Category: Learning

Why should we travel more?

Between March 2014 and May 2019, I have traveled less with the exception of an 11-day exploration of Zimbabwe from 19 September 2016 to 3 October 2016.

My struggle with health and financial difficulties stifled my passion for travel but didn’t kill it. I am still consider a traveler by any long shot and still stand by the Star trek mantra “go boldly where no one has ever gone before”.

Why I am I blubbing about travel this morning?

Because a friend of mine was complaining of exhaustion and would take a 5 day travel outside our country. Then it came to my mind; why not blog about travel since you like it?

Travel has extensive health and social benefits you can read about in the internet. Latest research shows that travel trump other relaxing strategies.

Research aside, the eminent American writer & publisher, Mark Twain, perhaps captures the spirit of travel with words beneath.

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime”

Well said.

Thus travel is education.

When you travel, you seek and when you seek, you begin to view the world differently.

Which places can I visit?

You can visit anywhere where it is relatively safe to visit. You can places in your town, county, village, country or go international.

Take time and travel the world.

You will see the change…

 

 

ADMIT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THINGS HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE AND THEN ACCOUNT

There is this guy I went to college with in the early 90s and thereafter we got hired as middle school teachers by government HR agency TSM. Coincidental a decade later we also went to university together sponsored by our employer TSM. Three years after university I made a job switch – I took a position at our employer’s HQ as Assistant Director of HR.

About six years ago I came across the chap, we exchanged the usual pleasantries, and then he said to me;

“I hear you have joined TSM at HQ. You guys are there because you are sons of the system. As for me you know I have always been a rebel that no one can promote”. 

What the guy conveniently forgot was his continued absenteeism, coming to work late and in a state that bordered on drunkenness – was responsible for his apparent lack of professional progress. No supervisor would ever recommend him for a position of responsibility.

He attributed spite by the system to his apparent lack of professional progress which can be best explained by his stupidity.

What did he expect will happen to him if he came late to work? A person in control of his mind certainly knows there will be consequences. Because of his stupidity, he is harvesting what he sowed.

Well I am citing this example to encourage us to take personal responsibility for the adverse situations we find ourselves in – instead of blaming external forces.

Former US President, Harry S. Truman made popular a common saying “The buck stops here” to appeal to Americans to take responsibility for their personal lives and their country.

The need to take responsibility for our actions or mistakes is further buttressed by the saying;

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”.

It doesn’t end there; admitting responsibility and then do nothing about the situation is not good enough.

We have to take corrective action or corrective behaviour. It is through action that we account. And accountability is important in that it demonstrates we won’t repeat the same mistakes over and over.

A little disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. So for anything legal consult your lawyer before admitting responsibility.

Thank you for reading.

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Food For Thought

This week’s theme on the blog is about the power of collaboration- working together.

I read somewhere that a small startup company bid for multi-million dollar contract to clean offices and won. They had with no funds, no cleaning tools and no employees. Upon winning the contract, they approached small companies with employees and cleaning tools to work together on the project. They knew as the common saying goes; working alone is a losing game and as such they could not fulfill the contract on their own- hence collaboration with others.

As long as they are underpinned on the WIN-WIN philosophy, collaborations can be very fruitful for both parties.

Why do you think collaborations are important in today’s context?

 

WISDOM 9 BE IMMUNE TO PEER PRESSURE

If you follow the crowd, you might get lost in it – Author Unknown

We associate peer pressure with young people especially teens. With the young it is part of their growing up. I don’t know what it is with adults but what I know is adults are also heavily influenced by their peers. They choose what their peers recommend – be it clothing, relationships, how to behave in a certain way etc.

People seek advice from their peers before making decisions sometimes serious ones about their lives. Nothing wrong with that but what is wrong is when we over-rely on our peers to make decisions for us. By so doing we lose control of our lives. We don’t live life on our terms. What I have observed with people is once they have power over your decision making, they don’t give up that power easily. The safest is never to give you’re your power of decision making.  If you have given the power of decision making away to others – it is time to get it back even if it means rattling some friendship. There is nothing wrong with seeking advice but remember the people who advice may be wrong as well. I have come to be careful of some pieces of advice which society may have accepted as the truth when in fact the advice is nothing but the majority’s opinion.

As the famous Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius said;

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the masses, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane”.

If you think going your own way is risky, remember what is recommended by the peers may be wrong as well – they are people like you and me.

Think of those who went into marriages because of peer pressure? Many are divorced because they didn’t marry for the right reasons.

Be immune to peer-pressure and chart your own way forward.

The object of life is not to be on the side of peers, but to know who you are, your purpose, and to learn and do what you want in accordance with your purpose.

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