Bukola Sobowale

Compared to my peers, I have never achieved anything in my life and career at record time. Never. I am the queen of trailing behind. I would fail exams multiple times. Fail aptitude tests Fail at interviews Fail at getting promoted I stayed in roles and grades for longer than I should have. For me, life seems to drag. It is a pattern, and that is the story of my life. I would try really hard, but I would fail. I would debrief on why I couldn’t hit key milestones and see some valid reasons; sometimes, they wouldn’t make sense. This bothered me every time I introspect, but then it stopped bothering me. At least not so much anymore. The reason is that I am pretty resilient. My journey is complex, thorny, uncertain and quite complicated, but I seem to stay the course. I realised that I do not get demotivated, no matter the number of ‘No’s I get. It just fuels me instead. I think that’s a superpower (what do you think?). And I show up again and again and again because I want it badly. So, whatever I have achieved so far in my life is not because I am good at it from the first time; it is mainly that I have become so resilient that I stay on the hill until I get it. This is my story. I have begged before I got I have scraped before I ate I have stayed knocking before the door opened for me. There was hardly any magic or any leverage. My leverage is my resilience, and I use it to my advantage. That’s how I win. Maybe that's how you win, too. I'm not sure, but you know better. Go and be fantastic today. #Orebukola