One thing that triggered this blog is my ability to talk to people, I talk to motivate people and make them do much more they think possible; little did I know I needed some motivation myself. In the path of life, at one point or the other we may feel like there is nothing in front to aspire to; like we are at a fix; there is no more air in the room or at the end of the road not knowing it’s just a “T” junction, an avenue presented to us to see things differently and then move on. In times as such, all we need is a word in time to move us on. In this piece I’ll be sharing some words of motivation I receive from my Boss. I don’t actually fancy the usage “Boss” but this time I get the picture that makes me pompously call him BOSS.

It is true that those ahead of us have seen, they have experienced a lot in life, best believe, youngsters are to learn from their paths, in actual sense if they don’t talk how can we learn? (There’s a need) You may see your boss at work and feel like the man is over your head, he doesn’t give you your space; do this, do that, get this, get that and you feel they don’t know what they are doing. This are just part of the reason we call them bosses, they have a mandate to develop you if you are up to the task. They get easily pissed especially when they need more than they can get from you, which seem like common sense in application but not always so.

In the course of my annual appraisal, I was invited by my boss to his office only for him to see there was no target in place for me to be evaluated upon; and he said mischievously “you are so lucky” sitting in front of him I wondered how, thinking to myself I deserve a good evaluation, not having a set target to be measure upon was not something to be lucky about. Instead of the evaluation he started talking to me. He said if I were to be evaluated this day he would have tagged me a poor performer. (Wow! There goes a lightening in my head, my head sparked like the joining of two cables) immediately I wanted to know why. He went on saying initially when I joined the team, I gave a good impression, I was up and doing, along the line I lost it and until now he is not so impressed with me. I was so shocked, now I understand how lucky I was if I were to be evaluated; as our discussion were off records.

He asked me why; I answered in a bid of saving my head saying I didn’t feel motivated and challenged as such, nothing was stirring me as though and that I felt I knew so much about my present task and there was nothing new to challenge me on the job. I however highlighted a couple of task ahead that can keep me on top of my game and promised to recover from my sleep. He took my words for it and kept advising. He said for him there is nothing much to aspire to than to keep in view the day he will resign, that his career is behind; Mitchell he said; you are a young dynamic individual, your career is in front of you, the world is in front of you, you can decide where you want to be in 3years time and so on. That there are a lot of challenges, if I don’t like my present task, it is best I come to him to discuss it than to sit down and be playing, (Actually I wasn’t playing) I drifted though but not for long (still defending myself….) once he took that picture in he kept seeing me like that. At this point there was no word on earth I could use to defend myself.

If you don’t know Mitchell; he continued, you can do a lot with this company, a lot of training have been paid that you can take hold of, and that there are openings that awaits a profile to match, for me at every point in time I always wanted more, after getting this I wanted that, after getting that I wanted the other and so on; he also shared personal life experience to really charge me. After all he said, It came clear that I needed those words though they might sound familiar, they sounded differently when spoken to me and came at the time for my next move, I took them as a priceless life lesson. When he finished talking with me, I had fire in my head, so charge for the next move that I had to document it in this blog because I know those words are not in vain, and that in time they would stand for me. From there I began to talk to myself, if you have to be anything, be the best at it.

I am sharing this to all that may have something bothering them; or those having issues with personal affairs; maybe you are feeling like you are at the end of the road, take a look at where you are carefully, you may probably be at a “T” junction. See things differently, look at the other side and accelerate. I drifted away because I bothered myself with things to come; I am sharing my strength here: Be focused and be anxious for nothing, this is what we do to ourselves everyday; we weigh ourselves down until we can’t even move, get the picture moving is living. Enough is the trouble for today, why add that of next year to it. Time will bring everything to bear if properly invested. A friend shared with me “that at every stage in life you’ll have enough to sustain you in time, that what you don’t have now, you don’t really need. If you need it, it will come”. It is like learning to walk and growing up. Life – we often hear is in stages. At one point in time we need to take some lessons. I have learnt mine. My question to you now is; have you?

Shalom.

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