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WAIT, LISTEN, LEARN.

By Sarah Munyi the life coach (FB) It has been said, "Patience is a virtue" and "good things come to those who wait." Do you get annoyed when things don't happen fast enough? Do you tap your foot impatiently or keep looking at your watch when waiting on line? You are not alone. I am the kind of person who   plans my mind. I like to  calculate how much time I'll  spend  on the ATM, how fast I'll take my lunch and how fast I'll get home. In fact people have told me that I speak fast and I walk fast. I believe them! Literally almost everything  I do  I like to do it fast and get onto something else. In my life, I don't plan for  eventualities or  delay I have no time for them. It just so seems life doesn't always  get this fact right. Because many are  the times I  find myself in situations where I  have  to  wait or get delayed and this disorients  my plans, my mind. Things don't always happen as I plan...
Corruption blame game Kenyans love blame games. As much as anyone would love to blame the current government of Kenya, the much called Jubilee government for the corruption that has been on everyone's mouth of how the government has and is unable to deal with it, the defeat is in us. It would be great and wise to remind you that corruption is in anyone's mind as a shortcut to anything. We bribe for love, for favours, for jobs, for ease of the route to justice and the list goes on. It is for that reason that we should start the fight against this vice from within ourselves. Let us change the perception that it is only rotten when it is your friend doing it and is good and holy when it is you in the centre of it. When a matatu operator is found by the hand of law enforcement, having flouted traffic rules, they find it as necessary to bribe the officer as a sure and quicker way to excuse them from the "long, expensive and time wasting" route of and to justice. One...