This document contains two summaries. The first is a motivational message about not crying during challenges and having faith and courage to overcome problems. The second discusses the importance of proper posture, both physically and metaphorically. It notes that one's posture reveals their true character and weaknesses, and encourages fixing one's posture to better face life's challenges and run well in this world.
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Last night I attended an enchanting book talk with Piers Cruickshanks, author of Confluence: Beyond the River with Siseko Ntondini.
It’s a story of how Piers and Siseko, who against all odds, won a gold medal at the Dusi Canoe Marathon. (Finishing 7th).
But it’s really a story of the challenges of being human and triumphs of the human spirit when two cultures confluence.
Piers shares a vignette where he was irritated that Siseko pitched up late for practice. For Piers it was easy to get to the dam. For Siseko – not so much – because of the transport challenges that he and countless thousands face every day.
I can’t speak for Piers, but if it were me I would’ve been humbled and maybe slightly embarrassed at my ‘white privilege’ … him, then a 39 year old English teacher with a young family and the ‘perfect life’ and 18 year old Siseko clawing his way up from the streets of Soweto.
Rachel
I had a similar incident around 10 years ago. Rachel, my domestic assistant of 15 years was late again. I reprimanded her for being tardy. Her words to me made an indelible impression, “I get up every morning at 4 am and have to catch two taxis to get to you. I’m sorry, sometimes the taxis run late.”
In those days I was paying her R150 per day including transport. I realised that she was spending half her wages on transport. So that meant that she had R75 left over for food, toiletries and paraffin for her and her children. I don’t know about you … even in those days I could drop R150 in a heartbeat on something frivolous and not even think about it.
We don’t know what is happening with the human working for us, sitting next to us on the bus, at our work or in our schools. We don’t know what drama is playing out in their lives. Are they hungry? Are they sick? Have they lost a loved one? Are they going through marital strife? Are they depressed? Are they destitute?
I try and walk in the other’s shoes. I try and feel what the other is feeling. Sometimes I get it right … mostly I get it wrong.
Choice
All I know is that I’m where I am by the grace of the Creator. I could’ve been born to different parents, in a different country and under different circumstances. My life would have been totally different – it could have been better or worse (whatever that means).
So, I’m here now, in this moment. I can only control how I feel and how I react to my situation now. Other than that, I have little control of the outcome of this human experience.
I choose gratitude. I choose awe. I choose to withhold judgment. I choose curiosity. I choose to see every human as the same. And, I know that every human hides a secret pain and untold hope. This humbles me because I hold the heart of everyone I come into contact with in my hand. It’s in my power to break that heart or grow that heart. It’s in your power too.
Form Vs Intent
Many students are of the view that they just need to pass their exams with the bare minimum allowed marks.
If they pass, they'll get that high school certificate or their university degree. The idea being that a high school certificate will get them into university and that a university degree will get them a job.
They miss the point of the exercise. It is not about the result but the process. The trick to learning is to master a subject, not to aim for the bare minimum.
So that when entering the job market, you're actually useful and don't have to be retrained from scratch.
Also, going for the bare minimum is the genesis of the mediocrity virus that proliferates our world. The less we expect of ourselves, the less we do and the less we expect of others.
We don't strive to stand out and make our mark in this world. We strive to fit in so that we are never challenged in any way.
The same is true for our lives and our search to connect with our creator.
We do the bare minimum. We go to church once a week. We say our five daily prayers. We practice Shabbat every Friday.
We do all these things as we're taught. And, we're taught to do them with perfect form. But that's all it is, is form. What's missing is the intention. Doing form to connect with our creator is the bare minimum.
The trick is to master this existence and put everything into doing so. The trick is to practice every day for the moment of our death. Every moment gives us that chance.
Just going through rituals by rote and doing it under the cover of a mosque, synagogue or church is not going to help 'buy our way into heaven'. The couple of minutes we spend on our rituals won't cut it.
The only point of rituals are to focus our attention on the moment so that we are aware of the presence of the creator. So that we can be in awe and gratitude and humility that we have been so blessed.
