OUR TALENTS VS THE FEAR OF FAILURE

FAILURE-we hide it, Deny it, Fear it, Ignore it and Hate it. Did u know that the man who never made a mistake never did anything. Very little comes out right the first time. Failure, repeated failures, are fingerprints on the road to achievement. Abraham Lincoln's life could demonstrate that the only time you don't fail is the last time you try something it works. we can "fail forward" towards success. My Great inspirer and Philosopher Abraham Lincoln -Biography of failure; Difficult childhood Less than one year of formal schooling Failed in business in 1831 Defeated for legislature , 32 Again Failed in business , 33 Elected to legislature, 34 Fiance Died , 35 Defeated for speaker, 38 Defeated for Elector, 40 Married, wife burden, 42 only one of his four sons lived past age 18 Defeated for congress, 43 Elected for congress, 48 Defeated for senate, 55 Defeated for vice -President, 56 Defeated for senate, 58 Elected President , 60. Accepting failure in the positive sense becomes effective when you believe that the right to fail is as important as the right to succeed. Ladies and Gentle i remember when i was at University in Makerere University Uganda, when i contested for Member of parliament (GRC) . This was when i was in my First year, being from a rural place (KANUNGU DISTRICT ) and with a few majority students at campus and with few serious strategic planning and massive campaigning made me lost this competitive elections two times until i came back for the third time and won nine other candidates. I remember two of my close friends, Emmanuel a.k.a cool and Jerome alias Jackchan , the Former was my close Friend having gone with him to the same Primary, Secondary, High School and University schools up to university, he contributed to my rise in leadership ladders right away from the position of Room Monitor while at Makobore High School, School Council Representative , Head prefect Premier High School, and here we are at Makerere University. When it came to Makerere Univesity , things changed out trend of winning changed, to me it was a huge surprise because all people seemed i was their favorite, however results could show different things. My royal strategic adviser Emmanuel called me for a private meeting; i saw in his eyes some disappointment and fear . He first sat and gathered the courage to honestly tell me that he was tired of loosing Elections despite his efforts . He only advised me to do one thing " to give up the election" and concentrate on other responsibilities that i had got just because my cultural leaders saw a lot of potential in me . In fact i took up two positions as a result of demonstrating my capability to serve people.i was elected as Speaker for BASAMU, Vice chairperson KIMUSA . "Always shoot for the moon if you miss, you will land among the stars" My close associate Jerome aka Jackchan who voted for me during the first election and joined my active Campaigning Team for the second Election as campaigning manager . After loosing the second election he gave up and contested with me for the same position now for the third time. My Campaigning manager now my opponent proposed that we briefly meet for a strategy meeting and here he told why cant you give up brother and join my Camp since we have lost two times. As if this is not enough he told me to join his camp and support him . Every time some one told me to give up " i got more courage and desire to pursue this election until i won this seat" in fact i got more motivated to stay in the fight than ever. Here time for open campaigns reach ,hahahah every one in my class was surprised to see lawrence still in the campaign, in fact people could not understand what am made of " here i made only statement that " winners don't Quit! and quitters never win" ladies and Gentle man i need your mandate to marshal your views in the Parliament and that's how i won Other nine contestants. I learn't many lessons from this " In life no one knows what exactly you want and no one knows your potential it's only you and your the master piece of your life, conclusively you can always get what you want in life so long as you are ready to pay the price to get it" when God Gives you a vision and confirms it, nothing can stop it. if he tells you to build, start, invest,or manufacture something, then it will bother you deep inside, you will become depressed until you do it . we have to take full responsibility of our lives & actions in our Countries, Continents and the world In General as well as respecting and tolerating other people's views. one love