In the “A League of their own” movie, one actor named Tom (not sure of name), makes a shout out phrase; there’s no crying in baseball!” To me it sounds like; “there’s no crying in business.” Owning and running a business can be hard, and sometimes it’s so hard that it makes you want to cry, lament or somehow break off. The most frustrating parts of running a business is trying to build a customer base, them a team of high performing employees who can be relied on, and who will help you grow your business with enthusiasm and skill. Then comes issues of compliance (tax, legal structures, licencing, etc) and cashflow balancing. Always tough. These issues can be frustrating that you want to cry, or worse, to give up. I know, i’ve been there several times trying to scale up my three startups. Most of the time, you realise that the environment have got some few gaps to fill but as a person you have ran out of fuel , you feel you can’t push more. You have lost a mojo. That appeal and spark to push more on the terrain. One thing that I have stayed with, is understanding
4 Ways to Become a Master of Challenges
Life is uncertain. No one have got a clear road map of how it unfolds each day. We can bump into challenges any time. No one is immune. Relationships, work, family issues, sickness, business, name it all. Not forgetting this universal #Covid19 scourge lock down and scare that is affecting everything of how we live. We all face them at some time. You can choose to embrace each hard time and enjoy the ride, joyfully learning from your experiences along the way; or you can choose to rebel against all of life’s challenges, resenting every moment of your journey. The latter robs you of your energy while the former gives you the opportunity too become a highly evolved being that nothing can shake, something i referred to as the art of being Unfuckwithable in my book, THE CHAMPION’S MOJO Where as in general you may call this grit, but there are immutable beliefs, a mindset, something like a habit to practice deep inside of your core being. In my experience i have explored the following core beliefs to be outstanding. Believe that situations aren’t eternal Nothing lasts forever. Even the Biblical Noah’s flood had a deadline. There is an end
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Be a janitor that earns seven figures: Act and think like an entrepreneur
Unarguably, the janitor is the less paid person most times at work places but have you ever imagined how much is paid to the contractual company that employs them? So, How much is a janitor paid in Uganda? You may not be sure but the biggest they can get is 300,000 UGX , but the biggest number earn between 180,000 UGX to 230,000 UGX. Truth be told if a cleaner is working for a company, that company is paid over one million which it picks less than 300k and pay the real service deliverer (Cleaner). You will tell me that the company got other costs like taxes, rent and others, yes it’s true, but how much do they remain with? In this era, as a small nest entrepreneur you can operate on less with no rent or shared cheap space but only position yourself well on the internet and build systems of operations. As an entrepreneurial trainer and serial entrepreneur, I can tell that as a janitor or any other hand skilled person you can act as an entrepreneur. Now, we tend to see entrepreneurs as people who think in a pretty specific way forgetting that you can also
Men denied s3x in the morning are likely to be poor performers at work and in life
A year before my century-aged granny passed on, i sat with him to share about different ideas concerning humanity, I don’t recall well how we landed to this but we found ourselves into a conversation about sex in marriages and relationships today. He was a realist and great friend. “Unlike today where ladies are denying broke husbands sex and taking sex to be a sort of exchange after a certain work/pay, it was different in our days and it should be that way, Sex was given to the husband and taken important for some great reasons beyond just happiness, fun or relief”. He explained as i was all ears attentive. “First of all, sex should be valued due to the reason that it is practiced to realize who we are, after sex we get to reflect exactly on who we are when naked and cut open, Next this leads us to fulfill God’s direction, that is for production, secondly it should be a reward and respect to each other due to his brilliant choice of humbling each other among many other humans, it is an ant-stress medication to a man and an empowerment of success and a blessing, any man
“Honey! pass me the soup bowl” She said
Some years back when i was at the heights of revamping my career, I invited her for dinner and my intention was to make her aware & consult from her about my decision. Basically, i had made up an immutable choice of going into purposeful entrepreneurship, performance training, authorship and consultancy. I knew i was headed for hard times, so talking to her would mean i had a cheer voice behind, i thought, but i was wrong. I am talking of my girlfriend then. We had a dinner talk. Half way into my ambitious explanations, she looked at me with seemingly twisted lips and a tired-like look from the other side of the table and Said: “Honey , pass me the soup bowl, permit and favor me to enjoy my dinner please”. Precisely, she thought i was out of my mind , she had always encouraged me to get a day job as i keep my petty trade businesses as side hustles. To her i was daring the impossible. I thought she would believe in my dream but she didn’t, and a month later she called it quits as i couldn’t afford her wedding before my dream took off, she
