REVIEW AND CELEBRATE

Review is defined in the English dictionary as to look, study or examine again and it’s time to take a look in the mirror of your entire year 2010.
This is the last week in the year, running back through this month, and the eleven months past; taking time to travel one month after the other purely to examine in a bid to celebrate.
Choose to laugh, smile, and cry where necessary. You undoubtedly will be better for it. There are successes you have experienced that truly require some stock taking. There’s a school of thought that thinks such a review would lead to a downward spiral since it may turn out to be an unpleasant study time for some.
Regardless of the goals, successes or dreams that we didn’t achieve during the year, you haven’t failed. Don’t turn off focus on the need to review your year.
Reviewing gives some energy to you in the direction of your future goals and also achievements. Soon as you review, work on new goals and also add dreams and goals you didn’t achieve this year.
A coaching colleague engaged his circle of influence recently which I rephrased into questions: What progress did you achieve and advance at this year? Have you used, bought or used any new technology? (This could include: mental, emotional or spiritual technology as well as digital, electronic mechanical technology) in 2010. How did you deploy your leadership abilities? Any new abilities, skills and or competencies developed?
Did you develop a new relationships or rose to a new level-deepening an existing relationship? Did you let go of clutter, bad habits or negative people. Finally on these, was there any advancement around your health and fitness (say weight, exercise, cholesterol, sports) and endurance?
Every form of progress sincerely deserves some form of celebration. Personally I bought myself a wrist watch to celebrate myself. As I wrote in my book: Monday Morning Motivation, Your Work Week Starter; “Rising this season-today to celebrate empowers you; you can create the celebration experience you desire tomorrow with an investment now which holds so much more within.”

GOING GLOBAL

Passion is the pathway to turn energy within over time into profit. The university of Abuja, Nigeria hosted its first ever reunion recently chaired by a distinguished gentleman Dr. Abdul Jubrin a believer in his alma-mater.
The privilege of the platform was mine as guest speaker, which was shared with several skilled professionals from music (Dbanj, amongst others, stand up comedian) and a South African who flew in to co-compeer the event at the Congress Hall, Transcorp Hilton. Nonhle Thema, who recently celebrated her 28th birthday in Joburg.
God is higher than anything else she says, in between bites of bacon & eggs as she had brunch at her favourite restaurant in Parkhurst, north of Joburg as she punctuates she talked of her career with utterances she owes everything to her relationship with God.
Dstv’s Vuzu TV entertainment presenter, and host for the hit music show O Access, in which she interviews well known artists including A-list celebrities John Legend, Rihanna, 50 Cent to mention a few.
With her recently being announced as the global ambassador of Soft-Sheen-Carson’s Dark and Lovely’s hair products, a role previously held by international songstress Kelly Rowland. Thema follows this ambassadorship not long after she was announced, earlier in the year as the face of Dark and Lovely’s range of body lotions.
She shot a commercial for Dark and Lovely in New York, which she says has been aired on the music and lifestyle BET channel in America.
Am still on cloud nine and I guess I don’t want the feeling to go away,” she says. This must be how newlyweds feel,” adds Thema.
She has travelled round the world and met scores of celebrities, but she remains grounded and practical.
As a lady or going global girl she says, especially to girls who aspire to make something of themselves. “I grew up an ordinary girl who continually chased her dreams. I never worried about boyfriends,” keener to build her brand as she believes finding what you love and pursuing it is the way. Get Educated and do something with your life every day.
AWESOME JOSHUA is Founder, MSN Speech Club and a human performance coach, consultant and compeer for close to a decade. Do reach him via: awesomecoach@gmail.com Mobile: 0816-4799-445 or +2773-825-5557

PRIMED MUSCLES!

As a professional member of the International Federation for Professional Speakers (IFFPS) I understand the need to open my mind during every trip I make to our continental chapter’s city-Johannesburg.
Just travelling gets so much across to me every-time as it did discovering Nomawethu Nika’s success story recently.
You undoubtedly can connect through the experience you had as a child which was what happened to Nomawethu when she was growing up, climbing the hills and mountains around Tarkastad, in the Eastern Cape, in search of fire wood.
She said and I quote: “I had no idea then that one day I’d reach the summit of some of the world’s highest peaks. My first experience of proper exercise was in 2005, when I decided to start walking to get rid of my post-baby weight. The leisurely amble turned into a jog, which became a run, and within a few weeks I was doing up to five kilometres a day.
It was then that I realised how ordinary childhood activities, like carrying buckets of water home from the river and walking long distance to school, had primed my muscles.”
She really wanted to see what her body was capable of, this made her join a club “the Hout Bay Harriers Running Club” bringing medals her way within months for competing in the wine-lands Marathon, the Two Ocean Half Marathon and the Knysna Marathon which helped her weight, the window to her desired size as she continued training as well as racing- “It was no longer how I looked, but about the joy and energy I felt after a good long run she says”, one of her buddies introduced her to mountain climbing, her first ascent was up table mountain Platteklip Gorge.
It was tough and, because I had no training or previous experience, I struggled. But when I finally stood at the peak, I realised that, with ability and determination, I could climb anywhere
Nomawethu Nika’s 33years old who joined two other women mountaineers on a project called Isicongo, meaning “peak of mountain” in Zulu. You can conquer any mountain with a will
AWESOME JOSHUA is Founder, MSN Speech Club and a human performance coach, consultant and compeer for close to a decade. Do reach him via: awesomecoach@gmail.com Mobile: +234816-479-9445 or +2773-825-5557