Discipline

Just like in sports, in life DISCIPLINE is an important pillar to success. To borrow from the volleyball and football federations in Kenya. The latter is beleaguered with management wrangles year in year out that even securing a friendly match between the national team and a domestic club is a headache while the former has it's house in order and thus the national team has been able to qualify for the world cup championships severally.
The state of the domestic football league is deplorable, there are two national teams at all stages along the two factions fighting for control at the top, while those suffering are the fans and the players.
Back to discipline, one must carry on their affairs in an organized and consistent manner to assure of convincing results in the end. More important is the mental discipline and stamina to accomplish the tasks one has set out to pursue. They must go about their business with singleness of purpose, defining the end game or the victory succinctly otherwise life becomes a bad case of music chairs!

Discipline is remembering what you want. - David Campbell

It's not the work that's hard, it's the discipline. - Anonymous

Lessons from the road!

Many of us venture into business with high hopes of making it! Of interest are the people who run their businesses through other people! Naturally as the business outgrows you, you have to bring in someone else to oversee things for you! However what is the quality of these poeple that we get to manage our businesses for us? 
Do thay have the capacity to do what is in our bests interests and tomake "the right decisions"?

Picture this; you are in a public transportation vehicle during rush hour, our roads being what they are the jam is clogged upto your neck, ignoringthe traffic lights installed 
the all knowing traffic cops are controlling traffic and let cars to go as they deem fit. After a good ten minutes 
waiting its your sides turn, as you sigh in relief because you have an urgent appointment the drive pulls into 
the stge to beckon passenger to board before he can proceed...for a "mere" Kes 20 each with three seats into town... 
and "wastes" a good two minutes!!  Sure enough as the the little voice in your head said your side is halted 
as you pull out of the stage...having netted zero customers!!!

Now you dont have the right to be angry at this guy... or even furiuos, but you are and you tell him as much, you are thinking your willbe late for the appointment, but wait you wonder is the amount of fuel you burn
waiting inturn worth the Kes 60 he would have picked, what about the lsot opportunity of the passengers waiting in queue at the stage to be taken home, what about the lost man hours!

Is this guy making the right decision for his principle your ponder? How many times does this happen, day in day out!! Does the principle making aprofit at this rate? Does have any training on running a business? Hey there he is a transport business manager!! The train of questions really is endless!

In the end you realize that success in business is hinged on the kind of people managing it! If they lack in capability then the business suffers, but if they have the capacity the resulst will be 
stellar! To rephrase one of the great business minds of our time;

"If a good business is run by management with a poor reputation, in the end it is the managements' reputation that will stand"

"One has to change one's strategy every ten years in order to maintain one's superiority"

These are the wise words of Napoleon Bonaparte and truly one has to seek new begginings every now and then in order to keep up with our fast moving world and to mantain relevance in the same. However unlike times before the frames need not be ten years but much shorter.

To seek renewal and rejuvination by breaking with tradition and doing what is considered unconventional allows one to see the world a little differently, to experience things hitherto unkown, to increase in wisdom and knowledge and to really have a different perspective of life.

My attestation is that renewal really changes one's life!!

How do you sort out differences? You can hold out and wait for the counter party to come apologising for the misunderstanding and then initiate the reconciliation process, however experience has taught me that this route rarely works!!
It is more gratifying to reach out to your counterparty and initiate the reconciliation process and especially if you have been wronged. It not only gives you an edge in the discussions but also builds trust in your future dealings with the party in question.
To err is human but to cut someone some slack is noble

Sometimes things come to ahead and you feel like th world is all crumbling in on you, however one question you need to ask is whether they could be worse. If your answer be "YES" then you are forewarned to start preparing for the worse. However if your answer is "NO" then you can only smile and look forward to ans improved situation!! Therefore regardless of how thick things have been, you have all  reason to stay positive and face the future with more confidene!

Blessed is the man who walketh not in the path of the ungodly

It has been said by the wisemen of yore that a man should weigh his words carefully before they are uttered! Once these are said they are gone like the wind and cannot be reversed.

The irritractable damage and pain that words cause cannot be mend by words again, it is not a case of fighting fire with fire.

Words lead to life changing experiences be they good ones or irreconcilable differences. Words make or break relations, sooth or add to the pain, fuel or quench fights, get or loose you what you desire, please or disgust a loved one.

Choose then your words carefully to enable you foster relations that will make your journey on earth a pleasant one, lest you die with sorrow and regrets seated on your lap.

"The words of a foolish man are his downfall"