Decision Making (1st Ed)

DECISION
MAKING
THE BENCHMARK TOWARDS THE FUTURE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why should we take decisions? 7
Chapter 2: Our lifestyles go with our decisions 11
Chapter 3: Our decisions with our goals 24
Chapter 4: What’s pushing you? 34
Chapter 5: Tools to use in allowing decisions to push you 38
Chapter 6: Making decisions work for good 43
Chapter 7: Making use of the potential in you 45
Chapter 8: The regulator of your destiny 48
Chapter 9: Embrace your God given gift 51
Chapter 10: Financial decision making 56
Chapter 11: The game changer 59
Chapter 12: Play your part in the process 62

Chapter 13: Thrive to be rich 65
Chapter 14: Top up the game 69
Chapter 15: : Improve your strategy 70
Chapter 16: Acquire knowledge 73
Chapter 17: Choice modality 79
Self-evaluation 87
About the author 105
Contacts 106
Copyright © 2020 by Musa N. Tshabangu
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank both my parents (Miss. Tshabangu

& Mr BN. Mahlangu). Not forgetting to thank my
grandmother also. One to whom I’m worth more than
jewels. The old lady who would rather constantly pray for
me. And added to the list of those who contributed to
me – through their motivational words – Mr. Bongani
Mtomboti and Dumisani Sithole, these are vessels who
pushed me towards compiling this book. And lastly, I’d
also like to thank my mentor; Mr. Maluleka Samuel, one
who always believed in the success of my manuscript. I’m
really privileged to have him as a mentor who then
eventually made it a point that; my book is edited, well
designed – both inside and out, even the back and front
cover pages of my book. I really appreciate every one of
you guys’ support. It really means a lot.
DEDICATION
I’d like to dedicate this book to you as you are getting

ready to have a clear view of how to make decisions,
get insight as to which decisions to make for a brighter
future, know how decisions determine the kind of
lifestyle you’re prone to live, and receive directives
about building on solid decisions; making them realise.
Enjoy!
FOREWORD
Musa N. Tshabangu’s book has made me proud in ways I

cannot even understand. The way in which he plays his
role as a motivational speaker to all those young people
out there, it really made me to even go an extra mile in
helping mentor him towards the pinnacles of his life. And
not only is he a motivational speaker through a word of
mouth. But I’ve discovered Musa to be a motivational
speaker who showcases his motivational words through
actions.
When it comes to academics and his dedication for

working towards success, one can really tell that he is
indeed a good example to most people. He was
considered a head boy at primary school and that on its
own really tells that he was born to be leader in his own
area of gifting as a motivational speaker.
-Maluleka SM.
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Introduction
I n life there comes a time whereby you should take

choices for yourself. It is always important to
carefully check the decisions you make. A person
who takes good decisions knows what he or she wants
and where he is going.
Life is a journey. And along every journey there are many

challenges that we come across, challenges such as: fear,
jealousy, rejection and many more. Therefore, when
these challenges start showcasing self, it is quite a
necessity that they should find you ready. Many people
usually have themselves overcome by these challenges
because they find them unprepared.
Being prepared for challenges is something that will help

you ride along the corridors of success relentlessly.
Because it is not unless someone is relentless enough
that he or she will override any kind of challenge.
Therefore, having passed the test of trampling over your

challenges, you’ll be able to build your future on good
decision making and with zealous momentum, knowing
that you’ve got all it takes to build your way towards a
bright future – whether with or without hindrances.
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And consequently, one should understand that the
decisions we make are like foundations we lay for future
success or not. Say for example, if ever you’re about to
build a house, and the very foundation of which you have
your house built is not solid, then the house will collapse.
Yet on the contrary, when your house is built on solid

foundation, it will ultimately last for a long period of
time. So, this is the same with decision making.
Whenever you build your future based on good decision
making, eventually the results will fuel satisfaction. You’ll
end up finding yourself achieving bright future results.
But the only tragedy that one can ever find him or herself
encountering, it is to collapse on his or her way towards
success. For one to fail towards his or her way to success,
it’s all because of bad decision making. Thus, it is quite
vital to have yourself build on decisions that will lead you
towards a bright future.
Now, though good decision making plays an important

role in helping make realize a bright future, we should
not be ignorant of the fact that, challenges will
eventually pile up. And the moment these challenges
may showcase themselves, it is best when they find you
as one who is always assertive and aggressive.
Being aggressive and assertive towards life challenges is

quite essential. It is through these two commodities that
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you’ll be able to tackle your challenges without fear,
doubt or retreat, but with a relentless spirit.
Being able to overcome life challenges will also be

something that will make it easier for you to work on
your decisions without any worry of how challenging life
may be. It is something that will make you strong for
other challenges that may be encountered along the way
of working on making realize your decisions.
Good decision making is usually something that depicts

how much of a visionary person one is. Thus, it is always
appropriate to say, “you become what you decide and
envision”. The decisions you take should always lead you
to the greater side of life.
Again, the other important thing about taking decisions

is that we should look at where they are leading us.
Hence, it was after I saw many young people taking
decisions that provide temporary smile and permanent
regrets that I was ignited to having write this book.
And it is in this very book that I’ll be able to take you

through the corridors of why we should take decisions,
how our decisions go hand in hand with our lifestyles and
goals, and how they should be pushing us towards
reaching out destiny.
Now, as a result, always carefully sit down and take a pen

to write what you want in life and take decisions that will
bring you closer to those achievements.
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It is important to take decisions that will determine your
future. So, in life take decisions that won’t make you
regret and eventually make you lose direction as to
where you should be going. Because the main aim is to
reach destiny with a smile.
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CHAPTER 01
Why should we take decisions?
A long the journey of life, we should take

decisions because we will know what we want
and where are we going. Usually, a person who
takes decisions with their life knows very well where he
or she is going and what does he wants with his or her
life.
People who take decisions about themselves along the

way and move with confidence are prone to having
themselves reach out destiny. Hence it now becomes a
necessity that we should take decisions so that we may
not be led astray along the way. Because a life built on
good decisions leads to good directives – those that will
help reach out destiny.
And it is also after taking good decisions about your life

that you’ll even start focusing on achieving your goals.
You will never reach your goal if you have not taken
decisions because decisions are the substratum of every
building block leading to your future. And it is on bases
of this concept that more details will be given in chapter
three.
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Taking good and solid decisions helps because you won’t

be easily shaken along the way. Usually people who don’t
take good decisions, they relent and lose direction
whenever they come across a situation. These are people
who would just make decisions without carefully
checking the results that their decisions will bring in turn.
One wise legend once said, “a wise man makes his own
decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion” -
Grantland Rice. He was saying a very important fact, that
is – wise people don’t just take a decisions or flow with
public opinions, but clearly think and decide wisely
before jumping into concluded decisions.
As a motivational speaker, I’m simply saying be a wise

person – be creative and think out of the box, and let
good decisions drive your focus instead of allowing your
friends or people’s opinions to drive your focus. Many
people don’t live well, and they are not enjoying their
lives because of the wrong choices they made while they
were young.
Therefore, always think twice before you come to your

final decisions. In most cases, I usually advise my peers
to always make decisions that please both yourself and
parents.
Never make decisions that will embarrass yourself,

mother, or father. Let your decisions always make you
and your parents proud. Let them be decisions that will
make you and your loved ones grateful.
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So, one of the other things that results as the reason why
we should think twice before making decisions is that, as
Sophies states, “Quick decisions are unsafe decisions”.
And this is true in what he’s saying, because decisions
quickly taken without carefully looking at the
repercussions – consequently – they’ll definitely fuel
regret.
Again, as part of the reasons why we should take good

and right decisions is that, hence we live on from today
of which will be the “past” tomorrow, it is always good
for one to choose good and right decisions – to choose
decisions that won’t fuel regret but those that will make
you, your family and loved one’s (friends) proud.
We must take decisions that support our self-esteem,

self-image, and self-worth. You may ask yourself that,
how do I take decisions that will support and improve my
self-esteem? Well, the answer is simple. The decisions
you make should make you proud and should motivate
you. In part, these are decisions that should encourage
you to move to the better side of life, hence that now I
regard as my vision as a motivational speaker.
Self-image: (The opinion or idea you have of yourself,

especially abilities). Every thoughts and images you have
about your self should be in the hands of your decisions.
For example: If you want to be a businessman or woman
– the thought you have as one who wants to run a
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successful business one day, that is the thought that will

drive you to taking decisions. Decisions that will drive you
to work on your goals, the very goals that will in turn,
lead you to making the thought realize.
Self-worth: (The feeling of confidence in yourself that

you are good and useful). If you want to be a good and
useful person, first fix your decision. Make sure that your
decisions don’t make you feel unworthy in life, instead
let them make you proud and confident that you are on
the right track and you’ve got all it takes to achieve more
than you did.
Usually there’s a saying that says, “Success is decisions”.

