Hello my amazing people of the @cleanplanet community. Welcome to another round of the clean planet biweekly contest and I'm happy to share my views and experience on the topic “Not Enough”. I've had several encounters where I felt like I wasn't doing enough or putting enough effort to make it work. Here I will be sharing one of the experiences I had which I would barely forget.
In 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic, I finished my first degree program, waiting for the pandemic to be over so that I can proceed with my National Youth Service Corp program. But the pandemic lingered, which kept us at home for months. As such, I decided to learn some online and physical skills within that period of stay at home. The online skill I dived into was graphic design and the physical skill I decided to learn is the guitar because we had guitar at home.
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I was very committed to building those skills to the core. Most times I'll go online and gather video resources for both graphics design and also guitar playing that will help me develop those skills at once. I put in all the effort and time required but yet I'm not getting the results as fast as I wanted. I've had sleepless nights and hectic day to see that I achieve my goals yet I felt I'm not doing enough.
And that feeling was because my younger brother started learning that guitar also some weeks after I started. And he doesn't have access to enough online resources like I do yet his result was fast and clearer than mine. And I could remember I personally thought him the basics before introducing him to some video resources that will help him grow and indeed he stayed committed to that and I must say that the result of his labour is clear, while I'm still battling with a lot of things like scaling in guitar, but he does it seamlessly. That made me felt like I'm not doing enough. Sometimes I also felt like this is not my calling, maybe I'm not born for this and all that. But believe me, all that is me stressing myself. The result was gradually showing, but I was too blind to see it because my expectations were high.
But I was able to realise later that I was actually growing, the skill is gradually developing though not as fast as I expected. Maybe that was because I chose to learn both graphic design and guitar at the same time I guess. But the difference became clearer over time as I remained consistent. So if you ask me what could be the best way to manage such feelings? The only answer I would give to you is to stay consistent and also keep record of your daily or weekly or monthly progress and over time I can assure you that you will see a clear result.
So in conclusion, I'll always advise that do not try to learn two or more skills that are too demanding of your time and resources at the same time. You can always learn one now and learn the other later after you must have mastered the first one to an extent. I say this because I almost gave up on the process because it was too demanding. Even though I was doing all I could yet the result was not visible to me until after a long period of time. So it takes a lot of patience and consistency to stay true to learning more than one skill at a time.
Thank you for reading through my post.
And I would like to use this medium to invite @oluthomas @rishagamo @katezauka to partake in this prompt with the link below:
@nwothini335/clean-planet-biweekly-contest-round-14-results-round-15-not-enough-b6f