Who would you be in 5 years?

We have plans for the day, goals for the week or month, yearly resolutions but we seldom have plans for 2, 3 even 5 years.

I guess we live in a generation where everyone wants it now.

You go on social media and you see people doing good and automatically you want what they have, what someone used 10 years to get you want to use 6 months, it doesn’t work that way.

Nobody wants to delay gratification anymore, it’s either now or never.

People forget that and do horrendous things for money or pleasure, forgetting that it’s going to come back to get you sooner rather than later.

Why not delay gratification till you actually deserve it? Social media makes you feel like you’re worthless, like delaying everything would never matter because you’ll never make it.

And that’s not true, I used to feel that way too, I had to leave social media just for me to see the bigger picture.

That we are all thriving and rarely do people attain success the moment they start.

You see all the popular actors and musicians and athletes but you don’t see how long it took them before they got an audition, before they got people to play their songs, before they qualified for that event.

Everyone has their own journey, slow or fast I can’t say for sure.

But what I can say is if you plan to be someone or somewhere in the next five years, put the work in.

You might not get there but sure as hell you’ll be close.

Just imagine you’re a writer or you have a YouTube channel with 5 subscribers, now imagine you released content consistently, trying to improve with each one for the next 5 years and tell me if you don’t see human excellence.

Are you going to think long-term or are you going to think short-term? Now that’s for you to decide.

These are my thoughts, I hope they resonate with you.