I then replied requesting the guy, who I will just call Sipho for his privacy, requesting him to give me specific details of how he wanted me to help as well as what exactly he was looking for in entertainment.
His reply: "I do everything in entertainment. Noma yini nja yam!", loosely translating to: anything will work my dogg!
While I admire Sipho's willingness to go out and find whatever is available that will advance his dreams, I have experienced that that attitude to your goals will only exhaust you and leave all your efforts unfruitful.
When I started out in entertainment, I knew exactly where I wanted to end up, but I commited the same crime to myself as Sipho is to himself. I went out and scavenged for anything I could get with hopes that I will bump into the "perfect opportunity". Needless to say, I searched for a long time!
This was only until one of my mentors told me these words that I have coveted to this day:
LIFE IS WILLING TO GIVE WHATEVER YOU ASK FOR IF YOU ARE WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE!
Most of us go through life, sometimes understandably because of desperation, taking anything that comes our way.
But this only depletes energy that could be so well utilised on a focused area! Take a moment and think about the captains of the industry you're in or are looking to take over. More often than not these are the people who have mastered one area of the industry so much that the title "expert" fits them! And these are the people you dial first when you are looking for expert consultation, quality service and product!
I believe that this is because at some point they had to decide to ask life for one specific thing, focus on making that one thing work and worked on it until it took precise shape!
All of us, atleast those with ambition, are looking for the recognition, pride and rewards that come with being called an industry captain! But the trick is to figure out, atleast for now, how to get as much knowledge, expertise and how to take the game higher than it has ever been taken by anyone! That is the trick!
Oh and my friend Sipho; I replied and said
"Mfowethu, imisebenzi yona ikhona engiyaziyo. Kodwa lona owufunayo, cha agiwazi."
If "anything" is what you are looking for in this life, lo and behold, that is what life will willingly give you: NOMA YINI NJA YAMI!
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