As I indicated in last weeks article, I have been reading Rob Moore’s book on money. While there are many takeaways at a personal level, some ideas are thought-provoking. One of the bitter realities in the world we live in is that while we all aspire to make money and grow wealth, only a very […]

This past week I have been going through an interesting book by Rob Moore called Money. I have been amazed at the similarity of many of the ideas I have been sharing on this page and what he writes in this book.  This is the first time I have read this book, so there is

The Easter holidays are here with us again. This year, they coincide with the last weekend of the first quarter of the year. This is significant in several ways as I shall demonstrate in today’s article. For Christians, the Easter holiday is significant in the sense that it is the season that Christ paid the

Over the past several days, I have been reflecting on the demands for money placed on the average-earning Kenyan. It would appear like the average Kenyan was never created to enjoy the fruits of the sweat from his/her brow.  If my experience is a true representation of the reality among the majority of Kenyans, it

We are in that season of the year again when many of the SACCO members are about to witness the return on the labour of their savings. For many people, whether in formal or informal employment, SACCO savings is their only form of structured investment. Unfortunately, many folks use the dividends each year and the

One of the loneliest journeys that anyone walks in their adult life is on their finances. No matter what people may say or advise, the money choices are ultimately personal decisions. Each one of us will have to walk this journey alone no matter how close you think your loved ones or friends are close

This is officially the week of love. For love fanatics, it is the week when no cost is spared to indulge and spoil one’s object of love.  However, to those born in the village like me, the day means nothing much -just another day. Forgive my ‘ushamba’ but I only learned of the day of

We are already officially into the second month of the year as the days fly away. This past weekend I have been reflecting on the sophisticated simplicity of men known to have pretty deep pockets. At some point, I have wondered how it feels like to wake up one morning knowing that you have a

Human nature is born of fear over many things. We all have our fears and that is okay. However, we exist in a world of uncertainty about what tomorrow may bring. Many of our daily decisions have to be made within this cloud of the unknown.  How each one of us confronts this set of

Continuing from beautiful insights from John Mason’s book Imitation is Limitation, today I discuss another lovely quote from him: Many people overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in a lifetime. In another quote from Jean De La Bruyere states that: There is no road too long to