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It’s been six months people!<\/p>\n
“I can’t blog during the school term I’m busy”<\/i><\/p>\n
“Oof I have writer’s block I can’t”<\/i><\/p>\n
“I’ve got many drafts but I can’t post them because they aren’t good enough”<\/i><\/p>\n
Oh and there’s the 30 day challenge going on this June Zothile. (Releasing one post for every day of this month)<\/p>\n
“I can’t release a blog post everyday”<\/i><\/p>\n
Those two words “I can’t”<\/i><\/p>\n
Mean: I am not able to, it is not within my means.<\/strong><\/p>\n What?<\/p>\n That means I’ve been lying to myself. If I managed my time better, shoved people’s opinions out the door, scheduled my posts (because electricity in Zimbabwe is unreliable) and actually put my mind to it – blogging could have been well within my means.<\/strong> I could have been consistent, but I chose otherwise.<\/p>\n I could have, I just chose not to.<\/p>\n Then another argument I’ve raised is look at other bloggers Zothile some have electricity, some are paid to do it, some have better ideas, they are not battling A Level, you’re too young!<\/i><\/p>\n No. I’m shoving those excuses out the door.<\/p>\n I’ll counter those lies with this analogy I shared with my classmates two years ago.<\/p>\n A hundred dollars.<\/i><\/p>\n Hopes are high that you have a sound grasp of basic mathematics.<\/p>\n There’s many ways to get to $100.<\/p>\n When it comes to getting things done some people are a single hundred-dollar bill<\/i><\/strong> and with one step they are at $100, others are a fifty-dollar note<\/i><\/strong> that has to work twice as hard to get to $100 and some are Washingtons<\/i><\/strong> (one-dollar notes)<\/p>\n That means that one-dollar note<\/i><\/strong> needs to exert itself fully and be multiplied by one hundred to get to $100. That is a lot of work but it can be done.<\/p>\n J.K Rowling, the author of Harry Potter had her work rejected by many publishers, she was living on welfare, she was a single mom and she’d write on her commute to work. She wasn’t at one hundred then, but her sustained efforts carried her up to >100. Greater than 100.<\/p>\n At the moment I’m a one-dollar note in terms of the scarce resource – time. (School is no joke) but if I manage my time well I can put maintaining my blog on my to-do list and actually tick it off at the end of the day. If I choose<\/i><\/strong> to put in the work I can do it. If I choose<\/strong><\/i> to be complacent and comfortable then I won’t be able to and you’ll hear “I can’t”<\/strong><\/p>\n Nelson Mandela said “There is no passion to be found in playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”<\/i><\/p>\n Don’t sink, don’t settle, that’s how you wind up at the bottom of the barrel.<\/p>\n Keep it moving, don’t lose momentum.<\/p>\n And allow me to re introduce myself…<\/p>\n Hey there, I\u2019m Zothile Zulu and I am a sixteen year old living in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. As far as success and achievement go there’s no such thing as “I can’t”<\/i> it is rather, a case of “<\/i>I can<\/strong><\/i> but I <\/i>chose<\/i><\/strong> not to”<\/i> and hopefully I’ll be making better choices<\/strong> from now on.<\/p>\n Hopes are high that you’ll do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been six months people! “I can’t blog during the school term I’m busy” “Oof I have writer’s block I can’t” “I’ve got many drafts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[63,127,131,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-self-development","8":"tag-complacent","9":"tag-success","10":"tag-time","11":"tag-time-management"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoezulu.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}I couldn’t have.<\/del><\/p>\n\n