Another Thing To Leave Behind

It's day 342 of documenting 2025.

23 days to 2026!

It's a Monday!

Happy New Week, my friend ☺️

It's always a new chance and a set of new opportunities.

But this evening, I got a new realization.

First, let me tell how today went.

Twas just like a normal day....taking transport to the usual Monday GS hall...and then stopping by a shop to get this or that. This time around, it was beads I searched for.

You know I told you about my coronation on Saturday, right?

Well, the debts have been settled and I finally have my full set of beads.

I got them this evening, as well as my own drinking cup.

Now, I can take tea with biscuits or hot chocolate when I want to 😄

Anyways, the class we were supposed to have by 12pm was cancelled.

That gave me time to get to the hostel and rest before going back to the market later in the evening.

I was also able to buy one of my textbooks that my dad sent money for. I finally know where the bookshop is located!

I'll get the second textbook tomorrow.

And then as proof, I'll send the pictures of the books, so he sees what he sent money for.

Asides that, my day went well.

I thank God for a successful Monday...and the fact that I was able to realize something important.

Before I share what it is....let me share another thing before diverting to highlights.

I got to class today and met the guy that paid for my sign up into the traditional rep engagement.

I told him how the coronation went and then he concluded that I was complaining.

I admit, to a small extent...I was 😐

Then I told him that he would teach me my native language.

He was cool with it...and even mentioned something that made him "angry": the fact that some people in this Igbo environment still don't know how to speak Igbo.

He's fluent, I'll give him that..

That's why he's going to teach me.

Let's see how it goes 😌

365 Days With Self-discipline

📌 On Doing the Best You Can With What You Have

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. 

Success is a personal standards...reaching for the highest that is in us; becoming all that we can be.

If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."

Quote by Zig Ziglar

One of the best ways to destroy your resolve is to associate success with results alone. 

If you fail to generate any results for a long time (as is often the case when working on difficult, long-term goals), the belief that you’re only doing well if you’re getting immediate results will discourage you from continuing.

The proper approach is to espouse the belief that success means doing the best you can with what you have. 

Regardless of the outcome, as long as you’re doing your best, you’re keeping yourself to the highest standard and that’s what matters the most. 

The results might come today, tomorrow, six months from now, or even a decade later.

Obviously, it’s not like you’re pursuing your goals for the sake of pursuing them; you want to get something for your efforts.

However, it will be hard to make your dreams come true if you only obsess about the end result and forget to focus on the current process. 

After all, ultimately it’s the journey itself that will shape you to become the person deserving the goal you’re after.

A successful businessman isn’t successful because he runs a successful business. 

He’s successful because he stuck to his business, despite difficulties, failures, and the seemingly hopeless situations in which he found himself. 

He wouldn’t have built a successful business if he had only defined himself by the results (which are rarely anything to brag about anyway, at least in the first several years of running a business).

A successful athlete isn’t successful because she has received a medal.

She’s successful because she’s been training harder than her competitors and kept going despite pain, exhaustion, and discomfort.

She would have failed to become a successful athlete if she had obsessed solely about the prizes, and not on the act of bettering her performance.

Embrace success as holding yourself to a high personal standard and focus on the process of consistently becoming better. 

As long as you do your best with

what you have, the results will show up eventually.

Focus...that's the key 🔑

And on the process of becoming better, it's all about intention.

If you're not serious about getting better in any aspect of life, you won't commit to it.

That's my take on this topic 😌

Now, for the realization....

You know when you go ahead with a particular idea...with all good intentions, but then God shows you that it may lead to a dead end?

That's what I'm talking about.

This time, it's my content writing job that God is pointing to.

He wants me to give it up.

How I know?

Because He confirmed it twice.

First, with a thought that was so heavy in my mind that I had to write down...the fact that the job is costing me a lot of time I can use for study or spending time with God.

Then second, a talk from one of the sisters from the fellowship that I attend.

She repeated the exact same thing, and even gave reference to her own skill...how she gave up some gigs!

All in obedience to God.

That's no coincidence, if you ask me.

The Bible says, "In the mouth of two or three, let the matter be established".

I won't let God say it the third time.

Before this year ends, I'll talk to my boss...and it's not going to be a good conversation.

Why I say so?

Because I had already promised to work with him for six months.

This month will just make it two months since I started working.

I'll just be brutally honest this time.

And I'll make sure to get a good replacement.

Besides, I can always recommend writers to him....people I know that I've trained and are proficient.

I believe that things will fall into place, by God's grace 😌

Tomorrow is another day, and I'm grateful for how today went.

That would be all for today's documentation

Thanks for reading 🎀

Day by day, this year is slipping by.

Very soon, I'll stop posting here on this blog...but the stories will live on.

See you in the next post 💜