We are in confusing times.
While we are busy fighting wars in our heads.
The world is fighting a virus that is picking us off one by on...
Yesterday was all right. At least I did not spend an evening in the corners of my comforts.
70 minutes on the treadmill, 20 minutes of reading, learned to bake brown burger buns and exercised for 60 seconds (Yes 1 minute).
Not forg...
Things will not go back to normal. There was never normal.
What you consider normal was your brain caught up in a loop of comfort with no spark of life in your days.
Your life is not interesting, and you are not g...
Yesterday was alright.
It started slowly, but eventually picked up.
I spend my days in the corners of my mind, Where I beat myself up and create a dark world.
It gets better when I get on top of the ...
Another day spend it the corners of my fears.
Where I scare myself about a horrible future that won't happen.
I Did an hour on a treadmill, 2 minutes exercises, I did not read today coming to think about it....
My writing and thoughts have been shallow lately.
Is it because I Am writing truthfully or??
I mean I Am documenting how I spend my days.
I am not borrowing anyone's words but expressing what m...
I ended up conversing with my partner about good habits and bad habits.
How the conversation came to be, I don't know. All I know is that I was told that masturbation and sex are my bad habits.
I was attacked for ...
I feel like Bob Dylan in his song "The Times They Are a-Changin'" is speaking to the current times, especially with the (COVID-19) on a killing spree
I visit Twitter and every time I read complaints of people wanting the "21 Days Loc...
I missed my daily posting from the 7th day.
That does not mean my mind stopped working, or the world stopped turning.
I kept my routine, just that I did a minimum on reading, writing, and the treadmill.
During these past fe...
I am moving away from posting about my daily activities.
I spend the most time with my family. There is not much to say.
For example, my partners spend lots of time watching movies.
My kids are alway...
I got a little panic attack.
I don't know what happened but I think I caught a little cold from the weekend's rain.
I woke up feeling well. I took a bath and started cooking and baking.
After t...
12th day into the 21 days lockdown, I just broke down.
Fear has found my spirit.
I am worried about my business.
In all my worries I remember that worries won't make it ANY better.
The best I...
I am writing this letter to myself.
Yesterday a virus caught my mind.
I am swimming in fear.
Where will the next customer come from?
How am I going to pay my levies and taxes?
&...
I am writing these words to myself.
Today I just want to be grateful.
Thank the universe for the great abundance of opportunities.
I always find solutions and I know without the universe's great inte...
It is sinking in people's minds that things will never be normal.
Prepare yourself for an uncertain future.
It may be difficult but at least it will be different and more often different is good.
Keeping a healthy routine is very crucial for those who are after a certain goal.
Your healthy routine is not mine and mine, not yours.
What works for you might not work for me.
My routine is boring ...
I remember when I was happy at a tender age.
I was white like a dove, there was nothing but the truth in my feathers.
Then I got older.
I don't know if it got this way, or it started with a lie.
&n...
This pandemic reminds me of Job.
He asked if we shall only accept good from God and not adversity.
I am feeling the heat of COVID-19 in my business.
It was joyful and amazing when I gained properties.
...All you have is life.
You can complain.
Curse and cry.
You can shout, get angry and become sad.
You can jump and do it all.
Say how unfair things are. You can subject your...
My mother believes in me.
She does not understand how much that means to me.
The best thing is that I believe in myself.
Thank you, Mama.
Have a reason or something that helps you stay your course.
Too many things are happening at the moment.
The economy is weakening.
People are losing jobs.
People are getting sick, and death i...
You are alone in this fight.
No matter how much you feel you want to belong, you are alone.
This is good because it will be your source of strength and hope.
You see no matter how many people surroun...
I had a very tough week, in fact, the toughest since 2020 began. I don't know how to feel about it all I know is that I was challenged by my behaviors, personality and of a cause other universal aspects that are outside my control. Like a tenant w...
I remember when I was happy at a tender age.
I was white like a dove, there was nothing but the truth in my feathers.
Then I got older.
I don't know if it got this way, or it started with a lie.
Today I Am in my aut...
I think every day is a chance, another gift. How you unwrap your gift is your responsibility and use your chance is entirely up to you.
"Every day is a potential see that we can grow into something beautiful," said Artist Austine Kleon.
Hold on to your kindness, love, respect, and everything that makes a beautiful soul.
Fight on, don't let go of strength, keep your dreams alive.
Allow your vision to guide you. Revisit and consult your inner-self every day to stay ...
