About Grateful Odyssey

Educator, researcher, motivational speaker, mentor

My name is Sam Maramba. I am an educator, researcher, motivator, people builder, mentor, blogger and aspiring writer and entrepreneur.

I have a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Computer Science and have been in education for the past 15 years of my life, mainly teaching Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Information Technology. I appreciate the variety of skills and tremendous experience that I have gained in my time as an educator and wish to use these to be of further use to society in many other ways. I also want to find out more about myself and use my life story, skills and talents to fulfill my purpose on this earth and to inspire others.

Grateful Odyssey is a community dedicated to celebrating any and everything in our lives that we feel grateful for.

Very often we forget to focus on the things that are going right in our lives. We tend to focus on thos things that are wrong or those things that we do not have. With this kind of focus we become resentful at life, the world or the people in our lives. When resentments build up they become like poisons to our spirit and stunt our growth giving us more reasons to feel that we've been dealt the wrong cards in our lives.

Ingratitude saps the energy in our lives and we feel like we're floating about, waiting for life to happen to us. We feel like we have no mission or purpose in life. There's no passion and no song and hence no joy. The reason I want to find, and encourage you to find, as many reasons as you can to be grateful, is that we awaken our souls in the process and live much more meaningful lives. At the end of our lives we can then say that we lived, we loved and we mattered and there was a purpose to our existence on this earth and we made a difference.

I believe that the route to success and happiness in our lives is:

• GRATITUDE for the people, places, events and things we have in our lives: what we have, how we got there.
• ACTION  ― “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu
• DISCIPLINE in taking action even when we do not feel like it or when we don't see our dreams as possible.

Take the first step