OLAMIDE ATOYEBI

It may not happen so fast, Give it Time

It takes many nights to become an Overnight success, Give It Time
It takes many hands to build an Edifice, Give it Time
That vision will not become an overnight success, Give it Time
That baby will Gestate for 9 months and rightly so, Give it much needed Time

That idea must marinate and evolve and become, Give it time.
In a world of instant fame, instant noodles, instant success.
Your greatness might take time and rightly so, Give it time.
The crushing is never the end, Joseph would come to spend more time in the palace than He ever did in the prison, Give it time.
Pain, like every life season has expiration days, date and time, Give it Time.
Excellence takes time, Intimacy takes time, knowledge takes time, Mastery takes time, Give it time.

So what must Happen in time?
Prepare – Prepare for the future as He shows you.
Paint- Paint a Picture of the future as God shows you.
Stay consistent and true to the Call with which you’ve been called.

Practice focus, Practice gratitude and as importantly, stay in family.
Remembering, you are building as unto the Lord, He marks the script of our life. He determines great work and not “fast” Work, so this is in no case a cry for Laxity, mediocrity nor Laziness but a clamour for Patience.

Such that after you have done the Will of God, you may Obtain.

And this is my prayer for you today,
That you stay the journey, that you run the race and after you have waited in time, you may obtain – obtain the promise.

Yours In Waiting,
Olamide

OLAMIDE ATOYEBI

I had taken a stab at writing songs, singing them and humming the tunes since I was 7 I would say. I would dream and dream and dream and dream.

I was free, I lived free, my dad told a lot of stories of powerful people and my knack for power must have grown from there. I loved the ability to influence a people, make them see in my own perspective or at least a perspective different than they already knew. The ability to positively sway people was always a welcomed thumbs up for me, but the child I knew as the loudest, most bubbly, free-spirited child in the pack had become the mute Owl, the last and certainly no where near the loudest voice in the room anymore.

I’ve known the sting of a bee, the bite of a termite but oh, the sting of rejection, it hurt deeper than a beehive, it drove me to silence and at other times to numbness. I had grown numb, I didn’t want to have to be silenced, after all a mute dog suffered no rebuke.

I became the most quiet of them all, yet I had views, oh I had views. I had an opinion as to any and everything, but the fear of rejection, it was louder than any view regardless of how wide, stellar, freeing or dramatic that was or those were. So I kept quiet, at other times I quit outings, more often than nought I wouldn’t even show up even if I wanted to, what if a “Rejecter” was lurking around the corner.

But all that would change when like Esau I eventually got tired of gagging myself and choking on my own views or so I thought.

What I really came to find was, God found me and gave me My Voice back – Renewed, Refreshed and with a solid Identity in place.
My voice had always being to His glory, for His glory and even though I had been a tongue talking, bible- speaking Christian, I guess I hadn’t opened up my life to all of the Freedom and Revealing Reality and Beauty that existed in using This Voice to the glory of my Maker, but not anymore.

I am God’s Mouth Piece and to the one who has being gagged up for so long, so Are you- God’s Mouthpiece, and your views matter.

Yours in Reconditioning,
Olamide

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For the longest time in my life I lived under Pressure
Pressure to “be, do and appear as”
Pressure to perform
Pressure to please, call it what it is People-pleasing
Pressure to appear a certain way
Pressure to be perfect”- perfectionism is not what you think

For the one looking to justify themself,
Rethink perfectionism – It’s an unhealthy cry for acceptance, tricking its victim to believe you’ll finally be enough or accepted based on what you do or don’t.
It’s the enemy’s attempt at the perversion of who we already are.

It’s a cry from the rejected soul fighting to “finally be accepted”. It’s at the backdrop of what drives women into unwholesome relationships, keeps men in less than the best jobs and keep a person barely keeping up in a toxic situation.

The 1st antidote I found?
A realization:
1- that you are already enough, in your seeming frailty, in our seeming less than perfect realities, in our daily nuances and subtleties – Enough
2- our beauty is enough, our existence is enough and it is this reality that drives us daily to say our affirmations
To journey on a mind reprogramming, till our subconscious finally agrees to a reality that had always been there but we were never brave enough to embrace.

So if you’re a recovering people pleaser or still on a journey out of approval addiction into the fullness of who God calls you, say this with me:

I am Enough
I am Worth
I am Joy
I am Love
I am Acceptance
My views matter and
I am important on the global scene

Yours in Re-conditioning,
Olamide