Use pain to understand your strength.
Use love to express your strength.
Use peace to live your strength.
Discipline
Discipline craves commitment. Feed it with your heart.
Trust the process
Sometimes, what didn’t work out for you, really worked out for you.
Be present
Give your best even when things are difficult. Remember this, the biggest mistake we make in this life is thinking we have unlimited time. Be present. Do more. Love more and deeply.
Deeds
Nothing matters except good intentions.
Be careful where you settle
Don’t you dare shrink yourself for someone else’s comfort. Do not become small for people who refuse to grow.
Self worth
Respect yourself and value your worth. Stay away from people who bring out the person you’re not trying to be. Surround yourself with those who make you better.
Chasing dreams
Chase your dreams with all your might.
Have unwavering discipline and determination of a river.
Where to be
Be alone. So you know your voice and not echoes of others. And if you must be with others, be with those who matter the most and add meaning to your life.
Be present in your energy
Show strength when weak. And show humility when strong.
Still, I rise.
I was given memories of a world I will never see.
Dreams of a future I will never live.
Love to a woman I can never meet and the strength of a warrior I will never be. But the thought of it all gives me peace I’ve never had, for I know I have yet to discover my truest form and life that I could live.
I may wander from soul to soul, attempting to love every heart I meet. Even when it doesn’t work out as I had hoped for, I’m grateful that I gave everything that was instilled in me.
Whoever I lose or wherever I go, I can only learn more than regret could ever beg me to rest upon. My journey still continues, and still, I rise.
Pain
Your pain should not become anger.
Your pain should not become hate.
Your pain is not something to get lost in.
Your pain should never make you weak.
Your pain is something to be understood.
It is something to be sharpened by.
Your pain is a language.
The Great Kenyan Queen Sabina Chebichi
Before Tegla Lorupe. Before Edith Masai. Before Catherine Ndereba . Before Edna Kiplagat . Before Mary Keitany . Before Pamela Jelimo and Janeth Jepkoskei . Before Vivian Cheruiyot. Before Faith Kipyegon and Hellen Obiri . Before these amazing queens and many others. There was a great young Kenyan Queen by the name of Sabina Chebichi.
Born on 13 June 1959, Sabina Chebichi won her first race in 1973 while barefoot and wearing nothing but a petticoat.
Sabina went on to become the first Kenyan female athlete to win a medal for Kenya.
Chebichi started running in 1972. Her first race was at Kechiko, which she won. When news about an amazing swift striding schoolgirl competing without any running kit broke out in the media, Feisal Sherman who was Secretary of Kenya’s Amateur Athletic Association (now Athletics Kenya) sent her running kit and proper shoes.
At 14 years of age, Chebichi became the first Kenyan female athlete to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games in 1974, she won bronze in the 800m Women’s race at 2:02.61 mins, she went on to compete in the 4 × 400 m Relay and 1500m race.
Sabina Chebichi was named to compete at the 1976 Summer Olympics which were held in Montreal Canada from July 17 to August 1 but unfortunately we never got to see the peak of her prowess because Kenya boycotted the games along with other African countries. . Her young career faced a halt when she became a mom to her first child.
As Kenyans, we need to support our women and girls and honor them and remember them. For you all know, life for women athletes in Kenya is not easy, especially during that time.
I believe it’s time we honor her for she did not just win the first medal for Kenya but also inspired many young girls to become athletes.
She’s truly a pillar of inspiration, and for that, I think we should rename Kamariny stadium to Sabina Chebichi Stadium after her. And have a statue of her facing the finish line. For she’s a pillar of inspiration.
Chebichi – Vicious one”, what a fitting name to for a sacred place where the spirit of vicious pace is born.
On that stadium, they should also hold a walk of fame or a museum to honor all athletes who paved the way to us all.
If you’re a man and feel different, imagine if she was your grandmother, your mother, or your sister or daughter. Wouldn’t you want her to be honored? See what I mean?
She did her part to represent us to the fullest of her passion and will, let us honor her and many other women who have sacrificed so much for our beautiful country. Remember, it’s the people who make the country beautiful.
Maditau- Which means Mother of lions.