Our true self comes out in the way we relate to the world and the rest of humanity in it. Every moment gives us a chance to be graceful, grateful and use the muscle of the heart to be useful, kind and beautiful to others. Every opportunity to be kind gets us closer to our creator.
Don't look to the heavens to find your creator. Look to every human being you touch and you'll see the divine in them. You'll meet the creator.
Our intention defines us, not our form. Follow your rituals but most of all be human, be kind, be in awe and be grateful. This is the only chance you and I have of touching the creator.
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Last night I attended an enchanting book talk with Piers Cruickshanks, author of Confluence: Beyond the River with Siseko Ntondini.
It’s a story of how Piers and Siseko, who against all odds, won a gold medal at the Dusi Canoe Marathon. (Finishing 7th).
But it’s really a story of the challenges of being human and triumphs of the human spirit when two cultures confluence.
Piers shares a vignette where he was irritated that Siseko pitched up late for practice. For Piers it was easy to get to the dam. For Siseko – not so much – because of the transport challenges that he and countless thousands face every day.
I can’t speak for Piers, but if it were me I would’ve been humbled and maybe slightly embarrassed at my ‘white privilege’ … him, then a 39 year old English teacher with a young family and the ‘perfect life’ and 18 year old Siseko clawing his way up from the streets of Soweto.
Rachel
I had a similar incident around 10 years ago. Rachel, my domestic assistant of 15 years was late again. I reprimanded her for being tardy. Her words to me made an indelible impression, “I get up every morning at 4 am and have to catch two taxis to get to you. I’m sorry, sometimes the taxis run late.”
In those days I was paying her R150 per day including transport. I realised that she was spending half her wages on transport. So that meant that she had R75 left over for food, toiletries and paraffin for her and her children. I don’t know about you … even in those days I could drop R150 in a heartbeat on something frivolous and not even think about it.
We don’t know what is happening with the human working for us, sitting next to us on the bus, at our work or in our schools. We don’t know what drama is playing out in their lives. Are they hungry? Are they sick? Have they lost a loved one? Are they going through marital strife? Are they depressed? Are they destitute?
I try and walk in the other’s shoes. I try and feel what the other is feeling. Sometimes I get it right … mostly I get it wrong.
Choice
All I know is that I’m where I am by the grace of the Creator. I could’ve been born to different parents, in a different country and under different circumstances. My life would have been totally different – it could have been better or worse (whatever that means).
So, I’m here now, in this moment. I can only control how I feel and how I react to my situation now. Other than that, I have little control of the outcome of this human experience.
I choose gratitude. I choose awe. I choose to withhold judgment. I choose curiosity. I choose to see every human as the same. And, I know that every human hides a secret pain and untold hope. This humbles me because I hold the heart of everyone I come into contact with in my hand. It’s in my power to break that heart or grow that heart. It’s in your power too.
Form Vs Intent
Many students are of the view that they just need to pass their exams with the bare minimum allowed marks.
If they pass, they'll get that high school certificate or their university degree. The idea being that a high school certificate will get them into university and that a university degree will get them a job.
They miss the point of the exercise. It is not about the result but the process. The trick to learning is to master a subject, not to aim for the bare minimum.
So that when entering the job market, you're actually useful and don't have to be retrained from scratch.
Also, going for the bare minimum is the genesis of the mediocrity virus that proliferates our world. The less we expect of ourselves, the less we do and the less we expect of others.
We don't strive to stand out and make our mark in this world. We strive to fit in so that we are never challenged in any way.
The same is true for our lives and our search to connect with our creator.
We do the bare minimum. We go to church once a week. We say our five daily prayers. We practice Shabbat every Friday.
We do all these things as we're taught. And, we're taught to do them with perfect form. But that's all it is, is form. What's missing is the intention. Doing form to connect with our creator is the bare minimum.
The trick is to master this existence and put everything into doing so. The trick is to practice every day for the moment of our death. Every moment gives us that chance.
Just going through rituals by rote and doing it under the cover of a mosque, synagogue or church is not going to help 'buy our way into heaven'. The couple of minutes we spend on our rituals won't cut it.
The only point of rituals are to focus our attention on the moment so that we are aware of the presence of the creator. So that we can be in awe and gratitude and humility that we have been so blessed.
