Press RED button on laziness!

It wasn't meant to be a deliberate appraisal though, but flipping through my journal and seeing list of things I have desired and achieved in the course of the year, feeling good and I sure assured myself ain't doing badly but suddenly a force quickly cut that short! A greater force whose lens could only capture the many things I didn't get around doing, and they seemed endless or so I thought - (the posts I should have drafted, the ideas on sticky notes that should have been expanded, the untouched presentation slides, the ebook idea, the business networking follow up, products to be activated, sales and credits to be followed up on, follow up calls on business leads, several phone calls to family & friends that has become debts! and many more)! Eventhough I documented the goal, the detailed tasks - for short ~ the what, why and how, yet!! They were untouched! Yes untouched! I tried a melodrama of what my excuses could have been if I decided to be creative, I realized I could reel out a couple excuses within seconds all very genuine and original. I observed how our brain supplies energy to protect itself from itself and how pampering self with excuses would have made me feel at ease a bit. 

I realize it takes a conscious, deliberate effort to face myself in the mirror and simply tell myself - Girl, get your butt off excuses and press the RED button on laziness, stop the inaction! Go girl, go! #JustDoIt. So I choose to do the following: -

- Face a mirror and do a self talk; Relive the what, the why, the how and the where;

- Refire; Add zest; Create fun around the activities; Acknowledge and celebrate every leap

- Look out for an activity accountability partner ( could be your spouse, child, a friend, a colleague, a business partner)

And so my pledge today is:~

"I'll do everything I can 

At every instance that I can

Doing my Best with all my zest

I won't wear a gown on my endless downs

I'll deal a rapid blow on the reeling plow

I choose to be strong irrespective of the throng

I'll be smart and bold 

To master my art and gain the gold"

Bamike Fadipe is a passionate writer, an aspiring author on a mission to inspire, impact and motivate, making everyday living count.

Email:  bankysanya@gmail.com

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Eating your cake and having it!

Today's world is marked by high level of ambition, hyper activity, desire for achievement and low level of contentment. We all want to have the best of every good thing in life, when we want them and how we want them. We want to have more than enough to spend on ourselves and of course on vanities. We want to have good jobs, great career, sustainable riches and wealth, build mansions and farmhouses, build healthy relationships, have beautiful homes with lovely and well groomed children with beautiful future, also help the needy. All these things seem like great needs and very desirable; having all seemingly connote good life while sometimes having only some of the goodies might seem more practical and feasible. 

The point of concern then is how fulfilling can living be without these goodies of life ~ riches and wealth, jobs, relationships and family? Is it a loss to drive and hope for all? Should one of the needs be fulfilled and another need excluded? 

Human needs are insatiable like a vicious cycle. Fulfillment of one need helps fulfillment of other needs. One need met gives capacity to meet greater needs and yet has potential to create another need and so the cycle continues.

My lifelong questions and pondering on this have been the following ~ 

I. Is it possible for an individual to have all these goodies together - good jobs, great riches and wealth, mansions and farmhouses, healthy relationships, beautiful homes, lovely & groomed children. 

II. Which of the goodies can you do without? 

II. If possible to have it all, then how? 

III. Shouldn't I rather keep up hope and energy to have it all? 

IV. Wouldn't I rather pursue having it all? 

V. Wouldn't I rather eat my cake and still have it?

Right now, I'm imagining a piece of cake and my active desire to retain and sustain the sweetness without finishing the piece! 
Put yourself  in the midst of all these needs and think about your best and most energetic response(s). 

Can you dare to eat your cake and still have it? Can you dare to have it all?

Olubamike Fadipe is a writer with a passion to inspire, impact and motivate.

Email: bankysanya@gmail.com             

Twitter: @Bankysanya