With only a couple of hours to go before ushering the new year i want to take a few minutes and do the last 'pouring' out from my heart of 2009.
This year, i have blogged like never before and i have enjoyed and loved every minute of it. What i enjoy even more is going back to my older post and looking at where i have been and where i am now. In this process of capturing and cherishing the moments as well as sharing the events of my life i have learn't many lesson but what makes me even happier is learning that i have also been able to inspire others through writing.
A couple of years back if you were ever to ask me, i would have sworn that i was never born for writing and nothing artistic could be associated with me. Today i acknowledge that nothing is impossible as long as you put your heart to it and have passion for it. I have realised potential that i never thought existed in me!
Before i deviate any further, let me go back to the genesis of this post. This second last day of the year 2009 i want to say a big THANK YOU to all my blog 'fans' many of you are anonymous but i also know many of you :), whats the point of writing and having no one to read yah. To all those who i have inspired to start blogging, i am humbled and wish you the very best as we share. Learning comes from sharing and i hope that many more of my friends will also start blogging then we can all learn from each other.
As we usher in the new year i wish all my readers and friends the Very Nice Stuff that they desire for 2010.
Happy New Year with lots of love, Kamama
12/30/2009
12/29/2009
An analysis of an article
To anyone who can get a copy of October's issue if True Love magazine this is one story that i would encourage you all to read, it deeply touched me i just had to weigh in my thoughts!
12/22/2009
Note from mama
There is this note that my mum gave me when i was joining campus for my undergraduate (The teen's creed for teenagers to remember), that every time i read it it touches the very sensitive parts of my heart.
This is what is says;
Don't let your parents down, they brought you up.
Be humble enough to obey, you may give orders some day.
Choose companions with care, you become what they are.
Guard your thoughts what you think you are.
Choose only a date who would make a good mate.
Be a master of your habits or they will master you.
Don't be a show off when you drive. Drive with safety and arrive.
Don't let the crowd pressure you.
Stand for something or you will fall for anything.
This is what is says;
Don't let your parents down, they brought you up.
Be humble enough to obey, you may give orders some day.
Choose companions with care, you become what they are.
Guard your thoughts what you think you are.
Choose only a date who would make a good mate.
Be a master of your habits or they will master you.
Don't be a show off when you drive. Drive with safety and arrive.
Don't let the crowd pressure you.
Stand for something or you will fall for anything.
12/09/2009
Six basic fears
I don't know why am so much into this positive thinking and self development and mastery stuff of late.
Either am trying to come out of something and i need the motivation or am struggling to achieve something or maybe i feel like am not realizing my full potential or maybe this is just me. But one thing i know for certain about this day is that am trying hard to put a brave face for the world because the inside feels a little scuttled.
From Robin Sharma, to my collection of inspiration thoughts (recent blog posts) and now the latest, this from the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
In order of their most common appearance;
1. Poverty
2. Criticism
3. Ill health
4. Loss of someone's love
5. Old age
6. Death
No. 3 n 4 really got my attention!
Either am trying to come out of something and i need the motivation or am struggling to achieve something or maybe i feel like am not realizing my full potential or maybe this is just me. But one thing i know for certain about this day is that am trying hard to put a brave face for the world because the inside feels a little scuttled.
From Robin Sharma, to my collection of inspiration thoughts (recent blog posts) and now the latest, this from the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
In order of their most common appearance;
1. Poverty
2. Criticism
3. Ill health
4. Loss of someone's love
5. Old age
6. Death
No. 3 n 4 really got my attention!
12/07/2009
Excellence, Passion, Self-Mastery, Beauty, Contribution
I love Robin Sharma, specifically how he expresses his words he is a motivational speaker, author and i guess plus plus many other things, one day i also hope to be a guru of some sort!
This is what he had to say under his blog titled; ONE OF THE GREATEST KEYS TO SUCCESS
A key piece to playing at your absolute best as a leader (and as a person) is to ensure that your daily schedule reflects your deepest values. Anything less is a flight from integrity.
One of the exercises I've been taking our clients through at my "Leadership in Turbulent Times" workshop is called "The 5 Main Values." I take participants through a powerful visualization where they visit themselves, not as they now are but as they want to be at the end of their career. Then they record the main 5 values they will have wished they'd worked under.
I wanted to share my own 5 Main Values with you. I hope you'll share yours with me on Twitter so we can continue this conversation. Anyway, here are the top 5 values I want to work by and stay true to:
1. EXCELLENCE. I adore this word. My goal is to work at a level of excellence, constantly refining my craft as an author and speaker - while delivering outrageous values to our clients.
