Eliud Kipchoge: The Millions He Is Set To Get If He Wins The Boston Marathon.

Eliud Kipchoge, the Kenyan marathoner could walk away with Ksh. 20 million($150,000) if he wins the Boston marathon slated for Monday, April 27,2023.

And according to the Boston Athletic Association (BAA), he can pocket up to 26.7 million if sets a new record.

"The Boston Marathon will make history as the first Abbot World Marathon Major event to offer equal $50,000-course record bonuses," the association said.

The current record is held by Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai with a time of 2:03:02 set more than a decade ago in 2011.

Kipchoge on March 26 said that he hopes to run the marathon in under two hours just like the Ineos marathon.

"This is a new challenge. It's like a championship in which we need to win a gold medal," said Kipchoge.

He has been training in Kenya with the NN Running team.

"I Am heading in the right direction towards the Boston Marathon on April 17. The training sessions are going on well, especially the long runs on our 'Boston training route' have been good so far. I can't wait to take this challenge." He added.

This is one of Abbot's six most challenging races. It begins in Hopkinton and goes through the hills of Newton before ending downhill in Boston.

Kipchoge will compete alongside Kenyan athletes Evans Chebet, who won the title in 2022, and Benson Kipruto who won it in 2021.

3 Sacrifices You Need To Make To Escape Poverty.

 

When I was around 17, I came across Brian Tracy and fell in love with his teaching.

I would go to the internet café at night because I couldn't afford the normal fee during the day.

I would spend hours in the night listening to Tracy and reading his quote.

One particular sentence stick with me from Tracy and that is; if you want to achieve

something different, you have to do something different.

If you want to achieve what you've never achieved, you have to do what you've never done before.

Growing up, I wrote the above sentence and pasted it in my room and each day when I saw

those words, I knew that I had to make sacrifices.

It's very simple; if your life is not what you want it to be right now, you have to be

willing to do something different and don't let me sugarcoat anything here; you won't

move from one easy world to another.

Doing something different means getting out of your comfort zone and this is never going

to be easy.

In today's article, I'm going to be sharing with you the 3 sacrifices you need to make

to escape poverty.

Just 17 years ago, I was just one of the young people whose life was a disaster.

I hated my life and wished I was never born because I was born into poverty, sickness,

and many other limitations.

So, how was I able to change my life, from being a guy who hated life to creating one

of the best life ever for myself? Books! Books!!Books!!!

My life changed the day I started reading books and I'll explain how it happens.

First, when I started reading books, I started reading the stories of ordinary people who

achieved extraordinary things.

These stories encouraged me and gave me hope that I could as well overcome every obstacle in my way and achieve greatness in my life.

I think this is very simple; if you know that some people have some disadvantages you think

you have yet, to go on to achieve greatness, you suddenly start to believe in yourself.

When you start to believe in yourself, you start to think big, and when you increase the

size of your dreams, you automatically increase what is possible with your life.

In my case, I started believing that I could become rich, even though I grew up in a poor

village.

I started believing that I could become a millionaire and this belief led me to something

very important; I started looking for how to achieve what I believe I could achieve

by reading books written by people who have made a lot of money before.

I started learning the mindset and the actions of these people and the more I modeled these people, the better my financial life.

Yes, it took me 8 long years before my financial life had a drastic change, without reading

books, I would never have made it.

One other thing you can do in addition to reading books is watch videos that tell

stories about successful people.

Yes, books are boring but so is every meaningful thing.

Fruits are boring and vegetables are boring but if you want to be healthy you'll eat more

of them.

Soda drinks are fun, sugar is sweet and fast foods are nice but if you like your health,

you'll run away from them.

The TV is fun and social media is interesting but if you want to escape poverty, you'll

spend more time with your books.

Sometimes ago, I got to know that Bill Gates reads one book every week.

I've also read about the fact that an average millionaire read one book every week.

If an average millionaire does something, it is probably a good thing to emulate so

I decided that I'm going to be reading one book every week.

