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Why Projects Finish on Time but Still Fail: Rethinking Project Success
A project can finish on time and within budget yet still fail to deliver meaningful results. Discover why project delivery does not always equal project success, and learn how to measure outcomes, stakeholder satisfaction, adoption, and long-term business value beyond deadlines, costs, and scope.
Mary Makite
1 day ago9 min read


Grief and Ambition: Are You Losing Drive or Finally Being Honest?
Grief can change more than how you feel. It can change what you want from your career, your ambition and the life you are building. Explore what happens when loss makes old goals feel different, and whether you are losing drive or finally becoming honest about what you want.
Mary Makite
Oct 165 min read


How Grief Changes the Way We Decide What Time Is Worth
Grief can change more than how you feel about loss. It can change how you experience time, make decisions, and decide what is truly worth your energy. After loss, ordinary choices can carry a deeper question: What if I don’t have time?
Mary Makite
Oct 85 min read


SEO Is Becoming Visual: Why Images Now Shape Search Strategy
Search is no longer limited to typed keywords. As visual and multimodal search evolves, images are becoming part of how businesses are discovered, understood, and evaluated online. Here’s why visual content now belongs in your SEO strategy.
Mary Makite
Oct 75 min read


After the Burial: Who Takes Care of the Children?
After the burial, the condolences end and the visitors go home. But for a child who has lost a parent, grief is only beginning. This is about what happens next: who provides care, protects their childhood, keeps them in school, and makes sure they are safe, heard and loved.
Mary Makite
Oct 79 min read


You Don’t Have to Hit Rock Bottom to Deserve Rest
You can keep showing up, meeting deadlines, caring for others, and answering messages while quietly running on empty. But functioning does not mean you are okay. This article explores the hidden weight of emotional exhaustion, why rest is often postponed, and how to recognise when it is time to seek support. You do not have to collapse before your pain deserves care.
Mary Makite
Oct 27 min read


When Workarounds Become Infrastructure: What Broken Processes Reveal
When employees create spreadsheets, side trackers, message groups, and informal workflows to keep work moving, those workarounds may reveal more than inefficiency. They can expose the gaps between official processes and how work actually gets done.
Mary Makite
Sep 245 min read


What Happened to You? Bitter People and the Pain Behind Workplace Behavior
We are quick to call people bitter, difficult, or toxic. But what if we paused to ask what happened to them? A deeper look at workplace bitterness, unresolved pain, compassion, and accountability.
Mary Makite
Sep 228 min read


If You’re Drowning, “Let Me Know If You Need Anything” Isn’t Enough
When someone is grieving or quietly struggling, “let me know if you need anything” may sound supportive, but real support often means noticing, showing up, and making help easier to receive.
Mary Makite
Sep 1410 min read


Entity SEO Explained: How Search Engines Understand Your Business Identity
Search is no longer just about matching keywords to queries. It's increasingly about understanding the businesses, people, products, services, and ideas behind those words. Entity SEO helps search engines connect those signals, build context, and understand who you are, what you do, and why your business should be trusted.
Mary Makite
Sep 89 min read


Compassionate Leadership vs Performative Empathy: What Employees Remember
Your employees can tell when empathy is performative. A leader can say “take the time you need,” but what happens to the workload, deadlines, privacy, and expectations tells employees whether that support is real.
Mary Makite
Aug 268 min read


Scaling Too Soon? What Can Break Before Your Business Is Ready
Business growth can expose weaknesses that were easy to ignore when the business was smaller. Before you scale, discover the systems, processes, and capacity that need strengthening first.
Mary Makite
Aug 268 min read


You May Not Realise You're Grieving: Signs of Unresolved Grief
Grief does not always look like sadness. Sometimes it looks like anger, emotional numbness, overworking, control, distance, fear of attachment, or guilt around feeling happy. This is a reflection on the quieter ways unresolved grief can shape how we live, love, and see ourselves.
Mary Makite
Aug 258 min read


My Parents’ Journey: Love, Sacrifice, Loss, and What Remains
My parents built a life shaped by love, sacrifice, perseverance, and family. After losing them both, I began to understand my mother’s struggles, the life they built together, and what it means to honour their legacy while leaving justice to God.
Mary Makite
Aug 116 min read


How to Perform an SEO Audit for a Small Business Website
Not sure why your small business website isn't getting the visibility it deserves? Learn how to audit your website’s technical SEO, content, indexing, performance, and search visibility, then prioritize the fixes that matter most.
Mary Makite
Aug 105 min read


The Silent Weight of Suppressing Grief
Many people carry grief in silence, telling the world they're "fine" while quietly navigating loss beneath the surface. This article explores why we suppress grief, how it can show up in everyday life, and why giving ourselves permission to acknowledge our emotions is an important step toward healing.
Mary Makite
Aug 45 min read


AI Won't Replace Strategy. It Will Expose the Lack of It.
AI is transforming how organisations work, but technology alone cannot create strategic direction. Businesses with clear goals, strong systems, and intentional leadership will use AI to accelerate growth. Those without these foundations risk scaling confusion instead of creating value. Discover why AI doesn't replace strategy; it reveals whether one exists.
Mary Makite
Jul 276 min read


Life After Loss: Embracing Fragility, Faith, and Hope
Losing the people we love changes more than our hearts. It changes how we see life, fear, faith, and the future. This personal reflection explores grief's quiet fears, the vulnerability that follows loss, and the hope found in God's constant presence.
Mary Makite
Jul 256 min read


Reclaiming My Identity Through Grief and the Last Spoon of Self-Care
Losing both of my parents transformed my understanding of grief, identity, and healing. This is the story of learning to protect my last spoon while rebuilding a life with purpose and hope.
Mary Makite
Jul 227 min read


The Hidden Cost of Chasing Marketing Trends
Every new marketing trend promises better results, but constantly changing direction can slow your growth. Discover why strategy, consistency, and long-term thinking outperform reactive marketing and help build a stronger, more sustainable business.
Mary Makite
Jul 214 min read
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