Please take it to them

I listened to the head of the state giving his speech on their plans for the increase in urban population and I detected lack of creativity.

With the current trend, likelyhood is that half of Kenyans shall be living in urban set-up by 2030.

 Our government's plan is to put up more affordable houses as a way of preparation.
Now my questions are >>> With the current digitization do we need people to come to work or make a living in town?...
Isn't it time we started decentralizing services and development even to rural areas?

We have turned Kiambu from a green land to a grey one just because we are creating more room for people to come to Nairobi.
We are clearing Ngong forest as we put up structures.

We are forcing more people to come to towns yet we are not expanding the services at the same rate.
Like here in Nairobi many estates go for days without water.
Waste management is disasterous.
We are more than the roads can accommodate.
Visit Githurai, Keep an eye on our roads.
We spend unecessary time on the roads instead of being productive.

This is not only in Nairobi, even my small* town in Meru.
I hear they have started constructing by-passes too!

Hon Kidero wants to reclaim the Embakasi Baracks to put up affordable houses.
Sir, what roads shall they use to the CBD or even out of it?
I used to spend an hour plus from Cabbanas to Ruiru sometimes back via the by-pass.
I bet the people you want to invite over there shall opt to walk rather than use the available roads.
Kindly save them this headache and instead campaign to make their lives better from wherever they are.
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IT IS YOUR BUSINESS

To have things the way you want, it is your business. Every rational human being wants the best for themselves. Probably for their relations too. For this to happen, it is for the particular individual to make it happen.

To have that job of your dream, it is your business. Go slow on blaming the system or the authorities. Sure thing is: Someone will land the job. Why does it have to be the other person and not you? Certainly there are reasons to that. It could be they have better skills than yourself. Or they are better connected than you. Whatever makes them win the job at last is most likely not exclusive to them. You too can acquire the same skills and land the job. My point here is: Learn the skills that the people occupying those positions have. Constantly improve yourself towards that end. Keep yourself on the right and fast lane towards that job. You will soon be there.

To end corruption is your business. The system is corrupt. Individuals make the system corrupt. Hence it is the individuals comprising the system that are corrupt. If the individuals pursued what negates the vice, we would easily have a corruption-free system.

To excel academically is your business. Whatever the teacher can teach, you can also get it by yourself. Take the initiative to learn than just sit and wait to be taught. Take the initiative to be a learner instead of just being a student. Be creative. Take a SWOT Analysis of thyself. Know what learning methods best work for you. Often change the strategies to suit your needs at the moment. Keep analyzing the problems that you continually encounter. Look into all the angles and identify from what angle you should start solving them. Good thing is: All problems that we come across have a remedy. Show me one that doesn’t have. It is the learners business to ensure they can answer all the questions they come across. It is the learner’s business to adequately prepare for exams. Stop pointing fingers at others and start seeking possibilities whose origin ought to be within you.

Achieving a clean environment is your business. A better climate starts with each one of us. Who litters the place? Who contributes to drying up of water catchment area? What leads to some species becoming extinct? Largely, it is me and you. I do my part, you do yours and we shall be safe.

To get a system right, the very basic components on which the system’s foundation is based ought to be right themselves. Continents make up our planet. These continents comprise nations which are made up of families. The families are made up of individuals. The top bodies such as the UN is a reflection of the kind of society we are. So I believe. The best and easiest way to have things right at the top, is by having them right with individuals first. That’s how it is your business.

FAITH and HOPE: Involuntarily present in all

Goodbye! See you later! The moment ‘later’ is behold our control, but we often refer to it. This is because we hope that it shall surely come to pass.

Where do you want to find yourself in the next five years? That has become a common question from my fellow interviewers. One proceeds to give their plans and aspirations for the future, which clearly lies outside their locus of control. This is because they hope they shall live to accomplish their desires and plans. They not only hope, but are highly convinced that whatever their plans are, they shall be able to meet them. If this passion has deep roots from within the individual, such people surely come to succeed in their plans.

FAITH is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see (Hebrews 11:1)

Whether an individual has some religious attachment or not, I am convinced that every living human being has an element of faith. Strong faith in a number of instances. That is why we have strategic plans into the future. Take a simple example of scheduling for the next day’s activities at your desk. It sounds rather obvious, but in case you did not have real conviction of getting into the office the next day, you may not even plan at all.

“Though deceitful, hope is the last thing that dies in a human being” Hope keeps us going. It is termed as deceitful because all our hopes do not necessarily add up to anything. This is how frustration comes in. However, hope at least keeps us going up to the point of frustration. Then we develop new hope and start all over again. When hope dies in us, we are dead as well. Consider an individual who commits suicide. They must have lost all hope. They could not see any single reason why they ought to continue existing.

ATTITUDE is termed to give us a 100% result of our effort. In its totality, our attitude ought to achieve the 100%. The weaker it becomes, the lesser the achievement. Faith and hope help us to achieve the right level of attitude. We achieve a positive attitude in equal measure of the levels of faith and hope in us. For super result, we need a perfect mix of faith and hope.

Ever came across and individual who talks of things hoped for with great confidence? To an extent of not giving room to ‘what ifs’? We term such persons as obsessed, possessed or perhaps crazy. Surprisingly, they live to achieve their desires. If they do not, then be sure they are dead. This kind of conviction takes them to any extremes as they chase their visions. Often ready even to face death. What do you think drives the minds behind the Solar Impulse 2?

Certainly, there is one who made the universe, everything in it and fixed the order as we see it today. He is surrounded by mystery. He is a mystery himself. No one ever made an account of Him successfully. Not even Christ himself. Whether you pledge allegiance to Him or not, what is clear is that you do so unconsciously, constantly and daily. There are those things you can neither control nor direct. That is where He comes in. The back to everything stops with Him who made the universe. There can’t be debate on this.

For ordinary things we do not choose whether to be hopeful or not. We are hopeful by default. This kind of believing or being hopeful is quite weak. It may not distinguish the great from the commons. The level that makes such distinction has to be nurtured in us. A lot of effort goes into growing it.

Before I wind up, let me mention about MEDITATION and how it can strengthen the two above. Now that faith and hope is more of the state of mind than reality, meditation can help make the state stronger. Via meditation, we can convince our minds of great things that the body may find outrageous. Positive meditation can strengthen our minds to achieve whatever it is that we convince ourselves of. Negative meditation too has the power to weaken our energies and ruin us.