Jesus and his disciples were entrepreneurs, they wanted to profit something and that's something was the spreading of the Gospel and the winning of many souls to the kingdom of Christ, they had plans to get their clients(souls) and ways to reach them. Now this entrepreneur used one major transport to reach their destination, they used what I call the entrepreneur ship, they would use this ship to go overseas to do business there. One day they were going to one of their destination using the ship (Mark 4:35-41), this time around they met an unexpected challenge, A storm came when they were not expecting it, the storm nearly took the ship down into the waters but because the captain of the ship was though enough, he was able to calm down the storm by saying  "Quit, Be Still". Had he not been tough enough, their ship was going down and they wouldn't reach their destination, their business was going to be hugely affected. So the question arises then, are you the tough entrepreneur that can come storms when they are thrown at your businesses, your disciples(your workers) will call you when the times of loss and other troubles hit your ship(business).

So now you get it, you the entrepreneur are the captain of the ship which is your business, with this ship you want to reach a destination which is making profit out of what you sell to your customers. But like it or not, businesses face storms, it faces waves, and so you must be a strong captain that does not only run away from storms or jump them but a strong enough captain that calms down the storms. You might be asking yourself now, "how is it possible that I command profit loss to get away, how do I command not to get to my business?" Well it is possible and tomorrow we will give you tips on how to do so.

@B_Machona

6:21 AM

One thing that people who want to change their lives struggle wit is removing negativity from their lives, this is a hardest yet simple thing to do. You really have to be focused and willing in order for you start removing negativity from your life and your mind.And most of all know that you will have to loose people you love, you will be hated by some of your best friend but hey, whose life is it. You came in this earth to be the best and you have to own that, you must be sure that you really want to better your life. So let me give you only three things that can help you remove negativity from your life:

1: Read Positive Content

I suggest that you start reading motivational books, motivational books mostly give advice's that will most likely uplift your spirit. Read fashion magazines and other magazines that talk about a luxurious and progressive life, this will make your spirit want to have this things, so your mind will be occupied by the desire to have this fashion and big houses. The ill thoughts of doubt will start sinking bit by bit.

2: Associate Yourself With Positive People

So when you start talking about the things you read, the likes of the car you like, the big house you want to have and the things you want to do and do want to do, you will start attracting people who think positively, people whop want to hear good advice's and life tips. This will be people who have this things, are close at getting them, and those who have the desire to get them. Their willing energy will rub on you and you will grow more positive.

3: Shut Out The Noise, and Focus On Yourself

By this I mean that, you have to dig in yourself, you have to do introspection. By this you will be able to get rid of the bad stuff, you will know your strength, weakness,opportunities and threats. Introspection also help us focus our energies so you will be able to focus your energies in removing the negativity you have to getting more positive.

8:28 AM

I have seen many entrepreneurs in the township, I have been in contact with them are some I have been helping them start their businesses. One thing I have noticed from from many of them is that they do not know their brand or do not have a vision of their brand as to where they want it to be and how they want it to be received by people, in fact many township entrepreneurs do not focus on their brand, they focus on sales and profit more than anything else forgetting that a business goes together with the brand. If your brand is tainted or has lots of negetivities associated with it, chances are, you won't make profit at all. People run away from a bad brand, and your brand can be bad without you even noticing that so it is of necessity that one gives much needed attention to building and maintaining a positive brand and the one that lasts longer. Tech gurus like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates know the power of maintaining a good brand, that is why their companies Marketing campaign focuses mostly on keeping their brand in the minds of the people. Steve Jobs told this to his team of marketing, he told them to come up with a campaign that resonates with what they stand for, what they stand for is part and parcel of their brand. So I have come up with 5 things you can do to make your brand good and maintain that, here they are:

1: Focus on one thing

The Brand of companies that focused on one thing lasted longer than those that focused on multiple non related services. Apple and Microsoft strictly focused on selling computerized devices, they did not go and sell shoes or furniture, they focused on what they know best and that is why today when you talk about Microsoft or apple an individual will automatically remember a company that deals with phones and computers. So you have to work with one thing that you are good at and develop that and sell it to people.

2: Enhance your self Image

You can not build a powerful and progressive company brand while you the owner does not have a powerful brand, you must work on your self and build your positive self image, this type of energy you put in building your brand will work for your company, it will work for everything that you associate yourself with, for example, If Thabiso is well trusted by people, chances are, they will buy everything he says its good for their health. But when Sipho who is hated by people start selling something, they will doubt buying that product or buying from his company.