Like the phenomenal Maditau – meaning Mother of lions Mary Ngugi 🦁 is doing with Nala Track Club to inspire and support young girls.
Let’s do our part to show the world how we preserve and invest in beautiful things, for this is a heavens gift for us that we must cherish. As a man, you should never hold back to responsibility like this. Let’s invest in our young girls and women.
Remember her name.
Climb
You were only meant to climb these mountains you are facing, not carry them.
In the end, you may get confused
Today, I tapped into my inner observer and explored the vast library of memories within my mind and the hearts cellar. I recognized that everything there, whether good or bad, was placed by me.
This brutal realization compelled my curiosity that I separate the self from the observer and asked the observer, Hey great one, what do you think? The observer replied, I think everything you have to do are simple.
However, it reminded me that my attachments are beliefs, not necessarily important for growth and peace, they’ll often romanticize me while tangling the fabric of my being in knots, where struggles will cause peace to seem like a teardrop in an ocean of fire. Tomorrow does not struggle to become today, it simply unfurls to the moment I am one with. I must do the same for I am what I must simply become deeply.
I was also reminded that I am truly what I do not listen to, and unfortunately, I have become what I think I am.. that’s actually was a roast from the deep..
Be a gift
Fear can not exist with courage.
Even in chaos, clarity can be found.
There’s a time to be a warrior and a time to be a monk, but it is wise to be both at the same time so clarity and courage can be trapped in chaos where it’s the domain of fear.
Exist like you have found your true being and and meaning, grow purpose being centered in this gift. Remember that true fulfillment unfurls from being a gift to others, for the sun does not need to shine on itself.
Eliud Kipchoge, The story of the enlightened one.
In every journey, we must start with the spirit of a lion. Then, we must be willing to change and become something else, something more without losing the spirit of the lion in us. We must combine it with the other great spirits of the great things that life will demand we embrace to grow.
As the last born in a family of four, Eliud Kipchoge grew up in Kapsisiywa, Nandi County, under the loving care of his kindergarten teacher mother. In old times, his brave mom would be called Maditau, it means Mother of Lions”
Having a mother like that, the universe tends to intervene and give celestial courage to one of the cubs that grows up to become The Lion King. But that cub will be tested in every way and form to be deemed worthy of the roar and strength. That warrior cub must have resilience that is of the same fiber as its mother.
As a teenager, he was inspired to run by his phenomenal neighbor who has the biggest of hearts, a former world, and Olympic steeplechase silver medalist Patrick Sang, who later became his coach. Eliud gifts began to unfurl, and like a hungry cheetah chasing a gazelle, he became, no matter how tight the turns the gazelle took the cheetah was in its tail, there was no escaping. This was his destiny, and nothing could stand on his way but his own mind. But his wise coach didn’t want him to be a cheetah because the cheetahs speed tends to run out, and that’s even more dangerous than the hunger itself.
He molded Eliud to be like one of the most skilled hunters in the animal kingdom, the leopard. It’s the only animal that can drag a crocodile out of the river and carry something twice its weight up vertically on a tree. In our culture, the tree symbolizes Enlightenment.
Have you ever seen a starving Leopard? Heh, good luck, it’s impossible to see one. But in other cat family, tiger, lion, cheetah even the domesticated cat you’ll see a skinny one, but never a leopard. Why? Because they live in the moment, they focus and stay disciplined. They are where they need to be.
They do not need to be sprinting like the cheetah, or roar like a lion, or be threatening like a tiger, but the Leopard uses all those skill and ability wisely at once.
That’s why it’s impossible to see the Leopard coming. Living in the tree means the enlightened one. Because it sees everything from the top of the tree, and everything is below it.
The leopard is one the cleanest of all animals. It lives a life of solitude, like a monk who is passionate about meditation. Kipchoge was born again, a rebirth that would take him two decades to reach his ultimate form.
In 2003 World Championship, he recorded his first major win specialising in 5,000 meters. In 2004 Olympics he won a bronze, a silver in 2007 World Championship and another silver in 2008 Beijing Games.
