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Stop Making Big Plans
JUST DO! EVERY DAY
I have a friend who is a music artiste (or at least claims to be.) We met up about 7 years ago when he released his first mixtape and (at the time) was considering how next to promote the work. We sat beneath a broad cupola at one of the public parks in Lagos and shared our different creative pursuits and how far along we each were on the journey to bringing our dreams to fruition. He was at the cusp of breaking into the Nigeria entertainment industry and I was nursing the old glory of my self-published debut book titled On a Lot of Things which was a collection of shorts I’d written over the years on Facebook.
“I don’t want to rush this process.” I remember him saying. “My art needs time. It is different.”
I could relate with him. I had also invested over a year of my life writing a memoir, which was still a rough draft at the time I was having this conversation with him. I could understand how far from perfection the memoir was and the big dreams I had for it. How I wanted it to be published by the biggest publishing houses in Nigeria, how I wanted it to be adopted into the secondary school reading curriculum … such big dreams I had.