Make time to reconnect with yourself every day, especially before bedtime.
The daily cares have taken you further and further from yourself.
That is why it is important to carve 15 - 30 minutes of your time before bedtime to ...
Pain, disappointment or negative emotions cannot be avoided. The best way to deal with them is to allow the process to take over.
To lead you and guide you, but better you can speed up the process by keeping a daily journal and meditate as...
We fuck up every day especially us who want to do better or well. If you are not fucking up, it means your life is boring as shit and you are better off dead.
Take a risk, learn something new, fuck it up, and start again.
You...
I just feel like letting it out but either than that I have no reason to talk about it.
I have been employed in government for a full seven years.
I started in my early twenties, in fact, I was twenty when I got an opportunity to s...
It's an everyday fight to keep a dream alive and better to realise it.
You don't get a day off.
So fight on and never stop for anything or anyone.
Who do you look to when troubles creep in?
Times like this force us to confront our reality, our source of strength, and trust.
Truth is that we don't know when things are going to get better. And things might get worse.
Pe...
Not everybody is blessed with a confidant or that one friend that can make them feel ok on rough days.
Keep a pen and a page close. They will be there for you when you need to scream out the hurt and pain.
You can be surround...
Lately, I been reading more than my usual reading.
Behind it all, I am running away from myself really.
It just another mechanism for dealing with anxiety and fear of the unknown.
Be that it may I learned that all my effort...
Today I woke up with the realisation that this is the best day of my life.
I had a good and hopeful dream for my future.
So I am going to be grateful. Not because my hope is restored.
Because I am alive, because I am alive ...
We decide what to make out of every minute given to us. We decide what we make out of every situation.
In the deciding process make sure that your decisions are not subjective, selfish, and filled with unnecessary baggage of emotions.
...Someone is ready to pay for your skills, I do not know who but I know for a fact that your skills are worth something good when improved and used for their intended purpose.
I am the living proof of a person transformed by skills and basic...
"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." – Whitney M. Young
You may be pressed hard by challenges today, perhaps you been looking for t...
The government is saying that an unemployed young person today will likely face the next 40 years in poverty if they do not get employment after leaving school. This will lead to social alienation and depression, social problems, and loss of contr...
I believe that you deserve to live a purpose-driven life that is filled with success, satisfaction, blessings, and dreams that come true all the time. The heart of this book focuses on you and the life that you want to create for yourself. You are...
You will lose every time you try to be like them
You will win every time you be you.
Trying to please everyone never worked, stop it now!
Trying to do what they do will frustrate you, do what you can do see what happens
...I won't waste time telling you about stoic philosophy. Here is a website where you can read all you can about stoic philosophy.
I am sharing this with you because I feel and know that some of you may g...
I write for many reasons.
Today I may write because I want to let go of anger, pain, or stress.
Tomorrow I may write because I am happy and excited.
The next day or any other day I can write because I can and I just have th...
A good friend just reminded me that we live in an abundance of opportunities.
His words were "Don't worry, with you everything is possible"
I accepted these words and remembered that I have pushed through darker times.
In g...
I just received the news, business-wise they will hurt my profits or the business itself.
A tenant just dropped me without a warning. Yes, there are laws that protect a landlord but on a human level somethings are not that easy.
Fo...
Only you can determine what is sincere for you.
Only you can determine what is a success for you.
In all of these remember to be honest with yourself, be realistic while keeping a sense of imagination.
Be as authentic as yo...
I genuinly don't know.
I would normally do my research but this time it is a question to you?
What do you know of spiritual guides. Are they real or it is just an old bedtime story that people are clinging to just to feel safe.
..."I know the type of guy you are", they say. As if they have seen it all.
The problem is that the people who say these words use their own filters and lower standards to measure up people against their flawed checklist.
The minute t...
Think of what a good life is for you.
Filter out all the culture and traditions and think about what a happy life is for you.
Don't get caught up in the " I want to get married," "I want to..." I want..." kind of life before you si...
What you feel today won't matter tomorrow, the next year, or 5 years later.
Be careful not to let your feelings run your day.
How you feel right now, is it something that is directly linked to you?
Is it something that is h...
Being Human
We feel (Anger, Love, Frustration, Happiness, and More)
We think
We fuck up
We make up
Our days are mixed up with the above.
I am Human,
I don't have an explanation of why at the ...
This past Friday I managed to make $113 within a period of an hour.
