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Detoxification which means removal of certain things one is addictive to according to the dictionary is a very germaine thing to do in the life of an individual. Atimes, people are addicted to certain thing, most especially, a particular lifestyle that needs to be removed and this is because of the havoc or damage this kind of a lifestyle has caused to the life of the person holding on to such a lifestyle. When talking about lifestyle here, it encompass all aspect of human life. So, there's lifestyle(s) that should be removed for one to move forward and live a better life.
Looking at my past years, there's alot of thing that have been a clog to the wheel of my life. These things have been weighing me down and has served as a burden to me and my development. Though living these things behind is difficult and this is because, they've been part and parcel of me, infact, I'm addicted to most of these things and like I said earlier, these things are now part of my blood and water. But seriously, they are not good for my personal and general development.
So, these things need to be detoxify or shed away, so as for me to move ahead and live a better. Don't forget, that one cannot be doing the same thing same way and be expecting a different result. So, personal retreat or assessment is required to take this thing out of one's life. This I have done by looking inward and after reassessing my life, I realized two major things that need to be shed away from me to become a new man.
One of those two major things is procrastination. This has really been a worm to my existence in life and it's eating deep into my being. One thing I do consciously or unconsciously is to procrastinate and it's really affecting and it must be detoxifies before I can progress. Sometimes ago, I was to invest into a particular business of buying of palm oil in my area, so, there were times that the price used to go down and this time is mainly the production time or period, but instead of me to get it at a cheaper rate then, I was unable to do so, saying I will get later, months after months, I couldn't get it and it's not as if I don't have the money, I have the money, but decided to postponed the business transaction. So, at the long run, the price increases, even on a daily basis that I couldn't get the business done again. Now people are cashing out big on what they have got very cheap and it's paining as it is sweating those people. There's many things like that that procrastination have caused me. So, for this reason, I believe and I know that procrastination is a cankerworm eating deep into my success and future and it needs to be detoxified.
Looking at the past year and how it's effected me, another thing I will like to detoxifies is reactiveness. Seriously this has also caused my alot of things to achieve. Instead of being proactive to issues as they come, my reactive measures to those things has really affected me being great or more than whom I am today. Atimes, I used to wait for things to unfold before taking action which should not have been. This kind act only shows that I'm not ready or prepared to undergo a task and when this happen, it draws me back a thousand miles. When steps needs to be taken and it's not being taken then there's problem. I could remember a particular time when a friend was willing to advice me on getting a business done, so, I was reluctant to taking action, I was being reactive and not proactive just because I have no capital to kickstart the business. It's was later I realized that, that my friend was only trying to establish me and had it in mind to give me the capital to kickstart the business. Had I known it was like that, I would have been proactive to the course but my reactive measure to the issue cost me the big investment.
Lastly, permit me to add this to it, another thing that needs to be detoxify from my past year of living is FEAR. FEAR, has really cost be alot. It has made me to lose series of contract and even made me to lose my confidence. Doing things out of fear has really relegated me. Now the boldness is not that there for me to execute my plans. I have even lost my self confidence and esteem . Seriously, fear is a cancereorm that has eaten deep into my progress and it needs to be detoxified. I could remember when a man gave me a big project to supply him all things needed for his site construction, I was afraid cos I don't really know how to go buy it and that what of if I failed to meet his demand and expectations. So, when the man saw the fear written all over me, he splits the contracts worth millions of naira into two and gave me the smaller one. Can you see the power of fear. Though, I made the supply but didn't gain as much as I was supposed to gain. FEAR is not good, it only takes away ones confidence and esteem. So, fear is one of the things I will like to shed away from my life looking at the past years, just to become a new me. Self confidence without fear would have helped me to gain all the contract to myself and have all the profit. Though, I have learnt a lesson that, even if you don't know how to do a particular thing and you were being if you know how to do it, don't let fear grips you, tell them you know how to do it and go ahead and get expert in the field to do it for you. YOU CAN DO ALL THINGS. Just avoid FEAR.
All those things mentioned are cancerworm that has really eaten deep into my self confidence and esteem, they've really been a clog to the wheel of my life and should all be detoxify for me to make progress as a minimalist.
This is my entry to the minimalist weekly prompt.
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