𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗘𝗫𝗖𝗨𝗦𝗘❓

We are so comfortable with giving excuses and trust me I know how that feels. Life can throw things at us such that we are beginning to embrace excuses as our birthright. The economic situation of our nation now is enough to promote all and every form of excuse as people are just struggling and trying to survive.

Excuses do not change situations but instead delay the inevitable. Truth is I have been trying to publish my first publication for over a year now and I can tell you that it hasn't been as rosy and smooth as I expected and as you could ever imagine. The publishing organization also had issues that communication between us. At one point, I lost hope as I was asking myself if it would take that long to get a paper published.

Early this year the publishing firm reached out to me and told me that they were planning to do a peer review on intending publication which mine was part of and that I should please resend it in document format as they cannot find the previous one. When I heard, I was happy that it was still on track which I gladly resent to the email.

You might be wondering why I am saying all this but hold on and follow me to the end. After the peer review was successfully done on my paper, I was told to edit and effect the necessary corrections and then send the corrected version to the email. Well, I was excited because I have always wanted to have my first publication be in a Nigeria journal before publishing with foreign journals.

This is where I am driving. When I wrote the paper, I had a functioning laptop and now that I am to correct the paper after review I have no laptop. Having tried several times to get a new one but kept hitting a rock. At first, I wanted to push and suspend it, but I heard a voice say that I had come this far to now let go at this point because of no laptop. I realized that I would have to borrow a friend's laptop to do that but the friends I have to use their laptops 24/7, so I will have to use it maybe 20 minutes per day to be able to effect the necessary correction which I decided to do. 

So I started editing the paper the first Sunday in March which was the 3rd of March, 2024, and completed it on the 10th of March, 2024. A friend's laptop and my smartphone were what I used to edit and correct it. So hopefully before the middle of this year, my paper will be released and published. 

Lessons from this experience:

😃 What is your excuse?

😃 What is stopping you from going after what you love?

😃 What excuse are you giving for not pursuing your dreams?

😃 Why not pay now and play later instead of playing now and paying later?

😃 Always find a way around the limitations that you hindering the fulfillment and realization of your dreams and goals.

I will conclude with a story. A man called David in 1 Samuel. 30:6b says he encouraged himself in the Lord his God. Life is never a bed of roses and we just have to find a way to encourage ourselves even when no one is or situations around us are not.

I will update you when my paper has finally been published.

Thank you.

I remain 👇

𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗢𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘂𝘆𝗶

(@𝘁𝗼𝗯𝘆𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮_𝗶𝗻𝗰)

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