After completing module one of understanding poverty in rural Uganda with CPAR Uganda, I was able to practically apply the skills that I attained (tracking daily expense at home ), which I taught my younger sister as well. “WE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY UNNECESSARILY,” was her comment after several weeks of implementation. With that, … Continue reading Financial Literacy is key for ending poverty
Optimistically Planning Post COVID-19 Recovery
Yesterday, Monday, 23rd November 2020, Owomugisha texted me through Facebook Messenger. “Because of knowing you I am a happy owner of 70 turkeys, which I would not have bought without your connection. I even have ducks clucking away. Last week I harvested 5 acres of Hibiscus. All this I did during the COVID-19 period. I … Continue reading Optimistically Planning Post COVID-19 Recovery
Lesson for Success #10: Reverence and Decency
Honour your father and mother; look after your parents. “And today, mum turns 64! Cheers to the woman whose love, grace, compassion, sobriety and kindness knows no boundaries. Ours is a story resilience, hard work, honesty, sacrifice and modesty; a story too long to be shared in a single post. Wishing you 36 more years … Continue reading Lesson for Success #10: Reverence and Decency
Lesson for Success #09: Financial intelligence
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 … Continue reading Lesson for Success #09: Financial intelligence
Lesson for Success #08: Patience and Resilience
Rome was not built in one day, stupid! You cannot seek to create a real estate empire in two years. Corruption, pilferage, scheming – the ‘get rich attitude un-anchored 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 - … Continue reading Lesson for Success #08: Patience and Resilience
Lesson for Success #07: Focused Drive
The competency of focusing on a goal and harnessing your energy in order to meet that goal – a balance between the components of: Focus - The ability to identify an important goal or vision and to channel efforts at specific targets that support that goal or vision.Drive - The ability to persevere, sacrifice (when … Continue reading Lesson for Success #07: Focused Drive
Lesson for Success #06: Emotional Intelligence and Maturity
The Basoga have a saying that if a person has bigger genitals than yours, do not go sulking that ‘it is a hydrocele’. Emotional intelligence is the competency of understanding and mastering your own emotions and recognizing the emotions of others in a way that instils: ConfidenceMotivatesInspires Picture credit: Norah Owaraga Emotional intelligence is also … Continue reading Lesson for Success #06: Emotional Intelligence and Maturity
Lesson for Success #05: Creativity
During our wedding 10 years ago, a mysterious agent gave us a little but very uniquely designed tea pot. It’s the present we keep talking about. The very sight of it made us take more and more tea. Such creativity - the competency of conceiving and selecting innovative strategies and ideas for your organization – … Continue reading Lesson for Success #05: Creativity
Lesson for Success #04: Communication and Presentation
During one of the stiffest student contexts at MIT, a young innovator from Makerere made such a passionate pitch that the entire room turned to see what was going on. He presented like there was no tomorrow. He won the small innovation prize! Similarly, during one of the interviews I participated in some months back, … Continue reading Lesson for Success #04: Communication and Presentation
Lesson for Success #03: Reliability & Consistency
The GE9X family of turbines that fly a Boeing 777 run for 16 hours at core temperatures of 1,300 centigrade (higher than the melting point of each of the elements that make the core) but it never relents. From Rio-de-Janeiro to Amsterdam. The following day it goes to Melbourne and it does the same exact … Continue reading Lesson for Success #03: Reliability & Consistency
