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Thursday, 10 July 2014

Interesting Article About Not Giving Up By Jason Njoku

Jason Njoku is the founder of iROKO which is
worth millions of dollars today. Here he writes
about how in 2010 he had less than N10,000 in
his account and how not giving up on his
dreams changed his life. He shares his story and
encourages others to keep fighting. Read
below...
"My wife persuaded forced me to do a little
spring cleaning this weekend. As I was
going through my things rubbish , I came
across this old account statement for an
iROKO Partners Ltd bank account in
London. If you look at the date its 13 July
2010. The statement is for June 2010.
That’s right. £60.25 paid in. £60.00 (my
feeding money) paid out. And an ending
balance of £0.25. That’s right folks. I
literally had £0.25 in my account that's
$0.42 or N63. Continue...
Needless to say life has improved somewhat, but
as I go about trying to frame this statement, it
definitely reminds me of how far in such a short
time one’s life can improve. It doesn’t have to
be as dramatic, but improve life can. It also
should serve to demonstrate to anyone,
anywhere right now toiling away in obscurity on
a little project or something no one gives a flying
f*** about that as long as you believe in yourself
and your project then success (whatever that
may mean to you) is or may be just around the
corner. All you have to do is find the inner
strength to stay in the game.
At this point I had toiled for 6 long years. Fast
forward another 4 years and everything has
changed. But then I didn’t know that. It was
only pain.
Founders. Never ever ever ever ever ever ever
ever give up. On yourself. You may migrate from
project to project and you will never know which
one is ‘the one’. But one day, someday. Your
stars will align.

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