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9 Years A Hustler: Linda Ikeji Reveals Blogging Success Did Not Happen Overnight
Blogger Linda Ikeji shut down Nigerian internet after her new house worth over N500 million in Banana Island was revealed. Giving
advice to other young people other there, Miss Ikeji wrote a post
detailing how she had made it to where she is right now.
“My
name is Linda Ikeji. I’m a blogger. I’m 35 years old and I have
never…never ever in my life slept with a man for money. Not only have I
never done it, I have never even consider it…and here I am with a house
that cost me over half a billion naira.
Listen, you are beautiful
and you are stronger than you know. There’s absolutely nothing you can’t
achieve if you set your mind to it, put her heart and soul into it. Up
until five years ago, I was a struggling entrepreneur. I can’t tell you
how many offices in this Lagos I sat in for hours waiting to see people
who could support my business…but most times, I never passed the
reception area. But I never gave up and I never stopped believing and
here I am today.
You too can be this..you can be better than this.
No dream is too big, no dream is too small, no mountain is too
high…it’s all in your mind. It’s all up to you. If you believe in you,
in your God who is guiding you, then the sky is your starting point.
Please
stop waiting around for a man to give to you…to put food on your table
and put clothes on your back. I promise you, you can do it for yourself.
Start thinking big, believe in yourself, be creative and start working.
Realize that your dreams are valid…and nobody will make your dreams come true except you. Find what you are good
at. Find something that you are passionate about. Work hard at it. Be
consistent. Be patient. Start young. Even if you’re not young, it’s
never too late!“I have been hustling since I left secondary
school..started modeling before I entered university in 1998. Was
running a modeling agency even while I was a student and made it a full
time business after I left university. I never doubted that I would
succeed one day, because I was determined. And please do not think this
happened over night. I’ve been blogging since 2006…November this year
will make it exactly 9 years. God, consistency and hard work brought me
here today.
“Unfortunately, a lot of our young girls aren’t
patient and some are lazy, they want it quick and fast but it doesn’t
work like that. Success takes time – takes hard work – takes passion –
takes consistency – but more than anything else, it takes the Grace of
God.
I was a 30 year old broke woman and on my birthday, a very
sad and depressed me turned to God and begged him. I told Him you
promised me, when will You fulfill Your promise? Am I not Your child?
Have I not lived according to Your teachings? When will You bless me?
Please God help me…and with tears in my eyes, I begged Him. I cried and I
begged and I begged and I begged. A few months later my life changed.
Never underestimate God’s love for you and the power of prayer.
“And
never stop working. Listen, I make enough money to hire so many people
to work on this blog while I go do other things and enjoy myself…but I
don’t do that. I’m up while some of you are sleeping, and already
blogging before some of you wake up. I don’t take this for granted. I
know to stay on top, I have to constantly work and nobody will be as
dedicated as I am because this is not their own thing. It’s mine and I
have to keep feeding it. So I’m constantly here!
Young ladies, I
promise you…you too can do this. You don’t need to spread your legs for
any bladdy man – because of how much? N200k? That’s how much my shoes
cost – so why you should give up your body for that? Your sacred body?
God’s temple? 200k that you can make in a week or even in a day if you
pursue your dreams and still have your dignity intact? You think people
don’t see that you’re messing around with all dem old married men and
talking about it? Think ladies, think! When next a man propositions
you…tell him to get lost, that you will get yours yourself! Abi, aren’t
you a woman? You know what they say about women? “A woman is like a tea
bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”. You
are so strong, you don’t even know!
Also, if you want God to
bless you, you have to have a clean heart. All these backbiting, hating
on others, trying to bring people down with hateful words, action etc –
God doesn’t like ugly. He has over 6 billion people to look after and
you think he will pay extra attention to you if your heart is ugly? Wish
people well, help people when you can. Be good to others. But more than
anything else be good to yourself. Believe in yourself. It’s very easy
to give in to feelings of self-doubt and back down when things get
tough, but you have to know that God will not give you anything you
can’t handle.
I
swear to you, you are underestimating yourself. If you know the power
that you have inside. If you know the things that you are capable of. If
you know how far you can go…how high you can reach but you are holding
yourself back because you’re afraid of failing, because you don’t think
you have it in you. If only you know that you’re stronger than you
think. You are so powerful, you don’t even know it. I’m not more special
than you are. I don’t have two heads. We serve the same God. Why can’t
you succeed? Think ladies, think.
Like Barack Obama’s sister said,
poverty is not an excuse! I used to sell/market beer at Sheraton hotel,
Lagos when I was in university for N1,000 a day. I once lived on ‘puff
puff’ and garri for weeks in UNILAG and I was supposedly a top model but
nobody knew what I was going through. Trust me, I know poverty. Did you
know I lived in Idi-oro, Mushin for 15 years? Up until when I was 25?
Did you live in Mushin? Eh, so what’s your excuse? I can’t even say some
things here for my family’s privacy but here I am today because I never
doubted myself and I never allowed all the doubters to distract me. I
was focused. I was determined. I worked hard and I knew the God I served
won’t let me down. The road was long, sometimes very frustrating and
painful but look at me now. God did it because he saw that I was
willing! “Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to
succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.”
They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.” Please believe in yourself and watch God use you to set as an example for others.
May all your dreams come true!
Kisses.”
Popular Nigerian music star , Davido and his fiancée Chioma Rowland have just lost their child, Ifeanyi Adeleke. Ifeanyi Adeleke died on Monday, October 31. According to information reaching the blogs , Ifeanyi Adeleke got drowned a few days after his third birthday which was on October 20. He was conformed dead this evening at Evercare hospital, Lagos. This is extremely sad.
Marriage is no bed of roses; it comes with challenges and sorry is your name if you’re not ready: I got married October 2014 to a man whom I really love. Due to our spiritual convictions, we never had s*x before marriage but we cuddled and kissed but it stops there. Fast forward to 2 months after our wedding, my hubby started making sinful and improper s*xual demands, he wants me to suck his p*nis and swallow his s*men. I was terrified and disappointed at the same time. This was a ”born again” so I can not really relate with this level of carnal mindedness. We courted for 6 months and all through there was no tell tale signs that he was that way.
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