YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO CREATE

“Growth can be many things, except magic. Your greatness will manifest in time.”

Are you frustrated because of the slow pace at which your life moves? It’s almost as if you are still riding on a 1995 Wagon when others are moving on fast lanes on Ferraris. You feel you barely record any significant progress or achievement, and if you do, it’s always at a time when the world no longer celebrates such victories. Such a loser!

I felt the same way too, after my “Bathroom Encounter.”

Now I recommend you pause here and check out that story, if you haven’t, yet. It would throw more light on this story and help you understand why I felt so. Even, perhaps, why you feel this way.

Before I go on, let me say this, “it’s okay to feel concerned, maybe a bit “positive frustration” about how much of an impact your life is making.” Let’s continue.

Now, it was game over trying to live life like other people, I was determined to discover and fulfil purpose. I was running against the clock, I thought. So speed was all I needed.

You can understand why I was in a hurry. I just discovered that I was made for greatness, and all along I’ve been wasting much time, trying to duplicate other people’s lives, when I had something original.

In these moments, I learned a few things that I am happy to share with you. You can call them tips or guides on how to birth your greatness. But, whichever you call them, lessons you will learn, will help you understand what’s happening to you, or give you a clearer picture of what you experienced some time past.

1. Be patient with yourself. We become inpatient when we don’t get the desired results from our lives. I know this too well. Remember I told you it was game over trying to convince myself that I could find happiness, if I remake other people’s life. Maybe I won’t be as happy as they seem, but enough to get rid of my misery. Yeah, it’s misery to try to live a life you’re not framed for.

I eventually figured out what I wanted to do with my life, that was the start of happiness, my own happiness. The joy of creating your own happiness can be compared to none. But this feeling faded soon enough, when things refused to move as I had imagined. I had pictured a life that became “happy ever after”, after discovering purpose.

I became frustrated with the idea that what I had discovered wasn’t enough to get me to my “milk land.” We become blinded by the things we pursue, that we don’t see the miles that we have covered to get them. You’ve made progress in your journey to becoming “YOU”, be patient with yourself.

2. Appreciate your learning experience. I figured out that to become this person I was creating, I would have to keep exploring and learning. This is because I haven’t figured it all out. Of course I was working with a blueprint, but even blueprints don’t give all the specifics.

Students don’t appreciate lesson period, until when they have to write an exam about it. This is how interesting life is. Remember I told you how we sometimes look for fulfilment in the “tomorrow” when it can be created in the “now”, well, your everyday experiences is one way to create memories that will give you that true sense of happiness.

You don’t have to be there yet, before you appreciate your journey. You may not be running on the fast lane, but you’re moving all the same, so learn to appreciate the little steps that get you there. Don’t throw away learning opportunities.

3. Allow your ideas to develop. Because we are not patient with ourselves, we set out to do something great, using ideas that are not yet fully developed in our minds.

In my moments after my “Bathroom Encounter”, I surprisingly began to have these amazing ideas about how to create “ME.” But most didn’t yield any significant results because I was in a hurry to try them out. I remember I wrote on several other platforms, and several topics before I finally got it right.

At some point, your problem won’t be that you don’t know what to do, it would be that you don’t know how to do it. The “how”, in most cases are the last instructions we will receive, and most times we set out without this final instruction, only to meet frustration in the end.

You’re able to read this story because I finally allowed the idea to develop. I knew getting the story to you would require more than an ability to write. I waited this time.

Creating your greatness would demand more than purpose discovery or knowing who or what you want to be. The ideas that would make birth your greatness are those that were allowed to develop. Be sure about it.

4. Launch out after you have understood the tempest.

Finally, it’s the start of something wonderful for you, you are excited about this right? Yeah, I was too. I remember how much happiness I felt when I wrote my first piece, truly, it was a moment for me. I was finally creating my greatness.

Please know that you’ll meet with some challenges as you journey along this path that leads to “YOU.” Some are peculiar to the path, while some will require your spontaneous response. Find out what you must know about the path you have chosen, and you’ll be fine as you travel.

Growth can be many things, except magic. Your greatness will manifest in time.” So keep exploring and creating. You have the ability.

I have so much to tell you in this story, but I’m scared you’ll become bored by too many stories 😅😅

I’ll tell the rest of it in my next post

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