Show me your friends and I will tell you what kind of person you are. The company you keep reflects on you. Birds of a feather flock together. People assume you are just like the people you hang out with. Have you ever done an audit of the kind of people you allow into your space? (more…)
What if you dared to be different? What if you did not feel the need to conform to social norms or succumb to peer-pressure? What impact would that have on your happiness and success? Many of us do not realize that by trying to conform to social conditioning, we may be unknowingly limiting our success. If you do what everyone else is doing, what will make you special? What will give you an edge? (more…)
Given a long enough time line, people do not remember what you say to them. They only remember how you made them feel. Be careful how you make people feel. Be sensitive about people’s emotional states. Take the time to be more attuned to emotions and adjust our words to suit the occasion or prevailing mood. (more…)
A lot has been written about stuff white people like, stuff black people like and even stuff Kenyans like. Many of the people reading this blog are positive people so I thought of creating a list of stuff positive people like. It is good to have a laugh at ourselves every now and again. (more…)
You will need other people in order to reach the apex of your success. Call it standing on the shoulders of giants or what you may. Contacts building strategies are vital for the upwardly mobile. A winning contacts building strategy focuses on quality & sustainability not just numbers for the sake of numbers. (more…)
Those who create sustainable success do it by building others up. Succeeding at the expense of others or by putting people down is a mean habit and often a recipe for long term failure. The people you surround yourself with and your attitude towards other people will determine your level of success.
Have you ever been discriminated against? I have. Have you ever been treated like you are not there? I have. Have you ever been made to feel insignificant? I have. Have you ever been made to feel like you were invisible? I have. (more…)
Every time someone rings me and says those magic words “have you heard? bla bla bla”, I automatically get ready for a dose of gossip. Oh Gossip, why do we love you? Oh Gossip, why wont we cast you aside and replace you with more meaningful pursuits in life. Are you addicted to hot juicy gossip? Do you know what gossip does to your success in life? (more…)
People have a beautiful side and a not so beautiful side to them. That is why you can find someone so attractive one day and want to run away from them the next day. You can bring out the best in your partner, friend, business associate or even strangers by following the following tips. (more…)
Racism is real, nasty but quickly becoming old school. People are still being denied opportunities because of the colour of their skin. But we have come a long way. America now has a couple of black kids calling white house home. I am from Kenya and writing this from a great country called Australia, a country that only abolished the White Australia Policy in 1973. Welcome to my candid view of racism and success. (more…)
Regardless of what success means to you, you can attain it faster by building others up instead of bringing them down. Success is sweeter when you help someone else up. It is all too easy to criticize others to “show them how things are supposed to be”. But instead of criticizing others, why not try and see the good in them and play it up? (more…)