3: Copy and Edit

There will always be a brand better than yours and so you will have to keep on advancing, so the better way to make sure that the brand better than yours does not overtake your market, you will have to copy some characteristics of the best brand and edit them to suit your brand.

4: Associate Your Brand

There are people who stand for the same thing that your brand stands for, they are celebrities who have or represent the same values that are associated with your brand. So to promote your brand and build it further, make those people your brand ambassadors, not only will this strengthen your brand, it will also help you get a much wider audience coming from the fans or audience of the people you use as brand ambassadors.

5: Buy Off Companies

Not any other company, but you have top buy off smaller companies that are a threat to your brand. Like It Or not, the corporate world is very competitive, so if you do not eliminate a potential competition you will be left out. Bill Gates knew that very well, he bought off many companies like Nokia that had a potential of making Microsoft's brand irrelevant. Facebook also did the same buy buying off watsapp, because watsapp actually could have made facebook irrelevant, or at least it has the power to do so.

B.Machona
@B_Machona on twitter.

7:50 AM

The Power of 1: Prayer  2: Healthy Self Confidence 3: Healthy Friendships and 4: An Informed Mind. By Baanetse Machona

When I wrote about this four  things that changed my life, I did not explain how and why this main four things played a major role in doing so.( go to read my story here to read my story ) So let me explain to you how and why this things can change your life for the better. Starting with the informed mind all the way to Prayer

Proverbs 18:15
Quran, 20:114
1: An informed mind helps us make informed decisions and when you make an informed decisions you are not likely to end up in trouble. An informed decision takes into an account the good and the bad that will come when taken. You get to weigh whether the decision you want to take will benefit you or will lend you into trouble. You are able to do so because you are informed, you are a reader and a well observer, you know from what you observed and read what kind of benefits or troubles do a certain decision bring to an individual. You have observed how people who decided to abuse alcohol ended, you have read how people who decided to invest their money(the Likes of Warren Buffet) benefited from such decisions. Over and above, your are iner-formed, meaning that you know your strength and weaknesses,iner-formation is to understand what is within, which is yourself. When you understand your strength and weaknesses, you will make decisions that will best suit your strength and not exploit your weaknesses. An informed mind because your weapon to fight whatever life throws at you, it gives you better options that strengthen whatever action or reaction you will take in response to what life throws at you. So it is important that we also invest our time into listening to ourselves and at what others say, observing what we and others do, and also reading the opinions and experience of others because this equips us with one of the most powerful weapons which is information.


 Proverbs 27
Quran 25:27
2: Healthy Friendships are the type that make you better than what you are now, healthy friendships add something positive and new to your information as much as they take from you what is new and positive two them, they do not subtract only. This is the opposite of the Unhealthy friendships, this are the ones that take a lot from you and add nothing in return, others do feed you negativity and use your positive information, in other words they kill you while you make them better. The other type of unhealthy friendships are the ones that take something positive from you but do not use it, this are the ones whom you give a business plan/idea yet they do not use it or at least try to use it, it is bad because they are not giving you a chance to observe and learn from them. Healthy friendships give you positive actions to observe, positive advice, they are always real to you, they support your ideas and most of all encourage you to be better by challenging you every day! you dont want to be friend people who do not want a house yet you want a house, people who do not want to be better than they are now yet you want to be better than you are now. Friendships should grow you, infact every relationship you make with any one must make you better than now.

Nehemiah 6:16
3:Healthy Self Confidence means that you feel good about yourself and so project that to people. You are to people what you feel about yourself, when you do a good act on stage yet you think/feel that it

