Equipping young women professionals with young families to find fulfillment, contentment and joy as mothers and home makers without losing sight of who they are as women.

Volume 02, Issue 13: Don’t Settle for Less

Aim higher as the new year approaches. You may have struggled this year, but that doesn’t mean you should lower your expectations for times ahead.

Don’t just ask for your needs, ask your dreams. Ask for your goals. Ask for the secret petitions of your heart.

God has blessings stored up for those who honour him. Pray God-sized prayers, and expect God to show up in a great way.

It is good to ask for our needs, but go a step further and ask for your dreams. Be bold enough to ask for the secret desires of your heart.

Expect to see the fullness of what God has in store for you, to overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy, and become all that God destined you to be.

Lillian Chebosi

Volume 2, Issue 12: Begin with the end in mind

Success is about forming habits that keep you on course. We get to choose how to live, what we want out of life. We can live better lives if we acquire the habits that support it.

The actions that we take over and over again become habits over time. Research has shown that it takes about 30 days to develop a new habit. By then the daily routine becomes a habit.

As once said by Aristotle, we get what we repeatedly do. Therefore, we get what we want by regularly practicing for it until it becomes a habit. Whatever you desire; health, wealth, happiness, love, acquire and practice the habits that will create it for you.

Habit is the servant of great men and women; the servant of failures as well. It will push you onward or drag you to failure. Successful people employ healthy habits to propel them on the road of continuous improvement. Failures take bad habits for granted and find themselves incarcerated by them, leading to despair and disdain.

We make our habits, and then our habits make or break us. Habits are either the best servants or the worst enemies. Be easy with habit and you will live to regret it. Be firm with habit and it will get you ahead of the average person.

Habits require time, consistency, patience and determination to acquire and refine. As you acquire new habits, get rid of the old ones that do not serve you.

If you desire to live a long fulfilled life, full of health and vitality, embark on habits that promote that - daily routines of exercise and healthy eating, making a point to rest after periods of hard work.

If you desire wealth, painstakingly apply the habits of generating wealth – saving, investing, and living below your means.

There are no short-cuts in life. Whatever you desire, consistently apply the habits that will create it for you. If we want to change where we end up, we must begin with the end in mind and get on with the habit.

Lillian Chebosi

Volume 03, Issue 11: Keep Walking

In the race of life you will not be measured by the humbleness of your start, but by the greatness of your finish – Paul Tergat, Kenya’s former great athlete. He talks of how his marathon in life was a hard one, second place after second place, before he finally hit gold.

Kipchoge Keino, one of the greatest athletes in his time did not only succeed on the track, he also motivated many young athletes after him to achieve standards in sports which might have been regarded as impossible until he paved the way. Kipchoge’s success not only put Kenya on the international athletic map, it also inspired many of the country’s long distance runners and launched its decades-old dominance of long distance running.

Just like Paul Tergat, Kipchoge has a story to tell of how hard it was for him at the beginning and the hurdles he passed as he pushed himself to greatness. Regardless of how dismal his start might have been, what we remember him for is the grandness of his finish.

Do not be intimidated by your modest beginnings. Keep sharpening your skills where you are and you will rise to the top. God will cause you to be noticed. Joseph sharpened his skills while he was a slave and they were noticed in prison, and he wound up a prime minister in a foreign land.

Aim for excellence. Paul Tergat did not settle for second place. He kept striving until he made it to the top. Stir up what God has deposited within you and reach for the stars.

Be diligent at whatever you do. Joseph was only a slave, he wasn’t being paid for his work, but he still did his best. We are being paid for our work yet we border on mediocrity. We do the bare minimum just to get by and stay on the payroll. The day we realize that we are not working for men but for God is the day we shall get over the bug of mediocrity.

The expression of your talent may not look like it will amount to anything grand, but keep walking. Keep doing what you know to do best, refining it day by day. Only you can determine what becomes of your dream, and how it will look like at the finish line.

Lillian Chebosi

Volume 03, Issue 10: Redeem the Time

We are living in busy times. We complain about not having the time to do what we love to do, what we should do, and the things that will count for eternity. We have busy schedules. Most of us are at work from 8 to 5, and in traffic for 2 to 3 hours a day. What time do we have to develop ourselves, sharpen our skills, exercise, parent our children, and build up others? David could have said the same thing while he was taking care of sheep. But he redeemed the time and sharpened his skills, and he made history.

There are lots of pockets of time that we can take advantage of in the course of the day. But we squander time on things and people that don’t build us. Don’t waste your valuable time hanging around people that are not adding anything to your life. Hang around people that inspire and challenge you. Sometimes we do this when we read great books. It matters who you associate with.

Time is what life is made of. If you love life, you will not squander time. The scripture says to redeem the time. We need to see time as a gift. God has destined us for great things. But until we redeem the time, we will not attain our full potential. Now is the time to get prepared.

We must learn the art of ordering our day. We must take into account each day and not squander the time we have. Make use of the pockets of time you have in the course of your working day to pray, exercise, read, and sharpen your skills. Rather than chitchatting for a full hour at lunch time as you eat leisurely every other day, have lunch for 15 minutes and use the remaining 45 minutes to read, or exercise, or pray. Read a book as you wait on queue at the hospital, or the bank, or the salon. Read a book, or listen to a tape as you drive or ride on the bus. Memorize and meditate on scripture as you jog.  There’s plenty of time to do it all. Let us redeem the time and make the most of every opportunity.

Lillian Chebosi

Volume 03, Issue 09: Keep Growing

We have already seen that the key to realizing our latent potential is to read and educate ourselves. We have treasure on the inside. But it will not automatically come out. It has to be developed.

What we have become so far is not all there is. There are plenty of opportunities to improve. We have no excuse remain at the same level we were last year. We owe it to ourselves to develop what God put in us.

Whatever you do, get better at it. Sharpen your skill. Don’t settle where you are. Stir up what is within you and get better at it. It may look like nobody is noticing and promoting you; nonetheless, do your part to develop what God has put in you, for your opportunities await your preparedness.

We must take steps to grow. David practiced sling shots and playing the harp while taking care of sheep. Like others in his position, he could have just hanged around waiting on sheep, but he practiced his skills. We complain about not having time to do what we love but that is far from the truth.

When God needed someone to slay a giant, and lead his chosen people, he chose who was prepared, David. When King Saul needed a gifted musician to entertain and soothe him, he chose who was prepared, David. What become of the other young boys in David’s village who take care of sheep like David? There’s nothing written about them. Will we be remembered long after we are gone?

God looks for people who have developed their skills. Whatever skill you have, it has to be developed before it can open doors for you. The Bible promises that your gift will make room for you and bring you before great men; and that one who is skilled in his craft will serve kings, not ordinary men. Clearly this is true as we have seen in the case of David. He did not only serve the King, but he succeeded the King. What is keeping us from sharpening our abilities?

We were created for increase. Don’t get comfortable where you are. There’s so much more that you can do. Take classes to improve your skills. Take your abilities a notch higher. Have a personal growth plan. Have good mentors, people who know more than you, people that have gone where you want to go. Let them speak into your life, and learn from their mistakes.

What steps are you taking to better yourself to go to the next level? We must have an attitude to continue learning, to keep growing. God has destined us to soar.

Lillian Chebosi