By Robert Bake Tumuhaise
I am not amused that
after achieving all my new year resolutions for five consecutive years, this
time round I’ve not yet achieved most of what I set out to do this year and yet
I am left with just this one month. I am sure there are many people out there
like me, who did their best but the results were not that encouraging. Well,
there’s one thing we can do this December that could turn our 2015 into a year
of wondrous results.
My message today is going
to be based on that one thing I am doing this December; it could change your life
forever. And that’s getting feedback. Everyone knows that December is the month
when we have the festive season where we have enough time to reflect on the
whole year, evaluate our achievements and failures and lay better strategies
for the next year. With this secret I am revealing, this time round, we can do
it in style.
There is a group I send a
short inspirational message once a week. To ensure my message goes to only
those who value it, I always delete from the mailing list anyone who spends a
month without responding. However, I always get shocked to see people
complaining and blaming me for removing them from the mailing list. Question
is: “Am I an angel or a witch to know that you liked my message without you
giving me feedback to let me know how the message touched you?”
If you want to succeed,
learn to give and receive feedback. Your customer who keeps telling you which
products were or were not good is giving you feedback. It could be your wife
who keeps complimenting you when you are smart and rebuking you when you are
shabby. This month I am taking feedback seriously so I can discover what made
me fail to achieve some of my goals and what I can do to reverse the trend.
Ever sent a business
proposal to someone who kept you waiting for weeks and weeks without saying
“Yes” or “No”? There are people you write emails to and they respond by sending
you forwards, most of which are irrelevant to your needs. They don’t seem to
know that their email accounts have the ‘Compose’ function!
What of people you call
and he says he is in the middle of something and promises to call u back and
you wait forever? I must admit that there are times when I am under too much
pressure that I fail to call back, but generally I always try to call back,
except for perennial beepers (who never have anything serious to say after all).
Feedback is crucial even
in the arena of love. Marriages have been ruined just because one spouse
doesn’t respond to missed calls or the woman keeps telling the man “I love you”
and the man just responds “Okay”! Eeeeeeh! And for the singles, imagine
proposing to a lady and you wait for the feedback for a day, a week, a month,
five months! You find yourself dying in installments.
Well, I want to introduce
to you this man who often gives me powerful feedback that has changed my life.
He is someone who was once a watchman and a waiter, but who courageously raised
himself into an academic giant (with six degrees to his name), a globally celebrated
poverty alleviation consultant and a real estate businessman. I am talking
about Prof. Augustus Nuwagaba, who once graced the Authors’ Forum last
December. This Wednesday 3rd December, exactly a year later, he will
be returning to witness the launch of WI-Magazine, WORLD OF INSPIRATION’S
pioneer inspirational magazine which has his journey as its cover story. That will be during the Authors’ Forum Grand
Finale, which will kick off at 5:30pm, at the National Theatre.
Themed ‘START YOUR YEAR
IN STYLE’, we have a line of inspiring figures that we’ve been keeping for this
moment to inspire you to do this December what will make 2015 a special year
for you. The guests will include a lady testifying on how she overcame a nasty
debt, a doctor who has propelled herself to international glory by building a
powerful farming business using very little resources, a fashion genius who
will design a dress
in 4 minutes—live on stage, and other four surprise guests.
Call Bake on
0704666851 / 0712868424 and secure your entry ticket to this magogomus event at
Shs 40,000. However, today (1st Dec) we have a juicy
offer: 1. Whoever pays subscription today will have a 50,000/= discount. 2.
Whoever buys a ticket will pay 35,000/= instead of 40,000/. 3. One who buys 4
tickets will get them at 100,000/= instead of 160,000/=.
Stay blessed and inspired!
