Peter Buffet talks about the 5 greatest lessons his father taught him. Wisdom we could all use in my opinion. Maybe in the next couple of days we should break these down into what they mean for us Rookies. 🙂 Stay in Milwaukee In other words, follow your own path, not the approach taken by everyone else. After his big career breakthrough – scoring the…
Read MoreOn this post (Financial mistakes I have made in the last 7 years) Beth suggested that people in their 20s could embrace house sharing, as a way of cutting rental expenses and still have a bit of space. An excellent and very sensible suggestion. However, I have observed that other than a few exceptions, we (Kenyans) don’t like sharing houses. A lot of my expatriate…
Read MoreI try to stay away from politics for various reasons, but this just had to be said. We often complain that the poor masses are easily swayed and are the reason we have bad leadership, but as an observer of our campaigns and how they influence our thought processes, the middle class is no different. I could write about the pro-TNA middle class who are…
Read MoreHas January been as hard financially for you as it has been for me? I may not have the data to support it, but I bet a lot of people resorted to borrowing to get through the month, after indulging in December. If you did, you can imagine the discouragement at the end of the month, when your payslip has a high figure at the…
Read MoreWhen it comes to our careers, it is assumed that the higher the ladder we go, the better the job gets, and this is the same assumption our managers make when promoting us. This is however not always the case, as sometimes a promotion may mean that you no longer  do the things you love to do, or the time to do them . This…
Read MoreI’m writing this post in my running clothes, after an exhausting 3km run in the neighbourhood, an attempt to jump-start my running after a post-Standard Chartered Marathon slump. And you got it right: I bought this book over the holidays, hoping Haruki would motivate me to start running again in a bid to meet my targets this year which are two half marathons a full…
Read MoreI’m generally not a fan of resolutions,I favour longer- range, more deliberate kind of life planning, as opposed to believing that there’s something magical that happens on the 1st of January, that makes you different from who you were on the 31st of December. That said, the beginning of a new year is a new slate of sorts, that allows you to make certain changes…
Read MoreHave you ever made money mistakes so dumb that looking back you wonder what was wrong with you? In the final post on this series, I look at two excesses that have been costly for me.  Read Part 1 here and part 2 here.  As you read my mistakes, share your insights, experiences and lessons we could draw from them in the comments section. We are all…
Read MoreHave you ever made money mistakes so dumb that looking back you wonder what was wrong with you? In Part 2 of this series, we look at two particularly silly mistakes I made earlier on. Read Part 1 here. Â Read mine, and share yours in the comments section. Also, feel free to share additional lessons from my mistakes. We are all learning after all! In…
Read MoreAs we approach Christmas, I thought it prudent to remind us that the world doesn’t end in December, no matter what the Mayans say. Most of us receive our December salaries just before the Christmas break, and the deceitfully high bank balances seduce us to party over the holidays, only to suffer in January. As you prepare to party, please do me a favour and…
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