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"