A Little Step, A Little Progress

7 min readFeb 1, 2020

“I’m still afraid but which great fellow isn’t at the start of something new”

In the spirit of a new year celebration, everyone including I would pen down resolutions we liked to keep but for the past years, I have not kept anyone. So this year, I decided to paint one picture of what I would love to see at the end of the earth's complete revolution and make simple daily plans towards that instead of the usual ambiguous plans or dreams.

No Coding, No Progress

Ever since Ayooluwa Olorunmola introduced me to programming in 2016, it has become my first love and I have always had a doubt why I choose mechanical engineering as my discipline in the first place. From HTML on Sololearn to CSS, JS, and PHP before the true baby came along, Python. Ever since that time I have loved the computer even more.

Though I focused on web development for a long time roughly between 2016 and early 2018, I stopped coding altogether mid-2018 due to failing performances in school among a few other issues. Between 2016 and 2018, I worked on a project which I completed but never so it come out due to either fear or God knows what but the most important thing I learned is that I could actually do something but I just needed a little push. Fast forward, it’s 2019 I decided to pick my first love and I have never regretted it, this time the focus has been more on Python, Data Science, and Machine Learning. The growth hasn’t been fast like before but I’m totally loving where I’m going.

So this year the picture I painted for myself is to work on a single ML and Data Science Project either for my Final Year Project or for the world of eCommerce. And this January, I have made some small steps even though I wish they could have made bigger ones in planning out outlines and steps which I would be taking in starting the e-commerce ML project, and one interesting thing is that the project is going to make me learn something new things with Web development has it concerns Django. As for the final year project, I would prefer some hardware machine learning project but I’m yet to decide on that yet so I guess it’s all the best then.

Daily Planning

Much of the daily planning for this January has mostly taken place in my head which hasn’t been quite helpful to help me achieve my goals this year, so it’s time to get a journal to pen down a structured timeline for the day, and learn to adjust as time goes to how I actually do things to give an accurate guess of how long it takes for me to do certain things.

Money/ Financial Management

Money is everything, I guess

Money is never an issue at the beginning of the month but you see that mid or ending period, Jesus Christ it’s a fucking warzone. This January was quite different a little bit even though I still had some issues with cash towards the end around 24th, 25th which is quite better than previous times. In most cases by 15th to 17th, money is always an issue but thanks to PiggyVest, we moved the crisis day from 17th to 25th which for me is a massive leap. It would have been better if I didn’t make a mistake with locking my savings till April but mum always got my back (and Dad). Hopefully, February there will be no crisis period.

Spiritual Life

"I kept my faith in him and he fucked up but let's not talk about it"

This has been pretty hard to have. It’s been pretty oscillatory for a long time. Some days, I feel high in the spirit and some days, I and the devil are playing tag. I don’t know when God is going to come or whether he is even coming but I’m starting to make a conscious effort to read the Bible to try to grasp and maybe find that same light Paul saw. I don’t want to be a Christian because my parents raised me up in it but I want to be one because I feel deeply connected to him.

LinkedIn Profile & Skills Test Quiz

Tests aren’t important

I did plan on taking the different skill test but due to fear and some sort of non-planing, I didn't take them so definitely this February I'm taking them.

Picking up old habits

I remember the first time I wrote a song with actual melodies it was very very very very bad, and it was for a girl I liked. And the next one was a gospel one, kind of like the don moen type of music, it was bad too. I kept on going but everyone seems to hate me doing it so I stopped. Now, ain’t giving shit since the writing seems to clear my head. Also, article writing has been a joy for me lately. I thank Harry Essang for his total belief in me.

“Past failures hit differently if you are still in failure or a down place"

Lessons from January

Plan every day no matter how small or out of detail it might be, it helps to make something out of it
You can’t forget the failures of yesterday if you don’t make some success today and even after that the failures will still linger
10,000 Hours rule is fucking bullshit
Just do it. Let them laugh, you’ll still laugh
Social Media helps to forget your problems (I don’t think Instagram does though but at least Twitter does) but can make you forget to work hard.
You can be happy today and sad tomorrow, it takes a conscious effort to be happy.
No one knows everything even Jeff Dean🤣🤣
Life is short so live the best out of it. Tell those you love you love them. Be kind to one another. Try it out.
A platform isn’t going to be good to you if you don’t know how to use the platform (PiggyVest)
SIWES had taught me how important reflections are necessary to not forget what you’ve learned.

Playlist of the Month

Fireboy DML - I’ll be Fine
Dax - Dear God
Billie Eilish - Ocean Eyes
NF - How Could You Leave Us
John Legend - Conversations in the Dark
NF - Let You Down
Ed Sheeran - Beautiful People (feat. Khalid)
Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love
Billie Eilish - &burn (feat. Vince Staples)
Calvin Harris, Rag 'n' Bone - Giant

A little tribute to Kobe

I remember a few months after graduating from high school, I would always watch SuperSport Blitz and Kobe Bryant’s retirement popped up on the screen around 2016, and the tributes to such a man while alive gave me goosebumps and I told myself in the sitting room that I will one day be praised like that. So his death definitely hit me really hard and reminded me of the dream I once had, and I do hope to keep that once buried promise. Long Live Mamba😭

Kobe's death reminds me of how much I want to passionately impact other people, and even if die young I'd hope to be an impact for years to come

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.” — The Alchemist

January was generally a mixture of the good, bad and ugly. I'm not necessarily sure I'm going to make this year different though but there are eleven more months so who knows.

One last thing,

Story of the 4 leper

2 Kings 7: 3–20

If I perish, I perish
We’ve got to move cause staying here changes nothing
Just moving might as well be progress

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"No, if I was the abroad will you be telling me this rubbish"