Eng. Jacob Maina

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken"

~ Oscar Wilde,

Let's be careful during this rainfall season

𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄, 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 & 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐏𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄

“I have seen something else under the sun:

The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.”

— Ecclesiastes 9:11
2026 has given every one of us the same allocation:

12 months
365 days
8,760 hours
525,600 minutes
31,536,000 seconds

These are not just time units.
They are chances.

History shows that the difference between those who transform their lives and those who remain stagnant is rarely intelligence or opportunity.

Often, it is discipline with time.

Many pray for open doors, yet waste the minutes that lead to them.

The wise do something different:
They 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒏𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒖𝒕.

Reflection:
How will you spend today’s chances?