What does Steady Making It even mean?

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Mar 03, 2024

The Beginning.

As all great stories begin, it all started with… Instagram.

It was the day after Christmas in 2019, and I was trying to think of a caption for my Instagram post. It was the holidays and the end of the year, so of course, I was feeling more reflective than usual.

2019 was a really good year for me. I had started a new job at my dream company, traveled to Thailand for the first time, successfully project managed the leading fashion week in Africa, and met someone new :) Life was great! While I had not accomplished every single thing I wanted to in life, I was feeling optimistic and like I was on my way, at least.

How do I capture these feelings into a simple sentence? And then I remembered a quote I had seen somewhere - I’ve not made it yet but I’m making it. That was it! I hit post, and that was that.

Fast forward to March 2020, I was about to launch a podcast, and for the life of me, I could not think of a good name. I finally landed on a name I wasn’t in love with - About Life. Looking back, I’m like girl, what?

I emailed my first guest using About Life, but I knew I was not satisfied with the name, so I kept brainstorming.

What was I trying to convey with my podcast? What did I want people to take from it? I thought about my own personal journey. I have been an overachiever for as long as I can remember (I’m a Nigerian first-born daughter IYKYK). From a very young age, I put pressure on myself to do very well in school, complete multiple internships, hold leadership positions and work, work, work. I don’t know how I feel about this but multiple people have described me as “intense.”

You would think that through it all, I would be proud of myself and my journey, right? Wrong!

I regularly felt like I was behind and not doing enough or not working hard enough. I was my own worst critic. I needed to turn that around.

I needed to be reminded that:

Everyone has their own journey and not to compare mine to anyone else’s.
I was doing great exactly where I was in life.
I could be intentional about the type of life I wanted to live and go after what I want.
I could define what success meant to me and not what society or friends/family thought it should be.
I should be kind to myself and be my own cheerleader through all the ups and downs.
Slow growth is still growth and steady progress is still progress.
And finally, that I may not have made it yet, but I am in fact making it!

And so with all that in mind, the name came to me. It had been right there with me since that Instagram post in 2019. I wrote it down, and it felt right.

Steady Making It.

And that’s how Steady Making It came to be. It really started out as an amalgamation of all the encouraging reminders I needed to tell myself.

On my journey to ‘making it’ and living intentionally, there are a lot of lessons and advice I’m gathering along the way. I promise to share the ups, the downs, and more importantly to just be myself and tell it to you exactly as I’m living it.

My goals are to:

Inspire you to live the life you want with intention - one step at a time.
To love yourself and be your own best friend through it all.
Build a safe space and community to remind you that you’re not alone.

From life and work to everything in between - think of Steady Making It as your personal cheerleader through it all.

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- Tobi

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