THE MICROWAVE MENTALITY

A microwave as we all know is  an electric cooking hardware. It is said that it cooks food much faster than conventional cooking methods such as using stoves, grillers, etc. you can cook popcorns much faster and nicer on a microwave than other methods…

People who are in a hurry for eating, can get something out of the freezer and defrost it within few minutes and have it cooked quickly than having to let it melt or defrost in water…. That’s our people today… everything is needed fast. People do not have time to wait.

The microwave mentality is the attitude or belief that everything should happen instantly or without delay. The following descriptions explain this mentality:

• It is when one wants everything in life to happen within the blink of an eye without regard for natural process of growth. 
• On an adverse expression, a person with microwave mentality is a woman who does not want to fall pregnant but want to be called a mother of a child and have one. 
• It’s the desire to be a millionaire without the regard of the process of learning the discipline of building an investment portfolio or business or any form of income stream.
• There are many examples that one can give, but at the end of the day, having a microwave mentality is believing that everything is taking too long to long to happen such that you’d bribe to get your way up to the next level in business, or to get a degree or marks of a particular subject. 
• A person with this mentality is one who wants everything done as though life is like getting everything on drive through. You know, like the way want instant everything these days: instant food, instant pap, instant coffee. We also want instant weight loss using LIPO SUCTION and dangerous drugs, instant wealth like winning Loto and many other things without putting effort at all.

Don’t take this wrong

We want things to be done much faster and more efficiently, but without compromising the quality of a having quality people. Quality is not instant. It has to be matured. If you love wine, or stake, you will learn that the best wines are the old wines, the older it gets, the better. But people are different, the slower it gets, the more we don’t like it. as a matter of fact people would want to get married and find themselves having babies without having to go through the nine months of emotional imbalances so that they keep their looks.

I read a statement by a Harvard Psychologist, Daniel Gilbert. He said, “if we gave lottery losers each 30 seconds on TV or radio to announce not “I won!” but “I lost”, it would take almost 9 years to get through the losers of one draw”. Meaning it takes so many millions losers to make one a millionaire through lottery. So you get to hear of one lotto winner after a million losses. Life is like that… it take a million other things to get one good thing done. Sometimes you just need to hang in there.

For example: any one who can run fast would like to be like Caster Semenya on the tracks, or like the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt but if you ask them how they get to achieve their results…. You will crunch. it takes Bolt less than 10 seconds to win an Olymbic Gold medal in the 100m race, but it takes him hours or hard training and months of patience and endurance to build a muscle to run for 10 seconds. 

Why Microwave mentality

There are reasons to this as well. There are many reasons why people behave like this, some are hard to explain in a short space.

• Cognitive capacity. High IQ (intelligence) is linked with future thinking or tendencies. People who can delay instant gratification for a future dated and more pleasurable result often have an executive brain, which is linked with high intelligence. Even children with high IQ are more able to shift their focus from instant rewards than those that are not. On the contrary, low IQ is associated with instant gratification; mostly food gratification and short term pleasure, and also associated with financial hardship.
• Imagination. Inability to invasion a more secure and comfortable future. This usually leads to avoidance of short term pain and replace it with short term pleasure without the knowledge or proper assessment of possible long term suffering
• Feeling of helplessness. If you grew up an a family where people could not deliver in their promises and made you feel victim or vulnerable, you tend to want to take every opportunity to benefit yourself first without wasting any time. This is because you grow up to become very uncertain about whether the people of situation around you will benefit you in the long term or not, so you grab the first possible opportunity to get a reward. There is a negative twist to this one: it can make one to completely depend on someone who is ,more capable of providing gratification all the time and robs you of developing yourself to be independent.

