All right. Good afternoon. Today I'll be talking about the standardisation process for the Transport Layer Security Protocol, or TLS. Specifically, I'll be talking about the standardisation process for TLS 1.2 and below in comparison to the standardisation process for TLS 1.3. This is a joint effort with Kenny Patterson, and it was born out of conversations we'd started having about the nature of the development process for TLS 1.3. We wanted to examine why the Internet Engineering Task Force, the ITF, has moved away from a rather reactive standardisation process towards a very proactive standardisation process for TLS 1.3. Now, TLS is the de facto means for establishing communications on the web. It's used by millions, if not billions of users on a daily basis. And weaknesses identified in TLS 1.2 and below coupled with pressure to improve the protocol's efficiency led the ITF to start developing the next version of the protocol, TLS 1.3. Now, in the development of 1.3, the ITF has adopted an analysis prior to deployment design philosophy. This is in sharp contrast to what happened with TLS 1.2 and below. Previously, a standard would be published, an attack would be announced, and the TLS working group would respond by either updating the next version of the protocol or by releasing a patch, which in the language of the ITF is an extension. And we wanted to ask why? What has changed in the TLS design landscape to enable the shift in the standardisation process? We wanted to think about whether or not this newer process had been effective and how it related to the broader realm of standardisation. And what standardisation model actually best fits critical protocols such as TLS. Now, TLS started life as a secure sockets layer protocol, SSL, developed by Netscape Communications. SSL version 1 was never publicly released. And in 1999, the ITF standardised a version of SSL called the Transport Layer Security Protocol, TLS. And work on TLS 1.3 started in the spring of 2014 basically because this happened. And red means attack. So TLS was definitely due and overhaul. Now, I'm not going to talk about the differences between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. But basically, 1.3 looks like a rather different protocol with mechanisms to address the previously known weaknesses as well as to reduce the latency. Now, the TLS standards are published by or worked on by the TLS working group and they are released as requests for comments documents, RFCs. These are publicly available and they are free of charge. And inputs to these standards come from the TLS mailing list, which is indeed very, very active. And also from face-to-face meetings that are held at ITF gatherings throughout the year. Now, the ITF subscribes to the open model of standards development. There's no barrier to entry. Anyone can contribute to the standard. There's also no financial barrier to adoption because, as I've mentioned, the standards are free of charge. Now, the process for TLS 1.2 and below has been very reactive. Following the announcement of an attack, the TLS working group would respond by either updating the next version of the protocol or by releasing an extension. And we call this the design release break patch cycle for standards development. And we'll look at some evidence of this being the case by examining some high-profile attacks against TLS 1.2 and below. Now, in 1998, Daniel Bleichenbacher released an attack against RSA encryption when the PKCS version 1.5 encoding scheme was used. Now, this allowed an attacker to exploit a padding oracle and uncover the pre-master secret for TLS and hence the connection keys. Now, this vulnerability was briefly addressed in the TLS 1.0 standard. There's a two-paragraph note that includes a mechanism to help remove the padding oracle. This fix was repeated in TLS 1.1 and 1.2. But unfortunately, this attack has been re-enabled in a number of forms in subsequent years. So the question to ask is, well, would it not have been more prudent to switch to PKCS version 2.1, which was available in 2002 before the release of TLS 1.1 and 1.2? And as cited in the 1.1 and 1.2 specs, this was not done to maintain backwards compatibility with TLS 1.0. Now, in 2011, we have a beast attack. And we see the TLS attack floodgates open. So beast took a known vulnerability and made it practical. The chain IV vulnerability has been around for a while, and the beast authors injected some clever JavaScript into a user's browser and were able to recover secure cookies. Now, what's interesting in this case is that TLS 1.1 removes this vulnerability. But in this vast, crazy TLS ecosystem, implementations are very slow to update. And TLS 1.0 is still very, very popular today. And then we have the RC4 attacks. Now, RC4 was recommended as a countermeasure to beast. But the RC4 key stream has long been known to be biased. And researchers started to implement increasingly practical attacks against RC4 when used in TLS. RC4 was eventually deprecated for use in TLS in 2015, but could it not have been phased out sooner, especially given the existence of viable alternatives such as AES, GCM? Now, I will state here that it wasn't all bad for TLS during these kind of seemingly dark years. There were some positive results for the protocol, but I focused on some of the attacks just to highlight the working group's response to those attacks. If you haven't been listening to me, that's okay. I have summarized some of the information in this table. And if you'll notice the middle two columns, there you can really see evidence of the working group either updating the next version of the protocol or by releasing an extension in order to address an attack. Now, why was the process like this? Maybe it had to be like this for TLS 1.2 and below. And there are a number of reasons. As we've mentioned, backwards compatibility was very important. And the wide deployment of TLS and the time lags in adopting new versions and upgrading implementations can hinder making meaningful change. Also, protocol analysis tools have not really been, or they weren't really mature prior to the release of TLS 1.2 in 2008. So they couldn't really be used in an ongoing standardization process. Also, arguably, there was a lack of interaction between the TLS working group and the academic community. And reward for the academic community came from attacking and publishing attacks on already deployed standards. Now, unfortunately, this incentive model leaves users vulnerable to attack and imposes a patch action on the TLS working group. Now, the process for 1.3 has been vastly different. It's been very collaborative. It's been very proactive. And working closely with the academic community, the TLS working group has released multiple drafts and has welcomed analyses on those drafts prior to the protocol's official release. And we call this the design break fixed release cycle of standards development. Now, in the first few drafts, we see some fixes that are incorporated to remove the known weaknesses. And on draft five, we see some academic analyses of TLS 1.3. And this really starts to help guide the working group's design decisions and confirm some of the design decisions for TLS 1.3. Now, from draft seven onwards, we see a radical shift away from TLS 1.2. And the protocol becomes highly influenced by opt TLS of Critchick and Wee. We see the removal of static Diffie-Hellman and static RSA and the reliance on ephemeral Diffie-Hellman. And we see the use of secure, well-known, well-analyzed primitives. Now, Critchick and Wee provided a full analysis of their protocol. And in that work, they also try and address and cover the many use cases and the many modes needed for TLS 1.3. And so the working group draws inspiration from these secure designs and acknowledges the research community's needs, particularly when it comes to start analyzing the protocol. Now, by draft 10, a lot of the cryptographic mechanisms have arguably started to stabilize. And Kramer's at all performed a symbolic analysis of TLS 1.3, and they found a potential attack against the newly proposed post-handshake client authentication mechanism. Now, I was fortunate enough to be involved in this work. And when we posted the attack to the mailing list, we got some really, really lovely and positive responses. And this is one of them. Thanks for posting this. It's great to see people doing real formal analysis of the TLS 1.3 draft. This is really helpful in guiding the design. So we see the academic community's efforts really starting to be recognized prior to the release of the protocol. Now, the IETF also hosted a TLS Ready or Not workshop, the TRON workshop. And the aim of this workshop was to bring those who implement TLS face-to-face with those who analyze TLS. And the workshop showcased some great work in the areas of provable security, formal methods, and program verification. But what fell out of this workshop was a call for contributions from both implementers and those who analyze TLS alike for a full set of requirements for TLS 1.3. Now, it's quite strange that this has happened so late in the game. But nevertheless, the workshop showcases a huge amount of back and forth that is now happening between the TLS working group and the research community. So what's changed? What's enabled this highly collaborative, more proactive process? Well, protocol analysis tools have definitely matured in the areas of primitives, modeling, and automated tools. And because these tools are now mature, they can be used in an ongoing design process. In the area of impact, involvement, and incentives, we see the working group relying on secure, well-analyzed primitives and responding to the research community's needs. And we also see the research community really starting to appreciate the complexity of the many use cases for TLS 1.3. So I think that implementers and researchers really start to understand