ATTITUDE & CREATING WEALTH By Robert Bake Tumuhaise When it comes to earning, saving and growing money, many people think of factors such as hard work, assets, investment, e.t.c, but forget attitude. Well, in my thinking, attitude controls almost everything we do; it determines whether we do it well or poorly. If your attitude is wrong, you will most probably not succeed at anything. What’s your attitude towards manual work? Some people have failed to succeed because they underestimate certain kinds of work that require physical energy. You want to grow wealthy, don’t fear sweat. What’s your attitude towards the wealth? Some people think money is evil and so they don’t put in enough efforts to attract it. Others consider it too good that they almost worship it as a god. For some people, every rich person they see around is either corrupt or a thief, a killer or a devil-worshipper. If you have such a faulty attitude, you cannot be motivated enough to work hard and get rich. What’s your attitude towards saving? Are you willing to make sacrifices and postpone gratification so as to save and invest for the future? There are people who foolishly break their financial muscle by shopping from expensive places and spend all they have other than be seen buying cheap items. What’s your attitude towards learning? Some people believe they completed education the moment they stepped out of school. How mistaken they are! Many of such people have had their potential locked by their deliberate refusal to open their minds to new ideas. Wealth results from ideas and so if our minds cannot generate new ideas, we should forget about becoming wealthy. The same old recycled traditional ideas can no longer work in the 21st century. What’s your attitude towards people? People are part of the units of the chain that links us to our destiny, not a ladder to step on as we climb towards our destiny. A chain is something you can hold onto while a ladder is something you step on. If you’ve been stepping on people’s egos in the process of making money, think twice. You might not enjoy your wealth when you have people around cursing instead of celebrating with you. What’s your attitude towards challenges? Many people will always look for someone else to blame for their problems instead of taking responsibility to deal with them. Well, my seven years in business have helped me discover that business is about solving problems. If you can solve a problem that society has, you have a reason to charge money. In simple terms, challenges are a business opportunity. If you develop a problem-solving attitude, then you have a sure source of money because you will not only solve your own problems, but the problems of others as well. Allow me introduce to you two people who have seriously impacted Africa by discovering how to solve problems and are now on their way to becoming billionaires. We shall have an opportunity to listen to them at the coming AUTHORS’ FORUM – THE GATHERING OF 400 SUCCESS MINDS, dabbed ‘LEADING FROM YOUR STRENGTHS’, which will be happening in Kampala, on Wednesday 6th November, from 5:30pm to 8:30pm, at the National Theatre. On that day, the first guest is IAN ORTEGA, a 21-year old enterpreneur who has broken records and is shaking the East African markets using his E-marketing skills. He is the brain behind BigEye.ug, Uganda’s most visited website. He is an author of 2 e-books ‘GROWING YOURSELF TO MONEY, TIME AND, FREEDOM’ and ‘THE VIRGIN OF ONLINE BUSINESS’, and his ‘Ortega Group of Companies’ now co-owns BigEye Group, the Joashian Group and the Frian Group. In a live Celeb Interview moderated by SIMON KASYATE, Ortega will challenge us to identify one area where we are good and use it to solve other people’s problems and it becomes a business. Entrepreneurship is that point where passion and profit intersect…I get paid for being me,” remarks Ortega. There will be many more exciting and inspiring activities before the event climaxes with an electrifying presentation from ANTHONY GITONGA, a celebrating Kenyan business consultant, certified leadership coach and bestselling author, of books like ‘MADE FOR GREATNESS’, ‘FOUR LEVELS OF LEARNING’ and ‘PATHWAY TO PURPOSE’ (NB: All his 5 books will be on sale at a discount on that day). Anthony’s research indicates that many Africans spend much time trying to fix weaknesses, forgetting all about their strengths, yet nobody has ever reached greatness by only fixing their weaknesses, but rather by tapping into their strengths. His presentation will give us the key to unlock our strengths and begin leading in our various areas of competence. This event is open to the public as long as one has secured an entry ticket, which goes for 20,000 UGX only. We have limited space, only 400 seats, and more than ¾ have already been booked. So if you want to be part of this historical event, call us on 0700487768 / 0774107287 / 0414691595 and your ticket will be delivered to you NOW at no extra cost. Alternatively, you can come and buy your ticket at WORLD OF INSPIRATION (Luwum Street, MM Plaza T33); we are always open from 9am to 9pm, Monday to Saturday. Don’t forget to forward this invitation to all the people you care about because this might be their long-awaited turning point for which you will take credit. So colleagues, let’s meet there and get inspired. Making Excellence my Habit!
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