Start2Finish: Fueling Discipline, Focus and the right mindset
Start2finish is about starting a journey towards achieving fulfilment and the guidance to travel through the voyage until reaching the shores of your goals and visions. The mission is reaching the finish line in whatever endeavours of your life. Many of us lose track of our goals or abandon ship due to situations surrounding us or we lose the will power to go on. Hence regularly reminding each other of what is at stake is key to keep us going
Start2Finish: Fueling Discipline, Focus and the right mindset
Andrew Magwature Story: Ships, Chickens, and Finding Your Way!
What makes life truly meaningful? Andrew Mnyaradzi Magwature joins us to share profound insights gained from his eight-year journey working on international cruise ships while maintaining strong connections to his Zimbabwean roots.
"Life is full of seasons, and seasons are always different," Andrew reflects, setting the tone for a conversation that explores how continuous learning shapes our identity and resilience. Drawing from experiences spanning multiple continents and cultures, he reveals how seemingly simple cultural exchanges—like discovering different ways people kill chickens around the world—opened his eyes to the beautiful diversity of human experience and the importance of approaching others with genuine respect.
The cruise ship life Andrew describes challenges common perceptions, revealing a complex, multicultural environment where "there is no day off" and adaptability becomes essential. As youth director, he leveraged his background in team building and consultancy to thrive in demanding conditions, developing leadership skills that transcend any single workplace. His practical wisdom extends to entrepreneurship, where he emphasizes passion and knowledge before investment: "If you learn something, no one can take it away from you."
Perhaps most compelling is Andrew's philosophy on truly experiencing life rather than merely documenting it—a perspective gained from watching countless tourists snap photos without immersing themselves in the moment. His thoughtful approach to balancing global experiences with local opportunities offers valuable insights for anyone navigating their own life journey. What knowledge are you developing that no one can take away? How might stepping outside your comfort zone reshape your understanding of what's possible?
Fueling Discipline , focus and the right mindset!
Life is full of seasons and seasons are always different.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, basically, it's still going, it's still life, we're still experiencing, we're still learning. I feel like there's still so much to learn and so much to experience with life, and you never know what life has for you. There's a lot to say, but to then grasp it and say, okay, this has been my life, it's not like my life is over, my life is still going. So, yeah, I believe knowledge is power. Right, if you learn something, no one can take it away from you, true, so once you grasp the part that you have to learn something, you have to, you have to understand that you have to. You have to develop yourself. Yeah, once you develop yourself, anything can happen to you, but no one is going to be able to take that, because that's going to be you now. Yeah, so learning is key. Learning is key. Yeah, it's always having to self-introspect and having to put yourself out there and say, okay, let me learn this as much as I'm learning, what am I gonna do with it in the long run?
Speaker 1:Welcome to another episode of start to finish, fueling discipline, focus in the right mindset. I'm your host, kd. So today I'm joined here by andrew. We just want to have a conversation, you know. We just want to talk about life's journeys. There's a thought process that I have that life is how you make it. I don't know how you take that one life. People have different perspective towards life. Yeah, sometimes it's experiences, more more so over than how you take it, because how you take it is forced through the experiences, right, so what you go through is going to determine how you react to the to, to life. Okay, yeah, so interesting. Yeah, so you know, I mean, you know that thought of just um, sometimes, you know, because I'm just thinking, sometimes I think we are giving too much credit to situations around us, to politics, to the economy, and it's an excuse not to act, not to do something. But I think there are so many opportunities around us. We are now living in a global village, so you realize, if Zim motor and brick products are not working, you can always go online and start something and start thinking on how you can utilize, you know, what is around you. So, yeah, that's the thing about life. That's why I'm thinking it's how you make it. As you have said, the situations and circumstances around you can force you to then think to say how best can I make life good? So, yeah, so today I'm joined with andrew here and we just want to go through life and just talk about his journey and where he has placed himself working on a ship, cruise ship and still coming back home to Zim and try and do some you know, develop some opportunities for himself. So, andrew, just introduce yourself.
