You no dey behind, you dey your own clock

You wake, and day never spend finish. Na di only useful fact wey dey available dis hour, and na di same fact everybody dey get. Somewhere, window dey open. Full stretch of hours dey wait for you, and nobody don claim am. Whatever you decide yesterday about where you suppose reach by now, e no get power over di next sixteen hours.

Ground cold under one leg, e warm under di oda one. Traffic dey start to sound like traffic. Bag dey by di door wey carry yesterday inside. Light dey find di same corner of wall wey e dey find every morning around dis time, and today you notice am because you just happen to dey look.

You dey keep scoreboard against people wey you no fit see where dem start from. E dey tire person, and e no free. Di reason why dat comparison dey pain you well well na because you dey match your inside, wey full with every doubt and every work wey never complete, against another person outside, wey na only wetin dem choose to show. Dat one no be fair measurement. E even worse pass broken instrument, because broken one go still dey point to di right thing, but dis one dey measure two things wey never fit compare from beginning.

Turn am around small. If say to arrive late mean say you go arrive badly, den everybody wey ever change direction for middle of dem life go produce work wey worse pass those wey go straight, and na clearly no be so tin dey happen. Person wey start for twenty and person wey start for forty no dey same race dey run different speed; dem dey separate track wey just resemble parallel from far. Wetin really predict where you go land no be when clock start. Na whether you still dey put hours inside for twelve months time, and dat one na question about your habit, no be your history.

So today, pick one number wey belong to only you. Pages, minutes, reps, calls, whatever di unit of your thing be. Write am somewhere you go see for Sunday, and check am once a week, no be once an hour. One private measure dey beat hundred public ones, because private measure no fit lose because another person get good month.

Di hours wey dey ahead never spend, and dem be your own true true. Nobody dey run your clock apart from you, and e don dey keep better time pass wetin you give am credit for. Start from here. Here na real place to start from.