The best way to make it in service industries is to get really good at one thing. Specialize as much as you can. That is how you capture the market.
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Working hard to afford your children’s fees, and a good life is truly noble. However, given the dynamics of raising children in this generation, it’s more important to spend time with them, teach them the proper behaviour, and listen to their challenges.
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The future of your business depends on the type of employees you are recruiting. That means the candidate you will be hiring should see the bigger picture for the company.
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Leaders like Nabongo Mumia bore the responsibility of dealing with (colonists) on behalf of their people. But while most saw this invasion as a major problem, Mumia saw an opportunity to strengthen his kingdom.
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Always remember, no matter how dreadful change is, there’s still something you’ll learn from it either positive or negative. Whichever the situation, you won’t be where you were yesterday.
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By giving up our identity, we lost the power of self-determination. And by letting others define who we are, we were relegated to the side notes of history.
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Instead of reserving counselling to a particular class of people, ask yourself, what’s your child’s mental health worth? I bet it’s more than Kshs. 2000.
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You are a man, and thou shall not cry nor share your emotions. That’s what manhood is about. But what happens when they can’t process their emotional turmoil?
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If you convince yourself that you are not good enough, you limit yourself from opportunities that could potentially take you a step closer to your dreams. It’s a perfect case scenario of disqualifying yourself before you even try.
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We have been conditioned to believe that confrontation is ‘wrong’ and that one will hurt someone’s feelings, be deemed disrespectful or cause upheaval if they do it; the safer route is to be dishonest, hypocritical and compromise our integrity.
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Self-awareness is the ability to see or have a crystal-clear understanding of who you are as a person. It gives you a chance to reflect on your abilities, strengths, talents, interests and uniqueness.
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We trick ourselves into living below our potential to protect our ego and our identity. And then when we do try to set high expectations for ourselves, we only kind of sort of do it so we still have that out.
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But what if we took the responsibility of writing our own eulogy? Imaging our death and knowing exactly what we would want to hear from our loved ones and then living our lives in this same light.
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Africans bring plenty of fresh perspective to the world – untested ways of doing things. These new perspectives could be useful in making the world a better place for all of humanity.
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The rising commercial viability of film has been brought about by the individual efforts of various stakeholders. Not the government, or aid-givers, but ordinary Kenyans who are pushing the boundaries of what is possible.
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Somewhere in between closed doors and banging others to open, the gods of employment saw the struggles of Kenyan youths and opened up countless opportunities in the online marketplace
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You will be tempted to throw in the towel when you don’t succeed the first few times. You will feel the urge to do something more ‘practical’, to be more ‘realistic’. You must resist.
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Since we all have different paths in life, it becomes critical to pursue only the things that bring us fulfillment, things we are proud of and only the things that give us meaning-a life of purpose.
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Inspirational leaders are few and far apart. When they emerge, they shine like beacons of hope, reminding us that there is still tremendous good within us.
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For all its horrors, Covid-19 has taught us a very important lesson on personal responsibility. Separated from friends, family, and colleagues, you simply had to learn to stand on your own feet.
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Everyone’s views are deeply rooted in a person’s experiences – upbringing, dating experiences, etc. But the generalizations from these personal experiences are preached as fact.
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The skin lightening market was valued at 4.8 billion US dollars in 2017. The market is projected to reach 8.9 billion US dollars by 2027; companies are making millions on the back of black people who feel their skin colour isn’t good enough.
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Defined as a way of running a business that puts the customer ahead of profit, social enterprises may just be the answer to the consumerism challenge the world has been looking to solve.
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We were generally told to be quiet and not be ‘seen’ and so what does that mean in adult terms? Do not speak or express yourself; remain invisible.
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Learn to dance and play with the situations in your life, with your emotions, with your goals, and with the entire story, you tell yourself about your existence.
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Mekatilili wa Menza’s achievements are even more admirable when you consider that she did it all at a time when women rarely held leadership positions.
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If managing a business is your true love, then criticism won’t change your mind. You’ll commit to learning what it takes to have a successful enterprise.
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While there are not very many businesses looking for freelancers to fill employment gaps, there is no shortage of firms looking for good workers in return for “exposure”.
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People with a fixed mindset believe that their traits and abilities are fixed, and therefore they cannot change or improve. On the other hand, a growth mindset is exhibited by people who believe their abilities can be developed.
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Don’t wait for a mentor to descend from the sky and start you on the path to growth. Don’t blame your boss for your lack of progress in the company.
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Society has reinforced a precise description of success, intelligence, talent, beauty, and happiness. Subconsciously, we’ve picked up these “truths” and owned them.
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Some of the opportunities you’ll come across may be beneath your education qualifications. Other employers may pay less than expected. But with the end goal in mind, you can grab these opportunities in anticipation of your dream job.
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Feel fortunate that you live in a gatekeeper free world where you have so much access to education, technology, and other people that your limits and oppression are almost entirely psychological.
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And that’s the thing about nuclear families. They’re brittle, easily breakable, and too unstable to be the main way that we as a society raise our children.
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Awareness surrounding breast cancer is incredibly important because early detection, often through screening, can catch the disease at it’s most treatable.
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Whatever you’re trying to accomplish, you have to find a way to manage that chicken-egg scenario where you need confidence to start but you have to start to have confidence.
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When David Attenborough looks directly into a camera and, using his iconic voice, tells us in no uncertain terms that our seemingly insatiable appetite for more has destroyed our planet, it’s difficult not to pay attention.
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