Live, Learn, Love!
The Path to Your Prowess
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In this book Kogi Naidoo reveals intimate stories of her inspiring life and experiences that took her from despair to hope, fear to courage, doubt to faith, ego to humility, and from taking her life for granted to living a life of gratitude. Having, lived and worked internationally, she, as a fifth generation to indentured farm labourers, rises above her life of poverty to use education, wit and charm to leave her inspiring legacy for generations to come. She has lived and worked in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.
LIVE, LEARN, LOVE provides an honest, upfront account that mirrors insights and revelations about how we live, learn and love as individuals and as part of families and communities. This book is for those in the prime of their life, reflecting back on how life was and how it turned out, and what they can still do. The book also appeals to younger readers, bursting with excitement to change the world. Readers are taken through personal stories of stresses and strains, insights and wisdom, never forgetting life’s blessings.
You discover your unique talent, purpose and contribution. You learn how to use the three focal areas (LIVE, LEARN, LOVE) to live a more balanced and fulfilled life. Attain emotional, mental and spiritual balance. Learn how to make a difference. Take charge of how you live, learn and love to regain inner peace and joy.
Part One (of three) shows us that we each have a unique contribution to make. We are all leaders with the potential to achieve greatness. We have a duty and responsibility to make a contribution in the world. We can together alleviate the pain and suffering in our lives by using the keys to LIVE, LEARN and LOVE on our path to discover our personal power and prowess. In Part Two I share personal stories of the pain and suffering I endured to achieve my dreams and goals. It is not all doom and gloom! Sometimes, what we perceive as ill-luck or pushing against the tide, is life teaching us lessons we need to learn before we progress. Part Three focuses on the simple three-step formula we can apply to ensure we leave our unique legacy, making a difference as a result of having lived. You reflect on your life, where you have been, where you are right now and where you are going in your future.
LIVE, LEARN. LOVE, the book is inspired by vivid dreams (some recurring), real life experiences and reflection over my years. It is my ultimate truth and reality seen through my perspectives: wisdom, destiny and fate. I present my experiences as I remembered them, not through the lens of my conscious, social self, the academic and teacher schooled by the norms of society. I deliberately convey my innate authenticity. In some sense, I surrendered to my life experiences, having faith in God, Spirit or the Universe or whatever you believe in. I acknowledge that for a very long time I blocked out much of my life experiences. I demonstrate how one can regain trust in oneself and the Universe to create a life that is filled with divine grace and love, rather than one of struggle and hopelessness.
Throughout the book you have opportunities to reflect on your own journey and evolution. The recurring themes and your reflections sharpen the focus of your universal eye. It takes courage and perseverance to keep focused on your purpose and make a difference.
We need to be leaders of our own lives, before we lead others. By reflecting on the three- step formula of life to LIVE, LEARN, LOVE we focus on our true purpose to achieve our unique greatness. You can be great like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King. They each had a cause they stood for. Discover your unique talents and special purpose in life. We must get over our own limitations to pursue our dreams and goals. In inspiring each other we can live our lives optimally and purposefully until we achieve a world of love, as a result of the forgiveness and compassion we practice.
Research shows the major issues that cause people stress are money, relationships, work challenges, and health problems. The book is a self-development guide to:
• Gain a stress-free existence,
• Take immediate charge of your emotional, mental and spiritual states,
• Discover your unique purpose and greatness,
• Achieve your true purpose and make a difference to yourself and others, and
• Contribute to a better world, filled with love and compassion.
In the course of my life, education, experiences and learning, I discovered seven keys to Live, Learn, Love. These keys are the collective brilliance of the great teachers and mentors I was blessed to have in my life. These keys unlock how we use the gifts we are given, how we live our lives, what we spend our time doing, the impact we make in our relationships. There are also five ways you can adopt to tap into and achieve their own greatness in your journey of life.
As I share my stories, be amused and entertained. Laugh with me, cry with me, and be inspired to make a difference in your life.
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Do you value who you are? Do you have a fulfilled life, loving relationships and a great career? Are you frustrated, disillusioned, or tired of being exploited? How committed are you to you? Invest in yourself and discover how your priceless gifts and talents can change the world. You can have it all!
