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Vol 01 Issue 01 March 2013

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Contents

March 20132. Upfront

3. A Healthier You

5. Living Examples

7. AppStroll

8. Strange but True

9. The Business

10. Greening Kenya

12. Mind Games

14. Telco Talk

16. The Walkabout

17. Connections

19. Thinking Aloud

20. The View

5. Living Examples

20. The View

19. Thinking Aloud

8. Strange But True

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Editorial

UpfrontHello, and welcome to the first edition of Complitly Connect Magazine (CCM).

We are excited to finally present this March 2013 issue which we hope, will set the pace for all we have in store for you in subsequent monthly editions.

Back in 2006, an affluent business-man, who was then a senior executive in a local media house, told me that it’s impossible to successfully run a magazine on the Internet. He went on to tell me how the Internet only works for those who are in highly connected markets, such as Europe and the United States. I keenly lis-tened to him...

At the time, I had teamed up with a group of highly motivated, forward thinking young persons who wanted to make a difference. We had started publishing ‘BE Magazine’ online, guided by the fact that if we began and continued to believe, we would invariably become.BE Magazine, it turned out, was an idea that was well ahead of its time.

The aforementioned businessman believed a return on investment on the Internet had to happen fast, I guess because things on the web also happen in real time.Looking back on his advice, I sadly

realize that his approach is exactly what informed the victims of the dot com crash that happened slightly over a decade ago. This disaster saw the de-mise of many, but NOT all, Internet businesses that were started then.

So what made some survive?The most enduring example of a dot com company that survived and continues to grow is Amazon. This is singularly because its founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, started Amazon.com and immediately decided to take the long-term route with it. A letter he wrote to Amazon shareholders in 1997 [PDF 85KB] attests to this.

That in essence, is the approach CCM has decided to take. We are here for the long term. We are more driven by passion than by profit, the same thing that informed the late Steve Jobs’s vision upon his return to Apple in 2004.

CCM has had numerous false starts, since 2010. You see, we didn’t want to just come up with a good online publication to beat deadlines and ful-fill promises to eager readers, partners and advertisers. We however deemed it more important to start with a great, worthwhile product.

It should be noted that our stated ob-jective to carry original, useful, local and highly relevant content has in no way changed.

We decided to delay launch until we had the right team. We also predi-cated our guiding principles on The Hedgehog Concept - an understand-ing of what we are passionate about, can be the best at and is economically viable. (The right team and Hedgehog Concept are fully explained in Jim Collins’s ‘Good to Great’ book).

That said, Complitly Connect Maga-zine will offer reading that adds value for those among us who are young or young at heart and progressive. It is intended for those in institutions of higher learning, those on their first job, those who’ve recently started their own business or simply transi-tioned from formal employment into entrepreneurship.

We strongly believe that we can, by connecting with what matters, and harnessing our individual strengths and insights, better ourselves as well as positively influence our peers.

Our best days are ahead of us, that is why we have started here. Now. With time, unrelenting effort and your support, we shall eventually get to where we initially envisioned.Say hello to human connections that’ll without a doubt make us all better, together. It’s time to complitly connect with what matters to you.

Cheers.

By connecting with what matters, and har-nessing our individual strengths and insights, we can better ourselves as well as positively influence our peers.

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Health

A Healthier You

For you to be efficient, produc-tive and progressive, you need to be more than just alive. You need to be fit and strong.

Being in great health is depends on your lifestyle. It is how you live that determines your diet, how physically active you are, how much water you drink, and other routine practices that have a direct effect on your wellbeing.

Complitly Connect Magazine recently caught up with Kate Kibarah, a health coach who is a clinical nu-tritionist and a colon hydrotherapist.

To what extent does how we lead our lives determine how healthy we end up?

The decisions we make everyday in relation to out health shape your health destiny. Health is in your hands and you determine your health destiny. Just like in the computer adage ‘garbage in garbage out’ the same applies to your health.

Health is not the absence of disease as disease is a pro-cess. So if u build your health foundation with unhealthy lifestyles, poor eating habits, sedentary lifestyles you are at a higher risk of losing your health with time. Research has proven that such lifestyles lead to obesity linked to diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancers and so on.

You can reduce your risk of developing some of these diseases by adopting a healthy lifestyle. All aspects of life, including work, travel, home, and leisure, carry risks and benefits to health. You need to balance these risks and benefits by lifestyle choices that enable you to enjoy your life while staying healthy.

Sedentary lives have often been blamed for predispos-ing people to many con-communicable ailments, often referred to as “Lifestyle diseases.” Any practical lifestyle ways/changes of reducing the risk?

Very simple, leading a healthy lifestyle and ex-ercise. Get yourself into a workable regimen. Go to the gym, Walk more, don’t be a couch potato.

Without getting into laborious exercise regimes, how can one ensure that they live a physically active life?

Be on the move, practical examples walk more, use the lift, play with your children, park your car the furthest if at the shopping mall, do house chores, every time the phone rings stand up when answering, don’t use the tv remove etc the list is endless. Anything that makes u but to sit.

What effect on health do locally grown, non-processed foods have on health. What are the best examples you’d recommend?

Our locally grown foods, non processed are of course very healthy and nutritious. Nutri dense as you find most pro-cessed foods have been depleted of the vital vitamins and minerals and or added chemicals and preservatives that

The very foundation of a life well lived is good health.Your lifestyle - what you eat, how active you are, your water intake among other routine practices hold the key to a healthier you, says

health coach Kate Kibarah.

All aspects of life carry risks and benefits to health, which you need to balance through lifestyle choices that enable you to enjoy your life while staying healthy.

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The View

Our country has amazing views.Kenya: A Rediscovery of Wonder is our exciting series of panoramic shots to showcaseKenya;s breath-taking views.

If you have an original photo you’d like us to publish, simply send it to us and help us share the beauty of our beloved country.