Speaker 1:Who are you and what are you all about? Okay, what makes you you? So? My name is Andrew Mnyaradzi Magwatore. Basically, what I can say is I'm a man forged through experience and adventure. Life has shown me a lot. I've traveled a lot and I've learned a lot. Okay, perfect, so forged by circumstances. A lot, and I've learned a lot. Perfect, so forced by circumstances. What do you mean when you say life has forced you? Because when you're being forced, you're going through a furnace, you're going through the fire. I just remember Shadrach Meshach and what's his name? Abednego going through the fire and still coming out pure, you know. And ben, yeah, yeah. So tell me more on that. On it's.
Speaker 1:It's very difficult to put into a sentence or to put into perspective like this, this, because some of the things it's you have to experience, it, you know. Okay, you have to go through it, you have to you. It's like a season. Yeah, so that's life. Life is full of seasons and seasons are always different. Yeah, so, yeah, basically it's it's. It's still going, it's still life, yeah, still experiencing. We're still learning this.
Speaker 1:I feel like this still so much to learn and so much to experience with life, and you never know what life is for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a lot to, there's a lot to say. But to then grasp it and say, okay, this has been my life. It's not like my life is over, my life is still going. So, yeah, okay, you know, I like two things that you said.
Speaker 1:One is learning, and that's the whole journey. Uh, in most cases, we just think, you know, learning is me doing my grade 7, go to O-level, maybe A-level, do my university, then I'm done. But I think it's so much more than that. You have to continue to learn through life. If you want to progress, if you want to make a better life for yourself, I think you have to do a lot of learning, a lot of transformation, do a lot of learning, a lot of transformation, because if you go into the word of God, we are transformed. You go through the process of change. So, at the end of the day, learning just gives you that. It allows you to be in different places, it allows you to be in the same environment but to think differently, because you grow with wisdom.
Speaker 1:And also the aspect of adventure, where you, you know, you just take it one day at a time, you know, because if you want to take it all at once, it can consume you. So tell me about you working on a cruise ship. That's one big adventure, I'm sure, and and I and I want to ask is it work and play, or is just work, work all the way? It's, um, for people who work on cruise ship, I believe it's. It's it's life because, um, yes, they have the work, then they have their life. So it's work and life at the same time. And you're far away from your family, you're far away from home, so you get to have people you meet working there. Then they become your family. So it's an experience.
Speaker 1:I feel like it's a journey, because once you start working on the cruise ships, it's very difficult for you to work on land, because you're now used to that lifestyle, you're now used to working on the ship, you're now used to being far away, because you find out some people go for six months, seven months, depending on what you're doing on the ship. So if you're going for six months, then you're coming home for two months, then you go again for six months. So basically, now your life is on the ship. You're spending more time on the ship than back home, where you grew up or where you stay. So I started working on the ship when I was 26, like like 2016. Yeah, wow, that's a long time. Yeah, that's a long time. It's like eight years, nine months, when I was calculating yeah, wow, okay, very long time. Yeah, okay, tell me more about the relationship that you build over time. Any strategic partners, any? What sort of relationship are you building when you're out there?
Speaker 1:So the relationships that you build with you meet different people, especially the people that you work with. You meet different people. Then you learn different cultures. You, you learn, um, you learn other languages. You, you go to places, you learn about the places and sometimes you revisit the places. Then, because you've been there before, you now relate to the place. So it's more of you know how. When you say connecting with places or networking so working on the ship you have you network with the different races, different cultures, different. You learn a lot of things from. I remember one time we were different. You learn a lot of things from.
Speaker 1:I remember one time we were talking about how you, how you, kill a chicken and everyone was describing how a chicken is killed from from their own country. And it's very interesting how other people kill chickens and the way I kill a chicken is actually scary to someone who kills it differently. So, yeah, okay, so how do they do it? They just twist the head. Or Some were saying they just twist the neck. Then I was telling them I take a knife, then I have to remove the head. So it's for them that was bizarre, it's crazy because they can't picture that, and for me I can't picture. So it's for them that was bizarre, it's it's crazy because they can't picture that, and for me I can't picture. Just, uh, it's like you're sneaking in, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then some were saying they don't even know how the chicken is killed. They just get it in the, in the, from the shop, from the supermarket. Yeah, so those small things, those small things, they make a difference.
