every level within the business set up.  This is where the success is made or broken because implementation involves working through other people. In business people are found in three categories namely, shareholders/owners, the management team from the CEO down to the lowest ranked supervisor and the Employees/labour force. These three groups need to collaborate effectively for the realisation of strategic goals, however the first two are reliant on the cooperation and understanding of the strategy by the third group which are the employees. It is t

DO YOU EMPLOY THE TRICK OF SUCCESSFUL PLANS? - FOLLOW THROUGH Making plans time and again is easy from small and personal to big strategic organisational ones. The next step is executing the plans to achieve results. However because we never operate in isolation even in the execution of personal plans there is no guarantee that our plans will turn out exactly the way we want them simply because we made them perfect. Our plans in the process of execution may find themselves at cross-purposes with other people's plans or get incorporated into other plans and as a result they move slower than our preferred rate of execution. Despite all the impediments to execution real and perceived, we can still forge ahead and see our plans all the way through with success. This is possible only with the ability to follow through relentlessly on one's plans. At every stage of a project, follow through is needed to ensure timeous completion of smaller tasks which contribute to

HERE'S A FRESH OPPORTUNITY TO ADJUST FOR US ALL PERSONALLY & IN BUSINESS  - HELLO 2017! So we are in 2017. It's interesting because this year particularly, the first day of the year is the first day of the month as well as the first day of the week. Sunday the 1st of January 2017. One gets a feeling of newness, a reboot of things it's like a "restore to default settings" on an electronic device. We often restore our gadgets to default or factory settings after we have cumulatively messed up over time and we eventually have no idea what is happening with them. It gets confusing and chaotic, so to alleviate the misery we restore to default settings. Suddenly voila! A clean slate, new beginning. Such is the time we find ourselves in once every year. It is a fact that life in its totality has no reset, undo or restore to default settings buttons, once something is done its done we face the consequences and it goes on. However it is also a fact that life