Four ways to get things done

Doing things in time will make you happier and most people want to be happy. Therefore it goes without question that it is important to get things done. In order to get things done we need to get out of our comfort zones, and this makes doing things difficult. This is evident by the fact that people often recall that they had an idea once and failed to implement it, after they see some else has implemented it. They then go on to tell others how much the idea was their own, however the fact is that they did no implement it and that makes them unhappy.

According to the ‘done manifesto’ and the cult behind it, developed by …and available at… getting things done is a matter of recognizing that everything is a trial or draft and that the small steps make up the actual process of getting things done. The done manifesto should be printed and placed in a strategic position where it can be read as one goes with their daily routines. The manifesto reminds us that it’s important to do something now. It doesn’t have to be big or small but has to be done now. We fail to get things done i.e. not get what we want, because we keep looking at perfection, and tend to give our power away to perfection. Instead we should note that perfection is boring. It’s important to just do it.

Here are four ways to help you in getting things done:

1. Fix your eyes here; you have already determined in your plans and that’s where it should be until it comes to reviewing your goals. Meanwhile, keep your focus here, on the step you are making. By focusing on the here, you are putting your power to your goal, because you are stepping forward. Looking at the end result only serves to show you how far from it you are and looking at a step actually takes you a step closer.
2. Take a step: The notion ‘one step at a time’ is a cliché. You should just take a step or steps. You should make decision and move. Just participate in your plans however small your participation. Break it down to the smallest steps and make them.
3. Make it a hobby; because these are things we like to do. Making your task or initiative a hobby changes your mentality towards it. Making it your hobby is simple. Just tell yourself and others that it feels like a hobby every time you do it. Think of the task at hand as a new development in your interests.
4. Smile; smiling changes your facial appearance, relaxes your muscles and makes you think you are a master at what you are doing. This is very effective in enabling you to follow the above mentioned ways. Smiling at something makes it exiting to some degree, so the best way to make your task interesting is to smile at the prospect of doing it.

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My Berlin Story

Am happy to report that a story i did about my SIFE team’s travel to berlin was published by The African Executive Magazine.
You can read it here

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HARNESSING HUMAN CAPITAL

The winners of the 21st
Century and beyond are those who can project the “global village” melting pot
into the future, factor in current trends and upcoming trends, and position themselves either out of
harms way or into the path of prosperous progress. In conclusion, your future is your destiny to create!
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I am fascinated by technology, people and how the two have influenced each other. Humans have gone
to a great extend to create physically what they conceive in their minds.
My greatest concern is the misuse of natural resources and lack of food especially in Africa to feed the
hungry, not because we as citizens in our actions and our leadership have failed to look into the future
and decided to live from hand to mouth.
From the global recession to our own examples of companies that have succumbed to credit troubles or
are suffering it’s effects like GTV, Nu-metro, Discount Securities and so on, and with greedy citizens
jumping into schemes that swindle them their monies, leaving them exposed to a harsh capitalistic
economy that doesn’t quench their thirst for free. I see a population/society lacking in leadership. Its
lacking in vision of the future, and the need to evaluate the opportunity cost of our activities and
investments.
I believe that our creator wants us to do the best we can, where we are with what we have now. I also
believe that when given the opportunity, several, people who are currently suppressed by the economic
consequences of their previous leadership choices, would say and contribute substantially to our overall
development, tapping into the inventions and innovations of those ahead of us and sway society away
from harm by factoring in all the stakes at hand.
It is unfortunate that some animals are more equal than others as portrayed by George Orwell in his
book ‘animal farm’, and seem to want to retain the status quo that is pointing our country’s
development in the wrong direction.
Great journeys begin with a single step that has already been made for our country. This is evidenced by
the several leadership programs for young people. In as much as we know experience teaches, it’s also
true that idle knowledge does nothing. I wholeheartedly support initiatives that seek to empower young
people into positions that are influential in the society as entrepreneurs filling a need, civic leaders and
even business leaders. Young people act as a radar and assist the much experienced young leaders of
yesterday to see that the iceberg is not as small as it looks over water, so that we don’t sink the
‘titanic’
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. I take opportunities that come my way and am the change I want to be.

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Excerpted from “Profitable Insights and Observation from the desk of Lewis Laughlin”
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Titanic, Disaster, one of the worst maritime disasters in history. The luxury liner Titanic (46,000 gross tons) on
its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City struck an iceberg about 153 km (about 95 mi) south of the
Grand Banks off Newfoundland just before midnight on April 14, 1912. Of the more than 2,220 persons aboard,
about 1,513 died. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2008. © 1993-2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Guestless meeting

Am part of a team that is supposed to represent kenya at a global event. The SIFE world cup in berlin. Over the years winning teams have been financed by their universities, well wishers and the SIFE business council. As a team we therefore decided to approach our admin for support in hosting potential supporters and selling to them our proposals. Getting that was a nightmare by itself, with most office bearer not committing theirselves to the event. After a week of haggling and begging, we managed to get the dean, pr and student welfare guys onboard. We even got a laptop, projector and the boardroom. Things that students don’t even get from the university. We did our lines, dressed smartly, confirmed guest, and waited. Everything ready. Then an hour passed and we started getting the bottled water meant for the guests down our throats. Two hour later we was having an impromptu party, playing Gta san andreas on wide screen projector at the university boardroom enjoying the sodas and others. Talking out our disappointments and suprises. Then we did our meeting, called it a day emerging a stronger team. It was a good thing that the guests did not show up. We learnt alot informally.

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Bookmarks for your mobile phone browser

The links provided below are independently maintained by their respective owners and this author is not responsible for their functionality. Understand that you follow these links out of your own curiosity. However they point to good websites that provide good information or services.
Mobile edition of kenyan daily newspaper-Nation Mobile: http://mobile.nation.com/

Should you need to search content of webblogs, you can use google blogsearch tool:
http://blogsearch.google.com/

There are numerous news services on the web. You can filter, and search only what you want to read from whatever region you want using the google news tool:
http://news.google.co.ke/

Do you own a nokia like i do? Then its important that you know if a firmware upgrade is available or specifications of your phone among many other things. Please visit their middle east and africa site: http://mea.nokia.com/english/

Should you want to customize your google start page like myYahoo: http://www.google.com/m/ig

Or you just like the plain google start page, but a smaller one for your phone- http://m.google.com

Another important search tool, better than google in terms of searching for specific phrases is Hakia. Check it out at http://www.hakia.com

For those of us who wish that mpesa would be accepted on amazon so that we can buy books, because we have no credit cards. Keep wishing, and if you are like me and instead go looking for the free titles only to land in a russian site with everything but you cant get the download link because of the language barrier, then the google translate tool is for us http://www.google.com/m/translate

Most big websites have their mobile version and a good place to look for them is at the mobile web directory-mobilinks http://mobilinks.com

Dudes from the above directory you get a cool grooming site like Esquire http://m.esquire.com

The world famous Technorati blog search tool is at http://m.technorati.com/

To check your equivalent connection speed by sending a 512kb file http://www.mobilespeedtest.com

Want applications for your mobile phone that supports java? Go to http://wap.getjar.com

Do you want to know whats happening now around the world, what people think about a topic, search within tweet conversations with twitter search http://search.twitter.com

For the twitter service itself http://m.twitter.com

You can read the time magazine and cnet news here: http://mobile.time.com/index.jsp
http://m.news.com

I hope you like what you find at the sites those links take you. These services help me have something to say in discussions and friendly conversations. Thank you.

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New phone browser

Am checking out a new mobile browser called bolt.

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