This explains that your success is in the hands of the
decisions you make. Whenever you take a decision, it is
important to know where the decision is leading you.
Your future – that is, your destiny is determined by the
decisions you make. If ever you take a decision that is
good and powerful, officially you are guaranteed to have
the best results.
One of my role models usually says, “I should always

strive to become the better me”. A person who takes
good decisions about themselves, that person shows
that he or she wants to improve self, that is – self-
character. These are people who would thrive to become
better people in life. And if you want to become a better
person, you must start now and take decisions that will
improve your character as an individual.
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CHAPTER 02
OUR LIFESTYLES GO WITH OUR DECISIONS
Y ou can never take decisions and not change

your lifestyle. The moment you take good and
right choices, you’ll obviously start to live a
different life and become a totally different person.
You’ll start knowing yourself and what you’re capable of
as an individual.
The truth of the matter is, you should change the way
you used to see things before and become a born-again
person. Become considerate of yourself and your future
outcomes as you start a new page of life. Everything in
you should change how you think, how you see things
and how you react on things.
To change your lifestyle is important. It is when you

change the way you think that you’ll be able to bring the
best out of yourself. And usually, people who change
their thinking find themselves living a lifestyle that is goal
driven. Thus, for one to have him or herself experience a
changed mind, lifestyle and become goal driven – both
good and right decisions should be the backdrop.
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Again, it is imperative to note that, you cannot have

yourself make decisions that will lead you to your destiny
without changing toxic friends. Making new constructive
decisions yet without having change your old
environment of friends – that on its own will lead you
back to square one. Old friends will make sure that they
cause you to move
around the same old destructive routine, a routine that

shows no direction.
On the contrary, it is something else when one hangs

around with right friends. Friends that will thrive
together with you towards destiny. Because whenever
you mingle with positive friends, you’ll eventually end up
seeing yourself become progressive in life.
Most people usually like mixing oil with water. And the
issue is, the two will never mix! You cannot hang around
with people who don’t know what they want in life
whereas you know what you want. In addition, you can
never live with people who smoke weed and never
smoke. And lastly, you can’t be living with people who
push and work hard and be lazy. The people you
associate yourself with determine your character and the
kind of lifestyle you are to carry out as an individual.
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❖ GOOD HABITS PRODUCE SUCCESS

Whenever you start to change your life, your habits
should also change. The way in which you used to do
things should change. The character that people know
you of should completely change. For example, if you
know that you’re one of those careless people, you
should start being considerate of yourself and others.
Therefore, if you’re still inclined to bad habits, then you’ll
obviously prohibit yourself from attaining a life of
success.
Positive habits build a positive character, therefore being

kind, polite and humble – all these are characteristics
that help build up a positive character. Having your acts
govern your behaviour is quite necessary. Because it is
when you are ruled by good behaviour that you’ll even
be able to focus on making your decisions realize.
It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that

determine success or failure. Whenever you plant a seed
with an attitude that you’ll make sure that it is constantly
watered and thoroughly taken care of, then eventually
the seed will grow to be a strong and healthy plant. And
the same applies with yourself and your habits.
Whenever you plant bad habits, unfortunately the
success you’re destined to attain will be substituted for
failure.
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❖ INVEST MORE TIME ON YOUR FUTURE
Whenever you take decisions in life, it’s really important

to change your time schedule. Spend more time in
making your future brighter. Thus, for something to be
great, you should prepare well for it. So, once you spend
more time on your future, eventually the results will be
pleasing.
When I present a motivational speech, I usually never

conclude without saying, “never use your time to do
something that does not add value to your life or that
which won’t build your future”. Watching my videos,
even most of the people who follow me might have
noticed that.
Time spent doing things that will help make your

decisions realize is not time wasted but time invested.
When one spends most of his or her time acting on
decisions that will make a bright future, that person will
most definitely reap good fruits.
Yet on the contrary, when one wastes more time on

social media, television, games, friends, and the like, that
person is likely to prohibit him or herself from
experiencing a bright future. Therefore, decision making
is quite essential as to where do we want to spend our
time on.
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Entertainment is also something essential for one to

consider in life. But it then becomes a tragedy when one
wastes more of his or her time on it. In life there are
some things that one needs to prioritize on and there are
some that should be considered as last priority.
And though entertainment may be something essential

to spend time on, that does not mean that it should be
regarded as first in life. Considering entertainment as
something that comes first in life is like majoring on the
minor.
Because it is not when you spend time on entertainment

that you’ll have a bright future, rather it is when you
invest time in working towards your future that you’ll
eventually become successful.
Please! Let this be clear to you. I am not against

entertainment per se. What I’m trying to show you is the
danger of majoring on the minor. Majoring on something
that will later fuel vanity instead of good future results.
These days people have really considered

entertainment as the ideal thing to spend time on. Most
people watch television from morning
till night and only to find out that, the very people whom
they’re watching are getting paid.
Never waste your time on something that won’t get you

paid or let you grow anyway. But do invest your time in
growing spiritually, mentally, and physically. Let your
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time be invested in things that will help you attain that

qualification, knowledge, skills or experience you need to
get paid.
Decide to become rich, grow and become the best of

your kind. Nothing can really prohibit you from becoming
the best you can be, only if you can feed your focus by
making your decisions realize.
And though entertainment can be something that you

need in life, never forget that first things come first.
Learn to prioritize on paving your future and things that
will filter growth in you. Balance the equation by
regarding both future and growth investments. But
never make a decision that will make you roam around
without progress.
❖ LIVE WITH GOOD PEOPLE
When I started on my journey as a motivational speaker,

on the year 2018, in primary school, my first topic on
which I spoke about was entitled, “wise friends make you
wise”. This is a topic that entailed the fact that, whatever
kind of people you live around with, they’ll definitely
influence you to become as they are. The thing is, no
matter how good and hardworking you may be, if you
live with lazy and bad
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influencers, you’ll also be a bad person and eventually

become lazy too.
Not everyone is suitable to go with you through this

journey of life. You should check who you’re going with
in life, and make sure if the person is on the same mission
as you. People who are good for this journey of life are
those who are goal orientated, and growth orientated.
It is not unless one is growth and goal orientated that he

or she will grow to be the best and attain goals for the
future. Yet for all this to happen, one must cut off self
from bad company and choose the right people.
Befriending people who have good future goals and

missions is something worth choosing to do. Because
only a good company of friends will ever motivate you to
also focus on your goals and missions through your
journey towards success.
It may be a nice experience being around people who

seem to be cool. Yet the issue is, whenever you consider
being friends with people who’ve decided to go their
own vain way, you’re then prone to find yourself being
like them.
Being around bad company, those who don’t have goals

or good future missions is quite a disaster. And that will
only be made visible in your character that it’s a disaster
when you also start imitating them – living your life
without future goals and missions.
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Thus, deciding to make friends with good and right

people becomes something essential to do. Because it is
only when you are around good and right people that
you’ll ever be driven to focus good and right things that
will lead you towards your destiny
❖ GIVING IT YOUR BEST
One thing that I taught myself in life is to do things with

good intentions, the intentions of dedicating self towards
schoolwork for the sake of being theoretically equipped
for the future. Because I realized that you can never be
the best if you don’t give it your best in life.
It really takes one to take an initiative of doing the best

for the best to be achieved. And as a result, you can never
be able to reach your designated targets in life if there is
no hard work involved.
Most people whom you see as successful people today,

they are the kind of people who decided to take
decisions that would help them attain their goals. In
other words, these people made sure that they give it
their best for success to be made realized.
Now, if all these successful people you know of where

able to achieve their goals, don’t you think you can also
be successful as they are? Of course, YES! It is highly
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possible for you also to be able to attain your goals and

be successful, only if you can give it your best.
Give it your best and never relent on working hard.

Become relentless enough to say, “forward I go and
backwards never”. Because only people who are willing
to push their way forward will ever reach their destiny.
❖ YOUR HAPPINESS COMES FIRST
Your decisions can either bring a smile to your face or

not. That is why it is always advisable to rather make
decisions that will make you proud. This is not like
choosing to please your friends by considering decisions
that would later cause you to experience a sense of
unhappiness.
Taking decisions that are intended to make your friends

happy or result as a permit for you to fit in, they can really
derail you from becoming the actual you. Note that you
were born to have a bright future, but it only becomes
impossible for such to happen only if one has his or her
decisions based on pleasing others than working for self
and eventually bring happiness in turn.
Never take decisions trying to please other people. A

curve ball of your decisions will ultimately leave you off
balance. You won’t just experience a moment of
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unhappiness, but they will also cause you to lose track as

to where you should be going.
I know of a lot of people who made decisions that would

please their friends and they are the very ones who then
found self being caught off balance at to where they
should be stranding and where they should be going.
Trying to please people will totally pause your life and
make other people happy. Let every of your decisions be
those that would bring happiness in your life.
❖ RESPECT
Every one of us longs to have a bright future in life. And
most of us might be at the brink of experiencing that
bright future. Yet there is one thing that I realized as a
young man – that is, though how much of a desire you
may have for something, and how you may be at the
edge of experiencing a bright future, when you don’t
respect other people, more especially self and your
elders, you’ll find it hard to access your bright future.
Some if not most of you may be asking…. Why is he

talking like this? Well, the answer to this is simple and
that is, you’ll never be blessed to attain your future if
your behaviour towards others is that of disrespect.
Because it takes a respectful person to unlock an
uneased heart through respect that the very person will
be blessed.
The way in which you treat other people is of great

impact. And it is not unless you treat other people with
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respect that you’ll have their hearts happy. Because it is

the happiness of their hearts that will allow your God
given blessings to be made manifest. And of the blessings
God gives – in this context – you’ll be blessed with the
accessing of your future.
One thing we grew up being told is that we should

respect other people. Both old and young we should
have respect, first for self then for others. Deciding to
respect others does them no good as much it does to
you. Never feel like you’re belittling yourself if you
respect other people. In fact, respecting other people
shows how much of a good, characterized person you
are. Even the great book – the bible – it states that we
should respect to have our days on earth increased.
In addition, it can result as way of disrespect when you

even decide to weigh other people from the outer part
and eventually conclude by seeing them as those who
should be belittled. There’s an English say that says
“Never judge a book by its cover”. The ways you see
someone on the outer look doesn’t define the inner
person in the individual. Therefore, it becomes very
imperative for one to consider respect as the to go.
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❖ FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness has always been the bedrock of freeing self

from hurt, pain, resentment, and anger. It is the antidote
to having yourself eased off emotions that would rather
end up making you mentally paralyzed. Thus, it is very
important to never hold grudges on anyone.
Forgiveness is the most important thing you can ever do

both for yourself and the people who you associate with.
It is when you forgive that you’ll change your
relationships for the better and heal your own life.
Because it is in the absence of a forgiving heart that one
is to be ruled by an unease of heart.
Thus, it is quite imperative even for you as an individual

to base your decision on forgiveness and make it your
lifestyle – to forgive yourself and other people. And the
amazing part about forgiveness is that, according to the
research made by Mayo Clinic; it leads to healthier
relationships, improves mental health, lower blood
pressure, improved heart health, improved self-esteem,
reduces anxiety, stress, and hostility.
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❖ SUCCCSESS NEEDS HARD WORK
In most cases, usually people lose the drive of working

hard. They’d rather consider short cuts, ways that result
to one having temporary results. Wherefore, its always
wise to take a decision of working hard for your success,
other than being lazy and eventually end up finding
yourself considering the wrong way for reaching your
success point.
And you might be asking yourself…. What does it mean

