212^0 the extra degree

At 211 degrees water is hot

At 212 degrees, it boils

And with boiling water, comes steam.

And steam can power a locomotive

One extra degree makes all the difference,

And the one extra degree of effort

In business and in life..Separates

The good from the great

The average margin of victory for the last 25 years in all major events combined was less than three strokes

The margin of victory between an Olympic gold medal and no medal is extremely small

At the infamy 500 the average margin for video for the past 10 years has been 1.54 sec

Winner took home US$ 1278814

Second US$  621321

The difference was US$  657492

It’s your life

You are responsible for you results

It’s time to turn up the heat

To get what we have never had we must do what we have never done

The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it possible

It is one of the most beautiful compensation in life

We can never help one another without helping ourselves

Belief fuels enthusiasm and enthusiasm explodes into passion

It fires our souls and lifts our spirits

Having a simple clearly defined goal can capture the imagination and inspire our passion.

It can cut through the fog and beacon in the night.

Perseverance is not a long race: it is many short races one after another

You are now aware

You now have a target for everything you do

Social media verses Mainstream media

Social media have helped many news agencies gain traction around the world. However, news organisations are becoming increasingly worried about the potentially disruptive effect of social media on their business models. To keep up, the mainstream media have been forced to embrace social media to disseminate information to the world. 

The effect of social media is overestimated in the short terms and underestimated in the long term. Mainstream media are adopting social media especially with blogging and Twitter in order to keep up with a wide array of Internet users. Gone are the days that mainstream media owned news and would release it to the public when they deemed fit to do so. There is a transformation for journalist from being the gatekeeper of information to sharing it in the public space (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube et.). The mainstream media has to embrace citizen journalism in order to keep up with the growing number of online users who rely on the internet for news. 

Despite the influx of information on the social media platform  we cannot say that the end of journalism has come more sooner than we expected. This is because information is not journalism. The social media provides a lot of things but not journalism. Journalism requires discipline, accountability, analysis, explanation, and context. Journalism adds explanation, analysis and judgement to the news. However, despite all these, journalist should never compete with the internet. This is because the internet has no operating protocols. Information is propagated from one blogger to another, one mask to another. 

The social media might win the battle but this does not mean that the mainstream media is dead. We still require the mainstream media to account the information. The social media should express remorse when it comes to posting some information. Imagine receiving news about the death of your relative from the social media. Though it is a fast way of diffusing information, the bloggers and other users should contemplate the consequences of what they post.