You are created with all the power to help you find jobs in Kenya

I was watching a road show footage aired on one of the local television stations over the weekend. For the presenters, the MC and the performers it was all a celebration. But what caught my attention most were the faces of the people surrounding the presenters. These people were supposed to be entertained. But from their faces, they were an unhappy lot. One look at their faces and you were clear the only people celebrating were the fellows on the stage.
It pulled my heart strings because the sad despairing face is so common amongst Kenyans – especially in major urban centres. I friend visiting from the UK once gave me what I thought was a very apt description. She called it silent desperation. You see it all the time; that hollow look in peoples eyes because they seem to have lost hope.
The question I asked myself is, hope in what? What have they lost hope in? The government?
Themselves? The church? The economy? Their families? What exactly have majority in this nation lost hope in? People are walking in a state of unhappiness and often close to depressed states.
You only need to be present in a bar brawl to realise how close to the edge most people are. One minute they look like joyful revellers, and the next they are ready to kill each other by reacting in a totally irrational manner over a simple event. And no, don’t tell me it’s the beer – you see it even on the streets where people (I hope) are stone cold sober.
Analysts all over the place, especially on the now all too common one-program-will-solve-all-our-problems- TV talk shows will tell you people have lost hope in the leaders. But let us imagine for a moment we had great leaders, would we then automatically be hopeful people? Or, in the US, since we mostly believe they have a good example of good leadership, are all people filled with hope? Well, you can argue that many are, but certainly not all.
I will in fact add, that people who feel hopeless and helpless are more likely to choose leaders that will make them more helpless. But that is a topic for another day. Let us talk about the prevailing sense of hopelessness.
Being hopeful is not enshrined in the leadership, it lies in a greater conviction – the conviction that you have power within your reach. Hopelessness comes from feeling that there is nothing you can do about a situation. That way of thinking is not a result of bad leadership.
The belief in ones innate power is a certain cure for feeling hopeless.
But what is that innate, inborn power? Your innate power, especially when it comes to your search for a job in Kenya, is the ability in every man and woman to choose what to believe about their circumstances. If you believe your circumstances are unchangeable, then they become so. If you believe there is something you can do about your current circumstances – then opportunities and a personal plan begin to happen. Then, slowly, as though commanded from without, light begins to shine on your inner darkness. Before long, you have a solution and the best part is, you will have that job in Kenya that you so desire.
That choice is in your hands. It is your power that no man dead or alive can take a way from you. Use it. There is universal and unshakeable truth in the adage, where there is a will, there is a way.
By Paula Thayrow – 12th December 2009