A modern life hack is making sure you can work from home . Money you can make from home is better than money you have to travel for 2 hours a day for. Unless you are an office addicted millennial .
As a man, normalise a boring life. Go to bed early. Read long books. Drink tea. Regulate your nervous system. Spend time alone. Go for walks without headphones. Eat simple food. Shrink your circle. Turn down the noise.
Act poor.
Act broke.
Act like a useless man.
Neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr let them know the cow that gives you milk. They will make sure that they poison it.
The biggest lie sold to young people is that hard work alone is enough. Hard work without capital, networks, information and opportunity often leads to exhaustion, not wealth.
If it’s valid to leave a man because he can’t afford the life you want, then it’s valid for a man to leave a woman once he’s successful because she’s no longer the woman he wants.
You can’t call one empowerment and the other betrayal. 🤷♀️
Wealth is rarely built in comfort. It is built in uncertainty, discipline, and years of showing up when there is no applause, no recognition, and no guarantee of success.
One day, Kiraitu Murungi, then Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, and President Mwai Kibaki were driving around and some boys showed up in the road and asked them to give them some little cash.
Kiraitu dipped his hand in his pocket and before he could extract the money, Kibaki asked him:
'Bwana Waziri, what are you trying to do?'
Embarrassed, he answered that he was getting some 'chai' for the young men by the roadside.
Kibaki then asked:
'Why should these people be given money?
What have they done? Don't they have farms to till or cows to feed?
Who invited them to come and stare at our motorcade?
Surely, must we just be paying people for standing by the roadside?'
Upon ascending to power, Kibaki never participated in any harambee because he believed that it was better to grow the economy than to dish hand-outs.
When a delegation from Nyeri went to him to ask for favours in terms of funding after the 2002 polls, the president told them, without blinking an eyelid, that banks in Kenya have things called loans which one could apply for and that State House was not licensed by Central Bank to offer credit.
State House budget under President William Ruto has now gone up by over 320% since he took over in September 2022.
The budget has increased from Sh4.4 billion in 2022/23 to the current Sh18.5 billion in 2025/26.