each other a bit better. Now, I think that this process has been successful, but we asked, well, could we do better? Because as we know, many cooks in the kitchen will bring conflict. And also, the TLS 1.3 standard has been a rapidly moving target. And analyses have become very easily and very quickly outdated. And as we've mentioned, a full set of requirements was missing at the onset. So maybe an alternative cycle for standards development is requirements analysis, a few iterations of design improve, and then release. Perhaps a cycle like this is, well, maybe naive, maybe a bit unrealistic, because for complicated protocols like TLS, maybe your design requirements only come out during the design phase. So maybe it's not that easy to pin them down at the beginning of the process. Now, as I said at the beginning, we wanted to relate this to the broader realm of standardization and compare the process to what is done by other standardization bodies, such as ISO and NIST. And when I say NIST here, I mean the competition model for primitives such as AES, SHA-3, and the more recent post-quantum competition. We also asked, is this newer or collaborative process unique to TLS? Because of its star power, maybe. That's actually quite a difficult question to answer. But we also wanted to think about, well, what standardization route best fits critical protocols such as TLS? Now, I'm not going to run through this whole table, but what you might notice is an overlap between the TLS 1.3 process and the NIST competition model. What's really nice in the NIST competition model is that requirements are defined upfront. However, all of the work is done by small teams submitting proposals. And TLS is a complicated, big protocol. So is it realistic for a small number of individuals to really design the protocol? And the NIST competitions also focus largely on primitives. And TLS, as I've just said, is a big protocol, a complicated protocol. But that's not to say that a competition of some sort wouldn't have worked for TLS 1.3. Now, just to close, I think the newer process has been successful. And I think it's allowed for preemptive decision making and is hopefully going to produce a stronger protocol for users that requires less patching. I think it's been enabled by the availability of better analysis tools and a greater amount of interaction between the TLS working group and the research community. Could the process have been improved, possibly, maybe starting with a full set of requirements would have been good. So maybe running it like in this competition could have worked for TLS. But I think the main takeaway is that the greater, the degree of collaboration between the many different branches within the crypto community is going to help and is helping to build stronger protocols. Thank you. We have time for a question. So I have a question about the sort of the historical pattern of TLS development. And this is the way in which, I mean, I think there's a question which is ignored, which is sort of, how did awareness of these attacks lead to fixes? Because certainly if you look back, we see there's a text file, CBC that text in the openness cell directory back from the 2005 era, which lays out very clearly what the attacks are on the mode that TLS was using. And then in IPSEC, there was also, there had been a competition, there were emails from Phil Rogaway explaining how certain modes need to be combined in certain ways. And I think the sort of question is, what can we say about that history in terms of, is it really a lack of engagement for academics? Or is it the way in which the standards process ignored the inputting, ignored the body of knowledge that was there, and it's just a matter of diffusion that today means more people are aware of these issues? I think it's probably a bit of a combination of both. I think that maybe there was resistance within the academic community to get involved early. I don't know. I also think that maybe it was easier to kind of try and keep the TLS code base as similar to previous versions as possible. So maybe that also contributed to the historical pattern. Hi, Taylor. The original mantra of the IETF was rough consensus and running code, and the new TLS approach is almost diametrically opposite to that. So two questions, I guess, that raises. The first one is how much resistance has there been from the rank and file IETF community to doing a requirement-spaced and pre-release iterative model versus what they're used to, which is get the code out there and break it. I mean, that really is what the model used to be. So have you seen a lot of resistance? Well, I think the fact that this newer process has been deployed shows that there hasn't been that much resistance to trying a new way of doing things. But I also think that within the TLS community that the feeling of maybe getting requirements early on, I think there's a mixed view on that or a split view, at least, because I think some people feel that it's very difficult to tease out the requirements before you start the design process. And other people would really like to see, well, let's start with what we have to do and then design from there. Yeah, I think that's correct. The side effect of the philosophy, I guess, in the past is that the SSL23 TLS 1.0, 1.2, 1.1, 1.2 rolled out relatively quickly, and it seems to me that TLS 1.3 is rolling out very slowly. I mean, for one thing, it hasn't stabilised yet. But when is the end? When are we going to see an actual standard that's called TLS 1.3 that we can start implementing too? So my answer to that question for the past year has been soon. Christmas. I think there's a big focus within the working group to really get it right. And there are many different people contributing to TLS 1.3, and that brings a lot of different aspects that need to be handled and a lot of different opinions that need to almost be consolidated. Thank you. Hi, very nice talk. Your cycle doesn't seem to allow the possibility for break and fix after release. Don't you think that the standard should already predict that more bugs and more vulnerabilities will be found even in this setting and already predict how to react to this? That's a good point. And yes, I think if you're trying to do the cycle where you break and fix before it's deployed, hopefully you'll have to break and fix less afterwards. But yes, you are going to have to run through that process because things may be missed. Absolutely. So let's thank Tyler again.


Oh, oh corona, oh corona rock! Hello everybody and welcome to the corona update of Jurassic World Alive! Yes, yes, oh the world is dying, it's chaos, there's no shelves, well there are shelves, there's nothing on the shelves, they're all gone, we've got things closing down, Jurassic World Dominion stopped production, that's completely halted, but in Jurassic World Alive there is a silver Jurassic World Alive is of course a game like Pokemon Go where you go outside and you go catch dinosaurs or dart dinosaurs, if you didn't know already and you're watching an episode like 55, this game has actually added something that when I first saw it I thought that was ridiculously amazing that I'm going to be able to break the game, but after I tried it it turned out not to be and it actually killed the game slightly for me, so what am I talking about, what is the corona update apart from the coronaviruses going around, we're basically the flu in layman's terms, which is of course more deadly to all the people, we're not here to talk about coronavirus, we're here to talk about what Jurassic World Alive is doing during the coronavirus, so if you open up a regular six hour free incubator now inside them you get a gigascent and if you have, if you've been staying away from the game at the moment I should have said this very start, I'm two minutes in, oh no if you have stopped playing Jurassic World Alive now is probably the best time to play it, a normal incubator five minutes and that's a daily one that you get, you get two every day usually, it does like the event things anyway, a large scent like every other scent only lasts 20 minutes and of course will give you a random assortment of global dinosaurs as well as dinosaurs that are local to your area, so if you're an area one, area two, area three, area four that sort of thing, now gigascent is the new one, it lasts for three hours, now with scents you have to move around in order to spawn two creatures, if you stay in one place you'll probably get one every two minutes right, wrong, you don't have to move around at all, you get two creatures every two minutes, so if you are playing this as sad at home and you're darting two creatures every time, you're basically non-stop darting, there will be probably about 15 to 20 seconds in between darting when nothing happens, then two more creatures will spawn and then another 20 seconds break and then you're back to it for three hours, now I did this not too long ago because I was like wow this is amazing, yes something to exploit, not really, for a start I started darting everything, but if we look at my DNA, what have we got, there we go, okay raptor I've maxed up, I've got, this guy I've got too much DNA, I've maxed it, Majungasaurus, maxed it, Nundugasaurus, maxed it, basically all of the commons, Irritated Gen 2, stuff like that, all maxed because they're the ones that usually spawn depending on what area you're in, so it pays actually to go to an area that you know you need dinosaurs and just wait there for three hours and that way, especially if it's still Officer Gen 2, which we will need for the new Titanoboa hybrid, just constantly get those and that's what this is going to be good for, however you may be also thinking, okay every two minutes, two dinosaurs, well that's a max of 30 darts in two minutes, four minutes, that's 60 darts, within what, 10 minutes you've used your 140 dart limit, well if you