Talent is discovery. Like running through a virgin forest and chancing upon an unusual creature, artefact or phenomenon.
Many years ago, minerals such as gold and iron were found very close to the earth’s surface. Sometimes , when it rained heavily, certain ores were exposed and people collected them like stones.
But years of mining has made many minerals rare, requiring heavy machinery that can penetrate deep into the earth to find them.
Years ago, high school graduates were hotcakes for employment. Today, some PhD holders are sitting at home unemployed. The kind of efforts that turned a person into a superstar yesterday have become obsolete. The world is becoming more and more sophisticated. Advancements in technology that were supposed to bring comfort and luxury to humanity come with their own challenges. Those who remain after every wind of change are those who bend, leveraging on the impending storm to soar higher.
In the face of change we can do nothing about, in the face of drifting time that shifts everything in its path, we can only hold onto factors, habits, pillars that have remained constant over centuries : discipline, integrity, hardwork, constant learning, and an optimistic attitude to life.
I am not where I wish to be in my writing career journey, but I am proud of my progress over time. It is this progress I intend tracking, with particular emphasis on the motivations behind certain posts, the lessons learnt so far and how I can improve. And I see plenty of room for improvement.
When I first started blogging, it wasn’t long that I realized my strengths were in writing motivational pieces, although I loved writing poems and flash fiction too. With time, I came to the conclusion that with constant practice and determination, I could become a skilled poet and a great novelist.
My motivational pieces are written more like a note to self, with the hope that someone else will chance on the message and draw inspiration from it to carry on.
In today’s series, I reflect on a post I wrote during a moment in my life that it dawned on me how being a people-pleaser was eating into my joy, my peace, my progress, my well-being.
The post is titled “Learn to disappoint people” and the link is below:
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