Remove Gear D in Your Marriage.

Remove Gear D in Your Marriage.

Manual cars use gears to move forward, Gear 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Some even have gear 6.You can't move ahead by skipping gear 1 and think you can go straight to gear 5. For a smooth drive, you start with the first gear, which maybe jerky most of the times, especially for a new driver, sometimes even stalls the car. But as you progress to other gears, the ride becomes smoother and enjoyable. You can now focus on the journey ahead, enjoy the scenery and the conversations with your passengers, etc. Unfortunately as you use the car, there are situations you have to use gear R, Reverse gear to get out of a situation in order to move ahead again. The reverse gear is not a forward moving gear, but it's there for a short purpose and only used when necessary, otherwise, if things are okay, you don't even need to use it. It is possible to complete a journey without using the Reverse gear.

Marriage is similar. When you are new in it, things maybe be jerky and a bit rough because both of you are still adjusting to each other. The girl you were dating is no longer a girl now. The guy you were dating is no longer a boyfriend now. Roles have changed, theres a Husband and a Wife. These roles are not trained at college, even if you have been lectured back home, what you're going to face is different from what you thought you knew. New personalities, new habits, good and bad, new attitudes and so on, is the reality you face now. How are you going to handle it will determine is this 'car' will move forward to its destination or not. It takes years and effort to reach a moment where your marriage is a smooth ride and enjoy the 'scenery,' as it were. There will be rough times, there will be serious problems that you're going to face. That's where many want to use the D gear. Some use it as a way of escape, some use it because they have been advised to use it. Some don't even think twice to use it, some use it because they think it's the right thing to do, given the problem at hand. But, stop and think, does the D gear really solve the problem. Does it relieve you of your stress and the reason for pain? Ask many who have used that gear, they'll tell you otherwise. It will change your status but it doesn't remove the memories, good and bad, the history you shared in your marriage. It's not only devastating to both of you, but if there are children in your marriage, they will be hard hit more that you can imagine. You may think what happens will be between the two of you but they also will be torn apart, no matter how much you can try to show them how right you were to use that gear, the D gear. DIVORCE. 

Children are also affected by your divorce

Never use it as a weapon to revenge yourself or as a solution to marital problems. As you are one flesh with your spouse, you don't just cut off you foot because it stepped on poo! Do you cut your face because while you were laughing, a snort came out and it caused an embarrassment for you? As much that is embarrassing, you fix the situation and move on. Even when a doctor can say your limb is cancerous and need to be cut of, you don't take that decision lightly, because, it's you who will have to live without this limb, not the Doctor. You will have to face a difficult life without the use of this limb and all the challenges you are going to face. Divorce is not to be taken lightly. Calm down, evaluate the situation as to what went wrong in your marriage to lead your partner to the reasons you want to divorce him/her for. More often than not, you may find that you were not totally innocent in that. Communication breakdown, taking attention away from your spouse, being occupied with the anxieties of this world, etc. may frustrate your spouse and may be led astray. Try to talk things over, accept what has happened and if there's repentance, strive to forgive. It may be difficult to forget, but try hard. By saying accept what has happened, it doesn't mean condoning and make excuses for the wrong done. What is said is, accept that this has happened, denial and pushing it off won't make it disappear because you may find that you may have to live with the consequences of your spouse's stray as well. Get help, but be careful of friends who will rush to tell you to divorce because they would do the same in your shoes. How sure are you that they will? Some have faced the same situation they advised a friend to divorce and yet they don't when it's their turn! So, think about your situation and evaluate how much losses will you face than trying to fix your marriage. It's worth all the effort, especially if there are children involved.

As far as it's possible, remove the D gear in your marriage!

Uma uJesu Ubengabuya Namuhla, ubezoya kweliphi Isonto?

Baningi abazibiza ngokuthi bangamaKristu namuhla. Mihla nezolo, kuqubuka eziningi izinkonzo, zonke zithi ziphethe iqiniso ngevangeli nangobuKristu. Ngokokucwaninga kwe Centre for the Study of Global Christianity, kucatshangelwa ukuthi kunamahlelo angaba ngu 43000 ngo2013, ekhula ngesibalo esingu 1200 ngonyaka emhlabeni jikelele! Ukube uJesu Kristu ubengabuya namuhla, ubezoya kweliphi isonto?

