When I was 16, I wrote many action plans in my diary. I remember telling my friends I will become a billionaire by age 30.
Did it happen??
No. It didn't. But now in my mid 30's I have come to learn and understand pretty well that things don't always turn out the way you plan.
And like me, I know you have written a lot of plans too that if all things go as planned this year, you will want to execute them and push yourself to be successful too.
Thanks to the dreadful COVID-19 virus, everything in the world today has almost come to a standstill. And it's looking like your dreams and goals have hit the rocks too. But this is what I want to tell you; don't give up!!!!!
Yes, you, don't you dare give up.
Trouble times don't last always and so will your problems.
I may not be close to achieving my billionaire dreams yet. But I tell you, I will achieve that mark and spread my infectious hook to catch as many people as I can with it so they can grow too.
When Thomas Edison, the great and famous American Industrialist was asked how he invented the light bulb??
He told this to the journalists who were gathered around him, " I found a 1000 and 1 ways to make another light bulb." Then he smiled at them and went back inside his factory.
The story of Thomas Edison and how he invented the light bulb was something interesting. He had burnt his factory many times when he began experimenting with his invention. Friends and family had told him to give up many times but he didn't listen. He just kept on doing and redoing, doing and redoing again and again a 1000 times until he tried again for the last time and got it right finally.
Today with the help of a switch, you can turn a light bulb on to have light in your room to be able to see in the dark.
If this inventor never gave up and made it through to see his dream alive, so can you.
So henceforth, if you should turn the lights on in your room, remember one thing, the inventor, Thomas Edison never gave up on his dreams. And that's why the light is shinning so bright in your room.
This life is full of twist and turns, today you are up, tomorrow you are down and vice versa. If adversity and trouble should fall on you, don't drown yourself in self pity and wallow in unecessary sadness, let life keep throwing you its best and hard punches. If it realises you are still standing after many bruises and injuries with a big try me smile on your face, it will finally leave you alone.
Why??? Because it was only testing you to see your resolve and toughness for what you asking for in advance.
COVID-19, Corona virus has got nothing on you. So do not be scared. Decide and remain firm and resolute that although this year started badly but no matter how long it's going to last, I'm not going to end my dreams. As long as I live, I will achieve this dream. Say this to yourself in defiance to adversity.
Like in my proverbial local Twi language about the porcupine, "if you kill a 1000 of us today, a 1000 shall emerge tomorrow and fight you again and again until there is victory.
So be like the porcupine or like the defiant and stubborn Mexican boxers who never give up fighting in the ring after many bloody bruses and cuts, don't give up too.
Life again is a journey of twist and turns. Don't expect it to be fair to you. Because it will not.
But if you have got a defiant spirit like that of the Mexican boxers and the porcupine, you will have your dreams coming through for you just at the right time.
I have come to appreciate this life in many ways than necessary. These lessons have given me wisdom and a template to reinvent myself if need be. I hope it does the same for you.
And this is probably why I will never stop writing to you to encourage you.
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