THERMOSTAT FLIP SIDE: WEIGHT OF IGNORANCE

After focusing on the murky conditions on moral decadence and marriage, today I would like to extrapolate the society and make out what is simmering underneath. Off matters ignorance and under performance in our country and crane my neck to see how the society thinks and rates itself. I f you're in this part of Africa and more so be a resident in Kenya, then you must be tempted to think that Kenya rears and breeds a failing generation. 


The national results were recently released to the chagrin of many. Students and parents alike were dumbfounded and weaned.  Some have taken their displeasure too far and endangered their lives. Others thought that was too much and ended their lives watching. Super majority are coming to terms with the facts that they will not have a chance to proceed forward to the next level. There is a looming rude shock of failing to attain the required cut off marks to bridge ahead. The little one with their small mind and ages don't know what to do with their lives. Pressure is mounted heavily on their lives as they look like the infamous black sheep in society. The fact that out of the total number of more than seven hundred thousands who sat for the national exam, only a palty forty eight percent will proceed forward is a hard fact to live with. Fifty two percent failed the exam. Our bone of contagion is not about pupil failing their basic level exams but rather the bedrock of education system in our current society. 


Children are the reflection of the society. If therefore our country can bring forth school going pupils who cannot read and understand fully after eight years of going through a curriculum, honestly, what does all these translate in terms of society and its education system? Who is the failure of another? Whereas we can point several corners as a cause for our children's failure, we must also admit that an apple does not fall too far from the tree. The community too is ingrained with long time ignorance and foolishness. There exist some level of lazyness and little emphasis placed on nature of performance. Lackluster kills many a parents and breeds in a Kenyan. They want things to be accomplished with zero bank on integrity and excellence. The funny quarter being that, even modern day preachers have bought into the weakness and them too preach half- hearted sermons that have more damage than value.


There exist great responsibility crisis  shift in society and people rarely take commitment to admit mistakes and injustices and settle for requisite solutions that angle well with the atrocities. The best that parents can do when their children paste dismal performance is to attack the teachers both verbally and physically. This nature of attempt in dealing with problems is highly misplaced and baffling on equal wavelength. Pursuing heads and beating the silly upfront is disrespect of high order. Despite being debilitating, it is not the vocal point of the solution. Real nagging and pressing matter should be addressed by all cost. These Prevaricating heads must learn to use common sense even if it is not common.  


Attach the ignorance embedded in our society amongst people not the associated affiliates. Society needs to come to terms with its rottenness and seek laudable, proven professional ways of solving problems. Let the country be serious and do away with this hide and seek childish methods and give us a competent, credible system of education. The weight of ignorance is too heavy to carry. An ignorant country is a gripped nation. The level of ignorance is high and consuming fast more lives than the dreaded HIV/AIDS related cases. The society being you and I, let us choose to elevate our level of knowledge and stop third grade colonization of mind.    

CONSCIOUSNESS: BIBLE STUDY

TIP ON BIBLE STUDY;

Humanity amongst all creations has been the one mainly found off line almost regularly. He is portrayed as a difficult creation who has a hard time keeping instructions. On several occasions, he has been found indulging and embroiled in self centeredness  and selfish vests seeking to promote self and his agendas forgetting who first found who and why who was created and his role in life.

In regard to this notion, know that your life has a purpose. We exist for a reason. Our relevance in life is not about fronting our interests. It is about bringing our life to understand and make it submit to a certain power that can instill self control and a sense of direction. Man on his own is weak and prone to mistakes. We are a creation with short memory. Beat your averageness by leaning and feeding your soul and mind on right content that can help you see things as they appear. Be a conscious person and learn to listen. Someone up there is on the lookout, remember that when you meet on the wrong path, justice will be meted in the right measure.

Secure your life by focusing on God. Do a bit of bible study. You only know him and represent him well if you understand and know him better, Don't be careless, elevate yourself from being average in reading the bible.

ETHICS & PROFESSIONALISM: CAREER GROWTH

TIP ON TIME MANAGEMENT;

Time and again has proven that the best way to control your time is to own it in your own hands. Split your day into hours and your hours into minutes. Face your day in every step of your minutes. Script your day and account for what every minute of your hour is spent on. Drop list your schedule of what to do on a day. Always plan your day on the previous night. Sleep knowing what you will start your day with first thing when you set your foot in the office. Today we have our secret tip on time management from 'millionaire's time management.'  We have none other than Mr. Donald Trump and his lead lawyer George Ross who learned the tip from the boss.

Here is the trick from Ross, " Get a simple notebook and carry it around for the next three days. Break the page up into fifteen minute blocks and write down what you are doing each day at those times."

There we go, if your day starts at eight, this is how those blocks should look like in your notebook;

8:00 a.m

8: 15 a.m

8: 45 a.m

9: 00 a.m etc

The trick here is to find out time wasters and effective use of time. Doing such habit can perfectly help you become a good time manager. Get into the drill don't just read, real change lies in action. Enjoy the practice. 

OFF CHANGING CLOCK STICK

"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us."
                                   Arnold J. Toynbee

MORAL RATINGS: WHO STOLE DECENCY?

The moral checkups continues after focusing on marriage in our last article. Today we would like to upbraid the licentiousness within our midsts and ask a reasonable question as of, what is wrong with the society? We will scale it down and talk to you personally as an individual. When you walk around with those unchecked manners, what the heck is your problem? Don't you know that you have something within you that is wanting? Remember, society is formed by you and I. Which therefore means that, if we are experiencing incivility and moral breakdown, therefore that signifies the people. Individuals inside the community are loose, selfish and uncaring thereby giving forth a hunched and hampered society with a remarkable record of moral decadence.

