MONKEY POST STAGE OF PROGRESS!
Frank Fagbo
Founder Frankly Business Podcast & Television Host/Business Analyst at Nairametrics & News Central TV
They call it “Five Aside” we call it “Monkey Post”. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about; Monkey post is a game of football that is played on a smaller pitch with a smaller goal post. The team is made up of 3-5 players. A lot of professional footballers started their careers from “Monkey Post”. Nobody automatically starts from the standard pitch. You have to start small.
You need a place that’ll accommodate all the mess and the mistakes. You need a place that’ll build your skills, a place that’ll accommodate your short passes and short comings. This place builds you for the task ahead, because you can’t run without first walking and you can’t walk without crawling.
Everything in life is in stages. A lot of you are playing on the wrong pitch. You are writing JAMB instead of “Common Entrance” and you’re wondering why you’re not getting results.
Can you speed up your process to the top? Yes! Especially in this era of ideas, but you can’t cut corners to the top. You have to build your capacity.
You have to start Local before going Global. Global stages aren’t for Amateurs, it is a show of excellence. You want to be the CEO of a conglomerate without being a start-up or an SME as an Entrepreneur. You want to be in CNN without starting from Channels. “Monkey Post” which is starting small isn’t debasing, it is a place to hone your skills, make mistakes, and build your brand.
It is a places for wrong passes, a place for foul throws, a place for committing silly fouls, because when you get to the standard field, which is the Global stage; there is little or no room for mistakes.
You know why there are little or no mistakes? There are no Local Champions on the Global stage, everyone is a professional.
Yeah! It is very good to be Ambitious. It is Great to Dream Big.
But first be a Local Champion before going International.
Banana Island (not Rome this time around) wasn’t built in a day!
Starting small can be selling Bread before becoming a world class Model!
It can be owning and managing a viewing center before setting up a Cinema!
It can be becoming a “Seun Okinbaloye” before becoming an “Amanpour”!
You don’t need those Millions if you haven’t properly managed your Thousands.
Manage the thousands properly and increase your capacity for the Millions.
Life is in stages, start from a Monkey Post before going to the Big Field!
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4yGreat piece man, the monkey post or five aside has been repurposed in my head today, I no longer just see it as a game but I have a whole different view today. Talking about stages, its not so bad to have a big dream but compartmentalising and strategically navigating one's movement in achieving one's goal would do no more than predicting the trajectory of one's journey. I learnt recently that if your goal were to be a wall and you place each brick as perfectly as a brick should be laid everyday, soon, one day you will make a wall. And that is stage by stage movement.
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4yThis is so good. More people need to hear this