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  • Mon, 6th Aug 2018
    A story is told of how one man remained stuck in a past he found too painful to move on from.... here's the story as narrated by my favorite motivational speaker, Les Brown. There was one particular person that all of us knew. The children and adults and everybody used to pick at him when he came by. We called him chicken man. He had a feather in this heart, a feather on top of his car and he... [Read More]
  • Sat, 4th Aug 2018
    When I was young, over Christmas holidays my cousins and I would be taken to the village by our parents to spend the holidays with our grandparents. We would spend lots of time engaging ourselves with farm-related activities such as coffee picking (my favorite activity), drawing water from the well to water the livestock that my grandparents had and also getting them napier grass to feed them. I... [Read More]
  • Sun, 25th Jun 2017
    In exactly 4 weeks, I will be doing some CATS (continuous assessment tests). Yes in case you are wondering, I am back in school and will be for quite a while. These will be my first CATS since I went back to being a scholar and I can’t help being apprehensive about them. The best I can do is prepare myself thoroughly and hope my lecturers will be in a good mood while marking my papers. Thinking... [Read More]
  • Tue, 20th Jun 2017
    It is as simple as the title reads. There is no challenge that was ever accepted that never brought change to the challengee (is there such a word?). According to one version of the English dictionary, the word challenge has been defined as, "the situation of being faced with something that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a person's... [Read More]
  • Mon, 9th Jun 2014
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less...” ~ Marie Curie
  • Sun, 8th Jun 2014
    Find out what you're afraid of and go live there..." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
  • Sat, 7th Jun 2014
    “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.." ~ Aristotle
  • Thu, 5th Jun 2014
    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear...” ~ Nelson Mandela
  • Wed, 4th Jun 2014
    “Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They are there to let you know that something is worth it...” ~ C. JoyBell C.
  • Sun, 1st Jun 2014
    "When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen; either there will be something solid for you to stand upon, or you will be taught to fly" Well, those are the words of Patrick Overton taken from his poem "The Leaning Tree". Unfortunately though, not many of us ever find out whether... [Read More]