What is wrong with this

The desire for instant gratification has many effects

• It affects the quality of any results that you get. Rome was not build over night. Good things come to those who wait(not those who watch, but those who are patient enough to spend their time adding value to their product by patiently crafting and redesigning).
• It can lead to some form of greed and parasitic tendencies. Such as wanting to attach yourself to someone not to gain the lessons from them, but to eat of their success without your labour. You will see that it was greed and selfish ambitions in that when the host (the blesser, in which ever way you can define it) has lost all or is down on his or her knees, the parasite goes to look for another hostt.
• It robs you of good lessons that time offers:  desire for instant gratification will make you avoid anything that takes time to show results, therefore you will miss the opportunity to learn how to be patient, how to grow something from ground, the discipline and of maturing your own products. Time builds character. You may have heard the statement “wealth skips a generation”: the first generation learns the systems and principles of building things to success, the one who inherits things find them standing and does not know loss, then he can easily squander it and loses all without ability to rise up.
• It also robs you of learning the ability to bounce back. Herman Mashaba, the founder of the old hair product Black Like Me, in the early 90 lost his factory in Pretoria over fire. He was manufacturing over 120 different products for local and international clients. When it burned down, he lost all. Worked hard over 18 months to rebuild the business. If he was looking for instant gratification, he would have collapsed and died of heart attach or stress over the loss. But because building the business from ground up taught him virtue, he survived.
• Financial crisis: Buy now pay later. Instant gratification one of the causes of debt. People want to buy the things they cannot afford with the money they do not have.  Later can lead to gambling, drugs, etc.

      How do you step out of this

• Develop a futuristic thinking. I learned this from my wife. Very focused. Once she set her mind on a goal far ahead, he pushes in all ways to get to it.
• Increase your pain threshold. Instant gratification is also a result of a strong desire to avoid pain. 
• Learn the art of patience. I can explain this enough.
• Learn to count the cost. Often time, instant gratification is paid for by future earnings.

Tips on attaining wealth in a reasonable space

• I don’t think that exist. We all are different. Things will always happen in different times for different people. It is therefore very safe to never think of wealth or personal development in that way. progress happens slowly, allow it to happen as you learn. however, the rate of success  for you, what ever that success, it will depend on your level of mental grow. 
• How long it stays with you will require a lot of things, including the above. 
• Read biographies and apply the principles. A biography can take you through a success story that was build over 50 years. So you can learn 50 year long principles in 5 weeks. But you will have to apply them over time.
• Get mentor-ship or a coach from successful people who sustained their success. That way, you avoid making silly mistakes.

HOW TO MAKE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE

by Nhlanhla G. Mafarafara

info@farazcreationz.co.za

Life and living is a project and you must work responsibly to get the best results and impact out of your living. If you want to change your way of life, you need to change your way of thinking. If you want to change your thinking, change what you feed your mind. If you want to change what you feed your mind, change your environment. If you want to change your environment, change your attitude. 

·      You experience life according to your internal disposition.

·     Most of the time we experience life as we are, not as things are. Our circumstances around us follows the way we think. If there is nothing in your mind, you become like the environment.  But if your mind is loaded, your environment takes the shape of what’s in your mind.

What does it mean to make the best of your life?

·     It means to find the one thing or few things that make your life awesome and employ your energy towards making it reality. At the end of the day, you will be able to achieve the do the following

• To live a life of significance 
• To make yourself indispensable 
• To live a fulfilling life
• To live  a productive life, and 
• To live a life that leaves a legacy beyond yoursel

What does it include?

It includes your health, your relationships, your career life, your talent management and anything that is of particular significance to you.

Questions to ask before introspection

1.    How does your life look like in 2-5 years? Often times the answers involves a big confusion smile, followed by blinking and silence. The majority of people have no clue what their lives are heading towards. People assume that life progress automatically. That’s a lie. Life progresses by choice. 

2.   What is your biggest area of gifting and what are you doing to industrialise it to manifest it? do you know that if we all worked in the area of our gifting and passion, there probably would be no worry about remuneration and bonuses, because our gifts, when best employed in the right space, they open the door of opportunity for better reward.

WHY IS IT Important?

