And I quote “Your future depends on the depth and quality of the team you have, you surrounded by, you willing to move up with”

America had a very good and ambitious president in Barack Obama, but his efforts in changing the world were not so very successful. In my opinion, people around him sabotaged his ideas.

Football fans will know what I’m talking about. Chelsea had a great and very successful coach in Jose Mourinho. Like any other coach, the second season of his second spell with the club wasn't very interesting. Do you think he was responsible for that? Well, I don't. But in my opinion, his players contributed to his failure.

South Africa had a very promising future under the guidance of the last two presidents, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma’s first term, I can't count the first one, which is Nelson Mandela, because he probably spent most of his time planning what needed to be done to make South Africa black. But the current president had unfortunately been surrounded by very smart people beyond his average abilities.
Do you think he could just decide to build a village for himself taking from what we said about him before he took the reigns, I don't, somebody suggested that. He finds himself in a mess he is in today, is he alone in it, I doubt. Maybe the president before him was sacked because those he was surrounded with didn't get opportunities to benefit themselves and they plot against him. We’ll never know.

Brenda Fassie was a big deal, her music was very good too. Was she alone or the team behind her contributed a lot? That’s for you to think about it. Lucky Dube made it look all easy with his team behind him, may his soul rest in peace. Rebecca Malope kept it together for a very long time, she’s still going strong because the team behind her got her back covered, that’s what I think.

In my opinion, you're as good as the people you're surrounded by, the better team you have behind you will be the result of your success. A good leader isn’t the one who rise and says a lot of things or stands up and do a lot of good things, but the one who respects everyone's opinion, works closely with everyone around him. The one who's always surrounded by people with great minds and the same vision as himself.

Unfortunately, that is very rare on planet earth because the world is filled with sad to very sad people, happy to extremely happy, those who doesn't care to reckless, cruel to heartless, those who want to give to others and those who want to get everything for themselves. The sad part is, either one of them will always drag you down to their direction. That’s why you need to choose wisely who you associate with.

Sometimes we complain saying people we’ve known since forever don’t seem to care about us anymore, they don’t talk to us like they used to and sadly we don’t always know the cause for that, probably because we don’t want to know or we just get scared to find out from them.

I believe there are several kinds of friends, those you talk to when you are happy, when everything is going your way. Those you talk to when you are sad, when life throws a couple of swings at you, when mile finds it hard to come by and there are those you talk to about everything, happy times, difficult times and share secrets with.

If your friend isn't talking to you, maybe they’re just not in a situation where they can talk to you, they are not in a state they usually in when they constantly communicate with you. Maybe your friendship functions mostly when you talk about the future, or it’s based on good times, or other people’s businesses, don’t expect a call when they’re going through different paths, when they don’t feel like talking about any of those.
I suggest before you go around telling how much they have changed, evaluate the relationship you have with them, what is it based on, is it adding value to your lives, is it healthy for each other’s personal growth because if it’s not, that might be the reason they have disappeared on you because everybody reaches a point in life where certain things don’t matter anymore, where they only focus on growth and other important issues in life. So they make changes and your friendship with them might be affected at times.

Choose your friends very wisely, because the people you surround yourself with can help you achieve great things in life, but they can make you the center of their own miseries. Don’t be the one standing in the way of those who are making changes in their lives and most importantly, don’t be that change they make when they move on with their lives.

Everybody says surround yourself with doers and thinkers, but I am telling you today, choose your friends wisely, it doesn’t matter if they are the laziest people on earth or not, but you need to make sure you get the best out of yourself when you’re surrounded by them
It's not solely about yourself, what you did or didn't do, how good you are and everything you lack, but those around you play a huge role in making you, destroying you or simply keeping you at the same level for a very long time.

"It's all about one day at a time"