Councillor Prinsloo does an outstanding job [LETTER]
You are willing to change your personal paradigm to reach the goals you set out to achieve for the Bluff.
EDITOR – I am addressing this letter specifically to ward 66 councillor, JP Prinsloo.
Your desire to seek new challenges, discover new opportunities in the hope to succeed are always met with negative and derogative remarks from those who could not achieve or should I say even tried to achieve in the past what you have achieved on the Bluff to date. And we believe to achieve success you did not remain in a carefully constructed comfort zone as those who preceded you. You are willing to change your personal paradigm to reach the goals you set out to achieve for the Bluff. And I am sure you are thinking that the task would be so much easier if only there were more time and money or if those ‘obstacles’ that always try to trip you up work with rather than against you.
An extract from a very wise and best selling author and motivational speaker, Og Mandino, reads: (I dedicate these words of wisdom to you, as this is how I perceive you cllr Prinsloo) “I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion. I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed. I will never consider defeat and will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases such as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless and retreat for they are the words of fools. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eye on the goals. I will persist until I succeed.”
We, as ratepayers, often don’t understand how frustrating it must be to keep the ball in the air and how frustrated we as ratepayers get when things are not done immediately. We must also learn to be patient and if everyone works together, we will still be known as the friendliest, most helpful people in this suburb we call the Bluff.
HENNELIE TYLDESLEY.
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