The following are the reasons why you need to decide to make something worth out of your life:

• To lead a meaningful life
• To be at your best performance
• To enjoy the fruits of your gift and labour
• To be productive in your area of significance. It does not help to run a race and win in the area that’s not your purpose and be told you are number one, but it’s not where you were allocated to perform, therefore it does not count.
• To live a purpose driven life
• To live a life of constant growth
• To be able to leave a legacy for your next generation

Critical steps to make the best of your life

So how do you begin the process of making the best of your life? 

The following key lessons are taken from my book,STEP TO THE NEXT LEVEL

                1. Have a sense of identity. Don’t stumble into life.

a.    Know who you are

b.    Know what you want

c.    Know what you are capable of doing and what you are not. If you know what you are not capable of doing, you will know the areas that need to be developed.

d.    Know your gift and learn to industrialise it (a subject for another day).Dr Mike Murdock says "a gift that is not recognised cannot be celebrated. And a gift that is not celebrated cannot be rewarded."

e.    Develop a sense of competence:  what is that one area that you are good at? That thing that people will call you for.  That one thing that companies will call you and be willing to pay for it? Identify it, develop it and sell it

f.     Zig Zagler says: "You cannot be a wondering generality," you must develop yourself into a "meaningful specific" person.

2. Have a sense of destiny.

a.    Dr Myles Monroe said that "the poorest man on earth is not a man without money, but a man with no vision." Do you know that you do not become and remain a millionaire by stumbling into millions? You become a millionaire by constantly thinking as a millionaire. As you do that, your mind attracts things that materialise your vision.

b.    A sense of destiny is built on the hope and faith that whatever you desire will eventually come to pass.

c.    Know where you are going.

d.    How do you build a sense of destiny

                                          i.    Define what you want to achieve, and why you want it.

                                        ii.    Develop an action plan (how to achieve the plan)

                                       iii.    Define your resources

              3. Know your WHY?

a.    After identifying where you want to go in life, know why you want to be there.

b.    Your mind will always try to oppose anything new that you want to do. You see, when you conceive a new goal, your mind will get excited, sometimes without knowing why? The brain gets excited when new ideas drop by, but get frustrated when new experiences come? Your brain can stretch to anything you want, but will consider any new experience to be a painful thing, and therefore develop multiple reasons why you should not do it. If you follow this thinking, you will spend each day frustrated with the thought of “WHAT IF THINGS DON’T WORK” instead of being excited by the thought of “WHAT IF IT WORKS”

c.    Write down five reasons why you deserve what you want? FIVE positive reasons whys you deserve it? This should indicate the benefits or positive impact of achieving this dream or achieving the goal. 

d.    What meaningful value will achieving this goal bring to you? Read these things daily until they make sense

4. Have a sense of determination

a.    Determination is the quality that makes you to continue trying to achieve something even if its difficult.

b.    Determination is a positive emotional feeling that makes you persevere towards a goal even if obstacles appear

c.    Be relentless. focus on the goal that you want to achieve and refuse to bend your attitude and desires to wards something if a lessor standard, quality and benefit. 

5.  Learn to cease the moment. Learn the value of time. 

a. Bishop Jeremiah the Hermit said something profound on this subject. He said "because by wasting time, we cannot acquire anything; e cannot have anything. By losing time, we lose everything. We can even lose ourselves.

b.    Learn to cease an opportunity in the season of opportunity.

What causes people to live average life (things to avoid)

I think its important to first emphasise the fact that we all have a gift. Some are hard skills, others are soft skills. We all have some form of gifting. What we do with the gift becomes the determinant of whether we go above average or below average.

Some people don’t endeavour to determine their gift. And they don’t assess or examine their life. an unexamined life Is not work living. I will explain this in a moment

Things to avoid on your way to a better life

1. Fear of taking new action.

  

a.    Fear will keep you from acting in your dream because you will feel like things won’t work, people will ridicule you, etc

b.    There are two forms of courage that we all need to develop and understand. as to which one dominate our lives, its our choice.

