l've tasted being a great employee, and I've also tasted being the hero at work. I highly recommend doing the bare minimum at work, getting paid, and going home.
Grandmothers in Makueni County have formed a football team called the Maiani Grannies Football Club to combat lifestyle diseases, promote physical fitness, and defy age stereotypes.
turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.
One of the most overlooked forms of wealth is having complete ownership of your time.
Waking up and knowing nothing about your day will be decided by someone else is priceless.
There is a Japanese legend that says:
if you miss the bus, maybe you avoided the accident. If you got rejected, maybe you were saved from the wrong place. If they left, maybe they made room for who is coming. The universe protects you in ways that look like bad luck at first. Trust the detour.🍂
For us who were born from poor families, the first task when you somehow make it is to get your parents out of poverty... Buy them a piece of land, build a house, buy them a cow or two... Mostly it is a draining task, but you have to do it... After that, another crazy task is now to decolonize their minds from the poverty mentality... This, I came to find out, is the hardest part.
Major cheat code in life: Master the graceful exit. From conversations. From parties. From opportunities. "This has been wonderful, but I need to go." No elaborate excuses. No fake emergencies. Just clear, kind departure. Most people don't know how to leave. They stay too long or leave badly. Master the exit.