LANDRY KAVINYA

NTV anchor and show host Larry Madowo has revealed what he scored in the Kenya Ceritificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination. Madowo said that he performed 'poorly' in the national exams prompting his relatives to demand that he repeats Form Four. “I left high school with a B minus, the final sentence after four years of massive potential but hardly any focus,” Madowo stated. The journalist noted that he was opposed to the idea of repeating the class and rebelliously went against his relatives' wishes. “That was never going to happen as I had already developed a healthy disdain for academics in general, and its most favoured method of torture in particular – examinations,” he wrote in his FrontRow column on the Daily Nation. In his article titled 'So you got an A in KCSE? Big deal! It has lost meaning today', Madowo penned down how the most coveted top grade had become meaningless following the widespread cheating in the national examinations....

Everyone, and especially entrepreneurs working to build a business from the ground up, enjoys a solid rags-to-riches story. It’s something we can relate to and get behind. One of the greatest rags-to-riches stories is that of Jim Rohn. Jim spent his entire adult life giving back to humanity by teaching and lecturing about how to gain success in selling. He tried to teach people that they could be whatever they chose to be. Jim was an only child who grew up on a little farm in southwest Idaho, U.S.A., to become what many consider to be America's foremost business philosopher. Rohn began his career as stock clerk for Sears, but after attending a lecture given by entrepreneur John Earl Shoaff, he decided to follow a different path. He asked Shoaff to be his mentor and followed every bit of advice he could glean from him. Rohn became a direct marketing distributor. Within just six years, Rohn earned his first fortune, then lost the millions he had made. That led him to observe, ...

The most difficult time for any man is probably between age 24 and 29 years,the pressure to be something and someone is so immense. When you look around you,everyon e seems to be doing something for themselves,people seem to be living a life you only dream of. you have applied for jobs and the results have been more disapointing than Besigyes shot at presidency. Sadly this is the age when most guys lose it,the age if not careful,one is consumed by alcohol and drugs………because the disappointments become too much and you find alternative ways to face reality. Worse is when a few people you studied with have beeen lucky enough to land jobs,soon your circle of friends grows thinner mostly they dont even cut you out but you be real with yourself and cut yourself out.I mean,what will you do when in a whatsapp group of friends discussing last week’s trip to zanzibar and planning another road trip to kigali while you’re not sure of what your next meal would be? most t...

  1. Return to what hasn’t worked. Whether a job, or a broken relationship that was ended for a good reason, we should never go back to the same thing, expecting different results, without something being different . 2. Do anything that requires them to be someone they are not. In everything we do, we have to ask ourselves, “Why am I doing this? Am I suited for it? Does it fit me? Is it sustainable?” If the answer is no to any of these questions, you better have a very good reason to proceed. 3. Try to change another person. When you realize that you cannot force someone into doing something, you give him or her freedom and allow them to experience the consequences. In doing so, you find your own freedom as well. 4. Believe they can please everyone. Once you get that it truly is impossible to please everyone, you begin to live purposefully, trying to please the right people. 5. Choose short-term comfort over long-term ben...

Mark Zuckerberg is co-founder and CEO of the social-networking website Facebook, as well as one of the world’s youngest billionaires. SYNOPSIS Born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the social-networking website Facebook out of his college dorm room. He left Harvard after his sophomore year to concentrate on the site, the user base of which has grown to more than 250 million people, making Zuckerberg a billionaire. The birth of Facebook was recently portrayed in the film  The Social Network . Early Life Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, into a comfortable, well-educated family, and raised in the nearby village of Dobbs Ferry. His father, Edward Zuckerberg, ran a dental practice attached to the family’s home. His mother, Karen, worked as a psychiatrist before the birth of the couple’s four children—Mark, Randi, Donna and Arielle. Zuckerberg developed an interest in computers at an earl...

In life we fail, sometimes once, sometimes twice, sometimes thrice and sometimes every time. So we decide to quit, because we did our best but it was not good enough. Sometimes too we succeed and then out of no where we make a little mistake and it makes us feel like we have failed totally. Oftentimes people look at our size, our height, our color, our country, our past and tell us we cannot achieve anything great. Sometimes we believe them, other ti mes we think they are right. So we quit and give up and we hide ourselves from the world and from the people who look up to us. We hide our dreams, we hide our passion, we hide our talent, we hide our skill, we hide our ideas. We coil and retire to being quiet and to stay out of trouble. But everyday we look at ourselves in the mirror and we hear the still small voice telling us, never give up and don't quit but we ignore it. We begin to resort to all avenues and mediums to help us feel okay. Sometimes we begin to calm ourselves wit...

You went to the same schools. You even interned at the same firm after college, boarding the same  matatus  to your cramped one-roomed SQs. Five years later, you are struggling to make ends meet and your former classmate is ten steps ahead of you. He has a fantastic job at a well-paying regional firm, one that has enabled him to live in the green leafy suburbs. He is driving a luxury car; you are queuing at the  matatu  stage, hoping that the rains find you in the house. He calls his personal banker to ask about his investment portfolio while you are ducking your  chama  because you don’t have money to pay your monthly dues. You had similar backgrounds, but now your lives look nothing alike. What could have made him so much more successful than you? While luck may come into play at some level, there are characteristics that make one more successful than the other at the workplace. Celebrated author Sean Covey studied highly successful people and realised ...