Tuesday 19 November 2013

K.I.S.S.......Keep It Simple....Silly

The rules are simple, keep it simple. I bet it must be very hard to follow a simple rule because guys love it complicated.

Whether it is the way we clad, our sexual affiliations, the way we manage finance and even how a guy approaches a girl, the best formula is KISS, and am not talking about Kiss 100.

Because I am not an expert in matters of the heart (we got Chris Hart for that), neither am I a professional dresser, I will go to the subject am most comfortable in, finance and economics.

They say if you can't explain it to a 5-year old, you don't know it. However how weird the aphorism may sound, or, how zany whoever came up with it was, it stands. The mis-link in most people finances is brought about by upside down priorities, come on, even food comes down there on the list.

We love to read the income statements, balance sheets and cash flows of companies while we don't dare or care to prepare ours. This hit me as an idea a time I was studying company law and taking in the concept of a company being a person in the eyes of the law. So if there is a profit and loss account for a company, why shouldn't one prepare his?

A simple debit and credit columned sheet can show you how much has come in, how much you spent to get it, what are the expenses through out the period (month, year or even a day) and where else do you spend.
How much you can reveal from this document 'its only God knows'.

Then compare month to month and improve it, as in the net income (you can do this by either cutting costs or increasing revenues at a faster rate than costs).

The other way will be to study the social economics in a very simple way. Look out for the number of beautiful girls selling insurance policies (i mean, in the initial stages), how your friends are breaking relationships or how many girls in short-skirts are in the library.

These simple behavioural observations can lead to substantial conclusions which will hold true even to the 'shilling world'. In hard economic times, people don't break up. This statement will hold true if all factors are held constant. One factor which would -imbalance the whole thing is 'an unexpected pregnancy' as it will make the young guy better off alone than 'together'.

Hard economic times will make 'Nairobi' girls to walk into the library for lack of a date since men are starving for their lives. In search for that random opportunity, may be for a student play-boy who just conned his parents some few shillings, they will still spot the short skirts.

If some girl has eluded you for quite some time, then this is the ideal time to 'down' her. You just need to Keep It Simple...

Drawing a simple balance sheet is simple, watching out for short skirts in library is also very simple. You just need to keep it very simple to see opportunities, and take them.

So for now,,,,Keep It Simple,,,,Silly

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