Michael Botu's Blog

BE MINDFUL: Habits are formed and or sustained by repetition. Our brains are wired to protect us, so they tend to enjoy anything that you consistently do. That's why it's very easy to imbibe an habit albeit a bad one than break it.

RECIPE FOR SUCCESS: A few positive actions repeated daily result in winning and a few mistakes repeated every day result in failure. Notice two important keywords here: ▪Repeated & ▪Daily Repetition is the mother of learning. We should recognise the extraordinary power of repetition. Repetition brings consistency and consistency results in proficiency; it is proficiency that really shapes our lives.

MAKE THAT CHANGE: The late Pop legend Michael Jackson in one of his hit songs has these lines "....(If you want to make the world a better place) Take a look at yourself, and then make a change......"   ~ Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror (2012 Remaster)  We have known for long that "It's our habits that defines our habitat" but more often we feel helpless in our old habits and continue with the same pattern of living, working, spending, sleeping, tv-ing, gaming, etc hoping someday some outside force will help break the circle.

IT'S SO VITAL TO TRAIN AND RETRAIN: To us at The Bikome Affairs training is like ridding a bike, to maintain peak performance, you've got to keep training and retraining. The Scriptures says; "The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city." Because, he doesn't know how, he wearieth everyone, including the owner of the business.

NEVER STOP LEARNING: But that information would be very valuable—we would learn how someone who had it all messed it up. Learning from other people’s adventures and mistakes is valuable information because we can learn what not to do without the pain of having tried and failed ourselves. As Haruki Murakami asserts “Unfortunately the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

"In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP -👏 the job's a game!" ~ Julie Andrews