12 | Nutrition Magazine October 20 1 5
Currently several colleges train
nutritionists with many graduates
with the conventional mindset of
being employed in a hospital or an
NGO, when they leave school the
reality of joblessness dawn on
them. Grab all opportunities as you
grow networks, friends, ability,
skills, interests and ambitions. Carry
your aspirations with you
cultivating values taught by your
family. Follow the law in your
venture remembering Consist ency,
Accuracy, Et hics and
Prof essional ism.
Doing your own stuff at your convenience- where
you want it, how you want it, and when you want it.
Amazing, you are free in deed but this comes with
discipline and responsibility. Your loyalty is to
yourself and to the clients.
The greatest resource is the human
resource not money.
3. You Set Your Own Goal s and Target s.
You can have money but without
brains you are not any different
from vegetable. You can have
brains to get money to start small.
Keep informed for financial
solutions in banks, chama, groups
and friends.
2. You Are Your Own Boss
Being your own boss is actually
amazing,
Actually from birth you have always
dictated the course of things unless
you allowed others to control them
for you. You passes decided
whether you are promoted to the
next class of told to repeat. Your
parents?role was to obey. I mean
negotiation as a life lesson. People
get their way through negotiations
and lobbying.
Your responsibility is to do your best t ensue you
succeed and at the same time the services must be
at its best to appeal to clients by providing your
best. In self business there are no two ways its
about the best of your ability and knowledge.
Systems allow you to make decisions which reflect
on your returns. Freedom is normally a gift to grow,
be felt, influence change and inspire following. It is
not a position of recklessness .
Timing is a factor in nutrition management even to
patients when indicating feeding time. Early to rise
and early to bed, do not keep your patients waiting
and keep appointments. A diary can assist in
planning in a small scale. System thinking provides
of driver processes, mainstream processes and
support processes. You may be the only one
executing all these from making decisions,
providing counseling and serving yourself tea
respectively. It however worth noting that you must
create time to develop a business plan setting out
clearly your goals, targets and strategy to overcome
the challenges you are facing now and in future.
This is so that as you get into the game, you already
know your way out. Draw flow charts to guide you
to understand your business, use schedule to
understand routine, come up with Standard
operating procedure for your business so that as
others come on board they perform the same thing
you could have done.