Keep At IT!

December 10, 2008 by BolaOni
Filed under Inspirational Stories, Motivationals

persist till you achieve success!

Today marks a significant day on this platform. It is a day that should not be allowed to pass just like that. This post marks the 100th post on this blog! I have been keeping tab of this day for some time and I have promised myself it won’t go unnoticed.

There has been a lot of reminiscing done by me for a some time and I have had cause to thank God for giving me the grace to do all I am doing. I have looked back at the first time I started this website and how things were then. For those who don’t know, NaijaMotivation.com was conceived in 2006 and experimented on some months after that. It was just an experiment that I didn’t know will come this far.

Right from 2003 I have been learning how the Internet works and what other people are doing on the Internet. I conceived the dream of being an Internet Entrepreneur as an undergraduate but I really wasn’t sure of what I will be doing back then. I discovered Web Designing and fell in love with it. I decided I was going to be running a Web Design firm and started learning everything about it.

Working as a cyber cafe attendant years back, I discovered there is so much more to the Internet than just designing website. I discovered a lot of things people are doing to earn a living online, I also discovered a lot of people using the Internet to transform people’s lives and it occured to me I could do the same. As a matter of fact, my life got started when I read a mail sent to my inbox by one of my Mentors, Mike Litman.

After making all these discoveries, I promised myself I will be using the Internet for positive impact. I started a website targeted at the Whites in 2005 and the impact it made was just unbelievable. Imagine a “little” guy right here in Nigeria telling the Whites they can achieve their dreams? Imagine the guy coaching people much more older than him and also encouraging them all the time. It was as if I was dreaming.

After the success of that website, I decided to do something for my Naija people because I believed if I have been able to affect the lives of foreigners, without leaving the shores of this country, I should be able to replicate the same here. I can’t remember how the name NaijaMotivation came about but I just knew I registered it and launched a blog May 2006. During those times, I was the only one posting and reading This did not deter me at all because I know if I had done it before, it is still POSSIBLE!

For over a year, there not much improvement but I kept posting. In 2007, I had to change the hosting I was using then so it was as if I was starting afresh. This also did not deter me because I was sure of where I was heading. Just as one of my Mentors, Jim Rohn, said, it is not much about where one is, it is all about the direction one is heading. I kept posting and doing some of the things I needed to do to promote the platform. The rest as they say is HISTORY!

The impact this website has made is visible for all to see. The website meant for Nigerians alone, is now being viewed from all over the world. The traffic(visitors) coming to this website has been phenomenal over the last one year. The opportunities that abound on this website alone is something unbelievable. Now I have made the decision to make this website my major concern for years to come.

Now, I have reached the century mark! Isn’t this awesome? Do you agree with me that in whatever we do persistence should take a major place? There are times we start things that do not work out as we envisaged, what do we do then? Give up? A lot of people have failed to reach their potentials by calling it quit when all they have to do, is hold on a little while. I have talked about persistence so much on this blog because I know what it can do to one’s life.

I have coached a lot of people on how to use the Internet but what I realised later is that there is this impatient syndrome a lot of people are infected with and they want to experience success without working for it. A lot of people think success comes immediately you start out even if you are not sure of what you are doing, infact I have learnt so much from people’s attitude towards success that I couldn’t help but laugh.

I don’t know what you have your hands on now and I don’t know what you are thinking about the position you are in now. I don’t even know if you are contemplating giving up at this point but I want to let you know that it is too early to quit, it is too early to give up. Just keep at what you are doing, even if it takes a while for it to show up, KEEP AT IT and wait for your day of manifestation. The lives of those that quit too soon, is always filled with regret because when they see the people doing what they abandoned, something always taunt them within and the regret is not easy to live with.

In case you are one of those that have call it quit, isn’t it time you pick that dream up again? Why don’t you learn from my experience and promise yourself NEVER to give up again. Remember, it is too early to call it quit!

This is to your success.

Tags: action, faith, going on, persistence

Comments

25 Comments

At 2008.12.10 07:40, Keep At IT! | bestwebhostingservices.com said:

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At 2008.12.11 03:09, Dennis Isong said:

thanks

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At 2008.12.11 06:39, Christian said:

Bolly, this is a really wonderful post and what rereading.
Nothing can be equal with persistence and focus as you always point
on most of your articles I have read.
Man! keep the spirit burning….