to work hard for success purposes? Well, lets just break
down the answer to this question. Working hard for
success purposes simply means; working beyond the
clock – that is, to spend sleepless nights working your
way towards success, waking up earlier than most
people, and having few friends who will contribute to
you being successful.
Success means taking a decision of sacrificing your time

for all those things that result as commodities destined
to help you focus on working hard. It is the way in which
you choose to give it your all for your dreams of success
to be lived instead.
Sometimes it may be hard for you to attain a successful

living. But though that may be the case, you should
always remember that… “when the going gets tough,
the tougher gets going” – Joseph P. Kennedy. No
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success in life can be acquired from laziness. People

who choose to become lazy – generally – end up
remaining poor. And you don’t want to die poor, do
you? Therefore, choose to work hard for you to
experience successful living.
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CHAPTER 03
OUR DECISIONS WITH OUR GOALS
Everyone has got certain goals that he or she wants to

archive in life. And there is no way in which you can have
goals at hand without first deciding which goals you want
to achieve. That is the reason why decision making is
always regarded as the benchmark towards your future.
In every decision you make, it is advisable that you make

decisions that will help you reach your goals. Never take
decisions that won’t lead you to having the best future.
Any decision you take should align with how your goals
will be reached. Some of the goals we make, they
contradict our decisions. Because you’ll find out that you
made a decision of buying a car, but because of deviating
from your initiated decision, your goals will then be those
that won’t help you towards buying the very vehicle.
I once motivated teenagers at a certain school under the

topic entitled: “Goals without a plan is just a wish”. And
the meaning behind the topic was that the decisions you
take to plan your goals, they are the very decisions that
will ultimately determine whether your goals will be made
realized or not.
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Taking the decision to write your goals down is quite

imperative. It is something that will give you a clearer
focus as to what is important, give directives as to which
way to take towards the future, and gives you a clearer
focus.
❖ KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
Just like Francis Bacon said…. “Knowledge is power”, so

do I stand in agreement. It is always good to equip
yourself with some knowledge concerning the way in
which you can best reach your goals. Now, knowledge
then in this context actually means that, the more you’re
acquainted with how to set proper goals and reach them,
that’s where you’ll be able to see the progress of
reaching the goals of which you’ve set for yourself.
Having knowledge requires reading books, magazines,

listening to radio, listening to podcasts, and reading
newspapers. It is really the way in which you are to equip
yourself for good. And it is through attaining knowledge
that you are to be strategic in reaching out to your goals.
You can have the urge of reaching your goals but without
taking the time to bombard yourself with knowledge, is
like constantly pouring water in a licking bucket
expecting it to be full. You can never expect to reach
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destiny without the relevant information on how to do

so.
Thus, it then becomes an obligation for us to adhere to,

that is, to abide by the principle of seeking to have
knowledge on how to properly reach our goals. Yet,
though indirect as it is as a principle, but if adhered to,
then it is guaranteed to work out for our good.
And if you could just take a look at those successful and

non-successful people around the globe, you’ll realize
that they either took decisions of investing in reaching
their goals by equipping themselves with knowledge on
how to attain them, or made wrong decisions, invested
in acquiring irrelevant information, and eventually got
themselves unsuccessful.
❖ VALUE YOUR TIME
One of the crucial things to consider if you want to have

a bright future, it is to value your minute. It all depends
on how you are willing to value your time that you are to
be able to achieve your goals. Time spent on doing things
that would result as a guide for you in achieving your
goals is time well invested. You can never reach your
goals if you can’t take a decision of valuing your time.
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When you value your time, it is when you consider

spending it on relevant things, things that will help you
reach your destiny. Usually when people want to achieve
their goals, they should first undergo the discipline of
valuing their time. And even for you to achieve your
designated targets (goals), you’ll have to value your time
by spending it on things leading to your goals.
The valuing of time is quite a necessity. You cannot waste

time doing things that won’t help you reach your goals.
No one ever comes to a point of attaining goals without
investing their time on things that will help attain them.
So, the choice is yours. It’s either you choose to invest
your time on valuable things or waste it and never get to
recapture it.
❖ DO IT THE RIGHT WAY
Just like Dr Myles Munroe once said… “Not all things that
look good are right”, I also agree of the fact in which he
poses. If you were to do some self-introspection now,
you’d realize that even your very decisions – at times –
they seem good yet not right.
For example. You can choose your goals that are good
based on public opinion yet only to find out that the very
decision you made is not right. This has been always the
case. Decisions made based on bad public opinion, those
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are decisions that will cause you to go the wrong way,

and eventually make you to find yourself not even being
able to reach your goals.
The truth of the matter is… everyone will rather consider

good over right by choosing things that would be
acquired quick instead of the right way around. Listen.
There is nothing wrong with you making decisions that
seem good. Yet the only problem with choosing such, it
is the results thereof. Usually people who choose the
short cut way that seems to be good and quick, they are
the very people who gain temporary results.
To make it even practical. We look at people who chose

to live a lifestyle of gangsterism to attain success.
Because of the ways that seemed good to follow, they
ultimately found themselves being jailed for life or even
worse, dead.
So, if you are going to make a decisions that will help you
attain your permanent future results, it’s always
advisable to choose the right way of doing things – that
is, to choose goals that will lead you through the right the
right way around and eventually get permanent results.
❖ CHOOSE TO FOLLOW RIGHT PEOPLE

Usually people follow those whom they feel comfortable
being with. And it is very rear to see someone following
a person who would drain his or her energy. Thus, it is
quite imperative for one to choose right people to follow.
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You see the thing is that… you need to distance yourself

from people who are committed to draining your energy.
Because once you put all your time and energy on
negative people, then your life will be negative.
There is a saying that says, “you are what you eat”. This
is to say, we are what we consume by choice. If we
choose to consume negative opinions, we’ll eventually
become negative.
The choice is yours. It’s either you choose to be

consumed by people’s toxic opinions towards your life or
consider the negative opinions as things that would
rather provoke you to become the best of your kind.
Because if your character transcends mediocrity, then it

will be easy for you to use someone’s negativity towards
you as something that would uplift your drive of
becoming the person you’ve been destined to be.
And remember. The way in which you would like to have

others contribute to you, that should be the way you are
to contribute to others – that is, to contribute to them
positively. No one who is purpose driven will follow you
if your contribution is negative. Purpose driven people
can only follow people who will impact their lives
positively. Therefore, don’t just limit self to following
good people only, but do let that be something that
would push you to being a person who will be followed
by people who a re purpose driven.
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Today most people follow me as a motivational speaker

and it’s all because of how I decided to impact their lives
through my motivational words. But do bear in mind
that, I did not just start being a motivational speaker who
was followed by a crowd. I had to follow people who are
purpose driven just like I am. And it was because of
Dumisani Sthole and Bongani Mtomboti that I was
ignited to be an asset to others as they were to me.
❖ CHOOSE TO FOLLOW A TIMETABLE
For you to reach your goals, whether short term or long-

term goals, you need to follow a timetable. Timetables
are there to give direction as to what to focus on for you
to reach your designated target. A timetable is a tool that
can help you use your time effectively by following one
cause at a time. It is a sequential plan that gives light as
to what should be regarded as priority to work on.
People who constantly reach their goals do so because of

the way in which they chose to follow a timetable. They
knew very well what to do after accomplishing a certain
goal. It was their sequential plans that pushed them to
even focus on working on other goals yet to be attained.
Reaching out your goals doesn’t just come as wished. But

for you to reach your goals, you really need to decide to
follow a schedule. This is like when a tourist wants to
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reach his or her designated target. For the destination to

be reached, the person must go through a process of
driving towards the targeted destination.
Reaching out to your future goals requires you to go

through a process of working towards them. And that
cannot be done unless there is a timetable that will give
you direction on what to do at a time for your goal to be
reached.
The issue is everyone wants to reach out to their future

goals. Some want to see themselves go to varsity. Some
want to see themselves become their own bosses. Some
want to see themselves live in big mentions and others
want to see themselves driving grand cars. But though
that may be the case. The question remains. Are you
willing to go through the process of working according to
a time plan?
❖ INCLUDE POSITIVITY IN YOUR GOALS
Sometimes it will be hard for you as you journey along

your way towards success. It’s a norm of life. Challenges,
disappointments, and discouragements will always be
there. But the only thing that will keep you moving when
these difficulties pile up is a positive attitude.
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You need to be positive enough towards yourself to say…

no matter how difficult the way towards reaching my
future goals may be, I’ll push until something happens.
Positivity is like gasoline in a vehicle. And in this case, you
are your own vehicle. Yet without the needed gasoline
(positivity), you’ll never move, even a fraction towards
your designated target.
It is your positive attitude towards your goals that will

help you reach them without relenting. And it is when
you choose to include this kind of attitude towards
reaching goals that you eventually get to attain them. A
positive attitude is like an energy booster. It gives you
momentum for the long run towards your future. Choose
to be positive in whatever goals you want to achieve until
it becomes your lifestyle.
❖ CHOOSE TO BE IN YOUR OWN LANE
If you can take a close look at the way in which people

fail to stay in their own lanes and run at their own pace,
you’ll be shocked for days. No one wants to stay on his
or her lane anymore. Most people went about
competing with others yet on negative things.
On its own, competition is quite crucial and good. Yet it

then becomes useless when used wrongly. Today people
compete in vain by considering fashion clothes, luxurious
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food, and many more other things as priority. They fail to

stay in their own lanes and run at their own pace to
achieve their goals.
Choosing to stay in your own lane will result as

something that will help you focus on being the best
player of your game. Because it is also in your very lane
towards success that you’ll be able to compete with
other people through the way you achieve your goals.
If you know that you want to achieve a successful living,

then you have to stay in your own lane whereby you’ll be
moving with people of the same feathers as you. People
whom you’ll compete with on things that will add value
in your life.
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CHAPTER 04
What’s pushing you?
We live in a world of inaction, overpromising and under-

delivering. We dream to much yet fail to act on our
dreams. We promise ourselves big achievements only to
find out that we’re going to relent on the way. And we
fail to deliver the best of our abilities. I even ask myself
sometimes that… What is it that might be the cause to all
this tragedy?
Well, I think the answer to this question cannot be found