look at the top left, you'll see I have 701 darts out of 140, I know for a lot of people this is not news, like new news, but for some people that may not know about this it is, so if you go into your regular air market and you scroll all the way to the bottom, there it is, it is just refreshed, 350 darts, that's crazy, this update is really really good, now I'll tell you what I got from my giga incense, because I did it up to about 20 minutes and then my phone died, and I have the charger pack on my phone as well, so I was doing it for the full amount of time, just darting, darting, darting, eventually I only darted one dinosaur per turn, because I was like, I don't want to dart my dinosaurs for the 50th time, and that's kind of what killed it for me, the fact that I was doing this so often and I was seeing the same dinosaurs like, now if you haven't played the game much or you don't have too much DNA, this is great, this is going to allow you to grind for raptor DNA, turbosaur DNA or whatever you are, but you can also get these darts, which is going to be really helpful, two wards so we can just buy for 100, now we're going to max up over 900, so once we get 900, we've got 999 plus, I should have an extra 100 nod darts on top of this 99, now you'll see the top 1,051 darts I have, so even though it says 99, so 999 plus, don't be afraid that it's going to max out, or at least I still have over 1000, so you can definitely get over 1000 darts, but what I'll do is I'll just quickly dart this Hats of Goptrix, once we darted I'll buy the next set, so what you're going to make sure is just to log in every day, collect your Giga sense, now if you really want to, like just grind this game, you can for hours and hours and hours, if you're a kid, this is perfect, you can get home from school and just be like, three hours, three hours, like well, depending on what time you go to bed, or if you're quarantined because of this coronavirus, it's perfect, it's a match made in heaven, you should be like dart, dart, I mean you'll go insane, but hey, it helps, so we're going to scroll down, all the way down, now you get two per day, you get two buys a day, so make sure every day you do log in and you do get these, now for instance, our alliance is doing really flipping well, with the rewards actually, we're about to finish up here, but we almost got rank nine on expedition, that would have been a new record and we're pretty darn close, these sorts of levels is because of the Giga scent and because of the darts, and I gotta say thank you to everyone who has participated, has actually made the effort to dart more, because of this, I'll put up some screenshots of what my levels were when I first did it, because it was like blue, blue, blue, blue, it was like almost half the bar was my blue, so if everybody in your alliance does it, like sets off a three hour incubator, it's a good job, you can crack out like five ranks in a day, in three hours probably, just with the expedition, and I'm sure some people who have super active alliances will be able to do that, no problem, so that about wraps it up for the corona update, it's really good, the virus is bad, but this is actually made this game really good and Jurassic, really good, really good, really good, really good, Pokemon Go implemented a thing where they have about one, you can buy it one time and it's 30 incenses, I've played both games, I haven't played Pokemon Go for a long time, but I played it at the height and I played it for a while afterwards, I prefer Jurassic World alive, and I know it sounds biased, but the fact that the battling is so unique is basically Pokemon with speed, armor, defense, attack, nerfs, all this stuff, the graphics are better, which is never a reason to be like oh it's a better game because the graphics are better, but I think the system does more stops or drops as they call them in this game, but I don't know, I think if you're if you've been on the fence about playing Jurassic World alive, now's the time, now's the needed time, so we have got the Lothar boa up to level 20, so and I have almost five pops, I have four pops of this thing, we are going to give Spino Constrictor some fusions, fingers crossed, we're definitely going to give it one, so let's just go ahead and just try doing some fuses, so 20, so we got guaranteed one pop for Spino Constrictor, I think this is the creature that everyone should be just going towards just to unlock it, because if we get a tournament where you can have unique creatures, it might be viable, let's say mods don't work, but if you've got it unlocked you can use it, and the tournaments are a great reason to just actually unlock creatures, because you might be like okay this is my team, I'm going to have tricosaurs, eulacosaurs, and they're the only thing I'm going to go for, you know, as well as the rest of the team, but this gives, oh is that it, do I have one more, one more try, oh I have one more try, I could probably actually really maybe possibly go into my sanctuaries and just feed some titanobos actually, because I think I should, yeah, I'm only a little bit off, do I have any, please, oh yeah there we go, there's my dear name baby, it's horrendous, it's horrific, but it keeps me out of copper's reaches, and there we go, that's one more try, five, ten, twenty, thirty, yeah it only gives me thirty three, and that's not enough to do another pop, so we might as well just go back into the dna, find a lot of a ball, where is it, yeah we need to fuse one more time, call it twenty, call it twenty, come on, start your body, of course, of course, well that's where it goes, so we're going to do one pop for Spiner Constrictor, now we need two hundred and fifty in order to unlock this beast, so we can't get it in one pop, because I think the highest you can get is a hundred, or it's the highest I've seen is a hundred, well we're gonna get only first try, you knew it, but get in there, get in there, get in there, get in there, I've also unlocked some new creatures, I know, shock horror, I've actually done it, the new one is this guy, the badger, badger to nodon, or badger tonodon, badger tonodon, badger, one of those, oh that's gorgeous, very spiky, they look like brittle spikes, they look like dead coral, superiority vulnerability, oh interesting that's good, bellow that's good, devastation is really good, regeneration when it's got a swapping heel, it's immune to bleed, oh this thing's really good, speed not so great, only it has no armor, but it might have a lot of health, possibly, possibly, not quite there, and this guy, this guy as well I saw used in one of the tournaments, really good creature, I can't remember how it was used, oh it looks kind of cute, he's got lovable eyes except for the teeth, teeth kind of, no, persistent ferocious strike, so that's the mammoth, mutual fury, that's good, defensive shadow rampage, that's good, bellow, very good, immune to stuns and immune to damage over time, and on heal, when opponent leaves, cleanse off and heal 25%, ooh, could be pretty decent actually, that's a good one, but, but, but, oh we got another tournament starting in a while, and I need to actually put some speed on something, in fact actually if I open up these I should be able to put speed and health on my creatures, I think, it depends what I get, because it's random isn't it, I forget, it's the daily incubator that we get, ah that was speed, right, and I can actually level up something, so let's see, um, magnetator, oh yeah the gripo sutures thing just happened, that's pretty decent, I hope you, well it was gripo sutures, was it, gripo sutures or Diplo, Diplo dockers that you could dart, I went for gripo because I've already got Gemini Titan, I've already got that thing unlocked, and I'm okay, I don't see a use for it, it would be like a health tank, and I've kind of gone for our dentist maxima or anyway, and tricosaur, so that's two kind of tanks on my team and I don't want to make a third one, so didn't really do too great, now he's got 150 speed, I'm going to hold off, and I'll tell you why, the new event that's coming up this week is the St. Paddy's Day, St. Patrick's event, so on Monday to Wednesday I'll probably put it up somewhere, is it there, did I, did I do the edit thing maybe, we've got Diney, Cheris, Galamimus, Velociraptor, and Phosphoracus, out of all those Phosphoracus is probably the one you want to go for, then we've got some incubators which are pretty decent, Tuesday's a good one, Tuesday's an epic incubator, then on Wednesday to Friday you have a choice out of Delta, Clinican or Ornithomimus, I'll probably go for Clinican, oh never mind, Clinican doesn't have anything yet, Delta I think is the Allosin Raptor I think, or the Alloraptor, ah yes it is the Alloraptor, and the Alloraptor is pretty decent, but seeing as I have 43,000 Delta DNA, I'm okay, so I'm probably going to go for Clinican because Ornithomimus which is the Pro Serratomimus I've already got, and then on the Friday there's a good one, ooh a good incubator, on Thursday there is a St. Patrick's Day incense which could be pretty decent, and then Saturday to Sunday the weekend which is what everybody waits for is, ooh there's an expert incubator as well, is Blue Darwinopterus and Pro Serratomimus, now I'm not going to go for Pro Serratomimus because I've already got it maxed, Darwinopterus or Blue, I'm going to say right away the majority of people are probably going to go for Blue because that's what you need for Indoraptor Gen 2, and almost 100% everybody's waiting for Blue, everyone's waiting for Blue to appear somehow, so I think that's what I'm going to go for and I'm always 100% sure, it's probably unless you've got it maxed what everybody else is going to go for, if they don't, probably Darwinopterus, Pro Serratomimus is really good, but Indoraptor just has way more versatility when it comes to other animals or other dinosaurs