Thus Spaketh Idd Salim

The astute rule the world

Being a Thursday night, today I decided to take a break from coding my ProjectX4 and decided to take a walk around my neighborhood to go buy food at 7:13pm. As has been the practice over the last 4 weeks, I buy enough food (high fibre and high-protein) for 3 days. The next time I am leaving my bedroom is now, officially, Sunday. #2011Lazima.

After buying the munchables, I dashed home because Churchill Live was about to start. (Chirchir live for the Kales or Sharshir Rife if you are from Kirinyaga/Kiambu).

Then came the guest speaker. Pepe Minambo.

Pepe talked about his book, Be inspired before you expire. A good version of my favorite, Perspire and Conspire to Aspire to Inspire before you expire. Haya! On faya mpaka nagwaya! He gave a very moving example.

A simple village woman converts a big tree into mere firewood. But a gifted carpenter, given the same tree, will convert it into a masterpiece. A work of Art.

My daily reading hour for this week was dedicated to James Allen‘s AudioBook, As a man Thinketh, from learnoutloud.com (lol!). Download the book from his site for Free. It will change your life. Trust me.

Lesson learnt : You are what you allow yourself to become. Like that tree, you can become ANYTHING. But whether you will become ashes and charcoal visa-vis becoming the best work of art known to mankind is determined by the company you keep. Who you allow to advice you. Mentor you. Mould you. Accept mediocrity, and you will be mediocre. Life is FAIR like that. Ask, and it shall be given. In full. Plus a bag of chips.

The fourth kind of mind

As he needed to get off stage ndio tuchekeshwe, he concluded:

There are 3 kinds of minds. Simple  minds discuss people. Always inundated in the banal. Normal minds discuss events and the past. Great minds, discuss ideas and the future.

Wow! I know. Catchy. But the problem is that that is where Kenyans stop. All talk. Discussing ideas daily. The doing ZILCH about it.

Thence cometh the 4th Mind. The perspicacious mind. Ignores the first kind. Laughs at the second kind. Listens to the third kind. The ACTS. Leaves the third kind with their dicks in their hands saying, ‘That was my idea. These people stole it!’

What are you?

Back to code.

Wazi.