elsewhere other than our realization of the drive that we
lost for becoming the best in life. Though we can dream
as much as we possibly can, desire as much as we wish
to have and be excited as much as we can for how much
of a bright future we want, but when there is nothing
that is pushing us to achieve a successful living –
unfortunately – no success will ever be encountered.
It is only your drive that will push you to the pinnacles of

your life. And your very drive can only be summarized
into three questions… WHY? HOW? And WHEN? These
are the three questions you need to ask yourself daily.
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You need to ask yourself that, why do I wake up daily,

how can I change my life to be a better person and when
will I eventually become successful? With these three
questions you’ll be able to find your purpose, know
which ways to use to make realize your dreams and work
on a time frame that will help you reach your goals on
time.
Choose to let your purpose become something that will

push you towards destiny. Never allow your naysayers to
drag you down from executing purpose. But allow your
character to be the substratum by which you’re being
pushed towards destiny. Decide to let your purpose push
you in achieving your goals.
❖ Write and re-view your goals
One of the best decisions that one can ever make, it is to

write and review goals. Writing and reviewing your goals
is something crucial. It is something that improves your
productivity, which is a key ingredient for goal-success.
It is when you write and review your goals that you’ll also
get to focus on achieving them. People who write and
review their goals and those who don’t, they don’t
achieve the same results. Those who do write and review
their goals, they usually get to achieve them. Whilst
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those who don’t get to write and review them achieve

nothing.
Everyone wants to be productive in whatever they do,

yet it is not unless you decide to write and review your
goals that you’ll eventually become productive.
Productivity only happens when you know what to focus
on for you to achieve your goals. If you know which goals
to focus on, then you’ll have progress as to how you
would be working on them and ultimately reach them to
the fullest.
Writing and reviewing goals also results as something

that pushes you towards making sure that all of them are
made realized. Sometimes you may not be in the mood
of working towards making realize your goals. But the
moment you eventually get to see them written down,
and knowing that you want to attain a successful living,
that on its own will push you to ultimately work on
making them realize. In life you need to decide to allow
your goals to push you. Let them be things that will keep
you in progress in reaching out your destiny.
Rarely do people ever reach a bright future, and it’s not

because they don’t want to, but it’s all because of not
being goal orientated. According to some people, it is
suggested that goals can only be reached through some
African magic or so. And to tell you the truth, that’s just
a myth. People can never attain a successful living
through magic. That just can’t happen.
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For you to reach your goals, you need to make sure that
you’re committed enough in working towards making
them realise. You need to have them encoded on paper
and make it a point that each of them is attained.
“Nothing can stop you from reaching your designated
target but self” – Maluleka SM.
And in addition, the only thing you ought to do for you to

see if you’re progressing, you have to make sure that the
goals you’ve already reached – those leading you to your
bright future, are ticked off every so that you may be
able to focus on other goals.
Eight exceptional principles to follow

❖ Let your goals push you and make realize your future
❖ Let others be motivated by seeing you being pushed
by your goals
❖ Share knowledge with others on how you allow goals
to push you.
❖ Restrain yourself from any distractions.
❖ Associate yourself with goal orientated people.
❖ Improve the levels of the goals you want to achieve
in life.
❖ Be relentless in achieving your goals.
❖ Let commitment push you.
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CHAPTER 05
Tools to use in allowing your decisions to
push you
Now, having looked at the way in which your goals can

push you towards making your future realize, there is
another crucial part that you need to consider as
something that will also help you to allow your decisions
to push you. And it is through various tools that you can
also be pushed towards achieving every goal.
Tools are very meaningful in life. Because it is not unless
you use certain tools that you’ll be able to accomplish
whatever you want to accomplish. If you want to be
successful, you need to have tools that will drive you
forward. Everyone needs tools to push them towards
destiny, and so do you.
And looking at one of the largest door manufacturing
companies – Solid Doors, this is a company that did not
just make exceptional doors. But the company had to use
various tools to have its product as beautiful and unique
as they are. In simple terms, the company couldn’t have
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had manufactured their beautiful doors without having

used the tools or machinery.
Tool number one: motivational videos

Motivational videos are tools that you can use to have
yourself pushed towards destiny. And without them, it
becomes very hard for someone to push towards his or
her designated target.
Motivational videos are these unique kinds of videos that
are so crucial in that, they can help change your
behaviour towards life. That is – how you see life to be,
how you can transcend life barriers without relenting
and the like.
It is when you’ve changed your behaviour that you’ll start
viewing life to be something special. So, because of
watching motivational videos, you’ll eventually be
pushed towards destiny.
Motivational videos are the ones that ignite people to
become the best they can be. They are tools that are in
most cases used to inspire a person to become more
than successful.
Therefore, if you wake up every morning, there should
be something that should get you started for the day.
Something that will carry you through when you feel like
giving in. Something such as, a motivational video.
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Tool number two: read books

Not all books are worth reading. Some books, though you
can read them, they won’t fuel a sense of being pushed
towards attaining a certain goal. Thus, it is quite
imperative to read books that will push you towards
growing, learning, and eventually reaching your
designated target.
Centuries ago, books were only read by those rich
people, but today it’s a different story. Today anyone can
access a book of his or her kind and get started with the
reading process. And though these books can be
accessible, but the unfortunate part is that today most
people don’t read, hence they get to lack knowledge and
relent on their way towards destiny.
Reading books not only gives knowledge, but it is also
when you read books that you’ll get to enlarge your
concentration span. People who usually concentrate for
quite a long time are people who couldn’t concentrate
for a long time in whatever they read. Wherefore, it took
them years of reading that they eventually found
themselves reading even long passages for a long time.
But above all, I suggest that in whatever you choose to
read, choose relevant books. Choose books that will
inspire you or push you towards reaching your future.
Choose a genre that will challenge you to wake up every
day and make sure that your short-term goals are met.
Tool number three: listen to podcasts
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Podcasts are one of the tools that are so beneficial to a

life of a person. Because it is when you listen to podcasts
that you’ll use your imagination to build the pictures of
whatever topic might be addressed.
Say for example, the podcast is about how to become
successful and you’re listening to every step they offer
on how to reach success. By just listening to the structure
in which they give for someone to be successful, you’ll
eventually start imagining yourself taking those steps
and working your way towards success.
And just to break it down. One would say that, just like
other success tools, podcasts really pushes a person to
be the best from the inside out. Thus, dreaming about
what you hear being talked about in every podcast, and
putting yourself in the shoes of a successful person, that
alone will result as something that will eventually be
made realized from the inside out.
Tool number four: have a role model
Growing from a family of educated and successful

people, a young man by the name Thapelo was inspired
by the way in which his father was a humble, disciplined,
and successful businessman.
And by just looking at the character that his father had
and the way in which he was a successful businessman,
Thapelo then decided to consider his very father as
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someone to look upon. A father who would also be a role

model to the boy.
As years went by, the bond between the boy and his
father became stronger and stronger. The young man
wanted to learn as much as possible from the father, and
the father made sure that he teaches the boy to be more
than he is.
The more the young man spent time with his father,
making sure that he learns everything that makes his
father successful, that’s where the boy eventually ended
up being more successful than his father.
At the age of 20 years old, Thapelo found himself owning
a coal mine that brought him good fortune. And as years
went by, this young man levelled up from owning one
business to owning three businesses that really brought
him good money.
And it is also from this boy’s story that we learn that
having a role model is quite important. Because it is his
role model (father) who pushed him to be successful.
By looking at the character of his role model, Thapelo
also became humbled towards people, disciplined in
whatever he did that would lead him to success, and
ultimately became a successful young businessman.
Now, if Thapelo could allow himself to be pushed by his
role model and eventually became successful, then how
much more with you? How much more would you
achieve than Thapelo only if you could have a role
model? Someone who will motivate you to be successful.
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CHAPTER 06
Making decisions work for good
Though one may take as much decisions as possible, the

issue here remains as to what is it exactly that can really
make your decisions work out for good? Not only for
yourself, but to work out for good even for your
generations to come.
In every decision that you take, there should be a source
that will help make your very decisions work out for
good. You need a root reference. Something that you
would refer to for your decisions to work out for your
good and those who’ll come after you.
And as far as age is concerned, the only source to whom
you should refer to is God. He has always been the one
and only root reference of all mankind. Therefore, if ever
you need your decisions to work out for good, He is the
one whom you should ask to help you make realise your
decisions.
This is like when a child decides to go party with his or
her friends, if the parents to the child don’t agree to what
the child decided, then its unfortunately going to be
impossible for the child to go and party.
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Now, the same applies with you. For you to have your
decisions made realize for a bright future, you need to
ask God to help you through your journey towards
success.
It takes effort for one to have his or her decisions for
future success made realized. Without one being willing
to take the pain, no gain will ever be encountered. Thus,
it then becomes a necessity even for you as a reader of
this book to be willing to go through the process, though
as painful as can be.
And the good thing about going through the process is
that it teaches you on how to be strong in handling other
challenges in future. Yet the bottom line is that you
cannot go through the process without having God help
you endure the pain.
Every one of us needs strength for every process we go
through in our success journeys, hence God then
becomes the relevant source of whom we should refer
to for us to have our boost the road towards success.
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CHAPTER 07
Making use of the potential in you
It doesn’t matter if you’re from a rich background,

average or poor. What really matters is how one is willing
to challenge his or her ability in his or her area of gifting
by just working both hard and smart.
Your talent is your potential and there is no one who can

take it away from you. It’s like a bird in a cage. Even
though the bird can be locked inside the cage, that doesn’t
change the fact that the bird can fly.
People who decided to make use of their potential, they

are the very one’s that went about being Billionaires. They
used the ability that God gave them to exercise in their
area of gifting, worked hard, and smart, and ultimately
became rich.
Everyone has an ability that the world needs. And it is not

unless you have yours untapped that you’ll eventually
experience success. Success has always been cloaked
within every one of us. And its going to take both me and
you to dig out the success in us by making use of the God
given potential.
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We are a result of the decisions we make in life. Therefore,

choosing to make use of your potential will benefit you in
ways you cannot imagine.
In this uprising fourth revolution, no one has an excuse of

not being successful. Because we have everything at our
deposal for the very success living to be attained.
The only thing left for you to have your potential made
realized even to the fullest, it is by also letting every
opportunity that comes your way become something that
would add to making it realize to the level best.
It’s no more like during the years of apartheid where your

opportunities would be limited. Today things turned out a
whole lot different. And the government has many
resources that can assist you make realise your potential.
If you’ve got the ability to motivate, sing, do poetry, act,

make jokes, make delicious food, draw, and the like, then
make use of your ability and see what it will bring for you
in return.
Your potential contains unlimited riches. And all those

people you see successful today, it just took them a
fraction of their abilities to be what they are.
Now, just imagine if they were to untap every inch of their

ability. Don’t you think they would be richer? Don’t you
think that Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg,
Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos and many more others would be
overflowing with riches more than they do now?
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You don’t need to go hard on yourself, because by just

choosing to make use of a fraction of your untapped
potential, success will be encountered.
Five questions to answer