What we used to know as norms and societal values are highly stumbled on. Everything today is so dilute. It is very difficult to find a correct image in our contemporary world. Growing children are picking up practices from their peers that are ram shackled and getting accustomed to them as the right way. So when our children grows up with corrupted minds; what do we think as a society are we doing? Do we want to boldly tell them that what they are embracing is okay and befitting for their future? Why ingenuousness in us? or do we lack what to impart? Should we not talk about these issues? Why are the concerned party quiet and looking busy? Whereas we decry the illness within our environment, it is so distraught to note that a big number of some parents and older members of society are the chief contributors in spoiling and driving the society in its hindsight. It is so funny and saddening at the same time to say that a number of parents are insipid and limited themselves.

Time and again we have said that people should take time and put in considerable effort in their parenting skills and question whether they are ready for such a task. We cannot continuously grow and tend a precarious generation that don't understand the value of principles. At one point we as a people should become tired of the weirdness we commit and choose to pose, look back and aspire to change. Let us think of restoring back sanity and decency.

According to the findings of our thermostat, last year saw a record high of moral crimes. We experienced a lot of rape cases, defilement cases, sodomy, and all nature of sexual abuses here and there. The named vicious acts not only occurred almost all over, but also took a divergent move and reared its ugly head into unlikely quarter. We were rocked and treated to torturous images of nauseating cases of rape and sexual immorality even to the pulpit. How about that; do you think that is an interesting scenario? If church a once trusted place was attacked, then what are we left with as members of this society? Where did our respect and self control go to?  We took our eccentric nature to far. The chronic nature of moral breakdown in our modern life is so worrying and terrific.  I don't know when people will learn to slow down and think about sanity and rebuild the walls. This kind of trend that a people are getting comfortable with putting in mind the shift in character is so wide and the moral pit might just become too much homework and deep enough for us to fill in future times.  Let us dare the thief who stole our decency to return our morality. If possible, can we catch those thieves if we know them and warn them of their bad practices and how they are depreciating the standard of our society? Decency must be maintained at whatever cost, its success is about you and I. Let us do something towards cleaning our society.
   

OFF CHANGING CLOCK STICK

"To live an extra ordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach."
                                                                                            Frank Mckinney.

MORAL RATINGS IN THE EYES OF TWENTY ELEVEN.

It is fifty seven hours since we welcomed the new year and we here, would like to recognize the presence of the new year and wish you a diligent and competent twenty twelve. In the past year that is just behind our backyard, we set out our moral thermostat to let it record the temperatures of our society and what ails its moral precinct. We checked it recently and found the recordings. Before we empty it to the brand new year, let us look back at twenty eleven and talk about its ugly heads and faces.


Marriage being a universal practice and one endorsed by our maker, experienced a rough time and registered sickening performance. Despite being accorded such high value, it was abused and misused by the society. Its wall were shaken, curtains torn and the foundation cracked. People walked in and out as if it was a public auditorium. Others took it as a guinea pig and set their experiments to ascertain whether they have the right specifications to integrate with, and when they understood that all was not well, they scampered and forgot the terms and conditions of this quarter. 


The lunatics entered the pact, the foolish too walked in and so was the ignorant. All these groups infuriated the institution and thought they hadn't done anything wrong and therefore went away silently. Some failed to read the signs from their counterparts and them too picked the wrong path. When they failed to get what they expected, all we could hear was loathsome stories of anguish and disappointment. Some were seriously hurt and contemplated suicidal escapees. On an accentuated note, others ran out of solutions and sought help. While a super majority on the basis of chagrin chose to keep quiet and learned to cope despite knowing too well that they will never find complacency and any kind of contentment they were looking forward to. Our thermostat recorded and signposted marriage as one area where scuffles and botched homework existed. People associated with this category know very little about it yet they expect to make things right.


It is very unfortunate that we are reporting on the negative angle of marriage. We too are not mesmerized about it. But that is what we found out while doing our assignment. We cannot and will not shy away from this matter but rather speak the truth and oust you where possible. Marriage is profound and and founded on the grounds of discipline, values, and principles. The founder of this institution who designed, thought and established such a thing as marriage had different reasons as opposed to what many individuals act on.

This is a field that needs to be respected and honored on its own right. It is a classified affair with only a few qualified people making the cut. It wasn't meant for all and sundry. Humanity must stop these abuses and injustices orchestrated towards marriage and instead take time to appreciate and understand it to know its in depth, and why we have marriage in our domain. Marriage is a regal issue with deep contract under its neck. It is commonly linked to Holy of holies in our bible, and we all know that not everyone is allowed to access the secluded area. We have specific people to oversee and partake such duties and events, and those who don't meet the criteria should remain behind and wait for their right moment.


Cases of fornication and adultery are rife. And it is to such people that we would like to address and warn to cease acting on selfish interest and learn to take the correct path and steer away from short cuts. Young persons must stop their sensual appetites and learn to slow down and respect themselves, bodies and the institution. Those already in marriage must fathom the reason why they are married and stop hovering around like stray dogs. We are hurting something we didn't initiate and institute. Remember, it was meant to be a gift and therefore shouldn't misuse special gestures extended to you. Control your feelings and choose knowledge to grow up well. That was last year, let us await what the new has in store for us. As we integrate with the changing times, all we can advocate for from this corner is that people should style up and discipline their feelings.