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When planning your time, don’t just stop at planning your business. Plan to manage your health, your energy, your time, your relationships, your self care, your mental space, your emotional health, your spirituality and your essence.
Life is worth more than the pursuit of money and wealth. To live a successful life, you must achieve success in all areas of your life.
Remember you cannot pour from an empty cup. You must retreat into solitude every now and then, to refill and replenish.
It’s okay to be a hero and still need a hero.
It’s okay to listen to other people’s problems and still talk to someone about your own problems.
It’s okay to give help and still ask for help.
It’s okay to turn down anything that will not serve you well or drain you.
It’s okay to cut of people from your life who bring negative energy and drain the life out of you.
It’s okay to be selfish about who you let into your headspace.
It’s okay to want the best for yourself, and to have your joy full and your happiness replenished.
It’s okay to admit you don’t know it all, or that you can’t help someone or you don’t have enough.
You owe it to yourself, to be all you can be, do all you can do, and still say NO to certain things that are not in line with your vision. Protect your essence at all cost.
It is not worth slipping into depression because of other people’s issues or issues that are material, finite and fleeting. Protect your essence.
Side note: If you’re one of those people that will get pissed at someone for “abandoning” you in your time of need, remember that those people (whether you consider them mentors or role models or people you look up to or even celebrities), they have their own lives to live too and their own troubles to face.
The fact that they don’t share it on social media or with you, doesn’t mean they are not struggling. EVERYBODY struggles with something. Some are just better at hiding it than others.
Be sensitive and back off when people take time off from public eye and social media. Understand that people need to retreat to replenish.
And when they do come back, stop guilt-tripping them with words like:
“you forgot about me” or “you abandoned me”, or
“i sent a message since and no reply” or “you are a snob” or “you’re too proud” or “who do you think you are sef?” or “you think you have arrived abi?”
Don’t do that!
To the leaders who have to shoulder the responsibility of listening and living a purpose bigger than yourself, PROTECT YOUR ESSENCE.
