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Fatal mistakes smart people make

By James Gitau

Last week, I asked you whether you know some not so smart fellow who seems to be doing better than you in life. To see a guy who everybody in school thought would end up as a houseboy or a makanga at the very best, zoom past you with a car worth more than all you earthly possessions put together, can be quite disheartening for some people.  I also poised, how come that most of the time we know what we need to do, but we just simply don’t do it or even worse we sabotage ourselves. What really stops people from living their dreams?

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