Attitude_Know That Change Begin With You

KNOW THAT CHANGE BEGIN WITH YOU...

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"Be the change you wish to see in your world“

-Mahatma Gandhi

By Henry Kazula,

Author: Mtazamo Wako Ni Upi?

                                                                   

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Our planet Earth is going through an era of unprecedented changes with extreme events not limited to drought, increased temperature, flood, biodiversity loss, increased storm damage, melting of glaciers and sea level causing submerging of small Islands due to climate change linked to global warming. Whereby, natural events and human activities being considered to be a focal cause. Without underestimating extreme poverty and eruption of deadly diseases around the world; the countries at the South of Sahara desert facing more impacts of climate change.

Apart from what is happening to our planet Earth, it’s very unfortunately that the world is “full up” of mankind who want to see and accept positive changes knock their doors; hardly any who want to change positively to change the world i.e. none of them who aspire to drive positive change aspired to be seen by every mankind in the society.

When there is a call of action for many people to change their attitude and be part of positive change in the society- in making the world a better place, they escape in another door of negativity…very contrary to what Mahtma Gandhi in his life-changing saying of all time of “Be the change you wish to see in your world.“

Currently, the situation is worsened as for the world is “very hungry” of talented people with genuine desire to dedicate time to change themselves first and advocating positive change in the society while making the world more better place to live.

Sadly to see the good number of very reluctant people who claps and wait for the positive change to come on their ways while there are very few people who are heavily sweating for the positive change to come to the world including the majority.

I can’t guess the category you belong, otherwise keep it up to maintain your good will to change yourself and realized your purpose of worthy living to change the world around you.

Following my intensive research on the willingness of people in the community to change themselves first to change the world, I’ve found the need to encourage many people through this piece of inspiration to change and fall into this category of "positive change makers" to make our world more better.

You might eagerly want to know exactly on the way you can change yourself from a relaxing situation preferred to as a comfort zone to a "positive change maker"; the techniques are very easy to adopt; firstly, if you want to change yourself, change personal environment i.e. friends, TV-media & Radio, books, newspaper you’re interacting with. Then, starting living a life with purpose-a worthy-life living for the other.

Secondly, be open to re-learn from your personal experiences while clearing negative doubts on your way to address the problems around you. Remove “im” from “impossible”, take a new look to every problem as..."is very possible" by testing number of possibilities. This will assist to restructure your personal philosophy towards life.

Also, be ready to adopt another philosophy of life-“Ubuntu”-an ancient African word meaning “humanity to others” or "human kindness" as translated by Nguni Bantu of South Africa. It also means, “I am what I am because of who we all are” or “I am because of you”. This is inline with believing that your success for attaining your dream depends on other people around you as Taylor Swift, a Grammy award winner 2016 once said in receiving speech; “But if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you’re going, you will look around and you will know it was you and the people who love you who put you there, and that will be the greatest feeling in the world.”

Remember, people around us can contribute to our success by criticizing our path and there are those who hold up our hand when we lose hope and support. Learn to embrace the contribution from the two positively, stop complaining, keep learning to change yourself everyday, start now to act with energy for the sake of making our planet Earth a more better to live while alleviating the pain of those in need around you.

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Attitude_Live a Frugal Life

LIVE A FRUGAL LIFE

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"Frugal people; they husband their resources very carefully indeed, and only spend money on things which are absolutely essential.“

-Julius Kambarage Nyerere, Freedom and Unity.

By Henry Kazula,

Author: Mtazamo Wako Ni Upi?

                                                                   

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In one of his memorable speech of all time on the first anniversary of the Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar on 26 April 1965, borrowed from his book “Freedom and Unity”-“Uhuru na Umoja”, J.K.Nyerere alluded to a lesson from China whereby Chinese live a “frugal life”- "they husband their resources very carefully indeed, and only spend money on things which are absolutely essential“...he said.

"Chinese spend resources wisely while saving for National economic development, they are frugal people.“ Nyerere insisted.

It’s a right attitude Nyerere encouraged the government and Tanzanian at large to adopt to attain National development.

I applaud the attitude of living a "frugal life“ as can help you in personal life and our Nation at large to live well with available resources while taking into account spending money on essential things.This’s all about living within a limit of what we have while saving for tomorrow to attain sustainable development.

Stay alerted! spending a lot in nonessential things will make you sell essential things in your life. You will sell for loss the mostly precious resources you have to counter the imbalance.In some cases, this modality of spending is wasteful of resources and inefficient! 

Saving first before spending and spending less in nonessential things is a simple principle of spending wisely. As most economic practitioners argued on spending resources wisely, controlling expenditures and encourage saving first to boost the economic development and creating wealth.I tempted to encourage you to find more bout this principle and wealth creation i.e. living below our means while controlling our expenditures from a book of all time "The Richest Man In Babylon by George S. Clason.

The kind of attitude we have on spending beyond the limit of what we have i.e.spending in nonessential things so that to live as rich do stagnate our development.We need to change that attitude and live our life within the capacity of what we have.It's about attitude adjustments the same to baby steps, later becomes a habit that will change our life.

If our Nation is poor, we cannot deny that! but, we need to accept the situation and start acting accordingly, not as the rich do to alleviate our poverty."We cannot hope to solve our problems by pretending they do not exist.“... said Nyerere during his "Presidential’s Inaugural Address“-10th December 1962  as noted in his book "Freedom and Unity" –"Uhuru and Umoja.“ Evidently, poverty in our Nation and individual life is a problem that we cannot pretend on its existence.

We need to change our attitude, adopt and start living a frugal life for the sake of extending an extra mile in economic development while saving money, and have more fun in life.

You may ask, how can I start living such unprecedented life never used to live? Please follow the easy 11 Tips for Frugal Living.