Speaker 1:You see that people are different and people have different backgrounds. Then, when you are then brought to on the ship to work together, it's multicultural, right, so you have your own background, I have my own background, but we still need to deliver the same product. So it comes to it has to do with a lot of teamwork. Okay, yeah, so it comes to it has to do with a lot of teamwork. Okay, yeah, so we have to learn to copy and understand each other and, uh, get the job done. Okay, and what are you mostly doing when you're out there? Uh, as in, as in, like your role? Oh, my role is youth director. I'm in charge of people who work with kids. I'm basically the kids department. Oh, okay, okay, you've always liked the kids, their space and training. Yeah, it comes from the background of consultancy.
Speaker 1:Like before, before I joined the ship, I was doing team buildings, trainings, um, a lot of consultancy work, okay, so going on the ship, it was like the same field working with kids, working with adults, team buildings so it was uh, fitting in was not easy, because I remember when I went, there was not a lot of africans on the ship, compared to now. Okay, yeah, now, now there's a lot of africans, there's a lot of people from kenya, because before it was just zimbabwe and south africa mainly. Then you'd get a random person from another african country, but now there's a lot of south africans, have always been there. There's a lot of zimbabweans, there's a lot of kenyans and now you're starting to see Nigerians coming in. Yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1:So I think maybe on your early days on the ship, you know who, who, who did you meet and impacted you the most? You said you know they were, they were, you were like the rare ones I don't remember their names Like there was this guy from South Africa. His name was I'm forgetting his name. Okay, because you meet a lot of people. You know, yeah, he was a fitness trainer, so he was from South Africa. He was a good friend. Yeah, so he helped me through a lot of people. You know, yeah, he was a fitness trainer, so, okay, he was from south africa, he was a good friend. Yeah, so he helped me through a lot. He.
Speaker 1:Because when you're far away from home and you're young and you, you're trying to adapt to the lifestyle and you're trying to adapt to coping with the requirements because, uh, one thing you need to remember if you're working on the ship, there is no day off, right, okay, you work. Uh, from the first day you get on the plane from zim, you're already working, right until the day you come back back home, okay, yeah, so there's no day off, there's no weekend. Every day, the it's you have to deliver. Right, because I was working in the entertainment department. Entertainment is like you need to produce the entertainment. So, yeah, yeah, you just have to deliver every single day. Yeah, so, and where do you find that inspiration to deliver? You, it's you, you get used to it, you, you, you get used to, you get used to it, it, you get used to it. It's not going to be the same every day, but you have to aspire to deliver. You have to find how to motivate yourself, how to deliver the output the way it's required to.
Speaker 1:Okay, and in terms of learning, how much have you learned? What are some of those key skills that you said? Okay, fine, I, I think I went there raw, but you know I've, I've taken away something that will just impact me throughout my life. Maybe some you're already applying, some you're you're, you know you apply in the. Why, I'm asking, is there's this concept called skill stacking that I've learned. Wherever you go, you are going to be learning something, just like us doing this podcast here.
Speaker 1:I think many years ago I was working with, I think, thomas and Ivan they do videography yeah, the Matikiti guys. I learned a lot from the skill of photography, the skill of audio, and I also went to this church where I learned how to you know about audio a lot of things. Then, just last year, I decided, okay, I want to do a podcast. It was easier for me to start because I had these, all these skills that I, skills that I picked up in my journey through life to where I am today. What are some of those skills that you have picked up in the eight years?
Speaker 1:Well, experiential learning, right? Some of those things you can't take away Me sitting here talking to you. It's from experience there, because after being out there, you're on the spotlight, you are representing Zimbabwe. You're from Zimbabwe, right? So it takes a lot of confidence. You have to learn to conduct yourself, to impress yourself, like this is me. So some of the things you learn sometimes you're doing something there and you don't know that you're learning, but once you come out of it, then you're you're. You're here like me talking to you. Yeah, it's the experience I got from there that I can sit. If it was eight years ago and you've called me to come and do a podcast, I'll be like, ah no, no, thank you.
