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BEWARE OF THE SLIPPERY FLOOR!

Beware of the slippery floor!!

I visited one of the posh supermarkets in our suburbs the other day and apart from the usual flock of people at end month doing their shopping, I saw the warning sign, ‘Beware of slippery floor’. This got me thinking, there are at times when we really need to take our own responsibilities in life. Just imagine how at this supermarket there is total security round the clock, you could notice from the many CCTV cameras and at every corner there stands a supermarket attendant to watch and guide people .However with all this, it requires ones initiative to take precautionary measure.
This means that in our own ways, even though with all the support systems we have at our disposal, we have a role to play, in developing our lives and extending this to the larger society; otherwise you would fall on the tiled floor and crush your skull.

February 8, 2010 | 3:21 PM Comments  0 comments

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I KNOW THAT TODAY.........

MY MIND IS MADE UP!

Today I will make a difference. I will begin by controlling my thoughts.

Proverbs 23:7
for as a man thinks in his heart so is he.

A person is the product of his thoughts. I want to be happy and hopeful. Therefore, I will have thoughts that are happy and hopeful. I refuse to be victimized by my circumstances. I will not let petty inconveniences such as traffic jams, long lines, congestion and delays are my masters. I will avoid negativity and gossip. Optimism will be my companion, and victory will be my hallmark.
Today I will make a difference.

I will be grateful for the twenty-four hours that are before me.

Ecclesiastes 3:1
TO EVERYTHING there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven:

Time is a precious commodity. I refuse to allow what little time I have to be contaminated by self-pity, anxiety, or boredom. I will face this day with the joy of a child and the courage of a giant. I will drink each minute as though it is my last. When tomorrow comes, today will be gone forever. While it is here, I will use it for loving and giving, being all I can be as I give glory and honor to my Lord and creator.
Today I will make a difference.

I will not let past failures haunt me.

Philippians 3:13-14
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things, which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things, which are before,
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Even though my life is scarred with mistakes, I refuse to rummage through my trash heap of failures. I will admit them. I will correct them. I will press on, victoriously. No failure is fatal. It's OK to stumble... I will get up. It's OK to fail... I will rise again because I know that my God has a good plan for my life.
Today I will make a difference.

I will spend time with those I love. My family and friends.

Psalm 68:6 (New International Version)
6 God sets the lonely in families, he leads forth the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.

A man can own the world but be poor for the lack of love. A man can own nothing and yet be wealthy in relationships. Today I will spend at least five minutes with the significant people in my world. Five quality minutes of talking, hugging, thanking or listening.

I don’t know about you, but personally I am not waiting for the right circumstances or someone else to do it for me my mind is made up:
Today I will make a difference.

PRACTICAL APPLICATION

I will be careful what I think, use my time wisely, forge ahead and forget the things that are behind me and make sure my family and friends know I love them and I appreciate the value they add to my life.
Today I will make a difference!

February 1, 2010 | 2:30 AM Comments  0 comments

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..LIFE IS THE COFFEE...ENJOY IT..
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LIFE IS THE COFFEE…ENJOY IT.

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor at Kenyatta University. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and in life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:

"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

"What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and do not change the quality of Life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided. So, don't let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead."

November 7, 2009 | 12:48 AM Comments  0 comments

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CHORA BIZNA 'ENABLIS LAUNCHPAD COMPETITION' 2009
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CHORA BIZNA ‘ENABLIS LAUNCHPAD’ COMPETITION 2009.

Hi TIG members and Kenyan youths!

The Chora Bizna ‘Enablis Launchpad’ competition 2009 kicked off from 12th Feb, 2009 and will run on to 22nd April, 2009. This is a national business plan competition, an initiative from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Enablis Launchpad. A total of 6 Million shillings in prizes will be won.

The objective of the Chora Bizna ‘Enablis Launchpad’ being; to promote, inculcate and celebrate entrepreneurship in Kenya and therefore, the business plan competition becomes the vehicle it rides on.

This offers the Kenyan Youths with great start-ups ideas and enterprises ready to grow a chance to put them down on paper. I would urge all and sundry, to leave their comfort zones and play it smart and embrace the chance for growing and developing in the business arena.

For more information, you can log in to www.chorabizna.co.ke
Tafakari hayo!


March 5, 2009 | 4:12 AM Comments  0 comments

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BOYS, BEWARE, OR ELSE.....................................................................
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BOYS, BEWARE OR ELSE…………………………

Women may not be equal to men in the economy but girls are ahead of boys, research shows, this is the new gender gap. From kindergarten to graduate school, girls are outperforming boys and continue having higher graduation rates. This is a problem surfacing and by this, I need not be branded gender insensitive.

The debate so far has always been to award positions equally between sexes. The current Kenyan government slotting 30% of governments positions to women.

It may still be a man’s world, but it is no longer, in a way, a boy’s. From his first days in school, an average boy is a developmentally two years behind the girls in reading and writing. Yet he is often expected to learn the same things in the same way in the same amount of time. And not seeming to oppose the recently adopted sexual offences act, and this points out why at first the members of the 9th August House were opposed to the bill brought on the floor of the house by the then nominated MP, Hon Njoki Ndungu, hug a girl, and the boy is labeled a ‘toucher’ and swiftly suspended –a result of what some say is an increasingly anti-boy culture that pathologies their behavior.

