DO YOUR BEST TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE

In your lifetime, ensure that you do your best to do what you love.

Hear me out first. I know that the first thing you need to consider in anything you want to do is the economics. This is very valid and my opinion in this regard is that when you are just starting out, say straight out of college, what you love shouldn’t necessarily be what you will be targeting, it should be what will give you the edge the most.

My personal recommendation is that when you are young, you can try any legal thing. Put yourself in the work, do as much as you can. You will learn a lot from those experiences. In the little time I have spent on earth, I have found that people who try several things at the beginning of their lives are often better prepared for the next 30 years. They have vast experience and confidence from failing severally.

When you are young, the only thing you shouldn’t do is waste time, you can do things and fail repeatedly but don’t waste time. Learn skills, take on jobs, change careers and if you fail, don’t worry, you still have enough time. Take learnings from the experiences and move on. By the time you are 30 or getting close to it, from your experience, you should have seen clearly where you should spend your next decade.

My advice at this point is for you to focus on only that and give it your very best. At this stage, you can apply the experiences you have had doing every other thing into this one singular thing and give it your best shot. If you do that well for a decade, you should have reached some level of sustainability, where you can pull back and probably grow other things with that is still in motion.

It is at this point that I recommend that you really commit to what you love to do, whether the economics is right or not. The interesting thing is, you don’t even need to like what you have been doing so far, it’s not a problem but you shouldn’t leave here without doing what you love. And please note, some people’s journeys are shorter while some are longer but you get the idea of my post?

I often meet a lot of people who never get to do things they really love and you can feel the sadness in their voices when they share. I mean, if what you love is to travel the world and sample the food from each country, you can’t do that when you are still hustling but you can work to create a structure that supports it. For people like Mazi Daniel Sadiq he even built his work into it.

No matter how crazy the things you like to do are, create time to do them before you leave here because there is a huge sense of achievement that comes with it. You will forget the pain of doing the things you didn’t love once you are able to start doing what you love. For me one of the things I really love to do is Skillup Africa and I started doing it 3 years ago, though we can’t afford the idle model I have in my head for now, we had to start and are gradually walking towards it and I don’t think there is anything else I do that gives me such sense of fulfillment. The feeling can’t be explained.

As you go into the week, find some time to think and plan this. You deserve to be happy but it’s not bad if you have to endure weeping for a while, you just have to be strategic with it, so the weeping doesn’t become your lifestyle.