that you face off against, so let's do some battles, I'm gonna save my boosts probably for this weekend because I'm gonna dart as many as much Blue as I can and Blue shouldn't be too hard to dart, the raptor model doesn't really have too much variations, maybe it's on its foot, I could be wrong though, if it is on its foot that's annoying, but adding the speed to Indoraptor Gen 2 is necessary, not 100% but as long as it's got 140 odd speed, once you do that like strike you get a speed boost, so you're already like 150 speed right off the bat, ooh this isn't very good for him, ooh dear, can he go for crit chance, is that what he's gonna, I mean yeah he's gonna have to, but even if he gets the crit, which he does, it's not a great deal of damage, right I'm assuming he's probably gonna switch something in, I could go for the big strike but I'm okay, I'd rather, yeah I thought he was going to, oh Draco, ooh interesting, I'm seeing them more often now, I don't know why, but I think people are using Draco a lot more, unfortunately I'm gonna have to go for my big one because he's gonna go for a generation, I mean I don't know why, if I was him I would have just, yeah I'd probably do the same, there's nothing really you can do, you might want a chance at just in case I went for the little hit thinking ah I can easy finish him, ooh that's not what I wanted to be, oh Dentist Maxima, but one of his dinosaurs is almost halfway dead, now a dentist is gonna reduce my speed, because he's worried about my magnetator so much so he's putting up a health tank against it, I'm gonna save him, I'm gonna save him, I'm gonna switch in Draco because we get these 30% armor, 30%, ooh definite strike, interesting, well Betty's hoping, Betty's wishing that he didn't go for that, he'd run for the other one, ooh that's a lot, half health, half, oh Dentist Maxima's not too great, ooh hasn't got a crit yet, now what's his attack, right he can't kill me, but he's got a good chance of getting a crit here, oh another 110, I got, I thought 1110, I'm just gonna go for a regular hit, if I survive, I mean I'm expecting a crit, oh that's unheard of, three attacks from our dentist Maxima and not a crit, ooh that's really unlucky, that's really unlucky, I think this should be an easy win, it depends what his other creature is, okay okay, well I'm going to, I have to go for instant invincibility, I was thinking about instant distraction but then I thought he could cleanse himself and that's probably what he's gonna do, oh he didn't, ooh right then, well we're gonna do some damage to him, oh another crit and you know what, I might as well just stay in, oh I could have at least done some damage to him, okay, I'm just making sure his ferocious strike wears off, that's what I'm, that's what I'm timing him out here, right so he's probably gonna go for a cleanse and you know what, yeah okay yeah, I probably should have, I didn't expect him to do that, like why, okay whatever, I will now go for, it's not the best, I would have rather had something else instead of this guy, I can't remember his name, oh instant distraction again, okay, he's probably gonna go for instant invincibility right after this, I would assume, I might as well stun him though right, I might as well stun him, at least I'll do some damage, I know that this is his only good creature left and I've got Illycosaur, not Illycosaur, Illydomimus, I've got Illydomimus and I've got Magnetator which could do like 2,000 or damage straight off the bat, oh he didn't get stunned of course, he's gonna cleanse, isn't he, no, oh he went for his instant invincibility, oh that sucks for him, okay well fair enough, what should I go for here, should I slow him down, I'm gonna slow him down, he's probably gonna kill me cause he might go for ferocious strike here, oh is he gonna go for it, oh he does but he's still got his nerf on him, okay what do I go for, I'm just gonna distract him here, oh he got, what's he doing, this guy's doing the weirdest plays, okay fair enough, I can do some damage to you, I'm gonna be instant distracted again, and now I'm just gonna making sure I can kill him in one hit with my Illycosaurus, Illydomimus, sorry, there you go, do I get a stun this time, get a stun this time, there we go, okay, now he's probably gonna go for instant invincibility, I'm gonna presume he's gonna go for instant invincibility, I'm gonna presume that and I'm gonna predict it and go for Magnetator, yep, who didn't, oh all right, fair enough, and we'll just go for another fight cause he might go for instant, why, what's this person doing, okay fair enough, I mean I might, I could have went for my instant distraction there but I'm not instant distraction here then, 50% damage reduced but hey I'll take that and an 8-0 incubator held, yes also guys don't forget to go down the description below, click on the link with the device that you use Jurassic World Live with and you'll get 50 free books courtesy of yours truly and until next time I think we're gonna leave it there for the coronavirus update, we've went over the St. Patrick's Day, apart from that there isn't like a great deal that I can show you apart from spending three hours darting, but it'll save you the time, if you ever just imagine just Majungosaurus's, Notosaurus's appearing, I tell you what I did get though, I got one Spinosaur Gen 2 and I got two Coulosauruses, is that it, the epic Coulosuchus, Coulosaurus that one, I think it's Coulosuchus and I got one T-Rex I think it was, so I got four, which isn't too bad, it could be worse, but anyway 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Happy New Year to both of you. So engage with us, let us know where you're watching us from, especially in this particular conversation. How is your year? And what are the tips that you have for yourself? What are the plans that you have for yourself? What are the resolutions that you have for yourself, for this particular year? Remember it's all about creating a successful new year plan. How do you do it? Especially when it comes to relationships, by the way. How do you create a plan for your relationships? There are some who have planned this year to get married. Some have planned this year to get financially stable. Some have planned this year to be able to accomplish one or two things in academics. How can you create a successful new year plan? The hashtag is part of the show on Twitter at Ram Maguko and that's why 254 Channel is where you can be able to engage with us. Let's keep the conversation going as a champ for you. I shall sample your feedback towards the end of this particular morning conversation. This is part of and part of starts now. Let me start with you Edwin. How do you create a successful new year plan? How have you done it even as an individual? As an individual level it's important to know that at the beginning of the year is what we refer to as a strategic point. Because you have refreshed, you feel everything is new and therefore you need to begin afresh. We have things you failed in the past years or in the past time then you feel it's time to make things to be straight. So the first thing to tell yourself is that your expectations must match your efforts. Do not expect too much while your efforts are less. I love that. Your expectations must match your efforts. So if you are not willing to put an effort to it, don't expect anything. Yes, many people are expecting much but they are not putting effort into whatever they are expecting. So that is number one. Ensure that you have positioned yourself in a place you have a vista to know where you want to go. You set your vision for the entire year. You plan and you tell yourself this is what I want to achieve in the long term and in the short term.  So I believe that is a good point to start with. Ensure that you have a long term plan and a short term plan and your expectations should match your efforts. Ruth, how can someone plan a successful plan for a year and how have you done it even as an individual? Personally, this year I have planned to take my life as a business. Whatever I do, I do it like a business. What do you mean? As a business, meaning investments? Not necessarily investments but whatever I do, I make it. Do you know how a CEO takes seriousness in the business? The same way I have taken my life so serious and I have taken seven steps for this year. Seven? Seven steps. Okay. One, you need to have a mission and a vision for this year. You have to have a strategic plan. You need to use the smart goals. S for strategic. M for measurable. A for attainable. R for relevant. S is R. T is for time bound. Everything has to have time bound. I'll do this at this time and it will take this time. Okay. So you have seven steps? Seven steps, yes. The first one is? First of all, you need to know where financially you stand so that you can take a step. Then the second one, you need to have a mission and a vision. Third, you have to have a strategic plan. You have to have a measurable plan as well. You have to have an accountable body as well. Somebody who you ask, who needs to put you on your toes. That is six. Seven? That's seven. That's six, yes. Duable and attainable goals. Don't just put things there. If you have so many things to attain this year, just make sure you categorize them. First of all, take three. Attain the first three so that you can focus on the three. Then after that, go to the next. Yes. I want us to start with financial stability. This has been an issue for so many people. Considering the fact that we have come from a period where COVID struck and many are still recovering, there are some who are hit hard and have not managed to come up to get on both feet. But there are many who are looking into financial stability this particular year. How can someone attain financial stability? Let me start with you Ruth and then I'll come to you. I remember the last time that you