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At 2008.12.11 07:45, solomon said:

Great work Bola, coming from a time where it was difficult to get internet connectivity to a time as this, your persistence has really paid, i look forward to your 1000th post. sail on brother, and also thanks for your helpful tip on my blog, thanks.

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At 2008.12.12 01:06, Chioma said:

Bolly,
Thanks so much for this article and thank God for the insight. No greatness is ever built on loose soil of no discipline, no focus, no persistence , no faith to keep on. Because it will soon or letter collapse . The discipline , focus, persistance and faith fortifies you on the inside for any wind of change or challenge.
Keep on

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At 2008.12.12 09:37, ik said:

I believe in all you have said.PERSISTENCE is really very necessary for anyone to succeed in life.

Keep doing the good work Mr. Bolly.Merry Xmass

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At 2008.12.12 12:18, Joy said:

Bolly i praise your courage man, you’ve always beena good role model. so keep up the good work, sure motivation will soon become a big boom in Nigeria and you shall be rewarded. I am still following your foot step man. Happy 100th

Good tidings while you celebrate 100th i celebrate 50th post.

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At 2008.12.12 12:29, Joy said:

Sorry i mean 40th post sorry for that slip

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At 2008.12.14 13:31, Sider said:

Great work Bola, it goes on to help many souls…keep it up brother.

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At 2008.12.16 07:17, BolaOni said:

Sider,
Thanks so much for your comment. It is really appreciated.
Hope you will be doing something similar is days to come

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At 2008.12.16 07:22, BolaOni said:

Mr. Akinlolu, sorry I have not been following you up. Been a lot busy these days. I’m on my way to your blog now and will be rooting for you all the way.

Keep going man and success of the blog is rest assured.

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At 2008.12.16 07:23, BolaOni said:

Thanks for your message IK.

God bless you man

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At 2008.12.16 18:18, Olawale Akingboye said:

it’s great people who do great things, as you bless others with your life God’s blessings will never seize from yours too.There is a great gap between somebody who give fish and somebody who teaches how to fish.keep on with your good works……….

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At 2008.12.17 00:54, Babyboy said:

So you say and so they say,NEVER QUIT.
Bola,you are indeed a man of SUBSTANCE.I really appreciate the post PERSISTENCE IS JUST THE KEY.
May the good Lord in his infinite mercy continue to give you inspiration to unrellently continue passing the message across to ALL BEINGS on earth.

Keep flying Bola,you are the BUMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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At 2008.12.17 01:04, Sesan Oguntade said:

Wonderful. just sent a mail to you. Looking forward to your big project next year. God bless you

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At 2008.12.19 09:50, BolaOni said:

Thanks Olawale for your comment. All Glory be to the Almighty. He is the one supplying all the inspirations
Compliments.

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At 2008.12.19 09:58, BolaOni said:

Babyboy, you are welcome o. Hope we can all move to greater heights next year.

compliments my man

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At 2008.12.19 10:03, BolaOni said:

Got your mail. Thanks for the best wishes and prayers

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At 2008.12.26 16:37, Dayo said:

this is really inspirational,’ll get to keepon moving too…

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At 2008.12.27 08:00, BolaOni said:

Thanks for the comment Dayo. The only choice you’ve got in life is to keep moving

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At 2009.01.02 00:46, Kachi Eze said:

Hello Bola,
It’s been a while…maybe a year since I looked up your website, however, it’s great to see one person still keeping on. As you well said, the pack of young people are infected with the inpatience virus. Persistence and determination seems to have become obliterated. It’s all the ‘Yahoozee’..make-money-now-and-fast!(even if you don’t know what you are doing) syndrome.

Anyways…just to say CONGRATULATIONS!! on you 100th post and to say to you that you clearly have bigger and brighter days ahead. For you, its not just a success streak, but a success lifestyle!

Keep going!

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At 2009.01.05 01:12, olusheyi said:

OgaBola congratulations on your 100th post.
I quite agree with you, focus with persistence
pays on the long run.

Keep the fire burning.

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At 2009.01.05 08:04, BolaOni said:

Thanks so much Seyi.

Have a GREAT 2009!

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At 2009.01.05 08:08, BolaOni said:

Thanks so much Kachi for this GREAT comment.
Really appreciated it from the bottom of my heart

Have a GREAT 2009

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At 2009.01.29 09:13, ugheghe enoma victor said:

i have learn alot from this article,may the good lord bless you

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