JAMES PLOTI

ADVICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES : 1. Build a home earlier. Be it rural home or urban home. Building a house at 50 is not an achievement. Don't get used to government houses. This comfort is so dangerous. Let all your family have good time in your house.   2. Go home. Don't stick at work all the year.  You are not the pillar of your department.  If you drop dead today, you will be replaced immediately and operations will continue.  Make your family a priority. 3. Don't chase promotions.  Master your skills and be excellent at what you do. If they want to promote you, that's fine if they don't,  stay positive to your personal. development. 4. Avoid office or work gossip. Avoid things that tarnish your name or reputation. Don't join the bandwagon that backbites  your bosses and colleagues. Stay away from negative gatherings that have only people as their agenda. 5. Don't ever compete with your bosses.  You will burn your fingers.  Don't compete with you...

7 Psychology Tricks   2023 Comes To An End In The Next Few Day. You know the old goal-setting adage: Don’t bite off more than you can chew (especially if your goal is to lose weight). But if that were all it took, you’d have nailed last year’s plan—and the year before last’s. But plenty of new research into modern psychology and the science of goal-setting and willpower offer some surprising non-cliché tips for making your resolutions work for you. Start on a Monday. The turn of another year tricks us into seeing our big-picture selves, our slates wiped clean. Take advantage of it. People commit to their goals more fiercely after a major benchmark like New Year’s Day. If you are an I-don’t-believe-in-resolutions person who nonetheless wants to break a bad habit, wait for a Monday. It’s the most popular day of the week for starting diets and stopping smoking, studies show. Don’t just wing it. How’s this for a terrible irony: the more you want your goal, the less you’re likely ...

WHY INVEST IN KENYA (Copied From a Global Trotter Diary)   In my opinion, Nairobi is the ‘gateway to Africa’ and the best place to do this from. Here is why: 1) East Africa’s Economic Hub 🌇 Founders from across the world are moving here to build their companies. Big tech is setting up shop in the city. And it’s not just tech. A swathe of other companies are getting in on the fun too: - Google opened Africa's first development centre in Nairobi in 2022 - J.P. Morgan opened it’s Kenyan office here in February - Visa opened it’s first African Innovation hub in Nairobi last year - Kauffman Fellows, the world's most prestigious Venture Capital community, chose Nairobi as their annual summit destination - bringing 300 of the top VCs to the city in September. 2) Accessible ✈️ Nairobi is one of the most connected cities in the world. Some travel times to make the point ⏱ - 10 minutes: My morning commute from door to door. - 45 minutes: to get out of the city and to Ngong Hills (the pi...

Since 2007 I have been travelling to different states in Africa and Beyond. Allow me to share a few scary stories Kenyans and Africans in the diaspora happen to share with me. 1. MARRIED IN KENYA DIVORCED IN DIASPORA Someone once said You can move a man from the village but not the village from the man. This maybe only happens to the village man, on the other side, you can move an African from Africa and forever the "Africanness" (if there is a word like that) remains in Africa. These are two separate experiences one from a Brother in Diaspora and the Other one from a Sister in Diaspora. A) I Met 'Mfethu' in Czech Republic back in 2011. A former school mate, was a respected young family man back then in Kenya, he had this lovely young family, beautiful wife and both were pursuing medicine. When i met him he had a different wife and not the one i knew when i was in Kenya. Out of curiosity i asked him what happened, and over a cup of coffee in one of the tiny coffee sho...

 ADVICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES   1. Build a home earlier. Be it rural home or urban home. Building a house at 50 is not an achievement. Don't get used to government houses. This comfort is so dangerous. Let all your family have good time in your house.   2. Go home. Don't stick at work all the year.  You are not the pillar of your department.  If you drop dead today, you will be replaced immediately and operations will continue.  Make your family a priority. 3. Don't chase promotions.  Master your skills and be excellent at what you do. If they want to promote you, that's fine if they don't,  stay positive to your personal. development. 4. Avoid office or work gossip. Avoid things that tarnish your name or reputation. Don't join the bandwagon that backbites  your bosses and colleagues. Stay away from negative gatherings that have only people as their agenda. 5. Don't ever compete with your bosses.  You will burn your fingers.  Don't ...

Procrastination is the act of delaying or putting off tasks until the last minute, or past their deadline. Some researchers define procrastination as a "form of self-regulation failure characterized by the irrational delay of tasks despite potentially negative consequences." It's Friday afternoon and the clock is ticking. You're working furiously to complete a task before the five o'clock deadline, while silently cursing yourself for not starting it sooner. How did this happen? What went wrong? Why did you lose your focus? Well, there were the hours that you spent re-reading emails and checking social media, the excessive "preparation," the coffee breaks, and the time spent on other tasks that you could have safely left for next week. Sound familiar? If so, you're not alone! Procrastination is a trap that many of us fall into. In fact, according to research and speaker Piers Steel 95 percent of us procrastinate to some degree. While it may be...

  Why demand for housing in Kilifi is on the rise Factories, road infrastructure and other industries are increasing the demand for housing in Kilifi county, real estate developers in the region have said. Investors in the county said the majority of factories that have been set up in the region have provided employment to thousands of people. Therefore, the demand for housing is also going up in the area, making Mtwapa, Kikambala, Vipingo and Kilifi towns some of the rapidly growing regions of the county. The 40.4-kilometre Mtwapa - Kwa Kadzengo - Kilifi Road whose construction was launched by President William Ruto last November 19, is also taking shape, gradually opening up the region. According to the 2009 census, Kilifi county had a population of 1.5 million people, coming closely after Mombasa’s two million people. However, the population is rapidly increasing because of the many companies, factories and investment coming up in the region. One of the ventures that has come u...

Remember when we were younger, and people used to ask us what we wanted to be when we grew up? It may seem silly to ask an eight-year-old what they hope to do with their life. But maybe this small talk was also a way to get us to think about what we wanted from life. And most of us answered this question with confidence, revealing our hopes and dreams. However, as we grew older and learned how to manage the curveballs life threw at us, we might have lost sight of what we once hoped to become and achieve.  If you catch yourself daydreaming about how your life could be different or maybe just need a better outlook for the future, look no further.  We will cover the basics of life planning, identify strategies and goals to think more about, and learn some tools to get our lives moving on a better track. Ready, set, go. What Is Life Planning? (A Definition) I have a question for you, dear reader. What do you want to be when you grow up? I won’t be upset if you rolled your eye...

  AM I A CHAMPION? This is a question i ask myself every morning as i recite the vision of Optiven Real Estate. (To be a Champion in Social Economic Transformation). Are champions born or are they molded by their experiences? The answer is probably a mixture of the two. While there are born winners among us, becoming a champion — or developing a championship mindset — can be nurtured. Anyone who’s been a coach, teacher, or parent knows that.  But what characteristics do you share ? Where do you start? With so many options, the choice is yours to decide what is most important to you and your players. If you’re struggling for inspiration, we at George Wachiuri School of Mentorship want to help point you in the right direction.  Below are five — but not the only five — characteristics of champion George Wachiuri.  Courage & Compassion Champion George Wachiuri have enormous courage to go after his goals. He is not afraid of failure. He take calculated risks. Have co...