Speaker 1:But I think it takes a lot like you experience a lot, even the way you socialize, the way you talk to people, you, you, you get to learn um different cultures. So once you have learned different cultures, you're exposed, right. Then you interact with respect because you understand that someone might not be thinking the same way I'm thinking. So every time the interactions have to come with respect, you have to know that there's an individual behind the person, right. So, yeah, so I believe it's um experiential learning, like it's you experience something you learn. For, for me, mostly, I've learned leadership. Uh, I've learned a lot about leadership there that I I now live with in myself.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, okay, perfect, uh, and are you not scared? You know I mean, I know you said you when you start working on a ship, you know to get on land is like something that is foreign. But are you not scared when you're out there? Is the ship safe? Because I know you always see on movies where you see all these turbulences.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of technology involved, more than what people think, because there's satellites. So whenever there's a bad weather, they already more than what people think, because there's satellites and these. So whenever there's a bad weather, they already know it's going to be bad weather, right. So sometimes they prepare you, especially for the crew. Sometimes they experience it a lot, then they get used to it, okay. But for the traveling guests it's more like they, they alert them that there's going to be bad weather. So, as much as the weather can be bad, the ship will always be a ship, it will always sail. Because they navigate through the bad weather, because they have the awareness, they have the technology to predict like, okay, as much as it's going to be rough, it's going to be this rough and this ship has this specifics, it can manage. So a lot of times it's all about they have to navigate through the bad weather. They know already.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but sometimes weather can be weather, you know, and it can be really rough. So, yeah, but it's, and you can, you can actually feel it. Yeah, you feel it. You feel it. You can see things dropping off, like it's, like you're shaking a house sometimes, or it's just moving, like this, yeah. So sometimes the most common is people feel dizzy or people throw up, but it's only for a short period of time. Okay, interesting, I don't think I was staying in the ship. No, you'll be fine, it's like a hotel. It's like a hotel Because sometimes, if you're in the ship no, you'll be fine, it's like a hotel. It's like a hotel Because sometimes if you're in the ship, like if you're inside, you don't know that you're in the ship because you're inside the hotel. It's only when you step outside by the balconies. That's when you see the difference. Okay, because if you're inside, maybe you might feel like the ship being controlled with water, the turbulence, but you can't tell that you're on a ship once you're inside, because once you're inside, you're in the hotel.
Speaker 1:And for someone maybe who's interested in working in a ship, are there still opportunities right now? That's a very good question, because sometimes people know that you work on the ship, right. Then they ask you like I, people know that you work on the ship, right. Then they ask you like um, I want to go to the ship, work on the ship. Then you ask them like what do you want to do? Then they're like I just want to go on the ship. But uh, like I was saying, the ship is a hotel.
Speaker 1:It's it's broken down into different departments, so you find out that there is bar, there is housekeeping, there is entertainment, there is culinary Some of these departments. I don't even know how you apply for those departments. So when someone then says I need to go on the ship, they need to know what they want to do on the ship, because it's a big, big. It's a big, vast of opportunities and a big, vast of employment for people. So, depending on what you want to do, yeah, like I said, there's a lot of Africans now, there's a lot of people from Africa working on the ship. So I wouldn't say it's not possible. It's very possible now because a lot of people are now coming to work on the ship.
