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The science is clear. To limit climate change, reliance on fossil fuels needs to end. A clean energy future is unstoppable. Governments and businesses need to urgently act to make it happen fast.

Today is the first

I am far from complete. I am an unfinished manuscript, collecting dust on a forgotten shelf. I am merely half a canvas, splattered paint that is yet to be a masterpiece. And that’s okay with me. Why would I want to be complete? That would mean the world was done with me.
I have not been sculpted to perfection yet, my fine details are still to be sketched. I would not want to rush the process of perfection, I do not wish for my metamorphosis to be instantaneous. I want the world to take its time with me. Mold my soul with patience and attentiveness, Lead me to walk through darkness when I am convinced there is no light. Teach me lessons that will shape me into the final version of who I am to be. I care very little for immediate perfection. I know that society is obsessed with getting it right from the start and I am sorry if I come across as self-righteous, but you’re wrong. Life is about living. Living is about trying. Trying and learning; never failing. Failing suggests that nothing came of it. There is always a purpose, always a lesson to be learned. This obsession with perfection will only cause you pain; I speak from experience. I, too, wanted everything, now. I almost demanded it, trying to manifest it at my feet. But that is not how this works. If you believe that is the unquestionable truth, you will not live. Seeing lessons as failures will only fill your life with frustration and misery. Perfection is only attainable when our manuscripts are complete. Perfection is within that finished masterpiece. To live is to try. Those lessons you see as imperfections, they are the words that fill your manuscripts and the brush strokes that create your masterpiece. Trying is the meaning of life. Because we are human. Humans are not perfect. We are never always right and mistakes are what make us individuals. My soul is a constellation of imperfections. Imperfections that resulted from a lifetime of trying. And maybe perfection is not attainable when we reach our conclusions; not in the way you believe perfection to be. Perfection is when you have learned and absorbed every possible thing that life had to offer you. Perfection is closing your eyes for the final time, accumulating every imperfection you collected over the years. Perfection is having spent a lifetime trying. This is me being dedicated to trying. Trying to learn from those sweet imperfections I am committed to loving. This is me trying to enjoy the process of my chapters being written. This is me trying to live.

Rebound 🪃

How many Global Goals can you find?

I know the world can feel heavy sometimes. I know that at times you will feel worn down by the weight. But take heart in the truth that bad times never last. They come through, and they shake your world and stir up your tears. They leave you feeling scared and alone in the darkness. But they always, without fail, pass through. The hard times phase in and out like the moon. And you’ll pave your own path through the darkness. Your story isn’t over. It’s just beginning. You just have to make sure you keep going, and you have to promise not to quit just before the good times begin. Just before the light at the end of the tunnel comes into view. Because believe it or not, you are in for something wonderful. So hold on tight, and wait for the tides to change. They always do.

Learning how to identify misinformation can save your life.

I am just a person trying to figure it out. And I want for us to all figure it out together. I write what I have needed to read. What’s helped me and soothed me and moved me forward. And then I offer it up to whoever might need it next. I’m not special in the way that a lot of writers in my time are. I don’t have any exceptional accolades, other than that I have felt deeply called to write my heart out, and have done it with all the truth and conviction I could muster, and have found the courage to share it, again and again, and I hope that when you read my words, you will realize that from one stranger to another… you really aren’t alone.

When I Got Enough Confidence, The Stage Was Gone.
When I Was Sure Of Losing, I Won.
When I Needed People The Most, They Left Me.
When I Learnt To Dry My Tears, I Found A Shoulder To Cry On.
When I Mastered The Skill Of Hating, Somebody Started Loving Me.
And when After Waiting For Dawn, I Fell Asleep, The Sun Came Out.

Remember my name.

I don't understand when my president, an academic doctor who passed in Geography, kneels down to pray for rain. Who saves you when religion is used for political mileage? It's not right, it's treacherous!

We all look for money and happiness because problems come on their own.

Our bodies can know much more than our minds alone. If we limit our learning to what we can know intellectually, we significantly compromise what we can learn. We live in an age when learning is key. We not only need to learn how to learn, we need to use every resource to do so. Whole body learning comes from using our bodies to tell us what our minds don’t consciously know. And the quickest and most effective way to learn how to respond to the different cultures we come into contact with each day is to listen and look at the body language. Making people aware of their body language can often have the effect of lifting them out of the issue so that they take a more dissociated view of what is happening. This can be valuable if they are so emotionally caught up in an issue that they cannot break out of it. Awareness of body language creates a meta state from which we can watch and listen to the patterns of what is happening and how it is happening.

