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Make One & Stick To It -  by Wambura F Ngari The New Year resolutions; most of us make them and those who don’t see them as ‘damn’. But new year resolutions are all about hope and optimism; looking into the new year with renewed energy. Well, according to research, only 12 percent of those who make resolutions stick to them. I am in the 88 percent. But then why bother make them? Westacott, a blogger says New Year resolutions are "a triumph of hope over experience, a way to quantify what we wish for ourselves”. Yes, New Year's resolutions are all about hopefulness. History tells us that this dates back to about 4,000 years ago.  Babylonians rang in their new year with an 11-day festival in March and reportedly made promises to the gods in hope they'd earn good favor in the coming year. They often resolved to get out of   debts. So what is your New Year resolution(s) and how do you plan to stick to it/them. Since the resolutions we make are about/say mor...

December 31 2016; Looking back at year ending today - by Wambura F Ngari   I liken 2016 to a “Mystery bag”, no idea of what will come out of it. The good, the bad and the in between all dished out this year. However, my highlight is that I will remember 2016 as the year I traveled by road from the slopes of Mt Kenya to Cape of Good Hope (In Jan & Dec) and somehow the wide, open road has helped unwrap my mind to a wider vision, a realization that possibilities exist beyond the horizon. So what lessons am I taking out of this “Mystery bag”? To love with honesty and to genuinely care. Never to assume that I have another year, you know, that thought of “arrgh, tomorrow is another day, I’ll make that call …” I don’t have forever, this is the moment. I lost cousins and close friends in the most sudden way I can imagine. One day alive, the next, gone! Just like that! So let us tell the ones we love how much we love them. To family, friends, colleagues, the waiter at...