Speaker 1:Okay, so people can apply. Okay, yeah, so, depending on what department you want to apply to, I know some departments you have to go through an agency and some departments you can just apply directly, and some departments you have to advertise your CV on LinkedIn. Then the recruiter will get your information from there. Then they will recruit you. Okay, so, which means, in terms of qualification, you need to be at least world level diabetes. Yeah, you have to be qualified and you also have to have experience in the department you're applying for, because you can't just say I want to come and be a singer. You have to have the qualifications, you have to know how to sing, you have to know how to perform and if you're going to be doing that, you have to have experience, the background. So usually when they hire, when they do the interviews, they're looking for that, they're asking you that type of information.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, yeah, and in your eight years have you worked on the same ship or you're always rotating. It's always a different ship. Okay, it's always a different ship, different crew yeah, sometimes you meet people you know. Okay, sometimes you meet the same people you worked with, like a year ago. Okay, sometimes you meet each other and people who work on the ship. It's like they know each other.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's always a different ship. So the ships are. They are different. The ships themselves are different. So sometimes it's a different class of ship, because they also have classes. So some are huge, some are small, some are medium. So it's always a different ship. So you can be on one ship, then you learn the layout of the ship. Then next time you're going back, you're going to a different ship that has a different layout. Oh, okay, yeah, interesting. So it's not always the same. If you're lucky, you get the same ship, but it's very rare to get the same ship, yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1:So I've seen most people who have left Africa and never came back. You know, they were in a ship. Then all of a sudden, you know they are in America or Europe. Why did you not make your moves? Uh, I don't know, some, I, I, I can't speak for those people because I, I don't know why people would decide. Yeah, I think that's pre-planned.
Speaker 1:You know, some people come with different agendas because, um, they call it, um, there's a term they use that like when someone doesn't make it to the ship, or someone is supposed to come to the ship and they decide not to come. It affects a lot of people, it affects mainly the people. So let's say you are Zimbabwean, right? You are then employed by a ship. Then you're supposed to come and join the ship. Then you don't join the ship. Let's say you do what you do, then you're already in the states. Yeah, you, you make it difficult for the zimbabweans that are on the ship, so they are the ones who have to suffer the consequences of your actions. Okay, so most cases they will say zimbabweans can get off the ship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so people come with different motives, but once you do, that it's I think it's gonna be difficult for you because you're always, always gonna be on the run, you know you, you always, uh, immigration is gonna be looking for you. So people come with different agendas. So I don't, I wouldn't want to be on the run. If you're asking me like, yeah, yeah, I wouldn't want to be looking on my shoulder every time, yeah, besides, I, I get to travel from back and forth, so I prefer that. Yeah, rather than, if you go, do you have a plan of coming back to see your relatives, to see your family, or you're just going to?
Speaker 1:There's a concept that, um, we used to say when we're working for this organization called east trust okay, the, there was the, the leader was there, his name is pk. You'd say you can't live in zimbabwe as a, as a lizard, and expect to go to america and live as a crocodile, okay, yeah. So if you are a lizard, yeah, you can't. Then expect to go on a different point and live as a crocodile, okay, yeah, it makes life very difficult unless you just do it properly, the same way. You like what you're saying. You travel and you go to your ship and do the work and come back home. I think it makes it easier and better. I guess, yeah, I like it that way. It makes it easier and better. I guess, yeah, it's I, I like it that way, I prefer it that way.
Speaker 1:Okay, so, coming back home, um, to zim, you know what are some of the things that you are trying to do, because life is like what you say, it is a journey, is an adventure. Uh, you are young men, I'm sure you, you want to build wealth, uh, for even yourself, in the future generation. What are you, what are you doing to, in that space, to just build a right foundation, um, financially and yeah, so that's uh, when we come to the thing of, uh, like you were saying earlier, when we started, like, learning, right, yeah, so this time I've taken the opportunity to learn a lot, like I've gone around, because, mostly me, I'm passionate about poetry, so I'm learning a lot. I'm learning about different things that has to do with poetry. Like for chickens, I already know, but I'm learning now. I'm learning about gods, I'm learning different things. Yeah, so it's, I'm trying to grasp knowledge, as much knowledge as I can, so that I know what to what to focus on and what to venture in. Because I believe, as much as you can be passionate about something right, you need to learn about what you want Correct. You need to invest time, you need to invest the product in yourself so that once you start doing it yeah, yeah, you, you know what you're doing. Yeah, you know, you said something quite quite interesting, uh, whereby you don't just start, you know, you don't just start doing something. You just don't wake up and say you know what I want to do chickens, or I want to run a business. The first port of call is learning. You want to learn and understand the space that you are interested in, that you're passionate about, so that, most probably, if there are others who have gone before you, if they've made their mistakes, you are able to avoid some of those mistakes in life. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, because I think that's the the process of the journey. Sometimes you just want to start something.