were here we talked about you can borrow from the next year. Maybe there are people who borrowed from this month. We had this conversation here last year. Actually we had this conversation on how to prepare for the festive season with you. Yes, we did. It's interesting because you're just coming after the season to talk about now that the season is over. What do you move on? How do you move on? So you need to borrow from the previous year? If there is somebody who borrowed from December, remember if they borrowed from January so that they can maybe attain some things in December. Now in January they have to stick to the plan. You can't keep borrowing from the next month. You just can't. So you have to stick to the plan. You have to stick with whatever is left. So if you borrowed in December? If you borrowed January's salary on December. Now stick to whatever has been left. Don't borrow now again from February. So you can't keep borrowing from February? Yes, you can't keep borrowing from February. Yes, what she is saying is you ensure that you are leaving within your means. What if your means is too high? It's higher than your money. That is where you need to regulate. One of the lessons that was greatly learned from COVID-19 is that we need to have multiple sources of income which many people do not have. Many people have only one source of income. Yet you can have multiple sources of income whereby your cash flow is well established. What many young people lack what many people lack is a cash flow. Whereby you are spending, yet you are not earning. And the first step is to earn before you spend. You cannot spend what you do not earn. So when you have established a good cash flow then be sure that you will be stable financially. This means any idea that can bring you something any idea that can put a coin in your pocket is something that you need to embrace. For instance, there is a lot that is happening online at this particular moment. You can make a lot of money online. There is content creation. There is writing. There are a lot of people who are writing for online and they are making a lot of money. So you do not need to have hard cash in itself for you to make money. The richest person who lives on the face of the earth is not the one who has liquid cash but the one who has an idea for you to ensure that you are turning your idea into liquid cash. I believe that way you can make yourself to be financially stable. But many people do not have a second source of income. Most people have one source of income. And what you are saying, from this conversation, it is difficult to have financial stability through one source of income. That is the point. Now, when it comes to these debts that we have, you took a loan for the holidays but now you need to pay them back. You borrowed a bank. You borrowed an individual. And some of these people we borrow from, what are they called? Shainox. Yes, Shainox. Shainox. Mobile money has become a bond for many people. Shainox. Very dangerous. Now you are stuck in January as you all know has a thousand days. How do you come out of that? One run, it is important to know what you are borrowing for. One you say that you borrowed for the first season. But what is it that you are borrowing for?  When you borrow, you need to borrow for an investment. For that money, it is like a seed, you are planting, you are putting it in an investment. That way it will increase and it will give you a life that you desire later on. Don't borrow to go to KFC. I don't want to go to KFC because I don't have money. When you borrow to put into an investment. But you see, when you are borrowing for the holidays, this lady is putting you on the spot. Babe, you don't love me so much. Everyone is going out, it's the December holidays, it's Christmas, it's New Year, you've not taken me out the whole year. At least you don't love me so much. That's what I want. I think there needs to be an understanding of both of you. If I don't have, I don't have. But I can tell you, baby, I'll take you, maybe at this time, I'll push myself, get this finances and take you for a holiday. There has to be an understanding. But now you're stuck. There is something that was borrowed for December. And now they're stuck, they don't know how they'll recover and they're looking into financial stability. Are they doomed? They're not doomed. Let it be a lesson, let it not be a condemnation, let it be a lesson for you that there is a better way I can move on. Correct. And there is a better thing that I can be able to do. So that if you borrowed for December, because there is another December which is coming. What is the best thing for you to do? It is for you to plan now. There are a lot of saving plans which have been given to people which they do not adhere to most of the times. So that is why you find yourself in the same situation over, red over, again. But you can begin on the right foot this year and say, if at all there is a holiday which is coming, let me plan for that particular holiday. So do not do something which you did not plan. You've given an example where probably you need to take your spouse or your girlfriend out and you do not have money. Why don't you look for an option which can favor your situation at that particular moment. That you're not going overboard and then at the end of the day you'll be crying. If you have somebody, they need to add value to your life. So kama hauna, they need to understand at that particular moment. It is for the better. It is for us to be able, let us not eat our future today. Yeah. Somebody said somewhere, don't wear your tomorrow's clothes today. Tomorrow you will work naked. You will not have anything to wear. I wish I had a believer. Don't wear your tomorrow's clothes today. Otherwise you will work naked tomorrow. And also Ram, I think people need to have an income statement and a balance sheet. Income statement is the income that you get minus the expenses. And the balance sheet is your liabilities and your assets. I remember doing a balance sheet when I was in high school. That's the last time I did a balance sheet. So it is applicable in the world of today. It is very applicable. And that is the only way you can track. Let me tell you, I think we are very rich. It's just that we don't know how to use it. I'm hearing some believers. They are saying they don't understand what do you mean when you say balance sheet. Let's define what a balance sheet is. And of course, if you don't know how to use it, you will get a lot of money. So you can work naked. You can work naked. So what is a balance sheet? And how do you do that? Of course, in my head, I can remember we have two sites. We have the assets, site and the liabilities. So for the balance sheet, it's in the computer. So there's this site where you put your assets. Asset is anything that brings in money. And liabilities is anything that takes out money.  And just check. Let's say, for example, this month there's rents. You got your income, but that now is an income statement. Because now the income statement is whatever you got at the end of the month. Then now your expenses are the rents, fuel, clothes, shoes. Those are the expenses. And then now... I think umelia wa balance sheets. I think umelia wa balance sheets. Pesambayana ingia na pesambayana toka. Do they balance or are the liabilities more than the assets? Yes, now that's where the liabilities come to be more than the assets. They should not be? Yes. In simple terms, it's a track record of your spending. The money which comes in and the money which goes out. And the truth of the matter is many people spend, but they do not have a track of how they spend. That is the tragedy of most of the people. Is it not why we need bank statements and M-Pesa statements? But do people even take time to check their bank statements and M-Pesa statements? When did last... When last did you check your name? I only check animal. Many people, there is a time I updated the status and I said, you are very rich. It is only that you do not know. Because many people do not check their M-Pesa statements. I checked mine and I realized that I am very rich.  The amount of money that I spent last year did we analyze that when the customer is. And what are you doing about it this year? That is a question. What are we doing about it? Kenyans need to rise up and do something. I always check my money. They always send it to my email. After every month, every month they do so. And they are very consistent. I like that. So everyone needs to go home, check how much money you have spent and how much money comes in and then see how you can balance. And what did you spend on it? Yes. What did you spend on? Yes. Because we have said if at all we need to be financially stable, your spending behavior should be on a sport check each and every moment. What am I spending on? I am on a ribu pesa.  