Wednesday, August 17, 2011

List your top 200 achievements.

In no specific order
  1. Learning to say mom  
  2. Learning to read and write
  3. Matriculating with Kulani High School (2006)
  4. Completing my Diploma in Public Relations (2010)   
  5. Currently studying Btech (2011)  
  6. Being able to forgive
  7. Got my drivers license (2008)
  8. Learning to do group work
  9. Arranging successful campaigns during my internship at CANSA  
  10. Being love and being able to love others
  11. Making friends in life  
  12. Being technologically literate
  13. Have had access to an education
  14. Learning to speak English
  15. Being open minded to all religions
  16. Having the ability to encourage myself
  17. Learning to tidy up after myself
  18. Learning to respect elders
  19. Being a good soccer player  
  20. Learning table manners
  21. Learning to sing choral music
  22. Learning to pray
  23. Learning Afrikaans  
  24. Going to shopping alone  
  25. Learning to save money
  26.  learning to write blog
  27.  Writing tweets
  28.  Meet my deadlines
Dreams of death

Dreams of death are scary and unwanted but are important signs from your unconscious. You will generally see dying in dreams when there is some outgrown or negative part of yourself or your life that is no longer working for you. Try to see the death in your dreams as a symbolic “death” of no longer functioning aspects of your life. They are a healthy part of your coping mechanism.

Dreams of death where somebody other than you dies could be an external expression of an inner situation. Is there some part of yourself that you feel has died within you? Like an old pattern or habit? Is there some part of you that has been suppressed? What part of yourself does the person in the dream remind you of?

Dreams of people who have died are not so common, and sometimes people describe these dreams as unbelievably real, unlike any dream they have had before. They believe they are real visitations from deceased relatives. When you have a dream of death don’t be scared, you must know that there is something wrong that is going to happened in your life. As soon as you hear that dream just visit traditional healer to get help.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

f not now, then when?

If not now, then when? Perhaps more importantly, why then and not now?
I’ve been thinking about those two questions a lot lately. I feel like most of the time answers to the second question are just an excuse. Someday isn’t better than today, often which someday is never. The problem is always worse for growth -minded people. When you see success and improvement in your life then you must know that there is hope and you will have more money, freedom and wisdom. Why not wait until someday?

The Principle of Now, Given this problem, a good principle I have been suggested that people should only expect the future to resemble the content of the present. If whatever you feel is important doesn’t exist in some form today, it won’t show up in the future. I think you should follow my idea; the entrepreneur should have to do something that has to do with entrepreneurial, even if it’s impossible to start a full business now.

Content before Commitment, This principle doesn’t mean that every project, goal and lifestyle you want to follow should begin today but sometimes that’s impossible and sometimes trying to do so would be foolish. Rather, the principle is a litmus test. If you hope to have something in your life one day, I think you should be able to have some piece of it in your life today. If the content of today doesn’t resemble your hoped-for future, you are maybe just fooling yourself. The idea is to not just act on your goals, but to live them in some small way right now.

What motivates me?

Motivation is one of the main factors that influence whether students do well in school. You can be brilliant or clever but without the motivation to succeed in school, you may not succeed.

I am motivated to learn from my sister who is very supportive of me. I am also motivated in certain classes by my lectures. Although I want to succeed in all my classes, regardless of the lecture, having an outgoing, charismatic lecture makes my motivation soar. When a lecture shows that he/she is excited about the subject, and concerned about the students, I get a feeling of strong motivation. Why would I want to let down a teacher who tries so hard?

 And also, giving my all to a class full of life will probably only mean I will enjoy that class that much more and also walk away with a sense of accomplishment. That sense of accomplishment is also what motivates me for the future. For instance, Research Methodology is not a strong subject for me, nor my favorite subject at all as the result I had plans not to do Master degree, but with a lecture who motivates me by believing in me and helping me, by the end of the year I see my accomplishment and are much more motivated for future in research classes.  

Lectures should give us feedback of our assignments as quickly as possible, return tests immediately and they should give us some indication of how well they have done and how to improve. Rewards can be as simple as motivating us as student's.  

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

List of unexpected consequences

In our days, many of us spend hours online and these days – its not just about finding information – it’s also about engaging in conversations and exploring the randomness of the great internet which is also known as world wide web. Our hours of browsing and engaging in conversations also comes with some unexpected consequences – some good and some bad. Here’s my list of some of those consequences:
  1. I thought that online information at my finger tips would save me a trip to the library, yet all it has done was give everybody an opinion about everything…an opinion that may not be qualified on the topic.
  2. Social networks have now become more corporate networks as businesses try.
  3. Nothing says freedom of speech like those funny comics taking the knock at politicians when they “put their foot in it”. One wrong word or movement and we will be there within seconds to laugh about it.
  4. Withdrawal symptoms when not being able to Google, msn messenger, use Twitter, Facebook or any other online application from your computer or mobile phone. Or when you message a friend online instead of going into the next office to chat. Much of this withdrawal was experienced during the “load shedding”. When these symptoms happen, you know that you have crossed over to the dark side of internet addiction.
  5. The joys of online banking!!! – Yaaaaaay! Transacting by a couple clicks here and there has changed paying bills which could take all day to just a few minutes… love it!
  6. 7. Getting e-mails and sms’s from friends and family members is a good thing because that’s where you can differentiate who loves you the most.
  7. Everyday I normal receiving calls from Faieza de Sousa who was my colleague at CANSA Association of South Africa; she reads my blogs and post a comment.
  8.  Sending a message to a wrong person.
  9. Accepting your girlfriend’s mother on mixit.
  10. Foreigners use online advertisements to rob a person which is the bad things because they can find another ways to make money.