The type of information you allow to your mind will determine how you react to different things and circumstances. If you allow negative information, you will be a negative person but if you hang out with successive and progressive people, their positive life approach will influence you to be a positive person. Your mind is like a computer, the kind of data and software you feed in will determine the kind of programs the computer will be able to perform. A trained doctor cannot use the same knowledge and skills to perform the work of a mechanic.

Our society has trained and equipped our sons and daughters to be mechanics yet we expect them to perform the work of doctors. A politician will not be the person he is not just because of your expectations and problems. In other words it is us who trained and indentified them to be who they are yet we complain because they are corrupt and selfish. If you invest your money in a project, you would expect to get returns and you would do the best you can to get it as soon as possible. The first qualification to be a member of parliament is how much you can bribe and how good you are promising people what they want to hear. Time is up for old politics game where leaders overpromises and under delivers. In the past, Kenyans have been promised tap water in every household by 2000, rural electrification by 2010 and "vision 2015" which have changed to "Vision 2030". I will not say anything about new constitution because Kenyans were promised a complete "new constitution" 100 days after NDP takes over in 2002. I am not sure if i go it right it was 100 days, i could be missing two or three zeros. If that is so, my fellow Kenyans, tighten your belts you have a long way to go. Those professional procrastinators in Kenya need to know that "you don't lower your expectations to meet your performance.

You raise your level of performance to meet your expectations." Kenyan politicians invest a lot of money in YOU and I during campaigns and because of our faithfulness and honesty we vote them in. Why do we complain when they discover an easy way to get their ROI when they get in parliament?. You would do the same way if it were you. Why can't we look their track records and tell who is lying and who has the interest of Kenyans at heart. I don't understand why we can have same people in power for half a century promising things they will never deliver yet we keep rehiring them over and over. You (mwanachi) are the employer with the power to hire and fire people who work for you. After every five years you are given an opportunity to evaluate your staff past performance and determine who keeps the job and who leaves the premises. Jim Collins puts it this way, "....to build a successful organization and team, you must get the right people on the bus and put them in the right seats”. We all know who are the right people to match the right sits but when elections come we end up doing the wrong thing. When organizations fail we don't blame employees, we blame the managers and CEO's for hiring wrong people for the job. Mwanachi are the Parliament CEOs who have given up their power and authority to be controlled and managed by their employees.

You cannot do the same thing over and over and expect different results. If you want something different you must be willing to do something you never did before. It is time Kenyans need to take back their roles and hold their leaders accountable. For change to come it will not start with politicians, it will start with YOU and I. Changing the way we think and the way we do things. If we don't entertain negative talks in our local communities, our families and churches, we will build leaders with principals and values that put the needs of others before their selfish desires. The choice you make on how you treat your neighbor has nothing to do with what Kibaki or Raila or some politicians said. YOU made that choice! Let us take responsibility of our decisions and bring the change we need today and in future.

By Geoffrey, for connection33

COMMENTS:

You are right, the first step to change a situation is to discover there is a problem, then how it came to be and finally how to solve it. Our main problem we only accept there is a problem but we don't take responsibility. We also don't visiolise where problems originate. We employ the politicians, this means we hire unqualified man power then we complain the job is not done. On other hand those who ignore our beloved country are even worse. We need to propel the right culture and trent. ..... BY Jesii Kimani