HOW TO ACHIEVE THE BEST RESULTS AT WORK

This week, I have two success tips for you. One is, learn to talk about yourself, your talents, your skills, ideas and products – everywhere. If people selling products as useless as Red Pepper can market up to our homes, why not us? Let some (failure-minded) people call it blowing my own trumpet, but success minded people know it’s called marketing. In any case, if I you don't blow it, who will blow it for you?

The second tip is on having an action plan (if you’ve come for our trainings, you know how to make one). A daily action plan will help you prioritize your activities of the day and not waste a lot of time on less important ones. It will help you value your time more and for sure you will be able to maximize the hours in a day without unnecessary confusion and stress.

These are some of the principles that successful people allover the world have applied in their work. But there is a lot more. I am sure you wish to know how you can use less time and energy to produce more results. Maybe you leave home wanting to do ten things but on checking the clock at 5pm you discover you have not even finished two. You need to improve your performance.

For sure, I will not go further. I will let a more qualified man, PK (Peter Kimboa), give you all the answers to the questions you have about performance. He will be the main speaker at the Authors’ Forum, the inspirational event which will take place on Wednesday 5th October, 5-8pm at the National Theatre (Auditorium).

There will be other great guests, including the Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Rebecca Kadaga, Fagil Mandy, and others. We shall also launch a book by the great African American author, Romell Booker-White. And, lol, she will be giving free refreshments to whoever buys a copy of her book! There will also be great entertainment from a famous African live band – Joy Africa.

Entrance is only 15,000/=. However, this week (25th to 30th Sept) we’ve been running a promotion whereby one ticket is being sold at 12,000/=, three at 30,000/=, and five tickets at 40,000/=. We encourage you to get your ticket in time because there will be no selling of tickets at the entrance. To secure your ticket or to get more details about the event, come to World of Inspiration office (Luwum Street, MM Plaza T33) or call 0414691595 / 0704666851 / 0718406080 / 0774107287. We deliver your ticket wherever you are.

Always aspire to get inspired and to inspire others before you retire and expire!

Shalom!

ROBERT BAKE TUMUHAISE
World of Inspiration
Making Exellence your Habit!

THE DATE THAT LEFT ME BREATHLESS

I am rarely out in the evening. Normally, I am either still in my office doing some work or at home enjoying quality time with my wife (please read on, stop imagining). But Last Wednesday, I couldn’t help. This date was irresistible. 10, 9, 8, 7… went the countdown of the hours I had to get to my date. My heart was thumbing in my chest so hard that you could almost hear it at a distance of a kilometer.

Fast-forward, it was 4pm. Clad in a princely black suit I left for the venue to be there in time. My mother taught me: “My son, never think opportunities will wait for you; always be in the right place and wait for them”. So by 5pm, I was seated in the auditorium of the National Theatre. Ready for my date. A multi-talented young man, Joseph Byamukama, was strumming his guitar so sweetly as if filling all the potholes of my heart.

In a flash, Denis Okwir presented the words of wisdom from World of Inspiration. Catchy among what he said was: “A wise person never knows everything. It's only a fool who knows everything”. And then "When you give up what you want, what you don't want takes over!" This was quoted from one the writings of one of the members of the Authors’ Forum, Japeth (find more of his inspirational works on www.ckjapeth.com).

The curtains opened and our eyes were treated to “Semitego”, a play that left everyone amazed at how creative people can be. That was the work of the great playwright Dr. Mercy Mirembe Ntangare, who later featured in our Celeb Interview. She said every morning she dedicates 30 minutes writing down her conceived before she goes to lecture and then she reserves 1 hour alone, after work, to continue developing those ideas.

Then came in our second Celeb Interview, Guest, Romell Booker-White an African American author whose area of specialization is protecting ourselves from radiation from the sun. She slammed the culture of shaving off all hair from the heads of our children, exposing them to the sun. Michael, a Commissioner in the Ministry of Lands, who is in charge of the Meteorogical Department, later confirmed this when he said: “We live along the equator and this is being worsened by weather changes so we can have maximum damage, especially on the brain. This partly explains why there’s declining performance of students in school as well in innovativeness”. Romell’s book on this subject will be launched during the next Authors’ Forum.

“BLACK means Beautiful Ladies of Africa living in the City of Kampala”! This was a line I picked from the poetry piece that Gilbert and Slim MC performed. They were hitting at black women who bleach their skin. This poem confirmed the message that Romell had just given. Black is very beautiful. “There are whites who would pay any amount to get a black skin. Black means we have more melanin, which gives us more protection against the dangerous effects of sun rays”, she had remarked.

Meanwhile, in between, there was lots of rib-cracking humor from the emcee of the day, Bob. One of the jokes he made was that when he was growing up in the village they were so poor that even the poorest in the village called them poor. Lol! This light moment ushered in to the fantamsticaglofabulous (don’t ask me what it means; I am just trying to imagine a word that could explain this man’s talk) presentation by the main speaker, Isaac Maloba who undressed fear and kicked it out of our lives like John Rambo in ‘First Blood’ or Jack Bauer in ‘24’.

“The best way to overcome fear is doing what you fear most because if you do not start doing it you will never know whether what you are afraid of is real. You may be afraid of public speaking because of what people may say. Do it and see what they say. You may be surprised by the opposite. Fear is a mental attitude; there’s nothing physical about it”. Well, if you missed, don’t blame me; space can’t allow me to narrate all he said. Order yourself a DVD and get everything that took place at the forum. We also have all the past 20-plus episodes of the forum on DVD. Each copy costs only 15,000/=. We deliver them wherever you are.

Let me also remind you that this week and the next we have various on-going evening training programs in Writing Skills, Project Planning, Customer Care and Communication. Each takes only 3 hours and you are done. For subscribed members it is totally free. The rest pay 50,000/=. To attend any visit World of Inspiration Office (Luwum Street - MM Plaza T33) or call 0414691595 / 0704666851 / 0712868424 NOW.

I would also wish to remind you that the next episode of the AUTHORS’ FORUM is slated for 5th Oct 2011, 5pm, at the National Theatre. We shall be bringing you PK (Peter Kimbugwe) who happens to be one of the best of his kind in Africa. Remember this week you can buy a ticket at half price (7,500/=), or three at 20,000/=. The discount will go on diminishing till the last week when it comes back to the normal 15,000/=. For tickets or subscription, contact us through the address already indicated above.

I will not end this without congratulating two Authors’ Forum members who released brandy-new books – Julius Ruhweza and Bright Ntakky. I will be telling you more about their amazing books. In the meantime I want to notify you that the Authors’ Forum now has 3 radio stations and 2 TV stations that officially partner with us. So they will be contacting some of you to go there as talk-show guests and share your views with the public, plus promote your talent, business or products. Isn’t this amazing? Can’t get a better way to end this.

ROBERT BAKE TUMUHAISE

World of Inspiration

Making Excellence your Habit!