Author Archives: TPatel

Just do these three things. They will carry you if you let them with a promise that success will follow you, that’s a promise – Oprah Winfrey

If you’re looking really hard at this. Something about this whole topic has got your interest. Then the question to ask is, are you being used for your knowledge, talents, gifts etc. to remain limited or are you using your knowledge, talents, gifts etc. to live your highest and truest self? Again, do you believe that what is possible in this world is or is not possible for you? The ultimate question in this sequence is, are you using your knowledge, talents, gifts, etc. in the highest form possible to serve or what is your intention?

Illegal Dancing

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a couple make dancing so illegal,
that every place makes them legal.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a couple respecting each other’s bodies
while making a sensual bachata fatal.

Have you given away your power slowly without knowing, only to realise that the external world is dominating your value and not you?

This means that the self-sabotage makes a person believe they’re lucky, they see the positive in the situation having given up on themselves and their dreams and take the minimum good they receive. Some days go great and the days that are the hardest are the days that feel like hell. Self-sabotage compensates this because the optimistic side of the person says, “Today will be gone and done with, tomorrow this will not exist,” but what happens when it’s back again? It’s not going to go until a person chooses themselves, their heartbeat, believe that they are an awesome drummer to live life through and by their own heartbeat.

Look at the time you put into family, health, the significant other, friendships, business, and the self as a return on investment

We need the return on investment on self, health, friends, family, the significant other, and business in order to use effectively the monetary investments and gains wisely. It’s funny how cheap a funeral is compared to the “cost of the fulfilled” in the books of the living. You can have as much money as possible but it’s worthless if you’re feeling dead. – T. Dench Patel, 16 December 2020, 16:09

Your reputation, individuality, and authentic self can only take off once you let the ideas of, in some cases, the control of the pack on you go

When the hormones are everywhere and emotional intelligence is out the window, control over whose calm and the controlling, i.e., the noisier ones, tougher ones, the ones that play off being popular and cool …it all gets very shady. I mean when do we know it’s time to break free? This is a part of destiny and divine timing, and when it’s time to break free there’s massive pressure on how it’s going to be received. Every one of us has felt this in one way, shape or form. Self-made, this journey is no journey for the faint-hearted, and when dreams are big, we have to be bold – T. Dench Patel, 10 December 2020, 17:02

How one bad event/risk can paralyse and overpower all the other decisions a person can make

Now that the volcano is over, the rocks have hardened from the pressure. God! But diamonds really form deep down in the dark! We just don’t know when found what our intrinsic value is and that which we can give out – T. Dench Patel, 9 December 2020, 22:08 We just don’t know how close we are to the surface when we’ll be found, and so giving up, please, giving up is no option. Trial and test, we’re always up against something new and the line is drawn after that. That fear has given and taken from us something that we will only understand one day.

How being an extra in the arts and culture industry influenced my reasons to continue writing

When writing my books, The South African: True Colours and all other books so far, I considered this a lot, I consider the work of Indians, Asians, i.e., what this industry refers to certain writers by labelling them as BAME (Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic). BAME writers have to really go through some unrealistic hurdles to be considered as English writers or to have the opportunity to be published.