I THOUGHT LIFE WOULD BE BETTER IN TROUSERS
In Grade 7, I was looking forward to Grade 8 for one reason. Grade 8 pupils wore trousers and a tie. It seemed like a very big deal at the time.
Living Deliberately
The Journals
THE UNIVERSITY OF LIFE NOTES
Five years of engineering school. A degree received. Eleven days later, the things I wrote about in my journal had nothing to do with any of it.
The Journals
THE PHOTOGRAPHS DON’T TELL THE WHOLE STORY
A twenty-three year old wrote down everything four days after graduation. Fourteen years later, the journal remembered what the photographs forgot.
Building Things
SEVEN OF US STARTED A COMPANY. IT BEGAN AS A WEDDING GROUP.
From a hostel at David Kaunda in 2003 to a WhatsApp group in 2014 to a company name agreed on a chat in 2021. The story behind Sieben.
Living Deliberately
KNOWING IS NOT THE SAME AS DOING.
A car that kept breaking down, a journal entry that finally named it, and the gap between knowing something and doing anything about it.
People
THE BURNT BEANS
A pool bar in Kamwala, a seven year old left in charge, and the pot of beans that exposed a secret my mother had no idea about.
The Journals
NOTHING CHANGES UNTIL YOU SEE IT.
Most of the times something genuinely changed in my life, it did not start with a plan. It started the moment I actually looked at something I had been not-looking at.
Living Deliberately
DADDY, WHY ARE YOU WORKING?
My two-year-old asked me why I was working, and before I could answer, she accidentally showed me the question I should have been asking myself.
Living Deliberately
YOUR PLAN MAKES SENSE. BUT HAVE YOU SEEN IT FROM THE OUTSIDE?
Every plan has a blind spot. You just cannot see it from where you are standing.
Living Deliberately
MESSI OR RONALDO. YOU HAVE ALREADY DECIDED.
You did not choose your side. Your side chose you.