Brick by brick bro, don’t cheat the grind, don’t try to skip the struggle, don’t try to speed it up, don’t look for short cuts, embrace the highs and the lows, you gonna need to learn all those lessons so when you get to where you’re going, you don’t fumble the opportunity
Last year, I watched people I started life with move ahead.
Some got married.
Some relocated abroad.
Some bought houses.
Some announced one breakthrough after another.
And me?
I was praying.
Working.
Trusting.
Waiting.
I’ll be honest.
Waiting on God is hard.
Not because you don’t believe Him.
But because while you’re waiting, life keeps moving around you.
People start asking questions.
“Are you sure God spoke to you?”
“How much longer will you wait?”
Some will mock you.
Some will pity you.
Some will quietly count you out.
And if you’re not careful, you’ll start questioning God too.
Then one day, in the middle of all the noise, I felt this in my spirit:
“Everybody is moving, but not everybody is moving in God’s direction.”
That changed everything.
Because success is not being ahead of everyone.
Success is arriving where God wants you to be, when He wants you to be there.
The silence is not rejection.
The delay is not denial.
Maybe some of us don’t need a breakthrough today.
Maybe we just need enough faith to keep waiting.
Lord, strengthen the faith of everyone waiting on You. ❤️🙏🏽
While I was in China, there was a particular area in my hotel that I always used whenever I needed to pack my goods.
Because of the volume of things I buy, packing is not something I can in one small corner. The hotel staff knew this, so they always gave me a dedicated space where I could spread everything out and arrange my goods properly before shipping.
Whenever we were there packing, some Nigerian men hanging around the hotel would stop by to greet me. They were always surprised. Some of them were curious about my business. Others were surprised that a Nigerian woman was staying in that particular hotel.
According to them, it wasn’t the kind of hotel business people usually stayed in. It was the type of place wealthy people came to relax and enjoy themselves. Business travellers usually stayed elsewhere.
I would always hear “Ah ah, you are hardworking o.”
“How do you even do all this?”
One of the men became a regular visitor whenever he saw me packing. Every time, he would stand there watching me work and shaking his head in admiration. At a point even, he joined the guy that does my packing to do the job.
One day he said, “I pray I marry a woman like you ooh. A hardworking woman. A woman that is serious and doing something with her life.”
I laughed.
Then I told him something, “The truth is that many of you will get the kind of woman you are praying for. You will meet women who are resourceful, hardworking, entrepreneurial and ambitious. The problem is not finding them. The problem is what happens after marriage.”
He looked at me trying to understand me.
I continued.
“A lot of women don’t stop shining because they suddenly became lazy. They stop shining because the environment no longer allows them to shine.”
I told him about women I had known over the years, women who were doing well in business. Women who had thriving makeup brands. Women who had successful tailoring shops. Women who were building something meaningful.
Then marriage came, and little by little, everything started disappearing.
Today it is, “My husband said I shouldn’t go out. Tomorrow it is, “My husband doesn’t like me travelling.” Next week it is, “My husband wants me at home.”
Before long, the business that once had so much potential is nowhere to be found.
I went further to tell him that I have two children in Nigeria. My husband has a full time job but here I am thousands of miles away from home.
I spent one whole month in China. Not once did my husband call me to ask where something was.
He woke up early morning to get them ready for school together with the helps. He cooked. He did school runs and still went about his day.
Not once did he call to complain that the house was falling apart. Not once did he make me feel guilty for travelling.
In fact, there were days I was so busy that I didn’t even speak to my family. Yet everything continued to run smoothly. The children were fine. The home was fine.
Life continued normally.
If you marry tomorrow and your wife needs to travel for one month because of her business, can you genuinely support her? Can you take responsibility without resentment? Can you hold things down at home without making her feel like she has committed a crime by pursuing her goals?”
He immediately said yes.
He said he would support her and make sure she had everything she needed to succeed.
I smiled and told him I hoped so.
Because the truth is that many men admire successful, confidence, intelligence and result driven women.
But when it is time to make the sacrifices that allow that woman to remain successful, many disappear.
Everybody wants the fruit.
Very few people are willing to help water the tree.
A woman does not stop being a wife because she has dreams and a husband does not become less of a man because he supports his wife’s dreams.
If you want a woman who is thriving, growing and building something meaningful, then you must also be willing to create room for her to thrive, grow and build.
Brick by brick bro, don’t cheat the grind, don’t try to skip the struggle, don’t try to speed it up, don’t look for short cuts, embrace the highs and the lows, you gonna need to learn all those lessons so when you get to where you’re going, you don’t fumble the opportunity
Poverty doesn’t arrive all at once. It grows in layers.
First, it whispers survival eat today. Worry later.
Then, it teaches dependence, waiting for rescue instead of building strength.
Next, it settles into comfort where struggle feels normal and ambition feels risky.
After that, it attacks the mind, convincing you that big dreams are not for people like you.
The final stage is surrender when a person accepts the cage and stops trying to escape.
Money alone doesn’t break poverty. A renewed mindset does.
Shalom!!.
MoMo recalls mean money you thought was yours can be pulled back without your consent. This shakes trust and puts sellers at risk.
MadeTea TrustVault escrow changes this: no one can recall funds unless both sides agree.
#StartupLife#Escrow#MoMoSafety#DigitalTrust#Accra
Trust is not just about payments. Freelancers want fair pay, riders want reliability, and buyers want confidence.
MadeTea TrustVault ensures all sides - buyers, sellers, freelancers, riders - operate with transparency and fairness.
#TrustVault#viral#Ghana#Ai#xTrends
Any given day my portfolio is up or down a few M’s. First it’s a roller coaster but after a few years it’s just numbers on a screen and doesn’t move you an inch, once you’re numb the game gets easier
Networking from just social media will teach you that you do not know a person until you’ve spent time with them in person. It’ll also teach you to stop idolizing people you’ve never met.