New Year Resolution #1 - Assign Each Day To A Loved One For Call Every Month #TheLifesWay

Hi Friends, 

I used to think a lot but never used to share what ideas I have in my mind and sometimes I will also forget them after a little while. After a while, I will see someone else tweet about it, or write a post about it and remember that I also thought about it way back but never did it or never shared it. So, it's the plan and action points which I will start sharing on my blog going forward with what is in my mind and what I intend to follow to keep a reminder for myself too. 

Some days back, I got an idea that I should have a short call with my family and friends as per their birth date each month and this way if called each month on the same day, someday it will be their birthday and it will also streamline my system to have a daily conversation with each and everyone in my family and friends list. I don't think I have more than 30-31 people whom I am so close with and if I follow this process I am going to be much closer to them till the time I live on this planet Earth. It can also happen I don't have people for some days and some people for the same day as I have never analysed that kind of data for birthdays of all my loved ones so it's an exercise that I intend to do on Google Sheets first or on my Bujo Journal using my Parker Vector Fountain Pen. 

The list is going to look like this - 

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E
6. F
7. G
8. H
9. I 
10. J
11. K
12. L
13. M
14. N
15. O
16. P
17. Q
18. R
19. S
20. T
21. U
22. V
23. W
24. X
25. Y
26. Z
27. AB
28. AC
29. AD
30. AE
31. AF

I also got this idea while thinking about one of my friends on whose birthday I started my blog www.thelifesway.com 27th December called me to say that a personal call as compared to a zoom call is much better. I didn't take his idea at that time but as I thought about it for months I came to this chart of action where I intend to call my loved ones for 5-10 minutes based on their availability too but on the same day it has to happen. To build relationships you have to invest much more time into it but for the start, it's a great point to be in. The medium to call can be anything from Google Duo to Facebook Messanger or Whatsapp or Telegram or normal call on a smartphone. 

I am sometimes not sure of calling people as I am always afraid of what they might say or it can be said I am under some kind of depression or sometimes if someone asks me for something and I won't be able to say No etc. Whatever the fear I am facing I have to take it on and Let's start with the calls. So friends or family - Life is Short and I will start this engagement right now! I hope you will like this idea too and let me know how we can improve on the same in your tweets and comments. Who knows I will have more than 31 by the end of some months that I will have 2 people to call every day based on their birth dates. 

Cheers!!!

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@SamsungSA #MixedTalents Competition #Winners Beat the Dragon’s Den

Hi Guys,

Samsung Electronics South Africa is proud to announce that three exceptional young entrepreneurs have triumphed in the company’s Launching People - Mixed Talents competition. Ten finalists undertook a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style grilling at the hands of six judges, to determine the winners, who received funding as well as other business support tools and services.

After undergoing a series of pitching their various concepts to the judges - Michelle Potgieter, Director for Brand and Communications at Samsung South Africa; Lisa Illingworth, Entrepreneurial Host and Journalist at Hot 91.9 FM; Ian Wright, Founder of METIME; GG van Rooyen, Deputy Editor of Entrepreneur Magazine; Fahmeeda Cassim-Surtee, Director of DStv Sales and Marketing; as well as Garth Gaffley, Owner of Garth Gaffley Consulting and Mixed Talents – three winners were ultimately chosen.

Kyle Dodds’ Cognition Online, which has developed an application designed for the tutoring industry and enables tutors, parents and students connect was the first winner announced. They were followed by Neo Hutiri’s Technovera Lockers, a smart locker designed to enable chronic patients to obtain their medicines securely, without having to wait in queues. The final winner was a mobile child safety seat designed by Trenton Carr.

According to Potgieter, the Mixed Talents initiative was born of a desire to have a positive impact on the high youth unemployment rate in the country.

“The Mixed Talents competition and Ideas Bank tool were designed to provide entrepreneurial youngsters with a forum to adequately express their ideas. Part of the global Samsung Launching People initiative, Mixed Talents offers local South African millennials a platform through which they can turn their entrepreneurial ideas into a reality. The ultimate goal is to make a real impact in youth unemployment in South Africa,” she says.

The three winners will each receive R50 000 in start-up capital, as well as access to over R 300 000 worth of invaluable business support tools from Samsung’s partners. This includes serviced office space for each organisation through Work Central and world-class coaching through Winning Edge.

“This is the second time we have created a platform for three entrepreneurs to take their business ideas to the next level through the Mixed Talents competition and the strength of the entries was even greater than during the previous wave. It is really exciting to see just how talented young South African minds are and how many unique ideas they have. It is important that corporates get behind start-ups like these and we would like to encourage other organisations to get actively involved in developing this type of entrepreneurship.”

According to Potgieter, the biggest take away from tonight for other young thought leaders is that if you have a vision, follow it through with passion and make it come true. To South African millennials, she adds that they have to follow their dreams and the Ideas Bank is still available to them as a tool to do so. “This is a means to help you launch your business and make your particular dream come true,” concludes Potgieter.

Cheers!!!

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