This isn't easy and I'm not asking you to start reading a book per week.

But you have to make sacrifices to read books if you want to escape poverty.

Don't make excuses I told you earlier that sugar is sweet and you agree that hard drugs, fast foods, and most other harmful things are fun.

Another very sweet thing is excuses and that's why most people make it.

Listen, you can come up with a hundred reasons why you're where you are if you want and you can as well come up with a single reason why you need to be elsewhere.

The difference is in the way you use the powerful machine God gave you.

That machine is your brain.

If you program your brain to look for the reasons why you're poor, your reticular activating

the system will be busy looking for reasons and you'll start seeing how the economy, the government, and your parents make you poor.

Your brain will quickly show you how your lack of education, your health challenge,

your childhood or even the country in which you were born are the reasons why you're poor.

If however, you program your brain to look for why you must be rich, you'll start seeing

that even in a bad economy, some people are making hundreds of thousands of dollars in

legitimate businesses.

You'll start reading about people who went through similar difficulties like you and ended up successful.

You'll start seeing that you have more power over your life than you think and you'll start taking responsibility.

An excuse is the food of the fools and our world is filled with many of them because an excuse is sweet.

It's about pointing a finger. It's easy.

Everyone can do it but if you want to escape poverty, you'll not do it. Don't make an excuse.

Identify what you have to do to change your life and do it, no matter how difficult.

Trade a hundred failures for one success. I heard something very interesting from Mark Cuban a few days ago and it makes a lot of sense to me.

Cuban said, "It doesn't matter how many times you fail, remember you only have to succeed once."

This statement makes a lot of sense to me because whenever I looked back at my 8 years

of failures, I could see the meaning of this statement.

You see, my first 8 years in the business world was terrible. Everything I attempted failed and everyone thought I was stupid.

I was broke, rejected and frustrated but a day came when I had my first breakthrough.

From there, I had my second breakthrough and the third.

Today, it seems as if everything I touch becomes successful but that's the opposite of the

kind of life I had only a few years ago.

Here is the thing: It doesn't matter how many times you fail, remember you only have to succeed once and that once will quench all the pains of the failed years.

Why is it important you understand this?

Well, most people see failure as a bad thing and that's why they give up.

If you're in search of success, you should understand that the road that leads to success is called failure and failure is not final because a single success can make you forget the pains of ten years' of failures.

Make sacrifices to try things. Make sacrifices to get out of your comfort zone. Make sacrifices to do things that are risky and when you fail, be courageous to stand up and try again because it doesn't matter how many times you fail, all you need is a single success.

The most important point in this article is this; sacrifice.

If you want to escape poverty, you have to be disciplined enough to do things that are not comfortable. It's not comfortable to read but you have to do it.

It's not comfortable to take actions that may lead to failure but you have to do it.

Failure is painful, yet you have to endure failures and try again.

Remember how I started this article; You cannot get a new result by doing the old things and every new thing is uncomfortable.

So you have to be willing to make sacrifices if you want to escape poverty.

How Leah Wambui Rose From The Position A Receptionist To Owning Ksh.17M Worth Real Estate Firm.

 

For many people, failure to pursue further education is a matter that has the potential to negatively affect their lives.

However, Leah Wambui seems to have turned the pain of missing out on university education due to financial constraints into establishing herself in the real estate venture.

She is the current CEO of Cheriez Properties Limited located in Kitengela. The firm boasts of 200 houses each valued at ksh17 million.

When she was 16, she lost her mother and this forced her to stay with her aunt. She helped her in managing her shop especially during the holidays.

Wambui owes her business success to sheer hard work, patience and mentorship from her maternal aunt who was successfully operating a business in Mombasa.

“Even when I was a little girl, I always wanted to be like her. I admired that she would travel the world and she looked nice and had nice things,” Wambui told a popular YouTube channel.

At one point, she thought of starting a wines and spirits business and reached out for financial help from her aunt.

