As I sit down to write this, I can't help but feel a whirlwind of emotions. 2024 wasn't just another year, it was the year that tested everything, I thought I knew about myself, but I was wrong. It was messy, raw, and brutally honest and it was like the year I've never experienced in the past. But it was also the year I discover strength I didn't know I had within myself...It wasn't easy, but at the end it was victory.
At the start of the year, I had a vision, my goals were cleared, my energy was high, and I felt unstoppable within myself, I have this determination within me that, the year is going to end up as a victory...though it happened as victory at the end, but it was a very rough with huddles journey. You know life has a funny way of humbling you. You might plan things horizontal, and you end up going on vertical, not by your wish but by what life gives you. By February I was grappling with setbacks I never saw coming, fail plan, financial hiccups, and the creeping shadow of self doubt. All this started happening to me, especially self doubt because all my plans was not coming through, I started asking myself if all my plans for the year would work out good
Sincerely, this really hit me hard, there were time at night when I'll starred at ceiling till day break, sleep would not come because I was deeply thinking about how to make things happen. Some times I questioned my decisions, my talents and even my worth. But in those moments, I learned to sit with my pains, to let it teach me instead of trying to escape it. To say the truth, the breakthrough doesn't come in a single moment. It came in a small almost imperceptible shifts. I started seing breakthrough when my effort started reducing, when I was at the point of quiting, giving up. Infact it was like a magic to me because this is a business I've been putting in effort day and night, 27/7, but nothing to show for it, no single sign that it's going to work and I invested so much in this business and even took some risk.
It took me Seven(7) good months before I started seing breakthrough in this business. And to tell you something, one of the hardest lesson I learned this past year 2024 was to ask for help. As someone who pride themselves on being independent, admitting that I couldn't do it was all terrifying. But then the people I leaned on didn't see me as weak, even though they know I was passing through alots. There was self doubt though, but I never let that to affect me or let that show in my business for people to read me and know what I'm passing through. And this always remind me that being human means being vulnerable
By the time October rolled around, I noticed something beautiful happening. The challenges I had once cursed were now the stories I shared to inspire others. The failure I thought would define me became the fuel that pushed me forward. And the self doubt, it became quitter, replaced by a quiet confidence I'll fought hard to learn
2024 wasn't perfect. Far from it. But it was real, it was human and it show me that resilience. Isn't about never breaking, but about learning how to put the piece together, stronger and wiser than before.
As we enter into a new year, I carry with me the scars, and the lesson of 2024. To anyone reading this remember your challenges doesn't define you. How you rise from them does... Here's to healing, growth, and beauty of being unapologetically human.
Truly, what does not kill you make you stronger. I know you are stronger and better equipped to face the year , I wish U success.