EP. 4: University Of Greatness – When You Are Broke and Can’t Afford the Price of Greatness – I Have an Idea

Yesterday I was confused and demoralized, my dad was in debt and I had promised to bail him out, but it seems I was going to fail him. The money I had trusted to use in that course wasn’t forthcoming.

He had got me informed early on Sunday that I would bail him out by Friday (today) when he will have to pay part of a loan he took a while ago, and I assured him I will do that. He came to me in the morning of yesterday and explained I’m his only hope, at that point I couldn’t tell him I might not be able to meet up.

How come have I become so broke to an extent of not been able to save my dad of shame? How come my journey to greatness is turning into worry over debt? How come have I been so broke that I have no option than to withdraw my steemit earning which I vow never to withdraw until I reach a set goal?

Both DAD and MOM are civil workers and the government owns them 5 months and 3 months’ salary respectively. This might surprise you only if you are not a Nigerian.

In some states in Nigeria, state government owns workers over 10 month’s salary and many workers don’t have a clue when to expect the next pay. This will give you a clue into how workers suffer in a nation like Nigeria and why there are more chronic poverty scenario here than in any place in the world.

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Well, that’s not the focus of this post and it's a story for another day.

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In my confusion I withdrew my little SBD and when I was about converting it into my local currency from bitcoin wallet, I realized my SBD didn’t reach minimum bitcoin conversion rate required by Nigeria exchanges. Then I became even more convinced that I was confuse. But I didn’t want to fail my dad, I said to myself.

Idea 1: Solution is not in confusion.

Confusion took away solution and made me think less as smart as I could; I discovered that my situation was thinking for me and getting me more confused. And this what happens when you become your situation, always remember that your situation is not you and you are not your situation.

The solution to every problem is right beside confusion, you need to knock out confusion to pick it up. So the first step to buying yourself greatness even when you are dead broke as me is to get out of confusion.

So I figured out a way to come out of confusion; by picking up my phone and calling a female friend who I took a walk out with and discuss something different entirely without remembering the mess I was into.

Shortly after the workout and getting back home, I got the solution.

Idea 2: start with something even If you have nothing (SOMETHING IS EVERYTHING YOU NEED)

I had already started with steemit which was what I had at the moment so I thought; steemit is the only thing I have currently, why can’t i continue with it?

Most times when we want to start something great we feel we have nothing to start with, but that’s a lie from the pit of our mind. The truth is; we always have something even if little, but we create excuses and roadblocks by our shortsightedness and refusal to accept we have something, using that to disqualify the little we have by concluding we have nothing to start with.

Begin with what you have and don’t think you have nothing. Something is what everyone has and thinks they don’t have. Knock out nothing and give something a chance. So I did it and got back to steemit and chatted up with a friend who came to my rescue and bails me out with a little loan.

I was happy to watch steemit acting as my savior twice in a day.

Idea 3: If you hate to do it, it’s a good reason to do it

I hated to ask people for financial help, even if it’s a little help I don’t feel confident asking, but I did yesterday and that became a saving grace.

Greatness is finding courage to do what you are scared of and feel happy that you did it anyways because it became a saving grace.

If you don’t do it, the default result is failure, confusion and costly assumption but if you do it, you have little to loss even if you get a NO that means Next Opportunity.

Summary

To begin the journey of greatness we definitely need finance, we need ideas, we need comfortable time, we need people around us, we need support and we need something to begin with. But what if we don’t have everything or most of the things we need to begin our journey into doing something great? Should we be handicapped because we don’t have everything we need to start something great?

Remember

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How you begin doesn’t matter much compare to what you will do once you begin and how mighty you will end once you didn’t stop middle way.

Most great men/women have little and rough beginnings and to me that is a signal that the end will be great. If the road to greatness is such a straight one, don’t you think life will have less meaning?

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University of Greatness is a new blog series on steemit by @bania featuring combinations of motivational articles and stories of a young Nigeria boy sharing is experience and that of others as he journey through the school of greatness. Check out introduction episode here, episode 1, episode 2 and episode 3. You can support me by following, commenting, resteeming and upvoting this post to encourage me to strive more for the best and share great stories here.