​There is nothing in this world that will not age or become obsolete.

Somehow, somewhere the hands of time will follow its natural order.

My daughter told me a few days ago that I have a lot of greying hair.

It's a fact that I have been greying since I was 18!

Truth be told as we age we face different challenges from different seasons of our lives. 

Ageism is one thing.

Building a legacy is another.

Finding your car keys is another point.

Supporting your parents while taking care of the young ones is a juggling act.

Growing old is a blessing and a gift. 

You'll never know really if you'll reach 50, 60, 90, or 100.

My grandmother who passed away at the age of 94  quietly slipped away contented.

She was ready to go since the age of 85! 

But everyday that accounts for your grey hair means wisdom.

Forty is the new 30, and so on and so forth.

It's the attitude that determines everything.

A life devoid of shame, guilt, and self-imposed misery is the goal to be had. 

Ageing usually comes with maturity and maturity is loving oneself and fully accepting those things that you cannot change. 

There is freedom, levity, and groundedness in aging gracefully. 

We are all aging past our first birthday, anyway regardless of what we do about it.

The question is: Does our everyday lead to grace? 

Boeing's Starliner's two passenger crews are stuck in space, waiting for SpaceX to rescue them next year following an engine issue, which had been identified earlier on by Boeing and NASA.

I don't know what's the feeling of being stuck in space and nowhere to go but stay put for a few months until a rescue mission is possible but I wouldn't want to dare find out for myself.

The crews are doing well despite the challenge but it was reported that this wasn't their first 'stuck' situation.

I was stuck in an elevator for hours in Bangkok. It wasn't a pleasant one but I had to be calm and mentally present. The building technicians and the guard were alerted immediately and I knew that I just had to wait. 

If you're stuck in space with that blooping sound, you wonder who on earth made that stupid decision to trust a Boeing space machine despite the company's history of safety and manufacturing weaknesses.

You can't fake stupidity. 
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Being a wife of a farmer has some real benefits.

I get to experience the joy of harvest up-close and personal.

While harvesting is a joyful occasion every farmer wants to have after the long wait and prayers for a good climate, right inputs, and absence of deadly pests, it's not for the faint-hearted. 

We recently got haled out and what we would be harvesting is maybe 50% of our intended output. 

Equipment breakdowns usually occur without warning. These happened almost all the time with older equipment. 

Too much rain is not good. Less rain is not good either. 

If you harvest too late or too early in the season, the crops won't be viable. 

Markets dictate the prices, so farmers are at their mercy.

Internal and external issues crop up at during the harvest time, so agility and adaptation is key. Farmers tend to this season unceasingly with lots of prayers.

Now I can see why there are farmer suicides in many parts of the world.

A few harvest lessons I can share related to your organization strategy.

1. Your Strategy takes time, be patient with it.
Let the sun which is your collective wisdom, rain which is your internal controls, and water which is your care do their jobs. We tend to be obsessive-compulsive about it to the point where too much control leads to more dissatisfaction, lots of 'could-have-been, and regrets. 


2. It's not the end-goal, it's the transition to it that counts
The end of the tunnel is not the time to celebrate, that mostly the end of it, and the start of a new episode. What you need to account for outcomes is in the transition stage. Be watchful and observe if your realities are meeting your strategic goals. 


3. You can avoid all the traps and pitfalls, if you tend to it as a gardener/farmer not as a investor.

Tend to your strategy regularly and you don't need to be surprise if something is amiss or not on-point.  Course-correction will be the normal course of action. Beware of the file-it and forget-it mentality that sinks everything that you have done from the beginning, that would be the best recipe for disaster.

​Enjoy harvesting while in transition. The fruits cannot be far behind from the tree. 







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