08/12/2015
PERSONAL FINANCE: How to
grow your money from as little
as Sh3000
The modern day Kenyan youth needs a
wakeup call. Life as a youth these days is
occupied with party after party and very little
regard for savings and other such boring
things.
Unfortunately, we don’t live in our parents’
times when they had a variety of
opportunities at their disposal, like being
paid to go to school and after graduation find
a well-paying job waiting eagerly for them.
Theirs was a matter of choice if you wanted to
succeed or not.
Well, everything is changed, you have to
struggle and work hard and smart to set
yourself a bar ahead of from peers. It is very
common for us to live ordinary lives, hence
the need to be smart with the choices we
make daily, to better our lives.
The modern day youth is distracted by things
that clearly do not matter; we want to live life
for today without thinking about the future,
‘YOLO’ as they call it, meaning ‘you only live
once’. Just as, Stephen R. Covey the Author of
Seven habits of highly effective people notes
in his book, “Reactive people focus their
efforts in the circle of concern; They focus on
the weakness of other people, the problems in
the environment and circumstances over
which they have no control”.
We are selfish in nature always wanting
‘things’ only for ourselves without considering
our children tomorrow. We lack ambition to
better our lives and are generally lazy affected
by the syndrome of ‘serikari tafadhali saidia’
we want everything we desire handed to us.
Until when will we wait for our guardians to
provide for us, even after completing school? I
have grabbed the bull by the horns, not
because I think we are a lost cause but
because I know we have good chances to turn
our lives around for the better.
Currently there are numerous opportunities
for us to take advantage of in the financial
world.
For instance, the government of Kenya today
is very keen on bettering the lives of the
youth. However, this will not be handed to us
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