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Set Your Goals! Here We Go Again! Yes we know all that. Our coaches tell us to set our personal goals. We set the business strategy. We make New Years resolutions. Big deal! So why, despite the enormous effort we put into goal setting, are we just not hitting them. Because Goal Setting is The Easy Part We get excited about new possibilities, new plans, new opportunities. What a buzz! What an energy lift. And if we’re in a team, we begin to feel great about each other. But then what? We get busy, we put the plan away. Stuff comes up, priorities change. Excuses, excuses, excuses! The Key Reason You and Your Business Have Still Not Reached Your potential. Three words, that simple. Failure to execute-An unwillingness or inability to take action. Come on, you know you need to save, to invest; you just haven’t got around to it yet. You know you need to exercise every morning you just haven’t got around to it yet. So What Leads To This Failure? An inconsistent approach

Storipot homepage If you dont remember,  it started a few months ago. These dudes at dignited.com took the burden upon themselves to curate all Ugandan blogs. They asked us and we responded and  that time we tagged #UgBlogs in all our blog posts. I didn't know that it was going to be massive. What has swept me off the ground is the name. Thumbs up for whoever came up with it. It clearly depicts our heritage.  A pot  does all kinds of stuff.. from cooking to the obvious one- storage. Now storipot is a collection and storage of all Ugandan blogs. To be more precise,  consider it as a supermarket where you shop freely for all Ugandan stories  from technology,  business,  politics to lifestyle. After months and months of this pregnancy and enduring the unimaginable labour pains,  the baby has come out and on the 10th of December the baby was unveiled to the public at exactly 11:30pm For now,  you can forget about google or allafrica.com and embrace our very own new kid

Last night I was in a serious sausage mode and felt like this time I should prepare them on my own at home. I must admit that I have known only two methods of sausage preparations that is deep frying and roasting. But for some reasons I was not ready to go through that ordeal of sitting, watching and turning them until they are ready, so I opted to try out something that I have never seen anyone do before. its not rocket science and anyone can do it. below I share the six quick steps for preparing boiled sausages this festive season   Requirements:   ½ kg of sausages 1 tomato 1 onion Curry powder Cooking oil 500mls of water Salt and wheat flour 1.       Slice the tomato and onions into small pieces. 2.       Meanwhile, place the sauce pan on a cooker at around 60⁰c 3.       Add 2 or 3 tablespoons full of cooking oil in a saucepan leave it to burn until ready 4.       Carefully place in the onions and add tomatoes after 1 or 2 minutes an

Television networks are becoming increasingly competitive. However, these top 10 networks remain to be the biggest in terms of value. 10. CNN: $6.1 billion Founded by media tycoon Ted Turner , Cable News Network (CNN) has grown from being the first channel able to provide news coverage 24 hours a day, to having international news counterparts in key cities around the globe. CNN is the most widely distributed television news network, reaching viewers through the television and web as well as mobile streaming. CNN is also watched by more than 260 million viewers outside of the United States. CNN’s shows contain a variety of news programs, encompassing politics, world news, morning news, live interviews, medical news, documentaries, human interest stories, money, and foreign affairs. 9. ESPN2: $6.9 billion Viewed in 89 million homes across in the United States, ESPN2 is one of the most valuable sports television networks in the world. While it was originally created to

An Indonesian maid that was mistreated and battered in Hong Kong I have been greatly disturbed and saddened by the excruciating violence of the house helper towards the innocent child we witnessed in an unknown video that has gone viral on the internet. The kicking, slapping and her 50kgs over the helpless child are unbearable and the video was not for the faint hearted to watch. I must admit that I have also had a second opinion about publishing this article after seeing the chastisement people with divergent opinion have been subjected to especially to Nakyeyune Joweria     who is also an aspiring MP for Kawempe North come 2016. Some of my friends have come up and warned me fearing that am putting my life in danger. After a second thought I have decided to publish it hoping you’ll find it helpful before hiring your next maid. I have also thoroughly edited this article to make it politically correct. As usual Ugandans took on the social media to give their opinions about t

  By Adam Hayes. What do you do with your money when you're one of the world's wealthiest individuals? Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Slim Helú  is a self-made man, the son of Catholic Lebanese immigrants to Mexico. Today, he is the chairman and CEO of telecom giants Telmex and América Móvil . He has amassed a net worth upwards of $80 billion and often runs neck and neck with Bill Gates as the wealthiest man in the world.  Slim confesses to prefer "the simple life,” and his lifestyle may seem less extravagant than other billionaires. Still, Slim has been a savvy investor and businessman making sure that his fortune continues to grow. A man like Carlos Slim doesn't just keep billions of dollar bills stacked in a vault someplace. Here is where this billionaire stashes some of his money. Investments in corporations Slim holds stakes in many Mexican companies through his conglomerate,  Grupo Carso . (The name 'Carso' stands for Carl os Slim and So umay

Most of us are more likely to chose private over public  If you live along Jinja highway and you have been observant, am sure you have noticed that 8 of the 10 sirens belong to the ambulances. Surprisingly we have more “private or donated by” ambulances than the entire government has provided. These days its very common to find our hospitals and health centers occupying the best buildings yet lack basic requirements to treat minor infections hence giving referrals to private clinics and pharmaceutical shops which are adequately facilitated....Private is better.   Recently the government decided that this country should be filled with scientists therefore enforcing science subjects on every male and female that decided to enroll for the local curriculum. The amazing thing is that public or government schools lack the facilities to make sure that this directive is successful. As a matter of fact am yet to find a fully public school that embarrasses me with good performanc

I must admit that I was compelled to write this after reading an article on dignited.com about how Smart Telecom is the new Warid based on their unrivaled data packages. Every company or person that plans to enter into a new market has to come with a well executable strategy on how to identify potential clients and eventually woe them to use their product or service. The greatest battle that this country has ever witnessed was probably between these two giant multinational corporations of Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola. I would have detailed that more only that I was way too young to know how Coca cola a new entrant managed to take over the soft drink market. As the management at Pepsi was still puzzled, wondering how they lost their market share, another similar war was happening somewhere else. This time in the telecommunication sector (mobile to be specific). Before its entrance, MTN had realized that people need affordable handsets and cheap call rates. And that’s what they cap

I must say that I knew the existence of this great man right since 2009, I saw him a couple of times on TV though I never took time to listen to what he had to say until two years back when I decided to expose myself to his literature. This man had an extraordinary story of hope, courage and triumph, a story that has the capacity to bring lives out of despair. A matter of fact his story can light extinguished candles of hope in many lives. Like many of us, this hero began his life at a disadvantage. He was born poor, sleeping on the floor in rags in a 2 bedroom wooden house that his dad had built for the family of 11 children where he comes 6 th , in a lowest income end neighborhood of Benji- a village in the Islands of Bahamas. Dr. Myles was a very inquisitive child, asked more questions and because of his passion to know, he gained more knowledge than any of his siblings. He grew up struggling with self-worth battling the idea of being valuable and feeling important b