On Building An Ark
Happy Sunday my friend ☺️
Cheers to the new week!
I wish you a wonderful week ahead...full of good news.
Good news on my part...my new ebook is live on my Selar store.
It's a compilation of reasons for the average John Doe to start writing.
Opportunities, benefits and steps on how to start...
It's called, 99 Reasons To Write Online.
I don't want to talk much about it here...
You can check it out.
How did yesterday go?
Pretty well, if you ask me.
I created a content calendar for the week ahead.
No more thinking of what to post for the next two weeks...I guess.
I also did some research on my course of choice and the university I chose.
Turns out, the Nigerian landscape is growing for psychologists and there are numerous employment opportunities.
It's also not a rare course...contrary to what some of my superiors are saying.
And I'm just typing this morning...
Didn't schedule today's post.
I wanted to do so last night, but I was already tired.
I even set an alarm to wake up early...but I didn't even hear it in my sleep.
It's all good tho...
You still get to read today's post.
To be honest, I actually didn't know what to write last night.
I don't think I do now...
But let's do highlights first, maybe I can think of something later on.
365 Days With Self-discipline
📌 On Building An Ark
"It took Noah 20 years to build an ark. And people said he was being silly
because the skies were beautiful.
And of course, the
whole time, he looked stupid — until it started raining. You can spend a long time building an ark
while everybody else is out there enjoying the sun.
Quote by Peter Bevelin
"Your efforts to improve will draw criticism or ridicule from people who
don’t care about self-improvement.
It’s possible you’ll spend a long time doing
things without a reward and start wondering whether your goal makes sense."
"During the process you might face doubts and even feel tempted to give up.
However, five or ten years from now, the ones who were wasting time will get
the short end of the stick when they realize that they wasted their time on
ultimately meaningless pleasures.
Now they’re in debt, worried about how to
pay their bills, and doubting that they’ll ever have a successful career, while
you’re enjoying the fruits of your labor."
"Whenever you’re in doubt, remind yourself that you’re building an ark and
that rain will come.
Maybe now you aren’t enjoying yourself as much as others
are, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s better to be prepared and suffer a little
now to prosper in the future than live in sweet denial and one day realize it’s too late".
Building...
Trying to achieve a dream so large that people ridicule you for even thinking about it in the first place.
But you know what you see that they don't.
So, you keep going 😌
Before typing this post, I listened to a podcast where an actress called Lucy Hale was talking about her experiences with Lewis Howes.
I think the latter owns the show called, "School Of Greatness".
That was what I was listening to.
They discussed about spirituality and Lucy's struggle with herself and addictions.
As well as relationships and the most important aspect of choosing yourself.
And....I really can't remember the rest of what they talked about.
There were some things I learned from their discussion...
Things like,
✍️ The only way to fully come into your light is to embrace your darkness...not run from it.
✍️ Trying to be a better person than you were yesterday is the way to truly live.
✍️ You won't truly understand what people may be going through until you go through some things yourself.
I just thought about them now...
My attention wasn't fully on the podcast; as I was also chopping carrots at the same time.
It just this moment of typing I used to think about what I listened then.
Well, for me...the most important lesson I learned is that your story matters.
Whatever you may be facing now...is not the end.
You'll get through it.
Lucy said something that just came to mind now...
She said and I quote, "The only way out is through".
What that means is, you just have to go through that difficulty or fear to truly overcome it.
For example, you may be scared of heights.
(I know I'm terrified 😨)
The only way for that fear to truly go away is when you do something daring from a high place.
With safety precautions of course...
Like, sky diving or....
Well, you know all those height-related activities, right?
I don't know much about them.
You know what?
I don't think I'm too terrified of heights..
I just think I am.
If I don't think I'm scared, I won't be.
It's all in the mind 🧠
What I was trying to say in essence, (before I digressed 😏) is that your story matters.
What you have overcome and the lessons you have learned can be an inspiration to someone out there.
Someone who is willing to hear what you have to say.
You just have to come out and share it with the world.
That's all for my podcast lessons.
It's a new week and I hope it goes well for all of us.
I'm still at home...no job prospects for now.
I'll keep on with my online exploration.
I registered for another certification course.
It's from Hubspot Academy...like the last course I did on content marketing.
This one is on inbound sales.
I'm going to start the first lesson today and take down my own notes this time.
Last time, I didn't.
The goal is to keep learning.
As much as I can...and implement.
I may not have money...but I have time to invest.
Invest in learning what will later pay me.
It's the plan for this week.
Yes....I almost forgot.
The idea I had that I wanted to start this week.
Blast From The Past.
A section where I share one of my early posts on this blog...
And also drop the link to it here so you can see what it was like when I started.
Okay...let me stop writing and go read that post.
The very first post.
Next time, I'll come prepared...
Probably set a timer to read it and get the link before the time I start typing.
(5 minutes later...)
I'm back!
And I read the first post.
It's not day 1 of documenting 2025.
It's a post I wrote on December 31st.
Presenting...
Drum roll please... 🥁
Blast From The Past
This was the very first post.
One thing about me is that when I want to start a project on Monday...I usually end up doing do on Sunday.
Just to get that momentum.
In this one, I summarized all that happened in 2024.
And the fact that I was scared of the goal to write 365 days in a row.
I smiled as I read the post.
I'm still the same old adventurous girl as I was then.
Some things never change...
Read the full post here.
We go again tomorrow!
Now it's Highlights and Blast From The Past.
At least, I won't feel like I don't know what to write...for a while.
I can learn something about staying on the path of self-discipline and look back on how I've grown.
A nice match, if you ask me 😄
This is where I draw the curtains.
(Duon, I don't see any curtains!)
You know what I mean...
I wish you a wonderful week ahead, my friend.
I hope it's filled with love and positive energy.
Thanks for reading 🎀
For showing up today...and for always being there.
I'm still on the journey...which has been perfectly imperfect.
To catch up on posts from last week, visit Documenting 2025.
I'm Duon Ada.
I'm documenting 2025.
And I'll see you tomorrow.
Ciao 💕
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