Wena ucabangani? Ingabe ubezojabulela ukuya kwelamagatari, kukhal’iPiano, nesgubhu, namaTweeter, kujayivwa  kuze kujuluk’indoda, konke lokhu kwenziwa ngegama lakhe? Ubezoya kwelishumayela ngokuthi ‘nikela kakhulu ukuze uNkulunkulu akubusise’, abe ebukel’uPastor ehhamba ngonyonyovu lwe 4x4 langaphandle ehlala kwekanokusho indlu? Ucabanga ukuthi ubengajabula ebuke amakholwa enikela abe eshiya ekhaya kulanjwa ngoba kuthiwa kunikelelwa kuYe? Yona leyomoto kanokusho, ubengajabulela ukuyigibela, noma ajabulele ukumenywa kwamfundisi ebucwazicwazini kuyilapho abalandeli bakhe behlwempuzile? Ake sithi uyadlula abone esikhul’isakhiwo lesi! Naso sibizwa ngesonto lobuKristu. Uma engena uthola sigcwele izithixo okuthiwa ngesakhe nesikanina uMariya! Hhaw! Ngoba washo ngokwakhe nje ukuthi kumelwe kukhulekelwe uBaba osezulwini kuphela, manje yini le abantu abayenzayo, beqoshama uma befika kulezizithombe benza nophawu lukaBathathu emunye (Trinity)! Akazange yini uNkulunkulu abashaye abakwaIsrayeli ebathola bekhulekel’ithole legolide bethi limelel’uNkulunkulu! Uma esathi ubhekile kushiswa impepho langaphakathi, uyazibuza, “Kaze bakuthathaphi-ke lokhu ngoba angizange ngikwenze lokho nabaPhostoli bami!” Uma ebuka nje inqubo yalaph’ekhaya uyezwa ukuthi Abefundisi noma oFata abavunyelw’ukushada! Ngenxa yalokhu naba bezitika ngobungqingili kuze kuyosho kubabhishobhi babo! Azithulele angasho lutho! Uma ebuka izincwadi zomlando wabo,ufunda ukuthi babebashisa nangomlilo abantu ababetholakala benamaBhayibheli emizini yabo! eRwanda batholakala bethengisa amaHutu kwizishokobezi zamaTutsi! Eziningi zezimfundiso zabo zingamasiko obuqaba, akhulekela oonkulunkulukazi oEsther nonogwaja; kugujwa nezinsuku zokuzalwa konkulunkulu welanga bakushintsha lokho bathi uKhisimuzi, okungelona usuku azalwa ngalo, nayengakushongo kubafundi bakhe ukuba bakugubhe. Kuvelaphi konke lokhu! Kubhajadiswa izintsana lapha! Zazini izingane ngokuba ngumlandeli wakaKristu! Zifunde nini zazikhethela ukuba ziyoba ngamaKristu!   

Uma ephuma ezwe nabanye bememeza “In the name of Jesus…” Hhaw! Asondele. Uma esalalele nabo besho ngezilimi ezingaziwa-muntu! “Lokhu ke bakuthathaphi ngoba mina abafundi bami ngabapha isipho sezilimi ukuze bashumayele kwabangemaJuda. Izinhlanga ezazihlangene eJerusalema ngalezozinsuku zamangala ukuthi ‘laba ngoba ngabaseGalile, kungani sibezwa bekhuluma izilimi zakithi?’ Kwamina angizazi lezi izilimi engizizwa zikhulunywa lapha! ” Aphume adlulele phambili abone ithende linabantu abaningi. Kuyaphulukiswa la! Uma esondela kunabahlezi kumaWheelchair, eze uPastor abathinte baphile beme ngezinyawo! Kodwa ngoba wazi konke athi “Lomuntu ngoba akazange akhubazeke nje! Ubezihhambela izolo futhi wanikwa nemali ukuba athi ukhubazekile, sekelashwe kanjani? Ngibona nangu owesifazane owalapha endaweni, wonk’umuntu uyamazi ukuthi wayekhubazekile kwasekuzalweni. Kungani yena engaphulukiswanga bethi kungenxa yokuthi akanakholo! Kanti mina ngangiphulukisa abanokholo kuphela yini? Angizange yini ngiphulukise abanochoko abayishumi, kepha kwaba ngoyedwa kuphela ongibongayo? Angizange ngibabalele isono laba abawu9! Pho kungani bekhipha imali laba abaphulukiswayo ize igcwale amabhakede? Angikaze ngkhokhise noyedwa kwengangibaphulukisa ngiselapha emhlabeni! Ngezani lezipelete abafakwa zona nenyufomu yekhakhi? Angikaze ngikwenze mina lokhu? Kuvelaphi konke lokhu? Lamanyufomu agcwele kuwowonke lamasonto ngawani? Ezimhlophe, eziluhlaza, eziphuzi, kuvelaphi konke lokhu?”

