Must I make it work?

So after visiting Sub-Way for the very first time about two weeks ago and having a chat with my mentor, I realized that sometimes, in his words, “You do not have to make it work.” Yet, we are constantly trying life and death to make it work (whatever it is).

I realized that when sitting in a chair, in front of a computer for about 8 hours a day doing almost nothing. Yes, I write once in a while but at the end of the month, I feel I have more wasted hours than productive ones, and I am still trying to make it work.

So why do we struggle so much to make it work? The main reason why I do it… I need the money at the end of the month. If I could get the same amount, or better yet more, at the end of every month, well, I would sit in mom’s kitchen eating and watch television all day long but again I have to make it work!

Had I not met the one great mentor of mine, I would never have realised that I was struggling to make irrelevant things work. So am heading into the last month of sitting at a computer for long hours with little production, after all even Mark Zuckerberg did not have to make it work. He did the work.

I feel that, we all get it twisted; we make it work instead of doing the work ourselves. We end up building other people’s companies, instead of struggling to come up with ours. So am setting off to do it for myself, wish me luck!... But then again…

Where will I get the capital to run this ‘work it” of mine? Oh NO! Do not tell me I have to depend on this 8 hour watching the screen thing… Wait!

Mark had no capital (according to the movie) and I believe most people never do when starting up. The main problem with most of us (me included) is that we fear the unknown, we fear letting go of something we are comfortable with, yet we may get something even better if we just have courage.

I always envy my brother who chose to find his own way, he has hustled and got so much experience in production, sales as well as IT, and I am very sure his success story is just about to break.

The rest of us choose an ordinary job.

Brings me back to an interesting talk given by the Kenya Queen of Radio (apparently) Caroline Mutoko, in a hot afternoon at the Kenyatta University Auditorium, though sleepy I managed to get a few points. She said, “I refuse ordinary. Once you accept ordinary, you become ordinary. You look for an ordinary job, an ordinary car, you get an ordinary spouse and an ordinary house. An ordinary life you will have.” So much of that word “ordinary” makes you want to jump off your seat trying to figure out if you are in the ordinary category and how you will get out. Well! I have the answer, take the risk! Quit the fear and the 'ordinariness', and maybe we will reap better fruits.

courtesy of kenyamagazines.com

So watch me take the last steps in this 8-hour screen watching thingy I do, and take the risk. Hopefully I will engage in something that I love to do and enjoy doing it.

Anyone want swimming lessons? Affordable and success rate 100%, give me a call….