❖ How much are you willing to work on your potential?
❖ What challenges your potential?
❖ How is your potential going to serve other people?
❖ How would you choose to use your potential?
❖ How are you planning to use your potential in
attaining riches?
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CHAPTER 08
The regulator of your destiny
The decisions we make in life are regulators of our

destiny. It depends on how you choose to live your life
that your destiny will either fuel satisfaction or not.
Hence it is very crucial for everyone to make right

decisions. The kind of decisions that leads to a life of
success and happiness.
Nothing is so breath taking like having yourself

experience a bright future. And that can only happen
when you take right decisions, those that will rather pave
you a bright future.
It may be uncomfortable to spend sleepless nights

working towards your future at times, but the results
thereof are worth being attained, whether hell or high
water.
The good regulator

Not all good choices are right choices. Some of the
decisions we take may be exceptional to self and the
surrounding people. Yet that which is exceptional has
always been contradictory to that which is appropriate.
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Good things may seem good when we look at them from

the outward part, but they may not be right within. This
is like an attractive woman without character. Because
of a lack of appropriate character, the woman remains
good looking, yet it does not mean that she is the right
woman to go for.
Therefore, this then is to say, some decisions may be

made and considered as good, but only to find out that,
as time goes, the very decisions fuel disappointment.
Decisions that are attractive are those that people

usually make to please their friends. And it is the very
decisions that will ultimately lead you to the ditch of
sadness, dissatisfaction, and disappointment.
The journey of good decisions may be easy, smooth, and

wide enough. But the question remains. Will the very
decisions last for long? Even so to speak, will they lead
you to the right destination or not?
The right regulator

Contrary to good decisions, right decisions may let you
go through highways or high waters. But the amazing
part about making right decisions is that they last for
long, and fuel satisfaction by helping you reach your
destiny of success.
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Right decisions not only lead to a life of success, but right

decisions will automatically make other people regard
you as one who knows how to choose appropriately. And
that on its own will clothe you with dignity.
Appropriate decisions are the ones that will regulate you

towards a rightful direction. Thus, for you to attain a
successful living, you need to go for right decisions.
Those that will regulate you towards a bright future.
People like Steve Harvey never considered other

people’s negative opinions about him regarding his
stuttering problem. Instead, what he did was to prove
negative people wrong by eventually being the best
comedian.
Today as we speak, Steve Harvey is one of the wealthiest

people. And this life of success is that which he attained
by considering right decisions over negative opinions
about him.
Nothing in life is impossible for one to attain yet its going

to take hard work, determination, a relentless spirit, and
ultimately, right decision making.
Though people can be negative towards you through

their opinions, when you have your decisions made right,
a relentless spirit, determination, hard work, then you’ll
eventually reach your bright future.
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CHAPTER 09
Embrace your God given gift
“A man's gift makes room for him and

brings him before the great.”
(Proverbs 18: 16)
Everyone wants to be financially secure and happy. Yet

there are very few people who exercise their God given
gifts for success to be achieved.
And the Bible is very clear as to what a person’s gift will

do for him or her if ever it is being embraced. Embracing
your gift won’t just make room for you. But it is when you
embrace your gift that you’ll be exposed for what you’re
good at and that will make the world to pay you for it.
Your gift is loaded with success. And sitting on it won’t

help but fuel worry, stress, frustration and eventually
cause you to be depressed.
Today people wake up every day to go to a job that does

not satisfy them anyway. Because they are not exercising
what they should be exercising. People who usually
exercise and embrace their God given gifts are happy and
satisfied with what they do.
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When you embrace your God given gift, then you’ll be

amazed as to what you will get in return. Because your
gift allows you to be:
❖ Fruitful (Productive)
❖ Multiply (Re-Productive)
❖ Replenish (A brand to yourself)
❖ Dominate (In control of your domain)
At the end of the day, you’re the one to decide whether

you allow yourself to work towards having your gift
embraced or not. Wherefore, it is always a good thing to
have yourself embrace your gift. Deciding to embrace
your gift will not benefit anyone else but yourself.
Your gift will make you productive

One of the ways in which your gift is to make room for
you is by helping you become productive. Productivity
may be inherent in a person, but never will your
productive self be made realized unless you take a step
of being productive.
We stand at a very crucial state where the world needs

more people who will be productive in any domain
entrusted with. And the world can also do with a person
like you.
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Your gift will make you re-productive

Productivity is not enough for someone who wants to
reach success. Thus, being re-productive becomes
something essential for one to go for.
After producing the excellency of your gift, you then

need to decide to re-produce the excellency of your gift
and become the best version of yourself to others.
This then is to say, you need to go all out to make sure

that what you do is the best. It is when you become
extraordinary in whatever you do.
Deciding to become re-productive is quite essential. And

re-productive people are those who would rather choose
to be extraordinary through the excellency of their gift.
Re-productive people are really those who makes sure

that what they do is in conformity with greatness. In
other words, they would rather make it a point that they
don’t just do good but become great in what they do.
A person who is great in what he or she does is one who

always has the zeal of even re-producing him or herself
to others in a magnificent way.
It is like someone who is a mentor. To his or her mentees,

the mentor’s role is to re-produce him or herself in an
exceptionally great way.
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Your gift will make you a brand

According to Webster dictionary, a brand is known to be
“a public image, reputation, or identity conceived of as
something to be marketed or promoted”.
In other words, a brand is something that resembles or

represents a company to customers or clients. And it is
also the same with you as an individual.
When you choose to let your gift to make a brand out of

you, it is as good as deciding to be a representative of
excellence to other people. And it is also for your very
excellency beheld in your gift that people will get to pay
you.
This is to say, whenever you offer your best to others,

they’ll pay you for the very excellency of your gift
offered. Because when you offer your gift to others, it is
like you’re promoting or marketing yourself to them.
If you can look at every public figure, you’ll realize that,

through the excellence of their gift offered, they’ve
become brands to themselves.
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Be the king or queen of your domain

Simply because of having decide to embrace the
excellency of your gift, you’ll then qualify to be in control
of your domain (area of gifting) to the fullest.
Being in control of your domain means you’ll also start

being your own boss. When someone exercises his or her
gift, that person is known to be the king or queen of their
territory.
Your territory may be any place where you’ve been gifted

to specialize in. Be it being a motivational speaker,
singer, poet, painter, dancer… to mention a few.
With your gift you should start dominating by being a

good influence on others. And nothing will ever overrule
you if ever you can exercise your gift and become an
influence on other people.
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CHAPTER 10
Financial decision making
According to Samuel M. Maluleka, it is suggested that

“among all financial spheres, the one relating to long-
term investments and smart financial goals is still right
financial decision making.”
Thus, taking these financial decisions becomes so

essential in that they are concerned in helping you to be
more successful. And it is for the following main reasons
that you are to make right financial decisions:
❖ Long term investment

Long term investors are people who usually invest their
finances for a long period of time yet with the purpose of
attaining good amounts of cash in a long run. And this
they do by allowing their money to have more time to
grow and eventually filter satisfaction.
You may have been told that for you to have large
amounts of cash, you need to invest a lot of cash. Well,
the truth of the matter is, all that is a myth. Because
there are people like Warren Buffet, the world’s richest
investor, one who never grew up rich yet became rich.
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The issue is not investing with large amounts of money,

but the issue is, how do you choose to be strategic in your
investments? You may invest with a small amount of
money yet using every rate interest to invest as a
shareholder in other companies. And that alone will then
help you reach large amounts of money.
❖ Smart financial goals

Having smart financial goals simply means that your
financial goals are specific, measurable, attainable,
realistic and time bound.
When setting financial goals, you need to be clear about
what it is that you’re aiming at. Make sure that you know
exactly what you’re saving your money for. It may be that
you’re saving for; a property, the establishment of a
business, your child’s future varsity fees, marriage… and
the list goes on.
And in addition to this, there is what we call, being
measurable in attaining your goals. That is, how constant
are you in keeping a track record of how much you still
need to invest to reach the goal of a huge amount of
cash?
But in all that you choose to consider regarding finances
and the growth process, never forget that every financial
goal you’re aiming at should be attainable. In other
words, you should never aim at something that won’t be
achievable within a specific timeframe.
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On the other hand, you need to be realistic with how you

spend your money for a specific goal. Too often, people
get to be unrealistic towards the way they spend their
money. These are people who would rather contradict
their goals buy spending on something that won’t
contribute as lifetime investment.
Lastly, one of the important things to consider, it is to be
time bound. Because giving your financial goal a
timeframe makes it real and achievable.
Deciding to make right financial decisions is very
significant. Because it is through these decisions that
you’ll be able to keep a growth of your finances and
eventually get to be successful when it comes to
managing your money.
This is like in business. “Decision making is the bedrock of
business success. It influences almost every aspect of
corporate life, from investment to customer service. A
good decision maker helps a business succeed and boost
profit. A poor decision maker, on the other hand, could
jeopardize not only business growth but also
sustainability.” – Tenfold Article
When you decide to make appropriate financial

decisions, that’s where you’ll encounter an extreme
progress in your finances. From the dusty grounds of
financial crises, right financial decision making will take
you to the pick level and constant financial growth will
be regarded as your name tag.
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As an appropriate decision maker towards your finances,

not only will you get to reach growth, but it is when you
make authentic financial decisions for your future that
you’ll also influence almost every aspect of your life,
from long term investment progress to attaining
financial goals in a smart way.
Being a good decision maker will help prevent you from

making rash decisions that can jeopardize your financial
growth. Thus, making right financial decisions then
portrays you as an essential part for your future success.
In this world of irresponsible decision makers, people are

needed who can execute their abilities of making right
and responsible decisions for their finances.
And amidst those needed people, you are also counted

to be the candidate for making right and responsible
decisions. This is your time to grow in your finances. But
you have to go through the process of making right and
responsible decisions first.
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CHAPTER 11
The game changer
“The only decision you have to make is whether you are

going to be a master of change or a victim of change”
– Brian Tracy
Being born poor might not be the choice you’ve made.

