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We share with you an inspirational blog by CEO of Shades Systems Eric Kinoti.

In any field, they say lack of discipline is the beginning of failure. I believe discipline in business is the ability to follow the right channels and process to acquire success and being able to forgo some luxuries in order to grow the business while still remaining humble and reasonable despite the success.

Let me pose a question to you; after you do your first big sale, what would you do? Will you buy a big luxurious car or you will plough back the money to the business? I bet most of the young guys will go for the first, big cars. We have a weakness of wanting to impress the society and showoff with material things instead of building our business fundamentals and capacity.

Just as Mr. M’moguika , a prominent farmer in my village plants a seed and takes care of it, so should the business. There is a process of planting a seed a ripping good harvest. M’moguika will plant a seed, water it, weed out, input enough mature and fertilizer and when he harvest, he gets the best seeds that will be planted before selling or doing anything else. He knows that the seed is the most important and should always be the best.
Today, THERE IS A PROCESS WE WANT TO AVOID. We just want to start a business and start ripping out of it immediately and do great things that will shock the society. We don’t want to be patient enough and have faith in our dreams and in the due process. We are blinded by our own doubts and those of naysayers. We choose to listen and believe people who have never had a business, yet we allow them to tell us things concerning business, we allow them to magnify our fears and doubts.

We want to stay in our comfort zone, we don’t want to do any weeding out, we don’t want to water our business, we don’t want to buy the best fertilizer to put back in business, yet you want it to be successful. We want to live in luxury even before the business grows. A while back, my house had no seats, I was using boxes, because I had taken my seats to the office. I thought why would I be sitting on good sofa and my reception doesn’t have any? The people who are coming to give me business, should be the ones with ultimate luxury, and not me.

We look so much at our limitations that we cant go beyond them. We look where we come from and think, ‘I am not destined for greatness, no one from our village or our lineage has ever made it’ we doubt our abilities even before we start. We think our accent can’t allow us TO BE STARS and GREAT SPEAKERS on international platforms. We look at very petty things that make us overlook the bigger picture, the real process.
Today, look not at your insecurities and how much you want to impress anyone, start feeding your business first. AFTER ALL, THE SOCIETY THAT YOU WANT TO IMPRESS WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED, nothing will be good enough…s

We bring you an inspirational story from businessman Eric Kinoti who is the founder of a well established company called Shades Systems. Termed as Forbes top 30 most promising entrepreneurs Eric Kinoti has gone through the rough road to be who he is today.

Here is his experience.

After completing my college diploma in Malindi, I promised myself that I would not go back home (Meru) to wait for some employment opportunity to come up, so I came to Nairobi where I stayed with 6 of my friends then. All of them depended on their parents to send them money to do everything. Since I didn’t want to ask for money from anyone and I wanted to be independent, I had to look for a way to hustle. I started buying milk from Waginge and supplying it to various shops and local hotels. I was waking up at 4 AM and by 7 AM, I will be done.

We have started a new segment on our blog that will be featuring inspirational stories of Eric Kinoti who will be sharing his thoughts on business and how to face life as a Christian.

Here is todays inspirational thought from Eric Kinoti who is the CEO of Shades Systems.

Five years back when I was struggling and experiencing difficulties with my company , I bumped to a friend and an icon I always looked up to. We sat down and started talking . I explained to him all the difficulties and challenges I was going through with hope that he will counsel me and give me a good advice.

By the time this ‘icon’ finished his first sentence, I was frustrated. He started by asking me, “Kinoti, this is manufacturing business, why can’t you just look for another thing to do?” I felt mad at myself for once believing I could look up to someone just because the society has placed him on the higher class and everyone thinks he is cool and good. I left him there after 10 minutes because I believe negativity is contagious.

It’s funny most of the times the people who should encourage us do just the opposite; but hey, listen to me. Don’t let anyone talk you out of your dreams. Don’t let anyone convince you that your dreams are too big and you are way too ambitious and never listen to negative reports too long to feel defeated and down.

Dear entrepreneur, believe in your dreams and discredit anyone who tries to convince you otherwise.

Business is not just a walk in the park as many would think. It’s a journey that starts with a single step of Faith guided by a great source as Eric Kinoti the founder of Shade Systems says.

Eric Kinoti is the CEO of Shade Systems and is ranked among the top 30 most promising Entrepreneurs on Forbes Magazine. At 30, Forbes Africa are on Eric Kinoti‘s trail as he runs a regional company and mentors young entrepreneurs nationally, yet less than eight years ago he was taking up any job.

His journey to where he is today was not easy Eric Kinoti revealed. Eric Kinoti with an inspiring note said that while starting his business at Shade Systems, he had so much believed in people rather than GOD which made him struggle for about 2 years as a budding business man.

Little did he know that putting GOD 1st in his operations would change his journey to a life of success.

When I started Shade Systems(E.A) Ltd, I registered the company as shade systems Kenya but because my self-esteem at the moment was low, I had to look for a partner who would be a beautiful lady to cut deals on my behalf. Instead of involving God I trusted human beings.

Things became very tough especially because of the empty promises we got from our prospective clients. Here I was with a lady but no returns. It was some difficult 2 years I have ever experienced. That is why in 2009, I took leap of faith and decided to go on my own and involve God in whatever I did.
Involving God in my operations strengthened my vision, and determination was constant…I have seen God turnaround situations that are impossible in the eyes of human being ….involve God in all you do.

According to the bible He says that He knows and has plans for you.

This is a true inspiration from Eric Kinoti who is playing a great role in raising new entrepreneurs in Kenya.

Glory to GOD.