Facebook Mess Up

For all it's virtues, Facebook is putrid when it comes to customer service or particularly, password recovery issues. So someone tries to hack my account for Lord knows what, then when I try to log in I am told that I am not me coz I tried to log on earlier and didn't know my password, so my account was temporarily blocked so I could prove beyond a doubt that I am me.

Problem is, the e-mail adress I used when opening the account a few years back doesn't exist no more. 24.com just woke up one day and decided that's it. Another case of very bad customer service, buy thats one for another day. So now I had a blocked account with an obsolete e-mail adress. I then changed my e-mail adress and all seemed well, until the recovery code that was supposedly sent to me, failed to arrive at my changed e-mail addy. So now with no recovery code, an obsolete e-mail addy and a blocked account, I couldn't dispense my weekly vitriol on whatever subject matter I took a fancy too! Heck, there is no greater frustration than a prophet with no voice!

So this whole past week I am unblocking and waiting for the required 24 hour change so i can log on, but nada, I have had to change my password about 5 times, open up new e-mail adreses and have gotten lost in the maze of secret codes. Still, 2 weeks later, I was told to check in 24 hours. Incredibly bad!

But then again, I do understand that I am one in 500 million clamouring for attention and this is a free service anyway, so I will be back tomorrow, to see if I can log in to my account. If not, I shudder to think how my fans will be brainwashed by pseudo-experts and armchair historians, undoing all the great work I have convinced myself I am doing. I kid you not, Facebook is useless when it coms to keeping a bona fide historian and master of all things virtuous on air. Lol


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Breaking Barriers

Very often those who break new barriers and enter new open new doors, shut them tight behind them so that no one else like them may enter. Their desire to be the first sees them transformed from groundbreakers into gatekeepers. The worst enemy of the marginalised is often those who were supposed to be opening the way.

It can be extremely frustrating when faced with such a scenario for many people yet even here it is possible to achieve your intended goal. Those who were yesterdays' trendsetters very often are transformed into todays' dream killers. A certain individual I am casually acquainted with has finally broken into the mainstream in their chosen vocation. When they got their big break, the community they came from and with whose support they made it, were hopeful that this would be the chance many of them were waiting for. Instead what they experienced left them both angry and disappointed. When requested to bring more people like themselves in to the company, they remarked that there were none. As a former mentor of the said person, I knew for a fact that in their chosen field there were about 10 other individuals of greater talent and depth, 2 of them complete naturals. But this was not the news the person in question conveyed, preferring to let the organisation believe that they were the only gifted person from that area.

Sadly I see this scenario often repeating itself even today. Yet I want to say to those who have been left outside through the efforts of one they championed and supported wholeheartedly, there is another way. Their dreams can still be achieved even in the face of this betrayal. Even this new barrier can be broken. Our God is a God of justice and fairness and will not tolerate indefinetly those who seek to hold you back. If the door you had planned to walk through is bolted in your face by one you trusted, deal with the disappointment first. Realise that nothing and no-one can destroy what God has placed in you. Then focus on finding another opening or avenue to the same destination. Very few places have only one major highway that leads to them. A friend was remarking how interesting and insightful his drive through South Africa was, which took him through the dust & dirt roads of this beautiful country. He returned completely invigorated and inspired by the ordinary people he met on his way through the interior and can't stop talking about settling in one of those quaint villages one day. From this I deduced that a detour to your intended destination can at times provide much needed knowledge and information. Although we both arrived in Johannesburg the same week, his journey was one I wished I had been on.

So embrace your detour and make the most of the lessons life has waiting for you. Nothing and no-one can stop your march to your destiny if you view it as such. As for those who have chosen to stop others from making their mark, you efforts are fruitless and are birthed in envy. The will not succeed.

Conquering the Odds Finally Ready!

I am pleased to announce that finally the book Conquering the Odds is set for release this coming Friday! All the late nights, working on red-eye flights and net cafe's pounding away at the laptop are finally coming to fruition. Whew!

The greater joy however will be the many peole it hopefully will inspire and move to action. It is a book I had to dig deep within to summon out. A lady once asked me in Derby, United Kingdom, "What inspires you?"

I had to think real deep before the answer came flooding from within. "Words", I responded, "because from such are giants born and worlds created. Words, they are the greatest tools given to mankind." I was taken aback by my response. I hope the words contained within this book will build and nourish dreams, so that the readers' reality may be changed to reflect their deepest desires for success. I consider it a privilege and an honour to be able to bring you life's greatest gift...inspiring and motivation Words.

From Religion to Reality Part 1

This is my testimony, a story that has not been told too many times. I trust that it will inspire you towards a more complete life in Christ!