But dying poor is a choice that only you can make. And it
is when you decide to become rich that you are to be a
game changer.
No one can make you rich other than yourself. Your
philosophy regarding success should be structured in
such a way that you will do whatever it takes to change
your game and eventually become the master thereof.
Deciding to become a game changer simply means that
you’re willing to make a choice of thinking different. To
think more of a successful living. Something that would
lead you to attaining your very success.
Just think with me for a moment. If you look at people
like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerburg, Warren buffet, Bill
Gates and the late Steve Jobs, by just deciding to be
successful, wouldn’t you say that they deserve to be
called game changers?
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Of course, yes! These people never came from rich

backgrounds. Yet because of having changed their
philosophy regarding success, they ultimately changed
their game and became successful. Today, because of
their choices, not only have they become game changers,
but it is also appropriate to say that they now have
graduated to be masters of change instead of being the
victims thereof.
Now, if these people could become successful because
of the choices they made to live a successful life, then
what about you? How much can you be successful if only
you can decide to re-structure your philosophy regarding
success?
Come let me tell you. Success can never be selective as
to who deserves it or not. The truth of the matter is that
all of us throughout the globe can reach success, change
our game, and eventually become the masters thereof.
The decisions you make today regarding your future will
either make you a game changer or a victim thereof. And
the important part regarding taking a decision of
becoming successful, it is to take actions towards making
your decisions realize.
You cannot just dream it and obsess about it to happen.
The two may be important yet if you don’t take an
initiative of having them accompanied by actions, your
success can never be made realized.
This is like dreaming and obsessing about having an apple
tree yet without taking a decision and a stand of having
the apple tree grow and ultimately produce apples. For
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the tree to grow and produce apples, there is more than

just dreaming and obsessing about it. Going through the
process of cultivating the ground, planting the apple
seed, and watering it daily is what will make the plant
grow and produce apples.
You look at people who became successful. These people
did not just dream themselves into a successful living.
No! But it was when they chose to take action in working
towards their success that they became successful.
This is your season. And you’ve got all it takes for you to
become a game changer. All you have to do is to decide
to act towards making realise a successful living.
It doesn’t matter if you’re still young and at school. All
that matters is for you to consider entrepreneurship as a
way in which you’ll change your game, become a master
thereof and ultimately be successful.
You don’t have to wait until you’re done with school for
you to start a business that will help you change your
game. Time waits for no one therefore you might as well
start now and work towards being wealthy.
Starting your own business won’t just benefit you. But it
is when you start your own business that you are to be
beneficial even to your future kinds and the economy of
the country.
The choice is yours. It’s either you become an
entrepreneur, change the game, become the master
thereof and live a successful life or not. It’s never too late
for you to be successful.
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Play your part in the process
In the process of decision making, there is always a part

that you need to play. And without having gone through
this process, unfortunately, effective decision making
can’t be made realized.
People get involved in accidents and it’s all because of
decision making. The government of a country is likely to
experience decay because of the decisions that the
leaders make. Thus, everything rises and falls on decision
making. People who decide not to play their part in
taking effective decisions, usually, their decisions filter
disaster.
“I once attended a business seminar where they were
talking about ‘Processing your way towards making
effective decisions’. And nothing stood out for me like the
concept that was stressed – ‘playing your part in the
process.’ Because the lessons I learned from that very
concept were imperative”. – Maluleka SM
You may have your life built on decision making. But the
question is, are you building your life on effective
decision making? Effective decision making is what
successful people have mastered. And it was when they
decided to play that one important part in the process of
decision making that they eventually became successful.
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Making decisions without understanding which part to

play in the process can deny you the good results of what
effective decision-making offers. Hence it now becomes
essential for one to learn four lessons that will help you
make effective decisions and ultimately enjoy the offers
thereof.
Lesson number one – Goal Identity

One of the most effective decision-making strategies is
to keep an eye on your goal. This simply means
identifying the sole purpose of your decision by asking
yourself, why am I making this decision?
By simply asking yourself this question, you won’t just
know the reason for you making the very decision, but
you’ll also be in account of whether you’re making the
right decision or not.
Lesson number two – Analyse

When making effective decisions it is quite a necessity for
one to determine what the nature of the decision you’re
making will lay out on the table as repercussion.
Knowing the results that the type of decision you’re
making will bring in turn will help you conclude
appropriately on the relevancy of the decision, that is,
whether to affirm the decision as something to take into
action or not.
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Lesson number three – Learn from mistakes

Throughout the decision-making process, it’s vital to take
time and learn from other successful people’s mistakes.
Because it is through their mistakes that you’ll be able to
be careful when taking decisions.
And if you are to play your part through the process of
making effective decisions, then its going to be a
necessity for you to be conscious of the way you take
decisions. Thus, being sensible of the decisions you take
will be determined by having learn from other people’s
mistakes.
Lesson number four – Weigh the value

Let’s talk about value. Samuel Maluleka usually regards
value as, “the worth, rate, cost of something according to
its effectiveness”. In other words, this is to say, value can
only be a result of how effective something is.
One of the commodities that filter the value of the
decisions you make is the effectiveness thereof. If your
decisions don’t cause you to be progressive in life, then
the value will decrease.
Yet its another thing when your decisions contribute to a
progressive and successful life. Your success and
progressive life, of which results as the way you take
decisions, they’ll portray about the increased value of
your very decisions.
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In every decision you take, it is always advisable for you

to play your part in the process of having them be
effective as possible. Thus, going through the preceding
four lessons becomes essential.
Effective decision making can only occur when you
choose to play your part of using the exceptional process
as key to make the decision realize.
When you’re conscious of the kind of decision you take,
know the repercussions the decision will bring in turn,
,take time to learn from poor decision making, know the
value of the decision you’re making, then you’ll be
careful and effective in taking decisions.
No one wants to regret him or herself because of poor
decision making. Wherefore, you need to regard it as
necessary as possible to play your part by going through
the given process.
Because this is a process whereby, you’ll be able to have
the sole purpose of your decision drive you, and to know
whether the results of the decision will filter satisfaction
or not.
Playing your part in the process also means that you’ll be
able to use other successful people’s mistakes as eye
openers that will alert you to be careful in taking a
decision. And lastly, it is when you play your part in the
process of making effective decisions that you’ll even
consider weighing the value thereof. The very value that
will help you work towards increasing the value of other
decisions.
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Thrive to be rich
“Wealth and opportunities are contained more in the

person you are and the way you think than in the assets
you have acquired in life so far”
– Brian Tracy
We live in a fourth industrial revolution where most of
the things are at our disposal. Things like technology had
become the core issue why we are able to sell our
products and promote our services in the business sector
through the internet and other various technologies.
Within just a split of seconds, you can sell your product
or promote your service without having meet people
from afar. And without effort, your gadget’s button can
be pressed, and people will receive your message
regarding whatever you might be promoting or selling.
Yet one of the things that I’ve realized is, no matter how
much of an advanced world we are through technology,
wealth and opportunities are contained more in the
person you are and the way you think than in the
technology at your disposal.
When people start realizing that wealth and
opportunities are in the person they are and how they
choose to think, not only will they learn to thrive for
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success, but it is when they start realizing that that they’ll

also invent new things that will solve people’s problems
and have them paying for the solutions given.
Today we look at people like Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the
Microsoft inventors. Without them making the choice of
solving people’s problems by making things easier for
people to do, people would have still having it hard.
With every Microsoft Tools, today people around the
globe can write to each other electronically, organize
business plans much easier and cheaper. Governments
have also been able to advance on the way they do things
and it’s all because of Microsoft.
Therefore, this then brings us to note that, because of Bill
Gates and Paul Allen’s way of thinking regarding people’s
problems and how they are to be solved, wealth was on
the way.
The truth of the matter is that wealth can only be a result
of using your mind to help solve people’s problems and
eventually have them pay you for the solutions you offer.
As an up coming entrepreneur, you need to know that,
everywhere where there is a problem, there’s always an
opportunity. This is like when you see that people are
facing a problem of huge death rates because of the
corona virus (COVID 19). By just taking some time to
come up with a remedy for the virus, you would have
made yourself a fortune in just a short period of time.
Therefore, thrive to be rich and never apologise for it.
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Apply your mind and be rich

A person can only accumulate wealth by applying his or
her mind to work both hard and smart. Your mind is the
substratum by which the attraction of money can be
made possible.
This is to say, with your mind, you can execute potential
by being creative and ultimately gain wealth. Even so to
speak, the mind of a person has always been the only
means by which you can work both hard and smart.
In other words, for you to work hard, you need to be
driven by your mind. This is just like being an athlete.
Sometimes when you feel lazy to run in the morning,
your mind will contradict the body feeling and you’ll
eventually find yourself running.
The same applies with you being smart at attaining a
successful living. Your mind remains the backdrop by
which you can articulate unique strategies on how to
become wealthy. And that we call, ‘’being smart’’. It’s all
in the mind.
Your character counts a lot

