Fola Daniel Adelesi: Why Are You Still Doing This?
As
we try to succeed in life we will meet people in different places who
look at us and they tend to pity us more than we pity ourselves. They
are the ones who seem to keep records of how many times we have tried
something and it did not work. Rather than encourage us so that we can
do it better and eventually succeed, they ask us why we are still doing
what is not working and proffer a solution to us.
Usually their solutions suggest that we
leave that thing we are doing and go for something else. They want us to
have a great life and they give us the regular path that they know and
also refer to as greatness.
In my own case, it was ridiculous for
years to say that you wanted to be a public speaker or a motivational
speaker. People just did not understand why a brilliant child who can
easily get a job and think about rising to the top of the organisation
will say he simply wants to be talking in different places.
‘How will you make money from that?’ is
what some people asked me. I remember having to fill some forms in some
organisations and when I write ‘Public Speaker’ as occupation the person
receiving the form would look up and say, ‘how can you say you are a
public speaker? Is that a job?’ To make the matters worse, I told a
pastor that one of the things I would love to be doing is being a Master
of Ceremony! He didn’t say anything to me. Days later he was talking to
someone very close to me and he said, ‘how can he say he wants to be
doing MC? What is that?’
At those times, I thought I was still
really young and I just did not know how to convince them to believe
that what I felt in my mind was the right thing for me to do.
Unfortunately I also did not know all these famous public speakers that
we now know today who have made several millions from speaking. So when
the arguments came up, there was no one I could pick out as a point of
reference for them to believe I can also make it in that field.
I just looked to them like someone who
was struggling with what is not working. None of them seemed to consider
that when you start something, there is a trying period.
I guess you might also be in your trying
phase right now and people are not giving you that chance of success.
Instead of encouraging you they are asking you to quit what is not
working. They think you are just wasting your time.
For me, I was told to get a pensionable
job. They talked about how life would be great and I would have
something to fall back on when I retire. Although I could not prove what
I believed in and how wealthy I would become but I knew so well that
their solution was not for me. You may also be doing something right now
and your own people are calling you ‘jobless’ because what you are
doing does not look like a job to them. For years, after I started
speaking and writing, my mum would meet some people and still say to
them that ‘my son is looking for a job’.
She told people to go and counsel me but
at the time, they were all focused on what was not yet working for me.
They did not focus on the potentials or possibilities. If anyone comes
back to me today and asks me questions about doing those things I
believe in, even when there is no result to show, I will simply tell
them it is what I want to do.
When they ask me why I still want to do
what does not seem to be working, I will tell them I am preparing for my
greatness. I guess you should do the same. When you understand the
potentials and possibilities in what you are doing and others cannot see
any result, just tell them you are preparing for your greatness.
When a seed goes into the ground no one
sees anything. So you may have nothing to show today but when your
harvest shows up, trust me, they will envy you.
In all this, I have a note of warning
for you. Before you stick to something that is not yielding instant
results, be sure it is what you want to do in life. Be certain that it
is what you are wired to do. Seek counsel and when you can see that all
your skills point in that direction, carry on with no worries because
you are preparing for greatness.
Just do it right.
Fola Daniel Adelesi
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