I’m not going to sugar coat this for you because 2022 begins in few days. This is an urgent message for someone here who still hasn’t figured out how to become an improved version of themselves.
- Continue calling yourself “upcoming” or “enthusiast”. When will you finally become a professional and what do you need to do to become one?
- Continue to hide in the shadows because you don’t want the devil and his mother-in-law to know your plans. You refuse to be the light of the world because you’re afraid your village people will dim your light? Come on! They’ve already won and you haven’t even started!
- Continue to worry about what people will say. You slave away in that unfulfilling career or business because of what people will say if you quit to start afresh. Many people are afraid of starting again because they don’t want to be seen starting at the bottom. Don’t be those people.
- Continue to procrastinate on everything. Continue to type “I’m interested” without ever taking action. You’re just all mouth and no action. Guess what? No action, no results!
- Continue to refuse to set SMAT Goals. Your goals are not specific, Measurable, Attainable and Time bound (yes, I omitted the Realistic part for a reason). Saying, “I want to earn at least N10 Million next year” is not a goal. Saying “I want to earn N10 Million in the next 12 months from my 3 books, 2 online courses and 1 coaching program” is a goal. Can you spot the difference?
- Continue to be afraid of commitment, discipline, consistency and persistence; all ingredients to actually have a more successful year. You refuse to commit to a goal, you lack the discipline to follow through with anything, your consistence is all over the place and you cannot persist on something even when the results are not yet showing. OYO is your name in 2022.
- Continue to run away from opportunities to prove yourself. You tell everybody you love to write, but you run away from the 28 Days Writing Challenge. You want to be a public speaker but when they are looking for someone to say the opening prayer in church, you hide your face. You want to learn live-streaming but when you attend an event where livestreaming is being done, you sit in your chair as if you were glued to it. Kontinu.
- Continue to fold every time someone criticises you. You make one post, someone writes “I disagree” and you swear off posting on social media. You do a live broadcast and your friends call you “Motivational Speaker” as if it is a bad thing, but you fold. You cry and never do another live broadcast. It is well with you.
- Continue to burn good relationships with people because of your mouth, your bad attitude, being inconsiderate and insensitive to people’s feelings, and a total lack of respect for yourself and for others. You’re busy forming “woke” when you should be forming relationships. Tell me again how a man can be an island.
- Continue to be a freeloader, forever sitting at Newbie level because God forbid you should pay for anything “you can get off the internet”. I laugh in sufferhead. Freebies are for newbies and as long as you cannot invest in yourself, you can NEVER find the confidence to charge others for something. Your issue with clients underpricing you amongst other things, is karma. You cannot attract what you don’t first put out. Continue to be an upcoming enthusiast.
Watch out for Part 2. Which one of this points speaks to you or to someone you know? Don’t mention their names o.
