Let him go after the corrupt big boy foreigners building vertical slums across Nairobi! bribing their way into illegal approvals, no planning regulations, and showing zero regard to our city or the environment. Sasa Congolese boys wanainstall wigs vizuri wanaulizwa nini??
President William Ruto has ordered a crackdown on foreigners operating small shops or hawking in Kenya, with the exercise set to begin on Monday, September 7.
[Ruto says such small businesses should be reserved for Kenyans].
Nobody tells you this: You can wake up and decide that's enough. Enough of the low standards. Enough of the bad habit. Enough of the outdated identity. Enough of whatever. You don't need some dramatic reason, either. It's perfectly reasonable to wake up one day, say "this no longer works for me," and make a change. You can reinvent yourself. Today, tomorrow, and as many times as you need to create the life you want.
Shaquille O’Neal explains why he stopped showing off his money
“When I first bought my house, it was 25,000 square feet. I made it 70,000 square feet to let everybody know this was my house”
“One summer I came back and a guy down the street had a 90,000 square foot house. Another guy around the corner had a 130,000 square foot house. I'm asking everybody, ‘Who are these guys?’ Nobody knows”
“Once I realized that, I stopped talking about what I'm doing and what I'm making cause if they don't do it, why are we doing it?”
“I finally figured out who it was, he’s the owner of Time Shares. I went in his house and he made my crib look like an apartment complex”
“I changed my mentality. I'm just going to go about my business without telling everybody what I'm doing”
Major cheat code for life: Believe that things will work out for you. Not blindly, but through effort. When you expect good things and pair it with action, you start noticing opportunities others miss. Optimism paired with effort is a powerful force.
If you want to stand out, just do the old fashioned things well:
- Be on time
- Be well read
- Practice good posture
- Look people in the eye
- Do what you say you'll do
- Have a confident handshake
Few live up to this standard. It will never go out of style.
Nobody tells you this: You can get pretty damn far in life by just being someone people can count on to show up and do the work. Reliability is the cheat code. Stop overcomplicating success. Show up, do the work, repeat. That’s it.
True intelligence comes from 3 core abilities: solving problems with clarity, adjusting with grace in any situation and making decisions that are thoughtful.
When these qualities grow, so does your inner strength. Nurture them a little every day and watch the shift within you.
Something I’ve had to relearn again and again: Nothing changes if nothing changes. The new life you want doesn’t magically appear. It’s built through ruthless action. New habits. New mindsets. New standards. New boundaries. Reinvention has a cost of entry. Pay it with pride.
Nobody tells you this: Emotional control is the ultimate sign of growth. The ability to remain unshaken by the little collisions and inconveniences of life. To avoid assigning false narratives to everyday slights. That’s when you take control of your own life.
You can read all the books. Watch all the documentaries. Listen to all the stories. But nothing, and I mean nothing, will prepare you for certain moments in life until you're standing in them yourself. Marriage. Divorce. Childbirth. Losing someone you love. Parenting. They all look so different when it's your heart on the line. Your choices. Your pain. Your mess. Your miracle.
It's easy to sit on the outside with theories, opinions, and assumptions. It's easy to think you'd handle it better. Until life turns to you and says, "Your turn." And suddenly, you understand. You understand the tears. The silence. The fight to keep going. The strength it takes to show up when everything feels heavy. The courage it takes to start over.
Life has a way of humbling us all. So be slow to judge, quick to offer grace, and always remember, what you don't understand today, you just might face tomorrow. We're all just figuring it out as we go. And that's more than okay.