Dreams Do Come True

Here we are at last!

Let me start by first apologizing.I apologize for not posting anything on the blog since the beginning of the year(2012).

The truth of the matter is that I have been busy putting the final touches to the manuscript of our compilation book of the best FGM blog posts from 2011.Things have been so hectic that I could not even take 3 hours(or so) away from the book project in order to do a blog post.

In this first post of 2012 I would also like to take the opportunity to announce some changes to the FGM blog.The first change has to do with our 'feel good' quotes.I feel that after three years of using Abraham quotes exclusively,there is now a danger of us starting to repeat some of them.Therefore from now onwards we will source our 'feel good' quotes from other books.They will still be highly inspirational in nature.

Secondly,we will also do away with the 'feel good' poems.Again here our fear is that we may start repeating some lines from old poems that we have done in the past three years.

Lastly,we are going to start a series called 'The Dreams Do Come True Tour'.I will say more about this series later.

With those preliminaries out of the way,may I be allowed to say that it really feels good to be back.

As the heading of this post(above) implies,this post is celebratory in nature.The idea of a book of our best posts has been there since the blog was launched back in 2008.But it remained a pipe dream until late last year when I was finally moved to make it happen.Today I can happily announce that this dream is about to be realized.In a few weeks time our book - 'FEELING GOOD:The best from the Feel Good Movement blog in 2011' - will be published.When this happens,a dream will have come true for us,ladies and gentlemen.


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The DREAMS DO COME TRUE(DDCT) Tour - Part 1
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After a dream came true for us(see previous post),I have been inspired to hit the road.I have been moved to go on a tour around Soweto schools initially,to motivate students to go for their dreams also.I want to tell our students - those doing matric in particular - that their dreams(like doing well in their final year exams,for example) can indeed come true.

To this end I have prepared a free 20 to 30 minute motivational talk to present in my travels.During this talk I will give students some tips and guidelines on how they,too,can achieve their big goals.I will be using myself as a living example of how this is possible,from the way I made the FGM blog book dream happen.

These free motivational talks I will also give to employees of corporate companies if I am allowed to.In fact,I will tell everyone who lends me an ear about how they can make their dreams happen also.The having and achieving of dreams is not just for the young.

Each week I will then come back here(on the blog) and write about the highlights(best 'feel good moments') from the tour.

While this tour will start in schools around me(in Soweto),which I can easily reach by foot or by taxi,eventually I see the 'DDCT Tour' going across our borders to countries like Botswana,Swaziland,Lesotho etc.Later still,this tour will go up north into Africa.After which,it will then go around the world.

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THANK YOU UNIVERSE.THANK YOU FOR OUR 'FEEL GOOD MOMENTS'.

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SO,SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WORLD OUT THERE,WHAT MADE YOU

FEEL GOOD THIS WEEK?

Let us know at - feelgoodmovement@gmail.com
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THE YEAR THAT WAS - 2011

AROUND THE WORLD
- Without any doubt,the toppling of dictatorships in the Arab world made our year.
In what is now known as the Arab Spring,the peoples of Tunisia,Egypt and Libya rose up this year and overthrew their despotic rulers.The revolution in Libya turning out to be a particularly long and a protracted one in comparison to those of Tunisia and Egypt.
To witness people taking a stand in order to fight for their rights and then succeeding at it - without any arms in two instances(Tunisia and Egypt) - was truly heartening.


IN SOUTH AFRICA
- Our Table Mountain being named one of the 'New 7 Wonders of Nature' in November greatly exciting us here in the FGM.
In a worldwide poll in which people had to vote for seven natural wonders out of 28 finalists,Table Mountain became '1 of 7'.What was interesting about this was that in the post we wrote on the Sunday before the voting closed - 'Rooting for Our Table Mountain'(6th November) - we had been bullish about Table Mountain's chances.And this confidence was based on nothing other than our patriotism.
So you can imagine our joy when the list of winners was announced.We were so excited,we could not sit still.
Needless to say,'T M' making it on to this illustrious list is a boon to South African tourism.


ON A PERSONAL NOTE
- A year that started on a very trying note for me(and my family) is ending on a promising note.
For most of January and the whole of February I was not able to post anything on the FGM blog.I was was suffering from a writer's block of sorts.There was a lot of 'stuff' happening in my life.
The bread and butter challenges that I had to deal with were sapping my energy and motivation.
This inability to do one of the things that bring me true pleasure was very hard to take.I even considered giving up on this whole FGM project 'thingi'.

The turnaround came after I attended a church service at Grace Bible Church.
A friend invited me to a service at Grace in early March.And I went not because I expected answers to my bread and butter issues,but because he had been asking me to come along for a while now.It just felt like the right time to accept his invitation.
This service at Grace totally blew me away.I came back highly,highly inspired.
As a way to thank my friend for the invitation I decided to write about this Grace experience in a post - 'The Gospel According to Grace Bible Church'(13th March).And ever since this post of my Grace service attendance,I have been at it on the FGM blog.You could say that that church service kind of cured my writer's block.
Strangely,my bread and butter matters have been improving as well.As the year ends things are much,much better.

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Our FEEL GOOD poem of the year:

Love Me Always
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Tell me that you love me,
That you adore me,
Not only on Wednesdays.
Show me affection,
Not only during elections.
Display your admiration,
Your infatuation,
Every day.
Love me at all times,
And not just sometimes.
Be attentive,
Give me 't-c',
Daily.
Not just when I must give.
Love me always,
All the time.
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WHILE AT IT,WE WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL OUR FGM BLOG READERS A HAPPY
CHRISTMAS AND A 2012 FILLED WITH GOOD FORTUNE.

MAY WE ALSO SEND OUT OUR HEARTFELT APPRECIATION TO OUT READERS IN
RUSSIA,USA,MALAYSIA,GERMANY AND SOUTH AFRICA.MUCH,MUCH LOVE TO YOU
GUYS.

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THANK YOU UNIVERSE.THANK YOU FOR OUR 'FEEL GOOD MOMENTS' IN 2011.

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SO,SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WORLD OUT THERE,WHAT MADE YOU FEEL

GOOD IN 2011?

Let us know at - feelgoodmovement@gmail.com
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"Ke Summer Boss!"

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A Welcome to COP17

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A Prayer or Two for the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Some Consolation from the Bafana Bafana Defeat in Zimbabwe

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The ANC Saying Enough

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