NEVER GIVE UP.

Seven Leadership Principles to learn from an eagle..

(1)  Eagles fly alone and at high altitudes.
They don't fly with sparrows or other small birds.

Stay away from (narrow minded people)  sparrows and ravens, those that bring you down.
 Eagles fly with Eagles. Keep good company.

(2) Eagles have an accurate vision. They have the ability to focus on something as far as 5km.
No matter the obstacles, the eagle will not move his focus from the prey until he grabs it.

Have a vision and remain focused no matter what the obstacle and you will succeed.

(3) Eagles do not eat dead things. They feed only on fresh prey.

Do not rely on your past success, keep looking for new frontiers to conquer. Leave your past where it belongs, in the past.

(4) Eagles love the storm. When clouds gather, the eagles get excited. The eagle uses the storm’s wind to lift it higher. Once it finds the wind of the storm, the eagles uses the raging storm to lift him above the clouds. This gives the eagle an opportunity to glide and rest its wings. In the meantime, all the other birds hide in the leaves and branches of the trees.

Face your challenges knowing that these will make you emerge stronger and better than you were. We can use the storms of life to rise to greater heights. Achievers are not afraid of challenges rather they relish them and use them profitably.

(5) When a female eagle meets a male and they want to mate, she flies down to earth with the male pursing her and she picks a twig. She flies back into the air with the male pursuing her.
Once she has reached a height high enough for her, she lets the twig fall to the ground and watches it as it falls. The male chases after the twig. The faster it falls, the faster he chases until he reaches it and has to catch it before it falls to the ground, then bring it back to the female eagle.

The female eagle grabs the twig and flies to a much higher altitude, and then drops the twig for the male to chase.
This goes on for hours, with the height increasing until the female eagle is assured that the male eagle has mastered the art of picking the twig which shows commitment, then and only then, will she allow him to mate with her!

Whether in private life or in business, one should test commitment of people intended for partnership.

(6) Eagles prepare for training. They remove the feathers and soft grass in the nest so that the young get uncomfortable in preparation for flying.

Leave your comfort zone, there is no growth there.

(7) When the Eagle grows old, his feathers become weak and cannot take him as fast and  as high as he should. This makes him weak and could make him die. So he retires to a place far away in the mountains.
While there, he plucks out the weak feathers on his body, and breaks its beak against the rocks and claws  until he is completely bare; a very bloody and painful process. Then he stays in this hiding place until he has grown new feathers; a new beak and claws; and then he comes out.

We occasionally need to shed off old habits no matter how  difficult, things that burden us, or add no value to our  lives.

Yes eagles never give up ...

Be an Eagle....Never give up!!

I LOVE MY COUNTRY, I LOVE KENYA

I love my Country. When I sit to remember where we came from, the lovers of history will agree. We paid a price. Freedom wasn't given to us. People had to sweat, people struggled, people bleed for us to enjoy this! You think this is another one of my stories. No it isn't. I am bleeding. I feel lost. My fear has been removed and replaced by hopelessness.

    When afraid you try but when hopeless you sit and let fate take its course. I have always found it odd that people who think ignoring a situation
is making a point. The
only point it makes to anyone is our inability to articulate our point of view. Our view which could save this nation. Friends, fellow comrades, kenyans, I write to you not as my second name might mean to you but as a person who loves his country.

     At first I did not take it serious to see people protest on every monday but as the masses grow larger, I find reasons to worry, the police are angry, we saw it, the mobs are equally feeling violated. PEV started with a small smoke in one town centre, and then another and before we knew it, churches were burning. I am afraid we are headed there.

    I do not write in support of any side because I am nolonger sure of any. But I am sure of one thing. On my side, different from CORD and JUBILEE we know each others name, that on my side we love life, that on my side we have sisters, brothers, mothers and fathers we cannot afford to lose, on my side we dont have to exchange fists to be men enough. On my side there is more gain if we have peace, on my side above all we value life. We are only almost one year to elections and I cannot comment on social media because I am a kamau or Otieno. Because I will be called a sycomphant. I will be given a pool of names that will even annoy my ancestors.

  We have substituted everything that matters in life with tribalism. That today I cannot marry a luo, giriama, kikuyu, luhya because they are alligned to one political thinking. With too much idle time, and thanks to Bob colymore we have cheap bundles we spread hatred, anger, resentment and jealous at the comfort of our homes. As you forward that text, as you make that comment. Think! Think about what difference it makes
to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the war was fought in the holy name of democracy? Or who won? On my side there are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but certainly, there are none worth killing for. So we think we are soldiers yet we are fools,because a true soldier fights not
because he hates what is in front of him, but because he
loves what is behind him.

   I am slightly past twenty years but I have seen how people are set against each other, and in silence, unknowingly, obediently, foolishy and innocently slay one another. We have to stop it. Only us can change this. Not those hungry for power. The soon we know that it only makes sense to make peace with enemies and not friends the better for all of us..

We have been through it. Can we save our past? No we cant. All what I know. We made a great many mistakes and good people paid the ultimate price for them. And that is a price we can never pay. But we can honour it and we can let their sacrifice remind us that sometimes the very measures we put in place to safeguard our liberty become threats to our liberty itself. Dont make it personal. Be part of the few trying to Heal our Nation. So help us God.