“I talked to my auntie, I said I wanted to start something like what she was doing. I wanted to start out in Nairobi but the amount of money that she could get was only enough to start out in Kiambu,” says Wambui.

Her business was successful and she even managed to save part of the profits in table banking groups popularly known as chamas. Her burning ambition to grow forced her to borrow a car in a move to spread the business tentacles to nearby towns and maximize on profits.

In 2009, she bought 8 acres of land in Kitengela after selling their house, shares and topping up the money with savings. Wambui found new ambition  to invest in real estate.

At the start, she sank a borehole and constructed the boundary wall. By the end of 2015, she had set up 10 houses and planned to sell each at 17 million.

However, what was an ambitious project turned to be more stressful as potential buyers would visit the site, ask her countless questions then leave never to return.

“We had our first show house and we invited people to come. I thought that the moment we had the show house we would get clients. I got into a rude shock. People came – and the questions that followed; are you an architect? Are you an interior designer? How many projects have you done?” she recalls.

She resorted to marketing the houses internationally, but she still couldn’t get the first buyer until the end of 2016 when two customers came in. Wambui, a deeply religious woman owes success to her prayerful tendency.

By the end of 2017, she had received enough money to expand her real estate venture and built more houses. Her first project named ‘Royal Finesse Homes’ with 78 houses was fully sold out by 2020.

Wambui successfully rolled out the second housing project, a gated community home with 78 four-bedroomed houses each with a detached SQ, private garden and fully fitted kitchen. Additionally, the gated community has swimming pools, equipped gyms and kids playing area.

She attributes her fruitful venture to prioritising quality and paying attention to the smallest of details and researching more on what the market wants.

“Our products sell for themselves, we go over and beyond and make sure that we have cut out a niche in the way we deliver our products. We try to wear the shoes of the person who is going to buy and live here,” she says.

4 Secret Websites To Promote Your YouTube Channel For Free & Get Views

I know You have been trying so hard to get views for your yutube channels and almost losing hope cause its not bearing any fruits. 

So today i want to show you four secret websites that you can use to promote your youtube channel for free and get a lot of views. Now honestly i personally prefer to grow my youtube channels organically through the youtube algorithm to optimize my videos properly so that the youtube algorithm actually promotes those videos to more people and that's how we grow them and that's how we get the most of the views. 

But sometimes in the beginning it's hard to get those initial views, so i'm gonna show you how you can promote your youtube channel for free to start getting views to start growing your channel so that you can create a snowball effect and then just get the algorithm to promote more of your videos inside of youtube so that you don't have to constantly promote your videos across different platforms which i'm going to share with you in this article. 

 Now before we begin i do want to let you know that if you want to get your youtube channel monetized so that you can make money from ad revenue and now i offer a full done for you service where my team and I will actually promote the channel for you and get the channel to meet the monetization requirements in less than seven days and get approved for monetization so that you can start making money from ads showing up on your videos. 

The link to this service will be in the description box down below for a very limited time. Anyway, the very first platform that you can use to promote your youtube channel for free is going to be a platform that is being visited by almost 8 million people every single month and this is actually the smallest secret website that we will be using to drive traffic so stick with me to see even bigger platforms where you can get even more views. 

So according to similarweb.com they're getting almost 80 million views per month and the platform in question is going to be me`We`. 

So this is me`We`.com and this is another social media platform just like facebook so as you can see, this is a social network built on trust control and love so you can create an account by entering your first name your last name, your email address, create a password you will have to be at least 16 years old to use it. Just create your account and get started. It's absolutely free forever and then you can simply log into your account and once you login. 

It basically looks just like facebook feed so when logged in you can see other people sharing different posts and maybe dot com and what you can do isto think of a niche of your channel. let's say for example the niche of your channel is make money online. You're making ‘’make money online videos ‘’ you can go to the search bar and you type in ‘’make money online’’. 

If your video is about weight loss and fitness you just go search for weight loss and fitness and you will find groups with hundreds of thousands of members so as you can see for example if a search for make money online. 

