Beautiful New Year to you! How’s it going for you?
This has to be the most extemporaneous post I have ever written on this blog. I woke up this morning with this burning desire in my heart to share this with you.
It’s about the much talked about word Success. I’m sure there are hundreds, if not thousands of definitions of Success (in all sincerity, i didn’t check Google to confirm but I’ve heard enough varying definitions to know that there are hundreds more and I do believe that every has a personal definition, hence my assumption).
My definition of success and quite frankly, my guiding principle/ life philosophy is hinged on the way i spell my name- TowYourSea.
“What?!No way!”
“Get out of town!!!”
“Shut the front door!”
“Abeg park well jor!”
I can almost hear some of you react this way. Hehehehe. Hold up let me explain myself.
It’s not a mere coincidence that I spell my name this way. Neither is it a bid to ‘funkify’ the spelling of my name. In addition to the fact that I wanted to assist people with the pronunciation of my name, I also crafted it as a quick constant reminder to myself of what living a full life is.
I believe in living out ALL that you have been created to be.
I believe in exhausting your potentials.
I believe in being all the characters and possibilities that are hidden inside of your.
I believe in coloring the world with your own unique brand of essence.
I believe you will be cheating the world of its diversity currency when you do not contribute the originality of your essence to the world.
I believe in towing your sea rather than simply paddling a canoe through your sea.
How do you do that?
Take all the sea with you! Whoever says you can only be one thing when the capacity to be much more is locked up on the inside of you? If you have it, you need to explore it. Experience every wave and dip and crash and storm and stillness of the sea within you. Don’t just limit yourself, or more accurately, deprive yourself by sticking to one routine all your life. If you ever have an inkling that you can do something or that you just might have the ability to do something, don’t be afraid to try. That exactly is towing your sea. Try it out. Trying alone in itself is success. Getting famous for it, well that’s simply recognition. If you do try it and it doesn’t work out, you haven’t failed, you have simply succeeded in exploring that particular part of the sea and you’re done with it. If it works out and becomes a long term thing, then certainly there is more to discover in that part of the sea. Some explorations are shorter than others, that doesn’t reduce the significance of one or another.
It’s simply emptying your existence of every potential and possibility, as much as you possibly can.
On a lighter note, it’s believed that the human body is made up of more than 60% water. That means we are all, practically, vertical seas in motion. Might as well let that fact apply to another significant area of our lives, no?
Success is not being afraid to try or holding yourself back from trying. That is failure. Success is trying and maxing out all the yous you can be.
Ain’t nobody got time for ‘I Wish I Hads’ and ‘What Ifs’ when you have the opportunity for ‘I Remember When I Dids’ and ‘Yeah!I Did Thats’. It’s best to learn from experiences had than to hide because of the threats of things not working. Every experience expands our life and is a piece of the puzzle of the journey of our lives.
You might ask “But what if i can do a number of things? Am I not supposed to focus on one thing?” Well, how will you know if any one of them will be successful if you don’t try them out. And it is never too late to start trying yourself out. Infact, do you know when the best time is to try? Right now!
Travel your world!
Explore your life!
Permit yourself!
Just do it!
I do earnestly hope this resonates with you and steers you towards actions that will lead to living a full life that is empty at the end.
P.S. The artwork attached to this post is officially my first strike at graphics. I felt I could try it and I did. I downloaded a free graphic design software online and here you have it, me riding on one of the waves of my sea. How did I do? 😀
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