Aphume athole abanye behlangene kwiHolo elincane nje. Ahlale phansi alalele, Uma ebheka la, abesifazane bazifakele amabhulukwe. Amakhosikazi ayashumayela phambili! Esabamb’ongezantsi uzwa kushunyayelwa ngobungqingili. “Kuyamukeleka kuNkulunkulu.” Kwayena lomfundisi ungungqingili. Esath’ucabang’ukuthi yinkonzo kanti ngumshado. Hhaw! Kungena amadoda amabili abambene ngezandla, athul’acabange ukuthi baseza omakoti. Esalindel’ukubona omakoti ezwe sekuthiwa, ‘usungamqabul’umlingani wakho’ Abuke amadoda amabili eqabulana! Bebeshadiswa! Ibandla lishay’izandla! Kuphunye kuhalaliswe kube njeya!

Ucabanga ukuthi uyophuma aziqhenye ukuthi umsebenzi awushiye emhlabeni wenziwa ngendlela ekahle? Angaziqhenya yini ngami nangawe?

Lendaba singayiqhuba kuze kuhlwe. Ngimane nje ngiyabuza, “Ukube uJesu Kristu ubengabuya namuhla, ubezoya kweliphi isonto?”

What The Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast

BY Laura Vanderkam | 06-14-2012 | 8:00 AM

Mornings are a great time for getting things done. You’re less likely to be interrupted than you are later in the day. Your supply of willpower is fresh after a good night’s sleep. That makes it possible to turn personal priorities like exercise or strategic thinking into reality.
But if you’ve got big goals--and a chaotic a.m. schedule--how can you make over your mornings to make these goals happen?
Because I write about time management frequently, I’ve gotten to see hundreds of calendars and schedules over the years. From studying people’s morning habits, I’ve learned that getting the most out of this time is a five-part process. Follow these steps, though, and you’re on your way to building morning habits that stick.

1. Track Your Time


Part of spending your time better is knowing how you’re spending it now. If you’ve ever tried to lose weight, you know that nutritionists tell you to keep a food journal because it keeps you from eating mindlessly. It’s the same with time. Write down what you’re doing as often as you can. Use my spreadsheet, a Word document, or a pad and pen.
While measuring your mornings, try tracking your whole week. The reason? The solution to morning dilemmas often lies at other times of the day. You may be too tired because you’re staying up late. But if you look at how you’re spending your nights, you’ll notice that you’re not doing anything urgent. The Daily Show can be recorded and watched earlier--possibly while you’re on the treadmill at 6:30 a.m.
As for the mornings themselves, you can be organized but still not be spending them well. Question your assumptions. You may believe that “a man who wants to keep his job gets into the office before his boss” because that’s what your father did, but your boss may be disappointed that he doesn’t get the place to himself for an hour first! If you decide that something is a top priority, do it, but understand that we have to do few things in life.

2. Picture the Perfect Morning

After you know how you’re spending your time, ask yourself what a great morning would look like. For me, it would start with a run, followed by a hearty family breakfast. After getting people out the door, I’d focus on long-term projects like my books. Here are some other ideas for morning enrichment:

For personal growth:

• Read through a religious text: Sacred texts can teach us about human nature and history, even if they’re not from a religion you subscribe to. If they are, pray or meditate and get to know your beliefs in a deeper way.
• Train for something big: Aiming to complete a half-marathon, a triathlon, or a long bike ride will keep you inspired as you take your fitness to the next level.
• Do art projects with your kids:. Mornings don’t have to be a death march out the door. Enjoy your time with your little ones at a time of day when you all have more patience.

