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A Different Kind of Year-End: Sitting Still as 2025 Turns to 2026
Designing life first — not goals. A quiet reset for choosing the lifestyle you actually want to live.
Daily Conversations Can Change Your Life
The words you repeat daily shape your identity. Small conversations quietly rewrite your future.
Three years on autopilot: The day I realized I had stopped reviewing my life
Three years passed before I noticed I was drifting. A wake-up call on living deliberately.
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THE POWER OF ONE WEEK: WHAT I NOTICED AFTER BEING AWAY
Continue Reading: THE POWER OF ONE WEEK: WHAT I NOTICED AFTER BEING AWAYI just got back from a week away. Lusaka, then Livingstone. Work trips, business reviews, strategy sessions. A lot packed into seven days. And when I drove back home on the Lusaka-Ndola dual carriageway, something caught my attention that I had not noticed before. Progress. Visible. Undeniable. Real. But only because I had been away…
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THE DATA YOU ARE IGNORING ABOUT YOURSELF
Continue Reading: THE DATA YOU ARE IGNORING ABOUT YOURSELFI sat through our company’s annual planning conference last week. The marketing person was presenting. Screen full of charts. Numbers. Analytics. Where people came from. Which countries visited our online platforms. Which posts got the most engagement. Which content drove action. Which ones were ignored. There was a pattern. Clear. Undeniable. Right there in the…
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FOUR DAYS IN: I AM ALREADY BURNING OUT
Continue Reading: FOUR DAYS IN: I AM ALREADY BURNING OUTIt is the first weekend of 2026. Four days into the new year. And I am already exhausted. Not physically tired. Mentally drained. I started the year the way most of us do—with energy, plans, and that familiar voice saying: “This is it. This is the year. Go hard.” So I did. The construction project…
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A DIFFERENT KIND OF YEAR-END: SITTING STILL AS 2025 TURNS TO 2026
Continue Reading: A DIFFERENT KIND OF YEAR-END: SITTING STILL AS 2025 TURNS TO 2026I am writing this from an unusual place. Not my usual desk inside. Not hunched over my laptop at some odd hour when the house is finally quiet. I am sitting outside in our garden on a sunny Sunday afternoon, a glass of mango juice beside me, a gentle breeze reminding me that I am…
About the Author
I am an engineer who journals life lessons—reflections, patterns, and lessons worth sharing.
I write about slowing down, paying attention, and figuring out what actually matters beyond the day-to-day grind.