Uganda Youth Mentoring Program

27/08/2019

29/12/2017

*2018 Projection Plan*

*SELF DEVELOPMENT TIPS BY Dutch Funky Malam*

Believe in yourself first.

*1. Make friends with successful people and occasionally buy them gifts and surprise them with lunch because successful people always give and hardly get, so when you give them, they value the gift a lot.

*2. Get a mentor and follow his instructions and respect the relationship. Never beg your mentor for money or disrespect his or her privacy.

*3. Make new positive friends as often as possible and ensure you keep the communication line open. Create a network of friends and not just connections.

*5. Show kindness to everyone. Some small boys today will be big boys tomorrow. The biggest dog in the neighbourhood was once a puppy. Keep the information/secret to yourself.

*6. Always plan ahead and be proactive. He that plans the future works less in the future.

*7. Listen to speeches and messages from great teachers, both religious and educational.

*8. Attend seminars and trainings on any area you need to improve yourself - Train the trainer, personal development, public speaking, sales etc.

*9. Have the habit of keeping a pen and a writing pad handy because ideas come in the form of flashes. The smallest pen is bigger and better than the biggest brain.

*10. Make sure at every point in time you are reading a book. If you spend 20 minutes reading daily, for 52 weeks you would have consumed 1,000,000 words.

*11.Stay away from television as much as possible. You can watch educational channels. Men with big TV sit in front of them to watch men with big libraries.

*12 Put control over your mouth; never say evil of any man; what you are not certain of should not be said. Say good of all men.

*13. Always show appreciation for any good deed you received.

*14. Always help someone in need.

*15. Live a debt free life. What you can’t pay cash for is not your size.

*16. Give out loans that you can part with as gift, so that you don’t destroy your business and relationship.

*17. Create legitimate multiple sources of income.

*18. Save at least 10 percent of your income.

*19. Invest a portion of your income, and be patient to see it grow. If what you have in your hands is not good to be called a harvest then it’s a seed; sow it.

*20. Keep a good financial record of all income and expenses, so you won’t ask later “where did my money go”

*21. Be involved in community services, Control traffic, free lesson class for students etc.

*22. Keep getting better on your daily goals and dream, develop yourself on them and make sure you get to the top 10 % of your industry.

*23. Make sure you engage in physical exercise. It keeps your brain alert and your body fit to enjoy your success.

*24. Pray often, and know that for every success, God made it possible.

*Wishing you the very best in life. Practice what you just read, and see the difference your life would record.

Happy New year ..

29/06/2017

OPERATION: Supervise Your Businesses 24/7 On Your Smart Phone, Tablet, Laptop Or Desktop From Anywhere Anytime.

02/09/2016

What’s the price when you fail?

This week, Elon Musk watched as his latest attempt at landing his Space X Falcon 9 rocket went wrong, ice froze one of the legs and the entire rocket toppled over and exploded.

That’s another $60 million up in smoke. What was Elon’s reaction?

First, he tweeted “Well, at least the pieces were bigger this time!”

Then, he posted a video of the explosion on Instagram.

And finally, he posted yesterday “My best guess for 2016: ~ 70% landing success rate (so still a few more RUDs to go), then hopefully improving to ~90% in 2017.”

“RUD” stands for “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” which is another way of saying “it blew up”…

What can we learn from Elon happily blowing up his rockets?

Most people would see this as an expensive failure, but Elon is a master of learning by failing, and he expects to fail epically and often.

It doesn’t cost Elon to fail as he builds it into his business model. Each Falcon rocket is expected to be lost anyway if he wasn’t testing how to land them. This one had already done its job of delivering an ocean monitoring satellite in orbit, which had already paid for the rocket.

This year, there are another 10 to 20 falcon rockets scheduled for take-off, each already paid for by the companies and governments paying Elon to send their cargos to space. With revenue secure, he focuses his time on how to test new innovations (like landing the rockets back safely).

We’ve moved from the industrial age where product development and testing took place BEFORE delivery, to the technological age where product development and testing takes place DURING delivery.

How can you increase the testing you can do? When in front of customers? When serving your customers? When delivering an existing product to develop the next product?

