All You Need Is Within You

Everything you need is inside you.

All the capital you need is inside you.

When you take a tiny orange seed in your hand, It has all the potentials to produce roots, a stem, branches, leaves and many orange fruits with many seeds in them.

All you need to do is put that little seed in the right environment (the soil) and it's potentials will be released.

Just like that seed, everything you need to become the "you" that God has destined you to be is inside you.

You and Your Words

How do you speak?

Would others describe you as “evil-hearted” or “good-hearted” because of the choice of words that you use when you speak?

Train yourself never to use bad language. You can say everything that you need to say without piling on insults, and without denigrating the other person.

The Tentmaker saw a man’s heart like a vessel, containing words that are then poured out when the person speaks. That is why King Solomon warned, “Guard what comes out of your heart (through your mouth) because the heart contains the “issues of life” (my paraphrase).

Friends, it matters how you speak. It matters how you express yourself. And this has nothing to do with your religion. You will always get better results if you speak nicely to others, even when you disagree with them totally.

You and Your Words

“A good man’s speech reveals the rich treasures within him. An evil-hearted man is filled with venom, and his speech reveals it.” Matthew 12:35 (The Living Bible)

Verse 36, shows us that “words” can be “good or evil treasure,” and they come out of the way you speak or express yourself on any issue.

“. . .The most important part of your life is actually the ability to use words. Words define your life; words define your values. Words define your personality. You are no better than your words; you are no greater than your words. The character of your words is the character of your personality: watch your words.

No man ever got better than his or her words. Your life is the expression, the manifestation, the reflection, of your words. It does not take long to know who you are. All you have to do is talk for a few minutes; this is because your words locate you; they tell where you are at. . .”

Chart Your Course Aright

The Lord Jesus said, "For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned" Mathew 12:37

Notice that he didn't say, "By the words of your parents, friends, or teachers in school, thou shall be justified or condemned," no; it's going to be by the words that come out of your own mouth. 

So, it's up to you to chart your course towards a greater and brighter future with your mouth.

Don't talk about the problems and difficulties that may be around you; declare your victories.

Chart Your Course Aright

Every time you speak, you shape your life and future; you chart your course in life.

You're today the result your mouth-work.

Proverbs 18:21 says, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue........"

Meaning with your mouth, you can choose which would be your lot-death or life. So you can see that you're responsible for your life, because what you say is what you get. 

WORDS

Your life is the expression, the manifestation, the reflection of your Words.
It does not take long to know who you are.
All you have to do is talk for a few minutes. 
This is because your words locate you.
They tell you where you are at. 

WORDS

You are no greater than your words.

The character of your words is the character of your personality.

No man ever got better than his words.

WORDS

The most important part of  life is actually the ability to use words.

Words define you.

Words define your values.

Words define your personality.

Pause: What is the most important skill you need?

Turn your business into a “technology company” (Part 2) __What are you waiting for? by Strive Masiyiwa I was inspired this week to hear stories from so many of you who are using technology to connect buyers and markets, and, in the process, create income for yourselves. This kind of thinking will really set Africa alight! One post really caught my attention: “It's through OLX that I’m able to place food on the table for my family. What I just need is to get a wind of it that you want to sell something. I take photos using my phone and post it on OLX. Within a few days your product is gone and I pocket a few coins out of it. So my 'little business' is technology oriented.” “Wow, wow, wow!!!” was my reply to Ken in Kenya. When we later contacted him, Ken said he works as a police dog trainer (he’s a civil servant) and discovered he could use his phone to take pictures of things for sale which he posts on OLX. After posting the items (which have included even animals like goats and dogs), Ken waits for customers to call him on his phone. Like Econet’s Ownai online classifieds in Zimbabwe, OLX is a free mobile marketplace for all sorts of goods and services. You’ll find many such free platforms online. To make extra money for his family, Ken even does commission sales for his friends, and arranges delivery. He also trains privately-owned dogs after-hours Sometimes he even sells puppies online (not police pups) thus expanding his potential client base. I told Ken that there are people sitting at home who should be doing exactly what he’s doing… using a unique mix of skills, technology, fresh ideas and local knowledge to create their own little (or big) “technology businesses.” In the palm of your hand today, you have at least one exceptional tool to open doors and close deals. What are you waiting for? # Imagine what would happen if every smallholder farmer, informal and cross border trader across Africa discovered what Ken has discovered! # Imagine what would happen if every single person who runs any kind of business in Africa set up a website (Africa has the lowest penetration of business presence on the Internet in the world)! __These are things you shall begin to see. What we need is young people to go out and show others how this can happen so easily. This is all technology -- changing the lives of people. Techno-entrepreneurs like Ken give me so much hope for the next generation on our continent. (I highlighted Ken today, but you’ll hear about others later on). With the power of technology, everyone can be a winner: What do people want and need? Maybe it’s not invented yet. Maybe it’s available somewhere, but not in your country. Maybe it’s a service in short supply and you can bridge that gap. Maybe it’s old technology but you have the imagination to do something new with it, like Ken did. No one really knew how much they “needed" a mobile phone till very recently in historical terms. Now most people can’t imagine life without one, or more. Technology makes it possible to build new bridges of all kinds. Do you know where you want to go? To be continued. . .