One of the things we struggle with as human beings is making peace with uncertainty. We want to be able to understand, plan and predict everything. We get a lot of comfort in certainty yet we cannot always control, successfully predict, prepare or plan everything. A huge part of life is in embracing the unknown.…
Naturally I am an optimist. If you came to me with an idea, whatever it is, I will have one answer for you – It’s a good idea and you have a good shot to make it work like anyone else. This is because I believe that under the sun, we all have equal opportunity…
As a child, nobody feared failure like I did. We were taught to fear failure subconsciously. From the time we started school, students laughed at you for not giving a correct answer or sometimes not knowing the answer. Actually more than just being laughed at, some teachers would cane students for not knowing the answer…
“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” ~Aristotle As long as you are breathing, you are going to be criticized in one way or another. Actually if you are not being criticized at all, you should be very worried. If even the dead are criticized, who are you? A colleague once told me…
My name is Onyait Odeke. I am a Ugandan documentary photographer and entrepreneur. I first met Shanley in 2011 via Twitter where we shared with each other what we do and why we did the things we do. A couple of tweets and Skype calls later, I bought into her vision about working with women…
Learn To Trust In God And In People People are people, they will always let you down yet ironically its very exhausting to live without trust. Two things; apply wisdom and discretion but most importantly trust God to bring the right people in your life. Sometimes the wrong people are the right people because they…
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My name is Tony Otoa Jr, and am an international lawyer. Not practicing of course since most of my work is in research and advocacy today. I am the Executive Director of Great Lakes Public Affairs, a new Advocacy organization in Kampala. This blog is about my passion, farming.…
