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#OdeToYouth Lesson 13: Take time to do something – while you have it

It has been a while since I last posted something on this series that I started months ago. The delay is a combination of things – the difficulty of managing an ever demanding schedule of two leadership jobs, of learning, of taking responsibility for family and co-workers and so much more. I reflect lately that I …

Lesson 10: Goals are guidelines not laws written on tablet

When I was in my late teens, I read somewhere that I should set my life goals. In that book, which I now cannot remember, it was suggested that the way to do it was to imagine yourself as an old person, on your deathbed. Imagine that all your limbs and eyes and ears dont work …

#OdeToYouth Lesson 9: Think differently about money

Guest blogger, my friend from Passionately Kenyan just sent me the blog that I could never have written better. Lesson 10 of the #OdeToYouth series. You are in your mid 20’s or early 30’s. You have a job. You have a nice crib somewhere, a flat screen, a home theatre- you can chill and feel nice. …

#OdeToYouth 8: Your 20’s “TurnUp” turns up in your 30’s

At some point when I was in my twenties, I did very many jobs – at one time, I had five jobs: I was working in a small consulting firm business from 7am-4pm, a cyber cafe (they were necessary and mainstream those days) from 4.30pm to 7.30pm, I served cocktails in a hotel from 8pm to midnight …

#OdeToYouth: Lesson 7 – Have a healthy respect for booze, it has the power to ruin you

“Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whisky, and a dog to eat the rare steak.” These words by famous TV show Late Night host, Johnny Carson often ring true to me. I do enjoy my whisky. In fact, I daresay that I frequently take Penicillin’s inventor, Alexander Fleming’s advice: “A good gulp of hot …

I am a writer first and foremost. I am passionate about social entrepreneurship, which I define by finding ways to innovate the world’s processes to make life better for people – whether in business or in the non-profit sector. I am professionally involved at the Open Institute, Thellesi Co and various agricultural ventures.