Ibrahim Simiyu 🇹🇿

@Multilink-NIHR PhD Fellow @LSTMNews /Medical Doctor/Public Health Specialist/Chevening Alumni 2019/2020

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And the best team won

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Ain’t sure the UCL final will match up to this semifinal. What a bewildening 1st half

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Honor thy mother and father

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7 Toxic behaviors that are considered normal:

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The Dead Cat Strategy.

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I'm looking for insults so intelligent you don't realise you've been roasted until 3 thoughts later

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Why you need to be calm when things are going well..

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"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

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@Elisalinah31 Happy birthday 🎈

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Recognizing the interconnections of Human,Animal and Environmental Health are crucial in ensuring resilient livestock systems. The three domains cannot be addressed in isolation.#OneHealth#ZoNoHchallenge

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"And the best team won"

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Sometimes it is darkest before its dawn

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Hala Madrid

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10 ideas that changed our lives (and may change yours):

Last Friday, we hosted an event in London in front of a sold out crowd of 500+ people.

The topic: 10 ideas that changed our lives.

Here were the ideas we shared:

1. There's no such thing as a loser who wakes up at 5am and works out.

A lot of success is determined by your own beliefs about yourself. When you're in a negative place, the most impactful action is the one that makes you self-identify as a winner. Waking up early and working out is hard. If you can do that, you're a winner. Winning begets more winning.

2. Energy is not finite.

Energy expands and contracts as a function of the activities you're engaged in. Certain activities are energy creating, certain activities are energy draining. Most of us spend too little time in our energy creating activities.

3. No one has it all figured out.

No one knows what they want to be when they grow up. Some are just a bit better at putting on a brave face, following their curiosity, and marching courageously into the unknown.

4. Direction over destination.

It is impossible (and rather anxiety-inducing) to attempt to determine your exact destination in life. Instead, focus on pointing your compass in the right direction. If you do that, you'll wind up where you were meant to be.

5. Focus on the WHO, not the HOW.

I no longer focus on the journey or the destination, I focus on the people. When you surround yourself with inspiring people, the journeys are more beautiful and the destinations are more brilliant.

6. Increase your luck surface area.

You can take actions that expand your odds of getting lucky. When choosing between two paths, always choose the path that has a larger luck surface area.

7. Default to trust.

In life, we all have a choice of whether to default to trust or skepticism. Always default to trust. When you occasionally get burned, view it as a tiny tax against all of the incredible benefit you will experience from this default setting.

8. The waiting room is always full.

Your "waiting room" of projects to tackle, people to see, and ideas to pursue will always be full. You will never make a dent in it. Do your best, work on energy creating activities, and have faith in the process.

9. The good old days are happening right now.

The "good old days" are happening right now. The life you're living today is something that your younger self would have dreamed of. You've done more than you think. Zoom out and reclaim perspective.

10. Time is your most precious asset.

Never let the quest for more distract you from the beauty of enough. Treat time as your ultimate currency. Spend it wisely, with those you love, in ways you’ll never regret.

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Those 10 ideas changed our lives (and may change yours).

What were your favorites? What would you add to the list?

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