USE YOUR TIME WISELY

Being a youth is a blessing. A blessing many seem to misunderstand. You ought to enjoy your youthful. However, many mistake enjoying their youth for destroying their future. It is common sight these days. Youth throwing their youthfulness away in the name of "Enjoying being young".

So how are we supposed to enjoy our youth? A simple line I always says to myself sums it all up. "Stay awake now, and sleep later". I know some of you may get jumpy thinking I mean stay awake all night drinking your youth away, and sleep the whole weekend. Unfortunately, that is not what I mean. It more about understanding that you have the energy, brains and time now, than you will have in the next 10 years.

It is best to stay awake now, working towards building your future, so when you get old you get to sleep in peace. Work hard while you are still your own dependent or have few dependents, as a time will come where they will be others crying. If you do not prepare now, you will never sleep when you get old. But if you prepare now, they will not bother you when they arrive. Many of us just want joy and fun, and we want it now. We think we will stay young forever. But we don't stay young forever; neither do we live forever.

Being a youth means you have time to make the foundation that your future self will be cemented on. Sometimes it will feel like it's not worth it, as you work so hard and see little results. But very often, this teaches us lesson and gives us experiences which will come in handy in the future. Use the time you have now to learn as much as you can. Instead of going out each weekend, have time indoors wherein you read and watch videos and new, relating to your career or business.

The truth is, if you work hard now, you will have enough reason and time to celebrate in the future. But if you try to celebrate the minuscule achievement now, you will have nothing to celebrate in the future. You may as well be celebrating your future downfall and lack. Prioritise what is important and put in effort and time.

WITH LOVE...
Mbuelo Ramafamba

RESTRAINT OF TRADE

A company that retains its employees by limiting their ability to move to other companies, through unreasonably tight 'non-competes' or 'restraint of trade' contracts, does itself more damage. Most likely a worker will be unhappy, and thus work inefficiently. Furthermore, such employee will discourage anyone trying to work there. Word of mouth travels fast. If the employee ever finds a way of escaping, they will cause more damage on social media and the internet as a whole, through honest reviews of their experience. 

Some companies go as far as using these agreements as a way to pay their employees less competitive salaries. By limiting the employee's chance of leaving to a better company within a financial viable geographical location, the employee has no choice but to stay within the employment of such a company that enforces such agreement. They realise that if they want to work for another company/organisation within their field, they would have to relocate.

 Restraints of trade are fair and understandable in term of protecting company IP, but when they are used to trap employees and pay them less, they become a double edged sword which hurts both employee and employer. These employees who feel trapped become cancers which destroy the company from within.

Giving employees freedom in the workplace also frees their minds to come up with new ideas. Happy employees have no reason to leave a company. Sometimes they will be so loyal that they stay with a company even if another is promising them a little bit more in terms of pay, because they are happy and satisfied where they are. Strive for employee satisfaction.