Incredible India monthly contest of August #1|My own story!

Hello Steemians! welcome to my blog. First and foremost I want to thank the organizer of this event. @meraindia you did so well to come up with this thoughtful contest. Second, I want to also give a big shout out to @etoro for inviting me to this wonderful contest. Thanks sweetheart for giving me the avenue to air out my views and apparently let other people learn from my story.
Just read along and learn.

Do you believe lives are incomplete without challenges? Explain how?

Life is short yet it is beautiful. I strongly believe life is incomplete without challenges. Personally I can elaborate on that for more than one hour without getting exhausted. The older and responsible you get the more you learn from life. The greatest challenge in life is the challenge of chosing what to do with our lives. Career choice has been one of the toughest challenge I have ever experienced in my life. Now, this is not a fiction. This is a true life story. I will break it down for you. work carries 80% of your life. Don't do what you don't love for a living.

What has been the most significant challenge you have faced? We invite you to share your most profound real-life stories with us.

The most important challenge I have faced in life was the challenge of my choice of career.
Dad wanted to be a banker. He asked me to study banking and finance in the tertiary institution. He even gave me all the necessary assistance to achieve that. His greatest dreams was him seeing me working for the financial institutions like bank, insurance company etc. But he never considered my weakness and strength. Skills and value. I was young and naive. Before I continue please never you be naive or confused like I was.
I wanted to make my Dad happy, so I reluctantly agreed to his choice.
Unfortunately, I failed the usual entry examination which is known as aptitude test. To cut the long story short. I was offered political science. I reluctantly accepted the offer. scaled through school studying what I didn't love. I was literally good because I studied hard and took my academic pursuit serious.
Even when I was intelligent I was in the wrong field. Studying political science in Africa is bullsh*t. What will I do with it after school?
When I was done with my studies I realized I can't empower myself with political science. I then got a paid job as a subject teacher in a secondary school, teaching social studies, government and geography. I didn't like the job. I worked for a term and a half, got bored, drained and unmotivated. I resigned and decided to pursue my career as an artist.
I took my hobby to another level. Thanks to YouTube channels and other friends who helped me practiced.
Uduakobong Dan, Eric Archibong, Ibim Cookey, Chiamonwu Joy, Oscar Ukonu and other artist impacted my life both online and offline.
I dropped everything about what I studied and bended all my focus on my hobby and what I loved doing the most.

To summarize, today my hobby has paid off more than what I studied. When choosing a career make sure you concentrate on what you love doing for free. What you can do for fun. What you can do and don't find yourself working. Yes! Now I get paid for having fun. Challenges makes us stronger and better as we push through. Don't let your challenge drag you backwards. Use them as building blocks for creation and innovation.

Share some suggestions that can be helpful while going through different life challenges!

Since this is my personal story my suggestions will somehow be personal, though it will be helpful for people going through the same challenge. If you can relate in the story then my suggestions will definitely reflect your challenge and probably help you scale through life just like I did.

✓. When it comes to career choice please don't ever listen to your parents. They want the best for you no doubt. However, they don't literally know what is the best for you. This means you should never let them choose what you want to become or do with your life. One movie actor by name Anold talked extensively about this particular suggestion in a motivational speech.

✓. Sit yourself down and brainstorm on what to do with your Life. ask yourself questions like what can I do so well that I think no one else around me can do better than me? What makes me happy? What do other people know me for? What makes me famous among my peers? What makes me happy?

✓. Love what you do. The first secret to stay happy in life is loving what you do. Your work will consume major part of you life. Don't scale through life tiptoeing like a scared monkey. Focus on your strength, not weakness.

✓. Hangout and learn from expert in your desired career. Get mentors, both offline and online. Thanks to YouTube, AI and valuable websites and blogs like steemit. Devote time for listening to gurus in that your career. Their failure should be your success.

✓. Practice as much as you can. Don't wait till a certain time or phase. Everything works well for those who are well prepared. You don't have much time. Life is so short. Do not waste your precious time. Start learning early. After learning for a long time then take away the letter "L" in the learning and start earning.

✓. Figure out early what you want for yourself and what you don't want.

✓. Turn your skills and or hobbies into career and make a living out of it. Don't go around searching for paid jobs. Do what you love.

✓. No matter how old you are don't write yourself off. Keep scheming through, consider trying different choices till you pick what you want.

✓. Paid jobs are trap. Don't fall for it. Become an entrepreneur and get freedom, name, brand and money.
paid jobs will deny you the freedom of doing what you love and spending time with family and friends.

✓. Pay to learn what you don't know. You will gain it back in triple fold or more. No knowledge is a waste. I've been there. Don't think or act like you know it all.

I want to use this opportunity to invite my friends to participate in the contest.
Here they are :
@josepha
@mercybliss
@julietbella
@destinedhanik and
@jemilatbuhari

I hope you like my post. Thanks for going through my post and blog. Keep steeming.💙