“Think good thoughts, and your thoughts will be turned into good actions. Everything begins in thought. Guiding your thoughts is one of the keys to self-perfection. If you suffer misfortunes in your life, look for their cause, not in your actions, but in the thoughts which inspired them, and try (more…)
Upo usemi kwamba mwanafunzi anapokuwa tayari, mwalimu huonekana. Usemi huu una maana kubwa kwamba walimu tayari wapo, ila wanafunzi ndiyo hawajawa tayari. Ina maana yule anayesema hapati wa kumfundisha, hajawa tayari kujifunza. Sasa nataka tutumie kauli hiyo kwa namna nyingine, kwa upande wa kazi na biashara tunazofanya. Tunapaswa kuutumia usemi (more…)
“When you start to lose your temper, remember: there’s nothing manly about rage.” – Marcus Aurelius Kuna wakati mambo yanatokea, mambo ambayo hukutegemea yatokee na hukuwa umejiandaa nayo. Kama mambo hayo yanakuangusha au kukukwamisha, unapatwa na hasira. Ni wakati wa hasira ndiyo unaweza kufanya vitu utakavyovijutia sana kwenye maisha yako. (more…)
Ni asili yetu binadamu kuyakimbia maumivu, huwa hatuyapendi, kwa sababu yanaumiza. Lakini wote tuna ushahidi ni jinsi gani maumivu mbalimbali yalivyokuja na manufaa kwenye maisha yetu. Maumivu uliyowahi kupata kwenye mahusiano yalikusaidia kupata watu walio sahihi. Maumivu uliyopata kwenye ajira yalikusukuma kujiajiri. Maumivu uliyoyapata kwa biashara kuwa ndogo yakakusukuma kuikuza (more…)
“You could choose no worse way to guide your life than to follow the opinions of other people.” – Leo Tolstoy Hakuna njia mbovu ya kuendesha maisha yako kama kufuata maoni ya watu wengine. Utakuwa umechagua maisha ya hivyo na yasiyo na msimamo. Kwa sababu hata uchague kufanya nini, kuna (more…)
Bilionea mwekezaji Warren Buffett huwa anashirikisha vigezo vyake vinne ambavyo huwa anavitumia kufanya maamuzi ya uwekezaji. Vigezo hivyo ni kama ifuatavyo; Je ninauelewa uwekezaji huu? Kama hauelewi basi hawekezi, hata kama unaonekana kuwa na faida kubwa. Je uwekezaji huu una kitu cha kuutofautisha na wengine, kama ni biashara ina kitu (more…)
“Many statements which are accepted as truth because they have been passed down to us by tradition look like truth only because we have never tested them, never thought about them in a more precise way.” – Leo Tolstoy Mambo mengi ambayo tunaamini ni kweli, ni kwa sababu ndivyo tulivyopokea. (more…)
Mafanikio ya haraka, ambayo pia humfanya mtu kuwa maarufu kwa muda mrefu, huwa yanatokana na bahati fulani ambayo mtu amekutana nayo. Lakini kwa kuwa sisi binadamu huwa tunapenda hadithi, na bahati haitengenezi hadithi nzuri, basi watu hutengeneza hadithi nyingine inayovutia kwenye mafanikio hayo ya haraka. Inaweza kuwa hadithi inayoeleweka vizuri, (more…)
“For the most part, false and harmful opinions are distrib uted and supported by influence. We are too likely to accept the views and thoughts of other people without trying to investigate them deeper and further ourselves. Unimportant people are those who accept other people’s thoughts without developing them themselves.” (more…)
Charlie Munger kwenye moja ya ushauri wake kwa vijana aliwaeleza mambo muhimu ya kuzingatia kwenye maisha ili waweze kufanikiwa. Kwanza aliwaambia wanapaswa chochote kile kwa ubora wa hali ya juu sana, kadiri ya uwezo wao. Pili aliwaambia wasidanganye, mara zote waseme ukweli hata kama unaumiza kiasi gani. Tatu aliwaambia kutekeleza (more…)