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He was a brilliant intellectual of note who also translated the Bible and Shakespeare’s books into African languages. His multiple roles included being a teacher, preacher, writer, and fighter for democracy and freedom. At his funeral the Great King declared him one of the greatest farmers in the African Continent. Herewith are ten key lessons he left us with in 1976.

1. Decision is the weapon of creation

“Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.” Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, Author of Think and Grow Rich

2. Never feel sorry for yourself

“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.” Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, Author and Speaker

3. Focus on Results

“You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869-1948, Led India to Independence

4. Get Up When You Get Down

“Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today.” Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975, Author of Psycho-Cybernetics

5. Action has Magic

Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds. Jewish Proverb

6. Bathe Your attitude Daily

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar

7. Those Who Act will inherit the Earth

“Talk doesn’t cook rice”. Chinese Proverb
8. Be on the Rain

“A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain”. Arabian Proverb

9. Reading is the Gateway to Freedom
“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi”. Oprah Winfrey

10. Prepare to Live up to 100 years

“Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings”. C.D. Jackson

To Your Success
Meshack Khosa
www.freshthinkingcoaching.com

For over 2 years a secret group of 10 writers from 6 continents used the following timeless principles to write and publish over 50 books, which have become sensational all over the world.

One of acclaimed writers visited our Master Mind last month, and we reveal for the first time their amazing secrets which have been hidden for centuries. These timeless titbits have changed the course of writing and publishing in the world.

1. “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers”. Charles W. Eliot

2. “A house without books is like a room without windows.” Heinrich Mann

3. “The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. ” – John Campbell

4. “I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.” – Marchette Chute

5. “The virtue of books is to be readable. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. “The historian records, but the novelist creates.” – E. M. Forster

7. “Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.” – Aldous Huxley

8. “The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” – Linus Pauling

9. “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”. Benjamin Franklin

10. “Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it’s so hurtful to think about writing.” Heather Armstrong

We are happy and grateful that one of them will be facilitating a Writer’s/Authors Workshop on 9 June 2012. Space is almost FULL and applications close on 7 June 2012.

Have Great Day

Cheers

Meshack Khosa

www.freshthinkingcoaching.com
Meshack@freshthinking.co.za

This week’s Master Mind will go down in history as a game changer in the lives of many. Bruce, LinkedIN’s renowned Coach shared earthshattering secrets on how to use the media. Herewith are notes from my Mastermind Book of Knowledge.

1. Technology plus social media have broken economic barriers

“All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.” By Don Tapscott

2. Every second you are not using social media is lost forever

“How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?” by Seth Godin, Best Selling Author

3. Social Media Makes You an instant publisher

“Think like a publisher, not a marketer.” by David Meerman Scott

4. Co-creators than sellers build profitable empires

“Engage rather than sell … Work as a co-creator, not a marketer.” by Tom H. C. Anderson

5. The name of the game is to Build, Nature and Engage

““Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.” by Seth Godin

6. Are you aware of the greatest revolution in centuries

“The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.” by Rupert Murdoch, media mogul

7. Nothing will ever replace Integrity

“Social Media is about being open, being a connector, being supportive and being yourself.” By Michael Q. Todd

8. Focus on what matter most

“Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you’re hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually cares about what you’re doing.” by Amber Naslund, Social Media Today

9. Be part of the world

“The most successful marketer becomes part of the lives of their followers. They follow back. They wish happy birthday. They handle problems their customers have with products or service. They grow their businesses and brands by involving themselves in their own communities.” By Marsha Collier, speaker and business author

10. Do You have a Plan?

Social media is just a buzzword until you come up with a plan.” By Zach Dunn

11. Be a farmer and not a hunter

“Networking is not about hunting. It is about farming. It’s about cultivating relationships. Don’t engage in ‘premature solicitation’. You’ll be a better networker if you remember that.” – Dr. Ivan Misner, NY bestselling author & founder of BNI

12. Are you happy being Naked?

“Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t want plastered on a billboard with your face on it.” By Erin Bury, Sprouter community manager

Bruce, Renowned LinkedIN Coach www.linkedINCoach.co.za visited our Master Mind this week

You are an Asset to the World

To Your Success
Meshack
www.freshthinkingcoaching.com

At the exact time when some 5 million South Africans were WATCHING television to see who will lift the Premier Soccer League Cup on Saturday, some 12 world innovators, acclaimed reformers, famous spiritual warriors, and revolutionary change agents met in SOWETO to chart “THE ABUNDANCE CHARTER”.

