DO IT YOURSELF!!

You have the passion to do so many things but it always ends up like a fantasy, right? you just fantasize on those great ideas and smile on them! You never take the courage to try them out because you are afraid of failure? Or are you afraid that people will laugh at you? Oh no! I think you feel that no one will appreciate your effort! I don't know what’s stopping you from becoming that person but I know what? You are not alone, but after reading this you will be probably be alone if you don't change that perception.

There are many things you have outlined in your life and you really want to achieve and they constantly accumulate and now they are even troubling you and you are looking for an easy way out! It’s time to stop that kind of a life. 

I have always had so much interest in many things but more so I have always wanted to learn to be all round. To do as many tasks as possible, not so that I can get a job one day but to make my life diverse and have a better taste of life in varied fields. 

The first step to start living you dream is to stop thinking about it and start working to get it. I have always wanted to learn how to repair computers. But I so afraid to try because I thought if I try to repair and it does not start I will have to pay. That was while in form three taking Computer studies. I had a computer that was just impossible to complete tasks. It kept hanging, the hard disk is not sufficient, The RAM is even smaller. It was impossible for me to do what I wanted but until I decided that I want a better machine, I could not nothing about it. The one day in a very simple manner I come into the computer lab and dismantled the whole CPU and started to assemble it. I did it slowly but carefully and also cautiously looking at the door not to be caught by the teacher. After an hour or so, Alas I knew about the inside of my Computer, now all remained was to look for the spares I needed and I had what I wanted. Satisfied I was now comfortable with it. That was me. I had to decide and more importantly is being ready to handle the consequences.

Sometimes you have an initiative that you want to achieve. Maybe you want to start an organization or a foundation. But you just toy with the idea.  It’s time to stop. What you need is to start looking for like-minded people and also relate with those who have already started theirs and they will tell you for free that it’s the simplest thing to do. The hardest of all is usually to decide to ACT on the idea. Once you make the first step, you are done! I did it because someone encouraged me.

You may try out things and you feel like it’s too hard to be achieved. Its taking a lot of my time and I don’t know is I can do it. But just know that, there are no single person who is successfully and have a legacy that tried once and it worked. There are countless nights that I have stayed on trying to make things work but they don’t but I never give up, if they totally fail, I seek advice from more experienced people. This week I have had two terrible nights. One trying to format a computer whose hard disk is almost failing. For those who knows this, it will never format. It reaches a certain percentage then fails the process. It took me a whole day to figure out that since it had crashed. Then several hours to extract the personal files for the client in the crashed hard disk. But I did it and the client was happy. If I decided it was impossible, I couldn’t know the solution to the problem. Troubleshooting sometimes is more important than recommending for a new system in this age.

I cannot finish without stating this. Yesterday I was learning how to make LAN cable, a process that the professions take about five minutes to complete took me four hours to make two working cables. And am proud of my work! Now I know how to. I had to even call a friend to remind me the colour codes! Now I have an added skill in my list. What are you doing in that discipline you are in to ensure that you fit in?  Which solutions are you offering the society? These are the main questions that make me keep going because I want to make a difference in my locality.

There are so many things you can do in your free time and they make you outstanding. Don’t just stay there and watch movies, instead listen to music while your eyes, hands, mind and focus is on innovation! Be the change and do it yourself!

I will keep giving your ideas on what you can do in various fields, this is in technology. You are in environment, think on how to make it more friendly like how do you solve the channeling of waste water in houses and make it useful? Ever thought how there can be a drainage garden? In Business, how do you create solutions while making profit? You have the knowledge, the skills maybe you lack the resources, start working on the first two and you will be surprised how resources start coming around.

People need, doers now because almost everyone nowadays is a thinker! Do it yourself and get out of the DREAMING ZONE!