The Foundations of Life - Part 1

The Foundations of Life

Quote of the day

‘Strong Creations create strong foundations in any aspect of your life. It is a simple strategy. Start by creating from your heart a pious projection into the next ten years of your life. This then reveals how you will structurally manifest, financially and morally. The next step is to lay your foundation brick by brick, highlighting every possible crack of misfortune that may occur and any crevice of possibilities that is likely over the next ten years. Struggling to visualise these cracks and crevices, then look back over the last ten years and all will be revealed.’

Application Quote

‘What is about to happen in the next the years as already happened in the past ten years. To ensure a strong foundation in the next ten years you need to reinforce possible cracks and crevices that may occur.’

Bonus Quote

‘To make your creation worthy and trustworthy use the power word FOUNDATION to help you. From it stems ten keywords to help you along your next ten years of triumph. These words are: Formation, Organisation, Utilisation, Neutralisation, Documentation, Appreciation, Transformation, Innovation, Occupation and Navigation.’

Welcome to Thursday, the 11^th of August 2016. Today I want to talk about strengthening your foundation. Having a strong foundation will enable you to withstand any problems that may come your way. It is often hard to gauge what may come upon you but looking back over the last ten years will assist. Everything happens in cycles. In the past 100 years you can see defined cycles that are happening all the time. The golden rule is to learn from these cycles and observe current patterns to change, alter or amend your current foundation. Building a home on loose soil is just a temporary way to survive. In the next years your home will collapse under the financial and natural constraints that occurs. To ensure a solid foundation I suggest applying these keywords: Formation, Organisation, Utilisation, Neutralisation, Documentation, Appreciation, Transformation, Innovation, Occupation and Navigation. Formation is the starting point to your new decade.  Formation is about Creation. It is about creating a success plan to cater solidly for the next ten years. Creation comes from the ability to manufacture a resilient plan that works and stays working. To do this effectively you need Organisation. Organisation is about the arrangement of your day into manageable workloads that can be successfully accomplished and fulfilled at the end of it. Utilisation of your valuable 86,400 seconds is paramount to your overall success. Utilise every second wisely and you will be the wiser. To be effective at this you need Neutralisation.  Neutralisation in my books is best defined as the Science of removing and improving. You need to remove a bad temperament that can spoil your 86,400 seconds for example. To do this you need to improve your temperament. Part 2 follows tomorrow.

The POP Effect

Things to do, things to undo

Quote of the day

‘Unravelling the mysteries of your life works in a simple way. You need to select the things you need to do, and then deselect the things that can be done later. To do something immediately invokes a steady process of Preparation, Organisation and Performance. I call this the POP! effect.

Welcome to your very 1^st weekend of June, the month of Selectivity. To help you along your journey to succeed we need to select and deselect. We need to select the things we have to do and then follow up by deselecting the things we need to undo or to do later on. June is deemed the month of Selectivity. To select things that you need to do helps if you use the POP effect. We all have umpteen things to do but find it quite difficult to prioritise them into immediate, medium or long term projects. Something that is not important often becomes important because we are constantly thinking about. If it is in your wish list by all means get on with it but if it can be done later it helps to focus on the more important ones. The POP effect helps you to do just that. The POP effect is about Preparing, Organising and Performing. Preparing for something is a lot easier when you prioritise. A wish list is about things to do over a period of time. A ‘whish’ list on the other needs to be done straight away. How do you differentiate between a wish list and a ‘whish’ list? It is simple, you select and you deselect and then apply the POP effect. Put your dreams into the category of whish or wish list. ‘Whish’ normally refers to top priority. Wish on the other hand refers to less priority work. To differentiate the two, you need to implement The POP Effect. If you are able to prepare and organise something in good time, then you can categorise this task as part of your ‘whish’ list. Preparing for something with ease and comfort means that you are ready to take on a task. This should be your priority. Preparing is about making a task doable. It is about meeting the workload of that task with confidence. Organising is about being systematic, arranging your task into suitable timeframes, putting them in order rather than putting the cart before the horse.  What follows after this is your performance. All meritocratic goal setters maintain a very high standard when it comes to performance. Anyone can perform a task but to do it with professionalism ensures that you are accomplished and fulfilled at the end of it. When you are struggling to perform a task then it is quite possible that you are not ready to undertake it. Help maybe needed or you simply need to deselect that task and tackle it later on. Always prioritise the tasks that you can do and improvise on the tasks that you cannot do. I wish you well in your 48 hours of sheer relaxation and rest. Do join me later on for Sunday’s article.