Being the Change I want to See

One of the reasons why I love Capital in the Mornings is because they bring in a wide range of leaders for chit chat.  In the last month alone, I’ve heard Suzie Wokabi, Hon Raphael Tuju, Prof James Ole Kiyiapi … and a good number of others.

This morning, Mr. Richard Lesiyampe was in the studio, and I enjoyed the interview immensely.  I found him quite affable, and extremely honest too.  The interview with KNH was important for many reasons, including the fact that I’ve had to go there a number of times this month.

Yesterday, I was visiting a friend there and he hilariously recounted the journey to his admission.  Unfortunately, as you might have expected, these tales were a far cry from what Mr. Lesiyampe talked about today.  I won’t go into them here, because I want to focus on how I can help KNH get to where they want to be.

Mr. Lesiyampe, thank you for taking time off to engage with the Capital FM audience.  I am particularly excited to hear that there is now a Patients Affairs Department in KNH, and look forward to the changes that will spring from this new innovation.  I am also very pleased that I have had occasion to try the new elevator and it is FANTASTIC!  I’m certainly looking forward to seeing the other two installed, and to wait confidently for any of them that will show up.  Right now, I often walk into the elevators with my heart thumping almost through my chest!  I’m afraid that the door will slice me in half if I’m not quick in my entry or my exit!

As you continue to implement changes within the walls of our beloved hospital, please let me know:

  1. How you are engaging your staff members so that they are able to carry your vision with you?
  2. What mechanisms are in place for the Patient Affairs Department to be effective and efficient?
  3. How we, your shareholders (as Kiprop Foot put it) can help with the implementation of your vision – not as investors, but as the patients whom your team would attend to on a daily basis.

Thank you!

Top 30 Under 30

Hey Everyone!  Someone!  Anyone out there!

It’s great to be back on the blogosphere and I hope I’m now here to stay.  Over the last few months, I have been inspired to blog by my good friend Mrs Babes whose energy and consistency is amazing.  I got the idea for this post from her, and I hope that as she celebrates her success on 7th September 2012, I will be able to celebrate mine on 1st November 2012.

The accomplishment of each of these targets is going not going to be easy.  In addition to the fact that I cannot run to save my life, I have more than six degrees of separation between at least two people on this list.  That said, a little (or a lot of) ambition never killed anyone.  I don’t think I’m going to be the first.

Here goes! (The list is not in any particular order)

  1. Have a conversation with Hon. Raphael Tuju
  2. Be a pro-bono news anchor on KTN, NTV or Citizen (9 o’clock news)
  3. Run the Maasai Mara Marathon
  4. Learn how to make chapatis
  5. Speak at a school speech and prize giving day
  6. Become a professional MC
  7. Have at least 100 posts on this blog
  8. Spend less than 50% of my income for at least three months
  9. Find 1 girl to mentor
  10. Let my family know that I love them
  11. Get my niece’s ears pierced
  12. Spend a weekend at my paternal grandmother’s house
  13. Spend a weekend at my maternal grandmother’s house
  14. Travel with my family
  15. Celebrate my parents’ 30th wedding anniversary
  16. Have a conversation with Mr. Mugo Kibati
  17. Be a lecturer at a local university
  18. Start (re)taking the CFA examinations or enrol for a PhD
  19. Write my will
  20. Learn how to bake
  21. Read the Bible from cover to cover (without skipping Numbers)
  22. Get baptised
  23. Find a Bible study
  24. Become a regular contributor to a published magazine
  25. Appear as a guest on a TV talk show
  26. Knit one item using a pattern
  27. Read one book a month
  28. Say “I love you because …” everyday
  29. Make five people laugh everyday
  30. Pay one compliment everyday