Monday, February 16, 2009

BEST OF THE BEST MONDAY
By Denisia Adams

Hello and fab day. Hope you enjoyed your weekend or shall I say your valentines weekend.
Today was Best of the Best Monday where we recap and show case some the best features of last week. Check it out:

WORD(s) OF THE DAY
narcissism
AND beatific \bee-uh-TIF-ik\.

narcissism: excessive love or admiration for oneself.

beatific \bee-uh-TIF-ik\: exaltedly happy; blissful

S.A TRIVIA QUESTION
Sesotho was only acknowledged as official language in South Africa, in:

A – 2000 B – 1999 C - 1994

Answer: C – 1994
Sesotho was only acknowledged as official language in South Africa in 1994. Yet before 1994 it was, during some periods, promoted through education (from 1955 to mid 1970s) and even the broadcast media (from 1960 on radio and from 1982 on television). The change in language policy for education (from mother tongue education to instruction in Afrikaans and English) led to the Soweto uprisings in 1976.

DID YOU KNOW
In the early days of film making, people who worked on the sets were called movies. The films were called potion pictures. Watermelons are 97% water, lettuce 97%, tomatoes 95%, carrots 90%, and bread 30%. A soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels, held together by 642 stitches. Picasso could draw before he could walk and his first word was the Spanish word for pencil.

TIP OF THE DAY
The first step to becoming efficient and more productive in life is to get organised. This five-point plan, by Marcia Gracia, will help you confront misguided thinking that says you can’t.

1 I’d rather do something else. Let’s face it. We’d all rather be doing something fun, right? If given a choice between organising files and watching a favourite TV program, it’s pretty clear what most people would choose.

One way to overcome this obstacle is to schedule your organising projects for first thing in the morning. Do your project for an hour or so, and be done with it. Once it’s out of the way, your day will be free to do things you really enjoy.

Another way to combat this mind-set is to make something you love to do dependent upon the completion of your organising project. For instance, don’t allow yourself to read a magazine or newspaper until you’ve done the laundry or washed the car, which you’d promised yourself you’d do today.

2 all-or-nothing. You may be reluctant to start an organising project because you only like to start things that you know you can finish in one session.
It is better to start something and progress a little, than to not start something and to not progress at all.

If it’s difficult for you to leave a project unfinished, your best bet is to give yourself smaller projects that you can complete in less time. For example, you may want to organise your desk, but you know it’s going to take you a few hours, and you can’t seem to find a few open hours in your schedule.

Organising the entire desk might be too large of a goal. But, if you say to yourself that you’re going to clear off the papers from the top of the desk today, empty out the top drawer tomorrow, organise the supply drawer the next day, and so on, now you’ve given yourself projects that can be started—and completed—within short bursts of time, thus satisfying your all-or-nothing tendency.

3 broad goals and priorities. Just making the statement I have to get organised is too broad. It often results in an overwhelming I don’t know where to start feeling. It’s important to define exactly what you want to organise.

Next, prioritise your list. The tasks closest to the top should be those currently causing you the most stress. Once you prioritise your list, choose one or two of those tasks to work on. You really have to focus in order to complete something.

Once these few tasks are completed, you can then move on to the next few.Once you choose your one or two tasks, break them down into smaller mini-goals.

4 a sense of attachment. Sometimes it’s really difficult to part with things because you may feel a sense of attachment. Perhaps you’re a sentimental person. Every item you own reminds you of something else.

Or, you may be a thrifty person, and feel you may be able to use something some day. Perhaps you’re saving it just in case it comes back in style, or if you decide to have another child, or if you decide to pick up that hobby again in the future.

Whatever the reason for your sense of attachment, having such attachments can result in piles upon piles of clutter. If it begins to stress you out, it’s time to let go of some of your stuff.
You don’t have to get rid of everything, but it is important to determine what things are truly important to you and what things are just taking up space. Getting organised is about making decisions.

Choose a clutter spot to tackle. Pick up two items at a time. Try to put one of those items in a keep pile, and the other in a do-not-keep pile. Sometimes you’ll want to keep both, and sometimes you won’t want to keep either. But, try to keep this system going.
If you don’t like to toss, then give away or donate instead.

5 fear of failure. One of the main reasons for not starting an organising project is fear of failure. You may feel that since you haven’t been able to get organised, you never will.
First, a positive attitude is essential to getting and staying organised. The best attitude is a can-do‚ attitude. Believe in yourself. You can do it!
Second, any task or project you progress on, no matter how little the progression, is a success! Enjoy your successes and reward yourself for them

WE ALSO FEATURED:
Three interviews of last week. Firstly we had an interview I done with Charlotte Powell from the City of Cape Town’s disaster risk management who joined us to discuss the recent fires in Cape Town.

Then we played an interview I done with Metrorail spokesman Riaan Scott who spoke to us about the current train vandalism.

Lastly we played an interview with Maurita Weissenberg from the Shine Centre. For any details on the interviews check out the previous blog updates.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
Conrad Hilton:
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

That’s it for the Morning Cruise, where we cruise through your weekday here on BushRadio 89.5fm live on your stereo between 9am – 12pm with me Denisia Adams. Take Care ... make the best of your day and Keep the Faith. Stay Real……!!!!!!!!!!

PS. Listen to the Morning Cruise every weekday Mon – Fri from 9am – 12pm frequency 89.5fm or listen via audio-streaming click on www.bushradio.co.za

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