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Attitude_SDGs with Social Entrepreneurship

Tanzania has to embrace Social Entrepreneurship to Score UN 17 SDGs by 2016-2030

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By Henry Kazula,

Author: Mtazamo Wako Ni Upi?

                                                                   

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By Henry Kazula,

Founder &CEO Jielimishe Kwanza

Managing Director: SEE –Tanzania

Youngpreneur: WeMotion Network

17 SDSs 2030 from 8 MDGs, historical perspective

The well-known eight (8) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which have significantly influenced development policies and strategies of many low-income nations since year 2000, came to an end in December 2015. The 8 MDGs were; 1) eradicate extreme hunger and poverty, 2) achieve universal primary education, 3) promote gender equality and empower women, 4) reduce child mortality, 5) improve maternal health, 6) combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases, 7) Ensure Environmental Sustainability, and 8) Develop a Global Partnership for Development.

In recognition to this, since 2012, the United Nations has been spearheading the process of developing a successor Global Development Agenda which will be pursued for another 15 years from 2015 to 2030.

The UN in collaboration with an “Open Working Group” of the member of 70 countries have undertaken a broad consultations and negotiations and come up with a proposal of new 17 goals namely Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The new proposed goals are called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) meant to replace the outgoing 8 Millennium Development Goals. The 8 MDGs has 18 targets whereas the 17 SDGs have 169 targets.

The process of taking these new goals started with the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20). Many global conversations were taken place by the difference forums of the world in difference places.

Ultimately, in 25th to 27th September 2015, the UN Sustainable Development summit, the UN General Assembly adopted this new set of development goals namely Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030. SDGs 2030 include 17 goals with 169 targets will be started under the theme of “Transforming the World” from January 2016.

One of the major purposes of 17 SDG goals is to eliminate the world poverty while protecting the world from environmental degradation. Most of the goals are related to the poverty eradication, for example, ending poverty (Goal 1), ending hunger (Goal 2) and ensuring full employment (Goal 8). These 3 goals are directly based on the poverty reduction. Goal 6(clean water and sanitation), Goal 11(Sustainable cities and communities), Goal 13(Climate Action), Goal 14(Life below water) and Goal 15(Life on land) are based on environmental concern. Other goals are also related more or less to the poverty eradication and well-being.

Scoring MDGs and way forward to SDGs 2030 in Developing countries

In most of the developing countries, Tanzania in particular tried to attain the MDGs that have been closed in December 2015. It’s very sad to say that the MDGs have not achieved to the maximum as expected due to limited fund as the country rely on donor funding. Due to political reasons relating to self-interests than public interest, lack of accountability and mistrust in spending of the fund; the good number of donors decided to pull-up.

Referring a Closing Session of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals in New York City-September 27, 2015, President Obama emphasized to caution “fish” beneficiaries that; “It’s about making people self- sufficient but teaching them how to fish.”

We cannot underestimate the demand of attaining the newly established goals with the same formula used in 8 MDGs-2015. As to concur with Albert Einstein when once said; “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” In this situation, it will not be an over statement to say that the implementation process is going to be unrealistic and unsustainable using the same techniques over and over again. Currently, there are 17 SDGs with 169 targets, which require more investment capital to score than before.

If the situation is so, the “social entrepreneurship” (i.e. the idea of applying entrepreneurship principles and skills to do business or initiative to address social problems for a social mission, not for individual gain as the central point of economic entrepreneurs)- is a model that Tanzania can embrace in implementing and achieve 17 SDGs; sporadic embracing on aid or donor funding cannot be our response.

The mostly critical question to respond; Is “social entrepreneurship” really being recognized as critical vehicles for delivering our common goals-social mission? To answer this question, ‘Yes’, across the globe over the past decade we have seen a significant shift in the awareness of the power, contribution and potential of social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship concept and awareness, if well utilized and disseminated to the grassroots can assist to have quadruple impacts in attaining social missions rather than individual gain for social changes while transforming the world.

Attaining “sustainable development” in Tanzania through securing social and environmental challenges with inclusion of business principles and innovation has not been fully addressed i.e. few typical examples of social and environmental enterprises with quadruple impacts in the society have been identified; such as Wonders workshop in Dar es salaam- (disabled men use waste materials to create hip recycled art for sell), Arusha Women Entrepreneurs Ltd- (provides employment and training opportunities for low-income disadvantaged women from deprived communities), Diana Women Empowerment Organisation (DIWEO)- (set up handcraft projects for women living with AIDS/HIV and a 10 acre farm where they produce their own vegetables to sustain children and women.) Shanga Shangaa Ltd -a successful socially conscious for-profit enterprise based at Arusha Coffee Lodge in Arusha, Tanzania, which employs people with disabilities to create unique, high quality, handmade jewellery, glassware and home ware using recycled materials. 

Jonathan Wong of DfID in Milan, as to appreciate the impact of social entrepreneurship stated; “We need to support social entrepreneurs wherever they are if we are to meet the Sustainable Development Goals”. Therefore, in this endeavor, youth can play an important role as social entrepreneurs.

Thinking and appreciating the quadruple impacts and importance of social entrepreneurship to implement the SDGs 2030 in Tanzania, Social and Environmental Entrepreneurship in Tanzania (SEE-Tanzania) under the umbrella of Jielimishe Kwanza Co.Ltd has organized customized seminar(5hrs-8hours) and short Training courses(Duration: 1-5days) on Sustainable, Social and Environmental Entrepreneurship with a focus of establishing Green/Sustainable businesses for Sustainable development.

It is hoped that these seminars and Short training courses will sensitize the audience, development workers and young and aspiring social and environmental entrepreneurs to run sustainable business successfully with passion to achieve the common world goals as a changemakers in the community while contributing to SDGs.

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