Our true self comes out in the way we relate to the world and the rest of humanity in it. Every moment gives us a chance to be graceful, grateful and use the muscle of the heart to be useful, kind and beautiful to others. Every opportunity to be kind gets us closer to our creator.
Don't look to the heavens to find your creator. Look to every human being you touch and you'll see the divine in them. You'll meet the creator.
Our intention defines us, not our form. Follow your rituals but most of all be human, be kind, be in awe and be grateful. This is the only chance you and I have of touching the creator.
This is a motivational piece of text on how to create your magnum opus or masterpiece. But, you don't just have one masterpiece in you. The trick is to discover that you have unlimited magna opera in you ...
Our galaxy is called the Milky Way … home to 100 billion stars. Multiply that by 10 trillion galaxies and that’s an incomprehensible number of stars out there. A gazillionith of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction are on a playground called Earth.
You’ll find more than 2 600 of them embedded in sidewalks across an 18 block radius in a place you and I know as the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
This is where people famous in the world of entertainment go to be immortalised in terrazzo and brass.
Like all stars, they wane. If you walk along some of the sidewalks, you won’t see shiny stars. What you’ll see is grit and grime encrusting them. You’ll see buskers and homeless people sitting on or around them.
These stars have been trodden on by billions of shoes since 1960 when the first star was laid for Joanne Woodward. These shoes carry the weary feet, broken hearts and shattered dreams of countless people.
People who wish they too can have a star on Hollywood Boulevard. A star that too can be stepped on.
When I was a young boy in the Karoo, one of my tasks was to prime the water pump. I had to push a lever down several times to prime the pump with water so that it would function properly.
In essence, I was kickstarting the pump so that it could produce water all day long.
Humans are like water pumps. We need to prime ourselves so that we can be effective throughout the day. This is where morning rituals and habits become invaluable. The only time when I'm selfish is the first two hours after waking. This is when I spend time on myself only. I've realised that spending time on myself is not selfish but rather, self-preserving. That time alone centres me so that I can tackle each day with vim and vigour.
Here's a snapshot of my ideal morning routine. I said 'ideal' because in many instances I miss it by a mile. I know when I miss my rituals my day's off-kilter and I'm not as sharp as I could be.
05h00: Salat prayer (before sunrise)
05h10: Meditate for 20 minutes
05h30: Coffee and a rusk (catch up with news and social media on mobile device)
06h00: Run for 1 hour
07h10: Jump into swimming pool for 6 minutes (supposedly helps with weight loss)
07h20: Shower and dress
07h30: Morning pages - type 750 words (based on Julia Cameron's, The Artist's Way)
07h55: Five Minute Journal
08h05: Breakfast
I ask myself why some people are the architects of genocide and acts against humanity.
Why do they unleash untold terror, destruction and misery onto the human race?
How can someone be so cruel?
Do they have a soul?
These are all questions that plague and frustrate me because there's no simple answer.
Is it because we allow them to thrive because of our indolence and ignorance. On 12 March 1938, the German Wehrmacht entered Austria and marched into Vienna. The German writer, Frederick Rech wrote: It was a day on which 'the criminal has been let go unpunished and made to appear more powerful than he is'.
This notion plays out in South Africa and Africa. As citizens we have become victims of our own indolence, greed and fear. We've created and allowed Frankenstein's monsters to dictate our lives.
Mugabe, Amin, Zuma, Motseneng, al-Assad,Taylor, Gupta, al-Bashir, Bell Pottinger and its attack dog, Georghegan.
On the international stage, there are the usual suspects: Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Tse-Sung, Bush, Blair and more recently, Putin and Trump.
Is it because they're homicidal maniacs, megalomaniacs, narcissists or psychopaths? That this may be a part of their nature that they cannot fight. My grandfather who bred mules and horses, would look a humans the same way as he looked at horseflesh. Sometimes he'd look at someone and say "Die saad is sleg gegooi." (The seed is badly thrown). These poor creatures are lost to themselves and to us because their genetic makeup has destined them to act out in this way. They find it almost impossible to fight their true nature.
They're all around us, of course. They're CEOs, managers, mothers and fathers and everything in-between.
