Life is a test and what follows are many results in terms of testimonies. On many occasions when we are greeted, how are you doing? We usually answer boldly I'm OK, but sometimes the reality is that we are afraid to say weren't OK, because we don't know how our situation might be taken by the second party which sometimes can leave us in a vulnerable situation whereby you don't know who to trust with your story should you shared it.
It is normal for people to be tuned, more on the I'm OK mode, but should you break the barriers and say you aren't OK, chances is that both parties will open up to many different versions of not being OK and their hardships or challenges they are going through.
I still believe in my hardships or challenges I can still find that chance to help someone because our situations might be at different levels of need or urgency. Anyway, as I bow down in prayers, I seek for a more sustainable breakthrough of the year to come 2021.
I want to share some trails of testimonies of my life in 2020 which I hope might encourage someone.
To kick start the journey...
I'm lucky to have good number of friends and my immediate family who will always stay side by side with me when I seek for help or if they sense some form of challenges within my journey they will make efforts to reach out. I say a big thank you for coming through for me, family, referrals for master classes and especially in supporting my project vision at Wilsen Initiative (Wi) the annual resource mobilization for the grassroots soccer team in Mathare North for the year 2020. You know yourself :) Asante Sana! and may God bless you in your journey come 2021 and beyond.
I have learned that sometimes it's OK not to be OK, to be real, apply stop / start model, and accept how things are, no matter what expectations, opinions and standards of other people have on how you. Never do things to impress people, be real and the first happy person should be you then you spread that happiness to others people's journey.
Your candle can lite many other candles for a breakthrough in other people's journey even when yours is delayed for greater opportunities in future. Trying to match what is on other people's mind about you is a mission of impossibilities with a bundle of failures which will leave you vulnerable to many situations. Set your own pace, start the race, compete with self and never look back. Only choose healthy competition which adds value to what success means to you.
Some other life lessons I have learned during the Covid-19 pandemic era are as follows:
Covid-19 and Education.
Going to school can stop, but the schooling in us is a never ending experience that touches many aspects of our life. Dear parents, as you push for your children to get good grades in school, don't forget to encourage them and do what it takes for them to get great values for life because it is what will give them better grades for life.
Mind Set & Skill Set
Any great innovation or creative idea was housed within the perimeter of impossibilities that someone or a team was determined to break through into possibility even if it wasn't in its original form.
Opportunities
Two things that bring you closer to your next opportunity are:-
1. What You Know and What You Can Do (tell, show & do)
Be realistic, patient, build a meaningful network, stay focused and allow God's time to take place it's the best. Just a note, God's time can happen when you don't even expect. Plan, do you, be at your best, follow up etc. then the rest leave to God.
As I review the year 2020 journey and gear up for 2021. I don't expect 2021 to be on a smooth ride, but with great knowledge, skill, attitude, tools, network, great experiences, etc. I will figure out a winning formula for a breakthrough for self and others. Wilson Masaka Youth Advocate / Social Entrepreneur.
Let us do more with your team in 2021, sign up for master session conducted at your preferred location.
Philosophy about money and fame
Money isn't everything, but fame without something to show for it or something to live for, sometimes can be depressing. This may lead to faking it until you make it situation. Just a point to remember, when you're winning you will have many 'friends' whom you wouldn't know, they will make sure they tag along in your journey provided they are benefiting. On the contrary, when you are down or may be losing, a few true friends will stick with you all through your journey until you rise again.
Lessons I learned, never shy away from sharing your story with your close circle (family and trusted friends who know you so well) they might offer different types of support, seek for help where you're stack as you look for ways and means to stay afloat in a more sustainable manner etc.
Thanks Giving
Money isn't everything, but fame without something to show for it or something to live for, sometimes can be depressing. This may lead to faking it until you make it situation. Just a point to remember, when you're winning you will have many 'friends' whom you wouldn't know, they will make sure they tag along in your journey provided they are benefiting. On the contrary, when you are down or may be losing, a few true friends will stick with you all through your journey until you rise again.
Lessons I learned, never shy away from sharing your story with your close circle (family and trusted friends who know you so well) they might offer different types of support, seek for help where you're stack as you look for ways and means to stay afloat in a more sustainable manner etc.
Thanks Giving
I'm lucky to have good number of friends and my immediate family who will always stay side by side with me when I seek for help or if they sense some form of challenges within my journey they will make efforts to reach out. I say a big thank you for coming through for me, family, referrals for master classes and especially in supporting my project vision at Wilsen Initiative (Wi) the annual resource mobilization for the grassroots soccer team in Mathare North for the year 2020. You know yourself :) Asante Sana! and may God bless you in your journey come 2021 and beyond.
I have learned that sometimes it's OK not to be OK, to be real, apply stop / start model, and accept how things are, no matter what expectations, opinions and standards of other people have on how you. Never do things to impress people, be real and the first happy person should be you then you spread that happiness to others people's journey.
Your candle can lite many other candles for a breakthrough in other people's journey even when yours is delayed for greater opportunities in future. Trying to match what is on other people's mind about you is a mission of impossibilities with a bundle of failures which will leave you vulnerable to many situations. Set your own pace, start the race, compete with self and never look back. Only choose healthy competition which adds value to what success means to you.
Some other life lessons I have learned during the Covid-19 pandemic era are as follows:
Covid-19 and Education.
Going to school can stop, but the schooling in us is a never ending experience that touches many aspects of our life. Dear parents, as you push for your children to get good grades in school, don't forget to encourage them and do what it takes for them to get great values for life because it is what will give them better grades for life.
Mind Set & Skill Set
Any great innovation or creative idea was housed within the perimeter of impossibilities that someone or a team was determined to break through into possibility even if it wasn't in its original form.
Opportunities
Two things that bring you closer to your next opportunity are:-
1. What You Know and What You Can Do (tell, show & do)
2. Who You Know & If they Can Help You (Time, referrals, support etc.). Basically, your network worth.
Youth Space
Youth Space
Be realistic, patient, build a meaningful network, stay focused and allow God's time to take place it's the best. Just a note, God's time can happen when you don't even expect. Plan, do you, be at your best, follow up etc. then the rest leave to God.
As I review the year 2020 journey and gear up for 2021. I don't expect 2021 to be on a smooth ride, but with great knowledge, skill, attitude, tools, network, great experiences, etc. I will figure out a winning formula for a breakthrough for self and others. Wilson Masaka Youth Advocate / Social Entrepreneur.
Let us do more with your team in 2021, sign up for master session conducted at your preferred location.
Great Resilience Quotes
1. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
1. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
2. “Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”
― Angela Duckworth
3. “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
― Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
4. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.”
― Elizabeth Edwards
5. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.”
― Henry Ward Beecher
6. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.”
― Jodi Picoult,
7. “If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces."
― Shane Koyczan
8. “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.”
― Greg Kincaid
9. “It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
10. “My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.”
― Mizuta Masahide (17th century Japanese poet and samurai)
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