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is not good, a not so good act is what people will also see. When you are not sure about what you are doing, people will also doubt you and so will the universe. You must have a healthy self confidence, you must trust at what you are doing and at the same time open a room for criticism and judgement and build around that. A healthy self confidence means that you trust yourself enough to such an
extent that what people say about you or what you do wont take you back but you will be able to use that to better yourself. A healthy confidence is also the ability to know what to take in and what not to take in. When you don't trust yourself, you are more likely to always make mistakes in every activity you partake in. Take the bibles David for example, David did not know of Goliath nor been in a fight with him before, but because he had a Healthy self confidence, he did not take to heart what people said about the might of Goliath, he was sure that he(coming in the name of the Lord) will defeat Goliath and he did, matter of fact is, David defeated Goliath way before he faced him, he defeated Goliath in his Imagination first before he did so physical. That is what a healthy self confidence does to a person, you nail an interview way before you even get to it, and when you get to it you nail it also. This is because you trusted your self. When you dont have self confidence you loose before you even get there, by the time you work out of your house you have already failed the interview.  So you need to work on your self confidence, you do that by removing your eyes and ears from negativity, you start hanging out with positive friends, you read positive materiel, you go out and look at good and beautiful  places like Sandton that will give you the desire to be better than what you are now.

4: Prayer has been said many times to be powerful, the Bible has said so, the Quran has said so, and The Secret has said so. When you pray you are sending words to the universe, you are sending

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commands or your wishes and the universe will push you towards those wishes. Also prayer, as Christians belief, is the communication between an individual and God then God listens and respond to those prayers. But I would like to put it as you sending words to the universe and the universe respond. Everything that is formed in this universe is formed a the word ( see  goo.gl/BeRndI). So I would like you to read for yourself really the power of Prayer, that is why I started with it as a point yet put it as the last point to explain, this is because it is much important yet only the individual can decipher himself/herself the power of prayer.

By Baanetse Machon. @B_Machona Twitter

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4:53 AM

Growing up in a township, one gets to witness many things that tend to withhold many people from being the best that they can possibly be, one of those people is a young vibrant man from Katlehong who decided to try and help people, especially those from the township to start removing all this negative things and start creating a better future for themselves. Tshepo Nkosi is the author of Township Boys, a book that addresses almost all the negatives things that hold people from time management to lack of determination. Township Boys is not targeted to township boys or people only, it is for everyone who would like to start changing his/her life and (as our companies founder Baanetse Machona) would always say, what other better way of changing your life is better than changing the thoughts of your brain by giving it healthy food for thoughts?

TOWNSHIP BOYS

Tshepo says that if his book does not change your life, you might us well bring it back and you will be refunded, but we say, if this book does not give you the edge to make your self a better person then we doubt anything else will. Get Your Copy of Township Boys from Tshepo by calling him on 0743497671 and he will deliver it to you.

3:09 AM

Lets be clear here white people don't vote for ANC neither do they vote for any black political party.whites are clear of whom they associate themselves with and their position in regards to relationships.The relationship whites have with blacks is what can be referred  as sex with no strings attached, don't call us we will call you  kind of a relationship.

 A warning to my  black  fellow brothers and sisters white supremacy will  use you maybe cut you a snack of what you sold-out  but it will never go into bed with you not because it hates but because of the color of your skin even the late president Mandela  would have confirmed that no amount of selling out can lead whites into your bed.

perhaps I should  pose a question to my African brothers and sisters who might disagree with me in particular those who have relationships with whites and believe in rainbow nation, have you ever went to a funeral of  your white"friends"?if this question doesn't intrigue something within you well i'm sorry.

The part I respect about whites it's honest,whites are screwing us,they know it and they  don't even  deny it today whites have what we had which is unity and we do what they used to do fight one another tables have turned god has replaced the devil what used to be  cruel has been inherited by whites,all we have is Jesus and churches all around our communities,the funny part is with so many churches around level of crime,alcohol abuse and drug abuse have worsen and this reminds me of the father of black consciousness Steve Bantu Biko who said black man  you are on your own.

Whites are racist on their nature  they use to criticize Mandela irrespective of what he did for them even when he sold out they were saying there is nothing you can do for us to accept you and for blacks this is a lesson. Africans please never expect and want recognition from whites. the same Mandela who has become a darling praised by the racist whites called the Democratic alliance yesterday was an  enemy labelled a terrorist  they even  contested election against him ,today he is a hero black man watch out.

as I've declared the  respect I have  for whites and the position whites took they were clear with Mandela nothing can make us vote for ANC,but what is surprising with the ANC is its  loyalty with whites, the African National Congress love whites even when ANC took over power and  office of presidency it had them on their governance but what is shocking is even after the demonstration of whites by voting against the ANC they still stuck with them Whites love one another  one clear position taken by whites was not  to arrest one of their own jails are over-crowding by blacks who were arrested during the apartheid regime.

at some point we must be clear whites never left office they still in charge and are tired of masquerading with a black political party investors  are getting impatient they need to regain trust and what's the better way than putting a white party in power.

