Life Lately 🥴

 Life has been life-ing... But I'm here and so are you 🤜🏿🤛🏿 so let's get right into it. 

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First things first... CONGRATULATIONS🎉🍾🥂🍻! You made it to the second quarter of 2023... The beginning of any year is seldom soft meat for the most of us. Against the odds (and sometimes even the nods😬) you made it when others didn't... That is no small feat mate...

While we can all groan about the hurdles we've encounter the last 4 months, here's a few golden coins🪙 I've picked so far this year:

1. Started out unemployed...Being jobless (after quitting a job with no prospects of another) for 23 days taught me patience, resilience and resourcefulness. It was during this time that I decided to get serious about turning my skills (that for so long were done for free) into a profitable consultancy. Not making big buck just yet, but I'm glad it took joblessness to push me to realising my full potential. Fear of failure is not a factor anymore kuno.... 🤝🏿

2. Re-adjusting, re-aligning and repositioning... This has helped me cope through some hard times... Because nothing's permanent, your ability & agility to fitting a given situation is the new survival mode.  Otherwise, kuti wafwa nechikonko olo chigigo pamukoshi...

3. Hard work🛠️ vs smart work💼 .... Whichever way you choose to look at this phrase, it has WORK inscribed somewhere in there. So DO the work (however way you see fit). Working pays.... Nothing happens by chance- even lotto winners have to play before they win a jackpot 

4. Self- love🖤 has taken a whole new meaning for me... How I treat myself when no one's watching sets the tone for how I allow anyone else to treat me. 

Gaga Natasha sakudya nolo nimwine azidyesa. 

5. Standards are relative. Structure yours, acknowledge others and move accordingly. 

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The last four months have brought happiness, joy, purpose, disappointment, sadness, guilt, grief and other emotions too complex for words to describe, but all in all, I AM ALIVE...

That means Bash Emma has given us another chance to have a go at another week- that should count for something, no? 🤷🏿

So show up every chance you get.

Coz at the end of the day?

Ni vi che.... Punkamo 🤜🏿🤛🏿😂

PS: The rate I'm expressing myself in Nyanja more than Bemba these days? Feels like a betrayal to the Kopala Country😂