A journey of personal growth of an aspiring billionaire entrepreneur
Life in General
Dishonesty…the best policy?
Oct 14th
My wife is not all happy with me. Every married man knows, that thats not a good place to be. What’s the reason you ask? Dishonesty. Yes, you heard right, DISHONESTY. Ironically, not my dishonesty but another mans! Ok I guess this is begging to sound like “Secreto de Amor” – for those who don’t watch Ugandan television, that’s a terrible south american telenovela.
The man in question, is a carpenter.
A little background. Two and half months ago, I commissioned the said carpenter to make my then fiance’s and my dream bed. He said it would take 3weeks. I liked his work, his smooth professional demeanor and nice office setup. Without hesitation, I gave him 50% down payment. The deal was set.
3weeks later, and 2weeks to my wedding, no bed. I’m not worried. The worst he could take is another few days, just on time to have it delivered so my new wife can find it after the wedding. Yeah right! Up until the wedding day i was calling him. He continued to speak smoothly and assure me how the polish needs time to dry properly and so it would be ready for delivery Saturday, the day after my wedding! Did More >
Am I a "Real" Man?
Oct 13th
This is the question that has plagued me for a while now. What is a real man anyway? How do you spot one? Where can I find one to be a mentor? Questions, questions and more questions!
A couple of years back, I hit the age of 25 and had what I call, a Quater-Century crisis. I was going nuts because I couldn’t define who I was and what I was doing on God’s green earth. My dad had recently passed away and I was distraught because I realized I didn’t know the man. I didn’t know what he thought of me, or what he thought of himself. A son needs his father to tell him who he is or atleast who he can be.
I realised that for one thing, a Real Man doesn’t leave their children asking such questions. A real man is not defined by the size of his pecs or his bank account. Nor by the number of women he’s bedded or the size of his spinning rims. A real man isn’t even defined by conquering industry and becoming a billionaire or conquering a country and becoming a life president.
So what is a real man? I started asking lots More >
As Iron sharpens Iron…An Ode to a Rogue…Rennaissance Man
Oct 8th
I’m sitting at my desk totally flabergasted and stunned at the blessings The Master puts in our lives, usually innocously diguised in the unlikely package of a young friend. I have a friend, my dearest and best friend after my wife, an amazing young man who goes by the alias the rogueking. I’ve known him for close to 8years now.
We met unceremoniously at the very first internet cafe in Kampala years back when being a geek wasn’t as cool or profitable as it is is today. We were in a sense digital outcasts, but we didn’t care. We had passion, vision and loads of naivete. We became fast friends very quickly due to our shared interests in quantum physics, robotics, space/time, videogames, lord of the rings, the dark knight, ironman, superman, xmen and ofcourse, The Great One…Oh did i mention we really loved all things form & function related to computers? Yeah as you can tell we were and still are, thoroughbred geeks
He immediately took me up as his older brother and I saw the brotherly relationship i’d never had with my own brothers. We began to dream and soon, an urban legend was born. The first of its kind More >
The mystery of self motivation
Oct 7th
Ok, so I really didn’t want to write anything today which brings me to the topic of discussion today. How do we go about motivating ourselves to get things done? I mean especially those things we don’t want to do but are essential for our progress in life. I don’t know about you guys out there but my biggest motivation challenge is that of getting out of bed before 10am!
Yeah laugh if you will but seriously, you wake up and ask yourself, why do i have to get out of bed and work? Why do we need money to survive in this day and age? Why am i busy fulfilling someone elses dream and not even getting a pat on the back? These kinda questions plague many of us but the fear of loss atleast motivates us to get to work and earn our paycheck.
But my question is, how do we positively motivate ourselves to get outta bed and work passionately, to work on our relationships, to develop our talents and interests, to spend time meditating in the presence of God, to write an excellent blog? How do we live passionate motivated lives? I haven’t lived that in a very More >
Horizontal career change…is it a good thing?
Oct 6th
So i find myself in a very interesting position of having to make a career move but within my same workplace. For those of you who don’t know, I’m a New Media Director at a leading Ad agency here in Kampala. Actually i do believe i’m the only such person in the local ad industry. Basically i deal with all the new medias of communication such as web and animation. It’s what i’ve done for a long time and apparently i’m some sort of legendary pioneer, along with the rogueking.
Anyways, i was brought on because the powers that be felt new media was gonna be a cash cow for them. Well it kinda didn’t work out as planned. Probably because I wasn’t given the support i was promised. Anyhoo an outside consultant seems to have convinced the CEO that my position is irrelevant and I should be either used as something else or shipped out(and i thought he was my ally)
So my CD seems to think i’m still a very creative person so he proposes I move my job description to one of a Copywriter cause he thinks i’ve got the makings of greatness-ok i’m embellishing a little-point is, i More >
The proverbial bandwagon
Oct 6th
Darn it, i just couldn’t resist anymore. The Bloggin craze has long been burning like an insane wild fire fueled by a petrol vapor breeze. I tried my best to stay out of it but truth be told, i’ve dying to get into it just so i can rant and rave and wax philosophical and pretend to be really wise and experienced. Life can get downright complicated and stressful that you need an outlet and honestly, people, real people, wont give you the time of day to do so(ironically they’ll read your blog so i guess there’s some wierd kinda secret pleasure that we all get from reading about other peoples rants!)
So anyways, this is my blog. Who am I? Well I’m a recently married young African black male(the odds are really against me when you read that description?!) whose honestly seeking to become a much better human being and contribute to my wife, family and world in a powerful positive way. To do this, I have taken up an Apprenticeship to the greatest Man to have ever impacted the world, Yeshua a.k.a Emmanuel aka Christ aka Messiah aka GOD. Why Him? Well I love to read self help and More >