After an uphill battle of a performance in 2012 Olympics, he opted for a marathon, a transformation that not only changed his life but the entire world, too. In 2013, he ran his first ever marathon and won finishing at 2 hours, 5 mins, and 30 seconds. Berlin Marathon was his second marathon, and he came second. Here on after, he understood the game, and life from here was nothing but poetry.
In 2014, he won the Rotterdam Marathon in the Netherlands. He subsequently won marathons in Chicago (2014), Berlin (2015, 2017, 2018 and 2022), London (2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019). The 2018 Berlin victory was a world record of 2 hours 1 minute and 35 seconds. He won a gold medal in 2016 and 2020 Olympics.
Love him or hate him. He’ll forever be a legend, and we owe him gratitude to the new modern mindset marathoners have.
English has changed so much, and things tend to be lost in translation. When Kipchoge says no human is limited. He means it. But let me explain it to you for a bit. In Kenya, we often use the word “limited,” which tends to be a defense mechanism that cultivates weakness.
If you look at Kipchoges life and so many other Kenya runners, we hail from either tough or treacherous upbringing.
Don’t use your past to limit yourself. You’re in this life to discover what you’re truly capable of. When you are complaining all the time because training is hard, you will never reach the top of those who are committed to being fortunate enough to get.
When you postpone things for another day, you’re lying to yourself, and you’re belittling your spirit. You’re making yourself limited, all because you’re the barrier standing on your own mind.
So my friend, try not to dwell on anything thats in your past, whoever you’ve lost, whatever you’ve lost is part of life experiences and not something to carry with you for it will create limitations for you from living your best life, from traveling, from reading or writing, from exercising or running with friends. In the animal kingdom, there’s no past, but present. Remember, a big sorrow dwarfs small sorrows.
The world has great sorrow, and ours is but a small woe. Very few things have happened to you, but you’ve experienced a lot of things. Only your perception is where most of your life is happening, but your life gets bigger when your perception gives you wisdom like it should, and you’re using it to break barriers and improve humanity. Perceive everything and everyone as your teacher.
Be the student who sharpen their life for their future-self to have the best thoughts, life, friendship, and all you could imagine. Start now, for your body, for your mind, and all that matters for you. Don’t skip a day doing what feeds your inner warrior.
Just like the way the Sun lights up the earth, you can shine your life and lives if many like Kipchoge and his amazing coach.
For me personally, I believe Kipchoge is the father of the supershoes we have today. He challenged the world, pushed the limits, and awakened giants and warriors in us despite our abilities. For this, I thank him. Koingoi. 🦁 ❤️
Feel the ground. Feel your strength.
Whether you lay or sit down, kneel on it, or stand upon it, the ground will always be lifting you up. Where you think it’s a rock bottom is actually the beginning of a ladder.
If the ladder does not physically exist then it must exist through your will.
You’re more powerful than you think.
Use your spirit to find out.
Remember, comfort welcomes weakness, spirit gives strength and will create a way, and commitment weakens pain.
Focus on being a warrior and not the things that make you a worrier.
Feel the ground. Feel your strength. Be one with it, and it will be one with you.
Poetry to my love
I’ve been looted by your love and totally rebooted by your love. I’m rerouted by your love to travel into a place where I’ve never experienced love like this. I’ll set up a home in your heart. A tornado can’t take it apart.
I’ll spark up a fire in your heart. No wave can douse it.
I was crawling and lost till you happened to me. Here I am feeling and living in your poetry and beauty.
Sparks of fire light up my heart. No wave can extinguish it. Because of your love, i now walk tall. In your love, I am reborn as someone new. I am whole. I am home. I love you.
When you choose you
When you opt for strength, be prepared for numerous sacrifices.
Selecting peace comes with its fair share of goodbyes.
Choosing yourself can mean experiencing moments of solitude.
Connection
You can’t make a connection if there’s nothing to connect to.
And if you have something to connect with, then don’t use fear, for it may weaken your willingness to commit and shorten your spirit.
Perception
May you notice yourself feeling compassion in situations where you used to feel frustrated. Add this as your perception, and you will reach a new level of awareness.
Make this your nature.