“Character is a distinctive mark that marks out your true
essence”
– Maluleka SM
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In all the decisions you make in life, the choice that is

quite essential for you to make is that of working on
having a good character. Because it is your character that
showcases who you are.
Your character is the one that will determine how

focused, determined, and relentless you can be towards
attaining a successful life.
We look at a lion. A lion is not great in stature nor is the

animal born powerful. Yet there is one thing that
qualifies a lion to be the king over every animal in the
jungle: character.
With its character, though average in size and moderate

in muscle strength, the lion can knock the most
enormous animal of the jungle down. Naturally, an
elephant cannot be brought down by a lion, but because
of the lion’s character that is so relentless in bringing its
prey down, the elephant will eventually find itself
knocked down to the ground.
Now, the same applies with you. Whenever you want to

be rich, you need to have a character that is like that of a
lion. You need to decide being focused in working
towards attaining success, determined enough to reach
success, and relentless enough to thrive towards success,
no matter how hard the journey may be. The choice is
yours but choose wisely.
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Top up the game
Real success becomes more realized whenever you top

up the game. You might have made your first million, yet
the truth of the matter is that successful people are not
satisfied by their recent achievements.
Real success means, trying harder to improve the quality

of what you are doing. If you made your first million
selling clothes, then for you to encounter real success, it
simply means that you have to work harder to improve
the quality of your clothes and the design thereof.
Being decisive as to how successful you want to be is

quite imperative. When you decide to attain more
success, then your decisions for achieving more success
should be smart enough to help you reach your goal.
All these people of whom we refer to as successful, they

were never satisfied with the first million that they made.
Hence, they chose to work harder and improve what
they were doing as means of being rich.
If you managed to make a couple of bucks, that does not

mean that you’re successful. The only thing that will
qualify you to be called successful is when you’ve topped
up your game.
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You shouldn’t settle for a couple of thousands and

ultimately think that you’re successful. Instead, make
sure that you work hard enough to encounter real
success.
On the other hand, you should always make sure that

you associate yourself with people who’ve already
topped up the game. People who will motivate you to
even top up your own game.
And on the contrary, you cannot fly with birds of

different feathers as yours, because “birds of the same
feathers fly together” – English Proverb. Therefore, it will
then require you to associate yourself with people who
will have a positive impact on your life. People of the
same feathers as you.
Your associates can either result as good vessels of good

impact to you or the other way around. But at the end of
the day, you’re the one to make the choice of either
associating yourself with people who will constantly
motivate you to top up the game or not.
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Improve your strategy
Assume your decisions are just a failure. And you even

fail to reach your designated target because of failing
always. As a result, the first thing that must come to mind
is, what would have caused this failure?
Asking yourself that question will help you examine

various reasons that might have caused the failure and
eventually help you come up with the main cause of your
decisions failing.
Whenever you examine the reasons that might have

caused the failure, you’ll therefore be able to see which
of the reasons stands out the most, which will then give
you clarity as to what to do to avoid making such
decisions again.
You need to be a master at making decisions. And for

that to happen, it will require you to improve your
decision-making strategy by introducing yourself to a risk
management plan.
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Why a risk management plan?

A risk management plan is something that will help you
minimize the implementation of risks. It’s a plan that will
help you foresee risks, estimate impacts, and define
responses to risks. And for you to experience the impact
of your risk management plan, you’ll need to make a
review of the reasons to your decisions failing.
A risk management plan will alert you as to which

decisions to consider and which not to. Because once
you’re alert as to which decision can result to failure,
you’ll then be able to consider risk free decisions.
The strategy that you use to improve the way you make
decisions; it should lead you to risk free decisions.
Decisions that will be free from letting you face failure in
whatever you do or intend to do.
If you are still studying and you’re looking forward to

seeing yourself attain good results at the end of the year,
then every decision you take in achieving those results
must be risk free. They should be decisions that would
rather let you head straight to your designated target
without the risk of failing at the brink towards your
destiny.
Thus, it is quite essential for you to use a strategy of

constantly allowing your risk management plan alarm
you regarding the repercussions your decisions might
come along with.
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CHAPTER 16
Acquire knowledge
Choosing to acquire knowledge is one important thing

that you can do for yourself. Knowledge is one of life’s
commodities that you can feel free to invest in. Unlike
food, clothes, and video games that you can possibly
throw away, knowledge is life investment.
Knowledge is so crucial in that, when you decide to start

a business, for that business to be a success, knowledge
should be acquired. It is when you bombard yourself with
relevant information towards making a success of your
business that you’ll even start to make use of factors that
will benefit your business positively.
In life, knowledge is the medium between mankind and

his success. In other words, for one to be rich, he or she
is required to have knowledge as the key to driving the
whole process of success.
Because it is when you know the guidelines, systems, and

tactics of how to get to your designated target that you’ll
ultimately find yourself reaching your destiny.
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Without knowledge, there is no way that you can follow

a systematic way that will lead you to attaining a
successful life. knowing how it works is one thing that
you don’t want to miss out.
For you to be exposed to your reach of success, there

must be some acquired knowledge that will give you light
as to which organized procedure to follow for the very
success to be attained.
The very book you’re reading now, it is a book that will

have you well informed about the effectiveness, power,
and results of decision making. Thus, we can rightfully
say, knowledge is power!
Is knowledge really power? Absolutely yes! Knowledge is

power. Those who choose to gain knowledge are likely to
have the power of approaching life issues in a more
systematic, smart, and strategic way.
Today people are lawyers, Doctors, Teachers, Social

workers, Pilots, and the like, it’s all because of the
commodity they chose to invest in – that is – acquired
knowledge.
Imagine if the world had no information. Assuredly,

without information the world would have been a place
of no directives as to how things work, how to approach
life through wise dealing and how to maintain success.
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We learn from asking questions

In his book: The 15 invaluable laws of growth, John C.
Maxwell touches on a sub-topic entitled, “The knowledge
gap”. Something that most people are in short of, which
is knowledge.
It is in this topic where Mr. Maxwell articulates how

asking questions gives knowledge that will make you
knowledgeable about what you did not know.
In other words, this explains how one can learn from

another by just asking questions regarding the unknown
yet to be known.
In life there might be some things that you don’t know

about, thus it is quite imperative to ask questions that
would help you acquire knowledge from a person who
knows about what you want to be knowledgeable about.
This is like when a student in class does not understand

what the facilitator is saying and then decides to ask the
teacher a question to gain knowledge.
Now, if the student decided to be fearful and failed to ask

the teacher a question to gain knowledge, the student
would have still run short of knowledge about what the
teacher was saying. By just asking questions, we learn
every day. Yet its another thing to choose to be quiet and
fail to ask questions about whatever that you want to be
knowledgeable about.
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We learn from the school of hard knocks

In life there are some things that we are not taught at
school. And it is only through the experiences
encountered that we are to learn those things.
When someone chooses to overrule road signs and

drives according to self-will and doesn’t even care
whether it be dangerous or not, that person is likely to
bump into another car, receive fine or be thrown into jail.
And facing one of those challenges will make him or her
learn the hard way.
In class, if a student chooses to be rude and make jokes

while the teacher is busy teaching, its either the student
will be detained afterschool for bad behaviour or the like.
And by just having it hard afterschool, that’s where the
student will learn the importance of not misbehaving.
This then explains the fact that, in every situation we find

ourselves in, we are likely to learn or not to. Because,
after all the choice is yours, whether you choose to learn
from your wounds (experiences) or not.
In this sense, the implication here arrives as to how your

decisions for learning from your experiences or not will
filter positivity or the other way around.
The decisions that you make, whether good or bad;

they’ll either have you liable to receiving corruptible
knowledge or the incorruptible one.
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We learn from various articles and books

For as long as the publishing of articles and books is
concerned, we find that – worldwide – people gain
knowledge about various things that happen daily.
In all the happenings of life, you’ll find out that there’s

been something written about that very thing. And it
doesn’t matter whether it has been narrated through a
form of article or book, as long as people can acquire
knowledge about what happens in this world, it’s okay.
Now, in all that which you receive as salary or pocket

money, have you decided to consider spending your
money on articles or books?
Well, whether you choose to spend your cash on articles

and books or not, at the end of the day, you’re the one
to acquire knowledge and be knowledgeable or stay
mentally bankrupt.
Acquiring knowledge is one important thing that you can

ever do for yourself. And no matter who you want to be
or how successful you want to be, if you don’t have
knowledge on how to become successful or if you’re not
willing to be academically equipped, then don’t you ever
think of being successful or attain whatever it is that you
want.
The thing is, you cannot become the best at whatever

you’re passionate about or expect to be successful
without being willing to learn, receive information or be
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knowledgeable about what you want to achieve.

Successful people are those who thrive to know more of
what other people don’t know. Therefore, choose to be
one of them and become successful.
From a Biblical spectrum – the great theologian –

Matthew Hendry suggests that, “those that are prudent
will seek knowledge, and apply their ear and heart to the
pursuit of it, their ear to attend to the means of
knowledge and their heart to mix faith with what they
hear and make a good improvement of it”.
In other words, this is to say; anyone who seeks

knowledge should have a listening skill and hear what the
possessor of knowledge has to say. Add to that, the
emotions, intellect, and will; the three main spheres in
which the information is to be received.
Therefore, when applied to us today, this concept

portrays the importance of acquiring knowledge in how
we are to; listen to the informer when conveying an
important message, and make it a point that we engrave
every received information with enthusiasm and the will
of keeping the very knowledge within its capacity (the
mind).
In every knowledge you receive, make sure that you

don’t just listen to what you’re being told and eventually
forget about what is said. But do make it a point that the
very knowledge is encapsulated within the depths of you
mind.
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CHAPTER 17
Choice modality
The nature of choices we make can either affect us

negative or positive; depending on how we make our
choices and where we want to go in life. Often, when you
choose to be successful, you’ll then be pushed to set
goals that will lead you to your ultimate goal: success.
The same applies with when you choose to focus on

vanity yet with the intense heat of being successful; the
nature of the choice you make can be good but your
goals may not be the right goals to consider for a
successful living.
This is like choosing to play a game that you like to play

yet playing it at another game’s terms. You cannot dive
into the swimming pool wearing formal. That will be out
of norm. Though you might have chosen to swim on the
right time.
Thus, the choices you make regarding success should be

accompanied by appropriate goals just as swimming has
its own way of wearing, which – in this case – will portray
the nature of swimming from its broader sense; to swim
wearing swimming costumes.
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And in so saying, bear in mind that everything in life has

its nature in which it is rooted. Even the choices you
make have their own modality in which they are
depicted. Hence, it now necessitates for everyone to be
acquainted with the modality of choices made.
Because if you don’t know the nature of the choices you

make and what they’ll contribute to you in the future,
you’re prone to fall into a ditch of choice decay.
When making choices, you need to be knowledgeable

about their nature: whether they be right or wrong,
relevant, or irrelevant, essential, or useless. Choice
modality is key to how you are to be progressive or not.
The progress of whatever you are doing relies on the

modality of choices you make. If you choose to attain
profit from your business yet spending every cent of your
income, you are likely to fail without even starting.
For you to be able to know whether what you’re doing

will filter progress or movement, you need to have
information as to what kind of choices you’re operating
in accordance with.
And above all, it will be quite good for you to make

progress in life other than moving around one circle
without achieving anything. Never confuse movement
and progress; the two contradict each other. Wherefore,
always remember that, it will then be through the lenses
of choice modality that you are to be acquainted with
where you are going.
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Your choice modality should filter happiness
According to the Christian view, happiness is usually

linked with morality; which – in this case – projects how
you can choose to live a happy life yet in terms of how
your moral state is with life under general.
Life on its own is good, whether you’re in possession of

materialistic wealth, a lot of cash or not. The thing is,
people can rightfully live their lives happy, but all this can
only happen when one has an attitude that is positioned
well on how life projects itself.
The apostle Paul, in his letter written to the Christians in

