“Think by way of example on the times of Vespasian, and you’ll see all these things: marrying, raising children, falling ill, dying, wars, holiday feasts, commerce, farming, flattering, pretending, suspecting, scheming, praying that others die, grumbling over one’s lot, falling in love, amassing fortunes, lusting after office and power. Now (more…)
Nimeshaliandika hili mara nyingi mpaka kitabu kizima nimeandika kuhusu muda. Lakini naomba nilirudie tena kwa msisitizo mkubwa. Hakuna siku hata moja utapata muda wa kufanya kile unachojiambia ukipata muda utafanya. Kama kuna kitu unajiambia unataka kufanya, lakini kwa sasa huna muda, jua hakuna siku utakuja kupata muda wa kufanya kitu (more…)
“The universe is change. Life is opinion.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.3.4b Ni siku nyingine mpya, siku bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu. Tumepata nafasi hii nzuri sana kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza kupata matokeo bora sana. Msingi wetu ni NIDHAMU, UADILIFU NA KUJITUMA, Mwongozo wetu ni AFYA, UTAJIRI (more…)
Kwa asili, sisi binadamu ni viumbe wabinafsi. Huwa tunaweka maslahi yetu mbele kabla ya maslahi ya watu wengine. Na hili halina ubaya wowote, kwa sababu ndiyo limetuwezesha kuendelea kuwa hai na kuzaliana. Chochote tunachofanya, huwa tunaanza kujiuliza kinatusaidia nini sisi kwanza. Au kuna manufaa gani yaliyopo kwa ajili yetu. Kujua (more…)
“Remember that you are an actor in a play, playing a character according to the will of the playwright—if a short play, then it’s short; if long, long. If he wishes you to play the beggar, play even that role well, just as you would if it were a cripple, (more…)
Watu wengi wamekuwa wanafanya maamuzi mengi kwenye maisha yao, lakini hawayatekelezi, na hilo linawazuia wasipige hatua kwenye maisha yao. Hii inatokana na tabia ya watu wengi kupenda kuyahoji na kuyapa changamoto maamuzi yao, hasa pale wanapokutana na ugumu katika kutekeleza maamuzi hayo. Mtu anaamua kwamba ataingia kwenye biashara fulani, lakini (more…)
“Don’t trust in your reputation, money, or position, but in the strength that is yours—namely, your judgments about the things that you control and don’t control. For this alone is what makes us free and unfettered, that picks us up by the neck from the depths and lifts us eye (more…)
Ni kuweka matarajio yako juu ya kitu chochote kile. Unapoweka matarajio fulani kwenye kitu chochote unachofanya, kwa hakika lazima utapoteza. Kwa sababu kama utapata kile ulichotarajia, ulishakitarajia tayari, hivyo hutakuwa na msukumo wa kukifurahia. Na kama hutapata kile ambacho ulitarajia, utaumia zaidi kwa sababu hujapata ulichotarajia, utakasirika, kujidharau na hata (more…)
No one has had so much divine favor That they could guarantee themselves tomorrow. God keeps our lives hurtling on, Spinning in a whirlwind.” —SENECA, THYESTES, 613 Hongera mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri tuliyoiona leo. Ni nafasi bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza (more…)
Unapoteza muda wako kujifunza na kusoma vitabu, kama mwisho wa siku unaendelea na maisha yako kama yalivyokuwa kabla hujajifunza. Lengo la kujifunza vitu vipya siyo kujua vitu hivyo vipya na kujisifia kwamba unajua sana. Bali kutumia yale uliyojifunza kuweza kuwa bora zaidi. Hivyo ukishajifunza unapaswa kubadili maisha yako na kufanya (more…)