Maswali hayo mawili yatakuokoa na mambo mengi sana, kama utachukua muda wa kujiuliza kabla hujafanya maamuzi yoyote, hasa ya manunuzi. Hebu fikiria, umetoka nyumbani kwenda kwenye shughuli zako, hukupanga kununua chochote, lakini unarudi nyumbani una furushi kubwa la vitu ulivyonunua. Ukiulizwa kwa nini umenunua, utajibu ulikutana na ofa ambayo kama (more…)
A man consists of body and soul. Thus often, especially in his youth, he is interested only in his body, but nevertheless, the most essential part of every man is not his body, but his soul. It is your soul that you must take care of, not your body. You (more…)
“You’ll stop caring what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.” – David Foster Wallace Umekuwa unaogopa kuyaishi maisha yenye maana kwako, kusimamia misingi ambayo ni sahihi kwako na hata kufanya mambo kwa utofauti. Kinachokuogopesha ni jinsi gani wengine watakuchukulia na kukufikiria. Unaona ni bora uendelee (more…)
Kuna sheria ambazo hazijaandikwa popote na wala hulazimiki kuzifuata, lakini kwa kuwa unaishi kwenye jamii ambayo kila mtu anazifuata, basi unajikuta na wewe ukizifuata. Lakini sheria hizo zinakubana, zinakuzuia usifanikiwe. Mfano sheria iliyozoeleka kwamba lazima ufanye kazi masaa nane kwa siku, siku tano za wiki, kwamba mwisho wa wiki ni (more…)
“No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, ‘No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.’” – Marcus Aurelius Ni siku nyingine nzuri, siku mpya na ya kipekee (more…)
Basi ongeza kasi yako kwenye kuyaishi maisha yako. Lakini kuongeza kasi ya maisha kabla hujajua nini unataka kwenye maisha yako ni hatari, ni sawa na kuongeza mwendo huku ukiwa hujui wapi unakwenda, unazidi kujipoteza. Unaongeza kasi ya maisha kwa kuyanya yale ambayo unataka kufanya, kwa kuanza sasa na siyo kusubiri. (more…)
“You should respond with kindness toward evil done to you, and you will destroy in an evil person that pleasure which he derives from evil.” – Leo Tolstoy Tumeiona siku nyingine nzuri sana ya leo. Ni nafasi bora na ya kipekee sana kwetu kwenda kuweka juhudi kubwa ili kupata matokeo (more…)
“There is nothing in which real wisdom cannot be displayed.” – Leo Tolstoy Hakuna chochote kinachoweza kuzuia hekima isionekane. Hekima ya kweli inaonekana na inaweza kutumika kwenye kila hali. Jijengee hekima ya kweli na itakuwezesha kuvuka kwenye hali mbalimbali. Unazikumbuka njia tatu za kupata hekima? Zitafakari kabla hujalala na jipange (more…)
Mtu anayesema siogopi kufa anaweza kuwa ndiyo mwoga wa kifo kuliko wengine wote, kwa sababu kama kweli angekuwa haogopi kifo, angekipuuza, asingekitaja kabisa. Kadhalika mtu anayewaambia wengine kwamba anataka kujiua, kuna kitu anataka kutoka kwa watu hao anaowaambia. Angekuwa kweli dhamira yake ni kujiua, angefanya hivyo kimya kimya, kwa sababu (more…)
“You can achieve wisdom in three ways. The first way is the way of meditation. This is the most noble way. The second way is the way of imitation. This is the easiest and least satisfying way. Thirdly, there is the way of experience. This is the most difficult way.” (more…)