And there is an app for M-Pesa. It checks everything. The money that comes in and the money that goes out. And also there are people who write learning linoa chingama at this. Let's talk about smoke as fast. Do you count those small things that you buy? It's very ideal to use. I think it's very ideal to use. I think it's very ideal to use. I think it's very ideal to use. I think it's very ideal to use. For those who like mutura, you bought a... A kaboilo. Yes, a kaboilo. Do you keep track of that? This year I am keeping track of that. You are saying about smoking? What about smoking? He used a lot of money when he used to smoke. Smoking is a habit. You have to use that money every single minute when you have the edge of smoking. And those little money where the small money trust you me Ram that is a lot of money if you agree with me. That is a lot of money. So if you track the small things that you do the small money that you spend you'll see you have a lot of money. If you have a lot of money you'll see that you have a lot of money if you buy 5 of them or 10 of them and you keep them in the car. So it is true. I realised that I was a little bit too much. I said no. Now Najadzee is a way it is so interesting because we have a lot of money in the kwaqa. We have a lot of money. We have a lot of money. I like it. I like it because I have a lot of money. Because if you go to Kijuku you can't get it. So it is a pange. A pange. Let's move on. Because we are talking about how to successfully plan for the year 2021 creating a successful new year plan. We have talked about finances. Financial stability. I want to talk about relationships. We need stability even in our relationships. Do relationships also need planning? Do they need to be planned for so that you say that this year this is how I want to plan myself at this time I want to get into a relationship or I should be out of a relationship at this time how do you plan it? And for those who are married how should they plan their relationship so that this year they have a solid foundation for their children? That is one key aspect of life. Life depends on relationships. And Ram, in life your relationships must not just be any relationship. It must be strategic and align bold capital letters. Relationships must be strategic. We need strategic relationships. Not everybody that you meet on the road is meant to be your friend. I like it. Coach Robert Burare mentioned that and he said the other day that there are people whom when you meet it should end at the parking lot. Don't bring them to your sitting room. Don't take them to your bedroom. Why? They are not meant for those places. So as you're planning for this year relationships ensure the people you are meeting in life are only people who can add value to you. Yes. Wow. Yes. I agree with him. Make sure any person that comes in your life adds value. If he or she is draining your energy cut off that person. It's not worth it. I want to take a short break and then we'll be back on this particular issue here. How can you plan for your relationship? You said that relationships need to be strategic. What is this strategic relationship that we're talking about here? And I'm also considering the fact that there is somebody who has been single for a long time and they have no clue about how they are going to do it next. I'm also considering the fact that there is somebody who is in a relationship and they feel they need to come out of it. How can they do that this year? So they have come out of toxic relationships. We need to talk about that. Toxic relationships. And is it possible for somebody to come out of toxic relationships? We need to talk about that later. Can I comment on that before we go on the break? Maybe I just leave it so that we can begin. You can comment. Relationship is in three dimensions. It is social, it is spiritual and economic. Social, spiritual and economic. We need to talk about this particular issue because you need to know about it. Engage with us at Y254 channel. Let's take a short break and we'll be back in a bit. This is Power Talk. Y254. Imagine. And as always, value your feedback. Thank you so much for being part of this morning conversation right here on Y254. Thank you so much for being part of this morning conversation right here on Y254. Thank you so much for being part of this morning conversation right here on Y254. This is Power Talk. My name is Ram Maguko and if at all you are just joining us you are just in time for the next part of this conversation. Remember we are talking about creating a successful year, a successful new year plan. How can you do it? Let me just sample a few of your feedback and what people are saying on our social media handles. Remember the hashtag is Power Talk show at Ram Maguko at Y254 channel. You can head over to Facebook on our Facebook page that is at Y254. You can head over to Facebook on our particular poster here that we posted. Interestingly, I never knew until I saw this photo that we are all in blue. So I've just seen it. We are all in blue. Blue, blue, blue skirt, blue dress, blue blue skirt, blue dress, blue blue you. Blue you. And blue tie. And blue tie. Alright. Now let me read a few of your comments there. Dogosamuni Sende sana dogosamuni Racha Jose Sende sana piako tuned in Sende sana Sam Otis Senge Sende sana piako apoko nyumtenda Enoch Madegwa Sende sana That is my mentor Pastor Edwin Tiego. Alright. Sende sana keep talking to us Let us know also where you are watching us from We shall be able to recognize and appreciate you. Now ladies and gentlemen, let's proceed with the next part of this conversation and we are talking about stability in our relationships. How can we attain stability? And you said that there are three three parts. Spiritual Social and economic parts of our relationship. And you will start on that in a bit. Let me start with you Ruth. Many want to be stable in their relationships but there is this baggage from the previous experiences that they have had in their previous relationships. How can they gain stability regardless of their past? Maybe for example maybe you are in a toxic relationship or there are things that you went through your past's relationship that makes you feel as if you are not comfortable going to another relationship. So I think you need to give yourself time to heal and then after that after getting... and then time somebody who told me a friend of mine needs to give themselves time to heal and I don't think time is one year or two years but it's accepting. You only heal when you accept. You are wound but what do you mean by accepting? How long does it take for you to accept because for some people it takes time for them to accept that something actually happened. Remember Ram we talked about you cannot move until you know your mistakes. You can't move. So you have to accept whatever had already happened and you can't be blamed. If you don't accept it you blame the other person that you meet because of somebody... What am I saying? Whatever you went through if you don't get to heal you tend to put the emotions to the next person that you meet. So you first of all get to accept you get to heal and start afresh just like the new year. We've started a new year. It's a new year, new things. In terms of toxic relationships it is what do we mean by toxic? It all drips down to the different expectations that people had in relationships. Is the time you are here and we say that it is always good to know what you expect from a relationship or what you want in a relationship. For it not to turn to be toxic. And from the past relationships it is just good to be a good person that you know that whoever you are in a relationship with is not a bad person. It is only that it could not work between you two. It did not suit you too but it is not a bad person. So don't demonize them. Don't see them as evil people. Be human enough also just to accept that it did not work but let me move forward to the next stage. I may find someone who suits me I will find somebody better. That person did not deserve you and probably you did not deserve them. There is one thing that I really need to understand. When you say that you need to understand where you are heading to for you to not have a toxic relationship. For some people they find themselves in it. And actually they need somebody else to let them know that you are actually in a toxic relationship. And for others they have just realized that this thing has actually turned toxic and I did not expect this in a person. Now they need stability in their relationship. Should they break up?  Should they leave? How can you gain stability because it's a new year, want new things, want peace? I say the other time it's good to have a checklist and it's good always to believe in yourself. The reason as to why somebody is in a relationship and they need someone else to tell them that the relationship you are in is toxic.  Therefore do an analysis by yourself. Before you get into anything know what is it that you want in life. Do you have the same goals? Are we going to the same destination? Now speaking of same goals, same destination, can a toxic partner hinder you from achieving your goals? Of course yes. Yes. But how? How do you separate? Because this is your partner. This is somebody that you love or loves you. And that is why I said relationships are strategic. From the spiritual point of view no relationship is an accident. Before you go there. Before you go there.  Yes they can. In one way or another maybe they do not want you to do that thing. That whatever. I feel as if, I don't know but pastor you can do that. What do you feel as if what? I feel as if if you are not comfortable just leave.  Your mentality. Your mental peace is at peace. Okay. I get you. You said that there are three parts. And I remember spiritual, economic social parts of our relationship. Let's demissify these three. Let's start with the spiritual aspect. You are saying no relationship is an accident. No relationship is an accident. Women imagine part of our relationship. I just realize I am dating. The way we are made nothing happens by coincidence. There is nobody you meet by that it is an accident. They must have a role which they will play in your life. As you are moving on you will get to know why is it that I met this person. You may not know it today but as you are moving it is a discovery that you will get to make. I did not know that I met Ram for this to happen. So it is something that you realize as you are moving on with the journey. So as you are meeting people in life no that no you do not meet somebody by accident it is somehow designed. So this character development it is designed. Somebody plan to develop you. Yes. Social. As human beings we are social beings.  So life is it is social. Now we move it from the social aspect to the economic aspect. Many a times when you do research people who begin business whom do they begin to share the business with? They share the business with the people who are close to them.  