Horrible Days Make For Great Memories

2/30, in my diary.

Good evening beautiful people!

I gotta keep it a buck with you.

Today felt horrible.

I mean can we just keep it real here and not try to come up with a nice intro with sunshine and rainbows and just admit that we have those days?

Because today was one of those days!

I mean I even romanticised doing today’s write-up from the comfort of the living room whilst gazing at the sunset, like look at this!

But no I’m in the office stuck doing reviews.

No one tells you the reality of building ever, all they do is show you the money, sell you a course and hope you fall for it. But guys let me tell you this birthing an idea is very much painful.

It’s funny because I was going to use the example of childbirth to try to express simply how it feels and my brain went off in a million ways of how I can make it all poetic sounding to paint the picture, talk about the groaning, the pushing and even the reality of the state that the mother can be left in after birth.

But interestingly enough no need to paint a picture. It’s already super clear! Before we continue, can we shout out the Creator of the universe for a minute? What a flex! He really said what you’re trying to express, I’ve already expressed… Look around.

Wow!

I digress.

For the next 30 days, I have to write right? And I was thinking today…

How can I give value yet also just keep it real?

Like I really don’t aim to come every day with a ‘Here’s 3 ways to become successful’ I really want to keep things as real as they come— You know like you’re actually in my diary, so if you can pardon me I would love to keep it as simple as I see it each day, and maybe occasionally add some obvious value. But overall, my hope is, is as you read these entries, you take a break and reflect and think about where you are right now, and in that, my mission is that you feel refreshed after each read.

Back to birthing.

My obsession lately has been this thing I’ve been building called Tribe318.

It started off as this movement in university where I discovered that I became so busy and had opportunities that I could not do all the work, and thus not leverage the opportunities in front of me. I quickly found that when I made the right connections, everything began to change. I could bring people together, we could develop and also take another step into something we wanted to do full-time.

I began to build this idea out, and in a few months without any experience, we would connect hundreds of creatives around the world to other hearts of the movement. I would later drop it in hopes to one day pick it up.

Well, this year (4 years later) I decided I wanted to connect more creatives together and continue what I had begun. And can I keep it real right now? I have a headache.

Sidenote— This is the thing about ideas. They torment you until you give them attention (sort of like kids) and you just can’t leave them in the supermarket and run away (don’t do that to your kids!)

But it’s funny that now every day, all I do is try to bring this idea to life and move this torment to a place of Joy, whilst of course trying to balance the other things I do in life (cue the 1000 different projects).

I even have teams, help and structures in place, but continually I find that no matter how prepared you can be, you will still be surprised.

So if I can foster together a lesson for you to take away, I would say build only the things you deeply care about, because the days where everything crashes down, I hope you love it enough to get the shovel out and rebuild again.

So as we journey to the end of this mess of an entry, I hope in some way you find respite in my words. If not, sorry I wasted your time!

If there are spelling mistakes argue with your mum, I have 0 energy to correct anything.

#BornToBeFree #OnLYGoDCanJudGeMe

Anyways stay youthful people, and don’t let the hard days age you, we go again tomorrow.

Here’s a quote I’ve attempted to conjure up to inspire:

In all our preparation we still can’t predict what mountains may arise, alas the best we can do is to aim only to have enough room in our lives to respond to what’s in front of us at any given moment.

Stay young.