LEARNING IS A MUST

Every time I find myself frolicking around I remind myself of why I must stop, I remind myself of where I want to be, my goals, my vision, and my mission. Sincerely speaking it's been hard work always trying to learn something new, especially in the area I've chosen to grow in. I would love to identify myself as a business developer and strategist sometime in the future, but this would mean I will need to be at least very good in certain skill sets and excellent in others. In the last 12 years, I've seen myself as a successful business developer and strategist, although I am just putting a tag to the name that is closest in meaning to everything a business developer and strategist is.

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I've seen social media managers, graphics designers, web developers, business developers, project managers, and lastly business strategists. I've always envied their work but wish to be more. This would first mean I would need to learn skills that would make me attain proficiency in all these fields so that one day my value system in the business world would no longer be countable. Yes, I have big dreams, and these dreams form the very essence of my living. I've been pursuing them since I could remember having them. I started by learning videography because it was the only valuable skill at my disposal in my early teenage age.

The learning process of videography came naturally for me and I didn't need many lectures to attain excellence in it. Today I can hold a video camera with my eyes closed and this is not a bluff. I even talked about it yesterday in my post. After four years as a videographer, I started learning graphics design which did not sit well with me from the beginning. It took three years to finally get it right, I literally had to pause other aspects of my life which included work and family just to learn graphics design. I shared in my post some time ago how my dad was angry with me for over a year because I did not take the bank offer I had simply because I wanted to learn graphics design.

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I turned down another opportunity to study hospitality in South Korea because I knew that was not what I wanted with my life even though my dad wanted me to go just so I could find an excuse to leave the country. But I refused because I knew I suck at graphic design and the only person that was so kind to teach me was being patient with me despite my flaws. I wasn't ready to throw all that away. After three years I was beginning to find my feet in graphics design and that was when I discovered the need to be a content creator. Knowing that this was a vital part of marketing I started learning how to write. I started out with content writing, then I moved to copywriting and sales writing. Technical writing was a bit tricky for me but I learned it all within three months because they all had elements of storytelling which made them easy to learn.

Another skill that came naturally to me was photography… Although photo editing is still a bit tricky, I know it's because I haven't fully put my interest in it. This year I want to learn web development alongside some core aspects of web design plus UIUX. Web development is really boring I must admit, so I try to learn on the job which makes it very difficult. Learning and practicing with a real-life task can be challenging especially because there is no room for mistakes, but every time I face these challenges I tell myself I'm up to the task.

THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO HIVE LEARNER'S PROMPT FOR WEEK 108 EPISODE 2