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To be a better Manager: Improve your Memory

As an effective manager, you have to be able to think through things, remember decisions you take with reasonable accuracy and clarity. Our brains get clogged with too many things and in this information age, we have an information overload. The phone calls, sms, twitter, facebook, email, television, home affairs, reports at work, meetings and of course social events like clubbing or even “nyimbe” in our Ugandan context. How do you maintain a clear mind and improve your memory. Here are a few things;

1.   Exercise

Exercise relaxes the body removing fatigue and all excesses in the body. When you exercise you;

·         Avoid obesity, your blood flows well through your brains

·         Improve your heart performance

·         Improve your recall faculties

How to exercise?

·         A brisk walk is a good start

·         Yoga is perfect

·         Don’t force, Rome was not built in one day

2.   Get enough sleep

7-8 hours are recommended. Minimum is 5 hours.

Take a nap during the day. While sleeping, the brain records recently acquired information well. The solution to stress is sleep. Body needs to rest.

3.   Eat well

You can never over eat fruits! Surprisingly a bit of fat is good for the brain, but eat healthy food especially dark green vegetables. Chicken and chips taste so good but should be a one off meal.

4.   Write it down

Record what you want to remember. It helps you remember. Have a small book with a to-do list of note things you discuss. This is powerful.

5.   Say it loud

If you want to remember something, say it loud. Don’t let people mistake you for a mad person speaking to yourself. Be tactful.

6.   Check out natural scenery

View of the lake, especially sunrise or sunset

Look at the mountain

7.   Teach others

Share what you know. When you tell others, a story forms in your brain. You remember it more.

8.   Listen to music

Create serenity. Serenity from music when played along with something you are putting to memory makes you to associate that matter to the music. It makes you improve your recall faculties.

Sinking into Poverty

The following story appeared sometime this month regarding a coffee disease ravaging different districts in Uganda. The article says that before 2002 Mukono district had 54,000 hectares of coffee and at the time of this article, half of that had died due to the coffee wilt disease. Remember that Uganda is an agricultural country that depends on coffee for jobs and incomes. Since at time, the population in these districts has increased and yet coffee production which has remained the economic activity is reducing. Can anybody suggest some solutions? What surprises me is that there is no response on this matter from the Coffee Development Authority.

Zanzibar The place to visit!

Zanzibar is the place to visit but the country has more to do. Despite its years of history, poverty is still a major problem. Enjoy the pictures.

Immigration officers should treat Africans with respect

John Bahana the Coordinator of the International community for Bakyankigezi wrote in the Monitor of August 6, 2013 about how him and his group were denied Canadian visas. Subsequently there was a string of responses on the Monitor Newspaper blog. Reading through these comments, you appreciate that people are not happy with these visa problems. The key challenge we have is poverty in Africa. It is not common that wealthy people want to associate with the poor. The message that is being sent to you as Africans is to devise means of improving your economies. It is wealth that binds west together to accept one another to move into their respective countries with little visa restrictions. If we do not plan to get out of poverty, this problem will live on forever. This challenge to our leadership, no amount of negotiations and protocols will solve the visa problem.

South Africa which has 40 million blacks and 5 million whites imposes visa restrictions on the rest of Africa. The reason is very simple. South Africa is more developed than the rest of Africa and they would not want to share their success and wealth with the rest of the poor Africans. Let us get up and work, improve our productivity, produce more and history will judge us.

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