Yenzani instills a can do attitude to its supporters.
MIDRAND - Shakes Dlutu is an energetic and theatrical motivation speaker, by his own admission.
But that is simply to get his message of living positively across in the most perfect way possible.
Yenzani Children’s Home held a breakfast in partnership with Paton Personnel, in order to get that message across to its stakeholders and some of the home’s older children.
Dlutu encouraged the audience to think positively. “For instance, instead of saying ‘I am tired’, rather say, ‘I am recharging’ when people ask how you are.”
Drawing on inspiration from Nelson Mandela to Albert Einstein, the talk inspired the room filled with people. The audience comprised of supporters from the home, young residents and some of the home’s workers.
Seeing some of the challenging situations that children are brought through, such as abuse and neglect, can be really depressing , but Dlutu, insisted that despite all this, all who were present were in complete control of their lives despite what happens to them and those around them.
He used his own model to life, he called it his ABC’s. “Firstly, you accuse someone of doing something to you, that eventually becomes a complaint, and you dwell on those complaints, making you bitter,” he said.
“The human mind is capable of so much more than we give it credit for.”
Dlutu said if human beings are capable of talking to someone who is overseas through a simple device, such as a tablet, that was conceptualised by the human brain then, “Of course we are capable of changing our attitudes which causes positive change in our lives,” he said.