Dr Kogi Naidoo is a devoted mother, wife, and author who has inspired thousands to live their greatest lives. In Live, Learn, Love! Kogi shares the best of her experiences with you. You’ll learn how her Tapping Talents techniques will motivate those in your life as well. By putting this simple three-step guide to work for your life, relationships, and career, you’ll find ways to ignite your spirit and bring out your inner power, living your life on purpose, and leave your legacy.
Never doubt that you can inspire everyone in your life! Dr Kogi Naidoo invites you to laugh with her, cry with her, and grow with her. Her stories are amusing, entertaining, and emboldening. They reveal that we are all courageous, authentic, risky, energised, resilient, and successful – some of us just haven’t taken hold of these qualities yet!
Time is precious. So what will you do to make every moment count? Live your life on purpose and make a difference!
About the Author
Dr Kogi Naidoo, Founder, Kogi Naidoo International, an inspiration to anyone who finds themselves in less than ideal circumstances, having to struggle to escape their lot, is renowned and leading authority on self-development to achieve greatness. Kogi is the great granddaughter of indentured labourers from India, who settled in Durban, South Africa in the late 1860’s. In spite of the odds stacked against her, we see her rise to being a published author, while being a devoted wife and mother, university teacher, associate professor, and leadership coach and consultant. She is a gold medal award winner for her contributions to higher education in South Africa, winning the Junior Technikon Fellowship award, the SAARDHE Young Achiever Award winner, and more recently the HERDSA Fellowship award, demonstrating quality teaching standards in Australasia. As an academic, teacher, researcher, author, speaker and performance consultant over the past three decades, her work has included inspiring many thousands of teachers and students who have gone on to be successful in their own careers and lives. Kogi started from humble beginnings living in poverty in shared rented accommodation to being the first in family to receive formal education. Despite the difficulties encountered with apartheid, political unrest and an academic boycott in place, Kogi achieved a doctoral degree in Education, setting her on a path of academic success. Widely recognized as a leader in higher education, Kogi won a large research grant and lead a national education research team in New Zealand investigating student learning success. She has presented her work at major conferences internationally in the U.S., Canada, Australia, England, New Zealand, India and South Africa; and has been invited to lead major discussions in education. Her work is recognized by the many prestigious national awards and grants she received in her distinguished teaching research and academic career, including the Ernest Oppenheimer Gold Medal award for her contribution to higher education in South Africa. Kogi continues to dedicate her life to sharing valuable lessons, demonstrating how we can take charge and change our lives, especially when impeded by circumstances, thereby eradicating poverty, empowering us to live rich and fulfilled lives through personal and professional achievement. In the last few years, Kogi has re-ignited her commitment to her mission to make a difference through her simple, yet profound message, LIVE, LEARN, LOVE, to educate everyone, sharing her personal life experiences, lessons, hints and tips to overcome any obstacles. We can fulfill our dreams by taking leadership of ourselves in how we “LIVE, LEARN, LOVE” and achieve our unique greatness. Kogi is able to provide daily inspiration to her colleagues, students and followers, giving them hope for the future, but more importantly, to empower them to have faith and believe in themselves, having the power to embrace change, recreate their lives and live their lives on purpose, making a difference in the world. Kogi received her doctorate in higher education from the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa and is currently Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Adelaide. She teaches in the foundations course for all new teaching staff employed at the University. She is also delivering her uplifting message online through web and blog postings focusing on the keys to LIVE, LEARN, LOVE relating, in particular, to our self-development, enhancing our lives, relationships, spiritual development and consciousness. Kogi Naidoo with friend and colleague, Dr Fay Patel, provided a forum and medium for women world-wide, attracting contributions from South Africa, United States, England, Australia and New Zealand, to tell their stories in the book, Working Women, Stories of Struggle, Strife and Success, published by Sage, India in 2010. In Live, Learn, Love! The Path to Your Prowess, Kogi shares her personal stories, life experiences, lessons learned, providing valuable tools, insights and key strategies that will empower readers trapped either by their limiting beliefs and/or circumstances to be inspired to achieve their unique greatness, live their lives on purpose, and make a difference.