Unless you do not understand that you need to begin with those ones you will not know that life is economic. So you are selling something and you never sold it to those ones whom you are working close to. So just know that life it is spiritual, it is social and it is also economical. At one point who do you run to first?   Now now now now there is there are so many questions I have about what on the same name we are going to delete people's numbers now if you never talk to me in the previous year this year delete if you are like this this year delete if you are hazardous this year I am deleting people are deleting people's their friends numbers on the same name this year we are cutting off we are sharing off unnecessary links we do not need such kind of friends it makes me wonder because we are now moving on to social stability how we relate with our friends how can you create a plan for yourself to successfully socialize with people in a way that is good and healthy for you and for them because we keep on talking about you relating with people who can help you that you need to relate with people who can be of benefit to you but then at the end of the day everyone can be of benefit to you they are somewhere lower than you and those who are upper how can you create this good social space for yourself I am still on you Diego you say there are people who are saying they are going to delete people delete delete delete one do a self reflection we attract whom we are if you tend to help people more so don't just go on a deleting spree yet you are the problem but still on that there are people who help others they help so much so that they never ask for anything but on the day they ask for help nobody can help them yet the ones who always give if you need money they give you money if you close they give you close if you need food they give you food nobody is there to help them we can just call that unfortunate but I believe the way life is there is no way somebody can help you any time you help somebody ram they will feel indebted they will feel indebted even if you do not have an intention of helping them so that they can help they can help you because many times I advise people even when you are doing it do not do it so that somebody can do it for you but life has a natural way of giving back that if I give you a gift you will feel indebted that next time at least I also need to give this guy a gift so I began from there that let it be a self reflection that are you the one who is the problem that you do not have this machismo to be able to attract as well because you attract what you are so in doing so you do an evaluation whereby you know whom do I need to help because you say you have one person who can help and one person who can help in this case Ram when you help you need to know the kind of help you need from them because they are them who give you material help they are them who will give you canceled But they can give you an idea, they can give you a council that will take you to your next level, that will make you to be the next big thing. Umedelit nambaya wa tii mwaka. Sijadelit, but I wanted to know, watu anadelit mbona? I have never understood mbona unasema ati nita, delits nambaya huyu na huyu na huyu. Even if you delete, you still remember them. You still have their names, the talks in your mind. So there's no, it doesn't make sense when you say al delits. And speaking personally on the lady's side, you'll find that we mostly delete digits or numbers because how to decide you are financially. Lakin you are still not, you still don't delete numbers as much as I do. Kwa sababu?  I have so many friends when you delete numbers as much as I do. Now listen, mbona na delete onasema huyu ati nita to turn the club. But when I need something, hata ni, hata ni piya pesa, hata ni fanya hivi. But ye ya kitaka, if they want my time, they want me to give them my time. But wewe, if I want you to help me in any way, you won't. So that's why they're deleting and speaking for the ladies. Which refers me to what Tiago said earlier on, that you give something, expect something in return. So you give them the time, expect something in return. What if you don't expect it? You don't get it. It's not that you're expecting, it's just the way he said, you feel accountable. You feel indebted. Yes, you feel indebted. It's not that you have to. Why do ladies delete numbers? It is because they first of all did not understand why they saved it in the first place. Why are you becoming personal? I don't know if there is anybody who can testify today. I've been in charge for so long. I don't know if there is anybody who can actually say that I know you are not going to be deleted. They are not seeing us. It is because they deleted it. It was deleted. But it's good to cut off people. It is good to cut off people. It is. To cut off people, friends, lovers, exes. It is. After a very deep consideration, I say you do an analysis. A careful analysis.  You do a careful analysis on whom do I need to move on with this year. That one, it is true and it is very, very needful. You need to ask yourself whom do I need to move on with this year. To move on with this year. Once you have analysed these are the quality of people that I want to work with this year. Then your life will also be quality. Let me ask you, let me ask the both of you. These year there are people who need to really change their circle. And I'm saying this with a very small mind. I know there are people who need to change their circle this year because it is their circle that has affected their previous year. It is because of their circle that maybe they did not achieve one or two things and it is because if you change your circle, you can be able to achieve something. Absolutely. Now I want to ask the both of you to give me your opinion. Who is a friend? How can we define who a friend is? Because this is where the problem is. We don't know who a friend is. And because we don't know who a friend is, everyone is our friend. And those who don't have friends and they say I only have one friend. So what is a friend by definition?  These are not people who will just shower you with praise. These are people who will also critic you when you go wrong because most of the times we draw close to people who favor whom we feel they favor us in one way or another. So you are in the wrong and this person still favors you. You need somebody who can tell you to soba up when they feel that you have gone overboard.  So the friendship is also in levels. We have confidence, we have constituents and we have comrades. So I believe in this case, the ones you are asking about are who is your confident, whom have you built confidence in that to this point they can tell you this one you are wrong, this one you are right. You know when you have a friend who is always a yes man or an yes lady, anything you say yes. That one is not a friend. That one is escorting you to your fate. I don't like such people, yes man. So a confident is somebody you've built confidence in and you can tell them you can and they will judge you. They keep you accountable. But you see even as you do that and you share stories doesn't it mean that that person who you share a lot is now your friend? That's because we talked too much. That's why I was very careful to say the one you've built confidence in because you don't just find, confidence are not just found anywhere. Confidence are built, you build a confident. By the experiences you have had with this person that is how you build confidence in them and then you are sure that this one can be my confident, can be my friend. Now still on Utego, there are people who because of a particular experience you became close. Maybe something happened last year and now because this person was there to help you through that season you became close because of them. For example somebody is having a problem at work and now because of that issue at work they became close to a particular colleague. Maybe somebody has a problem and they called a particular friend and because of the issue in that particular scenario that person became close to them. Does it mean that they are now friends? Because now after that particular season after that problem is over story na jia kupiga kuna? It is an element because there are factors which build up friendships and one of the factors are situations.  