Rome was not built in one day. You cannot seek to create a real estate empire in two years. Corruption, pilferage, scheming – the ‘get rich attitude’ unanchored by real talent is a disease that is getting more genetically perverse among our youth.

One cataclysmic event should not decimate your resolve to thrive – when you fall, even if you do so a dozen times, pick your ass up, learn and move on. Do not tie onto relationships or projects or visions that have terminally failed.

This “Lesson for success #08: Patience and Resilience” is republished with permission from the original author:

“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.”

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

Links to Dr. Mayega’s other nine lessons:

• #01: Pay Attention to Detail
• #02: Systems Thinking
• #03: Reliability & Consistency
• #04: Communication and Presentation
• #05: Creativity
• #06: Emotional Intelligence and Maturity
• #07: Focused Drive
• #09: Financial Intelligence
• #10: Reverence and Decency

“Building healthy communities” is the overall objective of CPAR Uganda. Our mission is “to engage in educational and scientific activities to stimulate the development, dissemination and widespread application of technologies suitable and adaptable to the social, cultural and economic conditions of developing countries.”