The group has 4.9 000 members, 1000 members 400 members or 200 members so you can start promoting your videos in those specific groups. Find people who are actually interested in that specific topic and get hundreds if not thousands of clicks on your videos if you do it correctly. 

 The next website that no one is talking about but you can use it to promote your channel grow and get views it's gonna be answers.com which is being visited by only 6.2 million people every single month and it is a platform where people come to ask and answer specific questions. 

So if your channel is talking and teaching people how they can get six-pack abs or lose weight or it's it's talking about how to prepare food, you can just go and search for questions like, hey how do i prepare or how do i make a cake? Or if your channel is about how to lose weight, You can type in how do i lose weight ? 

And you can find people who have asked those questions like how to lose weight you can find people who are asking those questions and then you can reply to them and you can give them a link to one of your videos and that way you can promote those videos organically to people who are actually interested in that topic. 

By doing so you can get real viewers on your videos that might potentially subscribe and watch your future videos as well and also when you attract targeted people to your channel they will give a signal to your youtube algorithm that they should promote your videos to that type of audience that is interested in those types of videos which will ultimately help you promote their channel even more and the reason promoting your youtube channel on external platforms like these in the beginning is extremely important is because youtube is a social media platform and as every other business they're trying to grow as much as possible. 

 So if you can give signals to youtube that you're bringing people from other platforms to their platform, that will be a huge bonus because obviously they are competing with all of these social media networks so if they see you driving traffic from let's say me’We’.com, they will be like all right he's bringing people from that social media platform to our social media platform let's reward these videos and let's reward the channel so you are basically being really really good in youtube's eyes by promoting your channel on external platforms like these. 

 Anyway, let's go to the third website. The next website that you can use it has a lot more views. 

This one is getting 61 million views every single month and the platforming question is going to be slideshare.net. Slideshare.net is a platform where people are sharing different pdf documents. For example there is a document which was shared one year ago and it already got 12 million views. this what you can simply do is you can sign up to slideshare.net for free. Log into your account and then once you log into your account and you will be able to upload documents right over there and those pdf documents can be about the videos that you are making. I have been using slideshare.net to also promote different affiliate links. 

 The next platform that is actually very similar to YouTube itself is going to be beat shoot and beat shoot is being visited by 32 million people every single month. 

Basically beach shoot is as i said very similar to YouTube where you can share different videos. You can register an account and start sharing short clips short or inserts from your videos. If you learned something new in this article, make sure to drop a like below and share. 

How To Achieve Financial Freedom In 2023

Each individuals dream is to achieve financial freedom. We do business and work day and night in order to make ends meet and save for the future. No one wants to work throughout his lifespan and at the end die poor. Here are some of the things one can adhere to in order to achieve financial freedom. 

1. Budgeting and expense tracking: Start by creating a budget that tracks your income and expenses and stick to it. 

2. Reduce debt: Focus on paying off high-interest debt like credit card balances, personal loans, etc.

3. Save and invest: Regularly save a portion of your income and invest in a diversified portfolio of assets such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. 

4. Increase income: Look for ways to increase your income through side hustles, career advancement, or asking for a raise. 

5. Avoid lifestyle inflation: Be mindful of how your spending habits change as your income grows and resist the urge to upgrade your lifestyle accordingly. 

6. Plan for the future: Make a plan for long-term financial goals such as retirement, saving for a down payment on a house, etc. 

7. Seek professional advice: Consider working with a financial advisor to help you make informed decisions about your finances and investments.

8. Stay disciplined: Financial freedom takes time and discipline. Avoid making impulsive financial decisions and stick to your long-term plan. 

9. Educate yourself: Stay informed about personal finance, investing, and economic trends. This will help you make better financial decisions and achieve your goals faster. 

10. Live within your means: Avoid overspending and live within your means. This will help you save more and reduce debt. 

11. Be mindful of taxes: Make sure you understand the tax implications of your financial decisions. This includes taking advantage of tax-advantaged investment accounts and knowing the tax consequences of withdrawing money early. 