                                          i.    Courage to begin. You see many dreams die before they are born. There have been many dreams aborted than those that were given birth to. As a matter of fact, God is looking for people who will give birth to His creative ideas on earth. People who will be courageous to fight the mediocre talk from people around them and resist rejection. One friend of mine, when I asked him about his audacious business decisions, he said I refuse fear. Because fear is as real as I make it to be.

                                       iii.    Courage to endure. There are two things that you will need to learn to endure, you decide which one is important to you: endure to live a failed life or endure the pain of temporal challenges while you build your dream.

 2.  Failure to examine your life

a.    Some people are satisfied with living a life that appears as though successful, while in reality they are not.

b.    I have developed eleven questions which I used to examine my life. This came after I met a guy in Pretoria who invited me to invest a whole lot of money into a project he was doing. When he invited me, he looked at me and sow potential for me to have that kind of money. It was so intimating at the time. I chickened out. And then he called me and said “until you deal with that chicken mind, you will never achieve anything”.

c.    So I went to examine my life. I asked myself 21 critical questions. Let me share a few with you. I believe they will help you.

                                          i.    In what areas of my life have experienced great success?

                                        ii.    In what areas of my life have I experienced great failure?

                                       iii.    What am I the most enthusiastic about?

                                       iv.    What have been the cause(s) of my failures and successes?

                                        v.    What was my initial plan in this area?

                                       vi.    In what areas do I want to be most successful?

                                      vii.    What is my next level?

3. Embracing excuses

a.    Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted (Jantezen Franklin), they walk with them and use them as a form of attaining independence, which never happens.

b.    Its easy to make excuses, however, some of the excuses could cost us more than just money, they may cost your health which money cannot buy.

c.    Some people defeat themselves. They kill their dreams and destroy their lives by making excuses before attempting anything new.

                      i.    They have reasons why things cannot be done: I don’t have money, it is impossible

                                        ii.  They have a reason why they do not deserve things: I’m not smart enough, I’m not good enough. No one can make you inferior without your concern (Eleanor Roosevelt)

                                       iii.    Why there could be rejected: those people are ruthless. They chew people and spit them like gum

                                       iv.    Why they did not make it

                                        v.    How things may fall apart: What if the plan is not solid enough

                                       vi.    How they are not ready for certain things

d.    The majority of these things are just fabricated reasons for not acting progressively to improve today’s circumstances and to build their dreams.

e.    I call excuses building a dream bridge using spaghetti and grass; it easily breaks and keeps you in one place.

     4. Procrastination

Procrastination is the mastery of the poor and a thief of destiny.

     5. Developing an army of lower class persons

a.    Unprogressive people do not associate with people with higher IQ and EQ than themselves. They prefer people who can be subjects to their low mentalities or seemingly good ideas of low quality.

b.    They prefer to keep a company of people who cannot challenge them or question

c.    Ever heard a statement “if you are in a group of two or more people and you always agree on the same things, then one of you is not thinking”

     6. Don’t argue for limitation

a.    BUT

                                 i.     A simple word for excuses and validation of our inadequacies that sometimes do not exist

                                 ii.    If you argue for limitations, you get to keep them.

TOP SIX TIPS TO MAKE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE

1. Know who you are and what you want. Then go after it as though your life depends on it. 
2. Constantly seek to develop yourself: your mind, your attitude, your personality, your character and your skill. 
3. Associate with people much better than you for sharpening, not for competition. They help to keep inspiration.
4. Give your best at all you do. Lucille Ball said “ I’d rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I haven’t done.”
5. Have fun doing what you are doing. 
6. Have a relationship with God

Good lessons I hated to learn from my father

Green Tidings

About 18 years ago, two years before my father passed on. He bought garden equipments and invited me to work with him in the family backyard garden. He wanted me to work in the garden almost everyday. The duties differed daily. And I hated each day in that garden.