Personal success relies largely on our ability to communicate. What we say matters little compared to how we say it, no matter what medium we use to convey the words. To communicate with influence it is important that we are able to use language that engages the hearts and minds of our listeners. We can choose language that leaves people cold and disinterested or we can choose language that engages their hearts and their minds and that they find compelling. The quality of language is one of the significant factors that makes the difference between outstanding leaders and influencers and those who would aspire to achieve their standing but who do not ignite the hearts and minds of their listeners in the same way. The richer our language, the richer our internal experience and the richer the experience of those with whom we engage.
In the beginning was the word. Your words are your life. Your language is an embroidery of patterns of words that tell your story. Your language is either your gateway to learning and choice, or your jailer. In business especially language is a powerful tool. It is the currency of business transactions.

MY MISSION, VISION AND IDENTITY FOR AND WITH MEMBERS OF CLUB MAMBA

My mission is to support and develop willing individuals to make a positive difference in the world. My belief systems are shaped by my purpose and identity and, conversely, they support who i am and what I give. My beliefs are views about myself, other people, and situations that I hold to be true. There is so much to learn in both technology and personal development that it is impossible for anyone to learn everything. It is our ability to manage our thinking, our conflicts, and our experience that will ultimately make the difference between those of us who will lead the way into an increasingly new, exciting, creative, and cooperative future, and those who will rapidly fall by the wayside as they attempt to follow. We need skills and attitudes to help us learn how to make sense of chaos. We need to know how to find certainty within ourselves about what we want and what we believe when everything around us may seem to challenge who we are. We need to take care of ourselves and stand alone in our self assurance and empathy for others, yet we need to be able to show others our weaknesses and ask for help. We need to know how to pick ourselves up when we are down, to learn from uncertainty and disappointment, to shape our direction and to be prepared to lose all. We need the capacity to move more quickly than ever before and at the same time to stand still and drink in the richness of the moment. We need to know how to communicate with people of vastly different cultures and, more than anything, how to communicate with ourselves. We need to understand others’ perceptions even if they are poles apart from ours and we need to listen to the wisdom of our own bodies. We need to know how to laugh, to let go, to learn, to grow, to love, to mourn, and to move on. We need humility and graciousness and the strength to absorb our own and others’ inconsistencies. We need the resilience to remain in situations that cause us pain and to be able to find the joy in everything and everyone. We need to know how to find the excellence that is within us all and to celebrate it with every part of our heart and soul. We need to forgive, forget, and allow ourselves and others to be who they truly are. We need to learn as we have never learned before. How, then, do we cope? Far from embarking on courses of accelerated learning and speed reading to be able to learn faster, we need to look within ourselves and find our unique resources. In this way we can develop our own formulae for success. We need to be still to discern what is important for our specific vocation and what is not. We need to know how to learn from every situation, everyone and every intuition.

Robert Dilts has developed a model for change that was originated by Gregory Bateson, anthropologist and author of Towards an Ecology of Mind. This model, the logical levels of change, provides a powerful framework for discovering how to achieve alignment.

You have many associations already established, some individual, some connected with other people. Most of these will have occurred by chance without any forethought. Some association anchors will be helpful, supportive, and rewarding for you; some will not. The process of anchoring enables you to choose the associations you want both for yourself and for others. Mastering the skill of anchoring means learning to lead yourself by managing your state of mind. It also means taking responsibility for the effect you have on other people.

Our purpose is lived out through the kind of person we are. Identity/mission defines our sense of self and contains statements describing how you think of yourself as a person, “I am” statements, such as: I am a successful person. I am an optimist. I am a shy person. I am practical. What you have coded within yourself in this way is central to who you are.

The unconscious value you add to the bigger systems of which you are a part is your most significant form of influence. Stephen Covey, in his book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, refers to it as your legacy. And the legacy does not have to be only what you leave when you die; it is what you leave when you leave a meeting, leave a room, leave a company.

We live in a complex, unpredictable world. We can no longer rely on plans and predictions. We are called to work in ways that are entirely different to the ways of the past. The only part of the system on which we can potentially rely is within ourselves. And yet this is the part of the system that for many people lies largely untapped. We have to trust and believe that if we are true to ourselves, our outcomes will unfold in line with that truth.

“Conscience is that ability within me that attaches itself to the highest standard I know, then continually reminds me of what that standard demands. If I am in the habit of always holding it in front of me, conscience will always indicate what I should do.”
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

"The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may see the world around you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then, to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you."
T. H. White, The Once and Future King.

EXPECT ANYTHING FROM PEOPLE.

I was left with nothing, I am capable of anything.