Hey, Sisturr!
I'm super excited 💃💃💃
We made it to April… Yaassss🤸🤸🤸🤸
It felt just like yesterday when we wished each other "Happy New Year"... Now, four months are gone already 😁
The Big question now is - Are you smashing your goals for 2022? Or are you still waiting for the perfect time?
A quarter of the year is gone already!
The Myth called “The Perfect time”
We live in a world with people obsessed more and more with the idea of "perfection".
We all want the perfect body…
The perfect financial status
The perfect job
The perfect partner
The perfect boss
The perfect employee
The perfect cars
The perfect phones
The perfect wedding
The perfect engagement...
The perfect this and that!
But time and again, it's been proven that "perfect things" do not exist, and if they ever do, they don't stand the test of time.
So, if these two presumptions are true, why are we continually still in the quest for "perfect things"?
We spend long months and years, searching for perfection, losing the tiny imperfect things around us.
In these seemingly little "imperfect" things lies our happiness. They give us a reason to live and keep living.
Look, Sis, perfection is only but a myth!
There is no perfect thing or perfect time!
Stop overthinking things, if you wanna start anything, JUST START!
Things will definitely fall in place as you go along!
I Got Sacked from Work
Trust me, I had no idea whatsoever what March had in stock for me 😢
Since Mid-November 2021, I've been working for a company called Tetranoodle Technologies as a content writer.
It's a Vancouver-based company that provides technological solutions to businesses from startups to Fortune 500.
These technological solutions revolve around buzzwords Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data & IoT.
At the time this job came, it was an answered prayer!
The pay came right in time to help me settle some debts I had.
Although not so big, I Sha lived a good life with it 😊
Unfortunately, my boss was quite a very impatient person; he wanted results without letting things take their due process.
This made our working environment quite hostile and burdensome.
Although I did my best to create all the content I was expected to create on time, there was this annoying thing of having to attend meetings at odd hours and multiple times a day.
Although I had this job, I was always on the internet looking out for new jobs and companies with better cultures.
Yes, like everyone else, I had set goals for the year…
But omooo ehn, I won't lie… my job was becoming overly demanding and taking up all my time!
I wanted to commit to building the online visibility for the brands - OJN, VIDI, Figure-8 Connect & even my personal brand.
Unfortunately, I achieved nothing tangible!
So when I received the message that I had been laid off around 5 pm on March 8th, from the Head of Project Management…
Mehn! As much as I hated that I was actually laid off, I loved the fact that I would be more in control of my time and just do me!
I challenged myself to make 5X of my pay with TetraNoodle.
Long story short… I achieved so much more than I ever had from January to February combined.
📌 I successfully hosted my BRANDING 101 Class twice, which had close to 150 participants.
📌 I successfully ran Facebook Ads for my clients - Vancity Braids & Real Estate Doyenne.
📌 I consistently did marketing for my upcoming 28 days Bootcamp tagged "Solopreneurs Marketing Hacks 1.0."
📌 I went over all videos of Selar Digital Creators Summit 2022. It was so value-packed.
📌 I bought the 72IG Course and signed up as an Expertnaire affiliate; also participating in Toyin Omotosho's Twitter Spaces.
📌 I defeated my fear and made a few tweets on Twitter; I have 70 followers now 😊
📌 I stumbled on a Google Digital marketing certification course, I've gone like one-thirds of the course.
And many more!
Trust me, if I did leave my job, I most likely wouldn't have been able to pull through all these flawlessly.
I've always been a big believer that some bad things are meant to make us good!
I Shut down Figure-8 Connect WhatsApp Community
A few minutes ago before I settled down to write this, I was removing all participants from the WhatsApp Community 😢
The feeling was for sure not a pleasant one!
This community was like a baby I birthed and have nurtured in the last almost 2 years 😊
And the women in this community have turned into my sisters and best friends.
Since inception, we've never gone down to less than 200 women in the room!
I created it as a safe space for African women aged 18 to 35 to share stories of things that matter most to them.
We've laughed together, cried together, shared love…
So why exactly did I want to shut this community down?
Lately, I have been occupied with work and have been unable to add value to members of the community.
Time has been a big constraint!
I need time to restructure the community and make it more valuable to members.
I want to set things up in such a way that systems and operations run smoothly even in my absence.
I want us to do more than just talk.
I want us to organize more physical hangouts and to be able to support ourselves financially.
I want us to have the general communities and the niche/interest groups too.
Like Margareth Mead rightly said:
"Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit, we need groups, tribes."
Trust me… the power of a community can never ever be underestimated.
It won't be long and we'll come back bigger and better ❤️
My Parting Words…
Losing older things we have might suck, but nothing beats the feeling of having something new.
In March, I lost two things…
I lost my job.
I lost my Figure-8 Connect community too.
But they only had to go for newer things to emerge!
Learn not to hold on to the past.
Let what has to go just go…
That toxic job
That abusive partner
That thing
Newer and better things will definitely come, and you'll see yourself smiling at the end!
This is my season of New Beginnings.
Is that the same for you?
Yours Truly,
Bookie.
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