The interesting thing about life is no one can accurately predict the future. I never knew I would do projects that would be landmarks in Kenya.
My father would be proud.
If you are planning to build a house in your rural village,
Do the following:
• Open a bank account. Call it "Project Development Account 2026."
• Write a plan. Use the Triple Constraint Theory in Project Management: BUDGET, TIME and SCOPE.
• Save 50% equivalent of your rent in the account, monthly for 15 months, eg, if your rent is 10,000, then, save 5,000 in that account every month.
• If you can't raise 50% equivalent of your rent to save, then you are living beyond your means. Look for a cheaper house.
• Get an architect and a draughtsman to design a house.
• Do research, consult, read about building and construction online. Travel beyond your comfort.
• Get a Quantity Surveyor to do feasibility and the cost of the project.
• At month 15, draw a budget and begin buying material for construction, eg Sand, Ballast, Stones and timber. Stick to the budget.
• At month 18, start building.
• Get a professional mason licensed by the National Construction Authority. Be present. Supervision by phone calls is disastrous.
• Be hands-on. Learn to do the masonry work alongside the mason. Mix the ballast. Lay the bricks. Be part of the team.
• Create a rapport and good relationship with a hardware. Let this hardware be the only place you will buy construction material.
• Don't live in government houses. Don't buy the so called "affordable houses."
Build your house, to your preference and taste.
Therefore, if you are intending to build, and you start planning today, then you should be building your house in 2026 March.
It is not far.
Start today.
Be patient.
Start.
#BetterTogether
مايك تايسون، في عز مستواه، كان يسوي إلى ٥٠٠ تكرار من هذي الحركة، المعروفة باسم "تمارين تايسون".
هي من أقوى تمارين وزن الجسم، لأنها تشغل الجسم كامل.
وتقدر تمرّن الرجلين والجزء العلوي من الجسم في نفس التمرين.
وإليك روتينه في التمرين ..
Twist
The moment a man hits say 25
He stops working for himself - this is where the most problems start
It's always providing for other and you pay yourself last and in between debts and other issues you find in years you've never ever gotten something for yourself
The even sadder bit is to your wife and kids if you pay fees and somehow don't have enough for snacks for visiting day your kid and wife wanakuona mtu bladifakin
My advice is always pay yourself first .everything else can wait.
Kenyans have a role to play today, because anyone who understands information war must start challenging every opposition politician who insists on running alone and make the public see that a divided opposition is the only realistic strategy left for Ruto.
Any politician who knowingly splits the opposition vote must be asked whose interests they are serving, because unity is no longer optional when fragmentation is exactly what keeps the incumbent alive.
Those predicting another 2007 are ignoring the difference, because 2007 was almost spiritual, the political divide was real, the loyalty was deep and you could feel the tension in the air before anything happened.
What we are seeing now is not that kind of organic political anger, it is paid goonism, where someone is given Sh1,000, handed a stone and told to manufacture fear for politicians who cannot win honestly.
A paid goon can reach a point and say, “Man, this is enough for the Sh1,000 they gave me,” because there is no cause, no belief and no real public support behind the violence.
Ruto is cornered from every side, and good Kenyans are the overwhelming majority, so any attempt to use hired goons in 2027 will be met by citizens neutralizing them refusing to let a tiny paid minority terrorise the country.