‘Kenya is a hotbed of vibrant culture’
that was our president setting the tone for the recently completed Global
Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi; and a tone he did set! My long lost cousin Obama and the President
of the United States couldn't say it better when he said....Kenya is
ready...Kenya is leading the way....Omera!
Thank you cousin! Did you watch
the 2015 IIAF Championships in Beijing,? Cheers! I did.
That is where we got the best definition of
hotbed. We were not just winning medals, we were winning GOLD. Before you finish celebrating one, another
gold comes kicking. Before you even
think of betting for the betters in the house, the gold has already come. 😀 #proudtobekenyan!
You see in any race or field event
that there was, there were three winners. The first won gold, the second
silver, the third bronze and they all got standing ovations, media advantage,
of course fat bank accounts and most all medals. They were all shown to the
world, they are all known to the world. But, of the three, there's one that
stood out GOLD! I want the standing out!
You see even if they all got standing
ovations, the honor in any race or event went to the GOLD bearing champ. It is
their National Anthem that was played. And everyone stopped in silence to escort
the Gold-bearer as he carried the race
home with him. Could they have been escorting him? My answer is, Yes they were.
One of the most persistent questions
in company's boardrooms and the boardrooms in the mind of any person who wants
to succeed in life is 'how do I stand out? how do I get an edge? So trying to
answer this question some people work so hard in their jobs waking up early
going home late, others further their education, they are always in school to
find that edge which is very good am in school too.
With a
population of over 7.3 billion people in the world and all doing something to
live. All praying unto one God in their different faiths what would make one
person stand out of all of them. What
makes some to be news makers and some to be news watchers?
Yes there’s
something called God’s favor and personally, I have witnessed it in my life.
That moment when something comes your way not because of what you have done or
how well you deserved it but because there is a God in heaven. Now if God can actually give you favor for something
you didn’t do and something you didn’t even deserve, how much more will he give
you his favor for something you want to do, for a dream you want to build, for
a vision you want to realize? We all can’t run well on the track and stand out like
Usain Bolt or David Rudisha, we all cannot play soccer so well and stand out like
Christiano Ronaldo but life has many tracks enough for the 7.3 billion people
on earth to play and stand out !
Mahatma Gandhi
once said, ‘it’s easy to stand in the crowd, but it takes courage to stand
alone and to stand out’. It is courage that made Julius Yego explore other
areas to win Gold in World Championships as opposed to the traditional races
where Kenya has always been known. As
all the athletes jetted in from Beijing and they were being lauded and
celebrated, as they are being invited for interviews and talk shows, as all the seven gold medals are being presented
and rewarded, there is one gold that is different, one that stands out . One that lingers more in our minds and that is Julius Yego’s Javelin Gold.
Napoleon Hill once said that
if you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. There is a world
where only you will conquer there is a track where only you can run and stand
out and we are waiting at the finish to crown and celebrate you!!
