Huwa tunaweka malengo na mipango yetu ya mafanikio kutoa A mpaka Z. Na tunataka mipango hiyo iende kama tunavyopanga, kuanzia mwanzo mpaka mwisho. Lakini tunajua vyema ya kwamba hakuna mtu yeyote ambaye amewahi kuwa na njia ya mafanikio ya aina hiyo. Kila mtu anakutana na vikwazo na changamoto nyingi kabla (more…)
“Here’s a lesson to test your mind’s mettle: take part of a week in which you have only the most meager and cheap food, dress scantly in shabby clothes, and ask yourself if this is really the worst that you feared. It is when times are good that you should (more…)
Zamani, wakati hakukuwa na fursa rahisi za kujifunza na kupata maarifa na taarifa, walioweza kukariri vitu vingi ndiyo walionekana kuwa na akili. Na ndiyo maana mfumo mzima wa elimu umejengwa kwenye kukariri, kwamba yule anayeweza kukariri kwa wingi na kujibu maswali ya mtihani ndiye aliyefaulu. Hili lilikuwa na mantiki kwa (more…)
“But there is no reason to live and no limit to our miseries if we let our fears predominate.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 13.12b Hongera sana mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nzuri sana ambayo tumeiona leo. Ni nafasi mpya na ya kipekee kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza kupata matokeo bora (more…)
Leo hii ukapewa nafasi ya kuwa na mazungumzo ya dakika kumi na raisi wa nchi, zitakuwa ni dakika kumi ambazo utaziwekeza kwenye mazungumzo hayo. Hutatumia muda huo kuangalia simu yako, au kuangalia nini kinaendelea kwenye mitandao. Hata kama utaruhusiwa kuwa na simu, lakini hata ikiita, utaipuuza, hutataka hata kujua nani (more…)
“No one is crushed by Fortune, unless they are first deceived by her . . . those who aren’t pompous in good times, don’t have their bubbles burst with change. Against either circumstance, the stable person keeps their rational soul invincible, for it’s precisely in the good times they prove (more…)
Kulijua tatizo kwa undani ni nusu ya kulitatua. Watu wengi wanateseka na matatizo kwa sababu hawajatumia muda wao kuyajua kwa undani. Hivyo wanayaparamia, na kila hatua wanayochukua inazidi kufanya tatizo kuwa kubwa zaidi kuliko kulitatua. Hivyo unapojikuta kwenye tatizo, hatua ya kwanza kabisa ni kujua kwanza chanzo kikuu cha tatizo (more…)
“Consider who you are. Above all, a human being, carrying no greater power than your own reasoned choice, which oversees all other things, and is free from any other master.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.10.1 Ni siku mpya, siku bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu. Tumeipata nafasi hii nyingine nzuri sana kwetu (more…)
Watu hawapendi upweke, hawapendi kuwa upande wao peke yao, wanapenda kuwa kwenye kundi kubwa, kwa namna wanavyofikiri na kufanya maamuzi. Hii ndiyo sababu dini, jumuia mbalimbali, vyama vya siasa na hata timu za michezo huwa zinapata wafuasi, hata kama zinaonekana ni za hovyo kiasi gani. Watu wanapenda sana kuamini kwenye (more…)
“You can bind up my leg, but not even Zeus has the power to break my freedom of choice.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.1.23 Hongera sana mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri sana tuliyonayo leo. Ni nafasi bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza kupata matokeo bora (more…)