Growing Into Excellence.

"Learn to crawl before you attempt to fly." X

Low-key we have a way of putting ourselves under unnecessary pressure, in the subtle way we try to compare one step one to the next person's step 100.

If you are not fully trained to expect perfection at once. One thing I've learned is that perfection takes time and intentional work. If you aim at perfection, trust that you'll end up frustrated, because it's an overtime reward of continual practice.

The last time I presented a poem, it wasn't so great. Not the poem, but the performance and it had me depressed and then came another opportunity to be perform on stage again and I had cold feets. The fear of screwing up again but hit hard. So of course I went to my coach and oga was like "Don't demand perfection from yourself" and I realized I was being hard on myself.

I took the opportunity my church gave to perform and I'm thankful I did. Basically my problem was I wanted to do poetry the expert way whereas I was still an amateur, I learnt the hard way that it doesn't work like that.

Before you can do it the expert way, you must first become an expert. Doing comes from a place of being. I cannot do what I am not. If I'm not a writer, I can not do writing. it's that simple. So when I now try to do writing regardless I won't get the intended result.

Dearest reader, it is very important to know the version of you that is required to do like you envisioned. There's a YOU that can move mountains, however if you attempt to without becoming that YOU first, you'll either fail woefully or have a fractured success.

Do from the standpoint of your current abilities and overtime you'll arrive at perfection.

@favvy_Okwans🖤.