For professional growth:

• Strategize: In an age of constant connectivity, people complain of having no time to think. Use your mornings to picture what you want your career and organization to look like in the future.
• Read articles in professional journals: Benefit from other people’s research and strategic thinking, and gain new insights into your field.
• Take an online class: If a job or career change is in your future, a self-paced class can keep your skills sharp.

3. Think Through the Logistics


How could this vision mesh with the life you have? Don’t assume you have to add it on top of the hours you already spend getting ready or that you’ll have to get to work earlier. If you fill the morning hours with important activities you’ll crowd out things that are more time intensive than they need to be. Map out a morning schedule. What time would you have to get up and what time do you need to go to bed to get enough sleep? As for the mornings themselves, what would make your ritual easier? Do you need to set your easel next to your bed? Can you find a more cheerful alarm clock or one you can’t turn off so easily?
It’s easy to believe our own excuses, particularly if they’re good ones. Come up with a plan and assemble what you need, but whatever you do, don’t label this vision as impossible.

4. Build the Habit

This is the most important step. Turning a desire into a ritual requires willpower. Use these fives steps to optimize your routine:

• Start slowly: Go to bed and wake up fifteen minutes earlier for a few days until this new schedule seems doable.
• Monitor your energy: Building a new habit takes effort, so take care of yourself while you’re trying. Eat right, eat enough, and surround yourself with supportive people who want to see you succeed.
• Choose one new habit at a time to introduce: If you want to run, pray, and write in a journal, choose one of these and make it a habit before adding another.
• Chart your progress: Habits take weeks to establish, so keep track of how you’re doing for at least thirty days. Once skipping a session feels like you forgot something--like forgetting to brush your teeth--you can take your ritual up a notch.
• Feel free to use bribery: Eventually habits produce their own motivation, but until then, external motivations like promising yourself concert tickets can keep you moving forward. And keep in mind that your morning rituals shouldn’t be of the self-flagellation variety. Choose things you enjoy: your before-breakfast ritual has the potential to become your favorite part of the day.

5. Tune Up as Necessary


Life changes. Sometimes we have to regroup, but the goal is to replace any rituals that no longer work with new ones that make you feel like every day is full of possibility.
That is ultimately the amazing thing about mornings--they always feel like a new chance to do things right. A win scored then creates a cascade of success. The hopeful hours before most people eat breakfast are too precious to be blown on semiconscious activities. You can do a lot with those hours. Whenever I’m tempted to say I don’t have time for something, I remind myself that if I wanted to get up early, I could. These hours are available to all of us if we choose to use them.
So how would you like to use your mornings? This important question requires careful thinking. But once you decide, small rituals can accomplish great things. When you make over your mornings, you can make over your life. That is what the most successful people know.

Excerpted from What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam by arrangement with Portfolio Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc., Copyright © 2012 by Laura Vanderkam. Follow her on Twitter. 

The Problem With ANGER- extracted from Awake March 2012

A man who ordered a sandwich at a fast-food

restaurant became enraged when he thought
it took too long for his meal to come.
He entered the restaurant, threatened an
employee, shoved him up against a counter,
and slapped him. The angry man then
grabbed his sandwich and walked out
of the restaurant.

ALL of us get angry from time to time. After all, anger is as much a part of our emotional makeup as love, hope, anxiety, sadness, and fear. Anger that is controlled can
be expressed in a proper way and can serve a useful purpose. For example, anger can be productive if it boosts one’s determination to overcome certain obstacles or problems.