We grew tomatoes, potatoes, onions and spinach. On the side there was a good line up of mango,, peach, guava and popo trees. He also had a mini sugar cane line up which I had to make sure that dead chaff is removed all the time and mixed with soil to make compost. If you have been near a fresh sugar cane plantation, you will know that the touch of those fresh leaves can send you on scratching spree all night, even after a good bath. Man, I hated to trim those trees and watering them. I had to Cary a bucket to water each tree, more than 20 trees each time. That meant I had to Cary a 20L bucket 20 times. When that is done and I’m ready to go and play, I had to water the vegetables, and then sometimes harvest a bit from them. 

I remember the other day he came back from fishing very early and sent me to the garden to get him ripe tomatoes and onions. If he sent me there, I knew that I will have to chop them for him, and then go water the rest of the garden. My lil bro was young then, that meant most of the time I had to deal with the garden and mini Orchard. 

All this time I though this man hated me. I though he did not want me to be a child and enjoy childhood games. Even though he allowed me to go play with other teens, play soccer, make cars from some tense wires and hangers, I still felt he was not cool to let me do that. All my friends did not have a veritable garden in their back yards. If they had trees, their elder brothers were responsible for that. So I sometimes felt like my dad wanted to make farmer out of me. I don’t know how it would have turned out.

18 years later, today to be precise, I went on my back yard and harvested fresh spinach from my own garden. Soon I will harvest green paper, Onions and Lettuce. Ok. Did he succeed in making me a farmer? Maybe not, or maybe yeah. And damn, it feels good writing this post! Has he not physically taught me how to grow spinach, I’d not understand the lessons he was trying to teach me. 

Now I look back and I see things other kids did not have. They had rich fathers, but they did not have the attention and time I got from my dad. Looking back, he is my hero. 

There were times I did not understand why I had to keep watering a plant if I’m not gonna eat it. The took time. And we did not have any form of fertilizers except for dead leaves from the trees around the yard. I remember checking on the potatoes every week to see if they are loading up well underground. It felt like they took a century to grow. I did not have the patience for this.

The other day he called me from the kitchen, “Given!”, he shouted. 

“Pap”, I responded.

“Tana la”(come here).

I ran to the kitchen where he was busy washing some fresh tomatoes and spring onions. 

“Tana ni mazambala la xirhapeni” (bring some potatoes from the garden), he said.

I ran to the garden, plugged out two potato plants. My eyes dealt dropped. “Papa, I ma kulu ngopfu. Mi lava ma ngani?”.. I was so exited to see them big potatoes that I had grown by myself. 

I did not get a response. So I went on and dug them potatoes, washed them and handed to him. He said to and play. I was so exited that day.

LESSONS WHICH MY FATHER TOUGHT ME WITHOUT WORDS

1. You don’t have to understand the entire process, be ready to learn from any experience 

2. Do what you don’t want now or for a while so that you can do what you want for life.

3. Be patient, good things come to those who wait.

4. Have a good understanding of time. Building good success does not happen overnight. If you gonna build wealth, be ready to watch it grow. But you have to put the work by yourself.

5. Don’t allow your products to get dry, they will die. If you want to maintain growth, keep learning, associate with the right people, keep developing yourself or you will dry out and be irrelevant.

6. Don’t allow your lack of understanding of the process delude you from the goal. 

7. Don’t allow chaff to pile up. Weed always suck and choke the life out of good plants. The people around you make you or kill you. Be careful whom you allow in your life. Some things look good to allow to grow together with you, but they are dangerous to your destiny. 

Ordinary Vs Extraordinary Parenting

Ordinary parents tell their kids to look down when they talk to eledarly. The extraordinary parents asks them to look them in the eye- these kids later become master minds in the boardroom

Ordinary parents make their kids do more household chores and reward them, sometimes with candy or TV time. In the end these kids grow up thinking that they have to endure physical labour to advance in life. Extraordinary parents give their kids an allowance for reading or exploring their talents and being creative. The results is these kids grow up knowing that they have to develop themselves  to advance and to have their talent creative geniuses rewarded. Most of them become employers in the end or world celebrated scientists, sports personalities and professionals.

