Blog-thoughts: Productive Responsibility

Facebook, 28/6/2012. Igali Tukokumo Conquer wrote: 'Sometimes, all the push we need to be more productive to ourselves is a sense of responsibility. If we know that someone else needs us to survive, we will do the right things for ourselves...we would finally set up that company:-), do that business, write that proposal, bid for that contract, be more involved in our community, visit those motherless babies every weekend like we'd always wanted to:-)...If we know someone else, someone so helpless without us, looks up to us to be the mothers, fathers,guardians, friends and role models, we would, maybe, be more responsible to ourselves'...

I am seated on a leather black office chair doing nothing but staring at the screen of my Samsung notebook and brooding. There is nothing to do anymore today. Most of the office work I did today was outside the office. I am here, seated, thinking about responsibility and how, sometimes, responsibility pushes us to achieve the goals we'd set for ourselves, or into doing the things we'd always wanted to do for ourselves, for others.

Several years ago I wanted to either set up an orphanage or work with an orphanage immediately after my call into the Nigerian Bar. I also wanted to enroll in a cooking school, set up a foundation for my mother, do annual clothing runways for elderly models every December (as part of the Christmas celebration) for my Mother's foundation to make older women feel pretty and make them laugh, work with The Daniel Igali Foundation in Nigeria during my free time, visit orphanages on a regular basis, set up a thriving Law practice and own several businesses before I turn 30.

I have less than 6 years to spare before my target age clamps on me,  i am yet to do few of the things I thought i'll be doing by now. Maybe if I get a sense of responsibility, well, more responsibility, maybe, I will get these things done?

Do you have things, ideas, proposals you'd always wanted to work on before now? How many of those have you succeeded at completing? Do you think a sense of responsibility propels people to doing things, goals they set for themselves? Do share! 

Sometimes, saying the things we'd want to do aloud helps us do them anyway. Even if we don't do them right away, we'd have reminders of what we wanted to do and who we wanted to be.