Pale unapokuwa njia panda katika kufanya maamuzi, ipo sheria inayoweza kukurahisishia zoezi la kufanya maamuzi yako. Sheria hiyo ni ya kumi tatu, ambapo unajiuliza maswali matatu yenye kumi ndani yako na yatakuwezesha kujua kipi sahihi kufanya. Swali la kwanza ni je kitu hiki kitakuwa muhimu kwangu dakika kumi zijazo? Hapa (more…)
“Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things?” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.3.6b–8 Hongera sana mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii (more…)
Watu wengi wamekuwa wanashindwa kufanikiwa kwenye maisha kwa sababu hawajajua maana ya maisha yao. Wanaendesha maisha yao kwa mazoea, wanarudia yale yale ambayo wanafanya wengine na siku zinaenda lakini hakuna hatua kubwa wanazopiga. Wengi hawapati nafasi ya kujua maana ya maisha yao kwa sababu jamii imewadanganya kuhusu kutafuta maana ya (more…)
“Our soul is sometimes a king, and sometimes a tyrant. A king, by attending to what is honorable, protects the good health of the body in its care, and gives it no base or sordid command. But an uncontrolled, desire-fueled, over-indulged soul is turned from a king into that most (more…)
Mafanikio ni sawa na kupanda ngazi, na kila ngazi unayopanda unajisogeza karibu zaidi na mafanikio yako. Hivyo ili kufika kwenye kilele cha mafanikio, lazima uwe tayari kupanda ngazi zote. Kwa sababu kila unapopanda ngazi moja, nyingine inajitokeza mbele yako. Na habari mbaya ni kwamba hakuna lifti, ni lazima uzipande ngazi. (more…)
“There is no more stupefying thing than anger, nothing more bent on its own strength. If successful, none more arrogant, if foiled, none more insane—since it’s not driven back by weariness even in defeat, when fortune removes its adversary it turns its teeth on itself.” —SENECA, ON ANGER, 3.1.5 Siku (more…)
Daktari bingwa mmoja wa magonjwa ya akili amewahi kusema kwamba chanzo kikuu cha magonjwa ya akili kwa wengi ni kujaribu kuyakimbia majukumu yao kwenye maisha. Pale mtu anapoukataa uhalisia wa maisha yake, ndipo anapokaribisha magonjwa mbalimbali ya akili. Na hili lina ukweli mkubwa ndani yake, japo yapo magonjwa yenye sababu (more…)
“We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind—for things have no natural power to shape our judgments.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.52 Hongera sana mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri sana ya leo. Ni fursa bora na ya (more…)
Kwenye dunia ya sasa, karibu kila mtu anasubiri kuambiwa nini cha kufanya, jinsi gani ya kufikiri na kufanya, na hata jinsi gani ya kujisikia kwenye siku zao na hata kile ambacho wanafanya. Ni kama dunia nzima inaendeshwa na mfumo mmoja ambao inabidi kila mtu ajihusishe nao ndiyo ajione wa kawaida, (more…)
“You cry, I’m suffering severe pain! Are you then relieved from feeling it, if you bear it in an unmanly way?” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 78.17 Hongera sana mwanamafanikio kwa siku hii nyingine nzuri sana ya leo. Ni fursa bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kuweza (more…)