Ordinary parents send their kids to Sunday school.  The result is kids grow up knowing that God is at church, not at home. while Extraordinary parents buy bibles for their kids and pray with them every day and the results is kids grow up wanting to have a personal relationship with God.

Ordinary parents blame their children for failing at school and call them dumb and say; “I knew he won’t make it this year, he has been playing all year and watch tv too much”... The results is sometimes the kids may look down on themselves and become a burden to their critical ignorant parents later on in life. Extraordinary parents read with their kids, help them with homework and know their children’s academic ability. When they fail at school they request a meeting with the principal and teacher where in they recommend extra special classes for their kid. The result is children grow up feeling cared for, most of the times end up performing very well at school and in life. Involved parents breed powerful kids. The other become poweful by default and extra hard work.

Ordinary parents think kids are playing when they play soccer, sit at school or do other extramural activities, the result is some kids don’t get to develop their talent early. Extraordinary parents attend all or almost all their children’s games and concerts, saying “I hope one day he gets to the Proffessionals team- he is so talented”.

Ordinary parents live a life cover for their kids without teaching them about money. These kids grow up seeing their parents buy things for them but they have never been taught to handle money except to buy sweets. Extraordinary parents teach their children principles of life, business l, marriage, leadership, etc and leave a legacy of principles, if money is available, they live it in a trust fund well administered by knowledgeable people.

#Whyafricansarepoor

AFRICA NEEDS CREATIVE BUSINESSES

SUB-TITTLE: WHY SOME BUSINESES FAIL AT INCEPTION

Small businesses create a large pool of employment in different ranges. They are also a large contributor to every country’s GDP. The concept of entrepreneurship, if embraced at National Level and be supported fully could solve many economic and social challenges. 

Many countries today still struggle to feed the hungry, create employment, combart crime or sustain their economic growth because their focus is on large scale investment which only pools in macro-investors who intern reap of the country’s gross profits through tax evasion and other hidden schemes. This exploits the national resources instead of benefiting in the fight against hunger, poverty and unemployment. I’m not emplying that macro enterprises do not benefit the countries, they do. But more could be achieved if we had more entrepreneurs and other small scale businesses to address some of these challenges. However, there seem to be a great divide between doing businesss and the reason for doing it. Often times there is a blurry picture for why people do business and how to sustain them.

There is a need to understand the impact of having creative small industries and business from government perspective, community perspective and personal perspective. We should conciiously ask and answer this question: why do we need entrepreneurs?

Why do we need entrepreneurs?

1. They bring social and community upliftment. Where entrepreneurs strive, local problems are solved easily. It takes more people from unproductive consumption lifestiles to productive producers lifestyle.

2. Add to national income

3. Community development. When entrepreneurs begin to grow and make profits, they are able to support local projects, support local charity programs and also inspire other like-minded entrepreneurs. Some people will not rise to do any good until they see someone they know do good. You may be the one entrepreneur that your whole village is looking for to change the systems. 

4. Entrepreneurs conserve the outflow of national wealth. They share im if

The need for creative businesses 

By creative I mean businesses that provide innovative solutions to common contribute to failing in business.

Here are some of my thoughts about it:

• Lack of clear perspective or vision for the business. Often times people in business do not have a picture (well thought, documented and communicated) of how and where the business will be in the medium and long term. They only think of the current or just the next project they have tendered for. There is also no clear cut answer as to WHAT THE BUSINESS OF OFFERING and how does it differ from other businesses.

• Most businesses are created to make money for the business owner.

• Some businesses are made to redeem the owner from Poverty or to help him make connections in powerful offices.

• In South Africa, for example, some people start businesses with the aim of getting or scoring a tender from government.

