Presentation on Helping the youth find their worth

1. By
Mutabazi Sam Stewart
Executive Director
Uganda Road Sector Support Initiative (URSSI)
Presented at Victoria University Kampala
17th June 2016

2. Introduction
 You can survive in the city because there are many
opportunities. The opportunities are however for the
prepared.
 To the unprepared the city can lead to grinding
poverty , possibly more agonizing than poverty
experienced in the village

3. Build a Brand
 Start building your brand early
 Decide what you want to do early in life – Personally I
wanted to be a teacher
 The earlier you settle the better for you and the more
likely you will make it in life
 Consistence is the rule in success

4. Stay focused
 Being focused helps you to achieve more with time
 There are several opportunities in the world. We don’t
know then because we don’t take time to think
 Question: How often do you “Think”
 Take time by yourself once in a while to think

5.  Set goals and targets and make sure you achieve them.
 Focus less on money and more on what you want to
contribute to your community and you will be
rewarded with money

6. Do things you love
 Do only the things you love – this makes work
enjoyable – I personally love good cities and that I am
doing work related to this
 Read appropriately and always to keep up to dat . Don’t
concentrate on Facebook and think you are reading

7. Form Groups
 Form groups and support each other. Success comes
faster in a grouping than it does through individual
efforts
 Keep your integrity and let people get to trust you
 Loom at problems as opportunities . if the world had
no problems we wouldn’t have work and the whole
place would be boring

8. Writing and Speaking
 Start training yourself in writing and speaking. The
more you practice the better you become. These are
the most important skills in a fast globalizing world. If
you have ideas that cannot be passed on to other
people, these ideas are as good as useless.

9.  We have very few writers (young people) Good writers
find it easy to market themselves. You cannot be a
good writer if you are a poor reader. The two go hand
in hand. Writing is a skill. Write so that those who
read will understand what you meant

10. Positive attitude
 Develop a positive attitude if you want to
win
 Physical exercise is a must to every young
person that is targeting to become an
achiever. An active body is an alert body but
also productive body. The reverse is true

11. Have steady sex
 Develop steady relationships early in life. Have sex
with one person at a time not multiple. This is if you
must. The more partners you have the more likely you
will be confused.
 Write down your plans and keep revising them in
order not to go off track. An idea on paper is better
than an idea in the head!

12.  Social media could easily eat all your time. By the time
you realize you have lost many years
 Don’t allow a problem to settle on you. Either you
solve it if you can or you move on
 Don’t concentrate on a problem you know is beyond
your means to solve. It drains your energy!

13. Prepare
 Never go to any formal meeting where you are going to
speak without prior preparation. It sells the wrong you.
 If you engage in many projects that keep on failing
may be its time to to pause rethink and restrategize.

14. Keep the Money
 When money seems to be coming your way don’t settle
and become complacent. Money can be made and lost
in an instant. It takes a skilful individual to make and
keep money!

15. THANK YOU