
Leave nothing to CHANCE. Make the CHANGE!
The past two months have been a crazy, yet interesting ride for me and I have managed to achieve more in just over 60 days than I did in the first 8 months of the year.
Recall my last article from the eve of the new year? Well, I did apply it. I enthusiastically made elaborate plans for the new year. So elaborate that I had it printed with fancy texts and many colors! Fast forward to March, just three months in and I had stopped the monthly planning I committed to, as well as any other form of planning. I totally compromised to just going with the tide at the expense of my goals for the year.
As you must have guessed, it was all going downhill and I was eventually going to end up another victim of unresolved resolutions, with the intentions of trying again next year, only this time with a diminished zeal from a failed year.
And then it happened! Everything changed in the summer. All it took was a student’s forum I attended — and some deep reflection based off a lecture at the forum — to bring to my consciousness how much control I had over my actions and subsequent results and how I was giving away that power to fate, who from experience, is fair enough to hand to everyone what they deserve, and certainly, complacency is deserving of no reward.
So I decided to change the narrative by taking conscious steps towards becoming a better version of myself. And to that effect, I committed to something I tagged “365-day challenge — Better Me". Simply put, it’s a system I put up with the help of an accountability partner to help us grow mutually in almost every aspects of our lives for a period of 365 days.
We’re just about two months in and the difference is so clear. Consciousness in chasing our goals opens up a lot that indifference conceals. Being aware of and being able to track your progress is also a classic sauce that many people don’t apply in their growth process.
My focus for the past two months was to venture into cinematography, and although I have been a photographer for a couple of years now, I have been passive with it and I had no idea on cinematography whatsoever. But I was able to create my very first “B-roll" as well as a YouTube standard video in this interval. While on it, I learned a few important lessons and I’ll like to share some of them, because I feel it could be of help to someone out there)
Lesson 1 — PROCRASTINATION: The Dream Killer!

Okay, This might be the most cliche thing out there, I know, but if I am to be honest, it is the actually the primary reason why the past two months went the way they did for me and why there’s this series.. so in this rare case scenario, it does get positive credits!
For the first half of the year, passivity characterized my media ventures, with the excuse of having school to deal with (which could be considered valid in certain contexts). Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying school isn’t a cause worth devoting time and energy to. No, far from it. All I’m saying is that the illusion that you cannot build something for yourself alongside nailing school is one bought by far too many.
Let me quickly mention that it’s totally okay to not stress over "doing something" if you’re not interested in doing anything. It’s totally okay to just skate through school if that’s all you’re interested in.
But for those who might be having similar dilemma as I do, the mindset that you have to go through school for 4, 5, 6 years (depending on your course) before you set out to do your stuff is not one that should be tolerated.
I mean, 4-5 years is too much time to do nothing towards your dream. It could blossom so much in that period than you can imagine.
Another bonus of going in early is that if eventually it fails along the line, failing early is ALWAYS better than failing later! Take the Ls now, so the wins can come ASAP. You can’t evade them by stalling.
Well, over the summer, I came to the realization that it wasn’t school limiting my productivity, but my mindset and prolly some dose of laziness as well. And that realization spurred the actions I took towards correcting my error, and although clearing the cutters can be tedious with other things still demanding your attention, leaving it for later never makes it easier, but even harder.
As it stands, I am still reaping the fruits of literally "no labour" in this direction in that period, and I can promise you that this free harvest is not a pleasant one.😅
Get going, act on those dreams already while the passion lingers and you'd be glad you did.
To be continued…
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