You fit do am while you still dey fear

You wake up early and there be something wey you don dey dodge for weeks. You sabi exactly wetin e be. E get shape and e get name, and you fit tell one stranger for one sentence, na so you sabi say e real, e no be just mood. Light dey come up. Your hand steady small. Today na ordinary day, and na only ordinary day anybody don ever start anything for.

There be cup near your elbow, heat dey rise from am for one thin line. Somewhere outside, one bird dey repeat something. The room hold that kain silence wey place dey get before the day start make noise. Your phone dey face down. Nothing wey dey happen here resemble turning point, and e no go resemble one tomorrow too.

You don dey wait make you feel ready, and the waiting don cost pass wetin the doing for ever cost. Make I break am plain. Confidence no be permit wey dem dey give you before work; na receipt wey dem dey print after, and dem dey print am according to how much of the frightening thing you don really do. So if you dey wait for am, na wait you dey wait for paper wey only the very act you dey postpone fit produce. That loop no get exit, and you don dey stand inside am politely, dey think say na person else fault make delay dey happen.

Run your own thinking the other way small. You don decide say fear na sign make you stop. But you fear the first time wey you drive, the first time wey you talk to person wey you wan know, the first day for every work wey you don ever good for, and for none of dem the fear no show say na your ability e dey talk about. Na novelty e dey talk about, and dat one na different thing entirely, e go pass by e own time. Courage never be say the feeling no dey. Na the willingness to move while the feeling still dey on, and you don do dat one before, but you never give yourself credit.

So today, set timer for ten minutes and do the frightening thing anyhow, while you dey fear. No be the polished version. No be the one wey you go show person. Ten minutes of the real task, make your pulse do wetin e wan do, because na only contact with the thing itself dey reliably shrink fear. Then you stop, whether e go well or e no go well.

Ten minutes small well well make today fit hold am, but e big well well make e count. You no go feel brave before you start. You go feel brave after, na so e don always dey happen. Start anyway. Na so the whole trick be, and e never be secret before.