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“What will the next 100 days look like?” ~ Richie Norton

Yesterday, my daily devotional reminded me that it was 100 days to the end of the year. It follows then that today is 99 days to the end of 2022. In Kenya, much of this year was shaped by politics, skyrocketing prices of consumer goods, and a ton of memes to keep us laughing through it all.

It may be a year tainted by loss for some, a year of long-awaited victories for others, a same-old-same-old kind of year for someone else, and yet another still has no idea what hit them. But we are all walking down the double-digits to its end. How is your walk? Slow but sure, a trot, a breathless run, or is time dragging you screaming and kicking?

Are you winding it down or are you just winding yourself up? What have you achieved so far? What’s ahead in those 99 days? To be sure, those are too few days, yet too many if you make every minute of every one of them count. Your choice, entirely.

I found 2 quotes that had me thinking about what I could accomplish and the dreams I could revive before the year is gone:

“If you improve 1% a day, then in 100 days, guess what? You’re 100% better.” Ken Carter

It goes without saying, the thing to be improved, has to have been started. Are you there yet?

“If you try to write 1000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you’ll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can’t revise it if you haven’t written it.” ~ Justin Cronin

This one works pretty well if you’re starting something that you had not already started.

Thinking time was Wednesday past, we are now into the countdown with one day spent. Are there apps you need to freeze or uninstall from your phone because they are distracting you from focusing all your time on what needs to be achieved? Are there habits you need to hardwire in the shortest time possible to help with your achievement? Are there people you need to give a blackout? Whatever you need to do, get doing it – time is of the essence. Unless of course you no longer matter to you (which would be very sad).

“Mambo ni mengi, muda mchache.” ~ Kenyan Proverb