In the old paradigm, it was easy to dismiss testing as being too costly.
In the new paradigm, it’s NOT testing that’s far more expensive.

When Elon finally works out how to return his rockets each time, he’ll be saving himself over a billion dollars of lost rockets each year - and he’ll be able to cost his trips to be far ahead of the competition.

You don’t need to be a billionaire like Elon to test like him.
But you do need to test like Elon to be a billionaire like him.

Failing isn’t where the price is. Failing is where the profit is.

“If things aren’t failing, you are not innovating enough.” ~ Elon Musk

01/09/2016

What does an English teacher know about math? Plenty, if your name is Jack Ma.

Today, Jack raised $4.5 billion (the largest private tech investment ever) for Ant Financial: A company he created in December 2014. The company has gone from zero to $60 billion in value in just 16 months.

Jack Ma has never taken no for an answer. In September, 2014, when he was not able to list his company, Alibaba, in Hong Kong, and with China banning any foreign ownership of its companies, Jack got around the rules by setting up a Cayman Island shell corporation which would receive a percentage of the profits of Alibaba.

He then listed the Cayman Island company on the New York Stock Exchange, raising $25 billion in the largest IPO in history - without giving any of the shares in his China company away.

Before the listing, he took the payment side of the business, Alipay, and moved it into a separate, private company that he controlled, called Ant Financial. As Alibaba has been making headlines over the last year, Ant Financial has been quietly growing as Jack’s second billion dollar business.

Ant Financial now reaches 450 million users (More than the population of the US and UK combined), and has given out 20 million loans to entrepreneurs in China. Alibaba receives 37.5% of the profits from Ant Financial, but does not own any of it. Jack has managed to spin the business off entirely from Alibaba, and then grow it alongside Alibaba while entirely under his personal control, from zero to $60 billion in value.

This has allowed him to pursue his vision of helping the small guys while raising the money he needs from the financial markets and without losing control or giving away any ownership.

Jack’s next step? The former English Teacher plans to list Ant Financial on the China stock market later this year, which is likely to double his current net worth of $22 billion.

While too many entrepreneurs get caught up in how much of their pie to give away, Jack understands that when you own the bakery, you can always make another pie.

How can you create partnerships and raise financing creatively, while keeping true to your vision? How can you organise your own resources smarter? Take a tip from Jack, and never take no for an answer.

“They called me ‘Crazy Jack’. I think crazy is good. We’re crazy, but we’re not stupid.” ~ Jack Ma

01/09/2016

Patience = To be willing to wait longer to achieve your goal

Perseverance = Patience with perspiration

Resilience = Perseverance through failure

Patience, perseverance and resilience are three different shades of the same quality.

Some people have one or two, but not all three. Some people can persevere, but are not patient. Some are patient, but not resilient. Strengthen all three and you have the key quality shared by all great entrepreneurs: Endurance.

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is the one who endures that the final victory comes.” ~ Buddha

10/08/2016

06/08/2016

Start small and start smart. Know whose problem you’re solving. The smaller you start, the more important things you can learn about your audience and your product, the more you give yourself a chance to grow fast!

06/08/2016

Wasswa Balunywa...

01/08/2016

People No Matter How Poor Or Desperate... Have The Power To Change There Own Lives With Or Without Government, NGOs or God's Help.

God Gave us the power to control this world and every one of us has this power with in us...

Despite centuries of continuous disappointment...We unfortunately often look up to our leaders, charity organisations or miracle pastors to do things that will change our lives...These people we are counting on depend on your success or challenges to change their own lives...!

Politicians are waiting for your successful businesses to pay taxes so they can earn huge salaries as MPs or Ministers, NGOs will use every challenge you face to secure donor funding for projects, And Miracle Pastors will count on your tithe or miracle offerings to God for blessings towards your success or solving of challenges...

So, don't wait for help...it's Not coming...start changing your life on your own now... I have seen poor women and youths in small groups of 20 - 30 raise millions to create small banks commonly referred to VSLAs to solve the challenges of financial access. I have seen dozens of these VSLA's collect Hundreds of millions of Shs in savings and turning them into billions of accumulated loans.

This is proof that every one no matter how poor, vulnerable or desperate...can change his or her life. Don't wait for any one to change your life...