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Mediocrity Is A Killer Disease - D.E.E

Most people have asked me why I've gone into business and I've given them an honest answer. I've told people that it is my passion for transformation that pushed me into the business of writing, speaking, training, publishing and education.
Even though that's true now, what actually forced me into business was circumstances and the environment in which I found myself at some stages of my life.
As most of you would probably know by now, I was not born into a rich family. I grew up staying with my uncle who was jobless for a while and later got a private school teaching job with a pay that was not enough to meet our expenses.
These situations forced my thinking and provoked me into finding solutions to our problems. I was just eight years old when I started utilizing the plot of land at our backyard for farming. I farmed for our landlord for some time and he later released the land to me.
I went on to do other businesses until I was 18. The same time I completed High School and had to travel to Nigeria to work for some time. In Nigeria, I came face to face with the environmental factor which is very essential in entrepreneurship.
The Nigerian ecosystem was a lovely one for me. I've been in the hustle for 10 years before going to Nigeria but never in my life have I seen so much zeal, enthusiasm and wisdom in business as exhibited by many Nigerians.
This actually forced me to think of what I could also do. The entrepreneur in me jacked back to life, I started scanning until I found an opportunity right there in the private school where I was teaching.
I started training as a private school business consultant from the renowned consultant Dr Taiwo Olatoye in Mushin, Lagos. After a few months, I was ready to launch Achievers Consult. In just about 3 months of running this business, I tripled my income.
In this story, you'll find two visible factors responsible for my success. They are circumstances and the environment.
Sadly, these two can be the course of failure or its close friend called mediocrity. Many of us have accepted failure and embraced mediocrity because we have decided to think that our environment and circumstances are the reasons why nothing is working, and also the reasons why nothing will ever work.
Mediocrity is a killer of destiny. Recently, I suffered a huge loss, but I used that as a reason to work harder.
If you must continue to win, you must continue to work!
The day you settle is the day you begin to loose your battle.
Mediocrity and failure have a cure, it is facing work with diligence and alacrity.
Your environment or government is not the cause of your failure. You have the enablement for your assignment, get to work!
Desmond Edem Eklu (D. E. E)
Author | Publisher | Entrepreneur
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