Thoughts in Words

These are articles published on a weekly basis on The Guardian on Sunday, a local newspaper in Tanzania. 

What You Do in Silence: The Sacrifices No One Knows About

It’s been a while since I showed up here for #StorySaturday. The last few weeks have been intense. I’ve been on the road and in the sky—moving between cities and countries—and somewhere in the middle of all that movement, I fell sick. The changing weather didn’t help much either, swinging between…
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The Quiet Power of Rising

  The last few weeks have been… a lot.  I’ve been on the road and in the sky—between cities, between countries—juggling assignments, battling changing weather conditions that swung between 11°C and 25°C, and trying to keep up with it all. Somewhere in the middle of that motion, I fell…
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Where Satisfaction Really Lives

It’s easy to think satisfaction comes from getting what you want.That dream job. That bigger space. That recognition you've worked so hard for.And yes, those things are good. Necessary, even. But over time, I’ve learned that the deepest kind of satisfaction doesn’t always come from chasing what you…
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Z For Zeal

Z For Zeal It’s been a while since I’ve been here, not because I didn’t want to, but because I was forced by circumstances to not be here. You see, I had an unwanted visitor in the form of a mammoth migraine. Let me just say the migraine migrated with its entire extended family and cramped itself…
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No (Wo)Man is Self-Made

“There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.” George Burton Adams I used to…
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Predicting Your Results In Unpredictable Circumstances

If there is one thing that is certain in business, it is uncertainty; still some companies perform reliably well and with excellence in spite of changing circumstances and business conditions, while others completely collapse. Why? There is evidence showing that those that survive uncertainty have…
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How Gritty Are You?

Hello my dear Esteemed Reader. Happy New Year 2019 to you and yours!   I am truly grateful that you and I are still here this year. It may look like it is just a normal thing but from some of the news I got towards the last few hours of 2018, I just cannot take being alive today for granted. I…
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Monitoring and Evaluating YOU

We only have one more day to go before we store 2018 away together will all the other years that have passed before this one. If I may be bold enough to ask you, on a scale of 0 – 10, how would you rate your 2018, 0 being the worst and 10 being the best? Secondly, on a scale of 0 – 10 how would you…
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That "EXTRA" Question

When I started the #52BooksIn52Weeks2018 Book Reading Challenge, I thought I had an idea of the kind of books I would read for the year. If you have been following my trend, you will realize that I started mostly with personal development books because that is what I really needed; to develop…
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Leadership Begins With Self-Leadership

Every so often I allow myself to just sit and watch human beings being weird, as they do things that are truly embarrassing.    Let’s take a good example of the nicely dressed guy who just stepped out of his black colored machine. His ensemble suggested that while others were complaining…
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Tribute To Kofi Atta Annan

This last week saw Africa lay down to rest a great statesman, the late Kofi Annan. As I watched the proceedings of the funeral live online, I was saddened by the realization that people of his caliber are fast diminishing from this continent, mostly due to age and age-related ailments. I was also…
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What A Relief!

Hello You! Thank you for taking the time to read this article today. If you are a first time reader of this column, I am completely convinced that you are not here by mistake but by divine connection. As for those of you who have been reading this column devotedly, I just want to take this…
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