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“TIME IS
ON YOUR
SIDE,
DONT LET
THE SUN
GO DOWN
ON YOUR
DREAMS
HESAYS
School’s out. July is here and with
it the schools and universities of
the country close up for the chilly
winter holiday. More often than
not, we haven’t made any plans
for all this time we are about to
have on our hands...we go with the
flow like that.
It is tempting to spend our time
having drinks with the friends,
binging on series or snuggling up
with bae. While these are all well
and good for keeping us content It
would do us all a world of good to
remember that while we’re on
holiday, time isn’t on holiday.
The difference between successful
people and the not so successful
people, is what they choose to do
with their time: The truly great
among us would rather choose to
spend their holidays improving
themselves and their lives. It is
the tougher choice to make,
choosing to build ones future
over instant gratification, but
those who make that choice are
the ones we look up to.
There is no better time than
holiday time to get your mind
right and prioritise. Take the case
of the 14 year old American boy,
Robert Nay. During his school
holidays he frequented the local
public library and taught himself
to write app code. He then went
on to write around 4000 lines of
code and thus created the game
‘Bubble Ball’, which went on to
become the most downloaded
game on iTunes. With only a
month of work the teenager was
able to create a fortune for
himself and he then went on to
become the CEO of his own app
company, Nay Games.
Bringing it back home: Alex
Fourie, a South African young
man, used his spare time and
holidays to repair the broken
Apple and Samsung devices of his
friends and classmates. Using this
skill he went on to found his
repair company iFix, which now
services more than 400o clients
a month in Durban, Cape Town
and Johannesburg
The principle is a simple one:
discover your passion; follow that
passion; set realistic practical
goals and use your time wisely to
work towards those goals.
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