Fight It

I so much love it when I go out and I meet beautiful, respectable, money- making personalities and I get so carried away listening to their explicit accent and watching their glorious steps. I immediately whisper to myself that is going to be me. 

But the truth is, behind the big smile and fame, there have been sleepless nights, all- day labours and even most times, deprivation. That is something I found so hard to realize. My mum never stops singing to us that this life, every success comes with labour. Even a thief has to sit and plan well if not he won't succeed. It use to sound funny but on a later run have come to realize that it's true.

A lot of people know I write, but sometimes it's not just about the pen, most of the time I faulter. When I pick up the pen to write and I suddenly lost inspiration, fine then I decide to just read but yet again no interest. The lazy me starts thinking of the pain in sitting to write or read, looking for the right words or right places to fix them when maybe I would have been sleeping or probably watching movies or any other thing fun. Sometimes to make it worse I start wondering how effective my writings have been so far, how many people have accessed and even learnt from it and before you know it, the whole thing becomes boring and stressful, the next thing, I'm fed. I decide to take a break for a day, day turns into days, then weeks and can go on like that.

One day I said to myself, "girl, this is temptation, serious one and if you don't get up and act, forget it". So I made up my mind and decided to fight this force. Going through through it with as much vigour as I could gather. I picked up my pain and words book, prayed really hard for inspiration and the right words before I started. Hoping and praying that along the way, there all fit in perfectly.

As it started flowing, I smiled in satisfaction and suddenly realized that even I could be a barrier to myself because if I didn't make the move, I would still be lying down contemplating. That means you could also be a barrier to yourself.

I am 100% sure that there are many more people out there who go through this same challenge, not necessarily in writing though and one of the reasons majority of people give up on their dreams easily is- Barriers. Your barrier can be in any form. People, things, beliefs, even Yourself. When you start hearing things like, " I don't have time again", " I lost interest for it", " it's not easy oo", know that failure is coming your way soon. My dears, I don't think any successful person has ever had time because off course they are always busy so, they create it. I'm also certain that they could imagine how wonderful it was to be rich and successful so they never lost interest looking at the stress involved. And whenever we conclude with "it's not easy oo" do we remember that nothing good ever comes easy? Even the Bible recommends that a man has to toil before eating.

So how about we put it this way, imagine that you have made it in acheiving all your dreams, how does it feel? All the praises, congratulations, exposures, people wishing to be like you and all that... Good obviously, now that's what I'm talking about. When I'm pursuing something, there is and will always be a benefit at the end. I can't be stressing myself for nothing. So what I do is place those benefits before me as an encouragement because I know there are points when I would get tired and feel like giving up, actually those times will always come but I will then remember the nice looking person I once saw with the good personality and the inner me screaming " Josephine, you're heading somewhere. Stop being lazy and procrastinating!!" And boom!, Immediately I'm up and working again because that is really what I'm supposed to do- Work! That is what's going to take me where I'm heading to- Work!! And I know I'm not and don't want to be lazy, so I Woork!!!

I broke the barriers, and I know any other person even you, can do it too. 

Be determined, know what you want, build your destination, know your gains and believe, believe totally in yourself. Don't mind the stress, the pains and deprivations and you can and will make it.

Keep trying and never forget to take your prayers along.

" For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of Power and love and Self-control. ( 1 Timothy 1:7).