Running, Yet Standing Still.

This topic is a beautiful one, and before diving in, I will love to say that, being busy does not equate making progress.

Now, I've heard times in my life when I'm always busy, from going to work, to attending to my own customers, then responding to messages and carrying burdens that weren't mine. Then, you don't even need to ask me if I'm busy or not, it's what everyone can see, I am busy. But in the real sense, my life was actually stagnant, no traceable or noticeable progress.

And that is why I said, being busy and making progress is two different things. One thing I have come to notice is that, when we are busy we actually do not have time to check if we are indeed making progress, the fact that we are busy doing this and that will make us feel important, productive, needed and all, whereas, deep deep in there, you're leaving your own life, I mean you're getting distant from the life you actually want. And being busy as well can blind us, it will make us feel too busy to even sit ourselves down and ask deep, thoughtful questions, and any time we even tried, we will be the one to convince ourselves that we are busy.

I feel it is even harder as a Nigerian, the fact that you're busy alone is enough, at least you're leaving home and returning at night, or you're at least busy with something and not sitting down idle. What we all are doing and what I feel we all are doing is that we are trying so hard to stay afloat and not sink, we actually do not place close attention to the fact that our boat is still at a point, we are only focused on how that it(we) will not sink. And that's how we kept on postponing our dreams, giving excuses while assuring ourselves that, "life moves on" and in the real sense we are not moving forward.

It feels like we are more of so engaged in doing activities while neglecting productivity. We are paying bills, sorting out emergencies and surviving life, while getting more distant to where we really want to be. And all those things we do like the bills we pay are now what we term as productivity whereas it is us just striving to keep the boat afloat and not moving forward.

The part of the world we live in is not encouraging, but the best way we all want and the best way that will make us be productive is not about being busy, but about doing fewer things, the right things. I'm it saying we are not trying, this is just the reality of most of us, we are indeed trying,even the bills are not so easy to pay these days, and being able to even sort it is something to be proud of.

But it's just time we become more deliberate and more focused while learning and planning as well. When we do that, and also take our time to rest and ask this simple but deep questions about if we are only just surviving or growing, we will be able to see and know the truth, and it will help us to be more deliberate, focused and not just move, but move forward, even if it's a little.

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