CPAR Uganda Ltd

Many youths of today do not have fiscal discipline. Expenditure is hand-to-stomach, even when there is extra income. You buy a 60-inch plasma screen in a 70-inch studio apartment – the Principle Focus of the curved screen is behind the wall of your tiny wee apartment.

Then the disease of oniomania, also known as compulsive buying disorder (CBD). Then the disease of showing off and wanting to impress peers.

There is no clear substitute to saving in an economy that is as uncertain as ours. Saving should be a must when you have a windfall. The amount of money needed to break free from lurking poverty is not small.

You cannot borrow 100 percent of the funds needed to start a business – you need to kick-start the freaking enterprise and borrowing should be for expansion.

With his permission, we are serialising and publishing on our CPAR Uganda Ltd website and social media platforms these lessons for success that were first shared by Dr. Roy William Mayega, on Friday, 2^nd October 2020, on his Facebook wall. He accompanied them with the following explanatory introduction:

“I have been working with relatively young people (below 40 years of age) and in my interactions with them, I have found 10 skills that prevent many of them from becoming a beacon of professionalism. Skills not formally taught in school yet so vital. Skills that would transform a young professional into a ‘hot cake’ for inclusion in successful enterprises… As for those of us 40 years and above, I have no advice. Our kind is already irredeemably hardwired in our stupidities.”

Dr. William Roy Mayega, a Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, a the School of Public Health Makerere University Kampala

Here below are the links to the other lessons:

• Lesson for Success #01: Pay Attention to Detail
• Lesson for Success #02: Systems Thinking
• Lesson for Success #03: Reliability & Consistency
• Lesson for Success #04: Communication and Presentation
• Lesson for Success #05: Creativity
• Lesson for Success #06: Emotional Intelligence and Maturity
• Lesson for Success #07: Focused Drive
• Lesson for Success #08: Patience and Resilience