JAMES PLOTI

  Deuteronomy 22:10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.   ( What is that Donkey Keeping your OX Energy From Materializing?) During my younger days, my parents were very strict on us not missing Sunday school classes. Some of the lessons we learnt back then were just bible stories and never seemed to make any real life meanings at the time. Litle did I know they actually will catch up and make lots of meaning during my older days. One teacher Mama Roy would always stand in the pulpit and give us teachings of how in life one is supposed to make the right choices, her example would always start with “Twana twa Jesu, murimi ndarimithagia mugunda na murao wa bunda na ndegwa….” So she would start. Meaning a farmer doesn’t plough his field tying an ox and a donkey in the same York. What did she mean? Why would one use a donkey and an OX? I knew Donkeys are slow and like kicking, OX on the other hand are very fast and can run crazy with the tail rais...

  My desire to succeed in life was inspired mostly by my upbringing. We were born in a peasant family in the slopes of Mount Kenya, a county known as Kirinyaga. Our family was poor, but I salute my Dad Mr. Jeremiah and my late Mum Mama Alice Jeremiah, may she rest in peace. Irrespective of the hardships of bringing three children without a formal job, they were reputed small scale farmers. They used to sell horticultural seedlings to earn a daily bread.  Many are the days we slept hungry when the seedlings couldn’t move. But, that never made us give up, instead it was a stepping stone to my strong faith and desire to succeed. During my younger years, my dad used to take me to Sacco meetings and cooperative forums where he would enroll for saving schemes and buying shares. The small sacrifices he made back then was part of what supported him take us to higher education. Success in life is coupled with a lot of sacrificing. Its not an overnight thing, its not magic, IT’S A JOURN...