Speaker 1:You know I've seen someone who's going to, who is doing something. I, you know, recently I was uh I don't know whether the strong was chastising or just telling one of my relative to say not, why not focus on what you know? So there's the other side business which he was told it makes a lot of money, you know. So he's taking his calculator and say, okay, fine, so if I take this, you know $5,000, I put it in there. I heard that if I do this, one deal is going to bring in maybe another $2,000 on top of what I'm earning. And guess what? Four months down the line, he has lost over $3,000 because he lacks the knowledge. He wants to get into a space that he doesn't know Yet. What he knows and what has made him that money that he has lost is there. So, yeah, yeah, I believe knowledge is power right in what has made him that money that he has lost, you know, is there. So, yeah, yeah, I, I believe knowledge is power right.
Speaker 1:If you learn something, no one can take it away from you, true, yeah? So once you, once you grasp the the part that you have to learn something, you have to, you have to understand that. You have to. You have to develop yourself. Yeah, once you develop yourself, anything can happen to you, but no one is going to be able to take that, because that's going to be you now. So learning is key.
Speaker 1:And you mentioned that Zime's opportunities. Yeah, there's a lot of opportunities Besides Zimbabwe being back home. I feel like there's a lot of opportunities here because you find out like for you to even register a company in zimbabwe. You can just go and go through the authorities and have your company registered. Then you start whatever you want to start. But for someone imagine me trying to register a company in america, it's going to. There's a lot of procedures that you have to follow, one because you're not an American, you're a foreigner. So our economy is still growing. There's still a lot happening. So there's opportunities for young people to start something and to be made. The other thing is a lot of people are focusing on Harare, but it's not Harare that needs to be. If you're smart, it's not Harare. To focus on when there is money, yeah, it's not Harare. Some people are making it outside Harare and some people are bringing the product to Harare. So a lot of young people want to be in Arari.
Speaker 1:And what do you think are some of those businesses which anyone can start which are not capital intensive but someone who decides you know what? I have a bit of cash or I don't have cash but I have time. What can they start? That's a tricky question because, as much as the economy is, not, as much as there are opportunities in the economy, I always feel like you need to do something. You're passionate about, something, that if you have a certain capital or a certain amount of money and you want to start a business, isn't it best for you to start something you're passionate about? If you fail or if it doesn't work out, because you have that passion, you have that drive, you can always gather yourself and start again, rather than saying, ah, waste the money, waste the money. That's when you start going to the story of your friend where they did so.
Speaker 1:It's always to do with passion, drive and, uh, having the long knowledge, having the experience, having the knowledge of what you want to do. Yeah, you can have capital. You can say I want to do this, but have you invested time in learning what you're learning? Yeah, the thing. Have you invested time in in getting to the know-how? Yeah, yeah, so it's always. It's always having to self-introspect and having to, um, put yourself out there and say, okay, let me learn this. As much as I'm learning, am I going to do with it in the long run. Yeah, true, okay, just to add on, you know, I mean, I think when it comes to businesses as well, or anything that someone can start, I'm also looking at a situation. Obviously, the learning part is very important, the passion is very important, but at the same time, I think anything that is a cash business is something that someone can start, because where you know I've put in a dollar, it's going to most probably compound it makes it easier, I like when you have too much bigger vision that you want to drive, that takes a lot of time and energy and effort. Time and energy and effort. Sometimes it's always good to start at a place where it just allows you to then build baby steps towards that bigger thing that you have in mind. But at the end of the day, everything starts off at learning and trying to understand what it is that you want to put your head on.
