The Stop Doing List in 2012

1. Stop procrastinating on things that must be completed;
2. Stop taking NO for an answer;
3. Stop making excuses;
4. Stop walking with the 'little chicken';
5. Stop settling for less than you deserve;
6. Stop quitting mid-way;
7. Stop blaming others for your failures;
8. Stop limiting yourself;
9. Stop comparing yourself with others;
10. Stop pursuing other people's visions and goals;
11. Stop associating with negative people and;
12. Stop looking for success in the wrong places.

12 Life Changes to make in 2012

Here is a list of a few life changes you can make in 2012:

1. Taking more lessons from the Bible;
2. Going the extra mile a little more often;
3. Detoxifying toxic people from your life;
4. Reading more motivational books;
5. Listening to more motivational DVDs;
6. Improving your personal finance literacy skills;
7. Finding your passion and focusing on it;
8. Learning from 2011 mistakes and stepping into your success in 2012;
9. Managing your personal time better;
10. Spending more of your leisure time with the less-privileged;
11. Doing something that you have been afraid to do and;
12. Taking action on your stalled goals.

Creating a better future

It is said that we inherit the past but we create the future. What happened to you in the past remains a bygone and should not influence your tomorrow. You cannot afford to open a quarrel between the your past and your future because these two are different. In fact, the future is what you have.

Your past mistakes should not deter you from succeeding in the future. It is important to understand that you are not a mistake in the world. You have a purpose that should not be jeopardized by a dark past. You have a reason to live to see your tomorrow.

You have what it takes to fashion a better future. You can meet and build rapport with great people. You can read great books from great motivational personalities. You can think great and positive thoughts. You can make a choice to make tomorrow a better day for you and for this generation.

A better future is always within reach.

Touching Lives.....my 2012 business

It will be a major de-service to my life and the lives of the youth in this nation if i do not rise up and follow my passion come 2012.  Yes, i did some good speeches in 2011 but this is not good enough. I know i can better my best.

Chris in a training session in Lodwar, Turkana County, Kenya

The coming year will be a year like no other. The opportunities will be there and i have purposed to seize them. Nothing shall stop me from inspiring a generation that seems to lose hope every day. Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, ' You may not build a future for the young people, but you can build the young people for the future.'

This is my top agenda come next year....i am already down into planning how to eat the elephant!

I am afraid to die before i make a major contribution to humankind.

The poor have something to offer

You cannot help the poor by giving them money. Last week, i visited Turkana County in Kenya. The Turkana people have suffered the brunt of poverty, cattle rustling and serious humanitarian crises year in year out.

                                                                Turkana boys selling a he-goat at KES 3,200.00

However, after visiting this area, i am convinced that people are not poor because they have nothing. People are poor because their capacity to move out of poverty is limited. In the above case, the Turkana people have large stocks of livestock at the moment, but the lack of market linkages has proven to be a perennial problem.

It is the high time donors channelled their resources to the right poverty alleviation strategies including creating market linkages for products produced by the poor.

The poor have something to offer to the market place.

You can better your good

Jim collins said that good is the enemy of the great. I have always believed that most people wallow in mediocrity because they are contented at their level. Many people do not reach greater heights because of their current satisfaction level.

You got to be willing to move from where you are to where you have never been before. What you have achieved is good but you cannot afford to stagnate at that level. Good is not good enough where better is expected.

You got to challenge yourself to bigger goals. You got to stretch yourself to achieve bigger dreams. Refuse the good and pursue the great. You were born and destined for greatness. Do not belittle your potential to become your best. Greatness is within your reach only if you are willing to surrender your good for the great.

Go the extra mile

Allow me quote the words of Dr. Wayne Dyer: It's never crowded along the extra mile. Have you developed the discipline of going the extra mile? Are you routinely over-delivering on your promises? The truth is that very few people dare to exceed expectations in order to go above the crowd.

If you want to transform your personal life, become more self-reliant, become more self-confident and become more influential with those around you, you got to give more than you are doing.

You should be willing to ask more of yourself, add more value of what you do, provide more service and improve on what you are doing. You need to put just a little more effort.

There is no traffic jam when you go the extra mile. When you do more than people expect, more opportunities will come your way. The difference between the ordinary and the extra-ordinary is that little extra. Do more than the average people.