Year in review

The year in review. What a year it’s been. Every year is filled with highs and lows. The best years are the ones where the highs outnumber the lows. Some years feel like they’ve dragged on forever, others feel as though they’ve flown by. This is the latter! It feels like just yesterday my girlfriend & I were sharing our first Christmas together. It is true what they say. So much can happen in a year!

You can find yourself as part of the best drive time radio show in the mountain Kingdom, on the first online station  said Kingdom has ever had, all the while as part of a management team trying to ensure the highest definition of radio. You can find yourself as a growing concern in a brand new industry with exciting developments every so often! The Sky Alpha HD experience is one for the books. It really deserves a whole book! In one of the chapters one would have to lament the lack of support for startups in the Kingdom, but would also have to acknowledge the belief shown by many corporate players who just need help connecting the dots that show the picture of the great marketing tool that is Sky Alpha... In this year we’ve managed to go from an idea, to a station making radio, to a station making good radio, to experts in outside broadcasts, on to an entity that can assist in bringing renowned house music deejay Alton Miller! If that isn’t growth, I don’t know what is.

I have said on more than one occasion, that I remember a time when I wished for what I have now. A healthy strong relationship with a woman who is out of my league. I read a quote once that went something like “when you meet a woman out of your league, marry her”... Many older brethren have warned me that I cannot be happy forever, at some point I will have to get married. They are right, I do have to get married..

My personal development and growth this year has been awesome to experience. It’s strange writing about my own development and growth, but in the age of social media, narcissism is the order of the day! Every day I’m surprised by my own reaction to things that would have set me off some time back, but now are water off a ducks back. I’ll often have a self debrief at the end of the day and wonder to myself whether that was right or wrong, but then I’ll quickly move passed it acknowledging that there’s nothing I can do about something in my past. I must control the controllable a and leaving everything else to the universe in a manner of speaking.

We keep making quips about Vision 2020. It is many things to many people 2020. I’m looking forward to it more than anybody will ever know. I really feel like there are BIG THINGS coming...

Take your time...

Bella & Maps, the Big times finest commented the other day that I needed to revive my blog. This came after my girlfriend had asked more than once why I wasn’t writing anymore. I have seriously neglected that poor blog, and I’ve got to do right by it. I have made a vow to myself to write every day in the holidays. From about the 22nd December till January 3rd I’ll post something on the blog every day.

The main reason behind my silence is busyness. I saw a little twitter clip where Bill Gates laments “busy” as the new stupid. He and Warren Buffet are very clear that time is the most precious of commodities. These two super wealthy dudes say you have got to manage your time precisely and intentionally. I was then reminded of my brother’s PA at the red bank. She used to schedule an hour ever day in his calendar called “TWS” or time with self. Apparently it popped up as a meeting request.  A meeting with himself. I really love that! I can’t wait to be able to afford a PA like that. Right now it feels like I’m running around like a headless chicken. I never ever complete the tasks that I start in a week. If I showed the number of half baked, incomplete proposals (of really good ideas) that I have, or that I’m working on, you’d be amazed. I dare say, I’d be branded lazy or unable to complete tasks. That’s mainly down to time management. I just don’t seem to have enough hours in a day.

I never ever thought this would be me. I never envisaged myself as a guy who would go from one meeting to another and then not find time to do some writing-in whatever capacity. Never! As head of operations at Lesothos first online radio station I’m finding that is increasingly my plight. Don’t get me wrong, I love what I do. I love what this station is, and what it’s becoming. I really dig getting to know all of our personalities. And, more and more I’m loving being on the radio working with storied professionals like Maps (a radio legend & creative par excellence) Bella (a creative & sartorial genius) and Mattie (undoubtedly the best music compiler/producer the Kingdom will ever know). Our melting pot of a show is exactly the kind of radio I would tune in to back in my day. Bertram’s YFM, that’s my main inspiration!

Between doing the show and trying to successfully run the station and having a balanced life outside of that, I’ve found zero time for pet projects like writing a blog. Even scribbling this down took a concerted effort. I’ve forced myself to shut off from the world for a little bit so I can pen these musings. Naturally I’ve enjoyed writing this. I love the solitude that comes with writing. There’s a self connection that happens when I write that I’ve only found in writing and therapy.

Anyhow, Ke Dezemba Boss! And it’s time to shine! Let’s all be safe, let’s all enjoy the festivities, and let’s be less busy next year and more aware of how we spend our time...