All the hustle, all the running up and down, taking loans that couldn’t be repaid, failed magazine sales, including police arrest all in pursuit of a dream since 1998, and all the while her success lay in a cheap, lightly held, relatively insignificant blogging hobby!!!
This same week, we also watched Francis Odega rise to become an Etisalat ambassador, an obvious effect of the recent viral “Gerrarahiaaa” clip from a movie he did years ago: a clip he didn’t even have a hand in promoting.
On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that small, insignificant things can be responsible for your big breaks. On the other, I’m wondering why one has to go through some long, tough sometimes, unrelated hustles before that break shows up.
It’s easy to attribute these (and many other) successes to effort and persistence. But those only count because they have succeeded. If they hadn’t, they would have been part of statistics and even a warning to others to play it safe. Success is really the only vindication for both legitimate sacrifices and wrong choices, both of which have similar symptoms: hardship. But countless number of people have failed to hold on till they reach that big break. Many have even developed this masochistic addition to the hardship that they have neglected/passed up the simple things that hold the key to the big breaks, expecting success to come from long hard efforts alone.
While I’m not suggesting that gold should found on the surface, and I completely respect the fact that character and experience are developed in the midst of the grind, is there any way we can optimise the journey to the big break?
you can optimize your journey all you want but you cant play God. Even if you don’t believe in God, you cant optimize time and chance but it happens to us all.
I’ll just leave this here…
Ecclesiastes 11
v1 Cast your bread upon the waters,
for you will find it after many days.
v4 He who observes the wind will not sow,
and he who regards the clouds will not reap.
v6 In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
@lawwyy and @IBKTheBot, you guys have said it all, but i’ll like to add that everyone has his time and chance. There’s a perfect reason for going through those years(short or long) of hustle(ojuelegba moments) and huddles. But at the end, you can be thankful that those years shaped you have become!!!
Bringing religion into tech or business is very weird… like I said on the other thread, she monetized her high traffic blog and that’s where her finances began to improve…
It’s tough out there! I can relate with the story with my own life but you know…even those who are about to take your own thorny part will not listen to guidance and the world usually don’t listen to someone who is yet to succeed. Like someone said above, every little efforts shape who you become. Have you ever heard someone whisper to your ear that “you look too young for all you have achieved” I don’t see that as compliment I see it that in Nigeria we have lower the bar to the extent that you need to be extraordinarily hungry to achieve something significant beyond what is expected of a Nigerian in Nigeria.
The most painful part of the hustle is to live through, it tough and sometimes you cry but no one hears it some even term it as laughter. Optimize hustle…but remain hungry, like I will always say…mediocrity is death, never settle!
Buddy we know you are well able to stripe the whole thing down to bare logic.
But our every day ‘struggle’ would be a very dull one without even the occasional indulgence in grandiose hope; larger than life hopefulness. And the Bible is full of such richness.
I believe they were quotes from the bible you saw in the other thread and not ‘religion’. And a few other outbursts of biblical hopefulness.
Indulge a little, bruh. It doesn’t dull logic. It ‘butters’ the imagination.
success stories…Has any one here seen the series “THE MEN THAT BUILT AMERICA”? well to cut the long story short in my own opinion, history has proven to us that the road to true success often times isn’t a rosy one, nature affirms this fact in that nothing beautiful that was ever created or reproduced is/was truly at the beginning beautiful for all actually metamorphosed from dirt and toil, the duration it takes to attain really shouldn’t be an issue as long as you attain cause to be factual and logical at the same time our fingers aren’t and will never be equal (some people make less mistakes thereby reaching destination breakthrough/success earlier why some don’t and for others they just happen to be in the right place at the right time thereby taking advantage of the available opportunity(ies)). Hustle na Hustle optimized or not.
I’m not saying that this thing should be easy. I’m against ignorant, unrelated endeavours that we engage in that is not in anyway aligned with our path to success. What the Bible called “the labour of the foolish”. Motion that doesn’t, and will never lead to progress, sometimes borne out of cheer anxiety and the need to be " doing something".
If a journey takes you 3 hours but you were actually lost in the wrong direction for 2 hours, those 2 hours were complete waste of your time. Only the other 1 hour was the legitimate hustle that results in your progress. It would even be easier to bear if you spent the 2 hours on traffic but still on the right path, then you know that going through that traffic is still directly related to your hustle.
Notice on the article that Linda never talked about any challenges she had with her blogging. That is because every challenge she tackles on the blog is directly related to her progress.
By hustle optimisation, I mean, how do we tell the tell the 3 hours of drive time that includes roaming around in the wild from 1 hour effective drive time or even 3 hours of traffic delay IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. I’m sure many of us right now are doing the absolutely wrong things and still claim it’s part of the hustle!
This is not a religious forum… religion does not give me hope… as long as i’m alive and physically healthy I’ll never lose hope and i’ll never give up… it has nothing to do with religion…
Hope transcends religion. You find it in every life.
What the heck is religion? I never made a case for religion. Read my posts properly.
Religion in its worse case, is a congress of knowledge that seeks relevance by exploiting Hope.
As I said the bible is The supreme book of Hope. But hope takes many forms besides host in the pages of any book. Like in the giggle and laughter of your child (you need to experience it to understand).
Or in your case; being alive and well, gives you all the hopefulness you need. Well, buddy, it should!