12. Automate your finances: Automating your finances by setting up recurring transfers to savings and investment accounts can help you stay disciplined and reach your goals faster. 

13. Diversify your investments: Diversification is key to reducing risk in your investment portfolio. Consider investing in a mix of assets, such as stocks, bonds, real estate, and commodities. 

14. Re-evaluate your plan regularly: As your life changes, your financial goals and needs may change too. Regularly re-evaluate your plan and make adjustments as necessary.

15. Be mindful of fees: Be aware of the fees associated with investments, bank accounts, and financial products. High fees can eat away at your returns and slow down your progress towards financial freedom. 

16. Take calculated risks: While it's important to be cautious with your finances, taking calculated risks can also help you grow your wealth. Consider investments that have the potential for higher returns, but be sure to do your research and understand the risks involved. 

17. Practice mindfulness: Financial stress can be a major roadblock on the path to financial freedom. Practicing mindfulness and managing stress can help you make better financial decisions and stick to your plan. 

18. Seek help if needed: If you're struggling with debt or have complex financial questions, seek help from a professional. A financial advisor or credit counselor can provide guidance and support to help you reach your goals. Remember, financial freedom is not achieved overnight and requires consistent effort over time. Stay focused on your goals and make smart financial decisions to reach your desired level of financial security.

Is it wrong to bathe after having that sumptuous meal? Find out why you should not worry.

There is a myth that one should not shower immediately after having a meal. The belief is that doing so can cause indigestion and other digestive issues. 

However there is no scientific evidence to support this claim. In fact there are several benefits to bathing after eating, such as helping to relax the body and reduce stress, which can aid in digestion. It's also a great way to cleanse the skin and remove any food particles that may be stuck to the skin. 

It's also ok to bath before meal and in fact some people have habit of taking bath before meal as a form of refreshing the body. It's generally recommended to wait at least 30 minutes after a meal before bathing, to allow the body time to begin the digestion process. 

But this is not a rule but one can bath as per his/her comfortability, If one feels comfortable taking a bath immediately after eating, it should not cause any harm. Additionally, the timing of a meal in relation to a bath is not as important as the overall health of an individual. 

For example, if a person has a medical condition that affects their digestion, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or acid reflux, they may need to take extra precautions when it comes to bathing after eating. In such cases, it would be best to consult with a healthcare professional to determine the best course of action.

It's also worth noting that if you are taking a very hot bath, that can be a contributing factor to digestion issues because the hot water can cause blood vessels to dilate and cause blood flow to shift away from the digestive system. This is not the case with a normal temperature bath, luke worm bath is most suitable after a meal. 

 Generally, it's important to listen to your body and pay attention to how it feels after a meal. If you experience discomfort or indigestion after bathing immediately after meals, it may be best to wait a bit longer before taking a bath. 

But if you feel comfortable and relaxing after taking a bath then it's fine to continue with the same. It's also worth noting that the type of food consumed and the amount of food consumed can also affect whether or not it's safe to bathe immediately after eating. Consuming a heavy or high-fat meal may make an individual feel more uncomfortable after bathing as compared to consuming a light or low-fat meal. 

So if you are planning to take a bath after a heavy meal, it's best to wait for some time to allow the body to start the digestion process and for the food to move down to the stomach.

Another important factor to consider when it comes to bathing after eating is the water temperature. As mentioned earlier, a hot bath can cause dilation of blood vessels and shift blood flow away from the digestive system, which can negatively impact digestion. In contrast, a lukewarm or warm bath can be relaxing and help to promote digestion. 

So, if you are planning to take a bath after a meal, it's best to stick to lukewarm water to avoid any negative impacts on digestion. In summary, bathing after a meal is not a problem and there is no harm in it. It is a myth. 

While it is generally recommended to wait 30 minutes to an hour after eating before bathing, the timing ultimately depends on the individual and their comfort level. And, it's also important to consider the type of food consumed, the amount of food consumed, and the water temperature before taking a bath.