Ibn Dogara

I Build. I Write. I Collect Thoughts.

|| Music. Life. Faith. ||

[Sabastine (Back-up) @saba_4real]

Tinubu’s government is not clueless.
It is deliberately wicked.

They know exactly what they’re doing to us.

[𝐈𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠 @iamklausenburg]

"someone" - men
"people" - women

[𝐈𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠 @iamklausenburg]

After secondary school, I worked in a Nylon producing factory.

I left after the machine crushed the fingers of my boss. Actually, I ran.

I worked as a marketer for Goko cleanser and hawked drugs around the hood.

My mates laughed at me because they knew we weren't poor and saw no use for me working.

It was either working or I stayed at home and I just wasn't built for staying put.

I worked with them for a while and moved to sim registration 😂.

I was fired after stealing sim cards and selling off behind the company's back.

Then, I got to work with Savequick (an isusu) money saving scheme for traders.

Until one of the bosses who was a trader saw my hustling spirit and asked me to join his boy in his phone store.

That was the highest upgrade because there was nothing I didn't learn how to do when I worked with his boys.

It gave me an avenue to meet and mingle with a lot of people.

One of my unforgettable experiences was when we sold a touchpad laptop of 150k for 320k.

It was just me and one of my guy back then, we made more money than the laptop owner.

Sadly, we didn't know the laptop had issues, even though it was a new one.

The person wanted a refund 😂. That was what ran me away from the business.

All that happened within 11 years of my life because as an orphan, I wasn't really interested in going to the university.

I wanted to make so much money to expand our family's business.

Well, my family sent me to go school abroad and that changed the trajectory of our aspirations.

Why am I sharing all these? I am glad you asked.

I spend time interacting with a lot of young men and women and it's disappointing to say the least that they lack mental wit to handle or overcome serious life's obstacles.

Why won't you lack such, when you simply finished sec school and opened a social media account, aye?

You've never worked under someone who insulted you even when know you are doing exactly what they directed.

Or worked under someone who praised you even when you were falling short in expectations.

Or worked under circumstances where you are under so much pressure to deliver something you know you just might never be able to deliver but you'll believe that you can and have to.

Nobody is self-made. Not me, not your mentor or whomever.

We went through thorough grilling and was forged in a furnace of pressure that has turned us into the diamonds, you admire and aspire to be like.

Logout and go learn a skill. Go and serve someone. Go and get your heart broken in disappointment.

You'll feel it like you want to die but you'll not die and your name won't be Yakubu.

That's how you develop the mindset that will successfully pull you through the happiest or darkest phases of your life.

You want to skip the process but that process is nature. Nobody can cheat nature. It will fight back.

Shout out to Phyno who said it best,

“I have been around the world and I understand that na Ị ga agba boy tupu ibụrụ master.”

Go and do the dirty work. It will keep you clean in the future.

Learn or learn the hard way

[ProfitableMan @ProfitableMan1]

Position yourself near mentors who are older and wiser. Proximity and access to experienced people teach lessons that books and social media never can.

[Bambulu @Bqmbulu]

If you want to dominate your field, it's pretty simple. You gotta outwork everyone!

[🐐 @LookatPayBac]

You can not love anybody after they die. Only jesus.

[ProfitableMan @ProfitableMan1]

The man who never loses money never makes any either.

[gst @wearegst]

Despite producing double the cement Nigeria needs, three companies control the market and have hiked prices to 15,000 naira per bag, making home ownership an impossible dream for you.

[GehGeh @official_Gegeh]

A praying mother solves 60% of your problems.

Sometimes you might not feel like to pray, and you just be like: my mama Go pray for me.

[Dr Craze @crazeclown]

We living in a time where the intelligent person must remain silent so as not to offend the ignorant because the ignorant are many and loud.

[Kiki @Njoki_Njanja]

Life meets you at your audacity

[Bambulu @Bqmbulu]

If you want to dominate your field, it's easy. You have to outwork everyone!

[Ibn Dogara @inkredible_EM]

" RUNAWAY "

[Dee @lowkydee]

Your favorite Ye song says a lot about you

[Firstklaz🚁 @firstklaz_]

‘new music “formula 1” w/ @PsychoYP out now. Abj stand up!! 🚁☔️.

produced by @Monster_soundz
mixed and mastered by @Wanawys
🎥: @realnaturejay

[Ibn Dogara @inkredible_EM]

@esomnofu_e The mood calls for sober reflection. No be smiling issues

[Toby @TomolaGroup]

Singapore has virtually no natural resources. No oil. No gold. Almost no farmland. One of the smallest countries on earth.

GDP per capita: $85,000. One of the richest nations in the world.

Nigeria has oil, gas, gold, tin, coal, iron ore, limestone, over 70 million hectares of farmland and the largest population in Africa.

GDP per capita: $1,650.

Resources do not create wealth. Systems do. And systems are built by people who understand how money works. Not how to dig it out of the ground.

[Ibn Dogara @inkredible_EM]

Delay is dangerous.

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

Do everything around you with a sense of urgency.

[Ibn Dogara @inkredible_EM]

@lawrencekitema @Kpanti_mama01 " HOPE IS DANGEROUS THING " - Lana Del Rey. You lose or gain - just don't push the limits...

[Ibn Dogara @inkredible_EM]

Based on my two major sources of income, the last two months I've been able to save about 63%.

Other side runs still earn. Thinking of how to make myself accountable on other gigs as they come.

[ProfitableMan @ProfitableMan1]

I want to reduce my expenses to %30 of my income.

[Ibn Dogara @inkredible_EM]

Q1 was a test run. Preparing to double my ground for the Q2 and beyond.

[Toby @TomolaGroup]

Most people don’t have a savings problem. They have an accountability problem.

At the start of Q1, I challenged my community to a savings challenge. The target was N5,000,000.

I checked this morning and we’ve already passed it. N5,035,093 saved collectively by 78 people. With 273 days still left.

No one forced anybody. No one policed anybody. People just showed up because they were surrounded by other people who take their money seriously.

That’s what community does. It makes discipline easier.

We just kicked off the Q2 savings challenge. I’ll drop the details shortly for anyone who wants to join us.