Mbeva Explains How To Make It In Soccer

The Siyandhani's Finest "Mbeva"

1. Devote yourself to soccer. It is this love for the game that will drive you to become a professional soccer player. Passion will help you push through the negative and challenging moments. Professional soccer must be something that you want to do. Don't do it because it's expected of you, or because it's someone else's dream.

If you want to be a professional player in today's market, you have to be fully committed. Every inch of your being needs to be determined to play. If you are hedging your bets, you won't be as good of a player as you can be

2. Practice by moving through graduated levels. Choose a school team, local club, or district team that you can attend regularly and that has a good coach. The best option would be an academy, known for grooming young players to become professionals. Continue with youth teams every year, progressing to more competitive and selective teams every time you level up.

3. Work hard and practice a lot. Focus completely on training to become a professional. You'll need to practice nearly every day, regardless of the weather. You'll also need to balance practice with your studies or even part-time work. It is the practice, the daily dedication, that will develop your talent and hone your skills.

• If you're a parent of a child seeking to become a professional player, your own level of dedication must be enormous. You may need to transport your child to games, buy soccer gear and membership fees, talk with coaches, help with informal practice sessions, or boost your child's morale. You might even coach youth soccer.

4. Be patient. Accept that turning professional is a gradual process. You'll continue to learn, build your technical skills, learn soccer knowledge, make good contacts with other people.

• Look for professional development programs and see how you can become a part of these. Ask your coach or club mentors for advice on what's available

The Avuxeni BreakFast Team Explains How to Beat the Monday Morning Blues

After a long, relaxing weekend, you may find waking up on Monday morning difficult. In a rush to be on time, you're tripping out of bed to make coffee, stumbling into work clothes, and skimming through emails on your phone from your boss demanding a file now, as the realization hits you that it's Monday again. Alternatively, Monday morning blues are a real problem, but you can help take the sting out of Mondays by making your workplace better, planning ahead, and taking care of yourself.

LEFT:Justice Mbeva, Danny K, Euphene and TwC

Focus on what is good. Don't just look at what you need to do that you hate. Look at what you enjoy doing, and focus on that. For instance, maybe you hate cold-calling people. Try to put that out of your mind, and focus on the fact that you get to design a new header this week, if that's something you love doing

Put on something that makes you happy. Whether it's a new necktie or a sparkly pair of earrings, choose something to wear on Monday that makes you perk up
Don't let work affect your interactions with family and friends. If you notice that you know more about your colleagues' lives than you do about your spouse's or friends' lives, you may be spending too much time at work. Take a step back, and commit to spending more time developing your relationships outside of work

Keep work at work. Don't drag work home over the weekend if possible. The weekend should give you a break from work, not be a continuation of it. If you work over the weekend, your work weeks will run into each other, you'll start to experience burn out. Take a break to give yourself some time to regain your sanity

Otto Knows How to gather Newsworthy Information and Be a Successful News Reporter

Ntsako Otto Ngobeni

News reporters play an active role in gathering information on current events. A large portion of their day is spent investigating news before sending it in as a story. Some work as correspondents in offices located far from head office. They are sent to the places that important events are likely to happen.

Whether it’s working for a newspaper, TV channel, radio station or news website, there are two sides to reporting that must work in sync with each other: reporting and editing. The reporter compiles all the information needed to create a story and then edits the story to fit a specific news page or bulletin.

News reporters sometimes work in a specific ‘beat’ that fits with their writing talent. A beat is a media term for the area or topic a journalist covers, like crime, politics, sports, business, etc. They may work in one or several beats at a time depending on the size of a news organization.

Generally, there are two kinds of newspapers that reporters work for - dailies and weeklies. Reporters for dailies usually have less time to find and report the news. They may work in only one beat. Reporters for weeklies have more time to do their research and typically have to cover several beats at a time. They may take photographs for their stories in addition to their regular duties.

Television and radio reporters usually have less time to write and edit than those in the newspaper department. The news is often broadcasted immediately after or during an event. Reporters in this area learn very quickly how to convert information they receive into news clips suitable for broadcasting.