Or is it as simple as that they don't have a boss to guide them? We all need a boss to protect us and guide us. Most of us have that boss. Be it a parent, a prefect at school, a supervisor, a manager, a managing director and a chairman. Even the Pope has a boss ... God. Unfortunately, because our bosses are as fractured as we are, we don't always get it right. But, at least there is someone that gives us a moment to pause before we act only in our interest.
I have a notion, that the individuals I've mentioned don't have a boss. They don't have someone to guide them. They believe their own PR and they think they can do no wrong. They have nobody to put them straight, chastise them or build them up. They have no compass because they think they are the compass. They're spiritually bereft because if they had an inkling that they're far from perfect, that they make mistakes and that they need guidance, they'd turn to their ultimate boss ... their creator. But they don't, because they think they're omnipotent.
Of course, now I wonder ... does God have a boss?
Last week I attended a running clinic by Norrie Williamson. He said something to the effect that running doesn’t cause injuries.
Running reveals bad habits that we havepicked up over time. Like sitting at a computer all day long. Sitting at the wrong angle facing the computer. Driving everywhere and not walking. Poor sleeping patterns. Incorrect running technique.
Wrong shoes. And, so on.
Essentially, running reveals our flaws.
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After my failed attempt at finishing my first
Comrades Marathon this year, I decided to
train properly next time around. So, I’ve
retained running coach NorrieWilliamson on
my quest to complete the marathon in 2018.
I met him last night at the hotel he’s staying
in. He mentioned that he saw me with both
my tog bag and my laptop bag slung over
my left shoulder. I know he had sized me up
and felt me wanting. I felt a pang of guilt
because I should know better. Walking in
like a lopsided, overloaded mule is not smart.
It puts everything out of alignment. I know
our kids think it’s cool to sling their book
bags over one shoulder so that they look
like a latter-day smooth James Dean and a
gunslinger out of a Louis L’Amour novel.
They don’t think it’s cool to strap their bag
on both shoulders like they should. Of
course, what’s not going to be cool is the
injuries they’ll pick up later in life because
they didn’t watch their posture. Ask me ...
everything that can creak, creaks and
everything that can crack, cracks because
of the bad habits I picked up long ago. Norrie
asks me to show him how I sit in front of my
computer. I’m thinking, “Are you serious?
I’m paying you by the hour and you want to
chit chat about how I sit in front of my
computer. Teach me how to run already.” Of
course, you’re smarter than me and already
know that the way I sit in front of my
computer, the way I carry my bags and the
way I deport myself, affects how I run. Just
by my posture, Norrie recognised me for what
I am ... a weak and ineffective runner. I’m not
irredeemable, of course, but there’s a lot of
work to be done for me to raise my game.
I’ve a notion that life’s the same. We reveal
our true selves by how we carry ourselves.
The people we come into contact with are all
“Coach Norrie’s”. They see through our
deceit”. By the same token, the way we
deport ourselves reveals our character. Our
posture reveals what (really) is. We think
we can fake our way through this short
journey we have on this planet. Yes, we
can for a little while. But, when the
pressure’s on, the masks we carry fall away
and our true selves are revealed. There’s
only one way for us to run properly in this
world and that’s to fix our posture. What
does it take to fix our posture? Not much,
really. We just have to change our notion
of our place in this world. We need to
understand that we’ve been born for a
purpose. There’s no junk in the creator’s
plan. We need to go inside and discover
the answers we’ve forgotten. We need to
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facades. They
frown at our
fakery. They muse
over the masks we
wear. Sigmund
Freud said, “The
body oozes
live in awe and gratitude that we’ve been
given the privilege to play on this planet.
We need to bow down in front of the author
who wrote this story for us ... a story that
has been crafted to enchant us. We need to
understand that it’s not only about us but
about others too. We are, all brothers and
sisters. We’re in this together and we need
to set each other up for success.
The good and the bad that life dishes out to
us, reveals our character. It reveals our level
of humility, grace and gratitude. If you’re like
me, I’m sure you want to run a good race
before you are called back to Eden. Let’s both
you and I watch our posture and tweak it so
that we end up at the finish line in good
shape.
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