As illustrated by the account above, anger also has a dark side. Some people experience anger more quickly, more frequently, and more intensely than others. When  provoked, they may lash out with verbal or physical attacks. Their anger, in effect, controls them, when it should be the other way around. Such unrestrained anger is dangerous, which is why it is sometimes referred to as “problem anger.” *

Those with anger problems bring grief not only to themselves but also to everyone around them. For  someone with anger issues, even seemingly trivial matters can spark a violent outburst that brings tragic consequences. Consider the following examples: A man walking with a group of friends was shot in the neck after the sports bag of one of his friends brushed against another man on a busy street. A 19-year-old male beat his fiance´e’s 11-month-old baby to death. The man had been playing a violent video game and lost his temper when the baby touched the game’s control panel and thus caused the man to forfeit the game. Similar reports from around the world indicate that an increasing number of people have anger problems. Why is anger on the rise?
*The brochure Boiling Point—Problem Anger and What We
Can Do About It describes “problem anger” as “any dysfunctional
way of relating to and managing anger that persistently
causes significant difficulties in a person’s life including their
thinking, feeling, behaviour and relationships.”




What Are the Causes?

What Effects Can Your Outburst of Anger Have on Your Children?

THE causes of anger are complex. Even
scientists admit that anger is poorly understood.
However, there is general agreement
among mental-health professionals that
all of us react to certain “anger triggers.”


Among others, it may be caused by, Parental Example, Cramped Cities, Economic Despairs, Prejudice and Injustice, Entertainment Industry and the Influence of the Wicked Spirits.



Parental Example
One’s parents have a profound influence
on personality development throughout
childhood and adolescence. Psychologist
Harry L. Mills explains: “From a very early
age, people learn to express anger by copying
the angry behavior they see modeled around
them.”
If a child is raised in a hostile environment —a place where tempers flare over trivial matters—the child is, in effect, being trained to respond to life’s problems with anger. You
could liken the child’s situation to a plant that has been nourished with tainted water. The
plant may grow, but its development could be stunted, and it could perhaps suffer permanent
damage. Likewise, anger is like tainted water, and children who have been exposed to it are more inclined to have anger problems as adults

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7 THINGS HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE PEOPLE DO

You probably don’t want to admit it but we love distractions. In fact, just like monkeys, we get a shot of dopamine every time something pulls us in another direction. Why do you think you check your email so much?

Want to be more productive and get your focus back? There are no secret tricks here… do one thing at a time. Stop multitasking—it’s just another form of distraction.

Easier said than done, I know.

Here are some tips for staying productive:

1. Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks. Writing “launch company website” at the top of your to-do list is a sure way to make sure you never get it done. Break down the work into smaller and smaller chunks until you have specific tasks that can be accomplished in a few hours or less: Sketch a wireframe, outline an introduction for the homepage video, etc. That’s how you set goals and actually succeed in crossing them off your list.

2. Stop multi-tasking. No, seriously—stop. Switching from task to task quickly does not work. In fact, changing tasks more than 10 times in a day makes you dumber than being stoned. When you’re stoned, your IQ drops by five points. When you multitask, it drops by an average of 10 points, 15 for men, five for women (yes, men are three times as bad at multitasking than women).

3. Be militant about eliminating distractions. Lock your door, put a sign up, turn off your phone, texts, email, and instant messaging. In fact, if you know you may sneak a peek at your email, set it to offline mode, or even turn off your Internet connection. Go to a quiet area and focus on completing one task.

4. Schedule your email. Pick two or three times during the day when you’re going to use your email. Checking your email constantly throughout the day creates a ton of noise and kills your productivity.

5. Use the phone. Email isn’t meant for conversations. Don’t reply more than twice to an email. Pick up the phone instead.

6. Work on your own agenda. Don’t let something else set your day. Most people go right to their emails and start freaking out. You will end up at inbox-zero, but accomplish nothing. After you wake up, drink water so you rehydrate, eat a good breakfast to replenish your glucose, then set prioritized goals for the rest of your day.

7. Work in 60 to 90 minute intervals. Your brain uses up more glucose than any other bodily activity. Typically you will have spent most of it after 60-90 minutes. (That’s why you feel so burned out after super long meetings.) So take a break: Get up, go for a walk, have a snack, do something completely different to recharge. And yes, that means you need an extra hour for breaks, not including lunch, so if you’re required to get eight hours of work done each day, plan to be there for 9.5-10 hours.