Bring an optimistic and healthy mindset
The mindset is everything. The way you look at the world is how it appears. Telling yourself you’re capable, confident, and going to crush the day with kindness not only lets you change your world but the world of everyone around you.
Show up to practice and say to your trainingmate I have this deep feeling that you’re going to have a great run today. Let them lead the few early steps, float next to their shoulders, and be synced with them.
Rise into the pace you need. Some feelings may arise, and so are hills. Fear them not but face them like you need them, and the spirit to brave them will be with you. Remember, it’s about resilience and rhythm and having confidence and habit of negative splitting the run.
So run as one. Don’t make a habit of making the training an ego-fest. Remember, it is called training, not competition. Pull and push each other. If you drop the hammer in every run, remember that hammer will drop on your leg one day and the injury that will unfurl from it will be worse, for it’ll take away victories that you have not yet known.
Let your confidence be governed by wisdom and not ego.
Be kind to your body, for this journey is difficult and not long. And remember to never take for granted these who are pillars in your village.
Be the warrior your village ethos has trained and strengthened you to be.
It shall pass
What comes also goes.
The mistake we make is thinking with the attachment that things stay. Nothing is meant to last.
Embody discipline
Live a life that is your dream and not something that you have to survive in. Make choices that will change your future and present.
Become the good and a healer that is not around you or someone you wish was in your life, and you will become the best version of yourself. Remember to not waste time. We will not be here for a long time.
Live a meaningful life, not the one that you please others.
To impress others or not, that’s not your purpose, being and bringing a gift to your future self, and this life is a wise destiny to believe in, to work for.
So embody discipline of a monk. And hone your skill like a warrior each day.
Aging
Don’t forget your body will age. It’s actually happening right now. It gets weaker and worse if you don’t invest in its flexibility and strength, speed, and mobility.
You mustn’t sacrifice your agility because you feel old or not in a mood. that’s a lazy mindset. Not exercising only punishes and weakens your future-self. Just because you’re no longer young, it doesn’t mean you should make yourself weak.
Training shouldn’t only be for tour goals, but also for the well-being of you’re future-self.
A day will come when your body is way older. The question is, what will your state of being be? Will you be pushed around on a wheelchair, walking with a cane, hate moving because your back and knees have lost their will, or you’re living to the fullest, hiking in the trails, swimming, dancing, playing, running and so much more that makes you feel more alive?.. The choice is always yours.
Worry
When you worry about preserving your energy, you may end up not knowing the true height of your spirit.
Remember to train to find your strength, you race to show your strength.
Judgment
The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgment.
Listen to what moves you
Today is another song in the Playlist of Life.
Fulfill your purpose
I think the hardest and most painful thing to the human heart and soul is to lose someone.
If you believe the same, well, take no one for granted, but cherish them more than anyone had before your paths aligned.
Fulfill your purpose so there will be no regret.
Focus on your strength
Longevity, resilience, and being more than alive, to have that and so much more that you deserve, it’s about the work you’re doing inside yourself.
I hope you honor your existence and your body and mind with the sanctity it deserves. Narrow your commitment till you have this one choice.
Remember, the same mind that rages with stress and waves of sadness is the same mind that lights up your being with dreams, excitement, and flow with love.
Never treat yourself as if you’re a tear drop in an ocean of fire.
You’re part of something amazing in this timeline.
Focus on your heaven, not your demons, nothing meaningful they’ll bring to you but entanglement and torment.
Prove with your actions
Identify what you love, and once you love it, then hone in on that thing and master it till your actions prove your love for it.
Giving
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. -KG
Be part of the shine
Diamonds need pressure to become what it is. Also, it needs to be found.
What I’m trying to say is push those you care about to become a better version of themselves, and sometimes you’re the one you need to push yourself into finding them.
Be grateful for your spirit
Hey.. every accomplishment you can achieve is a dream to someone else.
Be grateful for what you’ve done even if you fell short of your goal. Everything you do is meant to be a part of a great story.
There’s no comeback without failure.
There’s no victory without defeat.
There’s no success without adversity.
We face challenges so we can remember how to be strong.
It is never a good battle for a warrior to beat himself up.
