I failed to do the 30-day reading challenge as scheduled, where I was supposed to read for an hour every day for 30 days. It has been my wish to have done this challenge over the course of the month and I had seen myself attaining greater knowledge from the exercise. However, it has been a waste – my fault. Now faced with the reality of failure I believe at this point that’s when someone starts to have suicidal thoughts because the struggle is real. I will pick myself up, dust off the shame and tackle the next challenge for March. I hate myself in a good way though, cause this time I m not yielding to anything.

🙈 Unforeseen endeavour

One thing I have learnt from this failure is that when planning always leave room for disappointment. That way you count for factors that may result in variances. When I first had the idea of tackling this 30-day reading challenge late last year I was not a sales rep. Come February 2022 I found myself with a sales rep role on top of my special projects role and trust me it was a tough ride.

I constantly ask myself can I do this? am I cut for this? Should I quit? Because sometimes it’s emotionally and mentally draining. As always I try to find ways to improve myself not to remain stagnant, so my challenge now is how best can I balance the three my Special Projects, Sales Executive and my Personal Writing Challenge. One of the things that helped me during this time is the fact that Mr Elon Musk has more than two big companies and still he is CEO of his companies. That’s something you don’t just attain and here I am failing to manage two roles in one company. If you have tips on how I might do this kindly share it might help.

⚖ One Man One Body – the greatest difference between a manager and an employee.

Sometimes I have this thought maybe reading books is not for me, why? Because it felt like a chore sometimes. I was tired to the bone most of the days and the feeling of grabbing a book wasn’t just right therefore I simply brushed it. There is this theory passed to me by one of my supervisors during my attachment period work is never finished, you can not complete it no matter how you work. When I reflect on this I realise it is true, there is always something to do at work, it is never over, I don’t know if this holds true for you as well, but for me it is true. Now the mentality shift that this brings is what excites me. We all have to make the choice and pick aside and I believe this distinguishes people as well. Managers react differently to that and employees also react in a different way. Now, if you say work never ends therefore I will work from 8 to 5 only then I will tackle the rest of this tomorrow, you are an employee. I sometimes refer to this to the casual worker’s mentality in Shona munhu wemaricho. If you say work never ends but I will put in more hours now that a managers mentality if not the business owners mentality.

Why bring this up? Sometimes in as much as work is overwhelming, you have to do it, work it, grind it to achieve a desired goal regardless of what you feel as an individual. We can say it’s the entrepreneur’s curse. It is that trait you find in most successful people the society’s elite members, the pacesetters, the goal-getters, those people that change the world. One Man One Body same 24hrs

I may have failed this time but I will have to challenge the defeat and try hard next time. There is a saying that goes “we have lost the battle but not the war“. I will give it a try one more time and see how it goes, for the benefits of successfully doing this will open some doors in my life.