Don’t Rush

Let’s talk about the pressure on millennials, shall we?

It’s no denial that intentionally or unintentionally, society(even some of our folks) has put us under pressure, pressure to make money, make something out of our lives amidst other things. You open the gram and you see pictures of youngsters who earned their first million before 18 years of age and are currently doing extremely well with their lives, or you see people acquiring properties that you’d die to have but your bank account doesn’t hold half of a fraction of the required amount, then you start to wonder, “is something wrong with me?”, “am I not doing something right?” and then you go all “God when?” on the one who has great plans for you but that’s not even the gist right now.

The truth is, we all want these things, we all want to be successful too. Let me not even get started on what I want because if I do ehn, we won’t leave this place but if there’s one thing I have come to understand, it’s that, truly, “the patient dog eats the fattest bone”.

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Whenever I start to worry too much about all I need to do, my father would say, “no pressure, things will fall in place”. Mind you, no one pushes me to do what I have to do like my father, this man pushes me to make my own money, when I earned my first pay, he was there, cheered me one minute and the next minute, he’s talking about saving, investing, earning bigger and all that. He constantly reminds me to take risks, not to be scared to lose some of my money and gain some because you can’t always vouch for these investments, anything can happen at anytime so I should be ready to bear the burden that comes with it. While doing all of that, he still reminds me to take it one step at a time, to be patient with my growth. However, most youngsters today don’t want to understand that. Everyone wants to be the next dangote or Elumelu but they ain’t even ready to pay the price of patience.

My father would say to me, 'you are the only one who can put pressure on yourself, don’t ever forget that' and I have grown to believe that, that no one but me can pressure me, not even the things I see on the media nor the things my friends acquire, my time is not theirs nor is my success theirs, so why the rush?

Let’s take Real Estate for example, you don’t expect to invest your money in real estate and get the returns and alladat in a couple months. It’s a long term investment, it takes time but when your investment starts to pay off, you’d see why the patient dog really never died of hunger.

Now put yourself in the position of that real estate and your hard-work/smart-work as the investments. Give you time. Let those investments of yours do their work, keep investing, keep trusting, keep working and watch all of that effort pay off in due time.

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Don’t rush. Work towards the bigger picture even while you’re still in the portrait, take it easy with yourself, equip your mind, block out the noise, terminate the pressure cause it only breeds depression, invest in yourself, breathe, breathe again and let things fall in place as they should.

Las Las we go dey alright🤞🏾❤️