Compared to my peers, I have never achieved anything in my life and career at record time.
Never.
I am the queen of trailing behind.
I would fail exams multiple times.
Fail aptitude tests
Fail at interviews
Fail at getting promoted
I stayed in roles and grades for longer than I should have.
For me, life seems to drag.
It is a pattern, and that is the story of my life.
I would try really hard, but I would fail.
I would debrief on why I couldn’t hit key milestones and see some valid reasons; sometimes, they wouldn’t make sense.
This bothered me every time I introspect, but then it stopped bothering me.
At least not so much anymore.
The reason is that I am pretty resilient.
My journey is complex, thorny, uncertain and quite complicated, but I seem to stay the course.
I realised that I do not get demotivated, no matter the number of ‘No’s I get.
It just fuels me instead.
I think that’s a superpower (what do you think?).
And I show up again and again and again because I want it badly.
So, whatever I have achieved so far in my life is not because I am good at it from the first time; it is mainly that I have become so resilient that I stay on the hill until I get it.
This is my story.
I have begged before I got
I have scraped before I ate
I have stayed knocking before the door opened for me.
There was hardly any magic or any leverage.
My leverage is my resilience, and I use it to my advantage.
That’s how I win.
Maybe that's how you win, too. I'm not sure, but you know better.
Go and be fantastic today.
#Orebukola