the 10% to give me wings, at the age of 9 I was a enthusiastic rugby player, one day my dad fetched me early from practice as we were walking away I heard the coach call out ”were are you taking my best player” me I thought “best player”, I can only thank God for people like that because although I was not the best of rugby players then, I became one because of his words, now I alLooking back over my life I can see the workings of powerful tongues,
many broke me down and almost killed me, yet others changed my life forever.

When I was 3 or 4 my parents, family and family friends started using their power on me,
I recall many words clearly “are you stupid”, “don't be stupid” and even “you can never do anything rite”now it did not happen every day, perhaps only once every four or five months, but that was enough, I started school at the age of six and no matter how hard I tried I just could not get anything rite, I felt stupid and the evidence of my doom was insight.

Then one school sports day things turned for me, I had always come last in athletics as in class, however I was selected to run in a 50 meter race, as I stood there I looked around at my competitors and noticed I was running against the fastest boy in the school and a few others,
oh well I thought, I will only come last again, then suddenly I felt a tap on my shoulder, I looked around and there was my mom, son she said, I know you can do it , well needless to say there was not a faster boy on that field than me that day, I won that race with legs and a heart that felt as though they were super-charged, I did not know then but I know now it was the power of my moms tongue that gave me my wings in athletics that day forward throughout my school athletic career.

There have been many such incidents in my life however sadly 90% of my school teachers killed
me but it only took the 10% to give me wings, at the age of 9 I was a enthusiastic rugby player, one day my dad fetched me early from practice as we were walking away I heard the coach call out ”were are you taking my best player” me I thought “best player”, I can only thank God for people like that because although I was not the best of rugby players then, I became one because of his words, now I als every day, perhaps only once every four or five months, but that was enough, I started school at the age of six and no matter how hard I tried I just could not get anything rite, I felt stupid and the evidence of my doom was insight.

Then one school sports day things turned for me, I had always come last in athletics as in class, however I was selected to run in a 50 meter race, as I stood there I looked around at my competitors and noticed I was running against the fastest boy in the school and a few others,
oh well I thought, I will only come last again, then suddenly I felt a tap on my shoulder, I looked around and there was my mom, son she said, I know you can do it , well needless to say there was not a faster boy on that field than me that day, I won that race with legs and a heart that felt as though they were super-charged, I did not know then but I know now it was the power of my moms tongue that gave me my wings in athletics that day forward throughout my school athletic career.

There have been many such incidents in my life however sadly 90% of my school teachers killed
me but it only took the 10% to give me wings, at the age of 9 I was a enthusiastic rugby player, one day my dad fetched me early from practice as we were walking away I heard the coach call out ”were are you taking my best player” me I thought “best player”, I can only thank God for people like that because although I was not the best of rugby players then, I became one because of his words, now I alter race, as I stood there I looked around at my competitors and noticed I was running against the fastest boy in the school and a few others,
oh well I thought, I will only come last again, then suddenly I felt a tap on my shoulder, I looked around and there was my mom, son she said, I know you can do it , well needless to say there was not a faster boy on that field than me that day, I won that race with legs and a heart that felt as though they were super-charged, I did not know then but I know now it was the power of my moms tongue that gave me my wings in athletics that day forward throughout my school athletic career.

There have been many such incidents in my life however sadly 90% of my school teachers killed
me but it only took the 10% to give me wings, at the age of 9 I was a enthusiastic rugby player, one day my dad fetched me early from practice as we were walking away I heard the coach call out ”were are you taking my best player” me I thought “best player”, I can only thank God for people like that because although I was not the best of rugby players then, I became one because of his words, now I althat day, I won that race with legs and a heart that felt as though they were super-charged, I did not know then but I know now it was the power of my moms tongue that gave me my wings in athletics that day forward throughout my school athletic career.

There have been many such incidents in my life however sadly 90% of my school teachers killed
me but it only took the 10% to give me wings, at the age of 9 I was a enthusiastic rugby player, one day my dad fetched me early from practice as we were walking away I heard the coach call out ”were are you taking my best player” me I thought “best player”, I can only thank God for people like that because although I was not the best of rugby players then, I became one because of his words, now I althe 10% to give me wings, at the age of 9 I was a enthusiastic rugby player, one day my dad fetched me early from practice as we were walking away I heard the coach call out ”were are you taking my best player” me I thought “best player”, I can only thank God for people like that because although I was not the best of rugby players then, I became one because of his words, now I also had a cricket coach and one day after hitting a bad ball he shouted out,
“Fred your cricketing days are over” after hearing that they were, no matter how hard I tried my cricketing days were over and I never played the sport again and became a mere spectator.

As in sport my educational future also seemed largely determined by my teachers, I had a mathematics teacher that told me one day that I will never get it, that helping me was useless,
she often wrote remarks in my book and little did she know that she killed me, I could never
succeed in mathematics ever after that year unlike my science and afrikaans subjects that were taught my another wonderful lady who knew the power of the tongue and how to use it, she helped turn my school career around and for the two years I was there success was mine.

Parents also never realise the power they have, I often failed because my parents misused their tongues, not because they were bad people, and much of the time when I succeeded it was when they had a good words for me, I once asked my dad why they named me Frederick, I really did not like that name, what he said that day once again changed my life forever.
He told me that they named me after my grandfather and then he said,
do you know that you name means peaceful ruler, you are born to rule he said,
the workings of what he said that day had a huge impact on my life, do you know that since then
I have always been in leadership positions from being a prefect