The absence of clear picture on the above will literally mean you do not endeavor to create a system that operates your business or that make your business sustainable. You end up being no different to someone who has a day Job because you work from hand to mouth.

While all the above matters are  OK, otherwise if a business does not make profit, it’s not good for the owner. But, they should not be the reason fstarting a business, it should be a means to an end. A business should be first created out of a clearly defined problem that is identified in a small area, in a regional space, a national space or global space.  Global enterprises are born out of Global problem(s) that is (are)  identified by the drivers of that business, then create a solution (s) for it and sell it for profit. So after identifying the solution, then develop expertise in the area either before or during the process of solving it. This is born out of asking the questions critically and not be afraid to seek till you find the answers or solutions to existing or future probmems. I heard this statement some time a go:

SUccessful people are those wHo had the courage to answer the questions the questions that we were all asking and later turned around to sell their answers to us. That’s how businesses are born  business should be created to offer solutions to an existing problem or an anticipated problem. Business is solutions offered for sale. Your marketing tag line should be SOLUTIONS FOR SALE!  DEFINE THE PROBLEM, MODEL THE SOLUTION. 

Am I saying we don’t need more security firms? No. Am I saying we don’t need more cleaning  firms? No. Am I saying we don’t need more curtering and decorations firms? No!

I am saying we need creative solutions. We need business solutions that are birthed out of creative innovations because sometimes non creative solutions are not sustainable. 

Ignite Creative Business ThinkinG

When creating an empire: one need to ask critical questions.

Jay Samit, in his book Disrupt yourself  states that “the key to finding a big idea is first finding a problem in need of a solution. Every disruptive idea makes use of new technology to solve a big problem”. Now, let us look at some of the things you can put into action. 

1. What are the common problems around me or my society, country, etc? problems or limitatiins could exist in how people do business, how people go to work, how people require fast food in your home town and don’t get what they want when they want, people could be getting obese and suffer illhealt, what is the gap in the music industry. Dr Tumi realized there is need for fresh, new songs in the gospel industry. He works hard to bring new songs… and who doesn’t buy his music or not go to his show??? 

1. Ive discovered that Africa has good potential that is destroyed by men and women with broken values. The economy suffers in the hands of broken leaders… so im developing training materials that will help restore, recover or rebuild or introduce Leadership Values in family, in schools, in business, in politics and ultimately solve a bigger crisis. 

b. Uber, for example discovered that creative and productive people don’t always haver time to go to a texi rank. They want a texi to come to them without having to make a call or walk, anywhere anytime and be able to predict its time movement. Through studying the transport industry’s inificiancies, they created a model that is disrupting the traditional meter Texi industry and reap billions in profits…what problems have you seen that could be solved through a creative Enterprises?

2. Then ask why is there a problem untill you find a missing link.

Jet me give an example. I know a guy ń who is busy creating an app that will link people from rural areas with their designated hospitals and clinics who currently collect chronic medications at a very high transport cost. His solution will link health care service providers with the patient through ordinary taxis. That way patients will save more than 50% of the hospital related transport cost and save them time. They will be productive and still get thei meds delivered close to them,, and if successful, he will reap large sums of money.

3. So, the third thing is to ask, what are the possible solutions that can be employed to solve this problem? When you ce a business value proposition, you need to look at the problem that exist or may exist and come up with an innovative way to solve a problem in such a way that people, businesses or governments are willing to pay for your solution.

4. When you have identified the problem and the proposed solution then this series of questions should follow:

a. What needs to be done?

b. How should it be done?

c. Where should it be done?

Business success is not just by chance, it comes from a fair dealnñ of hard work, careful observantion, brilliance, and training on creative thinking.

Now let me leave you with what I believe is brilliant way to come up with a creative concept. And it comes from asking observation questions: if you are looking for an idea, ask these questions: 

 Is my world perfect

 Are all my friends enjoying the stress free lives they imagined for themselves when they were young 

 All the goods and services available for use properly priced and easy to find

 Does everything function smoothly at your job or company or community or town?
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