Philippi, he writes: “…I have learned in whatever
situation I am to be content.” (Philippians 4: 11) – ESV
Though Paul faced situations of various sort, he finds it

appropriate to remind the Philippian church that, it is not
through acquiring much or less; let alone through their
generosity that his continuity of preaching the gospel in
happiness will be constrained.
But it is through Christ (Philippians 4: 13) , that he

learned to preach the gospel; whether with or without,
knowing for sure that the strength of Christ in him was
the ultimate purpose for him to continue preaching the
gospel out of contentment (exceeding joy ; happiness).
Thus, the conviction he had was on its own propelled
God the Father to provide for him in every situation.
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In this context, that’s where we learn from Paul that,

happiness is not a result of what we have or don’t have,
but happiness is a result of good morality. When your
attitude towards life and every situation that comes your
way is good, eventually the way you are to approach
situations, it will be out of a content heart because of
having learned that; through the strength you receive
from the Creator, you’re able to do anything without
having anything define your happiness.
Happiness is an inside job, thus nothing from the outside

can filter what the inner man is experiencing. When you
allow the Creator to be your strength in every way, that’s
where you’ll be able to handle situations with boldness,
courage, and all of which will in turn result as a way that
you are to be happy (content) in every situation
encountered.
Yet the tragedy is, most people throughout the globe;

they find it difficult to experience happiness without
having choose to intoxicate themselves first. Thus,
receiving happiness from toxic stuff will be for
temporary.
At times you may come across heavy situations, but if

you choose to have the strength of Christ to be the
ultimate purpose for you to reaching destiny, you’ll
certainly learn that; situations may be there, yet the
strength of Jesus Christ will allow me to be content in
every situation and I’ll eventually reach my designated
target.
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Your choice modality should filter courage
Life is a challenge. Yet, you’re the only person to choose

whether these challenges will encourage you to press
even harder towards your destiny or discourage you
whilst at the brink of breaking through into your greener
pastures.
Some will even choose to say; “life is not fair” and only
to find out that, life is fair enough, depending on how you
choose to view its obstacles. Because, whenever you
start seeing your challenges as things destined to
provoke you to your next level in life, then success is
invertible.
Everything you choose to attain in life will require

courage for you to ultimately achieve it. It takes courage
for you to study and pass your exams. It takes courage
for you to exercise and get fit. It will certainly take
courage for you to give up partying and start focusing on
constructive things.
And because of an attitude that transcends mediocrity,

all the positive choices you make about your life and how
you want to be successful, you should always remember
that; courage will be filtered; thus, nothing will stand
before you and leave you discouraged.
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Your choice modality should filter positivity
Though courage may be something that can keep you

progressive in life, you should know that there is also
something significant that adds up to your drive for
success, which is the quality of being positive.
If the nature of the choices you make aligns with the

goals you want to attain for success purposes, ultimately;
you’re going to be positive about your journey towards a
brighter future.
Usually, people who are positive in whatever they do,

they’re motivated. These are people who would rather
choose to believe in themselves other than doubt
themselves.
When we look at people like Thomas Elva Edison, we’ll

realize that, because of choosing to solve a problem of
the quality and safety of light, he then was urged to
invent a light bulb.
And as a result, his choice then filtered positivity within

him, hence he never gave up on his project until he
eventually produced a working light bulb, an electronic
device that would be both safe and productive;
producing quality light to light up a whole room.
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We live in a fourth industrial revolutionary world where

technology has taken its course. Wherefore, because of
having chosen to invent technological stuff, the coming
generation will also be filtered with positivity because of
that one choice we made to let technology take the lead.
Your choice modality should filter enthusiasm
In every positive choice you make in life, do you ever find

yourself being diligent to make them realize? Well, the
truth is, people who make positive choices are usually
enthusiastic about what they want to achieve or where
they want to go.
I’ve never came across someone who made a positive

choice of attaining a certain goal or something that he or
she is passionate about, yet without being filtered with
enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is something that shows how passionate

someone is for attaining a certain goal. Thus, it is quite
significant even for you to choose doing something that
you are passionate about so that you may
enthusiastically make it realize.
And you must know that it’s okay to be different from

your friends. When they choose to act out of zeal in what
they do, become the only one who would be zealous
about attaining goals.
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On the contrary, you cannot choose to be successful yet

partying always and expect to be zealous in attaining the
goal of success. And in this case, “zeal is a result of the
choices you make in line with your purpose” – Maluleka
SM. In other words, you can only be zealous for success
as a result of the choice you took to focus on the things
that would lead you towards the very successful life.
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Self-evaluation
❖ Is the decision that I’m making necessary?
❖ Will the decision that I’m making lead me to success?
❖ Are my decisions self-satisfactory?
❖ How good is the productivity of my decisions?
❖ How have my decisions changed me to be better?
❖ How often should I improve my decision making?
❖ How recent relationships filter my decision making?
In the world of making exceptionally solid, relevant, and

right decisions, the forgoing questions should be
regarded as tools that would create a platform for you to
see the bigger picture of what to do to be the best at
decision making.
Therefore, to know whether your decision-making
strategies are at their best or not, these questions will
make it possible for you to have an evaluation of self
thus, giving you an understanding of the solidity,
relevancy, and legitimacy of the decisions you should be
making for you to be successful.
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About the author
Musa N. Tshabangu is one of the game changers of such
a time as this. Through his motivational messages, a lot
of young people are pushed to change and become the
best they can be in their area of gifting.
His dedication towards attaining a successful living is

quite outstanding. It even motivates other young stars to
keep on moving towards their designated targets.
Academically, his work and the results thereof are a

witness as to how he’s so much of a living testimony in
this generation. And through his morals and hard work,
his schoolteachers and peers were able to spot out
leadership potential. Of which – in this case – he was
then inaugurated to be a senior school prefect in primary
school.
The radio stations: Ikutane and Ikwekwezi FM are

platforms that Musa is likely to convey his motivational
messages, and several of his followers gain a lot from
what he offers as a motivational speaker.
As a young vessel of change, Musa continues to positively

impact lives through other various social platforms.
Platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and
YouTube
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Contact the author
Of the following information encoded beneath you can
get hold of the author at any time:
Cell phone number: 064 916 4479
Email: musahnicholas8@gmail.com
Facebook: Musa N. Tshabangu
Instagram: Musa N. Tshabangu
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End of the book
Well done!!
As you are getting ready to reconsider your decision-
making strategies for the better, make sure that you
soar into new heights of your life having used strategic
decisions for such a time as this.
This book was published by The Writer’s Kingdom Global.
A company that is really concerned with making realize
great thoughts into literary work. And of the following
social platforms indicated beneath, you can get hold of
us at any time:
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DECISION

THE BENCHMARK TOWARDS THE FUTURE

Chapter 1: Why should we take decisions? 7

Chapter 2: Our lifestyles go with our decisions 11

Chapter 3: Our decisions with our goals 24

Chapter 4: What’s pushing you? 34

Chapter 5: Tools to use in allowing decisions to push you 38

Chapter 6: Making decisions work for good 43

Chapter 7: Making use of the potential in you 45

Chapter 8: The regulator of your destiny 48

Chapter 9: Embrace your God given gift 51

Chapter 10: Financial decision making 56

Chapter 11: The game changer 59

Chapter 12: Play your part in the process 62

Chapter 14: Top up the game 69

Chapter 15: : Improve your strategy 70

Chapter 16: Acquire knowledge 73

Chapter 17: Choice modality 79

About the author 105

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be

I would like to thank both my parents (Miss. Tshabangu

I’d like to dedicate this book to you as you are getting

Musa N. Tshabangu’s book has made me proud in ways I

When it comes to academics and his dedication for

I n life there comes a time whereby you should take

Life is a journey. And along every journey there are many

Being prepared for challenges is something that will help

Therefore, having passed the test of trampling over your

Yet on the contrary, when your house is built on solid

Now, though good decision making plays an important

Being aggressive and assertive towards life challenges is

Being able to overcome life challenges will also be

Good decision making is usually something that depicts

Again, the other important thing about taking decisions

And it is in this very book that I’ll be able to take you

Now, as a result, always carefully sit down and take a pen

A long the journey of life, we should take

People who take decisions about themselves along the

And it is also after taking good decisions about your life

Taking good and solid decisions helps because you won’t

As a motivational speaker, I’m simply saying be a wise

Therefore, always think twice before you come to your

Never make decisions that will embarrass yourself,

Again, as part of the reasons why we should take good

We must take decisions that support our self-esteem,

Self-image: (The opinion or idea you have of yourself,

successful business one day, that is the thought that will

Self-worth: (The feeling of confidence in yourself that

Usually there’s a saying that says, “Success is decisions”.

One of my role models usually says, “I should always

Y ou can never take decisions and not change

To change your lifestyle is important. It is when you

Again, it is imperative to note that, you cannot have

around the same old destructive routine, a routine that

On the contrary, it is something else when one hangs

❖ GOOD HABITS PRODUCE SUCCESS

Positive habits build a positive character, therefore being

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that

❖ INVEST MORE TIME ON YOUR FUTURE

Whenever you take decisions in life, it’s really important

When I present a motivational speech, I usually never

Time spent doing things that will help make your

Yet on the contrary, when one wastes more time on

Entertainment is also something essential for one to