It is typical of a Nigerian young adult to have a lot on his plate. Especially those that want to amount to something in the society. The economic situation of the country and its socio-political atmosphere loathes every appearance of averageness. The system works against those that are both poor and financially average. You can't afford to be average here. Being average is tantamount to being a nobody.
In here you need to aim big and crush gigantic goals to even lead a normal life. By this I'm not even talking of leading a life of luxury.
As ordinary as it is in many climes, to set up an e-commerce website and have an Internationally accepted payment gateway, in here, it is a no small feat. You have to scale a lot of fences and learn many hacks inorder to do what is simply done by others.
That's due to fact that our country seem to be alienated from the global economy, so when an individual wants to access the global market, it becomes the person's sole responsibility to build a bridge that will connect him and his business to the rest of world. And doing that as an individual could be exhausting, because you literally have to manoeuvre the system.
At a point crypto currency almost became a leveler, in the sense that it provided a means of making and receiving payment internationally, but it soon relapsed, owing to the implementation of a policy, put forward by our Central Bank. The policy restrained all financial institutions in the country from engaging in any form of crypto related transaction.
Now we are back to where we were_away from the global economy.
That's why it is common in Nigeria to have a young man like me who can be said to be doing well with his offline work, yet be found daily on the internet space trying to gain more knowledge and still make more money.
It is neither greed nor lack of contentment. It's simply because of our clime.
For someone like me and many others in my situation, time becomes a scarce commodity. Most days I'm swamped with so much work that I'd wish the day was longer than 24 hours.
I am not just a school teacher, my service is more in the line of Education-Consultancy.
I get consulted on everything that has to do with speech and elocution. I teach English phonetics to both students and teachers.
There are days I do have a training session with teachers after an exhausting teaching session with students. Afterwards I will still have the drive to read and watch tutorial videos on any skill that is relevant to my growth. I might also come up here to either make a post, curate an article or engage.
Despite all of this, I still have spiritual exercises like prayers, studies, meditations etc, that I endeavour to carry out every day.
I also don't want to lack a social life. I still need the time to reach out to some lovely friends, and perhaps have a hangout some days.
I want to be complete being.
I want to be that man who had a career, a spiritual life and a social life.
I should be able to maintain a balance as much as I can in all of these life's aspects.
You see, when I say that time is a scarce commodity to me, I'm not in anyway exaggerating.
For someone like me, who is swamped with work; time-management becomes a necessity and not merely a cliche.
With proper time management I still get to do most of these things quotidianly.
If you're like me, you just have to seriously plan your time.
Don't haphazardly go through your day.
Make a list of what you have to do in a day.
Give all task a timeframe.
Religiously stick to the plan and piously execute the tasks.
Barely give ear to what isn't part of the plan except where something serious comes up.
Being able to stick to what matters is the hallmark of maturity.