Euphine Mabunda:The 4 Things That Will Break Up Your Relationship

Euphine Hleketa Mabunda 

These are all learned behaviors, so you can also learn new and improved habits that will strengthen your relationship rather than destroy it.

1. Accusation 

Simply put, one of the absolute kisses of death in a marriage is the tendency to assign blame or make accusations toward your partner — especially when you don’t know all the facts. It’s as fundamental as asking a question rather than making a statement or worse — an accusation. It’s about asking, “Honey, did you make a purchase I don’t know about?” rather than saying “The account is overdrawn again. What did you buy this time?”

If you want to have a quality, loving relationship, learn to give your spouse the benefit of the doubt and always assume the best, rather than the worst. When you’re a graceful person who treats others fairly and respectfully, even when they occasionally make a mistake, it creates a desire in them to be even better and to justify your faith. People will often rise or fall to the exact level of your expectations, so it’s a great idea to check in on these if you see a problem arising

2. Escalation. 

Human emotions under pressure tend to do one of two things: They either spiral upward or they spiral downward. In that way, this habit is somewhat closely aligned with blaming behaviors. Someone who habitually escalates a disagreement is more interested in deflecting and defending their own position and assigning blame to another party. This often creates a “dueling defensiveness” that is not only wholly unproductive … it’s absolutely destructive.

One fundamental question is potent enough to remove a great deal of the destructive power this energy harnesses. That question is simply this: “Do you want to be right, or do you want to be in love?” Always move in the direction of understanding first, and then move toward resolution. This will create the spiraling downward effect that I already mentioned.

3. Invalidation. 

This habit — like the others — simply reinforces a win-lose dynamic that, as I’ve said earlier, will eventually end up in one final loss 90 percent of the time. When you invalidate your partner, it’s all about discrediting them or weakening them in some way. Oftentimes, this is done by objectifying someone or taking away their “human” characteristics and instead focusing on negative aspects, assumptions, and prejudices. This can be cruelly effective in the short term and possibly even destroy someone’s self-esteem for a period of time. However, be warned, sometimes when the tables get turned, it happens hard and fast. A bully may win their share of battles, but it’s very unsettling when they lose the war very, very suddenly when their partner can’t take it anymore

Cliff Moraba knows The Keys to Being a Successful Marketing Director

Most people are promoted up to Brand Manager because they are really smart and have a knack for getting things done.  From my experience, they get stuck at the Brand Manager level mainly because they are bad at managing people, or can’t get along with the sales force.  Promoting them up to Marketing Director just becomes too risky to the organization–they can’t afford to lose key talent, and they can’t afford to lose touch with the sales team.  And most Marketing Directors fail because they can’t stop acting like a Brand Manager:  too hands on, makes all the decisions, smothers the team and never lets them have their day in the sun.   One rule is at every level you have to adjust to the new role. 

The Marketing Manager Mr Cliff Moraba

1. Hold your team to a Consistently high standard of work:  Rather than being the leader by example, I’d rather see you establish a standard and hold everyone and yourself to that standard.  .  For a new director, this is one of the harder areas—how to balance the freedom you give with the standard you demand.   The key is to be more process orientation than you might have been when you were Brand Manager.   You need to organize the team and build in processes in a way that produces consistent output, your team hits all deadlines, stays focused and keeps things moving.  But it can also show up in the quality of brand plans, execution and interactions with everyone specifically sales.  Be the control point of the team, and not let slips, errors or delays show beyond the team.  Delegate so you motivate your stars, but never abdicate ownership of how your team shows up.
2. Consistency in Strategic Thinking:  Usually a marketing director has many brands, and isn’t necessarily writing the actual brand plans.  But, it will be the director that hears from the VP, the sales and the agency what each think they have the solution to the plan.  And yet, your brand manager has thoughts of how to make this brand better.   It’s easy to spin out of control, trying to please everyone–as the director is caught among everyone.  But it is actually the director who has to ground everyone, establish the brand’s direction, back up the choices it’s making and be the consistent voice of reason among the many wanting to influence the brand.  Learn to challenge the strategy–let them write it–but make sure it’s put through the test before it moves beyond your desk.
3. Consistent People Leadership and Management:   Newly appointed directors have to stop acting like a “Senior Senior Brand Manager” and take on more leadership roles.  You have to let your team breathe and grow.   There are likely future super stars within the ranks.   We know you can write a brand plan, roll out a promotion super fast and make snap decisions on creative.  But can you inspire your team to do the same?  Junior marketers have high ambitions–constantly wanting praise, but equally seeking out advice for how to get better.  

