Lessons from the Road to Lagos
I had a long time on the internet last night and now I am up again to do that which I love to do-blogging to inspire you. I got great and tremendous comments from the readers of my posts on this blog and I must from my heart appreciate them for giving me their feedbacks. I must quickly drop this now before I get going for the day.
I was on a trip to attend a seminar at a neighbouring state, precisely Lagos state and I can categorically tell you that this is the most stressful journey I have ever made. It was like hell for me. Everything about the journey just seemed to be falling in the wrong place. At the end of the journey, I was so tired…I thought I was going to get a fever. In this post, I will relate how the journey went and the lessons I learnt from it.
The journey started early in the morning at Ibadan (a city in Nigeria where I live) at about 7 o’clock and the day looked so beautiful. I took a public transport and it took off after about 30 minutes of loading. I particularly liked the idea of the journey starting very early so that I would get to the venue of the seminar early as well. It was supposed to be a 1 ½ -hour journey and considering that, I thought I was going to get to my destination at least 30 minutes early, which was my plan. The seminar was slated to start by 10 o’clock and it will be interesting to let you know that I spent close to 4 hours on the journey against my plan and I ended up almost missing the seminar. As a matter of fact, I got there when the seminar was about ending. So painful…uhn? It was some drastic decisions that I took during the journey that made me not even spend more than that time on the journey.
Unforeseen obstacles on our way to achieving our dreams
Let me point out here as an insight that things might not go the way we want or intend that they should go. Situations might turn around against us in the pursuit of our dreams for whatever reason. Our plans might not work out fine but that definitely is not the end of the road for whatever pursuit we might have embarked upon. I have said it in this blog times without number that the obstacles on our way to success are not to keep us away or discourage us but to let us prove how badly we want to succeed. Don’t you think if you really want to succeed or achieve that dream of yours scaling the obstacle or crushing it will be so easy to do? Yeah! That’s it! The road to success is decorated with so many obstacles and failures and how successful you are will be dependent on how willing you are to overcome the obstacles and failure. It really is not about the condition-maybe good or bad but how well you are able to manage yourself in it.
Here is a tip, in every unfavourable condition you find yourself, there is definitely a way out. All you need to just do is decide that you will take action and take responsibility for the change of the condition. If your mind is made up for a change, your condition is also on its way to change.
Find out how I made my way out of the terrible condition I found myself in the next post!
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