1. You are Already Naked – Follow Your Heart

“Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” -Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement address 2005

2. The Future is Pregnant with Abundance

“It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.” -Bob Proctor

3. Start Today

“A year from now you will wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb

4. The Courageous Create the Future

“Man [woman] cannot discover new oceans unless he [she] has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” -Andre Gide

5. Take The Shot Today

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” -Wayne Gretzy

6. Turn Lemon into Lemonade

“Lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at you.” -David Brinkley

7. When the Boat Leaks Know What to do

“In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” -Warren Buffett

8. What You do today matters forever

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” –Anonymous

9. Which Side are You ON?

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” -Mark Twain

10. You Have another Chance today

“Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.” -Viktor Frankl

To Your Success
Meshack Khosa
www.freshthinkingcoaching.com

After attending a goal achiever seminar in 1969, Bruce Lee developed a goal achiever system which he secretly used to become the century’s king of Kung Fu until his untimely death. However, the Bruce Lee Goal Achiever system was stolen and it disappeared from the public for over three decades until a few days ago. When the world media was fascinated by the inauguration of the Socialist President in France my Coach and business partner in the US won an auction of the Original Bruce Lee Goal Achiever Programme. We reveal the secret Bruce Lee used to become the world’s greatest karate king, philosopher and a goal achiever!!!!

1. “Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.”

2. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

3. “The “moment” has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.”

4. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough: we must do.”

5. “The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being”

6. “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”

7. “A goal is not always meant to be reached. It often serves simply as something to aim at.”

8. “Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.”

9. “Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”

10. “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

To Your Success

Meshack Khosa

www.freshthinkingcoaching.com

2010 was the best year ever as is the year my father (a few months before he died at age 86) gave me a photo of me and my late mother who had died in 1971. The memory of my mother’s funeral a few months after the photo was taken, when I was 6 years, remains vivid 41 years after she passed on. As part of honoring women on women’s day, we erected a monument at the grave of my mother – in a 450 hectare land which was forcefully taken away from our family by the apartheid state in 1971. It is my family’s desire that the government, which has so far failed to return the land back to the rightful owners, can do the honorable thing and returns the land which our family has lived, and farmed for over 150 years. This blog is dedicated to the memory of my mother and to all mothers throughout the world.

1. “God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers”.
Jewish proverb

2. “Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly”. Sarah Malin

3. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children”. William Makepeace Thackeray

4. “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible”. Marion C. Garretty

5. “All I am or can be I owe to my angel Mother”. Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President

6. “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers”. Harriet Beecher Stowe

7. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them”.
Victor Hugo

8. “That best academy, a mother’s knee”. James Russell Lowell, poet, critic and diplomat

9. “Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own”. Aristotle

10. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children”. William Makepeace Thackeray

To Your Success

Meshack Khosa

www.freshthinkingcoaching.com

Tuesday evenings are special occasions as we tap into the titbits, lives and wisdom of those who are positively impacting the lives of millions of people around the world. Here are the 10 LESSONS Mastermind Members shared last week! What do You Think?

1. Follow Your Bliss as Trains stick to their tracks

“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living.” Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, Writer and Lecturer

2. Every Second Count and Contribute today

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.” Og Mandino, 1923-1996, Author

3. Use Faculty of Visualisation

“I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.” Jim Carrey, Actor and Comedian

4. Activate the Power of Your Magnet

“Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are.” Dr. David Hawkins, Psychiatrist, Physician and Researcher

5. Cherish the Greatest Miracle, YOU

“Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never ever have enough.”, Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Host, Producer and Philanthropist

6. Keep Planting

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” Lee Iacocca, Businessman and Author

7. Appreciate that Darkness and Light are on the same coin

“There’s no need to wait for the bad things to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don’t wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won’t.”, Kris Carr, Author

8. Grow & Share

“The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share.” Harold Kushner, Rabbi and Author

9. Be Bold

“Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.”, Alan Alda, Actor, Director, and Author

10. You Are Born to Create

“The success gene lives in every person regardless of the results they are presently getting – we are spiritual beings and spirit is always for expansion and fuller expression.” Bob Proctor, Author, Speaker and Success Coach

Happy Friday

Meshack Khosa

www.freshthinkingcoaching.com