Dida The Techical Producer explains How to Write a Good Song

Music, they say, is the only universal language, and songs are its words and alphabets. We’ve been writing songs since our ancestors first learned to speak and tap rhythmically on blocks of wood. Singing comes naturally to us as barking to a dog or meowing to a cat.

Sound Engineer, Dida K. Maluleke

Writing a good song, however, isn’t easy. You have to create lyrics, melodies, and harmonies. But with the right training and enough practice, anyone can be a songwriter. Try taking this college-grade course on writing songs with great lyrics, melody and form to get started.

1. Listen to Good Songs

I’m going to lay it straight: if your iTunes playlist is filled with Justin Bieber and Katy Perry (no offense to their fans), you’re going to have a hard time writing good songs. To write great music, you must listen to great music.

2. Learn a Musical Instrument

To write lyrics, you need a pen and a paper. To write songs, you need a musical instrument.

The piano or electric keyboard and the guitar are two instruments favored by songwriters. They’re relatively easy to pick-up and can accommodate a wide range of styles and genres. The electric keyboard is better than its acoustic counterpart as it can create drum loops and complex harmonies from a single instrument.

4. Analyze Great Songs

When you become a student of songwriting, you’ll realize just how similar most songs are. Certain patterns, themes, motifs and chord structures are repeated across artists and genres. As a songwriter, analyzing songs should become a habit, a reaction as natural as pulling your finger away from a hot stove.

5. Writing Lyrics

For many people, writing lyrics is the easiest part of songwriting. For others, it is the hardest. Whichever side of the divide you may fall on, you can benefit from these lyric-writing tip:

• Notice how Adele stretches the ‘ee’ part in ‘deep’ when singing “Rolling in the Deep”. That’s because words ending in vowels can be stretched while singing. Keep this in mind while writing your lyrics.
• Borrow motifs and themes commonly used in your genre, but don’t over-rely on them. To write truly great songs, you must break the mold and go beyond what’s comfortable 

10 Ways to Be a Great Youth Leader

Have you been asked to lead the youth group, coach a team, or teach that class? Not sure you have what it takes? Of course you do! Here are 10 ways to help you succeed.

Pumzile "Zee" Explains ways to be a great Youth Leader

1.  Have a plan, but remain flexible. People are trying to figure things out. Their path may not be the same as yours, but you can end up in the same place.

2.  Model behavior. Don’t fall into the “do as I say, not as I do” trap. Inspire the next generation by your actions.

3.  Empower others. Be an effective youth leader by giving kids the opportunity to participate, lead, and build their skills.

4.  Get organized. Whether it’s scheduling the meeting place and time, arranging for snacks or carpool, planning for a youth group could easily be time consuming. Use SignUpGenius to organize and manage the details.

5.  Wear a thick skin. Working with people of your age can be a rollercoaster. There will be satisfying highs when you realized you’ve made an impact on a people's mind. There will also be lows. Hold on for the ride!

6.  View learning as a two-way street. Don’t limit yourself to teaching. Know that you can and will learn from the kids, as well.

7.  Be ready for anything. Where do babies come from? Did an age-appropriate answer pop into your head? Well done! You have to think on your feet to stay in control.

8.  Remember: it’s not all about you! If you have children, you already know this. Put the emphasis on the kids and their development, not on your perceived success or failure as their leader. Help them achieve their success.

9.  Ask for help. It’s good to have a group of volunteers who can assist or fill in when you are not available. Schedule them ahead of time with SignUpGenius.

10.  Have a Plan B… or Z. Be prepared and you won’t always feel like you’re in survival mode. And, if all else fails, have snacks