“Excellency is an art won by training and habits.”
- Aristotle
I remember my early days as a writer,the major challenge was not the usual writer block,my greatest challege came from generators that blared at night. I has about 5 neigbours that surrounded my house on 3 sides,most nights there was no light,so these guys ran their generators. One of them had a very noisy generator (maybe lack of maintanance,the exshust sounde just like a car with a blown exhust pipe).
It made concentrating on my work very difficult,sometimes i had to wait till 12 midnight when all or almost all of them were shut down,then i started to write. I remember i spent more time worring about the generators than the anount of time i spent contemplated the things i wrote. This trend went on from 2008 till about 2013. Sopmetime in 2013,some of my neigbour started leaving their generators till morning,that was when i knew i had to create an alternative to waiting till 12 midnight.
The solution was to write,just write wherther the generator was on or not….write. Before the end of 2013,i found out i could write without much stress even if the generators were on.
The key was that i kept writing.
There is an old saying that
“Sucessful people do daily what failure do occasionally “
We have all seen this play out,for some of us,this played out in school. You see certai n people who never study their academic works but seek to cram everything a few days to exam….the simple asnwer is that they fail.
Sucessful people read to understand what they are doing and during exam,they are not plaqued by the fear that cripples the one that is ill-prepared. In some cases,we have seen people capying from others also copy the registration number and name of the person they are copying from into their won exam paper. Some have been unable to spell simple words like “is ” ” are” and other simple words. It all boils down to the fact they were ill-prepared for exam.
Experience in the school of life has shown that life is a school with uneding lessons,we learn everyday and most importantly,experience is the best teacher.
Excellency finds greatest expression in ” DOING” doing the things we know to do,
In doing the things we are called to do(calling by way of life vocation,career or love).
Each ecperience comes to teach us a better way to achieve set goal. Today,i can write sitting under a stadium speaker(no matter how loud it is),formally i wrote mostly at night,now i write even if the sun sits on my roof. Am able to do this before i kept on writing
Does your motivation slow down when hit by setback,in our world of today uncle coronas 5th wife – Anty covid has sent us indoors with no foreable expiry time.
Is this challenge of life keeping you from attaing your excellence.
“We are what we repeadly do “