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2️⃣ Successful women understand that perfection isn’t the goal — progress is. What steps are you personally taking to progress in 2025? Describe the situation, reasoning, and how you intend to set plans into motion.
I finally got to understand that true success is a compound effect and not an immediate thing. It is one thing you do over and over again that brings about the desired result. One of the things that have made life easier is that knowledge - Life is a compound effect.
I don’t have much set to do this year. I have a goal in mind though (I promised myself not to say it in public until it comes to fruition) and for me to be well prepared for that time, I know I have to be ready not just financially but mentally and emotionally too. I need to start a lot of inward planning and then go for the jugular.
I did write here that I want to live this year. Really live and get to know my person all over again. One thing I can say is, Success to me for this year is being able to look back and smile at how I handled the things in my life. I want to handle the pressure differently. I want to take the loss differently and I want to celebrate differently.
For this to happen, I realised that I needed to let go of any baggage I have been carrying from my past. Whatever it is, it should remain in my past. If I want to get that goal, I have to first and foremost believe in me and never doubt my abilities. Given my track record, it’s not an easy thing to do.
The hardest part of all this is learning to capture my thoughts in time when they begin to slip. Another hard thing is learning to reel in my emotions. Where I’m going, you can feel but don’t let it show. It’s a battle field of wills and if I don’t grow a back bone, I’ll be eaten alive.
It’s a daily struggle but I’ve gotten so much better at tailoring my responses, looking past offences and approving of my actions. Every day that I wake up now, I chant:
“It’s a new day. Live today. Just for today. Don’t worry about tomorrow.”
It hasn’t been easy but I can tell you I feel lighter with each passing moment despite how chaotic my life seems. Louise L. Hay is teaching me to not see the things around me (which to be frank we need reminded regularly) but to see WHO I AM!
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To achieve my goal, workshops, seminars, podcasts and books are all a part of the big picture. I don’t shy away from them anymore. I don’t shy away from meeting people because where I am going, I need to up my communication skills and learn not to be intimidated. The best way to put this to practice is to be at the frontier where I am required to talk to people. My friend said I wasn’t a sales woman. He is right. Maybe I am not. However, the compound effect says “You Can Learn”.
As a sign, I was offered a job gobsmacked right in the middle of this new skill I want to acquire. I have to meet with people daily, talk to them, and not just that, I have subordinates who report to me. This is another test of leadership skills which frankly I’m not sure I’m ready for but the compound effect tells me “Leaders are Made”.
Deep down, right there in that tiny vessel that supplies blood to my body, I know that I was born to lead. I might not have the experience right now, which is why I am following. However, the universe has said “You will be led just as you will be followed”, and with a grateful heart, I have accepted it, living each day like it’s my last.
This also means I have to complete my education with no excuses. I resume on 17th. This also means I have to keep those streams of income flowing. Now here’s the difficult part. Yet, the Law of Attraction works WONDERS.
See, I have just one big goal. That goal is not immediate but then this year I want to look back and be thankful that I lived with intention.
