Allow your God to do your work for you.
The trick is believing. You have to believe that there is something or someone out there who has all the power to change everything and that he or she has your best interests at heart. Christians call this faith in God. I call it believing in myself.
But like the Bible states that faith without actions is futile, believing in oneself without putting in the work is plain stupid.
If you feel spiritually fulfilled by going to church or volunteering or giving the girls at Wandegeya junction some money, you can channel that energy into something more useful for you and all the people in the world that you think need help. Channel your spiritual energy into your love for yourself and your neighbor. Put in the actions required to give your faith fruit. (If you don’t believe in this spiritual shit by the way, I encourage you to try giving something away that you consider of significant value without expecting anything in return. This also requires action).
Like the Bible says, you probably won’t get everything you want every time you pray, no matter how much you believe. If that doesn’t stop you from praying, then why does the idea that your work efforts may not achieve your desired goals stop you from working? If you think because it’s much easier to pray, then you’re not paying right.
The trick is not to obsess over whether your prayer will be answered or not, because that’s beyond your control. The trick is to fall in love with the prayer. Be it be going for fellowships on Friday nights or making it a point to visit the mosque more than 5 times a day.
This is the same approach you should apply with working. Show up everyday, do your best, even when you’re in doubt or at your laziest. Even those people you consider to be the most successful have those days. I promise you that is much easier, in fact even safer to love what you do right now than to make money doing what you love, despite the popular gospel. Don’t overly praise or doubt yourself. Believe that you’re just as ordinary as Mandela was before the results. Because ordinary is what we all are. Just show up and keep doing your best. You’ll be surprised by how much you’re capable of.
I would like to ask you to open your mind an inch wider. What if, instead of choosing to believe or not believe in a God, you instead choose to believe that you’re your own God? That everything that happens to you good or bad is your own making and your own fault. But most importantly, that you and only you have the power to give yourself everything that your heart desires. If you can’t get your mind to believe this, then genuinely ask yourself why you believe that there is a guy sitting in the clouds watching over everything. What if I told you that the trick is not to believe that you have to wait for things to get easier or better, be it the economy, be it Museveni, be it your cheating spouse, for you to act and achieve. But rather that if you act right now, you’ll take charge and hence greatly increase the chances of things getting better. The idea here is; don’t try to avoid difficult situations but rather embrace them and come to peace with the idea that life is difficult, and that that will never change. The only variable that can change is yourself. Don’t be seduced by the music videos and the whole I made it talk, because it’s all mostly fake. Open your mind and be ready to put in the work. Make peace with your fears. In fact the trick is to stop thinking of your fears as your enemy but rather as notifications that inform when laziness is about to take over. Your fears should motivate you to work even more.
Get to work, and truly give it your all.
