Once a business break-evens and is floating, it is prudent to employ someone to help you in managing it, and delegate proportionately to them, leaving you with abut a 1/3 of the work. Then reduce this even further with time. It feels great to see an enterprise standing while the owner is hands off. It starts by motivating your employees and teaching your clients to trust your system more that you.

@Marty, as you address your next post, what do you think about ESOP for small businesses, or is it inviting problems?

Thanks a lot for great lessons. I look forward your next post.

True, every business should have a growth path. The proprietor cum manager model works only to a certain extent and so there is need to let go. More of this in the next post.

Mid thirties, married with 2 kids and a committed christian of the Anglican faith. Was in some nice national school somewhere off Thika rd. As to where I live, I'll leave that to imaginations. I have been toying with the idea of a school for enterpreneurs.....big call but maybe once some other systems are in place and self sustaining, maybe I'll open the school but not so much as a money making venture but as way of giving back.

I think that you need to accept yourself the way you are and have belief, plus try get priorities right. Investing the 100k that you have in a land in Kajiado is not wise to me. Probably the 100k should be Invested in a small business. my 2 cent.

@choise, I like your honesty, it is a strength. It shows you are real in confronting your issues as they are. About investment in either stocks or land, you will get good advice from this noble forum. Let me stick to going abroad. If you want to go for further studies, that is alright. If for other reasons, reconsider. Did you know that most immigrants in Europe, US and Canada are just hustling for a living? They may post some nice photos on facebook, but that, in most cases only cover-up of their real life. They struggle to send some dollars to relatives back in their home countries. If you happen to be a beneficiary, of course you desire to go abroad too, thinking that life is bread and butter in the diaspora. That is a fallacy! Bills need to be paid, wherever you are, and I can tell you it is easier back in Kenya where you can enterprise without limitation. Why should you leave the business you are doing (however small) to come to Europe to work in a factory like a Robot. And in some countries you cannot start a business in line you do not have qualifications! In others, you have to learn new language, except UK, US and Canada minus Quebec. I have seen guys win green card to US, leave big jobs in Kenya only to return and go through the pain of re-establishing again. You have written that you have a degree, and is already doing some 'baby stuff business'. My advice would be, work on that if that is what you like, nature it and it'll grow. Get financial education, right here at Wazua. You can't also consider Network Marketing alongside and build your own business. Later, when you succeed, you can visit abroad, but in different capacity.

Finally, before you buy the ticket, watch this.