I make friends quite fast and the good thing is,I also maintain them(if they’re adding any value of course).

Years back,I met a sweet soul,Rebecca,she was German(reasons why I can speak German. For Example… “Ich liebe dich” lol! Being in my early 20s I was very concerned about how I looked (not that I don’t now just that it cannot affect my esteem anymore because I have all the solutions on my finger tips). On my 23rd birthday,I weighed 87kgs 🙄.

One of the evenings while having dinner,I mentioned to Rebecca that I’d want to shed some weight. She was like,”wow!”. She made me set a day when I’d start jogging and she promised to give me company. What a friend! I wanted to start ASAP so we started a day after. First,I didn’t have sport shoes but had some rubber shoes (start with what you have).

I remember in highschool,I never loved cross country days. I’d hide almost Everytime so that I’d not jog and now here I was 😂. We woke up early in the morning, Rebecca was light weight you’d think she was a feather lol but she kept waiting for me. I was not sure I was going to jog again and in my head I was like “I can just let my body go wherever it wants” but she’d not allow it. She knew I needed to do this. She believed it was possible and made me believe it too! Sometimes in life we just need that one person who’ll hold our hand until we can walk on our own.

After the jog,my whole body hurt! I had every reason to quit but I chose not to and I’m happy I didn’t!

As a man thinks,so is he!

When I was a little girl,I loved playing more than I loved eating(those who know me now can imagine how much I loved playing lol) and this affected my studies as I even copied assignments. I had “great” friends who’d always give me their books for copying! I just didn’t have the time to study.

My mum beat the hell out of me every weekend because she’d leave and find chores not done because I spent the whole day playing!

Well,a time came and I’d be greatly exposed by my KPCE results! When I went for my results,my headteacher looked at me and smiled,then he said “well done Wangando’s” (my grandpa is a well known person and we’d all be referred by his name, Wangando). “You just missed two marks!”. In my head I was like,what? So I didn’t need to study after all if all I missed was two marks! I started smiling but that changed the moment my head teacher handed me my results slip. I had scored 198 marks. Total marks! Jeez,who scores such marks from a family of performers?! Well,what followed is history.

My dad was a highschool teacher,girls’ school, and he’d made it clear that I’d have to earn admission,he didn’t change his mind and the only option I was left with was to repeat. After a long fight,I accepted “Neck sided” 🤣. I joined the only private school in our village then. There was no way I’d repeat at the same school I was previously. Now,the new school had upto class 7. You dig? I didn’t have many choices. Either go back to my old school or repeat in the new school but start again from class 7.

Scoring 198 marks had to some extent tampered with my esteem but the manager at the new school had such belief in me. We had meetings every morning where he’d talk to me about the power of positive thinking and that I was born to be great! We’d set goals for every upcoming exam. I’d work really hard to achieve the set goals and we’d again set new goals for the next exam. If I didn’t get to the goals set,we’d look at whether I improved or not and there’s no day I didn’t improve even if it was with 5 marks. This had such a great impact and by the time I sat for the next KCPE exams,I was well prepared! Not that I had stopped playing but I created time for studies as well.

In my second KCPE seating I scored 352/500 and was admitted to one of the best girls’ school in my county. Power of positive thinking was then my drive and I passed well in the KCSE exams that I didn’t have to repeat. Lol!

Think positively about yourself,set goals,work hard and smart to achieve them and when you don’t achieve exactly what you wanted, look at the small improvements and that will motivate you.

I’ll be sharing about my fitness journey in this platform and I hope to inspire you. Stay tuned!

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton