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Lessons from Thorns.

If you are following me on Medium, you must have read my writing journey. I shared my wins and blessings, not to impress the readers, but to remind myself of how far I have come.

When today’s topic came, I thought to myself, “Well, I could just copy and paste, and Voila!” But I refrained myself. I knew there was more to share about my writing journey.

I searched, and I have found what to share.

Like I mentioned on Medium, it’s been everything but a smooth ride. I have had an interesting journey and enviable success. But there were days when I was not my best.

Today, I will be sharing some lessons I have learned so far.

These lessons came in those days when I was not my best. A different perspective helped me see and pick these lessons; to see my failures or losses as lessons.

I have learned a lot on this journey, not just to become a better writer, but a better version of myself.

The first habit I picked out of my love for writing was reading. Reading non-academic books. Ajulu once mentioned that one would only lack content if the person is not doing proper reading and research.

Reading opened me up to a lot about life. It showed me different perspectives on life and all the wrong things I had normalized, from financial to emotional.

I have learned how to attract money and I have learned how to have healthy communication with people, especially during conflicts.

However, on the days when I was not my best, I learned things about life and success that only experience could help me understand and internalize those lessons.

I have learned that to be successful, I need discipline, not motivation. Motivation will get me started, habits will keep me going, but discipline brings the success I truly desire.

Waiting for motivation is like waiting every day for your energy to be 100%. That is unrealistic. So I learned to show up on those days when my energy was less than 100%.

To show up, whether I feel like it or not; whether I want to or not. If I have made the decision to do a thing, going against my decision to not do that is the biggest form of self-disrespect.

It is not always easy. And truth is, there are some days I still do not show up. In those days, I tell myself to genuinely rest. It is a marathon, not a sprint. I am not running to finish; I am running to be the most disciplined.

To become that, I need the strength of my physical body to align. So I take rest on some days. On some other days, whether I have to take rests or not, I show up. It is a complicated one.

But what matters is I have days when I show up and the days when I just rest.

More than discipline, I have learned the power of consistency. Consistency always precedes competence and mastery.

To become a master at anything in life, I must be consistent with the process. To keep doing what I have to do.

Consistency and discipline go together. You cannot be disciplined without consistency, and you cannot stay consistent without being disciplined.

They are like twines, you cannot find one without the other. To be the best known, you have to be consistent. To be the best option, you have to be consistent.

Consistency makes improvement. You cannot improve on something you are not consistent with.

I did not become a better writer by writing only on the days when I felt like writing. Neither did I become a better writer by writing once a month or once in two months.

I did not always write an article every day, but I wrote almost every day. I wrote in my journals, notepads, and Bible notes. I wrote on pieces of paper, I wrote on my WhatsApp status.

I made sure to write something I could create content from. It was not always superb and I did not expect myself to present the best work every single day. The important thing to me was showing up. And I did the best I could.

One big lesson I learned was to always respect the work of other people. While writing paid articles, a lot of the people I worked with thought that writing was just scribbling words on paper.

At some point, I was delivering 9 articles a week with each of those articles between 1200–1500 words. To them, it was just writing. To me, I dreaded every new week because every new week meant producing a total of 9 articles and approximately 13,500 words.

I got drained a whole lot. But I still showed up. I wanted to learn to be consistent and prove to be reliable. Sometimes, I delivered late. But better late than never right?

Having people give no regard to the stress in writing made me realize that everyone’s work has its unique difficulties.

Video editing is more than just cutting and adding clips. Owning a business is more than receiving orders and payments. Barbing is more than lowering hair levels or making lines at the edges, and writing, again, isn’t just scribbling words on paper.

Every work deserves a compliment because you have no idea the amount of effort it took to produce that.

Lastly, dealing with writer’s block. Writer’s block is real. As real as the words, I am writing. You cannot touch it physically, but you can feel it, very much deep within.

The most daunting part of writing is staring at a blank page, especially when you have nothing in mind to write. Starting is the hardest part.

How did I deal with writer’s block? On some days, I let myself go. I did not try to push myself or give myself those “you can do it” talks. I let my brain rest. Just rest.

On some days, I look for inspiration. From a book, a podcast, my previous articles, the internet, just anywhere. Especially the times when I had to deliver articles.

Other days, I look for inspiration in the queerest places, my past. The memories I have of loved ones, good times, and the bad times. They were not always beautiful memories, but they were great sources of inspiration.

Lastly, I have learned that no one is coming to save you in this life. Absolutely no one. You are a product of your habits, the people you surround yourself with, and the choices you make.

If you pick all the wrong ones, you suffer all the wrong consequences. If you pick all the right ones, you get all the right blessings. But life is a mix of good and bad right? And we all know that no one gets it right all the time.

On some days, you go wrong. So instead of brooding and regretting the wrong, find the lessons in them and move on. There are treasures even in the dark. You will only see them if you open your eyes and heart to find them.

And on the good days, what do I do? I celebrate, but I pick the lessons too. On the days when I win, the lesson to pick is that life indeed is a bed of roses.

Roses are beautiful and they smell nice. But roses have thorns too. And on those bad days, the thorns prick. You wouldn’t throw away your bouquet of roses because of a single thorn.

You will clean the blood but love the roses again. Because what makes life worth living are the good times.

Life is for the living, so you better live it or you’re better off dead.

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