I’m writing this to remind you to embrace the experiences that awakened your spirit and made you feel alive even before it happened.
So my friend, forget about pain. The question at the end of every day or quest is what have you learned about yourself? what weaknesses did you notice, and will you do something about it to change it so it does not steal your joy or eclipse your spirit?
🦁 ❤️
Change
Change is possible if you let it.
Change is inevitable
People change when they hurt enough that they have to change
People change when they learn enough that they want to change.
People change when they see enough that they are inspired to change.
People change when they receive enough that they are able to change.
Commit
Your pain comes from your perception.
Your perception comes from your thoughts.
Your thoughts come from your past.
Your past comes from your attachment.
Your attachment comes from your fears.
Your fears come from your weakness.
Your weakness comes from lack of commitment to your higher self.
Find lessons
Find wisdom and lessons in your memories and not pain or limitations.
Your future expects a warrior to conquer and live a life you have not yet dream.
Don’t let the life you have lived make you a worrier but a warrior.
Be brave to change things
Allowing things to fester will only cause you more pain.
Broken
You’ll never know how truly damaged a person is until you try to love them.
Be where you’re emboldened
This year, so much has happened to you, defeats, and shortcomings, but don’t beat yourself up because of them but learn what was missing, the effort, the mindset, and the sacrifices. If you can apply what you didn’t do that you’ve learned, you should have done so much will change in the unfurling of your journey.
I hope you don’t blame or hate anyone. I hope you found reasons to believe in yourself even more. I hope you gained wisdom and knowledge, courage, and trust. I hope you’ll abandon all that distracted you and commit to what will make you grow, because there’s so much beyond your dreams, beyond your limits, beyond your beliefs that can be experienced and lived by you. I hope you don’t play with your gifts nor take them for granted.
I hope you run without fearing those who have beaten you in the past or have bigger names and faster times than you, remember they’re humans too, and they once were in a dark place, doubted themselves and believed too much of what’s said unto them that they did not like, but something in them changed, someone guided them, helped them, was there for them, raised them, pushed them, emboldened them, and they needed that and became and felt what they needed to feel like and be like. You’re no different.
Find yourself these people who make you see of the life to come. But remember to commit to every step and everything that makes you stronger and more alive. No matter what, don’t stray from your habitat.
And hey, be a warrior.
Show and share love
For a species capable of so much compassion, let no scripture or celestial being promise turn your spirit into a creature that destroys itself by hating and hurting others.
Let time decide our fate and not stories we’re born into. Write yours, fill it with words of love, words of peace, beauty, and poetry.
Cause nor delight in no ones plight, but create solace to those who are in adversity or born in it.
Love is for those who leave this place and all that builds it better than they found them. In the end, it’s very similar to all of us.
We are but a grain of sand that those with roots will grow upon. The same very ground we all walk upon connects us all. We are what we step upon.
Believing in fiction
People want to make their truth from what is true.
It is quite awfully sad actually when you lie to yourself to believe in something that is fiction.
Wilted
It seems like most people today are like wilted little flowers in a forgotten glass verse, with no clue of water or sunlight.
You can’t grow where someone else’s decides your fate.
Work on being peaceful
Find some time this month to evaluate why you feel the need to start fights with strangers on the internet. let’s all do some growth and healing, shall we?
You’re not well
If you suffered in life and want other people to suffer as you did because ‘you turned out fine,’ you did not in. fact turn out fine. You’re irreparably broken.
Don’t let your love of something make you do cruel things
This thing that you practice, does it help you advance civilization or cripples it?
This entity you claim to be its subject, has it ever shown you your future and the days of the dying of your light and how your state of being will be when life decides it doesn’t need you anymore?
Now that you’re here, why are you here? What is your purpose, like really without fiction and language of the narrative you’re raised by? What is your true purpose of your existence?
Be wise with your method
You can do it all, but not all at once.
Oppression
History has shown that the violent spirit that tries to erase a people will only succeed in etching them more deeply into the hearts of humanity. Be assured that oppression haunts the oppressor.
The chronicles of a last Orkoiyot monk warrior of the Kalenjin tribe 