By Taurai Shoko Old as I am, I have already laid down plans for post-grad studies. (I will get my 1st degree at 50!). Our youth still have the advantage of age. I hope they will make it earlier than I did. When faced with challenges do not panic. Stop, take a deep break. Break down your problem into its smallest components. Look around for options and weigh them – impartially. Reassemble the components again in the way you want things to go. Like most of us, I will always be a student of the school of hard knocks. As a Zimbabwean and a parent, I would not want our youth to walk through the tortuous route I did. We have lost a lot of our people that way.
My objective in joining this platform is to try and help our future leaders gain life skills earlier. So that I can leave knowing I changed the destiny of our motherland. No one has all the answers, or is right every time. I think the truth is a shade within a spectrum. If your shade is different from mine it does not make me wrong. The best way to learn is to research. Find reliable sources of information and cross-check what you have heard from someone. Then come up with your own unique ‘home-grown’ solution. It is easier to do things your own way, than someone else’s. This is only fair because you are not using the other person’s mind to think your way out.
Let us bounce our ideas off each other. Having others as a sounding bond helps us not plunge into regrettable and yet avoidable situations due to ego and arrogance. There is something you know, that I don’t. As we chit-chat we teach each other to be accommodative and better-performing Zimbabweans. That will make our enterprises the most-preferred business destinations. The result will be a better national economy and better life for us all. Let’s all remember that advice is like reading a book. You will not like everything in it. But if you have a discerning ear, you can learn even from those passages you hate the most.
How? Turn each challenge/obstacle into an opportunity.
Those who earn millions and billions know how to turn darkest spots into a picture as beautiful as the Northern Lights.
My next article will be ‘Know your market’ stay tuned
Taurai Shoko's line of business is PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT. He permanently stays in Zimbabwe, but is operating a business in Botswana. His objective is to deliver better all-round by learning through helping others become better entrepreneurs. He is a YESZIM contributor.He is on LinkedIn