They are situations. So when you find there is a situation that came up and that situation brought somebody into your life I believe there is a common video that is making rounds on social media when Jalango said let's situation let's circumstances introduce friends or introduce families to you. So to me it is an element and it is a factor to consider. Now the only thing is that probably both of them did not know how to relate after that situation but it is something that has introduced somebody your thoughts. What is a friend to you and how can we distinguish between these different types of people in our lives so that we don't get mixed up and call everybody a friend. That is true. I think a friend is anybody who has good intentions for your life somebody who can tell you the truth and tell you as it is that is a friend be it a good thing or a bad thing that person will tell you as it is. Also I think friends for me the people I feel are safe you need to cut off the people who remind you of your past ati o paster atu kwa na pesa atu kwa na kula smuki don't remind me of my past we are moving forward we are moving forward we are moving forward we are moving forward this is what we are doing this is what I want us to accomplish by this type that is a friend it's a drinking partner friend if you have time you can call this person you will have a good time I think there are categories of friends as paster saying kuna weni weni weni we are moving forward we are moving forward kuna weni weni I am pretty sure kuna weni uta pigenu na joa uiwa nikimuita tutera kuhunya but after that there is nothing else kuna kusum na somebody it is in the bar that you find good real friends no it is not you see somebody used to give that particular testimony and I said no I go to a place and I said no that is not what it is anyone who helping you to destroy Sii menedag deaths in this year my friends need to be focussed How? Habits They are good habits and they are bad habits So it means if you want to stop a habit It is a bad habit Those who have studied psychology will say it has become a addiction It is classified as a habit One, you need to first of all highlight it as a bad habit. Highlight it as something which is not adding value to your life. Two, you accept that it is a problem or it is an issue to you because if you've not accepted it as an issue, then it is very, very difficult for you to stop. Three, look for somebody who will hold you accountable because a habit has been built over time. A habit is not something that you've done today and then you say it's a habit. So you find somebody who will hold you accountable on what you're doing for that habit to fade away. So this year there are some ladies out there who need to stop partying because they need to be serious. And you've seen these things trend on social media where there are some men who say that there are women who belong in the streets and there are women who belong in the home. We change this particular habit for women. Since Pasta has already defined it well, the first question I think I'd love to ask them when you open your window, I know I might sound a bit rude but the moment that you open your window, what do you see?  Is it a comfortable place where you want to continue living? Is it somewhere kuna kani sapam, tuto ezi lala ama family, you're not even at peace, kelele wizi nini, what do you see when you open your window? That needs to motivate you to change your habit so that you can now put more energy to where you're supposed to be. Ramuki fungo, if you want, what do you see? That is not what you want to see. Is that where you want to stay for the rest of your life? Do you want to stay there? So you have to change your habits, you have to make wise decisions so that you can get what you want. Wow. And I'm looking at a particular scenario. I had this example last week between a zebra and a donkey, which one is the best? Which one do you think you'd go for? I think a donkey is a dragon and a zebra is beautiful. It is in... Don't answer quickly. Between a zebra and a donkey, which one would you go for? Let me say, should I go for? That one requires critical thinking.  So if you need beauty, then you'll go for the zebra. If you need strength, then you'll go for the donkey. I would say the same. A donkey is... it really works hard. If you even look at the donkeys in the roads, they carry so many things.    You don't know what to say. I would prefer being a zebra. Why a zebra? Now, why a zebra? The value is on the look. But you can be beautiful with nothing. You can be beautiful and not hardworking. You'd rather be hardworking than be beautiful. You can be beautiful and you also attract... A zebra has tourists who come to see it. And those tourists also have value. That is why I said one has beauty and the other one has strength. Both can be valuable. This is what I read somewhere. And that's why I asked this particular question. Because this is how you need to... what you need to plan for the year. Between a zebra and a donkey, a zebra is more beautiful than a donkey.  But if you look at both of these particular animals, one stays at home, the other stays in the bush. A zebra stays in the bush, no matter how beautiful it is. And a donkey stays in the home, no matter how ugly it is. It stays in the home. This is how you take a wife and just think about it. And if you try to bring the zebra to your home, it will bring people tourists to your home. The tourists will come to your home. Do you need tourists in your home? That's why I said it depends on what's going on. I've been caged today. I've been caged today. You've made it in that one. I want us to bring this conversation to a close. It's all about creating a new year plan. And I want to give you time to have a final word in regards to this. Talk to people who are watching it today within just 30 seconds a final word on how to create a new year plan. This year we need a change. This year we need something different. This year we don't want to start and end at the same way. This year we need a difference. Which is my camera? No, that is your camera. Ya, for this year I have had one message for everyone that is out there. That the greatest thing that you can do to yourself is that you add value. Ensure whatever you will do, you will add value. Anything that derails you, anything that will make you not to amount to what you're supposed to become, leave it behind and just ensure that you are adding value. Ensure you are reading books, you are listening to inspirational messages and ensure that you are scheduling yourself well. Don't be found everywhere at any given time. Don't be too available. When you are too available then it means that your value is also not adding up. Thank you so much. Alright Ruth, final word. This year you need to, not only this year, from today since you are already here, change your mindsets. At least learn even 4 words every day. 2 hours to this year. Learn 4 words every day. Read books as Pasta has said. And make sure you are going to the right direction. Let me talk about Mark in the Bible, Mark 4. There is a verse where the disciples went with Jesus to the sea and they were so scared because the sea, they wanted Jesus to wake up. He was asleep. So they woke him up and told him there is a storm. You need to calm the storm. And that's, I'm talking, I'm saying that in consideration about God already knows what you want. God is ready for whatever you want. So you need to push yourself and pray, believe and trust in God. Alright. Thank you so much Ruth. Thank you so much Tiago. I want us to bring this conversation to a close and I'd like as always to end with a quote. Bring it up Timo. I don't really do new years resolutions because I don't think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you've got a problem, you need to fix it now. That is a quote by Clay Iken. That is his belief. If you've got a problem, fix it now. Sure. Do you agree? Sure. Do you agree? Yes, I do. Ladies and gentlemen, that means us to the end of this morning's conversation on power talk and as always my own take home for the day that what I believe should be there is that you need to stand out. Happy new year and I wish you the best this particular year 2022. Big thanks to Tiago and Ruth for being a part of this morning's conversation. This is power talk. I repeat of this show as again tonight at 10 p.m. My name is Ram Aguko. This is power talk. Happy new year.


Congratulations, so many of your starting pitchers pitched in relief during this post-season. What is it about this team where you guys are willing to sacrifice like that? To me, I think, you know, we have the right personalities in the clubhouse, but the most important thing was Alex Cora galvanizing us in the beginning of the year. They started in spring training, and I think that mentality of selflessness and doing whatever we got to do to win is really built throughout the course of the season, and then once we got to the post-season, it would be a combination of unbelievable young players, young guys like Rafi, Muki, Bogi, and then we had some veteran guys, some guys that have been in the World Series, some guys that have been through the playoffs and not had a whole lot of success, and I think the combination of those two things, it was, you know, we understood that we can't take these opportunities for granted. We've got our ownership, our front office, our coaching staff has done everything they could possibly do to put us in a position to win. It's up to us now, and every single guy on this team absolutely sold out, did whatever they had to do, went through the bumps and bruises of what you go through in a long season, like a baseball season, and I don't know, this post-season was incredible. I've never experienced anything like it. I think, you know, looking back at the Yankee Series all the way through to watching Nathan Evolvy throw 100 pitches on his third day of pitching a game, it's unheard of. It's absolutely incredible. And, you know, I don't want to say that unless you pitch before you don't know what it feels like, but I promise you right now that that guy and every single guy on our team experienced a lot of pain to go through what we went through and have the success that we went through and sacrifice for one common goal. That's the easiest way to sum it up. Rick, you guys won 119 games including post-season. How aware was the team, how much discussion was there about the passability of making history, becoming one of the all-time great teams, one of the all-time great Red Sox teams? The amazing part about our ball club is we never had one discussion about that. We won 108 games in the regular season and they felt like, okay, we won the division and now our work starts. And the division is not an easy division to win.  I mean, we battled the entire year just to win the division. And once we got to the post-season, it was a combination of our position players, our pitchers, digging down deep and that's what it came down to. In the post-season, it's not about the talent that you have on the roster, it's not about anything else, but going out there and being the guy that's willing to lay it all out there and compete. Everybody did that, literally one through 25. Rick, thanks very much.


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