The plan was to repeatedly employ the same strategy the whole day in hopes to multiply my profits.
A friend phoned, asked that we go out for drinks. I said no I ca...
I went back in time. The younger version of me agrees that Thanos is an excellent role model for us.
The future me, sent a message to say excellent choice before I could travel to the future.
This is what we learned from Thanos.
I broke my heart, I invited pain in my life.
Without going much into details, our family was robbed a month ago, from there on everything else went sideways, at least that's what I thought.
They took our car and cash R55 000.
...Keeping my eyes wide awake through the dark night waiting for...
At least I am REAL.
It only gets better when you want and work on it
There is no one defining moment in life
That risk that you fear maybe the key to unlock an amazing life
You won't always have things figured out
You can prepare all you want, read all the self help books and pump yourself up with motivation and prayer
Lie to yourself that you won't repeat some mistakes
When love and life come...
It's every writer's duty to write out his heart and soul.
Every day write what you want repeatedly, your ideas will be born from that repetition.
The context of this writing is limited to the writer's small experience circle.
A black African child is dying psychologically because he needs cleansing in the river.
A black African child's business is n...
Ooh, dear friend
How are you doing?
I don't know if I am going forward or backward.
Ooh, dear friend.
I am becoming a stranger in my own skin.
When you think of all the plans we made at our tender age.
...In the end, this is a story of love and life coupled with judgments and loss of oneself.
Desire, what a strange and powerful force.
It has many entries and exits.
Whichever you choose, you always end up a slave.
Life takes pleasure in the change.
Will you say the same for yourself?
I am still a stranger to myself.
Life did not come out as well as I thought it would when I plotted in my head.
I will fill my days with pleasur...
This is my journey
I will own my mistakes
I will learn
I will remember to move forward
I will open up my heart, welcome opportunities, and initiate my fortune
I will remember that I live in a great abundance...
I fell into deep despair, the course was simply giving up
After months and months of working on a project without any positive results, I found myself doubting everything (my strength, abilities...)
Day after day I drove my mind in...
We fight on,
We fight on.
All of these will one day be a memory.
Add a few days OR years more it will be forgotten.
But the fight never stops.
When I was younger I wanted to shape stars,
Climb mountains so high that I lose breath on the summit,
Now, that I am older I want to shape the universe,
Climb to the pinnacle of different greatness,
How'd I get so l...
Life without adversity is no kind of life at all,
The fun of it all or the reward is in the pain, the lessons, and the strength of making it to the other side.
All roads lead to the ground, but in time we still draw breath we will ...
I accept defeat, take my loss,
Continue with my path,
Work to create a better one,
I can laugh out loud and dance on what was to be our future.
Painful as it may be, it is a way of life, we move on,
Gratitude, gratitude, everything is gratitude,
The Universe has been very very kind to me especially in times when I was not kind to myself,
For this, I am grateful to the universe
Forgive me money I have sinned, against you only have I sinned,
I chose affection over you, Four months have passed and I have nothing to show,
As I lay myself to sleep, I pray that you may restore your grace unto me,
...
It was Marcus Aurelius who said "Castaway opinion and you are saved".
Opinions are a sure way to get your life stirred up in trouble, but choose not to have opinions about events around you are your mind will reward your body for that.
...I remind myself that what I am about to say is not "cast in stone".
It is surely different for others.
The stories you tell yourself, the stories you share with others about yourself especially those that serve no purpose to contri...
Retreat to your self Marcus Aurelius mentioned a couple of times in his meditation (No retreat offers someone more quiet and relaxation than that into his own mind)
James Allen wrote lengthly about a man returning to ...
Dear Karin, tell me what it was that our friends used to laugh at us with,
Oh Dear Karin, tell me what it was that our parents used to hate us for,
And if you look back in time would you tell me that you saw this amazing life,
..."We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind - for things have no natural power to shape our judgments" this is what Marcus Aurelius wrote in his meditations, book 6.52.
"To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it." - Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing that I want more than to be calm and still,
I ...
I am not going to tell you that it is easy,
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor Frankl
Work on yourself, there will be pain, tear...
"Difficulties strengthens the mind as labour does the body." - Seneca.
The mirror laughs at me every time I complain about the hand I got dealt,
Clotho is no fool, she gives and takes,
"Armo Fati", that's m...
To enjoy the journey of your success do this,
Set your targets or goals, work with knowledge, skill, and design,
To have peace on your journey, do all of the above and leave the rest to "Clotho The Spinner",