The Secret of Life Rhapsody

How to Get the Most Out of Your Day In order to get the most out of your day and out of your life, you need to see life as a journey. Imagine that you are embarking on endless travels for the next 10 to 30 years. You are set to go and your bags are already packed. Now stop for a minute and ask yourself the following rhetorical questions: 1.        Where do you want to go? 2.        How quickly do you want to go on your journey? 3.        How many shortcuts are you willing to take before you get to your destination? 4.        Finally, how do you intend to manage the little or no resources that you have? In my opinion, life is a journey and you need to know your destination, for your life to have meaning or for you to celebrate success. So imagine that you were embarking on a trip and you don’t have a map, you don’t have a tour...

How to Disrupt Yourself I write this piece with apprehension on my mind. The reason why I am trepidating with fear is because I just got information that shocked me to the marrow. Kodak filed for bankruptcy in 2012. However, Steven Sasson (the inventor of the first digital camera in the world) was an employee of Kodak. In 1975, two years after he joined Kodak, he showed these devices to his bosses. His bosses were unimpressed and were convinced that nobody would want to look at pictures from a television set. Kodak’s marketing department also resisted it, because they believed that it will cannibalize film sales. Sasson filed the patent for the electronic still camera in 1977. In 1989 Sasson and Robert Hills made the first DSLR camera. Kodak didn’t embrace the camera, even though they made billions from the digital camera patent until when the patent ran out 30 years later. I am sure you are pondering, what I am pondering. May we ne...

STANDING IN THE GAP I once asked my grandfather what standing in the gap meant. He said to me, child, no one can explain standing in the gap to you in a way you will understand, he chanted. You will have to experience it to understand that someone is standing in the gap. My grandfather quipped. Three weeks ago, I was rushing off to the airport and was 30 minutes close to missing my flight. A complete stranger parks his car and offered to take me to the airport. As we got to the airport terminal, I offered to pay him for his time and services and he refused to collect the money. He even muttered a prayer for me saying: “I hope you meet my flight” Thank you was all I could mutter as I pulled out my bags and ran into the airport’s departure wing. I made it to the checking counter 10 minutes before the gate closed. As the aircraft took off, I started to rethink everything that happened. The only thing that came to my mind is that this gentlem...