Speaker 1:And tell me about Christianity you know Christianity, you as a Christian. How has that shaped you as a person? Even as you go out there, you travel the world, you know what keeps you grounded. It's like I said, it has been a journey, yeah, it's. Sometimes you come to a point where you realize like this is, this is I can't do this. I'm a Christian, you know it's also to do with the upbringing. You know the upbringing, the values that you have as a person. So I believe, as a Christian, there are certain things that you just look at, because once you're out there, there's different people, different cultures, different beliefs and people who also have they're not Christians. They have different lifestyles, they have different lifestyles, they have different ways of thinking. So you have to just try as much as you can to focus on yourself, to be who you are, always remember your roots and always focus on God.
Speaker 1:Okay, and just in closing, what are the three lessons? Three things that you have learned through your journey of life being on a ship, three lessons that you want to leave our viewers with, that can impact also their lives on their journey that they want to. You know, whatever it is that they may want to accomplish. What are those lessons? That's a tough one. Take your time. I've learned. I've learned a lot. Three, I've learned a lot. Three. I've learned. I've learned how to interact with people. Okay, I've learned how to relate with people.
Speaker 1:Then I've also learned how to experience, because most of the when I say experience is, um, sometimes you go out there because you're traveling a lot. You've I've seen tourists, I've seen a lot of tourists, but sometimes you see people are coming as tourists, they're just taking pictures, they're just, uh, they're just focused on on, on catching a glimpse of something, right, but when are you going to experience? Yeah, so, with traveling a lot, sometimes I've just learned to just live in the moment, like, live in the moment, just experience, not take out my phone, not take a picture. There's this saying that says, um, pictures tell a story, but do pictures tell the truth? Well, it depends on how you're looking at it. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it's uh, yeah, so I've learned to to experience, like to experience, um, to experience the moment, to experience the journey.
Speaker 1:So, with traveling, I would say that's the the one thing I've learned to experience the cultures, to experience the environments, just to experience the, the, the surroundings, just to experience the place you are. Yeah, yeah, okay. So I would say that's the biggest thing, that, because what I've experienced, you can't take it away from me. Yeah, I can explain it to you, but you can't take it, it's me who has experienced it. Right, yeah, okay, interesting, yeah. So there you go From, andrew.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so life is about experiences, you know it's, it's, it's an interesting thing, you know, because you know, I think most times we are, we are, we are, we are always thinking of the next move, but sometimes you just have to live in the moment, just soak it in. Yeah, that's, that's one of the most important thing, uh, and you know the adventure of traveling, hey, for me, you know, just seeing it in photos, sometimes I'm not done, I'm not, you're not dead. Yeah, certain places I want to go, you want to go. I haven't been to asia yet. I want to go to asia, okay, I really want to go to japan, to japan, yeah, okay, I want to. What's in japan? A lot of people like japan. I don't know what's in Japan, I just want to go for the. Well, I need to.
Speaker 1:I also want to go to North Africa. I want to go to Ghana, ghana, okay, yeah, so life can be experienced. You know, you, we can experience life, even where we are. You know, you haven't, you're not well traveled, but the most important thing is about experiencing your. Your important thing is about experiencing your, your backyard.
Speaker 1:You know, I've been places in, in zimbabwe, where, like last year I was like I've been to um, to goku there's a place called nimbusia, deep in in in in raw zimbabwe there. And I've been to muinezi and you're like, okay, there are places beautiful, yeah, it is. So, you see, you're like there are places like this out here. So I think there's always somewhere where you can go and experience life. So it's important just to have those moments. Even you know, when I visit my parents in the country, you know just the experience of just walking through the mountain areas and just you know, you just want to experience and soak it up. That's the experience I was talking about.
Speaker 1:All right, so from us it start to finish. I hope you enjoyed this episode and you learn and take away something you know that will impact your life. But it's most important to experience life. It's most important to learn because those are some of the key takeaways that Andrew was sharing with us today that you must learn, you must experience life, you know and invest in what you know. You know you can't invest in something that you don't know. Understand it first. And once you understand it, then you know, you do your pros and cons in your head to say, okay, fine, can I put my resource in this business and, yeah, life takes on from there. So thank you for watching.