Archive for the 'Personal Development' Category

Do We Care?

04Nov09

I was recently told that a mother and her two kids died last weekend after being hit by a vehicle as they tried to cross Mombasa Road.
Ever since Mombasa road was expanded (towards Athi) and recarpeted, it has become a death trap. The Standard has a story on this.
The main danger spots are at the [...]


I wonder how many people in Kenya, particularly those in positions of leadership practice non-situational integrity.
Here is what Dr Dennis Waitley has to say on this.
It means you don’t base your decisions on being politically correct. You do what’s right, not fashionable. You know that truth is absolute, not a device for manipulating others. And [...]


Money or Life?

03Apr09

I’ve been reading about Money! Yes money… 

It seems that the whole world revolves around money:

Yesterday the G-20 nations voted for a 1 TRILLION $ stimulus package (mind boggling figure – $1 000 000 000 000 ) . 
There’s clamour for Kenyan MPs and other senior office bearers to pay taxes on their full allowances.
Everyone is looking [...]


I recently began to slowly apply some of the basic things I’ve been listening to and reading from the likes of Jim Rohn, Dennis Waitley and Brian Tracy.
One of this is getting stuff done. Meeting goals and targets.
Its elementary really: since a good number of people go into shopping centres and markets with a shopping [...]


My milestone 200th Blog Post
I got a second opportunity to listen to Eric Kimani, CEO of Sameer Group as well as founder of Palmhouse Foundation.
Eric Kimani is a highly successful Kenyan, and is becoming someone I would like to emulate in many areas of my life. There are very few people in Kenya, [...]


Marathon

31Oct07

The RaceJust about recovered from running 21 km in just over 2 hours in the Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon
I decided that I shall upgrade from the 10km race which I did last year in a not too bad time (but do I say )
I had not done as much training this year [...]


It’s probably not too new to everyone but I did not know about it until this morning. Lots of podcasts available from institutions like MIT (MIT OpenCourseWare), University of Carlifornia Berkeley.
Visit the iTunes store (using iTunes of course ) and look for the iTunes U link.


CashFlow 101

23Apr07

I played CashFlow® 101 yesterday for the first time with friends.
I must say it is quite an entertaining game yet at the same time a learning experience. It took us a bit of time to get up and running as we all had to understand the rules of the game. Too bad we did not [...]


Learning: Ruby

19Apr07

Stephen Covey says that one’s current knowledge has a half life of 2 years at most.
Dennis Waitley goes on and on about dedicating oneself to ‘Life Long Learning‘. It’s always good to keep learning something so as to remain relevant in today’s knowledge based economy.
I feel that I’ll always dabbling in technology. So, I have [...]


My Easter Meditation:
Thank you for the cross, LordThank you for the price You paidBearing all my sin and shameIn love You cameAnd gave amazing grace
Thank you for this love, LordThank you for the nail pierced handsWashed me in Your cleansing flowNow all I knowYour forgiveness and embrace
Worthy is the LambSeated on the throneCrown You now [...]