2. PASSION. Without passion, nothing great every gets built. Passion fuels innovation, builds a fantastic team and makes the impossible possible. I want to express my passion in all that I do. Otherwise, what's the point?
3. SELF-MASTERY. You can't be a better leader than you are a person. So every day, I work intensely on developing my inner life. I read. I reflect. I write in a journal. I exercise. And do all those things I need to do to express my best.
4. BEAUTY. I'm an aesthete. I love beauty in all forms. So I make the time to look for beauty, in both expected and unexpected places. Interesting conversations are beautiful to me; brilliantly designed products (think Apple) are beautiful to me. Great food, fresh nature, cool architecture, a strong cup of coffee in the morning and modern art are all some of the things that fill my life with a sense of beauty.
5. CONTRIBUTION. Leadership is about doing deeds that live on long after your death. I want to do things that will help people awaken to the fact that, regardless of what they do and where they are, they have the opportunity (and responsibility) to show leadership in their work and at their life. Few things are important to me than feeling I'm making a difference for people. And doing my part to build a better world.
This is what he had to say under his blog titled; ONE OF THE GREATEST KEYS TO SUCCESS
A key piece to playing at your absolute best as a leader (and as a person) is to ensure that your daily schedule reflects your deepest values. Anything less is a flight from integrity.
One of the exercises I've been taking our clients through at my "Leadership in Turbulent Times" workshop is called "The 5 Main Values." I take participants through a powerful visualization where they visit themselves, not as they now are but as they want to be at the end of their career. Then they record the main 5 values they will have wished they'd worked under.
I wanted to share my own 5 Main Values with you. I hope you'll share yours with me on Twitter so we can continue this conversation. Anyway, here are the top 5 values I want to work by and stay true to:
1. EXCELLENCE. I adore this word. My goal is to work at a level of excellence, constantly refining my craft as an author and speaker - while delivering outrageous values to our clients.
2. PASSION. Without passion, nothing great every gets built. Passion fuels innovation, builds a fantastic team and makes the impossible possible. I want to express my passion in all that I do. Otherwise, what's the point?
3. SELF-MASTERY. You can't be a better leader than you are a person. So every day, I work intensely on developing my inner life. I read. I reflect. I write in a journal. I exercise. And do all those things I need to do to express my best.
4. BEAUTY. I'm an aesthete. I love beauty in all forms. So I make the time to look for beauty, in both expected and unexpected places. Interesting conversations are beautiful to me; brilliantly designed products (think Apple) are beautiful to me. Great food, fresh nature, cool architecture, a strong cup of coffee in the morning and modern art are all some of the things that fill my life with a sense of beauty.
5. CONTRIBUTION. Leadership is about doing deeds that live on long after your death. I want to do things that will help people awaken to the fact that, regardless of what they do and where they are, they have the opportunity (and responsibility) to show leadership in their work and at their life. Few things are important to me than feeling I'm making a difference for people. And doing my part to build a better world.
12/03/2009
Harmonised Draft Constitution
I have been feeling patriotic of late and so finally i have the constitution saved on my desktop.
Yesterday i started reading it (pat on the back....... :) thanks), a bit late but still this time around i wanna be informed, when people talk about contentious issues i want to know exactly what these issues are. My plan is to read at least 4 chapters every day, there are 21 chapters meaning that it shouldn't take me more that one week to complete it, digesting it might take a bit longer though i hope that 'lawyery' jargon's have been broken down!
From the little reviews atleast i know that i love the fact that it has provisions for dual citizenship, this is something that should make me put a yes and endorse the draft, my brothers and sisters in the diaspora must also be smiling at this. Nothing is perfect but considering we have been operating with the colloquial one i urge all Kenyans to read it and suggest on where we need to improve and finally lets adopt this thing.
This will really mark a milestone to our history.
Viva Kenya!
Yesterday i started reading it (pat on the back....... :) thanks), a bit late but still this time around i wanna be informed, when people talk about contentious issues i want to know exactly what these issues are. My plan is to read at least 4 chapters every day, there are 21 chapters meaning that it shouldn't take me more that one week to complete it, digesting it might take a bit longer though i hope that 'lawyery' jargon's have been broken down!
From the little reviews atleast i know that i love the fact that it has provisions for dual citizenship, this is something that should make me put a yes and endorse the draft, my brothers and sisters in the diaspora must also be smiling at this. Nothing is perfect but considering we have been operating with the colloquial one i urge all Kenyans to read it and suggest on where we need to improve and finally lets adopt this thing.
This will really mark a milestone to our history.
Viva Kenya!
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