On Sowing and Reaping, Doing the Boring Things, Treating your Career like a Business and more ...

It has been ages since I last sat down to write to you. Well, if two months count as ages, but still ages, lol ... I have been doing more of implementing discipline in my life as a person, but also on the sidelines, I have been learning so much from people. And this I hope to share with you today.

What you don't know about Sowing and Reaping

Listening to Jim Rohn this Sunday Morning, he said something that was not new but often overlooked.

We all know that if we sow, we reap. It has been hammered into our little brains by persistent Sunday school teachers (bless their souls). However, what we forgot (and which is the most important part of sowing and reaping) is that we never reap what we sow.

Yes. We often fail to remember that we never reap what we sow. Put a grain of corn into the ground and get a bunch of corn. Sow a book into your life and get knowledge that can skyrocket your career. Help a person and get blessed beyond your expectations.

In the same vein, sow laziness and reap frustration. Sow anger and reap discord, unhappiness and deep-seated hatred. Sow procrastination and reap a result-less life.

We never reap what we sow. We always reap more than what we sow.

Think about this carefully when you sow an action.

Doing the Boring Things

There are two types of action that a successful person take. The Boring action and the Flashy action. At a glance, it may seem that a successful person do more of the flashy actions. They just purchased a new house. They just purchased a new boat. They just got a new car. Flashy actions.

It would be very unwise of you as a person to focus on the flashy actions a successful person takes, just so you can be like them.

The secret is in doing the boring things.

The Studying. The staying up late to finish a project. The Budgeting so you can purchase that property. The relationship counselling so you can be better in your relationship with your spouse. The cutting off of friends who are not really headed on the path you are headed.

And in truth, these things are not exciting or spontaneous.  They take a lot of work. They take a lot of energy. They do involve a high level of discipline and consistency.

But I promise you. And I readily assure you, if you can master doing the boring things, you have achieved 98% of the results you desire.

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Treating your Career as a Business

Listening to Hannah this morning, she made a profound statement. Learn to treat your career as a business, as opposed to treating it as a money making machine.

Drawing from this statement, I realised that when we treat our career as a business, there are certain things we would do.

1. Handle with care our capital - Ourselves. We would invest into becoming the very best versions of ourselves at work and in our results.
2. Take feedback from our customers - What are our bosses, supervisors, colleagues saying about our work. How do we stand out and make them returning customers?
3. Flow with the trend - We would update our skillset. We would not be obsolete in Knowledge and capacity.
4. We would be the CEOs - One thing I would always say is treat your Job like you are the CEO because you are! Give it your utmost attention. No one should be better at your Job than you. (This is why you should have a properly defined Job role)

And we pause here.

Till I write you again, I hope you are winning in Life, you are not using the Government as an excuse for not going far, you are dedicated and giving your all to shooting your shot at Life.

I wish you all the best.

With Love,

Osinachi Akanegbu