Small Business Owners, Not having a Website Can spell Doom to your Business

More than one-third of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are in danger of making themselves irrelevant to their customers. With an ever-increasing number of people searching online for products and services, the 37% of SMEs in South Africa with no Web presence are losing out on a major channel of communication.
This is perhaps the most important statistic to come out of the annual SME Survey, a unique study which assesses the competitiveness of this sector of the economy. According to Arthur Goldstuck, principal researcher of the survey, other results from the survey have shown conclusively how having a Web site correlates with increased profitability.

 

Example of a website, www.inqabaqhooa.co.za

Goldstuck indicates that some 79% of SMEs with a Web site report profitability, with 30% of these claiming to be strongly profitable. This is a massive difference compared to those without a Web site, where only 59% report profitability and just 14% of these claim to be strongly profitable.

“The popular argument made by these businesses is that there are not enough people online to justify a Web presence. However, they fail to take into account the enormous uptake in smart phones. With more smartphones expected to be sold next year than any other type of phone, it could be fatal for an SME to adopt this viewpoint,” he says.
“Thanks to smartphones, South Africa is witnessing the greatest acceleration of Internet use the country has ever experienced. This translates directly into more people going online to find services. I have no doubt that we are reaching the point where an SME’s website will become the glue that holds together all of its other marketing efforts and activities.”
He points out that when studying individual vertical markets, the great irony highlighted by the survey is the financial services sector – supposedly one of the most high-end areas of business – has one of the lowest percentages of Web site use.
“Less than half (41%) of all auditors, accountants and insurance brokers can be found online. This is particularly troubling given that the major banks all have a significant presence online and a vast array of Internet-based tools available for their customers. More and more people who are familiar with the banks’ Web site will, when looking for an auditor or accountant, expect to find them online.”
Goldstuck suggests that many of these professionals are not yet online because 78% currently maintain a fairly high level of profitability. Therefore, they don’t feel the need to stay with the times. However, he believes that as the Internet becomes the single most important means of searching for a service provider, these SMEs will find themselves increasingly disadvantaged.
“In fact, the only sector with a lower percentage (36%) of Web site is that of education. I think this is because many of these training institutions and specialist schools and colleges are targeting the mass market. Their failure to develop a Web site is an extreme example of the perception that not enough people in SA use the Web. These institutions clearly need to get online, and fast, as only 19% of respondents to the survey claimed to be profitable.”
As far as those SMEs with the highest percentage of Web sites, Goldstuck adds that he is not surprised to find that in the IT and telecoms sector a massive 89% of companies are online. “These are companies that are fully aware of the importance of a Web site. After all, this is the space in which they do business, so one would expect them to comprehend the value of being online.”
He points out that the tourism sector is also well developed from this perspective, with some 77% of tourism SMEs having Web sites. This, he says, is an industry that recognises that their customer base is likely to search for them online. They also understand how important it is to utilise every available channel to attract customers.
“One finding from previous surveys that has been borne out by the latest results is that the larger an organisation, or the longer it has been around for, the more likely it is to have a Web site. Thus a newly formed SME that immediately creates an online presence can give potential customers the impression that it has been established for much longer, or that it is a much bigger business.”
“Regardless of the vertical market you play in, or the size of your business, the survey clearly shows that the growing ubiquity of connectivity means that a website is fast becoming a must-have. After all, when your customers come looking for you, you’d better be there,” Goldstuck adds.

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2012 Budget Speech

   ‘Less red tape for micro businesses’                                                                                               Entire speech on SABC News

Micro businesses and small businesses have received welcome regulatory and tax-free threshold breaks from Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's latest Budget.

Micro businesses (those with annual turnover below one million rand) will from March 1 have the option of making payments for turnover tax, VAT and employees' tax at twice-yearly intervals.

The Budget Review document said it was further envisaged that a single combined return will be filed on a twice-yearly basis from March 1, 2013. The number of returns required for these taxes will fall from about 18 per year to only two a year in 2013.

However, the National Treasury sensibly warned qualifying taxpayers that the build-up of tax liability will require taxpayers ?to ensure that funds are available when payment is due?.

To encourage small incorporated businesses, the Budget Review document said the tax-free threshold of such firms would increase to R63,556 from R59,750. It also said taxable income of up to R350,000 would be taxed at 7%, up from the current threshold of R300,000 at 10%.

For taxable income above R350,000, the normal corporate tax rate of 28% applies.