Where Is The Idea?

Every individual who yearns to be an entrepreneur knows,the life of any business begins with an idea.

The biggest challenge we face is answering the question,where is the idea?

There has been many theories as to where the idea can be traced.

I compiled four questions that might help us unearth where the idea is.

1. What people complaining about? 

2. What are the things people can't do without?

3. What are the reviews from the media saying?

4. What are the problems you are facing?

If one is able to pick one of the the challenge and offer a solution,then that will be the beginning of business.

If These 6 Are Lacking,Then,It Will Be Hard.

1.God. 

2.Desire. 

3.Faith. 

4.Persistence. 

5.Plan. 

6.Character. 

Empowering The Mind; 8 Things To Try

It's always the yearning of everyone to make a better and informed choice.

Many things have been suggested to help in the achievement of the same.

My favourite are;

1.Brain Games/Puzzles. 

2.Meditation. 

3.Read. 

4.Interact with wise.

5.Master one subject. 

6.TV (Just enough) 

7.Just take action. 

8.Eat healthy and remember to drink a lot of water.

It's all about how empowered your mind is,when it comes to decision making.

Better Plan For It.

Have you ever;

-Been in a Primary, Secondary school? 

-Failed in a certain subject or a goal?

-Been 16 years? 

-Loved someone or had a crush on someone? 

-Regretted a choice or decision you made? Though you learnt from it, you feel you should have been wiser. 

-Looked at yourself in the mirror, to see how beautiful and handsome you are?

-Have you ever thought that someday you will be 40 just like you were 16...and that your choices now will ultimately affect the subsequent years? 

-Have you put aside some plans  because soon just like you completed high school, you are going to complete campus,you will get married,have kids What will you do? Where will you go?

-Have you ever looked yourself in the mirror beyond the beauty and asked yourself, "Why was I born?" "Why am I here?"

Life goes on with or without our contribution or impact.

The saddest thing in life would be to live it, just flowing through and letting circumstances bombard us into corners we should not be in.

Nothing in life happens by accident, and the moment one knows how to dust oneself and start walking again, then thats when progress will start being made.

Even though we are not sure of our tomorrow,it  so happens it usually finds us.

The best thing is to plan for it in such a way that it will not find us off guard.

There Is More To Life.

The service was vibrant, he thought as he left the gate of the church. The sermon was about being truthful and facing the menace of cults and occults. He had also waited for the Adminstration Police band for some acoustic hymns. Today was thanksgiving service for the harvest the nation has had, organised in conjuction with the Agricultural Society of Kenya. This service ushered in the Nairobi International Trade Fair week. The band took quite a while to perform and as a result he left.

Randy loves instrumental and acoustics - he desires to be hosting such events or just have an auditorium where such music is played. He loves hymns too.

The thoughts of nature, quiet places, gentle music take him to another world - at least in his mind. The ambience such places create is just awesome!

The traffic lights turned green. Randy crossed the road. It's at the junction of Kenyatta Avenue and Uhuru Highway. He enters Central Park and sits at one of the pews, taking popcorns one by one. He watches people skating and skateboarding.

Others are holding hands, as others under the shades have their heads on the laps of the other. He guessed they must be seriously in love. Some families too were there. It's great to be in love.

"People need more of this nature, romance and unwinding places", he thought as he chuckled to the idea of it being a business. "What if one calls it Confessions Events/Nature Trails?" He paused as he relished the thought. Before he realized the pop corns were over. He felt thirsty too. As the ice cream man passed by, he thought he could quench his thirst with one and ordered one. As he melted it, his focus shifted.

Since he got a job, he has had little time with his Bible. He perfectly knows how tricky this can be to his salvation. "The world can brain wash you", he remebered. Opening the Bible app from his phone, he starts reading the book of 2 Timothy, then 1st Timothy. He is challenged.

He looked up towards the pathways as a boy is held his hand by the dad and being trained on how to skate. Randy estimates the boy to be 2-3yrs. What a dad! Randy is awed. He can also hear the Subaru rumble on Uhuru highway as well as the ambulance sirene...'Huuu, life, oooh life, oooh life'...the song crosses his mind.

Life is a strange game. No specific formula of living in the face value of looking at it. I have a feeling there is more to life than just being born, acquiring material wealth and an awesome life here on earth. I am here for a reason bigger than myself, bigger than life, bigger and beyond my imagination.

Randy's thoughts were cut short as a curvaceous woman walks just near him, dressed in a revealing attire.

'This is disruptive...Huuh! I wish this lady can just know what I've read about modesty!

Timothy wrote:

I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes (1 Timothy 2:9-NIV)

As he stood to walk away, he thought of what he had come to realize: There is a lot one can do with their life. Moreover, to learn ones life route takes patience, determination, passion, focus and one deciding that they had better die living life they were meant to live than bitterly live in pain fulfilling other people's dreams.

What Will I Be Remembered For?

She could hear someone coming near her but she couldn't figure out who it was.

 Her eyes can partially see.

Upon opening my mouth, her face glowed as she smiled, warmly stretching her hands to greet me.

"Oooh welcome WaGichimu", she exclaimed in the local language as I sat on the pew outside the house. WaGichimu is in reference to Macharia son of Gichimu, the late grandpa whom I am named after.

She went ahead to complain of how quiet I've been. "...Even phone calls have been rare!" she exclaimed. It was true though I quickly added that my scarcity is the one that demanded my going. It was better for me to appear physically, rather than making a mere call.

She paused, looked closely at me, and even though I was expecting it, it made me burst out in laughter... That, I've become slender like one. The next question was, "Do you eat? Where does the food go to?"

I went ahead to explain that I have poor eating habits. She added that she knows I have a lot of thoughts from studies to planning my life, but then she said I should do something otherwise I would easily fall on the way.

She went ahead to tell me how life has been ranging from general body weakness, how there has been rain blessings, how her grand daughter-in-law had given her hard times, who had passed on...

My mind started drifting. I started focussing on her as a 100+yrs old individual, who could still afford to do basic things on her own.

Grandma is old, with her oldest great grand kid being 19yrs (third generation), and I have a feeling she will live on to see her fourth generation.

She has seen and gone through a lot. Good and bad are on her basket of experiences. The best thing she ever did is teaching her kids.They have given her the best she can ever dream of at her age.

The big question to me oftenly is: How will my life be at my old age? What will I leave behind? I know that one day my grandma will go to a no return journey, but she will sleep a happy woman.

What will I be remembered for? This question always reminds me of the great people of our times who I have admired for fearlessly fighting through and singing the music in their hearts.

The great musicians, scholars, pastors, writers, political leaders, entreprenuers...the list is endless. My heart races when I look at the achievements and impact of such people. It triggers my heart to fight for what I believe in and to always live my reason for life. The moment one knows what they were born for, they starting writing their legacy. 

One day, you and I will go,what shall will leave behind?

The ultimate legacy is here: "I have fought a good fight and I have kept the faith."