Letters

There are seasons in life when you know you are making progress, but you cannot feel it yet. You know you are making excellent decisions, delaying gratification, cutting expenses and investing, but you can’t see the results. It can be frustrating. You are more disciplined than ever. You work 10X than before. Yet, somehow, life still looks almost the same. I got this inspiration from Nigeria’s latest inflation figures. It says inflation fell from 15.91% …

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A Yoruba proverb says, “If the people inside cannot destroy you, the ones outside cannot.”

Rejection can be the cost of discovering if your idea is strong enough beyond just your own thoughts.

Dear Friend, You reach a point where you realize you can’t build the life you want with the same old habits, people, comfort zone, and mindset that got you here. That realisation is not always exciting. Sometimes, it is painful. I watched a video yesterday about why the Earth revolves around the sun. It was mind-blowing. You’re seeing that some things you like are getting in the way of the person you want to be. …

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Am I spending my best hours building the business, or building things the business could buy? This is a question all entrepreneurs must ask. A few days ago, my website crashed. Everything disappeared. It was frustrating. But it also forced me to ask a question I should have asked much earlier. What business am I building? The next day, I was comparing hosting servers. Four CPUs here. Another 48GB of RAM there. LiteSpeed or NGINX. …

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