How to set goals for 2025 -- Thread ⬇️

Every year, I reflect on the importance of setting goals. It’s a practice that not only shapes my future, it keeps me focused and also ensures I’m not wasting the most precious resource of all: time. Wasted time, after all, is worse than wasted money. You can always earn back the money, but time? That’s a one-way street. In 2025, I encourage you to approach goal-setting with intention and balance. My framework for this stems from a method my sister @BerniceFernands taught me a few years ago.

It’s straightforward, actionable, and addresses six key areas of life:

1. Personal
2. Financial
3. Relationship
4. Professional
5. Health
6. Spiritual

I’ll explain each one of these below.

basic things that can be solved with simple tech in Tanzania: why hasn't @SelcomTanzania created an online portal to search which restaurants and petrol stations take Masterpass as a merchant payment method?

Selling health insurance in Africa is hard, your competition is literally Jesus.

In many African countries, less than 2% of the population have health insurance. I’m curious if someone could flip the script on this one where the insurance company pays for the health care bill when the person is sick and have them sign up for the insurance plan for a certain time period?

Could that potentially be a cheaper customer acquisition cost?

Thread: I met #CalebMeakins early last year. We were both speaking at #VivaTech in Paris on Africa’s tech ecosystem. Caleb has founded a few organizations including a coffee shop, a media company and @Mella_Ethio. When we met up, we both found that we had a few things in common.. Our faith, how we both didn’t look like we were from the countries we are from (he’s Ethiopian and I’m Tanzanian), our love for creating content (look him up on YouTube -over ~ 10 million cumulative views), and our love to go back home to our countries to build something.

5 years ago today: I just got home in Dar es Salaam after a stressful day at work. As i sat on the table, my phone started ringing with an American phone number calling me. I picked up and was informed i had been accepted to @StanfordGSB with a full tuition scholarship. I remember the tears strolling down my face especially after the hundreds of hours of work you put into getting something you really want and more importantly, the faith I had that God would come through. I froze on the phone and struggled to say thank you.