Many black people in particular those from black consciousness and pan Africanism background are asking themselves ,how come blacks betrayed so fast  by voting a racist party the  answer is Mandela paved the way.

The question perhaps we have to ask ourselves is how come we are  in a position we are in today,the answer remains the same Mandela.to have a clear understanding we have to ask ourselves who was Mandela and which specific role did he played which still affects us today.

  

Mandela was a puppet who was used by whites told what to say,when to say what and where to say it .to some Mandela was a messiah a  man with a beautiful profile spent 27 years in jail hero to many sell out to few a man who mastered compromising and compromised  the compromised agenda of the African National Congress,whites use to write his speeches in particular the" i have fought for white domination speech" perpahs if he was still alive he was going to tell us what is it that he fought against which was dominated by blacks.

Mandela a man who had power and if the was anyone blacks were prepared and willing  to go to war for it was him,but he chose reconciliation without justice advocated for a  rainbow nation and failed his people.

The legacy of Mandela is a virus we need to crush which is spreading faster than ebola,by the way what happened to ebola perhaps it's a topic for another day.Mandela preached rainbow nation so well that blacks accepted it  without  any hesitation and revolt. We can’t blame blacks for being fooled anyone could have been bought this sweet architecture d story of Mandela.

The outstanding question Is  where do DA votes come from,let me deal with this Mandela preached rainbow nation majority of our people bought it and fell for it the message was communicated so well that almost every household got it including my home.rainbow nation being preached so well majority fell for it so the answer to the question is the legacy of rainbow nation is starting to show,the fruits are growing  people can relate with rainbow nation since their hero Mandela advocated for it so even today some of black’s  can't understand how Mmusi Is being used they think we are one as Mandela said it.

So fellow Africans the fruits of Mandela rainbow nation are starting to show so brace yourself black man DA is growing and until we tackle rainbow nation and expose it for what it is faked forced marriage Da will take power.

lihlenyanda1@gmail.com

By Lihle Nyanda

4:34 AM

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Okay, 80% of the 1% of wealthiest people in the world dropped out of school, that will be your Billgates, Sir Richard Branson, Walt Disney, Steve Jobs(RIP), Zuckerburg and etc, the list is almost endless. One might think that this people dropped out of school because they despised education or hated learning, this is not true, in fact this people have continuously stated their unmeasured love for new knowledge, new knowledge is what makes them be on top of the world, they feed on new knowledge. Most of them  support various education projects in and out of Africa, they go around the world motivating people to invest their time in educating themselves. The reasons why this people dropped out of school are many but the dislike of education is not one of them, amongst the so many reasons is because they felt like school was blocking their innovation by keeping them in a system with a fixed non creative education program. In other words, they felt like schoo

4:24 AM

In these times it is often a promise that many come across, the promise of having dreams,living in expensive houses and driving cars apparent in movies. How would it be if each an every individual was to be having access to vast amounts of money and the privilege to do whatever they wish to have, only if it was easy to do so, then everyone would not understand the lesson behind "hard work",  what does it entail, who is excluded from it and at what price does individual success come with.

Most of our young brothers and sisters are fascinated by the prospect of massive achievement, rightful so.Everyone is special in their own way and there is no reason why would anyone settle for second best to achieve whatever it is that they wish to achieve. However, the grim nature of the reality everyone has to come to terms with its that nothing comes on a silver platter, as everything has a price. What does this mean? Depending on how an individual views their options, coming to grips with the fact that in order for anyone to have anything worth value, a sacrifice and large amounts of time has to be invested in materializing the aspired success. Most notably, the social cost of isolation and lots of hours of sleep that are forgone in the pursuit of an individuals success and happiness are mostly required. Even when time, social status is compromised, but also the food and drinks an individual do amount to what it is that one hopes to have achieved after an allocated period. It is a harsh world with the cold reality that in order for one to become a success, they must be willing to give up everything they are, for what they are going to receive or the person they ultimately hope to be in the future. That is a fact everyone who has any ambitions of becoming someone worthy in the day they wake up, and marvel at the sight of their success has to come in terms with, there is nothing impossible for a determined individual on this earth.

2:37 AM