Toolz’s biggest fear

She might come across as big, bold and beautiful but
Nigerian on-air-personality, Tolu Oniru, aka Toolz, nurses a
certain fear. According to her, she holds a fear of failure so
much that she sometimes talks herself or let people talk her
out of doing things because she’s so worried about failure.
“I read somewhere that ‘Failure is a necessary component of
success…it is not possible to really succeed without failing
first,” she wrote as a meme, posted on her Instagram page.
The meme reads; “You are far too smart to be the only thing
standing in your way.”
She also has a word for those who are suffering from self-
doubt, those who listen to “that silly little voice that says ‘Are
you sure you can do this? Are you smart enough? Or that
other person seems to be much better than you’ etc.” The
mind, she says, can be a very convincing liar…”so don’t
believe everything you think, and limit how much time you
spend on negative thoughts. Never ever think you aren’t good
enough to succeed…believe you are good enough to try…
that’s all that matters. Everything you have and will ever
achieve comes from you making an attempt. Better to try and
fail than to end up regretting a whole bunch of things you
didn’t even try to do.”