A friend shared nine truths about work and life that resonated deeply with me.
It is not the kind you find in a book, but the kind you gather from managing teams, handling real pressure, and walking through different life seasons.
As I read them, I found myself nodding. I’ve lived these truths, I know the strength that comes from holding onto them.
Over the years, I’ve worked in different roles, sectors, and continents, and also navigated different phases of motherhood and relationships. I have seen commensurate results in living by these principles. So today, I am sharing these with you with the hope that you will be better for it.
We already know, from both data and lived experience, that the odds are often stacked against women in the workplace, especially mothers.
You’ve likely felt it: the need to prove your worth twice over, just to be seen.
Still, more women are entering or returning to the workforce not just for financial reasons, but for identity, growth, and self-fulfilment. (McKinsey’s Women in the Workplace 2023)
The system still isn’t built in our favour.
But we keep showing up.
So, if we must show up, let’s do it with wisdom, confidence, and a dose of audacious faith.
The 9 truths below are here to help you:
- Reset your expectations
- Strengthen your mindset
- And guide how you show up at work and in life
1. Never be afraid to lose your job. Fear breeds mediocrity.
2. Chase tough problems. Growth lives in discomfort.
3. Always give at least 10% more than asked. Don’t settle for “just enough.”
4. Don’t separate work from life — even in your thinking.
5. Never speak ill of your employer. It reflects poorly on you.
6. Avoid office politics and strife. Focus, ‘stay in your lane’, and deliver.
7. If you fall out of love with your job, leave if you can’t find your way back to love.
8. Keep learning — your performance won’t exceed your knowledge.
9. Do your work as if God were your client, manager, or CEO.
These principles also reminded me of how small, consistent effort adds up even when the results aren’t immediate.
It may not look like much in the moment, but over time, it builds.
Quietly. Certainly.
I’ve seen this with my son and his quiet dedication to the game of football.
He’s been nurturing this passion and showing up week in, week out, playing with his Under-9 League team for the past two years.
He prepares, shows up for training, watches different matches, chooses football animations and games over any other, reads football-themed storybooks, and follows tournaments and players like it’s second nature.
He even asks questions that no one else around him is asking questions which show he’s watching, learning, and thinking.
No one is pushing him. There’s no pressure.
Just quiet, daily consistency.
And over the weekend, as the league wrapped up another season, he was nominated as ‘Outstanding Player of the Season’.
That moment watching him walk up to receive his medal reminded me again: The results we long for rarely come from noise. They come from nurturing what we love
daily, quietly, intentionally.
That word ‘intentional’ keeps circling back to me, every now and then.
Remember in January, I wrote about being intentional about 2025 using Genesis 1:26 – Read here if you missed it.
“Then God said, ‘And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us”
So let me remind you again of who you are.
- You were created in His likeness.
- You carry His breath
- That means your thoughts, your abilities, and your creativity are not random
You are divine!
Designed to reflect God, wherever you are: at work, at home, in conversations, even in silence.
So, whether you’re in the middle of a career shift or just trying to get through the week’s checklist without falling apart, remember this:
You were not made to shrink.
My word for you today is “An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance. An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing.” John C. Maxwell
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