Don’t be feeble on opportunities
Her Voice, soft and confident. Oily-like thighs beaming from her short African print dress and her glowing natural hair, Mariam recently connected with me at a conference. She looked ambitious and confident. We shared contacts and later engaged via whats-app late that night. We had a brief talk about startups and her desire to grow her ushering service company. I shared with her few tips and wished her well in seeking her first client to serve. “Let me know if you ever need an usher service for your trainings, seminars and events you associate with”. She ended with this request. That was normal of course. And get me well, i have nothing against normalcy, it’s how we have been conditioned, but it gives no gap to close a sale. Normalcy is that lukewarm spot of business making and job seeking. The phrase “Let me know if you ever…. (have a job, need this product, need this service, etc)” is the death of opportunity. It is a turn off somehow, unless you are telling it your pop and mom or cousin who are obliged to let you know. The phrase shifts the sales burden onto the buyer themselves (to start imagining
Whenever i speak at any seminar or gathering and share my experiences and thoughts on life, people often ask me about Love. Tough topic to me. I understand love beyond the conventional standards and sometimes it can bud many arguments. “Love is a fascinating, but also a delicate thing”. I always respond with that famous quote. It’s crazy and unimaginable what love can do to us. The experiences of being taken over, leaked and licked, purely naked and soul-open to someone is so adventurous. It’s crazier with the feeling that it gives you. That kind of cosmic related influence that keeps us restless. Some relationships fail immediately, while some start to fall apart slowly – and of course, the ones that last. I have had some fair taste of my own. But regardless of how the relationship ends, there’s one thing i know about all of it. They are all amazing. I value love and relationships based on experiences. Each love or relationship is amazing regardless the time it (will) last(ed). Each relationship you have had, shape you to be the person you are. Relationships are a mirror before us to see who we are and what we are capable
Meet the incredible entrepreneur; Denis Mukungu
Denis Mukungu is the co/founder and CEO Eastern TraveLouge: a tours and travel firm that offers unrivaled transformation through travel and tour experiences across Uganda. For any entrepreneur to succeed, there must be key attributes they possess and in this article, i precisely share attributes i have learnt in observing Denis’ work. Dedication This is what motivates the entrepreneur to work hard, 12 hours a day or more, even seven days a week, to get the endeavor off the ground. Denis shows an incredible art of dedication to his craft that you can never imagine. Determination This is the extreme strong desire to achieve success. It includes persistence and the ability to bounce back after rough times. It persuades the entrepreneur to make the 10th phone call, after nine yielded nothing. Of course we can’t assume things are always smooth for him, but the way he consistently puts his brand up is nothing but sheer determination. Passion Passion is what gets entrepreneurs started and keeps them there. It gives entrepreneurs the ability to convince others to believe in their vision and buy products. Denis, passion and his business sounds like a repetition. It’s just one word to him. It’s something
Friday Martin on Digitizing Communities
” Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray” – Rumi. Friday Martin aka Bwana Marshal is an accountant by profession and a farmer by default. Passionately he is a digital enthusiast, social media influencer and a philanthropist. This is not the most interesting part about Martin though. Martin is not just a digital enthusiast but an icon in creating digital solutions for communities. Conventionally a community is a gathering of people (most times sharing same language, values and beliefs), but in this digital era it is so easy to bring unlike-minded people from diverse corners of the world to have a platform that liken their minds and cause. Digital communities enable humanity from diverse locations to have a chance to improve their access to information, enhance their personal and professional growth and also help in creating networks of impact from wherever they are. Digital communities share a diversity of industry/society social, political and economic opinions, ideas, and knowledge that one would have never encountered in the analogue communities. We cannot talk about all this without having Martin as the feature face of such trends that are transforming
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