If he falls behind in class, he’s mentally retarded and thus is shipped off to special education, where he’ll find that more than 70% of his classmates are also boys. If he squirms, clown or interrupt and he is four times likely to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. That often leads to being forced to take Ritalin or risk being expelled.

Once a boy makes it to high school today, he is likely to fall back even further. Not even science and math remain his bastions, and while the girls are busy working on sweeping the honor roll at graduation, the boy is more likely to be in gym trying to adorn a physique seen of a steroid-fed body on magazine or behind the computer on his playstation 2 or downloading rapper 50 cent on his i-Pod or mobile phone.
As for college, at least it’s easier for the guys to get a date. But now, women continue to outnumber men on our colleges and campuses. For example, at Kenyatta university’s Ruiru Campus, it is observed that enrollments for girls have risen in the recent past, a show that parents are focusing on investing on their girls’ education whereas that of men is on a downward trend.

If the creeping pattern of male disengagement and economic dependency continues, more men could end up becoming losers in a global economy that value mental powers over might. The spotlight remains firmly on girls.

A new world has opened up for girls, but unless a symmetrical effort is made to help boys find their footing, it ma y turn out to be a lonely place to be .It takes more than one gender to have a gender revolution. Therefore, if we have a ‘Girl’s project’ lets have a ‘Boy’s’ project on the other side. If it’s a Maendeleo ya Wanawake (Women development organization), likewise we have a Maendeleo ya Wanaume (Men development organization) .Tafakari haya! (Ponder this!)

March 4, 2009 | 11:04 AM Comments  0 comments

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DIRT IS GOOD, ONLY WHEN......................
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DIRT IS GOOD, ONLY WHEN…………..

Learning is a lifelong process that results to a change of behavior due to acquisition of well defined knowledge, character, skills, attitudes and values. This acquisition is majorly as a result of our interaction with the environment, through observation and experiences. It’s lifelong, since it starts from the point one is born and stops when one dies.

One of the rules of being human is that, there will always be lessons to learn (and I hope this will be one) and until one is learnt, a person cannot proceed to the next lesson.
An instance that amazes me is, seeing children play. Their innocence and vigor is one to reckon with. They would literally leave no stone unturned, when it comes to playing.
This becomes a very important aspect in their daily growth as it helps them resolve their conflicts and relieve tension, a concept psychologists refer to as “play therapy”

I like the slogan “DIRT IS GOOD” in one of a local detergent’s advert, and true to its word, children would never learn anything –from walking, touching, talking, eating e.t.c- without their interaction with dirt. However, looking deeper and reflecting further, the question that arises is, what impacts does dirt have if it is inside us? Wouldn’t they be so devastating?

I would paint this dirt as the many vices and social ills that exist in our societies today, them including corruption, irresponsible sexual behaviors, undemocratic and coercive governance among others. The impacts of these ‘dirts’ of which we know are terrible, leaves many a society languishing in debt, poverty, civil strife and even death.

The other day I was walking around the street and I saw on a guys’ t-shirt the words ‘I like this shirt because it hides the dirt’ and this left me thinking why some selfish leaders would want to hold on to positions of power, probably because of what those offices hides for them, the dirt, so to speak.

Omo- the detergent- should clarify even further, that dirt is good only and only when, it is on the outside. Tafakari haya! (Ponder this!)


February 24, 2009 | 12:01 PM Comments  0 comments

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YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS CLUBS IN LEARNING INSTITUTIONS
Related to country: Kenya

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YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS CLUBS IN LEARNING INSTITUTIONS.

One of the major challenges of youth as outlined in the Kenya National Youth Policy is unemployment and underemployment. Given this situation, the government through the ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MOYAS) intends to establish Young Entrepreneurs Clubs in all Learning Institutions (YECLI), in conjunction with the Ministry of Education.

Statistics show that the largest number of youth from each level of education system will not find a place in the next higher level and will not find a job in the formal sector. In this context, the MOYAS has seen the need to explore other strategies of developing the entrepreneurial culture at all levels of education and training i.e. primary, secondary and tertiary.

The current entrepreneurship programs have faced various challenges and limitations ranging from design, implementation and evaluation and hence have not been instrumental in facilitating the establishment of new enterprises. In addition, Entrepreneurship Education in Kenya is seen as part of the general education of young people in preparation for the world of work. However, the inculcation of entrepreneurial culture entails a change of attitudes and mindset that is a process and can best be achieved if started at an early age.

It is towards this end, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports initiates a countrywide Young Entrepreneur Clubs in Learning Institutions. This initiative will directly contribute to the overall goal of vision 2030’ and more specifically to the social and economic pillar as well as to facilitate the development of the e-behavior.

The objectives of the (YECLI) being:-

> To produce creative, innovative, enduring, practical and business-oriented youth.
> To develop and strengthen entrepreneurial behavior or character among the young learners.
> To create an environment in which learners prosper and respect entrepreneurship as a career.
> To sensitize youth with emerging opportunities in farming business, manufacturing and service sectors through explanatory and discovery strategies.
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A very welcome initiative it is, indeed.

February 17, 2009 | 12:00 PM Comments  0 comments

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