HOW DREAMERS BECOME ACHIEVERS
By Lubnah Abdulhalim
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I have a dream.
Just so-big a dream that would make you stagger coz of its weight, if I handed
it over to you. It is what makes me wake up each morning with new hope, new
faith and new dedication. There’s always something special about living your
dream. It is what drives you to wake up cheerfully and ignore the Monday blues,
the over-load of work on your desk or that your cat actually drunk your milk
that was for breakfast. There is something more to it, some power…it is all hope
that your bright day will soon come. It’s about having focus on what you want
to do, being dedicated and putting in a lot of hard work. I met so many
talented people in my life, people who actually sleep on what God has bestowed
on them and expect just one day a miracle will happen and they will have all
they ever wanted. Maybe they seize to realize that miracles ended with prophet
hood or maybe they still live in the fantasy of that song we sang at
kindergarten whereby the farmer luckily digs out some diamond: “Bwana Tumbo
mwenye shamba alipanda viazi, akachimba chimba chimba akaona almasi! Lo! Lo!
Bahati kwa mtu mwenye shamba!” is that so??
What makes a
dreamer an achiever is the passion one has towards what they do, however
difficult it may seem or how monotonous it may be, without complaining, but
instead, doing it to their best. It is just like that stubborn maths sum that
doesn’t want to be solved yet and X doesn’t seem to appear on your way but you
keep trying till you succeed. This just reminds me of a regular quote by
someone very special, my mum: ‘for you to succeed, you must try and try and
try’ and yeah after all, nothing comes on a silver platter!
